PKD Walk 2024
Zhou Lab participated in the annual PKD Walk. This walk was held by the PKD Foundation coast to coast and was the largest PKD fundraising event, with 100% of funds raised going to research.
The event was organized on September 21, 2024, Artesani Park, 1255 Soldier’s Field Rd, Brighton, MA, 02135.
Zhou Lab (PI: Dr. Jing Zhou, M.D. Ph.D) had a booth at the event and raised awareness and funds for PKD.
PKD Walk 2017
PKD Center participated in the annual PKD Walk organized by The PKD Foundation, the only organization in the U.S. solely dedicated to finding treatments and a cure for PKD to improve the lives of those it affects. The event was organized on Saturday, September 30, 2017, Artesani Park – 1255 Soldier’s Field Road, Brighton, MA 02135.
PKD Symposium 2017
The 2017 PKD Symposium was held on May 8 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center!
This symposium was organized by the Harvard PKD Center. The presentations included the most recent advances in the PKD field and progress made by members of the PKD Center at several Harvard Institutions. The symposium focused on the molecular mechanisms underlying PKD. Topics covered:
- Ciliary signaling in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
- What’s new in intraflagellar transport and ciliogenesis
- Global analyses of cystogenesis
- A new therapeutic target in the mTOR pathway
- Nephronophthisis, a ciliopathy?
- Segmented domain function within the cilium
- Polycystin and cilia
- TAME PKD Clinical trial of metformin in ADPKD
- Modeling polycystic kidney disease using stem cell technology
- Mitochondria and polycystic kidney disease
Draft program is here.
