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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		Development of an artificial kidney on the fast track
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:00
	Publish Date:		2016-03-02 00:00:00
	Description:		New funding is boosting efforts to develop an artificial kidney. The Kidney Project has been identified as a campus priority by the University of California, San Francisco because of its potential to develop a breakthrough therapy that would make a worldwide health impact. Bioengineer Shuvo Roy is leading the Kidney Project. "We been working on this over the last ten years or so, to test that the individual technology components and we’re at the state where we feel that we can now bring this into a unit that can be scaled up ultimately for human use. When we are successful, our device will provide therapy 24/7 to allow the patient to be mobile. They don’t have to be tethered to a machine. Third, you’ll also get many of the benefits of a kidney, so you do not have to feel as bad as many people on dialysis do." The goal is to have the artificial kidney in clinical trial by 2017. **UPDATE: The National Institutes of Health has just provided more funding to this project. http://abc7news.com/health/artificial-kidney-could-free-thousands-from-dialysis/1231408/
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