2007 beneficiaries are:

Camp Reynal- To fund the 2008 Camp Reynal for children with kidney and urological disease and to foster fun, growth, exploration, discovery, friendship, self-esteem and independence for 119 campers, counselors, medical staff and Unit Dosing of Medications.

Children's Medical Center - The purchase of one Bookwalter retractor system used in kidney transplantation. This system increases the surgeon's visibility and allows maximum exposure at the site of the incision, which is especially important with transplantation surgery.

Methodist Health System - The purchase of one sustained low efficiency dialysis (SLED) unit, a form of continuous renal replacement therapy that facilitates maintenance of hemodialysis for patients with blood pressure instability, and utilized on chronic patients with the need for longer intermittent therapies.

The PKD Foundation - To fund research under the direction of Zhendong Ma, Ph.D. "Genome-wide combinatoril analysis of HNF-1B target genes in kidney". Polycistic kidney disease (PKD) is the leading hereditary renal disease resulting in end-stage renal failure in the United States. The results of the proposed research will help to elucidate the mechanism of PKD and identify targets to development treatment for PKD.

UT Southwestern Medical Center - The purchase of one state-of-the-art digital nephroscope, one digital ureteroscope and a digital controller to allow mapping and sampling of areas within the kidney collecting system which are accessible at the time of endoscopic kidney stone removal.

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