the Kidney Project

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

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.