THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY AND HHS ANNOUNCE WINNERS OF $9.2 MILLION ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY PRIZE PHASE 2 AT KIDNEYX SUMMIT

Today, the Kidney Innovation Accelerator (KidneyX), a public private partnership between the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the eight winners of the Artificial Kidney Prize Phase 2 at the KidneyX Summit in Washington, DC. The competition recognized participants’ innovative approaches to developing a bioartificial kidney and was divided into two tracks with two Track 1 participants each receiving $1,600,000, and six Track 2 participants each receiving $1,000,000.