ASN Kidney Week: American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week

Columbia’s Jai Radhakrishnan, MD, MS, explains how FSGS differs by phenotype and why new IgA nephropathy drugs reach so few patients.

Hiddo Heerspink, PhD, discusses finerenone data in type 1 diabetes, FSGS and IgA nephropathy, and open questions on sequencing CKD therapies.

Posters in an artificial intelligence and digital care session at Kidney Week 2026 spanned CKD risk prediction and LLM-drafted prior authorization letters.

Karolinska Institutet’s Antoine Créon, MD, discusses why CKD alerts did not improve screening, retesting, or diagnosis in Stockholm primary care.

Sparsentan cut proteinuria about 70% and kept kidney function stable over 2 years in newly diagnosed IgA nephropathy in the SPARTAN study.

Speakers at ASN Kidney Week urge nephrologists to appeal prior authorization denials, include children in trials, and expand access to glomerular disease therapies globally.

ASN Kidney Week 2026 experts discussed GLP-1 RAs alongside lifestyle care, global access, and bariatric surgery for obesity in chronic kidney disease.

Kidney Week 2026 abstracts show that AMKD progresses quickly in routine practice, with or without diabetes, despite background CKD therapy.

Our most-read coverage of American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2023 highlighted discussions on the challenges of medication dose adjustments in chronic kidney disease, the impact of LGBTQ+ health care disparities on kidney outcomes, and much more.

Regardless of kidney disease subtype, biomarkers can successfully ascertain risk of kidney disease progression, said Steven Coca, DO, MS, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Presenters at American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2023 highlighted the importance of understanding the barriers faced by the LGBTQ+ community that impact kidney outcomes and the need to gather better data for studying these issues.

There is great value, both for clinical trials and clinical practice, in biomarkers that identify patients at greatest risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD) after acute kidney injury, explained Steven Coca, DO, MS, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Presenters at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2023 highlighted the exciting new technologies that nephrology research has developed to improve patient outcomes, quality of life, and approaches to care.

Posters at ASN Kidney Week 2023 explored the economic burden brought on by chronic kidney disease (CKD) and further validated the Klinrisk model’s ability to predict progressive forms of CKD.

The use of a bioartificial kidney could save the transplant population from a life of immunosuppression drugs and save costs, according to Shuvo Roy, PhD, professor of bioengineering at the University of California San Francisco.

Pregnancies for patients on dialysis are high risk and care by a multidisciplinary team is extremely important for a successful birth, explained Silvi Shah, MD, MS, FASN, assistant professor, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Cincinnati.

Data shows sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are efficacious and can be used in almost all common kidney diagnoses, explained William G. Herrington, MD, MA, MBBS, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford.

Presenters at ASN Kidney Week 2023 emphasized the importance of patient education, awareness, and advocacy in the realm of kidney transplantation.

For patients with chronic kidney disease, dose adjustments for other medications requires coordination with other specialists to maintain treatment efficacy, explained Linda Awdishu, PharmD, FASN, professor and division head of clinical pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Smaller noncoding RNA is being used in clinical practice and as knowledge grows of long noncoding RNA, use of it should follow, explained Laura Denby, PhD, Kidney Research UK Senior Fellow, senior lecturer and principal investigator in the Centre for Cardiovascular Science at the University of Edinburgh.

Two posters presented at Kidney Week 2023 evaluated the global state of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and shed light on delays in CKD diagnoses in the United States.

Presenters at the American Society of Nephrology's Kidney Week 2023 discussed the past, present, and future of pediatric chronic kidney disease, as well as explored the obstacles and solutions for effective trial designs.

The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2023 will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from November 2-5, as experts from across the globe gather to discuss the latest innovations in renal care and current issues facing the field.

Data on empagliflozin in chronic kidney disease (CKD) showed the drug had similar efficacy across subgroups, but more data is needed to really understand the benefit of the drug in CKD, said Jennifer Green, MD, professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, member of Duke Clinical Research Institute, and EMPA-KIDNEY collaborator.

The studies reviewed estimates of economic and humanistic impact on both patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) as well as their caregivers.

Daniel E. Weiner, MD, MS, board certified nephrologist and lead navigator at Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, spoke on the limitations and future potential of value-based payment systems for chronic kidney disease (CKD), including the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Treatment Choices (ETC) Model and the Kidney Care Choices (KCC) Models.

Curtis Warfield, MS, senior quality analyst, Indiana State Department of Health, and regional leader of National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Advocacy Committee, spoke on limitations regarding the current process of educating and managing lifestyle interventions for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and how nephrologists can better integrate these strategies.

More than 1 in 4 adults have 1 or more conditions that fall into the cardio-renal-metabolic category, according to findings released during Kidney Week 2022.

It has been 3 years since new kidney care payment models were announced by HHS, and at a session at Kidney Week 2022, the associate division director of nephrology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham described his organization’s participation in Kidney Care First, one of the value-based care models announced in 2019.

Jen Gunter, MD, obstetrician and gynecologist, author, and specialist in chronic pain medicine and vulvovaginal disorders, spoke on the change in perspective regarding the medical and scientific community's role in dispelling health care misinformation on social media and in the press.