Translational Nephrology Stem cell therapy for Alport syndrome: the hope beyond the hype∗

1Department of Nephrology & Rheumatology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 2Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA, 3Department of Nephrology, Medical Policlinic, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, 4Division of Nephrology, The Hospital of Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 5Merheim Medical Center, University of Witten-Herdecke, Campus Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 6Clinic for Nephrology, USZ and Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 7Nephrology Department, Fundacio Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain, 8Inserm U574, Universite Paris Descartes, 9Centre de Référence des Maladies Rénales Héréditaires de l’Enfant et de l’Adulte (MARHEA) Service de Néphrologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France, 10Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE, 11Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, 12Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Minnesota, MN, 13Nephrology and Hypertension Division, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Utah School of Medicine, UT, USA, 14Department of Medicine, The Northern Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Epping, Australia, 15Department of Pediatrics, Peking University, First Hospital, Beijing, China, 16Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 17Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA, 18Division of Matrix Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and 19Renal Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO USA