Atlas-D2K

The ATLAS-D2K Opportunity Pool funding program aims to address gaps or catalyze new partnerships in kidney and genitourinary research. This specific funding opportunity invites “glue grant” applications from investigators who are working in areas of high relevance to the GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project (GUDMAP) or the (Re)Building a Kidney (RBK) consortium and are currently supported by other significant non-GUDMAP/RBK funding sources. Examples of other significant funding sources include, but are not limited to, an NIH R01, RC2, R21, ISAC award, DP3, U01 award, or a VA MERIT award. Successful glue grants are expected to be mutually beneficial. Applicants should describe how their “parent” project will benefit from being part of GUDMAP or RBK and how GUDMAP or RBK will benefit from partnering with the “parent” project.

• Funding amount: Glue grant funding will provide $100,000 total costs per year to the “parent” project to support sharing, harmonization, and integration with GUDMAP or RBK of relevant data, software, analytic pipelines, expertise, etc.
• Contact: Eric W. Brunskill, PhD This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Anna Sadusky, PhD (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), or Danny Gossett, PhD (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
• Opportunity Pool Program: https://www.atlas-d2k.org/collaboration/op-pool/

PKD-RCC

The PKD RRC seeks to fund “sprint challenge” grants to catalyze the development of innovative resources that will advance the study of PKD. Specifically, this grant will provide $63,500 total costs for one year to support the generation of a new reagent or tool that will benefit the PKD research community. Both Early-Stage Investigators and Established Investigators who are new to PKD are eligible to apply (See Eligibility Requirements below). Applicants should describe why the resource is critical for advancing our understanding of PKD and should present a clearly defined strategy for resource development over the course of 12 months. All resources will be validated in collaboration with the PKD RRC. Successful applicants will be expected to participate in the appropriate PKD RRC sub-committee meetings (see list below) where progress will be discussed. Upon validation the resource will be made available to the research community via the PKD RRC web site. We anticipate that successful projects will expedite discovery and bolster research in PKD.

“Sprint Challenge” areas of focus:

• Implementation of innovative informatics approaches for aggregating PKD “omics”data.
• The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools applied to PKD.
• Novel approaches to generate immortalized human kidney cell lines that maintain epithelial characteristics.
• Generation of a democratizable organoid model that can be used by any researcher.
• Generation of novel in vitro PKD models for high throughput drug testing PKD.
• Generation of reporter mice to investigate relevant PKD signaling pathways.
• Generation of novel PKD mouse models to investigate renal cyst initiation.

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the PKD RCC website.