PICKED Project

Great discussions at the #PICKED webseminars 👏 9 DC presentations, strong supervisor feedback, and real cross-project exchange. More: projectpicked.eu/news-and-event… Next up: Tallinn (15–16 Sept) #HorizonEU #MSCA #RareDiseases

Kidney screening & awareness in Agde 🇫🇷 On World Kidney Day, Jeremy Power supported NDSG’s supermarket stand, reminding people CKD can be silent and early tests (urine dipstick + creatinine) matter. Read more: projectpicked.eu/news-and-event… #KidneyHealth #CKD #PICKEDproject

Who benefits from personalised medicine? ⚖️ Precision only helps if it’s accessible and fair. #PICKEDproject #Ethics #HealthEquity

World Kidney Day 2026 🌍🩺 Kidney Health for All. Prevention. Early detection. Better outcomes. #WKD2026 #KidneyHealthForAll #CKD #PICKEDproject

DC Spotlight 🌟 Cansenem Özkan (BRFAA, PICKED) Validating urinary & plasma protein biomarkers to predict CKD progression and monitor treatment response using multiplex mass spectrometry + peptide “signatures”. #PICKEDproject #CKD #Biomarkers

🩹🫘 Fibrosis in kidney disease = scarring. Repeated injury → “repair patch” → scar tissue replaces healthy tissue. Scar tissue can’t filter blood → higher CKD progression risk. #CKD #Fibrosis #KidneyHealth #Biomarkers #PICKEDproject

🌟 DC Spotlight: Jeremy Power (Université de Toulouse) Prenatal CAKUT: how uncertainty affects counselling & decisions. #PICKEDproject #CAKUT #PrenatalDiagnosis #Ethics #KidneyHealth

Rare Disease Day 🦓 In medicine we’re taught: “think horses, not zebras.” For patients, being the zebra often means years to the right diagnosis. We need faster diagnostics, better registries, rare-disease-fit trials, and real patient partnership. #RareDiseaseDay #RareDisease

eGFR = kidney function estimate Not a direct readout of kidney damage You can have normal/stable eGFR while inflammation, fibrosis, or tubular injury progresses. Pair eGFR with biomarkers + albuminuria to move from staging → risk prediction #CKD #eGFR #KidneyHealth #Biomarker

🧪 Albuminuria = albumin in urine → a leaky filtration barrier. Not just “kidney damage”: it predicts CKD progression and cardiovascular risk. #CKD #Albuminuria #KidneyHealth #PrecisionMedicine #Biomarkers #RiskStratification #PICKEDproject

📊 What is risk stratification? It’s not about how sick a patient is today, it’s about how likely they are to worsen. In CKD, this helps identify high-risk patients earlier and guide personalised care. Reactive → Predictive. #CKD #PrecisionMedicine #PICKEDproject

👩🏻‍⚕️ DC Spotlight | Kleanthi Working on urinary biomarkers to predict CKD progression in children & young adults. Next: testing CKD273 in pediatric data + secondment at Mosaique Diagnostics. #PICKEDproject #CKD #PrecisionMedicine

👩🏻‍⚕️ DC spotlight | Ágota Nóra Kazup MD & PhD student hosted by SDCC, working on urine proteomics to support treatment allocation in diabetes-related complications, bridging patient care and molecular insight. #PICKEDproject #PrecisionMedicine #DiabetesResearch #SDCC

🧬 PhD spotlight | Sajjad Biglari @mosaiquesdiag Building a biological age model from urinary peptidomics to reflect physiological ageing more accurately than chronological age, with direct links to mortality and age-related disease risk. #Peptidomics #PrecisionMedicine

🧪 From sample to result: how CKD data is generated. From lab analysis to data modelling, each step helps turn biology into insights for personalised kidney care. #PICKEDproject #CKD #PrecisionMedicine

🧪 PhD spotlight: Siavash SohanGir He focuses on personalised convection in hemodiafiltration combining in vitro experiments, real-time monitoring, and clinical studies to improve dialysis efficiency and patient outcomes. #PICKEDproject #MSCA #CKD #Dialysis #Nephrology

🧬 What does CKD273 measure? Not one marker, but a pattern of 273 urinary peptides reflecting early kidney tissue changes and disease progression, often before standard labs shift. #CKD273 #Peptidomics #CKD #PrecisionMedicine #PICKEDproject

🧬 What is a peptidomic classifier? A molecular fingerprint from urine peptides that helps predict disease risk and progression earlier and more precisely than single biomarkers. #Peptidomics #CKD #PrecisionMedicine #PICKEDproject

🧬 Two intense days of OMICS training in Athens! Thanks to our speakers Antonia Vlahou, William Mullen, Manousos Makridakis, Foteini Paradeisi, Chara Gonidaki, Nikos Paschalides & Ieronymos Zoidakis for outstanding lectures and hands-on sessions. #PICKEDproject #MSCA #Omics

🇬🇷✨ What a week in Athens! Our Mid-Term Meeting brought together partners, supervisors and DCs from across Europe for OMICS training, ethics workshops and the official review. 🎥 Recap video: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… #PICKEDproject #MSCA #HorizonEU #CKD #PhDTraining