# Additional informatics support on U54 Clinical Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · 2022 · $21,483

## Abstract

Project Summary – Overall
The Kansas PKD Research and Translation Core Center (RTCC) is comprised of an Administrative
Core and three innovative Biomedical Research Cores: Core 1: Biomarkers, Biomaterials, and
Cellular Models; Core 2: Rodent Models Core 3: Clinical Research. The Kansas RTCC also offers an
Educational Enrichment Program and an internal Pilot Grant Program in partnership with the KU
Cancer Center. The mission of the PKD Center is to promote PKD research by providing both
innovative and essential reagents, biomaterials, and service to the national PKD research community
for the advancement of our understanding of disease mechanisms, the discovery of biomarkers and
therapeutic targets and the development of clinical trials to improve patient outcomes. The Specific
Aims of the Kansas PKD RTCC are: Aim 1) To support PKD researchers nationally by developing
innovative biomedical research cores. This will be accomplished by developing the expertise,
reagents and resources required to bring the best new technologies to PKD research to meet the
needs of the greater PKD research community; by leveraging existing institutional shared resources
to expand our capability, efficiency, and effectiveness; and by developing tools to support clinical
research and establish collaborations both regionally and nationally to develop a multi-institutional
ADPKD clinical trials network. Aim 2) To develop a skilled, collaborative, multidisciplinary basic
science and clinical PKD research investigator base. This will be accomplished by building on our
broad multidisciplinary research base and continuing to recruit new investigators from outside the
PKD field by offering an innovative pilot grant program that will attract new investigators to the field,
and by providing new investigators, nationally, with research support for core services, new
technologies, educational opportunities, and an open and collaborative research environment that will
help them succeed. Aim 3) To enhance the PKD research environment with educational programs to
support ongoing projects and to develop new research directions. The research environment will be
enhanced through a seminar program, Summer Student Enrichment Program, PKD lab meetings,
PKD methods workshops, Research Methods and Advanced Technologies Program, professional
development seminar series, patient-oriented activities, and by participating in the consortium-wide
annual symposium. Aim 4) To develop partnerships regionally and nationally and to build teams to
serve as a resource for the greater PKD research community. Inter-institutional partnerships will
provide local and national infrastructure support, new research technologies, increased numbers of
patients involved in clinical trials, and research collaborators for the development of new research
opportunities by attracting investigators from other fields into PKD research from collaborating sites
within the PKD Research Consortium and with cooperating institut...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10685724
- **Project number:** 3U54DK126126-03S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** DARREN P. WALLACE
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $21,483
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-07-15 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10685724

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10685724, Additional informatics support on U54 Clinical Core (3U54DK126126-03S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10685724. Licensed CC0.

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