Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Each year, about 10-12,000 Canadians develop a disease that damages the small filtering structures of the kidney. At the heart of each renal filtering apparatus is a specialized cell called the glomerular podocyte. On May 30 to June 2 in 2018, the 12th International Podocyte Conference will be held for the first time in Montreal, organized by a team of Canadian kidney research scientists and nephrologists based at McGill and other universities across Canada. The conference will bring together 250-300 of the top researchers in this field to consider how to translate fundamental knowledge about podocyte biology to the development of new treatments for this important group of diseases.