ISN and The Transplantation Society (TTS) are delighted to announce the results of the latest call for applications of ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Center Program. Five new sister center pairs were approved at entry level this year. The collaboration between FUNDANIER/Hospital Roosevelt and University of California, Los Angeles (Guatemala and United States) and Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza...
We are pleased to announce that the Indian Society of Nephrology (INDSN) has agreed to co-sponsor a number of ISN Educational Ambassadors, ISN Fellowships and ISN Sister Renal Center Programs until 2016. The agreement was recently signed and will offer more opportunities for applicants to get involved in these global outreach programs. INDSN counts 1,200 nephrologists...
Sensitizing local communities about AKI is how two Sister Renal Centers are changing the state of care in Malawi, starting off in the southern city of Blantyre. Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is an ongoing concern in Malawi. Many simply do not know that if identified early, it is often easily treatable with fluids and antibiotics....
Last August, ISN Educational Ambassador Ming-Hub Zhao from Peking University First Hospital gave talks on epidemiology, acute kidney injury and renal pathology. He spent a week at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University to update local doctors. The objectives included giving advice on establishing cohorts of patients with glomerulonephritis (GN) for further study,...
South African surgeon Elmi Muller carried out the first "HIV positive to positive" kidney transplants, giving hope to the country's growing number of HIV kidney patients. As more HIV positive patients are living longer thanks to breakthroughs in treatment, many show signs of other diseases including HIV nephropathy. Up until recently, these patients were not eligible...
ISN is happy to announce the results of the last round of applications for the ISN Sister Renal Center (SRC) Program. CLICK HERE to read the list of active pairs and trios for this year. Congratulations to the two sister pairs Egypt-SKI and Tunisia-Belgium who have graduated from the program. 24 new centers have now joined the...
Breaking language barriers in El Salvador to teach the importance of vascular care for kidney patients. Last September, Educational Ambassador Octavio Salgado from University of Zulia Faculty of Medicine, Venezuela visited the Servicio de Nefrologia, Hospital Nacional Rosales in El Salvador. Aside from giving valuable training, he implemented a new vascular access policy tailored to...
During the ISN World Congress of Nephrology, the World Kidney Fund (WKF) is launching an Art for Awareness campaign. Poster reproductions of “Cape Town I Love You and All Your Secrets” by South African artist Pamela Silver will be given to those who help raise funds for WKF projects. The total amount raised will be donated to...
The Japanese Society of Nephrology is lending its support to the upcoming World Congress of Nephrology (WCN) 2015 by donating 5000 USD for best abstract prizes for ISN Fellowships or ISN Clinical Research grants. Many thanks to JSN for their valuable support. To stay up to date with all the latest congress information, CLICK HERE.
The ISN Programs continue to offer a broad range of educational and training activities to nephrology communities in developing countries. Many of these take place onsite and respond to local needs. This latest publication reveals the success of the programs in 2013. You can now find out more about the success of these programs and discover more...
