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Every gift to the UW Medicine Center for Dialysis Innovation is vital and helps us fulfill our mission to improve the health and well-being of people with advanced kidney disease initiating and receiving dialysis treatment

• There is an unmet medical need and challenge to dramatically improve dialysis technology and clinical outcomes in dialysis therapy
• Our vision is that future dialysis therapy will be complication free, and restorative of kidney health
• As committed stewards of your gift, we will leverage every gift dollar into multiple dollars supporting innovation dialysis technologies research

• Kidney disease affects over 20 million adults in the US, and is the 9th leading cause of death in the United States
• The only treatments available for patients who progress to End Stage Renal Disease are dialysis or kidney transplant. Millions do not receive these treatments – while only 2 million patients are on dialysis worldwide.
• 460,000 people in the U.S. are on dialysis – comprising a $35 billion industry
• 24% of the U.S. Medicare budget is spent on treating kidney disease
• While on dialysis, the average life expectancy is only 3-5 years, and risks of complications from infections, blood clots, and vascular access failure remain exceedingly high.
• Dialysis technology remains fundamentally unchanged since its inception in 1962, with little governmental or industry incentive for improvement