The Australasian Kidney Trials Network (AKTN) is located at the Princess Alexandra Hospital campus, Woolloongabba.
It is a not-for-profit research organisation that designs, conducts and supports investigator-initiated clinical trials with the aim of improving life for people with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). It consists of a group of Nephrologists and other doctors, nurses, researchers, dieticians, scientists and other health professionals who conduct clinical trials in kidney disease. Because of their interest in renal disease and kidney health, they want to find better treatments for people living with kidney disease. All AKTN clinical trials are designed with patients with kidney disease in mind. A patient with kidney disease sits on the Scientific Committee as a consumer representative to ensure AKTN trials consider quality of life, symptoms and treatments important to people with kidney disease.
To date, the AKTN have successfully completed eight trials with a record number expected for 2017. Our research helps bring evidence to medical practice and in doing so improve outcomes for CKD patients.
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