Krescent Program

Kidney Research Scientist Core Education and National Training Program

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Welcome from the Program Director

Welcome to the new website of the KRESCENT Program.  It gives me great pleasure to introduce the Kidney Research Scientist Core Education and National Training Program, better known as KRESCENT Read more...

 

Canadian Study Finds Chronic Kidney Disease Screening Could Increase Early Disease Management And Public Health

According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) by Dr. Brenda Hemmelgarn and colleagues of the Alberta Kidney Disease Network, the reporting of estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) – a measurement of the kidney’s ability to filter waste products - increased first time visits to kidney specialists, especially for middle aged to elderly patients, patients with more severe kidney dysfunction and those with co-morbidities, such as hypertension and diabetes. Read more...



Latest News
Life as a Kidney Researcher
A New Blog by Sunny Hartwig Ph.D.
Dr. Martin Pollak
Supervisor of KRESCENT Trainee Moumita Barua, publishes in Science
Featured Publications
Navdeep Tangri publishes in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases:
Uric Acid, CKD, and Cardiovascular Disease: Confounders, Culprits, and Circles
Dylan Burger publishes in Circulation Research:
Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Phosphate Reduced Oxidase 5 (Nox5) Regulation by Angiotensin II and Endothelin-1 Is Mediated via Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent, Rac-1-Independent Pathways in Human Endothelial Cells.
Matt James publishes in The Lancet:
Early recognition and prevention of chronic kidney disease
Marie-Luise Brezniceanu publishes in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology:
Reactive Oxygen Species Promote Caspase-12 Expression and Tubular Apoptosis in Diabetic Nephropathy
Darren Yuen publishes in PLoS One:
Culture-modified bone marrow cells attenuate cardiac and renal injury in a chronic kidney disease rat model via a novel antifibrotic mechanism.

The KRESCENT Program is a Strategic Training Program developed and supported by :

 


With additional generous support from :

 AMGEN

 Baxter Corporation

 Merck-Frosst Canada Ltd.

 Ortho Biotech

 Roche

 Shire BioChem Inc.

 
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