How temporary or permanent would the implanted artificial kidney be? Dr. Roy: It’s hard to say prospectively without doing the studies, but we hope that it will be one surgery to implant it, and that ...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a four-year, $6 million grant to investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) to ...

Holly™ by Nephrodite becomes the first device to achieve the designation, marking a major regulatory milestone toward first-in-human clinical studies Nephrodite, Inc., a medical device company ...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center nephrologist and associate professor of medicine Dr. William H. Fissell IV, is making major progress on a first-of-its kind device to free kidney patients from ...

They're developing an implantable, artificial kidney that would shrink the refrigerator-size dialysis machine into a device the size of a coffee cup and perform functions a dialysis machine cannot do.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . I first heard the expression “moonshot” describing the goals of the Advancing American Kidney Health executive ...