Established in 2012, KidneyCure, the ASN Foundation, funds the Ben J. Lipps Research Fellowship Program, the Transition to Independence Grants Program, the William and Sandra Bennett Clinical Scholars Program, the American Society of Nephrology-Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, and the KidneyCure Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award Program.
Advancing the independent careers of early career faculty in biomedical research, grants of up to $100,000 a year for two years are awarded to applicants who would be competitive to become a principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant or equivalent by the end of the grant period.
KidneyCure enables fellows and PhD students with analytical interests in basic or clinical research to spend time engaged in work on a kidney research project.
Funded annually, the program provides funding to nephrology educators to conduct projects to advance all facets of nephrology education and teaching.
As a nephrologist caring for patients with glomerular disease, I have seen how much uncertainty remains for patients whose disease is not explained by the traditional biomarkers we use in clinic.
We hope that our research is able to further clarify the role of the kidney in the regulation of whole-body metabolism.
KidneyCure grant funding is critically important, especially for early-career investigators who are passionate about advancing evidence-based kidney care, improving patient outcomes, and developing innovative educational and research initiatives that address major unmet needs in nephrology.
The goal of my research is to understand the regulation of the actin cytoskeleton in kidney tubular epithelial cells during development and repair using experimental models that recapitulate human pathology.
That some of the most important moments in my career happened when an experiment didn't go as planned. A result that looked like a failure turned out to be the discovery we didn't know we were looking for. Learning to stay curious about the surprises, rather than treating them as setbacks, has changed how I do science.
