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2025 - 2026 $30,000 Transplantation Multimodal prehabilitation intervention for patients on in-center hemodialysis waitlisted for kidney transplantation – a feasibility pilot study Co-Applicant(s): Daniel Santa-Mina, Asma Bilgasem, Wajiha Ghazi, Charles Cook Lay Abstract More than half of the...

April is Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Month, and we’re encouraging Manitobans to STEP up and help save lives S: Sign up to become an organ donor. One person can save up to eight lives! T: Tell your loved ones about your choice. Even if you are registered, your family has the final say in...

Mom prays every day as her dad had to do dialysis and doesn't want it for me. At just 4 months old I started to get sick a lot. Mom and Dad constantly brought me to the doctor. It was not fun. When I was 18 months old I started eating regular food and started to feel better. However, something still...

Seeing my mom battle with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) motivated me to turn my experience into a mission to support others impacted by kidney disease. As a living donor in the paired exchange program, I saw first-hand the emotional and physical toll that kidney disease had on my mom. Reflecting...

2022 - 2025 $210,000 Quality of Life Investigating Pathways to Promote Life Participation in Kidney Failure Lay Abstract My research studies how to help people with kidney failure participate in life activities that are important to them. People with kidney failure are living longer than ever...

2026 - 2028 $119,545 Quality of Life, Renal Failure, Dialysis Pilot-Testing "PEP-Lite": An Empowering, Self Guided Fatigue Management Intervention for People on Hemodialysis Co-applicant(s): Danielle Fox, Istvan Mucsi, Jane Davis, Kevin Yau, Maoliosa Donald, Nancy Verdin Lay Abstract Background:...

Day by day, step by step Laying in a hospital bed for three weeks does a lot to a person. Especially to a man who doesn’t believe he belongs there. I had lost a lot of weight. I was exercising regularly and eating well. I didn’t smoke or drink. I had made travel promises to my wife and kids. Getting...

2026 - 2028 $178,949 Acute Kidney Injury, Chronic Kidney Disease, Renal Failure Finerenone to improve acute kidney injury recovery: a multicentre randomized controlled pilot trial Co-applicant(s): Edward Clark, Jean-François Cailhier, Josée Bouchard, Ron Wald, Samuel Silver, William...

2023 - 2025 $120,000 Acute Kidney Injury Targeting CHOP expression to prevent ischemic AKI Lay Abstract The overall objective of this research proposal is to determine how the response of kidney cells to problems with protein production and folding can cause these cells to die and how we can stop...