Shuvo Roy-led Project Successfully Tests Bioartificial Kidney Prototype, Wins $64K KidneyX PrizeUCSF Prof. Shuvo Roy. (UCSF photo)India-West Staff ReporterAn implantable bioartificial kidney being developed by The Kidney Project – a nationwide collaboration led by Bangladeshi American Professor Shuvo Roy of U.C. The research project has earned a $650,000 prize from KidneyX for the first-ever demonstration of a functional prototype of its implantable artificial kidney. For this advance, the team was awarded KidneyX’s Phase 1 Artificial Kidney Prize and was one of six winning teams selected out of an international field, a news release said. For the Artificial Kidney Prize, the team married the two units into a scaled-down version of the artificial kidney and evaluated its performance in a preclinical model.