The Kidneys for Life team is made up of two members of staff and our board of Trustees.

Our Trustees are all Renal physicians from across the North West of England.

We are a very small charity and our main focus is to raise funds for vitally needed research into all elements of kidney disease.

We can be contacted by email – fundraiser@kidneysforlife.org or by phone 0161 276 6671

Kidneys For Life


Penny McKnight

Fundraiser Email: penny.mcknight@kidneysforlife.org Tel: 07523 105598 I joined Kidneys for Life in September 2020 which was certainly a strange time […]

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Victoria Thomson

Victoria started at Kidneys for Life in 2017 as a Fundraiser and was based at Salford Royal. In 2020 Victoria […]

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Trustees


Mr Afshin Tavakoli – Kidneys for Life Chair of Trustees

Afshin was born in Shiraz-Iran. He then qualified in PÉCS Medical University and trained in General Surgery and Transplantation in […]

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Professor Sandip Mitra

Consultant Nephrologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary. Qualified in 1990 in India with Specialty training in Nephrology in Stevenage, Oxford and […]

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Dr Rachel Lennon

Professor Rachel Lennon

Rachel is a Professor of Nephrology at the University of Manchester and a Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist. The research in Rachel’s […]

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Professor Smeeta Sinha

Professor Smeeta Sinha is a Consultant Nephrologist at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the […]

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Dr Durga Anil K Kanigicherla

Durga Anil K Kanigicherla MBBS, MD, FRCP Durga joined the Nephrology & Transplantation unit as a Higher Specialty Trainee during […]

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Dr Ajay Dhaygude

Ajay is a Nephrologist based at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. He was trained in India and completed his nephrology training in […]

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Dr Andy Nixon

In 2022, Andy was appointed as a Consultant Nephrologist and Supportive Care Lead at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust […]

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Professor Phil Kalra

Professor Phil Kalra was appointed consultant at Salford Royal in 1995 and now is the Director of Research & Innovation […]

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Dr Amrit Kaur

I joined Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital paediatric nephrology department as a consultant in 2015. Previously I worked in Evelina London […]

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