RENAL DISCOVERIES, The Baxter Extramural Grant Program (EGP), awards grants for innovation, exploration and application of research to advance the knowledge of renal insufficiency and its treatment. 

 

The objective of RENAL DISCOVERIES, EGP is to stimulate and support research in the fields of dialytic therapies, chronic kidney disease, and co-morbidities associated with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), with the goal of improving the quality of life and reducing mortality of patients with kidney disease.

 

An independent international Medical Advisory Board (MAB) - whose membership represents a breadth of scientific knowledge - will evaluate and score each application based on the merit of the submitted proposals as described below. The RENAL DISCOVERIES, EGP is a global program that will fund research in all regions of the world.

 

Deadline for Letter of Intent: April 7, 2008 Deadline for Full Grant Application: September 2, 2008

 

Overview of the 2008 Grant Program

The aim of the 2008 RENAL DISCOVERIES, EGP is to support patient-oriented research in academic nephrology training centers around the world. Grants will be awarded for Patient-Oriented Research in selected centers by combining the merits of an operating grant with those of a fellowship-training grant at the funded institution.

 

Patient-oriented research is defined as any research study that has clear clinical relevance. Clinical relevance relates to the likelihood that the research will lead to new knowledge or advances that could impact clinical practice.

 

Grant Elements

Grants will include two elements: 1) funds for research (operating funds) and, 2)  funds for research training (fellowship-training funds), as defined below:

 

Grant Element 1: Operating Funds for Research: The operating funds will support patient-oriented research overseen by the faculty of the sponsoring institution.  The research must be focused on one of the following areas: 

• Dialytic therapies
• Chronic kidney disease
• Co-morbidities associated with end-stage renal disease

 

Transplant related research will not be considered for funding.

 

Grant Element 2: Fellowship Training Funds: The fellowship training funds will support a minimum of one (1) research fellow at the institution during the course of the grant period.  A fellow is defined as a physician with nephrology training, or one who is committed to nephrology training, who will be trained in research.  It is expected that the fellow will be committed full-time to his/her research training as well as to the execution of the submitted study.  While the fellow may work with universities in other countries, they must spend a minimum of 50% of the training period at the home institution in the country from which the application is submitted. The fellow(s) need not be identified at the time of submitting the Letter of Intent (LOI) but must be identified at the time of the final grant submission.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: In order to be considered for an award, an application must include both of the grant components described above (Research Operations and Fellowship Training).

 

Funding

A maximum of USD$125,000 per year for three years (including institutional overhead not to exceed 20%) will be awarded to each 2008 grant winner.

 

Four grants will be awarded in 2008 one grant each in Asia/Pacific, Latin America, North America and Europe/Middle East/Africa/Russia.