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Professor Charuhas V Thakar, Director of Wellcome-Wolfson Institute Experimental Medicine, has been awarded the prestigious American Society of Nephrology American Society of Nephrology Distinguished Leader Award for 2024. The award recognises Professor Thakar’s world-leading work in the fight against #KidneyDisease, through educating

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How do patients experience a kidney biopsy? Our paper explores how to facilitate access to this essential investigation. Big thanks to the patient participants for guiding this project! Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund Transplant Sport NI Kidney Care UK @kidneycareuk.bsky.social doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Great to see this published! Well done to Michael Toal and team! Having had a biopsy on both my native kidneys and transplanted kidney through the years, I have experienced the need for this research. Thank you for letting me be a part of it! #Researchpaper #Biopsy #Kidney

🚨🧬 New NICOLA_QUB paper Here we describe the recruitment strategy & characteristics of participants with #DNA #Methylation in NIs largest longitudinal cohort aged >50yrs. An incredible resource to unpick some of the biological processes of #ageing ▶️bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/9/e…

Looking forward to speaking tonight with Sharon Millen at the RVH Liver Support Group meeting about the benefits of sport after transplantation. Transplant Sport NI #giftoflife

Michael Corr studying relationship between Living Donor Transplant and Socio-economic status #KidneyWk Queen's University Belfast 🎓 QUB Public Health Belfast Trust

Looking back to Belfast Michael Toal was sharing his work looking at variation of kidney biopsy practice internationally with a specific look at USA practice for #KidneyWk Research funded by Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund QUB Public Health QUB MDBS

And we got to see our very own QUB MDBS Professor Charuhas V Thakar receive an #ASN Distinguished Leader award. An incredible achievement!

I had the opportunity to present some of my own ICAT Programme PhD work at the conference as well as work carried out with colleagues in the Belfast Trust

A massive thanks to the NI Kidney Research Fund Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund & Punchestown Kidney Research Fund for the travel bursary so Michael Toal and I could attend the conference. Was an amazing learning opportunity. Forever grateful for the support you give to us and our work.

You are very welcome! Thanks for providing HOPE for kidney patients through research.

Dr Michael Toal, ST6 (OPPR) delivers his oral presentation titled 'International variation in attitudes to kidney biopsy practice' to judges and guests as part of #ResearchforCliniciansDay2024 #ValuedTrainees #TraineeOpportunities

Congratulations 🎉 to Dr Michael Toal on winning 1st place🥇Oral Presentation at this year's #ResearchforCliniciansDay2024 🙌 Both Dr Johnston and Dr Bhasker achieved joint 2nd place

eGFR slope modelling predicts long-term clinical benefit with nefecon in a real-world IgAN population doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sf… This modelling analysis indicates that the eGFR benefit seen with nefecon predicts a substantial delay in progression to kidney failure

Excited to share our publication on international kidney biopsy practice in CJASN. Thanks #nephtwitter for participating- especially@kidney_boy and Swapnil Hiremath @hswapnil.medsky.social ! Generously funded by Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund journals.lww.com/cjasn/fulltext…

New research reveals global gaps in diagnosing kidney disease - A recent study has identified that kidney specialists around the world have significantly different approaches on when they feel a kidney biopsy is needed to diagnose their patients. go.qub.ac.uk/fpkbc

It was a privilege to be invited along to Organ Donation Ed Aquinas' very special lecture from consultant transplant surgeon Tim Brown and colleagues from the world-class renal team at Belfast Trust City Hospital. The pupils were transfixed. Glad to see the cake went to a good home 😊🎂