In 2015, former US president Barack Obama launched a Precision Medicine Initiative 'in
order to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes–and to give all of us …

Launched in 2016, the overarching goal of the Precision Medicine Initiative is to promote a
personalized approach to disease management that takes into account an individual's …

There have been tremendous advances during the last decade in methods for large-scale,
high-throughput data generation and in novel computational approaches to analyze these …

Abstract Background: The 2019 Science for Dialysis Meeting at Bellvitge University Hospital
was devoted to the challenges and opportunities posed by the use of data science to …

This year marks the 63rd anniversary of the International Society of Nephrology, which
signaled nephrology's emergence as a modern medical discipline. In this article, we briefly …

A huge array of data in nephrology is collected through patient registries, large
epidemiological studies, electronic health records, administrative claims, clinical trial …

The study of kidney diseases has been described since the Hippocratic era, but nephrology
as a medical specialty dates from the mid-20th century. Despite all interesting aspects of …

Kidney disease as an important global health problem has been increasingly recognized
over the last decade. Data collated by the Global Burden of Disease group have …

Notable progress in basic, translational and clinical nephrology research has been made
over the past five decades. Nonetheless, many challenges remain, including obstacles to …

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a clinical condition defined as abnormalities in kidney
structure or function (estimated glomerular filtration rate, eGFR< 60 mL/min/1.73 m 2, and/or …