2023 - 2025
$120,000
Chronic Kidney Disease, Kidney Biology
Molecular Mechanisms of Childhood Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome
Lay Abstract
Mechanisms of Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome is the most common glomerular disorder in children. It occurs when there is sudden damage...
2025 - 2027
$120,000
Acute Kidney Injury, Chronic Kidney Disease, Kidney Biology
A role for GPR84 in inflammation-associated kidney injury
Co-Applicant(s): Baptiste Lacoste, Dylan Burger, William Stanford
Lay Abstract
Testing a new target to reduce inflammation and damage in kidney disease...
Canadian Institutes of Health Research () Partnerships
Strategic partnerships are a key element of The Kidney Foundation of Canada’s research program. Very often, these partnership opportunities are with The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (). Comprised of 13 targeted research institutes, ...
It’s almost hard to believe I can finally say these words. But I now have a brand-new kidney!
Diabetes runs in my family, but I didn’t realize that I was diabetic until 2014. Two years later, I was also diagnosed with kidney disease.
Before then, I didn’t realize that diabetes and kidney disease...
After successful transplants, I was finally free from diabetes.
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) when I was nine years old. Looking back, I remember always being thirsty, having little appetite and waking up often in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. While I was fortunate to...
I need a kidney.
Silenced by the cord that fed me life in the womb.
Nurses, mom, dad, my sister, my grandmother, all peered over me in the bassinet as the doctor desperately attempted to free my airways of mucus to allow air in. To grant me my first breath.
Silence, save for the suck and squish of...
Elizabeth Myles, National Executive Director at The Kidney Foundation of Canada, and Dr. John Chan, Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology and Nephrology at the Research Centre of the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) and Professor of Medicine [Photo courtesy of...