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Articlenpj biomedical innovations2026

Engineering scalable vascularized kidney organoids for in vivo glomerular filtration with human endothelial integration.

Murat Tekguc, Takuya Matsumoto, Lukas M Altenburger, Kenichi Kobayashi, Ken Hiratsuka, Yuhei Higashi, Astia Rizki-Safitri, Tomoya Miyoshi, Wassim El-Jouni, M Amin Arnaout and 2 more

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Article in npj biomedical innovations, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Murat Tekguc *Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA.
Takuya Matsumoto *Nephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA.
Lukas M AltenburgerDepartment of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA.
Kenichi KobayashiNephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA.
Ken HiratsukaNephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA.
Yuhei HigashiNephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA.
Astia Rizki-SafitriNephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA.
Tomoya MiyoshiThe Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA.
Wassim El-JouniNephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA.
M Amin ArnaoutNephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA.
Thorsten R MempelDepartment of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA.
Ryuji MorizaneNephrology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA.

Funding

Pilot & Feasibility ProgramP30DK043351 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Ramnik J Xavier · 1991 to 2026
$35.3M
Transgenic CoreP30DK057521 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BROWN, DENNIS · 2000 to 2019
$31.4M
Structure and Function of Integrins in the KidneyR01DK088327 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ARNAOUT, M. AMIN · 2010 to 2025
$5.3M
Cellular mechanisms by which exhausted T cell responses are restoredR01AI123349 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Thorsten Roman Mempel · 2017 to 2026
$4.5M
Ex Vivo Generation of Functional Kidney Tissues for TransplantationUC2DK126023 · NIDDK · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI LEWIS, JENNIFER A. · 2020 to 2024
$4.0M
Recreating Kidney Organogenesis in vitro with Human Pluripotent Stem CellsDP2DK133821 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MORIZANE, RYUJI · 2019 to 2019
$2.5M
Vascularized kidney organoids on chip for efficacy and toxicity testing of somatic genome editingU01DK127587 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LEWIS, JENNIFER A., MORIZANE, RYUJI · 2020 to 2022
$2.1M
Understanding renal intrinsic repair by FANCD2R01DK141567 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Ryuji Morizane · 2025 to 2026
$1.3M
Vascularized kidney organoids on chip for efficacy and toxicity testing of somatic genome editingU01EB028899 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LEWIS, JENNIFER A., MORIZANE, RYUJI · 2019 to 2019
$748k
Biomanufacturing of Vascularized Kidney Tissues: A Foundational Step towards Building a KidneyR56DK122380 · NIDDK · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI LEWIS, JENNIFER A. · 2019 to 2019
$530k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Kidney organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells have emerged as promising models for studying kidney disease and therapeutic development. However, the lack of a scalable production system has limited their industrial applications in regenerative medicine. Here, we have developed a cost-effective mass-production method for manufacturing vascularized kidney organoids, which has improved production efficiency by more than 50 times compared to conventional culture systems. The incorporation of a dynamic culture environment in delta-wing stirred bioreactors has significantly enhanced the glomerular vascularization of kidney organoids via mechanosensory integrin α2β1. Single-cell RNA sequencing and functional analyses demonstrated the enhanced maturation in STR nephron epithelia. The large quantities of vascularized kidney organoids enabled the fabrication of a nephron sheet with nephron numbers equivalent to those found in two rat kidneys. Intravital imaging of a nephron sheet implanted in a dorsal skinfold chamber of mice revealed filtration function with size selectability in the organoid glomeruli vascularized with human endothelia. This work may represent a significant step towards bridging the gap between basic research and commercial products, paving the way towards developing bioengineered kidneys for kidney replacement therapy.

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PMCPMC12864042

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