#NephMadness 2026: Call for Topic Suggestions

Posted on May 21, 2025 by AJKDblog in NephMadness // 0 Comments

We’ve barely caught our collective breath from NephMadness 2025, but it’s already time to start thinking about NephMadness 2026!

Which topics would you like to see in next year’s edition of the madness?

Lamu, Kenya: Police Suggestion Box is by Lindsay Bremner on Flickr.

As always, we had a lot of great suggestions last year, some of which found their way into NephMadness 2025:

CAR-T Therapy

— Swetha Kanduri (@SwethaKanduriMD) May 31, 2024

It's not my area, but how about adding some genetics? I think #NephMadness never had this. Maybe experts can find 2 genetic topics to go against each other @LucileFigueres @ecorneclegall @torra_roser

— Cristina Popa 🦋 (@NephroSeeker) May 30, 2024

Put @NephRodby back on the Blue Ribbon panel. I blame my suboptimal performance not on my poor choices, but on his absence.

— Arnold D. (@kidneyrebel) May 31, 2024

Minimal change disease and anti-nephrin antibodies

— Pascale Khairallah (@Khairallah_P) May 30, 2024

Steroid resistant minimal change. I don’t believe it has been in a previous neph madness.

— JGFellow (@FellowJg69040) May 31, 2024

Maybe instead of animal house you could do plants, and call it green house.
Could highlight different plants.. maybe asparagus, licorice, beets, etc.
I’m sure there are even better examples of different plants and their effects or side effects on the kidney.

— JGFellow (@FellowJg69040) May 31, 2024

Can I suggest twice weekly or incremental hemodialysis? Some of our dialysis units converting patients to twice weekly dialysis out of necessity. Saves the environment. Potentially better QOL. https://t.co/n8u9sB6HTE @Kidney_Trials under recruitment https://t.co/5PyqpLAdE1

— Jeffrey Ha @jeffreyha.bsky.social (@_jeffreyha) May 29, 2024

Want to see your name in next year’s post? Then leave a comment with your ideas for NephMadness 2026, or post them on the social media platform of your choice with the hashtag #NephMadness. You can also email your thoughts directly to us at staff@ajkdoffice.org.

Here are all the NephMadness brackets from previous years so you can see which topics have been covered so far: