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Steve’s Journey For most of my life, kidney disease has been part of my story. I began seeing a nephrologist when I was 16 after medication my mother received during pregnancy affected the development of my kidneys. In 2019, I was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney disease. My doctors told me that...

Have you heard of the PAX2 gene? Neither had I. However, when I was an adolescent, I found out that my PAX2 gene had a rare mutation, causing me to develop kidney disease. I was 24 when I started dialysis and a little over a year later, I received my first kidney transplant from a deceased donor. My...

Local school group supporting one of their own, will unite for its 3rd consecutive year from April 3rd-7th to raise funds for Organ Donor Awareness Month. Born with kidney health issues, ten-year Grady Batchelor was fortunate to receive a healthy kidney transplant from his dad in 2021. To show their...

The Sodium Glucose Co-Transport-2 Inhibition Diabetes and Kidney Function Loss in Type 1 Diabetes (SUGARNSALT) is one of eight major research projects funded in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) ground-breaking initiative 100 Years of Insulin: Accelerating Canadian Discoveries to...

JDRF Awards $9 Million US for Phase 3 Type 1 Diabetes Kidney Disease Clinical Trial, Joins The Kidney Foundation of Canada in Driving Research to Treat Kidney Disease New York and Montreal, Jan. 22, 2024 – JDRF, the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) research and advocacy organization, has awarded...