CHEEER part of 20-year research trial studying kidney disease

“In what’s known as the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC, pronounced crick) study, more than 100 researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and other institutions have discovered new insights into the drivers of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and how it impacts the body’s systems by closely following thousands of patients. Almost 20 years ago, researchers couldn’t have predicted the paths CRIC would take, nor what questions they’d get to ask or even the methods they’d use to answer them. And today, in what would have probably seemed like science fiction back then, researchers are turning to a cutting-edge discipline and its smart technologies to keep it growing.” –from Penn Medicine News (to read the article in full, click here.)