The ISN is pleased to announce the second Detlef Schlöndorff Fellowship recipient, Ahmad Naseer Kaihan. Ahmad Naseer Kaihan will travel from his home center, the Payem Sehat Hospital in Afghanistan, to the MGM Healthcare Center in India. He will spend 12 months training in clinical nephrology under supervision from Georgi Abraham and then return to his home...
The ISN and the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research will present: “New Insights into Clinical Management of Complement-mediated Thrombotic Microangiopathies” on September 17, 2021, at 2 p.m. CEST REGISTER NOW The webinar will address: Identifying patients with complement-mediated TMA The impact of genetic and biochemical characterization Treatment recommendations Clinical perspectives of emerging complement inhibitors The webinar supports the ISN Frontiers Meeting “Complement-related...
The 41st Annual Meeting of the Korean Society of Nephrology (KSN) took place virtually from September 2-5, 2021. The ISN and the KSN held a joint session at the event: ‘Towards Global Network for Kidney Health Care’ and included the following talks: Past-President Vivek Jha: Introduction of the ISN-GKHA project Jongha Park: Korean Renal Data System (KoRDS)...
Globally, 10.5 million people have advanced kidney disease, and the number is growing by 5-7% annually. Access to life-saving treatments such as kidney transplants and dialysis, however, is far from universal. Patients dependent on dialysis are more commonly treated in a clinic with in-center hemodialysis (HD) rather than through home HD (HHD) or peritoneal dialysis...
Join the latest #NephTrials discussion on September 28, 2021, at 9 p.m. EST. The conversation will focus on Aldosterone bloCkade for Health Improvement EValuation in End-stage Renal Disease (ACHIEVE), which evaluates if spironolactone reduces heart failure and heart-related deaths in dialysis patients. The #NephTrials initiative is an exciting series of conversations combining expertise from the ISN-ACT...
The VI Congress of Nephrologists of Ukraine will take place in Kiev, Ukraine, on September 23-24, 2021. Jointly organized by the Institute of Nephrology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Association of Nephrologists and Kidney Transplant Specialists, and the National Kidney Fund of Ukraine, one of the plenary sessions will...
The 2021 WIN Leadership Conference: Developing Future Leaders in Nephrology, hosted by Women in Nephrology, will be held virtually on September 24, 2021. ISN President Agnes Fogo will provide the keynote address ‘My Path to President: From Research to Leadership’ from 10:10-10:50 a.m. CST.
The 16th International Symposium on IgA Nephropathy will take place virtually from September 21-23, 2021. ISN President, Agnes Fogo, will chair Plenary Session 10, ‘IgAN: A Global Perspective’ on September 23, 2021, from 11:10-11:55 a.m. CEST. The symposium will focus on pathogenesis, pathology, and treatment of IgA nephropathy. The program highlights the current discussion on pathogenetic...
The ISN and the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research will hold the first of two webinars on September 17, 2021, at 2 p.m. CEST on: “New Insights into Clinical Management of Complement-mediated Thrombotic Microangiopathies” The webinar will address: Identifying patients with complement-mediated TMA The impact of genetic and biochemical characterization Treatment recommendations Clinical perspectives of emerging complement inhibitors Register for...
In August 2021, the Renal Association of Mauritius announced on social media that the Mauritian Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) had recognized nephrology as a separate specialty from internal medicine in Mauritian hospitals. This momentous decision was initiated in response to the dedicated work of many stakeholders over several decades and the Renal...
