Innovations in Kidney Disease Diagnostics: Organoids, Pathology, and Clinical Insights
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: renal development; kidney fibrosis; acute kidney injury; chronic kidney disease; regeneration; dialysis
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Dear Colleagues,
The field of kidney disease diagnostics is undergoing rapid transformation driven by advances in experimental models, tissue analysis, biomarker discovery, and computational technologies. Kidney organoids derived from pluripotent cells have enabled high-resolution assessment of tubular injury, nephrotoxicity, and disease-related phenotypes. In addition, innovations in renal pathology, including digital pathology, multiplex immunostaining, and spatial transcriptomics, provide unprecedented detail on tissue structure and molecular alterations. Moreover, the progress in clinical diagnostics, such as novel urinary and blood biomarkers, omics-based profiling, machine learning-driven data interpretation, and quantitative imaging methodologies, is expanding the toolbox for early detection, risk stratification, and mechanistic classification of kidney disorders.
This Special Issue, “Innovations in Kidney Disease Diagnostics: Organoids, Pathology, and Clinical Insights,” aims to cover diverse methodological advances that contribute to a deeper and more integrated understanding of kidney disease. We welcome studies involving organoid-based assays, pathological diagnostics, biomarker development, clinical laboratory innovations, computational or AI-assisted diagnostic approaches, multi-omics analyses, and new conceptual or technological frameworks for improving kidney disease diagnostics.
Dr. Kenji Tsuji
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chronic kidney disease
- diabetic kidney disease
- glomerulonephritis
- polycystic kidney diseases
- renal pathology
- biomarker
- kidney regeneration
- hemodialysis
- peritoneal dialysis
- diagnosis
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