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                Clinical DevelopmentChronic Kidney Disease
    The mechanisms and pathophysiology underlying kidney disease and its progression.
    The Chronic Kidney Disease program supports basic, translational,clinical, community-based and dissemination & implementationresearch. The program includes studies to improve diagnosisand managementand understand the biological and functional adaptation to nephron loss. The program also advances studies that identify and test possible therapeutic, behavioral, programmaticand system-levelinterventions to prevent development or halt progression ofkidneydisease.
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        Kevin Abbott, M.D., M.P.H.
                    Kidney and Urology Epidemiology; Transplant, including transplant related clinical trials; Dialysis Clinical Studies, non interventional, clinical trials; Contract Officer Representative (COR) for United States Renal Data System (USRDS) and Urologic Diseases in America (UDA)
                Debbie Gipson, M.D., M.S.
                    Precision Clinical Trials; Pediatric Urology
                Raquel Greer, M.D., M.H.S.
                    Health Equity; Health Services Research; Dissemination and Implementation Research; KUH Loan Repayment Program Liaison
                Susan R. Mendley, M.D.
                    Clinical and Translational PKD; Polycystic Kidney Disease Research Resource Consortium; Pediatric Kidney Disease; Pediatric Centers of Excellence in Nephrology; and Chronic Kidney Disease
                Jenna Norton, Ph.D., M.P.H.
                    Health equity, social determinants of health & health data standards
                Afshin Parsa, M.D., M.P.H.
                    Chronic Kidney Disease; Kidney Genetics and Genomics
                Anna B. Sadusky, Ph.D.
                    Kidney Injury and Repair Basic Science; Translational Research
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                                4/10/2024
                            PA-24-184
                    Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (Parent K23  Independent Clinical Trial Required)
                    
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                                4/9/2024
                            PA-24-185
                    Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (Parent K23  Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
                    
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                                4/3/2024
                            RFA-DK-25-009
                    Kidney Technology Development Research Education Program (R25 - Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
                    
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                                4/2/2024
                            PAR-24-206
                    Rare Diseases Clinical Research Consortia (RDCRC) for the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) (U54 Clinical Trial Optional)
                    
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                                4/1/2024
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                    Diabetes Research Centers (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)
                    
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NIDDK makes publicly supported resources, data sets, and studies available to researchers to accelerate the rate and lower the cost of new discoveries.
Ancillary Studies to Major Ongoing Clinical Studies to extend our knowledge of the diseases being studied by the parent study investigators under a defined protocol or to study diseases and conditions not within the original scope of the parent study but within the mission of the NIDDK.
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