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Abstract: INFO06-TH

UAB-UCSD O'Brien Center for AKI Research

Session Information

Category: Acute Kidney Injury

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Authors

  • Vasiliu, Monica, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
  • Agarwal, Anupam, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
  • Ix, Joachim H., University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States
  • Sanders, Paul W., The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Description

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)-University of California San Diego (UCSD) O’Brien Center for Acute Kidney Injury Research is an interdisciplinary center of excellence in AKI-related research. The overall theme of this Center is to focus on and facilitate pre-clinical, translational, and clinical research in AKI. Building on the support from NIH/NIDDK as a P30 award and substantial institutional commitments from UAB and UCSD, the Center has matured into a national resource with a significant impact on AKI research. Cores and resources are available to all investigators across the nation and career continuum. This theme-based Center shares resources, methods, and innovations with the OKRA Consortium to attract new scientific expertise into the AKI field. The O’Brien Center combines efforts, resources, collaborations, and expertise with the other six National Resource Centers (NRCs) in the Consortium under the guidance of the Steering Committee, National Coordinating Center (NCC), and NIDDK to coordinate and prioritize resource development and innovative services that are most essential to the Consortium. This NRC aims: (1) Integrate our two institution-based O’Brien Center into the OKRA Consortium to accelerate the pace of AKI-related research through the support of shared Core facilities and expertise while ensuring quality assurance/quality control, rigor, and reproducibility for the Core services. (2) Foster meaningful interactions among investigators in the OKRA Consortium. (3) Through the NCC and the Consortium, share the Center’s intellectual resources and infrastructure to expand the diversity of investigators in AKI-related research, with an emphasis on early-stage investigators. (4) Utilize the Resource Development Core to respond to the evolving needs of investigators through promotion of innovative lines of investigation in AKI-related research. (5) Develop tomorrow’s thought leaders through the Summer Student Training Program (SSTP). As an NRC, the UAB-UCSD O’Brien Center includes two Biomedical Research Cores: Resource for Clinical and Pre-Clinical Studies of AKI and a Resource Development Core that will integrate our existing intellectual and technological resources to provide the OKRA Consortium a set of services/resources for innovative investigation in AKI-related research. Visit us at http://www.ObrienAKI.org/.

Funding

  • U54 DK137307