New NASA Project!

The Kelly lab has been given funding to examine an increased-longevity kidney organ-on-a-chip application, in which these chip devices will be used to model xenobiotic exposure and toxicity up to 6 months. Read more from the full post here

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Kelly Lab presents at SOT’s 61st Annual Meeting in San Diego

Jade Yang, Kendan Jones-Isaac, and Anish Mahadeo present their research at SOT in San Diego for our first in-person conference since the start of the pandemic! Poster titles from left to right were “In Vitro Assessment of Ochratoxin A and Transient Heat Stress as Risk Factors for CKDu in a Microphysiological System”, “Effects of Microgravity […]

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Kidney Cells-02 team sends MPS to space

#ChipsInSpace The Kelly lab sends Kidney-on-a-chip to the ISS for a second time on SpaceX Cargo Dragon from the Kennedy Space Center. The unique microgravity environment allows us to conduct research on Nephrolithiasis. Check out a video of the launch below!

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Wade Washington featured at NW Kidney Center’s 2019 Discovery Gala

Wade Washington, an undergraduate research member of the Kelly Lab, spoke of his experience with kidney disease in a video featured at the 2019 Discovery Gala. At the event, Wade spoke about the significance of the cutting-edge research going on the Kidney Research Institute and the Center for Dialysis Innovation, both of which grew out […]

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Kidney-chip system wins new NIH funding

The National Institutes of Health today announced $15 million in funding for development of 3-D tissue models, among them a University of Washington effort to study the effects of drugs on kidney “tissue chips.” The idea is that small tissue chips might be a better way to test drugs’ safety and toxicity than the conventional methods of […]

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UW/KRI Kidney-on-a-chip will travel to International Space Station

UW Pharmacy and UW Medicine team to study how weightlessness accelerates kidney damage In as early as 2018, a rocket carrying a payload that includes 24 microfluidic chips about the size of credit cards will transport an extraordinary University of Washington kidney research project to the International Space Station. University of Washington School of Pharmacy […]

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