KVIP News
September 2025
Christine Wai celebrating 15 years of service at UNC. Way to go Christine! You are the glue that holds KVIP together.
September 2025
Unimunkh Uriyanghai celebrating 5 years of service at UNC. Congratulations to our animal surgeon, Uni!
September 2025
KVIP Team after a weekly team meeting.
August 2025
Leadership Panel at the Nephrology Business Leadership University with representatives from ASN, NKF, RPA, WIN and ABIM. Thank you NBLU and Dr. Nangia for the opportunity to work together and grow together.
July 2025
National R-25 meeting breakout led by a KUH TRIO trainee. The NC-KTI and KUH TRIO programs create a pipeline of training opportunities for undergraduate to post-doctoral trainees.
July 2025
Visiting Uddanam, a village in Andhra Pradesh, India, which is a hotbed for CKD of unknown origin (CKDu). KVIP is excited to partner with the Government of Andhra Pradesh (Dr Ravi Raju) and Orlando Coronell from the Gillings School of Global Public Health on an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) grant to identify the cause of this disease.
July 2025
Amazing group of trainees at the KUH R-25 national meeting and hosted by UNC, Duke, and WFIRM. Huge kudos to the collaborative team that did the real work especially Susan Hogan and Jill Powell (UNC Kidney Center), Holly Hough and Yodit Zebene (Duke) and Joan Schanck (WFIRM).
April 2025
Kidney Disease in the Public Health Agenda. Dr Joaquin Barnoya, Health Minister of Guatemala, Dr Rosser Tora, President ERA, Dr Marcello Tonelli, President ISN and Dr. Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, President ASN at a Springer Nature Sustainable Development Goals Talk
April 2025
Dr. Roy-Chaudhury presenting at the opening plenary of the Vascular Access Society Congress in Padua, Italy.
March 2025
Rosser Torra, ERA President and Prabir Roy-Chaudhury at the Saving Kidney’s Hearts and Lives Summit.
March 2025
A big day for the KVIP team. Honored to share our work with Judy Hunt who has had ESKD due to T1DM for over 40 years. Thank you Judy for pushing us to develop therapies that address the issues that are important to patients.
February 2025
A full section of 6 KVIP Posters at the World Congress of Nephrology in New Delhi. Great work team!
February 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Shariff on being elected as an ASDIN Councilor!
January 2025
Clinical rounds with Nalaya Giraud and Avantika Pandya from the North Carolina Kidney Technology Incubator (NC-KTI) Class of 2025.