National Coordinating Center for the George M. O’Brien Kidney National Resource Centers (U24 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

For over 25 years, the George M. O’Brien Kidney Centers have played an essential role in advancing kidney research. To expand the breadth and impact of this important program, the NIDDK aims to improve coordination, enhance national outreach and sharing, and promote continuous innovation by establishing the "O’Brien Kidney “Consortium”. This Consortium will combine innovative National Resource Centers (NRCs) tasked with developing and sharing specialized kidney resources, tools, technologies, services, and expertise and a National Coordinating Center (NCC) to lead, manage, and harmonize all aspects of the Consortium.

The NCC will lead, coordinate, manage, and harmonize all aspects of the work conducted by the Consortium to advance kidney research. The NCC will support the NRCs in their efforts to nationally share specialized resources including tools, technologies, services, and expertise beyond those typically available in an individual lab or institutional core. Specifically, the NCC will:

1. Provide administrative support and coordination for the entire Consortium by planning, organizing, and supporting meetings, education, and outreach activities to meet Consortium objectives.
2. Ensure that the Consortium activities are inclusive of investigators from a broad range of scientific disciplines and expertise.
3. Promote the inclusion of investigators and fellows from diverse backgrounds. See the Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversity (NOT-OD-20-031).
4. Establish and curate a central portal to ensure that all NRC resources are shared broadly with the national kidney research community and are readily accessible to anyone pursuing kidney research.
5. Develop a multifaceted communication and education plan designed to maximize national outreach and impact, including information about all available resources and efforts to expand the pool of investigators pursuing kidney research.
6. Give voice to people with kidney diseases by identifying and recruiting patient representatives and ensuring that their viewpoints, priorities, and preferences are incorporated in all aspects of the Consortium.
7. Develop and administer a national Opportunity Pool program that addresses scientific and technological gaps and promotes new collaborations, with an emphasis on early-stage investigators and people new to kidney research.

Application Instructions

Please submit:

1         A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach

2         If the final application requires a diversity statement or statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.

3         Biosketch or CV of the PI

to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, August 31, 2022. Proposals are due to the sponsor 12/1/2022, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 11/18/2022 if given the go‐ahead by the review committee.