Michael S. Balzer

🔥 Huge congrats to @ksusztak.bsky.social & team on a landmark @natgenet.nature.com paper!
🚶‍♂️🐁🐀Cross-species 🫘kidney pathway dysregulation via #singlecell functional profiling of individual samples — opening new therapeutic avenues.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 #NephSky #MedSky

🔥Paper alert @nature.com. Fantastic 🧪resource for the renal 🫘 community! #NephSky #MedSky

Congrats @puellesv.bsky.social lab and team!

Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2a Study Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Felzartamab for IgA Nephropathy

doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2025.05.028

#OpenAccess #IgAN #felzartamab #IgANephropathy

Simon Davies kicking off day 2 of the 1st International Meeting on
Cellular and Molecular Peritonial Dialysis Research in Kiel.

KidneyCure 2025 Grant Recipients

👏Congrats to the KidneyCure 2025 Grant Recipients! 🫘🧪
@asnpublications.bsky.social #NephSky #MedSky

In the latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social, the BALANCE trial comparing 7 days of antibiotic treatment with 14 days of treatment in patients with bloodstream infection is explained. Access the article for free: nej.md/DrG19

ISPD Fellowship results - 1st call 2025 - International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis The Fellowship Program is one of the ISPD’s key programs to strengthen global PD expertise through hands-on learning and knowledge exchange. For the first round of 2025, we received 17…

The Fellowship Program is one of the ISPD’s key instruments to strengthen global PD expertise through hands-on learning and knowledge exchange.

Learn more about the results of our first call for applications in 2025 and the new application modality for teams Doctor-Nurse.

buff.ly/7XjuPCM

Go Nina! Love the fancy ambience.

A graph of the least-squares mean ratio of the change from baseline in the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio in the full analysis population.

In the CONFIDENCE trial in persons with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes, combination therapy with finerenone and empagliflozin led to a greater reduction in the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio than either drug alone. Full trial results: nej.md/4jEVbbk

#ERA25 #MedSky #Nephrology

Go Braunschweig! 🫘

ASN Lifetime & Midcareer Awardees 2025

🎉🎈Congrats to all ASN 2025 🏆Lifetime & Midcareer awardees!

Well-deserved, @ksusztak.bsky.social @rkramann.bsky.social @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social, you are on 🔥!!!
#NephSky, #MedSky, #ERA25

In the May 2025 #ASNKidneyNews Policy Update, explore recent new and existing policy actions from ASN Advocacy that benefit physicians, patients, and researchers. bit.ly/KN1705-16

Figure Full season (32-week-ahead) forecasts of influenza hospitalisations in the USA

The effect of disappearing data from US public health

#OpenAccess viewpoint in @thelancet.com

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#MedSky #EpiSky

Program & registration: http://www.pdmeeting.skip-sh.de

📣Attention #NephSky #MedSky!
Inaugural #PeritonealDialysis 🧪research meeting incoming:

"1st International Meeting on Cellular & Molecular #PD Research"
📆July 4-5, 2025 @The Nucleus, 🛳️Kiel, Germany
🔗Program & registration: www.pdmeeting.skip-sh.de
👫@ispd.org @dgfn.bsky.social ERA/EDTA

⏳ Two Weeks Left! Submit your research abstract or case report for #KidneyWk 2025 by Wednesday, May 21, at 2:00 p.m. EDT.

Take the stage at the world’s premier nephrology meeting and share your work with 12,000+ kidney professionals.

Submit now: asn.kdny.info/SwgN50VMhU6

Fluoroscopic repositioning of Tenckhoff catheter

doi.org/10.1016/j.kint.2024.09.027

#KINephrologyImage #NephSky #MedSky #peritonealdialysis

Scientists have developed a way to scale up spatial genomics and lower costs A new computational approach eliminates time-intensive imaging, enabling high-resolution spatial mapping of gene expression in tissue.

A new spatial transcriptomics approach eliminates the need for time-intensive imaging with specialized equipment, making the technique accessible to more researchers around the world. @naturebiotech.bsky.social

Michelangelo: Art, anatomy, and the kidney Michelangelo: Art, anatomy, and the kidney. Michelangelo (1475–1564) had a life-long interest in anatomy that began with his participation in public dissections in his early teens, when he joined the ...

Some light reading on how relevant the kidney is: Michelangelo: 🎨Art, 🧪anatomy, and the 🫘kidney
#NephSky #MedSky
@kidneyint.bsky.social
🔗 www.kidney-international.org/article/S008...

Our @nature.com paper today on multimodal generative #AI for interpretation of medical images and generating reports across many specialties nature.com/articles/s41... @rajpurkar.bsky.social
free access rdcu.be/efcIG

sROC curves separated by prediction models for contrast-induced nephropathy

All quiet on the Western front?!
🧪Work in @jama.com network open shows that predicting #contrast-induced #nephropathy remains imprecise and models demonstrate considerable heterogeneity.
#NephSky #MedSky

🔗 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🔥Inspiring keynote at the 1st Joint Mayo Charité Symposium by @asnkidney.bsky.social past president @susanquaggin.bsky.social on the golden era of #kidney health.
🫘🧪
#NephSky #MedSky @nephrointberlin.bsky.social

QR code linking to application landing page for funding opportunities for Women in Science.

💵Funding opportunities for female postdoc🧪scientists in #STEM.
Calls for🇨🇭🇹🇷🇪🇬🇧🇷🇿🇦 and other countries still open.

#NephSky #MedSky #WomenInScience
@womeninmedicine.bsky.social
@women-in-stem.bsky.social

🔗https://www.forwomeninscience.com/challenge/show/120

🤙

A kidney-shaped kiwi.

Got fruit? A 🥝kiwi a day keeps the 🫘nephrologist away.
Stay healthy and have a nice weekend #NephSky #MedSky!

(Gloms reach a little too far down into the medulla, but hey, we don't even have a proper kidney emoji, so 🤷‍♂️)

#SockItToKidneyDisease

Hey #NephSky #MedSky, today is #WorldKidneyDay!

Next generation of🫘kidney🧪scientists hard at work to raise awareness for #KidneyDisease, which affects >850 million people worldwide!

🧦 #SockItToKidneyDisease #KidneyAwareness
@kidney.org @asnkidney.bsky.social @theisn.org @nu-nephrology.bsky.social

Did you know that March 13 is #WorldKidneyDay? More people than ever are at risk for kidney disease, and your generosity today can change lives. Make your first monthly gift now and see it matched, dollar-for-dollar, up to $50,000. Make your impact: buff.ly/41iCpPV

📢 New Issue Alert March 2025
@pdi-journal.bsky.social , @ispd.org
🔗 buff.ly/Ode3kIM
Editor In Chief: @pd-perls.bsky.social
Visual Abstract: @edgarvlermamd.bsky.social , @jmteakell.bsky.social
Social Media Ed: @drnikhilshah.bsky.social
#PeritonealDialysis @SageJournals

Hey #NephSky #MedSky 🧪, is it just me or do y’all see two dancing 💃 🕺 kidneys as well?
It’s #NationalKidneyMonth!!! 🫘

Call for abstracts, Junge Niere renal research meeting for early career clinician scientists. July 11-12, 2025 in Regensburg, Germany.

Attention European #NephSky #MedSky!

Call for abstracts: #JungeNiere 🫘renal 🧪research meeting for early career #ClinicianScientists. July 11-12, 2025 @uniregensburg.bsky.social (GER).
💰Travel grants for students, 🥾hiking &🍺Bavarian beer included!
junge-niere.jimdosite.com
M. Banas, S. Reichelt-Wurm