NATIONAL PRIZE COMPETITION PATIENT INNOVATOR CHALLENGE

If you’re currently dealing with CKD and have found specific ways to deal with the many issues surrounding your care, check out The new Patient Innovator Challenge. The Challenge is part of the Kidney Innovation Accelerator (KidneyX) umbrella, will reward kidney patients, care partners, and others who apply for their ideas and innovations on how to solve some of the most frustrating problems facing the kidney community.

Key areas of focus include, but are not limited to, managing side effects of dialysis or transplant treatment, ways to gain patient independence, successful diet and fluid regimens, techniques to increase physical activity, and methods that help sustain family and social life or improve overall quality of life.