kidney
September 28, 2017
Kidney on a chip
A NASA rocket will blast off for the International Space Station carrying a UW research project called “kidney-on-a-chip.”
September 13, 2017
Pairing up for kidney patients
She leads a running group for transplant patients. He's developing a groundbreaking remedy for kidney stones.
December 1, 2014
New dawn of dialysis
At the UW, the birthplace of kidney dialysis, a clinical trial has been approved to test the safety and effectiveness of a wearable artificial kidney. Not counting preliminary studies, it is the first human trial of its kind in the United States.
December 1, 2012
Better imaging
Lodespin Labs, a new company founded by UW researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering with support from UW’s Center for Commercialization, may help solve a worrying problem in health care.
March 1, 2010
Life-saving loophole
Fifty years ago, UW doctors developed the Scribner shunt, a simple device that created a literal loophole in the death sentence doled out to those suffering with end-stage kidney disease.
December 1, 2007
Joseph Eschbach, 1933-2007
Joseph Eschbach made a medical breakthrough that would improve the lives of more than a million people suffering from kidney disease.
September 1, 2003
Belding Scribner, 1921-2003
Belding Scribner, a UW medicine professor who revolutionized long-term kidney dialysis and saved millions of lives, died June 19.
September 1, 1996
A stroke of genius saved countless lives with dialysis
"I literally woke up in the middle of the night with the idea of how we could save these people," Belding Scribner recalls.