Dr. Ed Kelly and Dr. Beno Freeman share how miniature organs grown from stem cells may alter how we develop drugs, treat diseases, and even travel into deep space at the Between Two Kidneys event, hosted by ISCRM (Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine) at The Collective in South Lake Union as part of […]
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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 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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Eli Weber won the Emil A. Pfitzer Student Award at the 2017 Annual Society of Toxicology Meeting for presenting his work on modeling drug-induced nephrotoxicity using the kidney-on-a-chip microphysiological system. Ranita Patel won the John Mahan best abstract award at the Renal Research Institute’s 9th International Pediatric Nephrology Fellows Meeting in late January. Ranita also […]
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