SysKid - A Collaborative Research Project to Fight Chronic Kidney Desease

SysKid, a large-scale integrating European research project, aims at understanding chronic kidney disease in the context of diabetes and hypertension. SysKid – which stands for »Systems Biology towards Novel Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis and Treatment« – will pave the way for progress in prevention, new diagnostic strategies and treatment options for declining kidney function, which affects millions of patients suffering from diabetes and hypertension.

The project has started on Jan 1, 2010 and is driven by a European Union grant of EUR 11,8 million from Framework Programme 7 (FP 7) and a total project volume of close to EUR 16 million.

The SysKid consortium consists of 25 research groups from 15 countries. Runtime of the project is scheduled for five years.

download the information folder "SysKid- The Future of Renal Research" .