# Research Training in Pediatric Nephrology

> **NIH NIH T32** · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · 2021 · $258,888

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
Boston Children's Hospital is home to the world's largest research enterprise at any Pediatric Institution in the
USA. This infrastructure has allowed our T32 program to offer pediatric nephrology fellows extensive research
training opportunities in broad areas of relevance to pediatric renal disease. Our Training Faculty are leaders in
their fields and have significant experience in mentorship, and their research interests represent the diversity of
basic, translational and clinical research in the discipline of nephrology. Our administrative structure is
designed to recruit MD trainees with previous research experience as well as MD/PhD trainees into our
program. In the last cycle of funding, we advanced our efforts at recruitment from incoming and current
residents at Boston Children's, from MD Pediatric Nephrology postdoctoral fellows who seek out our faculty for
advanced research training and from MD Pediatric Nephrology trainees who match into our program for
ACGME-approved pediatric nephrology fellowship training. These three pools of candidates increased the size
of our research training program in the current cycle and have made appointments to the T32 somewhat
competitive with our current 4 postgraduate slots/year. Every slot is filled each year, and we have an additional
2-4 T32-eligible trainees in our program who do not receive funding. Over the past 5 years, a total of 23 T32-
eligible trainees and 44 non-TGE-eligible postdoctoral trainees were enrolled in our renal research training
program. These 67 trainees contributed to a total of 368 citations over the reporting period representing an
average of ~1 citation/trainee/year. There were a total of 14 T32-funded trainees enrolled in our program
during the past 5 years and they contributed to 149 citations (76 manuscripts and 73 abstracts) representing
an average of ~2 publications per trainee per year (~1 manuscript/year and ~1 abstract/year). In addition, a
total of 10 T32-funded trainees (71%) received at least one award or grant (a total of 19 grants) for their
training and research activities over the last five years and all T32-funded trainees participated in courses
and/or workshops to support career development activities. In the next cycle of funding, we plan to sustain
recruitment, so that we continue to have more T32-eligible trainees in our program/year than slots. In addition,
we will further restructure our program to enhance the competitiveness of our trainees in the current era of
decreased NIH funding by first, establishing new initiatives to provide rigorous oversight by experienced NIH-
funded faculty for transition from T32 to K award (or similar) funding; and second, by providing financial
incentivizes to stimulate the solicitation of grants and research training for a third year (beyond the typical 2
years). In order to advance these collective initiatives and provide a third year of dedicated research training to
at least one candidate,...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10129346
- **Project number:** 5T32DK007726-37
- **Recipient organization:** BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
- **Principal Investigator:** David M. Briscoe
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $258,888
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1994-09-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10129346

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10129346, Research Training in Pediatric Nephrology (5T32DK007726-37). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10129346. Licensed CC0.

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