{"id":404,"date":"2013-07-11T09:01:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/?p=404"},"modified":"2021-12-10T17:21:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T22:21:41","slug":"project-seeks-to-create-%e2%80%98bioartificial%e2%80%99-kidney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/2013\/07\/project-seeks-to-create-%e2%80%98bioartificial%e2%80%99-kidney\/","title":{"rendered":"Project seeks to create \u2018bioartificial\u2019 kidney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nephrologist <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/node\/715\">William Fissell IV, M.D.<\/a>,  associate professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, is intent  on creating and mass-producing an implantable bioartificial kidney that  can transform quality of life and prospects for survival for people with  chronic kidney disease who would otherwise be forced onto dialysis.<\/p>\n<p>Donor kidneys are in very short supply for the approximately 600,000  Americans who have end-stage renal disease. Only 50 percent of dialysis  patients are still alive three years after the start of therapy for  kidney disease, compared with 91 percent survival at three years for  those who instead receive a preemptive kidney transplant.<\/p>\n<p>Dialysis costs $80,000 per patient per year, and the total U.S. cost  for treatment of end-stage renal disease is upward of $40 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt and the University of California at San Francisco are the  lead institutions for development of the bioartificial kidney. Fissell,  who relocated from the Cleveland Clinic to Vanderbilt last August, has  invested years of groundwork in the device, in collaboration with  bioengineer Shuvo Roy, Ph.D., of UCSF, and other far-flung researchers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2013\/07\/project-seeks-to-create-bioartificial-kidney\/\">KEEP READING&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nephrologist William Fissell IV, M.D., associate professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, is intent on creating and mass-producing an implantable bioartificial kidney that can transform quality of life and prospects for survival for people with chronic kidney disease who would otherwise be forced onto dialysis. Donor kidneys are in very short supply for the approximately&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3411,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,216],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-vinse-faculty-news","tag-william-fissell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}