• The ASN Foundation for Kidney Research announced the 2017 recipients of research grants to advance new understandings of—and treatments for—kidney diseases.
• The Foundation will fund 40 leading researchers working to cure kidney diseases. These include 20 new projects and 20 others continuing from 2016.
• Established in 2012 by the American Society of Nephrology, the Foundation funds research that improves the health of the more than 20 million Americans burdened by kidney diseases, the ninth leading cause of death in the United States.