All kidney

Group photo of researchers after receiving grant award for gut microbiome research. From left to right: Ardith Doorenbos (UIC), Stefan Green (Rush), Mark Lockwood (UIC), Lisa Tussing-Humphreys (UIC), and Beatrix Peñalver Bernabé (UIC).

September 18, 2023

UIC awarded $3M to study link between gut microbiome, pain in kidney transplant patients 

Five-year study funded by NIH

Kidney Illustration

November 18, 2016

UIC kidney experts present research findings at national conference

American Society of Nephrology’s ‘Kidney Week’ Nov. 15-20 in Chicago

Enrico Benedetti

June 6, 2016

Orphan drug allows kidney transplant from relative with mismatched blood type

First use of drug in transplantation from living-donor

Kimberly Gossel and Dr. Enrico Benedetti

April 8, 2014

New approach leads to ‘only hope’ for successful kidney transplant

UIC physicians use orphan drug to fight destructive antibodies

Kimberly Gosell

April 3, 2014

With no hope of kidney match, woman receives successful transplant

Orphan drug renders destructive antibodies harmless

Ribbon Cutting at Mile Square Englewood Organ Transplant Clinic

September 10, 2013

Englewood clinic provides transplant services

For kidney transplant patients

May 15, 2013

Robotic transplant an option for obese kidney patients

Patients once doomed to die on dialysis have new hope for transplant

August 31, 2012

First Simultaneous Robotic Kidney Transplant, Sleeve Gastrectomy Performed

A 35-year-old Chicago woman is the first patient in the world to have a combined procedure that offers new hope for obese kidney patients.

April 4, 2012

Chicago Man Receives Robotic Kidney Transplant After 17 Years

Robotic surgery permitted surgeons at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System to transplant a kidney into a morbidly obese Chicago man — who had survived 17 years on dialysis waiting for the procedure.