Research Opportunities

网曝黑料 patients play a key role in scientific studies, frequently serving as research subjects. Thanks to their support, we've been able to make groundbreaking discoveries that help save lives.

About our research

The Kidney Research Institute is 网曝黑料’聽collaboration with UW Medicine. It聽focuses on cardiovascular complications, diabetic kidney disease, the role of a healthy lifestyle in preventing complications of kidney disease, genetics, acute kidney injury, and novel kidney replacement therapies such as a wearable artificial kidney.

If you’re a 网曝黑料 patient,聽you have the opportunity to contribute to this ongoing mission.

Why take part in a research study?

鉁�聽You’ll help improve the lives of people with kidney disease, perhaps even your own.

鉁�聽It’s a chance to experience聽the research process and peek into the future of chronic kidney disease聽treatment.

鉁�聽It聽doesn’t usually聽require much extra time or effort on your part, so it’s聽an easy聽way聽give back.

鉁�聽We need you! Without patient participants, our researchers couldn鈥檛 discover new, better ways聽to聽prevent, detect and treat kidney disease.

What can you expect?

Volunteering as a research subject can be as simple as filling out a questionnaire or taking聽a blood test. Or聽you might participate聽in a trial of a聽new type of treatment, such as the Wearable Artificial Kidney.

Some research studies may require your ongoing participation over the course of several months. For example, one past study looked at how consuming聽foods with antioxidants, like pomegrante juice, affected聽people on hemodialysis.

Learn more

To volunteer as a participant in our聽research studies, or to learn more about being involved in research, please call聽206-616-8KRI聽or email聽info@kri.washington.edu.

Patients supporting research

Nearly 1,000 网曝黑料 patients are on the Kidney Research Institute registry of those interested in participating in future studies.

Scientists at the Kidney Research Institute have published 1,300 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Since 2008, the Kidney Research Institute has received $140 million in grant support.

Recent research studies

Wearable Artificial Kidney study

Throughout 2014, our聽Kidney Research Institute prepared for safety trials of the new device. Many of the trial participants were expected to be 网曝黑料 dialysis patients.

International PD study

网曝黑料 was selected as a study site for PDOPPS (Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study), an international investigation to improve PD treatment.

Transplantation AIMS study

Researchers hadn鈥檛 planned to work with 网曝黑料 on this study of American Indians and Alaska Natives,聽but selected our site after seeing how engaged our patients were in preliminary work.

Oxygen during dialysis study

A聽novel聽pilot study at 网曝黑料 examined聽whether breathing extra oxygen during dialysis helped prevent diabetes-related amputations. The pilot may result in a major聽research grant.

“Seattle is the Yankees of kidney research. The city’s history of success in kidney innovation gives me faith that more discoveries will happen here.”

鈥� Bill Peckham, on dialysis for 28 years

The role of research

网曝黑料 was聽built聽on the pioneering work of scientists. Research has played a key part in our mission since the beginning, and we continue to make strides in the fight against kidney disease.

Read more about our Kidney Research Institute, its vision for the next 10 years, and why kidney disease research is so important.