March 2008: EuReGene goes Live!
After 3 years of the project, the EuReGene kidney atlas and Expression databases have gone public. These can be accessed from the EuReGene Kidney Atlas Data Portal page. Additional resources such as a movie of kidney development and the ontology database and EuReGene's mutant phenotype data can be accessed from the portal page as well.

04.01.2007 - Kidney Function Tutorial Uploaded
As part of its aim to provide intelligible infomation about kidney research and its impact on the public, EuReGene has produced a number of tutorial pages on kidney function.
Click here for more information.

News Article - Creating a 3D Kidney Atlas
"In the years ahead, researchers want to create a three-dimensional (3D) kidney atlas incorporating the latest knowledge about the development and diseases of the kidney..."
To read the full article, please go to: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=37

Investors' Continued Interest in Therapeutical Agent that may Prevent Renal Damage Side Effects Caused by Antibiotics
ReceptIcon has raised approximately 4 million € for continued development of its first drug candidate. ReceptIcon's recent efforts have focused on the development of drug candidates capable of preventing unpleasant and expensive renal damaging side effects associated with the otherwise effective treatment with the antibiotics of the amino glycoside group, a.o. Gentamycin. The investor team consists of the venture funds Dansk Erhvervsinvestering, INCUBA Venture, VECATA A/S, Innovations Kapital (Sweden) and Oestjysk Innovation.

Grant for Nocturnal Dialysis awarded to Dr. Müller (Charité Berlin)
Dr. Dominik Müller has recently been granted 118.000€ from the peer reviewed Else-Kröner-Fresenius Foundation to run a two year project on nocturnal dialysis with children which has started on October 1st last year. In light of this project, a Symposium on New Beginnings of Haemodialysis in Children and Adults is being held at the Kaiserin Friedrich Haus on the 8th of April 2006 from 9:00 till 14:45 (Robert Koch Platz 7, 10115 Berlin). Attendance is free of charge but you are kindly requested to registrate with Mrs Beatrice Sterzing (Beatrice.sterzing@charite.de) no later than the 10th of March 2006. (Please note that the Symposium will be partly in German). Programme (doc, 21K)

2-4.02.2006 EuReGene Symposium on Renal Development
For more information click here.

1.10.2005 (Most) Public pages now also available in French

26.05.2005 Simplified project summary available in English and German

14.04.2005 FIRST SUCCESFUL KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION FROM A BLOODGROUP INCOMPATIBLE DONOR AT THE CHARITÉ BERLIN
Although donor and acceptor feature incompatible blood groups, a kidney has been transplanted successfully for the first time at the Charité – University Hospital Berlin.

Press Release (pdf-document)