Fighting PKD Together

At age 40 and living with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), Vicki Shaver is riding her bicycle 1,850 miles – from Seattle to the National Convention on PKD in San Diego – to raise awareness and funds for PKD.

Angel MedFlight, a worldwide ambulance company, recently made a donation to the PKD Foundation after flying a daughter and her mother from Texas to New York so the daughter could receive a liver and kidney transplant.

The Utah Technology Council (UTC) and the PKD Foundation recently announced that Richard Nelson, president and CEO of UTC, has been named to the PKD Foundation’s national Board of Trustees. Members of the PKD Foundation Board, the organization’s governing body, serve three-year terms on a volunteer basis.

Gregory G. Germino, M.D., an expert in inherited kidney disease who has served on the PKD Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee, spoken at PKD National Conventions and received an international award for excellence in PKD research, was named Deputy Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in May.

The PKD Foundation, the world’s leader in catalyzing research and new therapies for those suffering from PKD, is once again teaming up with the International Society of Nephrology to honor three world renowned nephrologists with the 2009 Lillian Jean Kaplan International Prize for Advancement in the Understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease.