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UCF Researchers were awarded a prize in the HHS KidneyX Challenge for development of an implantable artificial kidney device that allows patients to perform dialysis at home. The project previously received support from NIBIB.

Building on early-stage funding by NIBIB to develop an implantable artificial kidney, researchers at the University of California San Francisco were selected for a substantial prize in the HHS KidneyX Challenge.

Wearable and implantable devices may allow for intensive self-care for patients with kidney failure outside of the clinic.

Engineers have developed a technique to make artificial arteries that produce biochemical signals vital to their natural functions.

The nephrologists research team is building an implantable artificial kidney with microchip filters that also serve as a scaffold for living kidney cells.

Engineers have modified the cotton candy machine to create complex microfluidic networks that mimic the capillary system in living tissue.