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 ASN Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award Program.
Advancing the independent careers of young investigators in biomedical research, grants of up to $100,000 a year for two years are awarded to applicants within ten years of their initial faculty appointment.
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.
Attracting trainees to nephrology remains a challenge, driven in part by the perceived complexity of renal physiology—often cited as the most difficult area of medical education.
My previous interactions with individuals living with chronic kidney disease have grounded my research by continually reminding me of the real-world impact our interventions can have on patient-centered outcomes.
The overarching goal of our research program is to unravel the molecular and epigenomic drivers of crescentic glomerular diseases of the kidney, which may lead to specific vulnerabilities that can be exploited therapeutically.
I hope my research contributes to decreasing morbidity in pediatric patients with CKD.
My goal is to become an independently funded physician-scientist with a focus on water handling, the collecting duct, and renal tubular metabolism.
