Missions and Goals
The overall goal is to support basic, translational, and clinical research on critical pediatric kidney diseases that have major unmet needs.
Our Missions
- To attract outstanding scientific expertise into the multidisciplinary study of critical but underserved pediatric kidney diseases
- To provide high-resource Gene Expression, Proteomics, Biomarker , Enhancement, Training, and Administrative Cores to support the study of pediatric kidney diseases locally, regionally, and nationally
- To support novel exploratory pilot studies that will form the basis for future investigator-initiated applications to study pediatric kidney diseases in our focus areas
Our Focus Areas
The overarching theme of the Center of Excellence is to conduct innovative and high-impact bench-to-bedside studies on three critical but underserved pediatric kidney diseases identified as Research Objectives of RFA-DK-009. Our three areas of focus include:
- Acute Kidney Injury
- Nephrotic Syndrome and Kidney Fibrosis
- Lupus Nephritis
