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William Fissell, MD, has been working on the Kidney Project to create an implantable bioartificial kidney for the last decade.
May 3, 2019

VUMC, UCSF win KidneyX award for home dialysis design

A roadmap to create an implantable dialysis system that would allow patients to treat kidney failure at home has won researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), UC San Francisco (UCSF), and Silicon Kidney one of 15 cash prizes in the inaugural KidneyX’s Redesign Dialysis Phase I competition.

By Craig Boerner
October 6, 2016

Stead to chair National Committee on Vital & Health Statistics

William Stead, M.D., the McKesson Foundation Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Professor of Medicine and Chief Strategy Officer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been chosen to serve as chair of the National Committee on Vital & Health Statistics (NCVHS).

By John Howser