Effectively diagnose and treat.
Your partner in renal diagnostics.
With over 150 years of advanced medical knowledge, our multidisciplinary approach and award winning team of nephrology experts, pathologists, and laboratory scientists provide the highest standards for renal laboratory care. We believe laboratory medicine offers more than a test result—it is about collaboration to reach actionable answers for patients. Currently, physicians at Mayo Clinic are actively enrolling in clinical trials to make patient needs central to the care journey.
Results that matter
We're dedicated to our patients' health and well-being,
and we're proud of the outstanding outcomes we achieve.
#1
nephrology hospital and overall hospital as ranked by U.S. News & World Report.
6,500+
analyzed biopsies and delivered answers per year in our Renal Biopsy Laboratory.
200+
specialized renal tests provide your practice with the answers your patients need.
24/7
clinical and technical support available to clients, allowing you to keep care local.
Complex cases. Definitive answers.
Effective treatment of complex renal conditions depends on timely, accurate diagnostic testing to help you make clinical decisions that lead to better outcomes. Mayo Clinic Laboratories gives you access to world-class nephrology experts, pathologists, and scientists committed to helping you find the answers you need to make optimal treatment decisions.
Integrated excellence.
Mayo Clinic Laboratories is integrated with the Renal Biopsy Laboratory in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic. We provide the only global reference laboratory that works directly with an internationally renowned healthcare organization.
Improving patient outcomes.
Position your laboratory as a center of excellence with broader access to specialized testing while keeping care local. Perform tests locally to help decrease total cost of care and grow revenue while ensuring patients receive the right tests at the right time with our algorithmic approach to prevent unnecessary diagnostics.
United in a
Common Goal.
We believe that testing is more than just getting results. Let's find the right answers together.
Learn more about renal testing.
The latest
This month’s “Virtual Lecture� discusses the health implications of the use of race in estimating glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), how to estimate GFR, and why it is important to continue funding and research to develop tools without the use of race.
A collaborative study between Mayo Clinic and the University of Illinois debunked the previous consensus about how kidney stones grow.
Part II of this series shows how a breakthrough discovery about how kidney stones form may open the way for new, unorthodox treatments. The discovery was made possible by joining University of Illinois’ geology and biology forces with Mayo Clinic’s urology and nephrology expertise.
In this month’s “Hot Topic,� Paul Jannetto, Ph.D. discusses the proper procedures for collecting and processing kidney stones in order to provide accurate, cost-effective analysis of patients’ kidney stones in a timely manner.
Mayo Clinic researchers are tracking the familiar characteristics of kidney stone formers in an online prediction tool that could help sufferers anticipate if they'll experience future episodes.