Kidney Regeneration Research Breakthrough from USC’s Peti-Peterdi Team
The research team recently published their exciting results in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the premier biomedical science journal of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). Dr. Janos Peti-Peterdi wrote that the team discovered a new mechanism by which the kidney tissue can repair and regenerate itself and the team demonstrated how targeting and augmenting this mechanism can be developed into a highly efficient regeneration therapy.
Dr. Peti-Peterdi said, “Our personal and professional mission is to find a cure for kidney disease, a growing global epidemic affecting one out of seven adults, which translates to 850 million people worldwide or about two million in the Los Angeles area.”
Read the JCI article and editorial commentary at https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI174558 and delve deeper into this fascinating discovery featured in a new guest blog post by Dr. Janos Peti-Peterdi and Dr. Georgina Gyarmati.
The UKRO Story
UKRO was founded because of one simple question.
How can so little be known about kidney disease—a problem that affects and kills so many?
After entertainment lawyer Ken Kleinberg’s kidneys failed, he and his physician, Dr. Vito Campese, founded UKRO to fund innovative research to eradicate kidney disease.
To boost innovative solutions for kidney disease, UKRO partnered with USC to establish the USC/UKRO Kidney Research Center (KRC) on USC’s Health Sciences Campus.
UKRO is committed to funding USC’s development of a revolutionary synthetic kidney, derived from stem cells, that will improve treatment of kidney disease and replace dialysis.
