Fighting PKD Together

Since 1982, passionate patients have inspired and supported the PKD Foundation’s efforts to fight PKD. Together, we’ve advanced basic PKD research into PKD drug development. Treatments for PKD are finally within reach! Now, more than ever, we need to unite as a community - join us in this unfinished fight.

 

 		 
 
  • MODDERN Cures Solution Act Recently Introduced
    November 28, 2011 |  Advocacy
    The PKD Foundation supports the MODDERN Cures Solution because it will improve the regulatory system to encourage scientific inquiry, reward ingenuity, and safely speed modern miracles into treatments and diagnostics that improve patient outcomes. 
  • Major American Kidney Organizations Appeal for Help from HHS Secretary Sebelius
    August 31, 2011 |  Advocacy

    Leaders of major U.S. kidney organizations concerned with reducing the burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in America, joined forces with their colleagues at the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) in its joint global initiative asking Health Ministers around the world, including HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius – to help secure the inclusion of kidney disease in the strategies coming from the World Health Organization/United Nations High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases being held in New York, 19-20 September 2011.
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Cure of ADPKD by selection for spontaneous genetic repair events in Pkd1-mutated iPS cells - PhysOrg

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:17:47 -0500

Here we demonstrate restoration of a genomic mutation heterozygous for Pkd1 (polycystic kidney disease 1) deletion (Pkd1(+/-) to Pkd1(+/R+)) by spontaneous mitotic recombination. Notably, recombination between homologous chromosomes occurred at ...
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