Evotec and Vifor Pharma form joint venture

07-Nov-2019 - Evotec SE and Vifor Pharma announced the launch of a 50:50 joint venture focused on the discovery and development of novel nephrology therapeutics. Vifor Pharma will be benefiting from access to an external R&D capability for the development of its own nephrology pipeline, while Evotec will gain ...

This tiny particle might change millions of lives

Nanoparticle targets kidney disease for drug delivery

22-Aug-2018 - Remember the scene in the movie Mission: Impossible when Tom Cruise has to sneak into the vault? He had to do all sorts of moves to avoid detection. That's what it's like to sneak a targeted drug into a kidney and keep it from getting eliminated from the body. Since kidneys are the filtering ...

Oral antibiotics may raise risk of kidney stones

14-May-2018 - Pediatric researchers have found that children and adults treated with some oral antibiotics have a significantly higher risk of developing kidney stones . This is the first time that these medicines have been linked to this condition. The strongest risks appeared at younger ages and among ...

Functioning kidney tissue created

14-Feb-2018 - Scientists have successfully produced human kidney tissue within a living organism which is able to produce urine, a first for medical science. The study led by Professors Sue Kimber and Adrian Woolf from The University of Manchester, signifies a significant milestone in the development of ...

A pump-induced disease used to define underlying molecular mechanism

30-Oct-2017 - Researchers at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) investigated a pump-induced disease and defined the molecular mechanism that triggers it. Dylan J. Meyer, a TTUHSC Ph.D. candidate, along with his advisor, Pablo Artigas, Ph.D., associate professor at the TTUHSC Department of ...

Investigating kidney biomarkers to track lupus

16-Dec-2016 - Lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease, can wreak havoc on an affected individual's body through inflammation, pain and even damage of the skin, joints and organs. To try to better understand how the disease begins and progresses, researchers at the University of Michigan investigated whether kidney ...

Researchers discover new therapeutic approach for cardiorenal syndrome type 2

15-Jun-2016 - A study suggests a new therapeutic approach to treat the development of chronic kidney disease secondary to chronic heart failure, known as cardiorenal syndrome type 2. In the journal's June 13 online edition, researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center suggest inhibiting G ...

Nanotechnology advances could pave way for implantable artificial kidney

12-Nov-2015 - Research that could lead to the development of a surgically implantable, artificial kidney, was presented at ASN Kidney Week 2015. Advances in nanofilter technology were produced in collaboration between investigators from UCSF and Vanderbilt University. The research recently received a new $6 ...

Study finds existence of protein in the blood can be early predictor of kidney disease

20-Oct-2015 - Mayo Clinic researchers collaborated with the University of Mississippi Medical Center on a recent study, "Troponin T as a Predictor of End-Stage Renal Disease and All-Cause Death in African-American and Whites From Hypertensive Families." For the first time, this study identified the presence of ...

Hormone predicts which kidney patients might die early

Blood test could identify patients who need treatment

13-Sep-2011 - The blood levels of a particular hormone can help predict which kidney disease patients will develop heart problems, need dialysis, and die prematurely, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). Testing for this hormone could ...