# Pilot/Feasibility

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2020 · $16,033

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
Central to NEPTUNE's goals for facilitating translational science in Nephrotic Syndrome (NS) is the maintenance
of an infrastructure and funding opportunities that encourages investigators with diverse interests and expertise
to use NEPTUNE's intellectual resources, observational clinical data, biospecimens, digital pathology archive,
and derived data sets. In the renewal proposal, NEPTUNE plans to continue and expand on the remarkable
success of its Pilot and Ancillary Studies Program (PAS). NEPTUNE's goal of accelerating glomerular disease
research by being inclusive of diverse scientific interests has been well served by the PAS during the past nine
years as the network's data and biobank resources have matured. A steadily increasing trend of use of these
resources are evident by the volume of talks, papers, and funded proposals from a large pool of investigators
inside and outside the network. By its close association with NephCure Kidney International Foundation (NKI),
a leading glomerular disease advocacy foundation, NEPTUNE has funded 10 pilot projects and processed 112
ancillary study proposals during the past nine years. Remarkably, 32 (30%) of these 112 ancillary study
committee-approved projects received support external to NEPTUNE.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10017217
- **Project number:** 5U54DK083912-12
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** LAWRENCE B. HOLZMAN
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $16,033
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2009-09-08 → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10017217

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10017217, Pilot/Feasibility (5U54DK083912-12). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10017217. Licensed CC0.

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