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Kidney Week

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Special Sessions

Posters

  • PostersPosters

Poster Sessions

  •  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  •  Exhibit Hall, Convention Center
  •  Posters

Poster will be posted on October 2. Note: Continuing education credits are not being offered for these sessions.

Non CE Events

Basic/Clinical Science Sessions

  • Alex Hughes, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Nils Lindström, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Jessica May Vanslambrouck, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Min Shi, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Progenitor Programs Directing Development of Human Kidneys

  •  10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  •  Mile High Ballroom 4D, Convention Center
  •  Basic/Clinical Science Sessions

An understanding of human development informs efforts to generate functional human kidney cell types. Interactions among distinct progenitors drive human kidney development. This session highlights nephron and ureteric progenitors of the kidneys' nephron and collecting system, respectively. Speakers discuss molecular and cellular m...

Clinical Practice Sessions

  • Deepali Kumar, MD, MScKidney Week Faculty
  • Rachel M. Engen, MD, MSKidney Week Faculty
  • Joseph R. Leventhal, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Mandy L. Ford, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Best in Show: Review of the Top Kidney Transplantation Literature, 2025-2026

  •  10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  •  Room 401, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

The field of kidney transplantation spans all aspects of nephrology care, from advances in pathology and immunology to AKI and CKD management to health care delivery and policy. Experts in the field present the most important advances in kidney transplantation, as reflected in recent publications, and offer the opportunity to vote ...

  • Brad Rovin, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Laura H. Mariani, MD, MS, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Louise Oni, MA, MBChB, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Clinical Trials in Glomerular Diseases: Can We Still Deliver Them? Including the Michelle P. Winn, MD, Endowed Lectureship

  •  10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  •  Mile High Ballroom 2, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

The last five years have seen a seismic shift in clinical trial activity in glomerular diseases, with many trials reporting positive results and new drugs being approved. These successes are now challenging how we design and deliver clinical trials in glomerular diseases, as traditional placebo-controlled trial designs are increasi...

  • Connie Rhee, MD, MSKidney Week Faculty
  • Yusuke Sakaguchi, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • F. John Gennari, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Rodolfo Galindo, MDKidney Week Faculty

Electrolyte and Acid-Base Disorders in Patients with Advanced Kidney Diseases Receiving Dialysis

  •  10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  •  Mile High Ballroom 1D, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

The kidneys play a critical role in maintaining homeostasis. Thus, the pathophysiology and treatment of electrolyte and acid-base disorders differ significantly in patients with advanced kidney diseases or receiving dialysis. This session discusses selected electrolyte, acid-base, and metabolic disorders in this patient population ...

  • Curtis Warfield, MSKidney Week Faculty
  • Srinivasan Beddhu, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Sharlene A. Greenwood, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Joao L. Viana, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Move More and Sit Less: Interventions to Promote Physical Activity in Adults with CKD

  •  10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  •  Four Seasons Ballroom 4, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

Adults with CKD tend to have low levels of physical activity and high levels of sedentary behavior. These modifiable behaviors can influence health and well-being. This session discusses interventions to reduce sedentary behavior, increase physical activity, and promote exercise, and it explores the benefits of increased physical a...

  • Paul T. ConwayKidney Week Faculty
  • Delphine S. Tuot, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Joshua J. Neumiller, PharmDKidney Week Faculty
  • David Cherney, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Multidisciplinary Care in Diabetes and CKD

  •  10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  •  Four Seasons Ballroom 1, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

This session describes various practice enhancements to optimize care for people living with diabetes and CKD, including involving pharmacists, partnering with primary care and the community, and leveraging patient support organizations.

  • Alexandra Bicki, MD, MPHKidney Week Faculty
  • Dechu P. Puliyanda, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Charles D. Varnell, MD, MSKidney Week Faculty
  • Meghan Pearl, MD, MScKidney Week Faculty

Optimizing Access and Outcomes in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

  •  10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  •  Mile High Ballroom 4A, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

Despite advances in pediatric kidney transplantation, access and long-term outcomes still fall short. This session addresses emerging barriers to and implications for pediatric kidney transplant access, as well as the effects of therapeutic approaches on long-term outcomes. Speakers present new data on maintenance immunosuppression...

  • Vandana Dua Niyyar, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Matthew A. Sparks, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Amy C. Dwyer, MD, MScKidney Week Faculty
  • Roberto I. Vazquez-Padron, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Monnie Wasse, MD, MPH, FASNKidney Week Faculty

This session highlights challenges and opportunities in the field of hemodialysis vascular access, including identification of gaps in knowledge and training, and proposed solutions to overcome these barriers. The session also describes updates in the management of complex hemodialysis vascular access, with an emphasis on translati...

Translational Sessions

  • Joachim H. Ix, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Dominik Richard Kentrup, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Maren Leifheit-Nestler, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Justine Bacchetta, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Biomarkers and Modifiers of CKD and CKD Outcomes, Including the Jack W. Coburn, MD, Endowed Lectureship

  •  10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  •  Mile High Ballroom 1A, Convention Center
  •  Translational Sessions

The search for accurate biomarkers in CKD is challenging. Disease modifiers may interfere in an already complex landscape. This session focuses on factors that could improve the evaluation of disease outcomes and conditions that affect cardiovascular disease, mineral metabolism, and CKD risk. Particular attention is given to CKD st...

  • Alexander Zarbock, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Chirag R. Parikh, MD, PhD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Shina Menon, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Marlies Ostermann, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Revitalizing the Use of AKI Biomarkers in Routine Clinical Care

  •  10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  •  Four Seasons Ballroom 2, Convention Center
  •  Translational Sessions

This session explores the renewed momentum to implement AKI biomarkers in routine clinical care, driven by recent evidence from studies. The session examines how biomarkers can enhance perioperative risk classification, improve prognostic assessment during and after AKI, and enable biologically grounded endophenotyping that may ult...

Non CE Events

Educational Symposia

  • Roger A. Rodby, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Biff F. Palmer, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Ellie Kelepouris, MDKidney Week Faculty

In, Out, and In Between: Potassium Homeostasis in an Age of Treatment Options

  •  12:45 PM - 01:45 PM
  •  TBD Room, Hyatt Regency Denver
  •  Educational Symposia

Potassium homeostasis is an essential component of kidney function, and hyperkalemia is common in individuals with declining kidney function. Hyperkalemia poses clinical challenges because it can affect dietary and medication options in patients with CKD and cardiac dysfunction and may lead to withdrawal of agents that are otherwis...

Basic/Clinical Science Sessions

  • Ryuichi Nishinakamura, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Zhongwei Li, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Kyle McCracken, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Yun Xia, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Advancing Pluripotent Stem Cell-Generated Human Kidney Models

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Mile High Ballroom 4D, Convention Center
  •  Basic/Clinical Science Sessions

Kidney functions reflect the interplay among diverse cell types, posing challenges for in vitro modeling and tissue replacement. Cell diversity reflects the kidneys' multilineage origin and lineage-specific developmental programs driven by cell interactions within and across lineages. Experts address, assess, and critique advanced ...

  • Talat Alp Ikizler, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Amy K. Mottl, MD, MPH, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Ifeoma I. Ulasi, MBBS, MScKidney Week Faculty
  • Sankar D. Navaneethan, MD, MS, MPH, FASNKidney Week Faculty

CKD and Obesity: GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and Other Management Strategies

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Four Seasons Ballroom 4, Convention Center
  •  Basic/Clinical Science Sessions

Obesity and CKD are interrelated. With the rapid uptake of GLP-1 receptor agonists (RAs), used alone or in combination with other therapeutic approaches, for the management of patients with obesity and CKD, clinicians face practical issues related to safety, treatment combinations, complications, and discontinuation of therapy. Thi...

  • Fabian Bock, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Christoph Schell, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Ashley R. Jackson, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Darren A. Yuen, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Cytoskeletons Lurking in the Closet: Cell Biology Mediating CKD Progression

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Room 107, Convention Center
  •  Basic/Clinical Science Sessions

The cell cytoskeleton does more than provide a cellular scaffold in dynamic environments. This session examines how modulators of the cell cytoskeleton and mechanosensors can facilitate regeneration or promote further injury, thereby contributing to CKD progression after cellular stressors. Cutting-edge research is presented that e...

  • Kerstin Ebefors, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Agnes B. Fogo, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Ilse S. Daehn, PhD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Joshua M. Thurman, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty

Glom and Tell: Uncovering the Secrets of Glomerular Crosstalk

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Mile High Ballroom 1A, Convention Center
  •  Basic/Clinical Science Sessions

The glomerulus is a dynamic community in which podocytes, endothelial cells, mesangial cells, and immune cells constantly exchange signals that shape filtration and resilience. In diseases such as IgAN and diabetic kidney disease, this communication becomes distorted, amplifying injury and driving progression. This session explores...

  • Kumar Sharma, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Sophie M. De Seigneux, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Sian E. Piret, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Anna Greka, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Metabolic dysfunction in diabetic kidney disease (DKD) extends beyond hyperglycemia to encompass profound rewiring of cellular fuel use and stress responses. This session explores how tubular epithelial cells shift from fatty acid oxidation toward glycolysis, lactate accumulation, and altered amino acid metabolism, creating vulnera...

  • Myles Wolf, MD, MS, MScKidney Week Faculty
  • Denise K. Marciano, MD, PhD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Cary R. Boyd-Shiwarski, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Manoocher Soleimani, MDKidney Week Faculty

Not Your Father's Nephron: Key Molecular Discoveries That Affect Clinicians

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Mile High Ballroom 1D, Convention Center
  •  Basic/Clinical Science Sessions

This session focuses on key molecular discoveries that have advanced our understanding of tubular transport in the nephrons. Experts emphasize clinical relevance and explain how new insights complement prior assumptions and clinical care.

  • Andreas Linkermann, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Huihui Huang, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Marco Pontoglio, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Andrew P. McMahon, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Strengthening Kidney Resilience to AKI

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Four Seasons Ballroom 2, Convention Center
  •  Basic/Clinical Science Sessions

Currently, no effective therapies robustly enhance the kidneys' resilience to AKI, a critical unmet clinical need. This session explores recently identified cellular and molecular processes that underpin renal homeostasis and the kidneys' resilience to injury and their role in progression to CKD. Additionally, an innovative genetic...

  • Sikander Hayat, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Kun-Hsing Yu, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Chenyu Li, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Imon Banerjee, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Teaching Machines Kidney Biology: Foundation Models That Learn Once and Generalize Everywhere

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Room 603, Convention Center
  •  Basic/Clinical Science Sessions

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in medicine, but most tools are built for one single, narrow task at a time. Foundation models are different. They first learn the basic "language" of a system and can then apply it to many problems. In kidney research, a foundation model can learn core kidney biology by integrating...

  • Stefan G. Tullius, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Maria Kaisar, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Miguel Fribourg, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Francis L. Weng, MDKidney Week Faculty

When Age Matters: Frailty, Immune Aging, and Vulnerability in Kidney Transplantation

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Room 401, Convention Center
  •  Basic/Clinical Science Sessions

Frailty and aging are increasingly recognized as biological states that reshape immune function and transplant outcomes beyond chronological age. Emerging evidence links immunosenescence, inflammaging, altered T-cell maturation, and organ-intrinsic biological aging to heterogeneity in alloimmune responses and graft vulnerability. T...

Clinical Practice Sessions

  • Ala Abudayyeh, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Shruti Gupta, MD, MPHKidney Week Faculty
  • Veronica Torres Costa e Silva, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Chintan Vimalkumar Shah, MDKidney Week Faculty

Contemporary Clinical Challenges in Onconephrology

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Room 203, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

As the population of patients living with cancer continues to grow and survive longer, kidney diseases in oncology have become increasingly common, complex, and clinically significant. This clinical practice session provides a case-based, evidence-driven update on key challenges at the intersection of nephrology and oncology, with ...

  • Daniel P. Gale, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Shikha Wadhwani, MD, MS, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Sean Barbour, MD, MScKidney Week Faculty
  • Liz Lightstone, MBBS, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Dilemmas in the Management of Glomerular Diseases

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Mile High Ballroom 2, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

With the rapidly changing management landscape for glomerular diseases, this session reviews current challenges in diagnosis, prognostication, and treatment, with a particular focus on the roles of genetic testing and kidney biopsy in diagnosis and their potential future role in treatment selection. Future advances in risk stratifi...

  • Christopher T. Chan, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Edwina A. Brown, MD, MBChBKidney Week Faculty
  • Maria Camila Bermudez, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Isaac Teitelbaum, MDKidney Week Faculty

Expanding the Use of Home Dialysis

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Room 501, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

Demand for dialysis is expected to significantly increase globally in the future. Home dialysis, including peritoneal dialysis (PD) and home hemodialysis, is a key strategy to address this need. This session emphasizes the importance of understanding the barriers to increasing home dialysis use and discusses strategies to facilitat...

  • Holly J. Kramer, MD, MPHKidney Week Faculty
  • Kevin John FowlerKidney Week Faculty
  • Deidra C. Crews, MD, ScM, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Precious McCowan, MS, PhDKidney Week Faculty

State of the Patient: Kidney Care Innovation, Education Equality, and Global Patient Access

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Mile High Ballroom 4A, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

This session presents current and emerging issues that patients face. Patients and medical and research professionals describe working together to implement current and new initiatives and to recommend greater patient involvement in research, policies, and procedures. The panel examines methods to find common ground to advance outc...

  • Shane A. Bobart, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Gemma Fernández, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Fernando C. Fervenza, MD, PhD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Silke R. Brix, MDKidney Week Faculty

To Biopsy or Not to Biopsy?

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Room 605, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

Kidney biopsy is required to diagnose most glomerular diseases. However, a kidney biopsy may not be required to diagnose PLA2R-associated membranous nephropathy. The role of protocol and repeat kidney biopsies in IgAN, lupus nephritis, and ANCA-associated vasculitis is also controversial. The session addresses the role of repeat an...

Translational Sessions

  • David M. Charytan, MD, MS, MScKidney Week Faculty
  • Mirela A. Dobre, MD, FASN, MPHKidney Week Faculty
  • Charmaine E. Lok, MD, MScKidney Week Faculty
  • Pranav S. Garimella, MD, MPH, FASNKidney Week Faculty

Beyond the Kidneys: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Risk in Advanced CKD

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Four Seasons Ballroom 1, Convention Center
  •  Translational Sessions

Patients with advanced kidney diseases face a disproportionate burden of neurologic and cardiovascular complications that are often underrecognized and challenging to manage. This session reviews stroke, myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death prevention, and peripheral artery disease in this high-risk population. Practical ins...

  • Naim M. Maalouf, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Sagar U. Nigwekar, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Felix Knauf, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Jessica B. Kendrick, MD, MPHKidney Week Faculty

Recent Trials in Vascular Calcification and Kidney Stone Diseases

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Room 405, Convention Center
  •  Translational Sessions

Robust clinical trial evidence to guide treatments for preventing kidney stone diseases and pathological vascular calcification has been relatively sparse. Several important studies have helped fill this gap in recent years. This session describes a large, randomized study of kidney stones, groundbreaking treatments for primary hyp...

Special Sessions

  • Ursula C. Brewster, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • David A. Zolezzi, PA-CKidney Week Faculty
  • Samira S. Farouk, MD, MS, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Eileen D. Brewer, MDKidney Week Faculty

Workforce Issues in Nephrology: Crisis or Opportunity?

  •  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  •  Room 711, Convention Center
  •  Special Sessions

There is a shortage of nephrology providers and declining interest in nephrology fellowship programs. This session addresses nephrology workforce concerns and explores strategies to promote recruitment into nephrology, the role of advanced practice providers (APPs) in nephrology, and the pediatric nephrology workforce.

Clinical Practice Sessions

  • Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, MD, ScD, MPH, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Dana Miskulin, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Ladan Golestaneh, MD, MS, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Ian de Boer, MD, MSKidney Week Faculty

Managing Common Medical Conditions in Patients with Dialysis-Dependent Kidney Failure

  •  04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  •  Room 107, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

This session addresses the management of medical conditions common among patients receiving dialysis and considerations for applying, in the setting of kidney failure, treatments or approaches known to be effective in the general population. Experts focus on new treatments and review evidence for or against their use in dialysis-de...

  • Susan L. Furth, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Lisa M. Latts, MD, MBA, MPHKidney Week Faculty
  • John J. Sim, MD, FASNKidney Week Faculty
  • Hernan Trimarchi, MD, PhD, FASNKidney Week Faculty

Navigating the Roadblocks: Strategies for Broadening Patient Access to Cutting-Edge Glomerular Disease Treatments

  •  04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  •  Mile High Ballroom 2, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

Advances in research are yielding innovative therapies for both rare and common kidney diseases at an unprecedented pace. But true progress is measured by patient access and use, not just approval. This session examines the complex barriers to the broad distribution of newly approved therapies for glomerular diseases, including exp...

  • Matthieu Legrand, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Thiago Reis, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty
  • Claudio Ronco, MDKidney Week Faculty
  • Nuttha Lumlertgul, MD, PhDKidney Week Faculty

Role of Hemoadsorption in Extracorporeal Blood Purification

  •  04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  •  Four Seasons Ballroom 4, Convention Center
  •  Clinical Practice Sessions

Hemoadsorption is an emerging extracorporeal therapy that removes inflammatory mediators, endotoxins, and select circulating compounds from critically ill patients. This session reviews the mechanisms of hemoadsorption and critically examines clinical evidence for its use in cardiac surgery-associated AKI, endotoxic septic shock, a...

Oral Abstract Sessions

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Oral Abstract Sessions

  •  04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
  •  Room TBD, Convention Center
  •  Oral Abstract Sessions

Oral abstract sessions will be posted on October 2. Note: Continuing education credits are not being offered for these sessions.