ESPN/PNRC Grant Awardees

2024

Gene expression-based precision diagnostic tool of allograft rejection for pediatric kidney transplant patients
  • Dr. Julien Hogan
  • Dr. Alexandra Cambier
 
Growth failure in pediatric CKD: a search for new therapeutic targets to mitigate inflammation driven by protein-bound uremic toxins accumulation
  • Dr. Evelien Snauwaert
  • Dr. Christoph Licht
 
The role of APOL1 risk variants in the clinical outcome of children with congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract
  • Dr. Rik Westland
  • Dr. Simone Sanna-Cherchi

2023

 Investigate the role of the myeloid receptor sCD89-IgA1 innume complexes and components of the inflammatory pathway (sCD89, APRIL, April-IgA1) as cIgAN biomarkers in patients.
  • Dr. Julien Hogan
  • Dr. Alexandra Cambier
 
Machine learning tools prediction of renal outcomes among children with crescentic glomerulonephritis (crescentic GN).
  • Dr. Lars Pape
  • Dr. Guillermo Hidalgo
 
Practice Patterns and Perceptions in the Management of Recurrent Nephrotic Syndrome in Kidney Recipients with End Stage Kidney Disease Secondary to Non-Mendelian Nephrotic Syndrome (FSGS or MCD).
  • Dr. Antonia Bouts
  • Dr. Priya Verghese
 

2022

Role of angiopoietins in childhood nephrotic syndrome.
  • Dr. Cristina Julia Blazquez Gomez
  • Dr. Gabriel Cara-Fuentes
 
Advancing precision medicine approach to recurrent FSGS treatment-proof of concept for the use of a 3D co-culture spheroid model of the kidney glomerulus to predict disease recurrence and response to plasmapheresis.
  • Dr. Chia-Shi Wang
  • Dr. Moin A. Saleem