The Kidney Project

The Kidney Project proves its bioreactor can keep kidney cells alive for at least one week

Fri Sep 1, 2023

Scientists have shown for the first time that kidney cells—housed in an implantable device called a bioreactor—can survive while implanted.

Scaling up the bioartificial kidney at UCSF

Mon Jun 12, 2023

Elisabeth Fall

Shuvo Roy, PhD

On June 12, The Kidney Project was awarded a $1 million Artificial Kidney Prize from KidneyX for advancing its prototype bioartificial kidney toward a full-sized, human scale, with manufacturing and ultimately clinical trials on the horizon.

Bay Area research team wins prize for working prototype of artificial kidney

Thu Sep 30, 2021

The Kidney Project successfully tests a prototype bioartificial kidney

Thu Sep 9, 2021

The Kidney Project

The Kidney Project’s bioartificial kidney, which was successfully implanted in a preclinical model.

The Kidney Project earned a $650,000 award for a successful demonstration of its artificial kidney

UCSF’s artificial kidney project wins major award, now one step closer to potentially changing lives

Mon Aug 10, 2020

The Kidney Project wins KidneyX Award to enable simpler, safer at-home dialysis

Wed Jul 22, 2020

The Kidney Project's iHemo offers patients a safer, in-home alternative to dialysis

The Kidney Project's iHemo implantable dialysis system received a $500,000 award to speed its development into an approved therapy for patients.

School's efforts to develop artificial kidney receive $500,000 boost

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...

Implantable Artificial Kidney Moves Closer to Reality

Mon Nov 13, 2017

Silicon isn’t just for computers. It can make a pretty good kidney, too.

Mon Oct 9, 2017

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