ISN is happy to announce the winners of the Global Outreach (GO) poster session. Congratulations to all the winners who have made great contributions to nephrology and ultimately helped improve kidney care worldwide. The ISN GO Fellowship prize went to Sidy Mohammed Seck (Senegal) and Boris Bikbov (Russia). The ISN GO Research and Prevention prize...
The beautiful city of Florence, Italy is the setting for this year’s Forefronts Symposium, taking place from September 12 to 15, 2013. It will bring together leading nephrologists and active investigators for four highly interactive days. This time around, Stem Cells and Regeneration in the Kidney has been chosen as the theme. Stem cells represent...
The beautiful city of Florence, Italy is the setting for this year’s Forefronts Symposium, taking place from September 12 to 15, 2013. It will bring together leading nephrologists and active investigators for four highly interactive days. This time around, Stem Cells and Regeneration in the Kidney has been chosen as the theme. Stem cells represent...
On Friday, ISN President Prof. John Feehally and the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee, Prof. Philip Li, gave the World Congress 2013 attendees a warm welcome and fired the starting pistol to a world-class scientific program. This reflects ISN’s efforts to advance renal care in both the developed and the developing world and it...
On Friday, ISN President Prof. John Feehally and the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee, Prof. Philip Li, gave the World Congress 2013 attendees a warm welcome and fired the starting pistol to a worldclass scientific program. This reflects ISN’s efforts to advance renal care in both the developed and the developing world and it...
Last year, the ISN joined forces with the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD), the International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA) and Sustainable Kidney Care Foundation (SKCF) to develop a cooperative project in Africa and South East Asia. The Saving Young Lives (SYL) Project sets out to establish sustainable programs using acute Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) to...
Last year, ISN joined forces with the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD), the International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA) and Sustainable Kidney Care Foundation (SKCF) to develop a cooperative project in Africa and South East Asia. The Saving Young Lives (SYL) project sets out to establish sustainable programs using acute Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) to treat...
Following a successful Nexus Symposium in Copenhagen Denmark last year, the ISN is excited to announce the theme of the 2014 symposium in Bergamo, Italy. A New Era of Drug Discovery and Clinical Trials in Kidney Disease will be the focus of this meeting, sparking fruitful discussion and debate. This event will take place...
Following a successful Nexus Symposium in Copenhagen Denmark last year, ISN is excited to announce the theme of the 2014 symposium in Bergamo, Italy. A New Era of Drug Discovery and Clinical Trials in Kidney Disease will be the focus of this meeting, sparking fruitful discussion and debate. This event will take place from...
Looking for some tips on how you can get your paper published in ISN’s official journal, Kidney International? Come by the ISN stand (booth D01) at the World Congress of Nephrology on Sunday June 2nd, 2013 between 11.00 am and 12.00 noon in the Hong Kong Convention Center Exhibition Hall. So far, we can confirm...
Looking for some tips on how you can get your paper published in ISN’s official journal, Kidney International? Come by the ISN stand (booth D01) at the World Congress of Nephrology on Sunday June 2nd, 2013 between 11.00 am and 12.00 noon in the Hong Kong Convention Center Exhibition Hall. So far, we can confirm...
World Kidney Day (WKD) started with an extraordinary bang this year, as the new website was launched – giving everybody even more of a reason to share what they were doing on the day. The site is filled with new features including an event map, access to bright new materials and social media discussions. The theme of...
World Kidney Day (WKD) started with an extraordinary bang this year, as the new website was launched – giving everybody even more of a reason to share what they were doing on the day. The site is filled with new features including an event map, access to bright new materials and social media discussions. The theme of...
Last year, the ISN started an important initiative as part of its overall ISN Education strategy: Global Outreach Postings.Find out more and send in your manuscipt! The aim of this initiative is to grant access to nephrologists from emerging countries to publish manuscripts that are in line with ISN’s mission and of interest to readers...
ISN Education (now ISN Academy) will broadcast live three sessions of the World Congress of Nephrology under the theme Clinical Conditions Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease, taking place in Hong Kong from 31 May to 4 June 3013. Comment the congress live on Twitter: #WCNephrology The following sessions will be streamed: Cardiovascular disease and CKD – pathophysiology 1 June,...
Last year, ISN started an important initiative as part of its overall ISN Education strategy: Global Outreach Postings.Find out more and send in your manuscipt! The aim of this initiative is to grant access to nephrologists from emerging countries to publish manuscripts that are in line with ISN’s mission and of interest to readers from...
ISN Education will broadcast live three sessions of the World Congress of Nephrology under the theme Clinical Conditions Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease, taking place in Hong Kong from 31 May to 4 June 3013. The link to access the live broadcast will be active 30 minutes prior to the sessions Click here to watch the streaming Comment the...
The ISN, through its membership in EKHA (European Kidney Health Alliance), is supporting the European Chronic Disease Alliance's open letter to EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso calling for EU political action on chronic diseases. CLICK HERE to read the full letter. Learn more about the ISN's work in advocacy at EU level here.
In the run-up to the World Congress of Nephrology (WCN) 2013, ISN is delighted to exclusively share with you the winners of the ISN awards. The happy recipients will be awarded their prizes during the congress at the Hong Kong Convention Center. In the meantime, we wanted to let you know more about the winners...
ISN, through its membership in EKHA (European Kidney Health Alliance), is supporting the European Chronic Disease Alliance's open letter to EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso calling for EU political action on chronic diseases. CLICK HERE to read the full letter.