More than ever, the ISN remains committed to supporting the work and professional development of its members. We are constantly working toward increasing assistance to the global kidney care community through different formats and initiatives. The ISN continues to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic. Although many activities involving travel are impacted and have shifted to a...
Chapter four of the Narrative-Based Clinical Trials (ISN-ACT) Toolkit will highlight the many ethical, practical, and legal issues that researchers need to address before starting a clinical study. The ISN-ACT Clinical Trials Toolkit subgroup members are producing this series of stories, based on topics from the ISN-ACT Clinical Trials Toolkit, to facilitate understanding of clinical trial methodologies. Get involved in ISN's...
The ISN-KI Editorial Fellowship, designed for early-career professionals and academics working in the field of nephrology, dialysis, and transplantation, provides training opportunities for reviewing and critically evaluating manuscripts and managing editorial responsibilities within the context of a world-renowned nephrology journal. The Kidney International (KI) editorial team is currently providing expert guidance to three ISN-KI Editorial Fellows and...
The ISN Mentorship Program is an initiative to foster mutually beneficial learning partnerships in nephrology. The program connects health professionals within the ISN community, offering mentors the chance to develop coaching and leadership skills and mentees to work alongside them toward specific professional goals. We are currently welcoming applications from mentors: If you are an experienced...
The European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA) partnered with the French nephrology and patient societies, Société Francophone de Néphrologie, Dialyse et Transplantation (SFNDT), France Rein, and Renaloo to develop a set of recommendations to tackle Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) at EU level. Read the complete recommendations in English here and in French here.
The ISN Frontiers Meeting in New Delhi, India will focus on bi-directional relationships between infections and kidney diseases. The meeting will take place from September 22 to 25, 2022. Discover the four-day program here. More than ever, it is urgent to understand better the complex relationship between infections and kidney diseases to develop effective treatments. Share...
The ISN Frontiers Meeting, ‘Complement-related kidney diseases: classification, genetics, and treatment,' offers researchers a rare opportunity to showcase their work on this specialty topic. Submit your abstract here. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters and published in Kidney International Reports. In addition, the ISN invites its members from low-resource countries to apply for a travel grant to attend the meeting. Find out...
"Approach to Infantile Hypercalcemia" will be held on Friday, February 4, 2022, 3 – 4:15 p.m. Register here. Through two case histories, the session will cover: Differential diagnosis of an infant with hypercalcemia Hypercalcemia evaluation and the role of genetic testing Treatment of infantile hypercalcemia The Grand Rounds series is a case-based, online teaching program in pediatric nephrology to support...
Applications for ISN Interventional Nephrology Scholarships are now open for scholars to train at ISN Interventional Nephrology Training Centers from July 2022 to February 2023. These short-term courses offer ISN members from low- and middle-income countries the chance to train in specialized interventional nephrology procedures. The deadline to apply is April 1, 2022. Start your application...
The ISN is pleased to host the Professor Donal O'Donoghue, Global Kidney Policy Forum: Building Healthier Sustainable Communities to Safeguard Kidney Health, at the World Congress of Nephrology 2022. The GKPF will take place online on Wednesday, February 23, from 3 p.m. to 6:55 p.m. Malaysian Standard Time (MYT). The meeting brings together decision-makers and...
I am pleased to notify you that the ISN General Assembly meeting will take place via online webinar during the week of the 2022 ISN World Congress of Nephrology, as follows: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 4 to 5 p.m. CET (convert time and date to your own time zone here) via online webinar (please register for webinar at link...
“The groups of people most affected by COVID-19 and the groups affected by HIV are slightly different, but the bottom line is that inequalities have exacerbated both pandemics, and I think a lot can be learned from them,” says Adeeba Kamarulzaman, professor of infectious diseases at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,...
In her presentation at WCN’22, Dr. Mariam Priya Alexander, a pathologist at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, USA, will describe advances in pathology helping to diagnose glomerular disease, which accounts for approximately 16% of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Dr. Alexander’s research interests include the application of ‘omics and mass cytometry to expand the understanding of...
Dialysis and transplantation are the main treatments for chronic kidney disease (CKD), but accessing those treatments is not always straightforward for patients in rural areas. CKD patients in rural and remote communities encounter many barriers to accessing care and have a higher risk of mortality than those in urban areas. In her talk at WCN’22, Nicki...
Diet is crucial to general health and well-being, but to what extent can we use food to treat and prevent kidney problems? At WCN‘22, this will be the question addressed by Peter Stenvinkel, professor and senior lecturer in the department of renal medicine at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Professor Stenvinkel and colleagues are conducting...
Dr. Shaifali Sandal is a transplant nephrologist and assistant professor at the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Canada. Her research focuses on improving living donor kidney transplantation (KT) and re-transplantation rates. In patients with kidney failure, transplantation is usually the best therapeutic option. It offers better survival rates and quality of life than dialysis. Economic...
The ISN 2022 Frontiers Meeting ‘Complement-related kidney diseases: classification, genetics, and treatment’, Bergamo, Italy, 23/06/2022-25/06/2022, has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 17 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Join the ISN and the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research and get involved: Share your work - submit your abstract here. Accepted abstracts will be...
Read the current issue of the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism (DICG) newsletter here. The DICG is a joint initiative of the ISN and the Transplantation Society This edition focuses on: A year in review New endorsing societies 2022 DICG council and executive committee members DICG group registry on trafficking Upcoming webinar, "Transplantation in the context of...
Over the past several months, a group of ISN members has collaborated on a project to provide a shared understanding of the inherent opportunities and challenges of implementing early CKD identification and intervention programs. A component of this initiative, a protocol for a scoping review, has just been published here. The review aims to synthesize available...
The ISN and African Association of Nephrology (AFRAN), held an advocacy roundtable on December 11, 2021, to discuss how best to advance kidney health in Africa. The roundtable was convened in addition to the joint AFRAN – AFPNA 2021 (African Paediatric Nephrology Association) Congress, December 8-10, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The AFRAN speakers, Emeritus Professor Saraladevi...
