RENAL DISCOVERIES Extramural Grant Program - EGP

The 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 the 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.
Deadline for Letter of Intent: April 7, 2011
Deadline for Full Grant Application: September 7, 2011
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.
Funding: A maximum of USD 125,000 per year for three years (including institutional overhead not to exceed 20%) will be awarded to each 2011 grant winner.
• Smaller, well written, properly designed, lower budget proposals will be considered equally competitive with larger, higher budget grant proposals
• One or two year proposals will be considered equally competitive with three year proposals
• Up to five (5) grants will be awarded and funded in 2011.