Northern Counties Kidney Research Fund
c/o Professor N Sheerin
Renal Services Centre
Freeman Hospital
Freeman Road
High Heaton
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE7 7DN
Active Grants
Testing an anti-C7 mAb therapy delivered by adeno-associated virus models - Professor Kevin Marchbank
Gene therapy is beginning to deliver on its immense therapeutic promise as exemplified by the successful treatment of infants with spinal muscular atrophy us...
Kevin Marchbank is Professor of Complement Biology at Newcastle University and Head of research in Autoimmune kidney diseases at the National Renal Complemen...
Establishing a UK Clinical Trial-Ready ADTKD-MUC1 Cohort Using Ultra-High Depth Long-Read Sequencing, Deep Phenotyping and Polygenic Risk Stratification - Holly Mabillard, Heather Cordell, Juliana Arcila Galvis
Some families develop kidney failure because of changes in a gene called MUC1, which causes a rare condition known as Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial K...
Towards a transcriptomic atlas of urine-derived cells in rare kidney disease - Juliana Arcila Galvis, Prof John Sayer
Kidney disease develops when specialised kidney cells stop working correctly. In rare genetic conditions, this can be due to inherited changes in DNA; in oth...
Understanding the downstream effects of complement activation using spatial transcriptomics - Patrick Walsh, Prof David Kavanagh, Prof Kevin Marchbank, Simon Cockell
Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is a rare but devastating disease where small blood vessels in the kidney become blocked, ultimately leading to acute kidney...
Investigating the Immunogenic Potential of Endothelium Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Solid Organ Transplantation - Prof Neil Sheerin, Shazheb Khan, Emily Thompson, Prof Simi Ali
Kidney transplantation is the best treatment for people who develop kidney failure. However, there are a number of obstacles that prevent transplantation fro...
