UCSF Surgical Innovations Team Reports Clinical Milestone in Development of Implantable Bioartificial Kidney at Kidney Week 2019
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program - - December 16, 2019
The Kidney Project, a national effort to develop an implantable bioartificial kidney that could eliminate the need for dialysis, announced a key milestone in a November 7 presentation at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2019 conference in Washington, DC.
The project team reported that UC San Francisco scientists successfully implanted a prototype kidney bioreactor containing functional human kidney cells in large animals without significant safety concerns. The device, which is about the size of a deck of cards, did not trigger an immune reaction or cause blood clots, an [...]