KidneyX: Redesign Dialysis Prize

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KidneyX: Redesign Dialysis Prize Deadline: 2019-02-28
Award: $2,625,000
Open to: Everyone*

This prize competition is the first in a planned series of Kidney Innovation Accelerator (KidneyX) prize competitions designed to develop innovative solutions that can prevent, diagnose, and/or treat kidney diseases.

HHS and ASN designed this first prize after a year of gathering input from key stakeholders, including patients, nephrologists, investors, and researchers through listening sessions, Twitter chats and two Requests For Information

The Redesign Dialysis is the first prize of two phases with a total prize purse of $2,625,000.

The first phase, which will award up to 15 prizes of $75,000 each, launching in late October and running through February 2019 asks participants to design solutions or components of solutions that can replicate normal kidney functions and improve patient quality of life.

The hope is to attract new interest, potential collaborators, and ideas from across the medical and scientific communities to accelerate the development of disruptive new therapies

* Details may apply. See contest website to confirm eligibility.


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