About our research
Our research has helped shape the treatment and care for many people living with kidney disease, yet kidney disease is growing in the UK at an alarming rate. Today, we are more essential than ever. With your support, our research can end kidney disease.
Find out what we’re doing to prevent, protect and treat kidney disease.
Transforming the future of kidney health
Our goals underpin everything we do and are the guiding principles behind our ambitions, our long-term plans and the work we deliver every day.
Prevent
We will prevent more people from developing kidney disease.
Protect
We will protect those living with kidney disease from kidney failure.
Treat
In the meantime, we will transform treatments for people with kidney failure.
Our research breakthroughs.
Imagine needing to go to hospital three times a week for four-hour dialysis sessions. Your life depends on it. Or being told your transplant has failed a week after the operation. A transplant you’ve waited years for. We don’t want patients to still be going through this in 20 years’ time.
The change needs to start now.
Changing the future of kidney health
Our research is working at a greater pace and scale to change lives.
Transforming kidney treatments
We will find ways to make kidney transplants last longer, dialysis more tolerable, reduce the burden of treatment and monitoring, and improve quality of life for people living with kidney disease.
Helping people living with several health conditions
We will investigate how kidney disease is linked to other conditions that people commonly experience at the same time, including heart disease, diabetes and mental health problems.
Tackling health inequities
We will highlight the inequalities of kidney disease; we will investigate why some groups of people are more at risk of kidney disease, and progress to kidney failure much faster.
Leading transformation in kidney health.
In our charity strategy, Leading transformation in kidney health, we have pledged to drive a major surge in the UK kidney research effort. To deliver this, we are changing how we do things.
How to support our research
Everyone has a stake in kidney health. Let’s come together to achieve a step-change in the UK kidney research effort for people living with kidney disease, and those at risk.
Shape our work
We involve people living with and at risk of kidney disease in everything we do as a research organisation. Influence research and help shape our priorities.
Stay up to date
Keep up to date with all the brilliant research that we're funding and the life-changing breakthroughs that are happening for people living with kidney disease.
Make a donation
Your support can make a life-changing difference. With your donation, we can advance groundbreaking research and improve treatment options.
Research news highlights
Read about the latest life-saving research we’re funding.
