Grants

The ISN Fellowship Program: 35 years of providing specialist training to doctors from emerging countries to improve kidney health in their home country

Since 1985, the ISN Fellowship Program has supported over 800 fellows from 90 emerging countries. The program encourages professional fulfillment and supports equitable healthcare by establishing Fellows as valuable leaders in their home region qualified to share knowledge and experience. Many past ISN Fellows make use of other ISN Programs and become involved in ISN committees or supporting...

February 5, 2020Grants, NewsRead more...

Announcing the ISN Emerging Leaders Program (ELP)

As part of its vision to ensure equitable access to kidney health globally, the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) is proud to launch the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP). With the aim of building a global talent pool of future leaders, the ELP welcomes ISN members interested in shaping the direction of kidney health through professional development...

January 28, 2020Grants, NewsRead more...

Continuing Medical Education Program Improves Kidney Care in Colombia

In the second half of 2019, ISN led two meetings in Colombia providing education on pediatric and adult kidney transplantation and patient accessibility to renal transplantation services. The ISN-Transplant Society (TTS) Sister Transplant Center (STC) pair, Boston Children´s Hospital and ISN emerging center Fundación Valle del Líli in Cali, Colombia, held a meeting on the...

January 13, 2020Grants, NewsRead more...

2018 ISN-H4KH grant winners announcement

Following the call for applications, the ISN-Hydration for Kidney Health (H4KH) Executive Committee is happy to announce the names of those who have been selected for the New Investigator and Hydration and Kidney Health grants. The ISN-H4KH research initiative called for candidates from all disciplines relevant to kidney disease (clinical, health services and population health...

February 27, 2018Grants, Initiatives, NewsRead more...

2015 Hydration and Kidney Health Grant winner publication

Dr. Sofia Enhörning, from Skåne University Hospital in Malmö, Sweden received the 2015 Hydration and Kidney Health Grant for her project entitled "Plasma copeptin as a predictor of, and copeptin associated loci in, cardiorenal disease - population based prospective cohort studies and a mendelian randomization approach." The first part of the project aims at studying...

February 26, 2018Grants, Initiatives, NewsRead more...

Results are out! ISN Clinical Research Program grants

We are pleased to share the results of the Clinical Research Program Grant application session that was held in October 2017. Each grant helps implement research projects to detect and manage chronic kidney disease, hypertension and diabetes in low-to-middle income countries. Congratulations to the teams behind these four applications! They will each receive between 10,000...

January 16, 2018Clinical Research, Grants, NewsRead more...

KI Reports: Heat stress and kidney health

One of this month’s most downloaded reports from Kidney International (KI) Reports is contributed by Fabiana Nerbass, winner of the ISN-H4KH New Investigator grant. This publication was made possible with valuable support from the ISN-H4KH New Investigator grant in partnership with Danone Nutricia. Fabiana Nerbass was awarded the funding in 2015.  Her research on “Occupational Heat Stress...

December 5, 2017Grants, Initiatives, Journals, News, ResearchRead more...

Great news from SWC 2017 graduate in Nepal

Congratulations to Dr Kirshna Agarwal from Nepal, one of the 2017 ISN Scientific Writing Course (SWC) graduates. After attending one of the hands-on sessions of the course, he applied for a research grant at the Nepal Health Research Council, Ministry of Health. He was happy to let us know that his proposal was selected and...

October 16, 2017Education, Grants, News, ResearchRead more...

Clinical Research Program Grants: results are out!

The ISN Clinical Research Program Committee is pleased to announce the results of the May 2017 application round. ISN will fund four project following this recent call for applications. Congratulations to everybody involved in the following projects: Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Junior, Renal Health self-monitoring application (Brazil) Khaled Mohamed Amin El-zorkany, CKD screening in Menoufia and Assiut...

July 4, 2017Clinical Research, Grants, NewsRead more...

World Kidney Fund: Advancing renal care in Ethiopia

World Kidney Fund (WKF) contributed to the career of young internist Dr. Maekel Belay Woldemariam from the Jimma University Specialized Hospital in Ethiopia. Read his story and help other get the same chances through a WKF donation. The Jimma University Specialized Hospital is a large institution and a referral hospital for over 10 million people in...

December 5, 2016Grants, NewsRead more...