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 seven 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.
KidneyCure funding will embed my research in a community of highly active and successful kidney researchers and mentors.
My goal is to create a tool that nephrology training program directors and other nephrology educators can easily access and apply to assess fellows' clinical reasoning.
Ultimately, I want to bring these bench findings to the bedside to improve how we manage our patients.
There's currently no treatment. I hope to change that.
I hope to play a key role in incorporating somatic mutation into the field of kidney genetics.
