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Learn how Dr. Minnie Sarwal is shaping transplant care with research, innovation, and a lifelong dedication to saving lives.

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Learn how Dr. Velma Scantlebury-White became the first Black female transplant surgeon and led the fight for equity in kidney disease care and educati...

The kidney donor process starts by contacting a transplant center to get evaluated. You’ll meet with the living donor team and have other testing done...

When Daniel Kushnik learned he had polycystic kidney disease (PKD) in 1984, his doctor told him there was no cure. He’d likely need dialysis in the fu...

He saved his mom's life through a paired kidney exchange. A decade later, he honored her decision not to return to dialysis. Now he shares their ...

Learn how NKF led lifesaving changes in kidney care during the 1980s, from organ donation efforts to new treatments for dialysis patients. 

Learn how the NKF Innovation Fund is supporting groundbreaking kidney transplant technologies. 

Learn the basics of the organ donation process for a deceased person.

Learn how living kidney donation works and how one man’s decision to donate a kidney to a stranger saved multiple lives.