“The hope and desire to have a wearable artificial kidney has been around for years, but until now, nobody has been able to develop it. The need for it changed when we started to understand that if we want people to survive, we need to give them daily dialysis. But we don’t have enough dialysis units to provide this much dialysis. A lot of issues prompted me to develop the WAK.”

— Victor Gura, MD, Xcorporeal’s chief scientific and medical officer and the inventor of the Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK) describing what hastened his development of the system, “Positive results reported from pilot study of wearable dialysis machine,” pp. 1,9.