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Laurel DamashekOctober 13, 20253 min read

Day 2: PARASOL APOL1 & MN Kickoff

The October 10 sessions of the PARASOL kickoff meeting for APOL1 kidney disease and ...
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Laurel DamashekOctober 10, 20251 min read

Day 1 Highlights: PARASOL APOL1 & MN Kickoff

The PARASOL APOL1 and MN kickoff meeting in Minneapolis on October 9, 2025 convened ...
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Laurel DamashekSeptember 26, 20253 min read

PARASOL Project Expands Focus to APOL1, Membranous Nephropathy

The organizing committee of PARASOL (PROTEINURIA AND OTHER BIOMARKERS AS ENDPOINTS FOR ...
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Laurel DamashekDecember 11, 20241 min read

Inaugural Glomerular Disease Preceptorship Held at UKE Hamburg

The Hamburg Center for Kidney Health (HCKH) at Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf ...
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Alissa Kocer, MFANovember 1, 20243 min read

One and Two APOL1 Risk Variants Can Predispose to FSGS and Other CKDs in West Africans

Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and other chronic kidney diseases (CKDs) are ...
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Dr. Howard TrachtmanOctober 15, 20243 min read

PARASOL Project Advances Understanding of Proteinuria in FSGS

BETHESDA, Md. October 14, 2024 – A multi-stakeholder group of rare kidney disease experts ...
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Dr. Howard TrachtmanAugust 22, 2024< 1 min read

PARASOL Interim Meeting Report

After a successful meeting in December 2023 to launch the PARASOL initiative, the group ...
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Laurel DamashekAugust 2, 2024< 1 min read

NEJM "Science behind the Study" Editorial: Kidney Disease and Antinephrin Antibodies

Don't miss the new "Science behind the Study" editorial by Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD ...
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Laurel DamashekMay 25, 20245 min read

Anti-nephrin autoantibodies in minimal change disease and idiopathic NS

New research demonstrates role of anti-nephrin autoantibodies as causative factor and ...
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Laurel DamashekApril 27, 2024< 1 min read

FSGS and NS Research Funding Opportunities Through PRMRP

The US Department of Defense includes FSGS and nephrotic syndrome as two of the priority ...
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