Welcome to Sheffield Kidney Research Foundation

The Sheffield Kidney Research Foundation was established on 19th November 1990, with the intention of raising funds for research into new treatments for Kidney Disease.

SKRF has a Board of Directors Chaired by Dr Martin Wilkie and includes:

Dr John Haylor - Scientist
Mr Michael Lewis - Retired Headmaster
Ms Gillian Nowell - Accountant
Professor Albert Ong - Renal Consultant
Mr Badri Shrestha - Surgeon
Dr David Throssell - Renal Consultant

The everyday running and fund raising of SKRF is managed by Mrs Gerry New and she can be contacted on 0114 271 5541 or billy.kidney@sheffield.ac.uk

This research is carried out in at the Sheffield Kidney Institute, part of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and at the Academic Nephrology Unit in the Medical School at Sheffield University. To find out more about us, please click on the 'background' link (top left).

More information on kidney disease is available on this site (Awareness and Case Studies), as are details about how you can help with donations or by supporting our charitable activities.

What We Do

The Sheffield Kidney Research Foundation fund the laboratories, which are part of the Sheffield Kidney Institute based at the Sheffield Teaching Hospital Campus and the Medical School at Sheffield University.

SKRF also supports several research salaries including laboratory technicians, a laboratory manager, post-doctural scientists and a clinical research co-ordinator. Funds are also sourced by SKRF for new laboratory equipment.

The Institute provides care and treatment facilities for a region which includes all of South Yorkshire, large parts of Derbyshire and Humberside and has already saved the lives of hundreds of people with kidney disease. With your help, and the help of the foundation, it could save thousands more.
To donate online, please visit our JustGiving page at http://www.justgiving.com/skrf

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The Sheffield Kidney Research Foundation is a UK registered charity (No. 100 2176).