The Transforming Kidney Health Research panel aims to accelerate innovation that will deliver better diagnostics, therapies, and tools for preventing and treating kidney diseases.
The Transforming Kidney Health Research panel, which the ASN Council approved earlier this year, recently held its first meeting in Washington, DC. Spurred by an effort to develop a bold and comprehensive research plan that identifies existing and emerging areas of opportunity for kidney health research across the entire federal government, the panel aims to accelerate innovation that will deliver better diagnostics, therapies, and tools for preventing and treating kidney diseases.
Established in partnership with the American Association of Kidney Patients, American Kidney Fund, American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, and the National Kidney Foundation, the panel commences amid several breakthrough federal policy achievements that will advance kidney health in the United States.
Future panel meetings will be held regularly in a virtual capacity through early 2025 in an effort to compile a final report on areas of opportunity within kidney health research. The panel will develop accompanying appropriations recommendations across all aspects of the federal government that engage in or support kidney health research and collaborate with an economist to ensure that the financial assumptions and assertions accompanying its report are sound. The report is intended to become a pillar for the kidney community to advocate for a major increase in federal appropriations over fiscal years 2026-2028. Similar efforts in cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and type 1 diabetes successfully increased federal research appropriations by 300-575%.
Advancing federally funded kidney health research remains a significant policy priority for ASN. Further updates will be shared with the kidney community via Kidney News Online, and for real-time policy updates follow @ASNAdovcacy on X.
Members of the Transforming Kidney Health Research panel include:
1. Samir Parikh, MD, FASN, Panel Chair, ASN Secretary, UT Southwestern
2. Sandra Amaral, MD, ASPN President-Elect, CHOP
3. Charlotte Jones Burton, MD, MS, AKF Board of Trustees, 2FLO Ventures
4. Paul Conway, AAKP Chair of Policy and Global Affairs
5. Holly Kramer, MD, MPH, Former NKF President, Loyola University
6. Sharon Moe, MD, Former ASN President, Indiana University
7. Ben Humphreys, MD, PhD, FASN (Wash University)
8. Ali Gharavi, MD, Columbia University
9. Leo Riella, MD, PhD, FASN, Harvard University, Mass General Hospital
10. Sue Quaggin, MD, FASN, Former ASN President, Northwestern University
11. Anne Rohall, JD, American Kidney Fund
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