{"id":241813,"date":"2026-07-30T00:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/ucla-researchers-may-have-discovered-how-to-heal-damaged-kidneys"},"modified":"2026-07-30T00:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:11:51","slug":"ucla-researchers-may-have-discovered-how-to-heal-damaged-kidneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/ucla-researchers-may-have-discovered-how-to-heal-damaged-kidneys","title":{"rendered":"UCLA researchers may have discovered how to heal damaged kidneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ucla-researchers-may-have-discovered-how-to-heal-damaged-kidneys2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A drug previously developed at UCLA to help heart tissue repair itself after a heart attack might also help kidney tissue repair and regenerate, researchers have found.<\/p>\n<p>The drug, called AD-NP1, which was recently approved by the FDA for a Phase 1 clinical trial in humans, works in heart tissue by blocking a protein that disrupts healing and prevents internal organs from fully recovering. Researchers have now found that blocking this protein in kidney tissue speeds repair after kidney injury in mice.<\/p>\n<p>The new finding, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-stem-cell\/fulltext\/S1934-5909(26)00203-1\" rel=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Cell Stem Cell,<\/a> builds upon many years of research in the laboratory of UCLA cardiovascular scientist Arjun Deb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drug previously developed at UCLA to help heart tissue repair itself after a heart attack might also help kidney tissue repair and regenerate, researchers have found. The drug, called AD-NP1, which was recently approved by the FDA for a Phase 1 clinical trial in humans, works in heart tissue by blocking a protein that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241813","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}