About Prime-CKD

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is one of the major causes of death in high income countries and its prevalence is growing rapidly. New therapies for the treatment of CKD have shown clear efficacy at a population level. Yet, individual patients respond differently with many patients showing suboptimal efficacy. This indicates that a ‘one size fits all’ approach is no longer sustainable. Currently there are no validated biomarkers (i.e. signal-substances that can be measured in blood or urine) in patients with CKD that aid in guiding optimal therapy for individual patients. Furthermore, there remains a large gap between biomarker research and actual implementation of biomarker based care in daily clinical practice.

“Individual and optimal treatment for every kidney patient; that is what we aim for.”

What is our objective?

The researchproject PRIME-CKD (Personalized drug Response: IMplementation and Evaluation in Chronic Kidney Desease) has a unique advantage to address the challenge we are facing as it builds on recent discoveries of new biomarkers to help guide optimal treatment to individual patients. The research must lead to new therapies for the treatment of CKD.

Objective of Prime CKD

Latest News

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Reflecting on the highlights of ASN Kidney Week 2024

Now that everyone is back at base, it’s a perfect moment to look back on the highlights of ASN Kidney Week 2024. Various co-workers and partners of the PRIME-CKD consortium attended Kidney Week in beautiful, autumnal San Diego. They participated in poster presentations...
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PRIME-CKD members Heerspink and Gorriz involved in promising SMART study

At the ASN conference, clinical pharmacologist Hiddo L. Heerspink of the University Medical Center Groningen presented remarkable findings from the SeMaglutide and Albuminuria Reduction Trial in Obese Individuals..
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PRIME-CKD @ASN

Many of our consortium partners will be attending and participating in ASN this week. There will be several poster presentations by PhD students from UMCG, along with oral presentations by our partners. Notably, Hiddo Lambers Heerspink will be presenting....

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