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The likelihood of development of kidney failure among Indigenous people is 2- to 4-fold higher compared to the general population in Canada. As a kidney specialist and researcher based at the University of Alberta, I spend a good amount of time travelling to rural and remote Indigenous communities...

2017 Medal for Research Excellence University of Calgary “Dr. Hemmelgarn and Manns have improved the lives of patients across the country with their groundbreaking work. Receiving Canada’s top award for kidney researchers is a fitting recognition for these two outstanding University of Calgary...

2017 Medal for Research Excellence University of Calgary “Dr. Hemmelgarn and Manns have improved the lives of patients across the country with their groundbreaking work. Receiving Canada’s top award for kidney researchers is a fitting recognition for these two outstanding University of Calgary...

2019 Medal for Research Excellence Memorial University of Newfoundland has contributed generously to the Canadian kidney research landscape for over 25 years through his work in transformational research. He is currently the Chief Scientific Officer of the Translational and Personalized Medicine...

2021 - 2024 $150,000 Kidney Biology Investigating the Provisional-Immune Matrix in Kidney Injury via SMOC2 General Audience Summary Background: The smallest parts of our body that work to keep us alive are called cells. Cells need the area where they live to be healthy, similar to people living in...

2007 Medal for Research Excellence University of Toronto “Dr. Whiteside’s kidney-related research has been excellent.” - The Canadian Society of Nephrology “She is a role model for just about every woman researcher in Canada.” - Dr. Marie-Josée Hébert of the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de...

1998 Medal for Research Excellence l'Hôpital Sacré-Coeur is the Director of the Clinical Research Unit at l'Hôpital Sacré-Coeur in Montreal. He is also a Professor of Medicine at l'Université de Montréal. Since 1987 Dr. Bichet, (pictured with research assistant Nicole Ruel), has been studying...

2004 Medal for Research Excellence University of Toronto For his outstanding contributions to new knowledge and the treatment of one of the most important single causes of end-stage renal disease, will receive The Kidney Foundation of Canada’s 2004 Medal for Research Excellence on October 15 in...

2021 - 2023 $100,000 Kidney Development Nephron development: A role for Shroom3 in nephron progenitor morphogenesis Lay Summary Patients with kidney disease have changes in a gene called SHROOM3. Through basic science studies, our work was the first to validate that SHROOM3 as playing important...

2021 - 2023 $210,000 Dialysis REsponSiveness of urEmic sympToms to DIALYSIS (RESET-DIALYSIS) General Audience Summary The decision to start long-term dialysis in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) is based on many factors including the degree of kidney dysfunction, bloodwork (e.g....