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August 21, 2020

Dr. Weimbs was awarded a research grant from the Department of Defense (Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program, Investigator-Initiated Research Award). The title of the study is "Ketosis as a therapy for polycystic kidney disease".

June 05, 2020

THE PKD FOUNDATION AWARDED A GRANT TO ROMAN-ULRICH MÜLLER, M.D. AND THOMAS WEIMBS, PH.D.

to conduct a clinical trial titled: "KETO-ADPKD — A pilot trial of ketogenic dietary interventions in ADPKD". This pilot and feasibility trial will be conducted at the University Hospital in Cologne, Germany.

November 13, 2019

Carney, E.F. Ketosis slows the progression of PKD. Nat Rev Nephrol (2019) doi:10.1038/s41581-019-0226-4

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October 20, 2019

Congratulations to all authors!

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September 10, 2019

Congratulations to Sebastian Strubl, postdoc in the Weimbs Lab, for the award of a two-year research fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). The title of the funded project is "Der Einfluss renaler Kristallablagerung auf die autosomal dominante Nierenzystenerkrankung". 

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