Take home message from the 5th Hong Kong Transplant and Dialysis Games: “exerkines” refer to exercise-derived factors during exercise bout and post exercise window. These signalling molecules like IL-6 and VEGF improves our vascular regeneration. Grow younger with exercise.
Generations of nephrologists, me included, who have received fellowship or scholarship from the Hong Kong Kidney Foundation. Big celebration for HKKF 45th anniversary.
It’s touching to listen to the story of Melanie Wyld (B. Econ(Hons) MBBS MBA MPH PhD FRACP), who is a kidney transplant recipient from an altruistic donor, and then studied to become a transplant nephrologist at Westmead Hospital and senior lecturer in clinical epidemiology.