bioartificial kidney

Using the bioartificial kidney to free patients from dialysis

Tue Mar 14, 2023

Roy holds a tan device with tubes coming out of it

Shuvo Roy, PhD, holding a prototype of the bioartificial kidney.

The Kidney Project is featured in an outlook in Nature.

Roy receives U.S. Presidential Volunteer Service Award

Mon Nov 21, 2022

Shuvo Roy, PhD

The Kidney Project director is honored for development of an implantable bioartificial kidney.

Bioartificial kidney aims to mimic natural kidney function with $1 million grant from the John and Marcia Goldman Foundation

Mon Oct 5, 2020

Susan Merrell

The Kidney Project leader Shuvo Roy, PhD

“People struggling with dialysis need and deserve better choices,” said the founders of the foundation.

The Kidney Project earns KidneyX award to make home dialysis better for patients

Thu May 2, 2019

Elisabeth Fall

Shuvo Roy, PhD, earned an award from KidneyX that will fund the development of an easy-to-use home dialysis system for kidney disease patients.

A team led by Shuvo Roy, PhD, recently won an award that will fund the development of an easy-to-use, safe, and effective home dialysis system.

The Kidney Project and the bioartificial pancreas: When inspiration strikes twice

Wed Sep 26, 2018

Roy holds a silicon filter used in his artificial kidney prototype.

Shuvo Roy, PhD, is trying to make the same type of silicon filter that powers his artificial kidney work in an artificial pancreas.

Inspiration can be a hard thing to find. The history of science is filled with elusive “eureka moments” taking place under unlikely circumstances—Archimedes’ jump in a bath to intuit displacement, Issac Newton’s observation of a falling apple to grasp gravity, and Nikola Tesla’s inspiration for the...

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 38th year

Mon Mar 12, 2018

Susan Merrell

Lei Wang (left), PhD, works with postdoctoral researcher Nanxi Wang, PhD.

A culture of discovery and collaboration among faculty carries potential to “completely shake up their fields of study.”

Crean un riñón bio artificial [Create a bioartificial kidney]

Fri Apr 1, 2016

Feature articles shine spotlight on Kidney Project

Fri Apr 26, 2013

Shuvo Roy, PhD, with silicon wafer and bioartificial kidney model

The San Francisco Chronicle and the Bay Area News Group, which includes the San Jose Mercury News and Oakland Tribune, have published feature articles this week focused on The Kidney Project, an effort to develop the first implantable bioartificial kidney to treat end-stage renal disease.

Kidney Project receives two major gifts, increased Hind professorship endowment

Tue Jan 29, 2013

Shuvo Roy, silicon wafer, bioartificial kidney model

Shuvo Roy, PhD, with silicon wafer and bioartificial kidney model

Research at the UCSF School of Pharmacy to develop the first implantable bioartificial kidney recently received exceptional private support: $1 million from the family of the late philanthropists Harry and Diana Hind, and $50,000 from the Patterson Barclay Memorial Foundation.

Artificial kidney project receives $3 million from Goldman Foundation, NIH

Wed Oct 3, 2012