📸 The #UKKW26 photo gallery is now live
Relive the highlights from Harrogate – sessions, speakers, networking and more.
👀 See if you can spot yourself:
🔗 https://www.ukkw.org/2026-photos/
#KidneyCommunity #Nephrology
📸 The #UKKW26 photo gallery is coming soon.
From sessions to social moments, the official photos captured the highlights from Harrogate. The photo gallery will be live on the UKKW website in the next few days.
Keep an eye out 👀
#KidneyCommunity #Nephrology
🎉 Thank you to all who submitted abstracts for #UKKW26
Great to see such innovation on display – including the debut of e-posters at UKKW!
Congrats to our Best Poster winners 🏆 A fantastic achievement & recognition of excellence in kidney care & research
🔗 View all abstracts: ukkw.org/abstracts
📅 Save the Date
Now that #UKKW26 has wrapped up, we’re already looking ahead.
UK Kidney Week 2027
📍 Newport, Wales – ICC Wales
🗓 7–9 June 2027
Returning to our usual month of June. More details coming soon...
#UKKW27 #KidneyCommunity
💃🕺 #UKKW26 Gala Dinner photobooth pics are here!
Everyone looked amazing - fabulous outfits, perfect poses and lots of laughs. 📸
Check the photos out using password: events
🔗 https://vivalabooth.zenfolio.com/ukkw
#KidneyCommunity #GalaDinner
Behind every successful conference is a team working hard behind the scenes. A huge thank you to the many partners & suppliers who helped deliver #UKKW26 - especially given the shorter turnaround.
We appreciate your collaboration & support. See you at UK Kidney Week 2027, ICC Wales, 9–11 June 2027.
💛 Thank you to all of the wonderful healthcare professionals and researchers who showed their support for #WorldKidneyDay at #UKKW26
📸 We wanted to share some of our favourite picture perfect moments from the big day 🌟
#KidneysMatter
✨ Thank you for an incredible #UKKW26
3 days of learning, collaboration & connection with the UK #KidneyCommunity in Harrogate.
A huge thank you to all who took part, including speakers, chairs & moderators. abstract presenters and delegates
You’re what makes UK Kidney Week 🙌
#Nephrology
Thank you to all of the wonderful healthcare professionals and researchers who we met at #UKKW26 in Harrogate this week. Your support for #WorldKidneyDay was fantastic and we wanted to share some of our favourite #DontKidYourself moments this morning.
Today is World Kidney Day and the final day of UK Kidney Week #UKKW26.
Great to see so many healthcare professionals getting involved - sharing messages of support and stopping by the selfie frame to help raise awareness of kidney health!!! #worldkidneyday
What signals are miscommunicated in ADPKD?
Dr Maria Fragiadaki highlights bioinformatic analysis integrating published gene signatures, identifying a triad of proliferation, DNA damage/apoptosis and fibrosis, with JAK signalling emerging as a key pathway linking these processes. #UKKW26
Stewart Cameron Award Lecture at #UKKW26 from Dr Maria Fragiadaki (Queen Mary University of London) exploring how abnormal JAK/STAT signalling contributes to ADPKD and how these pathways could open the door to new therapeutic strategies.
Complement biology is transforming how rare kidney diseases are understood and treated. From the genetics driving aHUS and C3G to emerging trial data and a rapidly expanding complement drug pipeline, the field is shifting from broad immunosuppression to targeted therapies. #UKKW26
Chandos Lecture at #UKKW26 from Prof David Kavanagh, an international leader in complement-mediated kidney disease whose work links genetics, immunology and targeted therapies. His research has helped define how complement defects drive atypical HUS and guide treatment with drugs like eculizumab.
“Precision nephrology cannot work when most of the world’s genomes are missing.”
Prof Segun Fatumo highlights why diverse genomic data is essential to identify risk earlier and deliver predictive, precise and equitable kidney care. #UKKW26
Prof Segun Fatumo (QMUL) closing #UKKW26 with a plenary on kidney genomics in African populations.
Large African biobanks and genomic studies are identifying kidney risk loci and improving understanding of kidney biology across diverse populations - work that has been missing from global datasets.
Opening the final plenary at #UKKW26, Prof Segun Fatumo explores how African genomics is reshaping our understanding of kidney disease.
His team’s work is identifying population-specific genetic variants influencing kidney function - with implications for diagnostics and treatments.
#UKKW26 final day!
Don't miss:
🧠 Plenary
• Next Generation Nephrology– Prof Segun Fatumo
• Stewart Cameron Lecture– Dr Maria Fragiadaki
• Chandos Lecture– Prof David Kavanagh
📞 12:00-13:00
It’s Friday, 5pm & the Phone Rings
🌍 15:30-16:30
Digging Deep for Prevention
Follow #UKKW26 for highlights
Kathrine Parker, Academic Vice President of the UK Kidney Association, presenting findings from the UKKA 2025 Academic Census at #UKKW26.
The survey maps the academic kidney workforce and highlights priorities for improvement - from training pathways to research capacity.
📍At #UKKW26?
Come & say hello at the UKKA stand in the exhibition hall
📸 Members - get your Polaroid taken for our members wall!
Not a member yet? Join to access education resources, data portals, events discounts & more.
#KidneyCommunity #Nephrology
It's a busy one at UK Kidney Week in Harrogate! We're on stand C5, if you're attending, come and say hello and grab some of our information leaflets. #UKKW26
Peer support improves patient experience and engagement - but it cannot rely on the voluntary sector alone.
Prof Shivani Sharma: “If we don’t start commissioning peer support, we cannot expect charities to carry this work indefinitely.” #UKKW26
The goal: transformative kidney research that is inclusive by design.
Focus on closing gaps where health innovations exist but are not reaching communities equitably. #UKKW26
Prof Shivani Sharma delivering the Donna Lamping Lecture at #UKKW26 “Becoming the wind: Purpose, power and equity in kidney science.”
What do patients want from kidney research? Not a researcher’s “shopping list” - but action that improves their day-to-day lives.
Key message from the De Wardener Lecture: reduce unnecessary transfusions and strengthen patient blood management. HLA-selected red cells can reduce exposure to foreign HLA antigens - but more data are needed to guide practice. “Having data is key to making further improvements.” #UKKW26
Prof Michelle Willicombe delivering the De Wardener Lecture at #UKKW26: “HLA-selected blood: minimising sensitisation in waitlist candidates and transplant recipients.”
The goal: reduce immune sensitisation from transfusion that can limit transplant opportunities or harm graft survival.
Registry data show variation in KRT patterns across countries. Prof Mark cautions against pointing fingers at individual countries, but notes German data raises important questions about how health system structures influence treatment patterns. #UKKW26
Prof Paddy Mark, Professor of Nephrology at the University of Glasgow, speaking at #UKKW26 on global CKD burden and what it means for nephrology.
Updated Global Burden of Disease estimates show CKD rising from the 12th to the 9th leading cause of death globally.
☀️ Good morning from Day Two of #UKKW26
Highlights today:
🗳 08:00
UKKA AGM (members only)
🧠 08:30–09:45 | Plenary
• CKD Global Burden of Disease
• Donna Lamping MDT Lecture
• De Wardener Lecture
🔬11:15–12:45
Best Clinical Abstracts
🏛 14:45–15:45
Getting Kidney Disease on the Government’s Agenda
Additional regulation for advanced practice will only be delivered once “all the pieces of the puzzle are together.”
This includes AP principles (June 2025), code and revalidation review (2025–26), transition arrangements for existing APs and programme standards for education providers. #UKKW26
