OKRA Training and Outreach Goals
- Build and connect the O’Brien Communities
- Provide training opportunities for trainees and early-stage investigators
- Form a community among the Opportunity Pool candidates and the O’Brien Centers
Initiatives
OKRA NATIONAL FORUM
Building a community for networking and learning, confidence building and training on how to organize a national event.
Offered monthly via Zoom.
April National Forum!
Thursday, April 3, 2025
12-1pm CST
Dr. Naoka Murakami
Washington University
“T cells in Kidney Wells: Lessons from Immunotherapy-associated Kidney Injury”
Register!
OKRA GUMBO GATHERINGS
Providing impactful knowledge for newer cutting-edge techniques to provide momentum and confidence booster to annual scientific meeting attendees.
Daily sessions (1-1.5 h) for one week offered twice a year before annual scientific meetings.
OKRA MEETUPS
Providing awareness of the opportunities within the OKRA Community and networking opportunities with OKRA leadership and Opportunity Pool awardees.
The next meet-up schedule will be announced in February 2025
If you are interested in hearing more about these initiatives, please sign up below.