The research program within Boston Children's Hospital's Division of Nephrology conducts both basic and clinical research in transplantation biology, kidney development, nephrotic syndrome, and autosomal recessive polycystic disease of the kidney. The heads of our key laboratories also hold faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School.
Recognizing that more than half of children with kidney failure have developmental anomalies, the division has assembled a very large developmental and regenerative biology team. We also have created a pharmacogenomics group to take advantage of the remarkable breakthroughs of modern genomics and customize treatments to each child.