{"id":127717,"date":"2021-09-15T21:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T04:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/the-kidney-project-successfully-tests-a-prototype-bioartificial-kidney"},"modified":"2021-09-15T21:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T04:22:28","slug":"the-kidney-project-successfully-tests-a-prototype-bioartificial-kidney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/the-kidney-project-successfully-tests-a-prototype-bioartificial-kidney","title":{"rendered":"The Kidney Project successfully tests a prototype bioartificial kidney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K61_IlUFVxc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Kidney Project\u2019s implantable bioartificial kidney, one that promises to free kidney disease patients from dialysis machines and transplant waiting lists, took another big step toward becoming reality, earning a $650,000 prize from KidneyX for its first-ever demonstration of a functional prototype of its implantable artificial kidney.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidneyx.org\/\">KidneyX<\/a> is a public\u2013private partnership between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/\">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services<\/a> (HHS) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asn-online.org\/\">American Society of Nephrology<\/a> (ASN) founded to \u201caccelerate innovation in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of kidney diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pharm.ucsf.edu\/kidney\">The Kidney Project<\/a>, a nationwide collaboration led by Shuvo Roy, PhD of UC San Francisco and William Fissell, MD of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), combined the two essential parts of its artificial kidney, the hemofilter and the bioreactor, and successfully implanted the smartphone-sized device for preclinical evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kidney Project\u2019s implantable bioartificial kidney, one that promises to free kidney disease patients from dialysis machines and transplant waiting lists, took another big step toward becoming reality, earning a $650,000 prize from KidneyX for its first-ever demonstration of a functional prototype of its implantable artificial kidney. KidneyX is a public\u2013private partnership between the U.S. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}