Kidney (IMAGE)

University of California - San Francisco

Kidney

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This image shows a kidney. Development of a surgically implantable, artificial kidney -- a promising alternative to kidney transplantation or dialysis for people with end-stage kidney disease -- has received a $6 million boost, thanks to a new grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), one of the National Institutes of Health, to researchers led by UC San Francisco bioengineer Shuvo Roy, Ph.D., and Vanderbilt University nephrologist William Fissell, M.D.

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