RENAL DISCOVERIES
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. RENAL DISCOVERIES,
is a global program that accepts research applications from all regions of the
world.
Overview
of the 2009 Grant Program
The aim of the 2009 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 the area of Home Dialysis and/or co-morbidities in patients treated
with Home Dialysis.
Deadline for Letter of Intent: May 4, 2009
Deadline for Full Grant Application: September 1,
2009
For this award,
patient-oriented research is defined as research conducted with human
subjects (or on material of human origin such as tissues, specimens and
cognitive phenomena) for whom an investigator interacts with human subjects.
Patient-oriented research includes mechanisms of human disease; General Clinical
Research Center based pathophysiologic studies, therapeutic interventions,
clinical trials, behavioral studies, epidemiology (including database
research), outcomes and health service research, and development of new
technologies. Excluded from this definition are in vitro studies that utilize
human tissues that cannot be linked to a living individual.
Grant
Elements
Grants may include
either an Operating Grant or a combined Operating Grant and
Fellowship Training Grant, as defined below:
Operating Grant: The
Operating Grant 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 in the
home
- Co-morbidities in
patients receiving home ESRD therapy
Transplant focused
research will not be considered for funding
Fellowship Training
Grant: The Fellowship Training Grant 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 and/or home
dialysis clinical practice. 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.
In order to be considered
for an award, an application need not include both the operating and
fellowship training grant components described above. For those applying for an
operating grant only, please note that preference will be given to institutions
with demonstrated fellowship training programs and those that describe training
opportunities for fellows within their application.
Funding: A maximum of
USD$125,000 per year for three years (including institutional overhead not to
exceed 20%) will be awarded to each 2009 grant winner.
- Up to four grants will be
awarded and funded in 2009
- A minimum of one grant
will be awarded to low, and middle-income countries as defined by the World
Bank List of Economies, July 2008 (http://go.worldbank.org/D7SN0B8YU0)
Application
Process
Four grants are selected, by
an independent Medical Advisory Board, and awarded yearly.
If you
would like more information regarding this research grant program, or would like
to be added to our mailing list, please click here to send an e-mail to our
program administrator.
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