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UNC Kidney Center Director Ron Falk interviewed about the use of rituximab in treating antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis. Full Story

The third annual Kidney Center golf tournament held on June 12 raised  just over $3,000 to support the Kidney Education Outreach Program. The event, sponsored by Jay Zimmerman and Tommy Arthur, took place at the Country Hills Golf Course in Gibsonville, NC. Full Story

With the help of the Kidney Education Outreach Program, rising high school senior Eric Devone hosts a local health fair and teaches his peers about living an active life with kidney disease. Full Story

The UNC Kidney Center's Nephrology Nursing Initiative is featured in Nephrology Nursing Journal. Full Story

Upcoming Events

The Kidney Education Outreach Program (KEOP) travels to Edgecombe County to screen for kidney disease in July.Click here for calendar.

Registration is now open for the 15th International Vasculitis & ANCA Workshop, hosted in Chapel Hill in May 2011. Click here for more information.

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The mission of the UNC Kidney Center is to reduce the burden of chronic kidney disease through discovery about the pathophysiology and therapeutics of the disease; through the development and assessment of educational programs about kidney disease for North Carolinians and their primary care physicians and by providing physicians and citizens access to information about the causes and treatments of kidney disease.