Lasse Grimmelt and James Maynard kindly allowed us to film one of their meetings for our YouTube Channel. A short clip which captures the spirit of the meeting is doing especially well on social media (links at the bottom of the page). If you don't have social media, the 90 second clip is after 1.00.25.
Globally kidney disease is forecast to be the 5th leading cause of death by 2040, and in the UK more than 3 million people are living with the most severe stages of chronic kidney disease. Chronic kidney disease is often due to autoimmune damage to the filtration units of the kidney, known as the glomeruli, which can occur in lupus, a disease which disproportionally affects women and people of non-white ethnicities, groups often underrepresented in research.