The PKD Charity has awarded £20,000 to UCL Centre for Nephrology Royal Free Hospital to fund a specialist research nurse to help develop the ADPKD and ARPKD RaDaR paediatric patient databases.

The PKD Charity, Arran Brown Rainbow Foundation and University of Wolverhampton are jointly funding a pioneering 3-year ARPKD research project at Wolverhampton and UCL London.

The PKD Charity has awarded £10,000 to Cambridge Hospitals and Clinical Trial Unit towards the development of a smartphone app to support the DRINK pilot.

Find out more about the DRINK pilot here.

The PKD Charity has awarded £32,259 over 3 years to UCL Royal Free Centre for Nephrology towards a joint PhD studentship.

The grant will help support a PhD student undertaking PKD research.

The PKD Charity has awarded £10,000 to Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust towards a clinical research fellowship.

The PKD Charity has awarded £10,000 to UCL Institute of Child Health/Great Ormond St Hospital for a study investigating the optimal bood pressure level in children and young people with ADPKD (Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease).

The PKD Charity has awarded £10,000 to Dr Evi Goggolidou for a study on a gene which is believed to influence the development and progression of Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD).