World Kidney Day 2026 🌍🩺
Kidney Health for All. Prevention. Early detection. Better outcomes.
#WKD2026 #KidneyHealthForAll #CKD #PICKEDproject
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World Kidney Day 2026 🌍🩺
Kidney Health for All. Prevention. Early detection. Better outcomes.
#WKD2026 #KidneyHealthForAll #CKD #PICKEDproject
DC Spotlight 🌟 Cansenem Özkan (BRFAA, PICKED)
Validating urinary & plasma protein biomarkers to predict CKD progression and monitor treatment response using multiplex mass spectrometry + peptide “signatures”.
#PICKEDproject #CKD #Biomarkers
🩹🫘 Fibrosis in kidney disease = scarring.
Repeated injury → “repair patch” → scar tissue replaces healthy tissue.
Scar tissue can’t filter blood → higher CKD progression risk.
#CKD #Fibrosis #KidneyHealth #Biomarkers #PICKEDproject
🌟 DC Spotlight: Jeremy Power (Université de Toulouse)
Prenatal CAKUT: how uncertainty affects counselling & decisions.
Secondment: RD Nephrologie (Montpellier).
#PICKEDproject #CAKUT #PrenatalDiagnosis #Ethics #KidneyHealth
🧪 Albuminuria = albumin in urine → a leaky filtration barrier.
Not just “kidney damage”: it predicts CKD progression and cardiovascular risk.
#CKD #Albuminuria #KidneyHealth #PrecisionMedicine #Biomarkers #RiskStratification #PICKEDproject
📊 What is risk stratification?
It’s not about how sick a patient is today,
it’s about how likely they are to worsen.
In CKD, this helps identify high-risk patients earlier and guide personalised care.
Reactive → Predictive.
#CKD #PrecisionMedicine #PICKEDproject
👩🏻⚕️ DC Spotlight | Kleanthi
Working on urinary biomarkers to predict CKD progression in children & young adults. Next: testing CKD273 in pediatric data + secondment at @mosaiquesdiag.bsky.social .
#PICKEDproject #CKD #PrecisionMedicine
👩🏻⚕️ DC spotlight | Ágota Nóra Kazup
MD & PhD student hosted by SDCC, working on urine proteomics to support treatment allocation in diabetes-related complications, bridging patient care and molecular insight.
#PICKEDproject #PrecisionMedicine #DiabetesResearch #SDCC
🧬 PhD spotlight | Sajjad Biglari @mosaiquesdiag.bsky.social
Building a biological age model from urinary peptidomics to reflect physiological ageing more accurately than chronological age, with direct links to mortality and age-related disease risk.
#PICKEDproject #Peptidomics #PrecisionMedicine
🧪 From sample to result: how CKD data is generated.
From lab analysis to data modelling, each step helps turn biology into insights for personalised kidney care.
#PICKEDproject #CKD #PrecisionMedicine
🧪 PhD spotlight: Siavash SohanGir
Working at RD Néphrologie, he focuses on personalised convection in hemodiafiltration. He combines in vitro experiments, real-time monitoring, and clinical studies to improve dialysis efficiency and patient outcomes.
#PICKEDproject #MSCA #CKD #Dialysis #Nephrology
🧬 What does CKD273 measure?
Not one marker, but a pattern of 273 urinary peptides reflecting early kidney tissue changes and disease progression, often before standard labs shift.
#CKD273 #Peptidomics #CKD #PrecisionMedicine #PICKEDproject
🧬 What is a peptidomic classifier?
A molecular fingerprint from urine peptides that helps predict disease risk and progression earlier and more precisely than single biomarkers.
#Peptidomics #CKD #PrecisionMedicine #PICKEDproject
🧬 Two intense days of OMICS training in Athens!
Thanks to our speakers Antonia Vlahou, William Mullen, Manousos Makridakis, Foteini Paradeisi, Chara Gonidaki, Nikos Paschalides & Ieronymos Zoidakis for outstanding lectures and hands-on sessions.
#PICKEDproject #MSCA #Omics #Proteomics
🇬🇷✨ What a week in Athens!
Our Mid-Term Meeting brought together partners, supervisors and DCs from across Europe for OMICS training, ethics workshops, skills courses and the official review.
🎥 Recap video: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#PICKEDproject #MSCA #HorizonEU #CKD #PhDTraining
🇬🇷✨ Next week the PICKED consortium meets in Athens!
A full week of OMICS training, ethics & integrity sessions, complementary skills workshops, and our Mid-Term Review.
Science, teamwork & momentum — here we go!
#PICKEDproject #MSCA #CKD #HorizonEU
🧠 New comment in NDT explores how the exposome — lifestyle, environment, socioeconomic factors — shapes CKD risk.
Striking insight: environmental factors explain more CKD risk than genetics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ndt/...
#PICKEDproject #CKD #Exposome #NDT #MSCA
📢 New publication from PICKED DC Sajjad Biglari!
A glycocalyx-mimetic supplement significantly reduced heart-failure risk signatures in people with Type 2 diabetes, measured through urinary peptidomics.
📖 Read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PICKEDproject #MSCA #CKD #Diabetes #Peptidomics
🏆 Congrats to Sajjad Biglari @mosaiquesdiag.bsky.social for winning Best Oral Presentation at the 6th International Wrocław Scientific Meetings!
🎥 www.linkedin.com/posts/projec...
#PICKEDproject #MSCA #CKD #diabetes #peptidomics #phdtraining #precicionmedicine
🧠 From data to discovery!
Doctoral candidates from PICKED met in Vienna (15–17 Oct) for a hands-on Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Workshop hosted by Delta4.
Turning data into insight — and insight into impact.
📖 Read more: www.projectpicked.eu/news-and-eve...
#PICKEDproject #MSCA #CKD #HorizonEU
Delta4 hosted a Bioinformatics & -statistics Workshop in Vienna, bringing together PhD students to elevate their CKD research. Learn more: delta4.ai/personalized...
#Delta4 #PICKEDProject
📹 Proud to see our partner @delta4ai.bsky.social featured by the FFG!
From drug discovery to personalised kidney care, support + science are driving real impact in the PICKED project.
🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tswy...
#PICKEDproject #CKD #MSCA #HorizonEU #DrugDiscovery
🧑🎓 Proud of our DC Jeremy Power for presenting at #EACME2025 in Zurich!
Poster: “Getting personal: Ethical issues of personalised medicine in CKD”
Great discussions on ethics, innovation & patient perspectives. Next stop: Leuven!
#PICKEDproject #CKD #MSCA #HorizonEU
🧪 From lab to life: PICKED turns research into patient impact.
1️⃣ Discover biomarkers
2️⃣ Validate in clinics
3️⃣ Develop products (CKD273, KUFmax)
4️⃣ Apply in care
Science ➝ Patients ➝ Better lives.
#PICKEDproject #CKD #MSCA #HorizonEU
💙 Today is #PKDAwarenessDay 💜
PKD is one of the most common inherited kidney diseases, affecting millions worldwide and a leading cause of kidney failure.
Let’s raise awareness, support patients, and push research forward.
#PICKEDproject #CKD #MSCA #HorizonEU
⚖️ Personalised medicine isn’t just science — it’s ethics.
Who should decide how far is too far?
PICKED is exploring privacy, fairness & patient choice in kidney care.
What do you think matters most?
#PICKEDproject #CKD #Ethics #MSCA #HorizonEU
💡 Personalized dialysis is coming!
⏱️ Real-time monitoring of toxin removal
🧬 Tailored prescriptions for each patient
⚙️ Smarter convection control
Would you support wearable tech to help personalize dialysis?
#PICKEDproject #CKD #Dialysis #MSCA #HorizonEU
💊 Not every CKD patient responds the same — so why give them the same drugs?
😊 Some benefit
😑 Some see no change
🙁 Some face side effects
PICKED is working to predict responses & personalise treatment for better outcomes.
#PICKEDproject #CKD #MSCA #HorizonEU
📊 What are multiparametric biomarkers?
They combine omics data (proteomics, metabolomics, genomics) with clinical data (lab results, imaging, history) to predict CKD progression & guide personalised care.
#PICKEDproject #CKD #Biomarkers #MSCA #HorizonEU
🔬 What is precision nephrology?
It’s kidney care tailored to the individual — powered by omics, predictive models & real-time monitoring.
At PICKED, we’re building tools for better, personalised CKD treatment.
#PICKEDproject #CKD #MSCA #PrecisionMedicine #HorizonEU