Galway Bay fm newsroom - Researchers at NUI Galway are to carry out a clinical trial of a new cell therapy for diabetic kidney disease.
NEPHSTROM includes 11 academic, clinical and commercial partners from Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and the UK.
It's to carry out a randomised, placebo controlled trial of a novel therapy to treat the disease.
Diabetic kidney disease is the single leading cause of end stage renal disease in the industrialised world.
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