# Chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology: applying a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the world's most common tubulointerstitial kidney disease

> **NIH NIH R01** · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $51,827

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The proposed diversity supplement supports post-doctoral research training for Dr. Marimar Contreras-Nieves,
MD, MS candidate. Dr. Contreras-Nieves aims to develop an academic research career in nephrology, with a
focus on studying environmental risk factors for kidney disease. As the top graduate of her medical school
class at the University of Puerto Rico, Dr. Contreras-Nieves enhances diversity in the nephrology workforce
because: 1) women from her background are underrepresented in medicine, 2) as a fluent Spanish speaker,
she is able to provide culturally concordant care to persons facing language and sociopolitical barriers to health
care, and 3) her research interests focus on underserved and rural populations. The goal of this research
supplement will be to provide Dr. Contreras-Nieves practical experience in field research in her topic of
interest: kidney disease in agricultural workers. In the process of implementing this project, she will be gaining
experience in environmental epidemiology, study design, cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses, and
primary data collection. Her multidisciplinary team of mentors will include as primary mentor nephrologist Dr.
Shuchi Anand, Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, geochemist Dr. Penny Vlahos, Professor
of Marine Sciences at University of Connecticut, and statistician Dr. Maria Montez-Rath, Director of the
Biostatistics Core of the Division of Nephrology at Stanford University. Dr. Contreras-Nieves participation will in
turn lead to manuscripts focused on persons with rapid kidney function decline within the cohort recruited
under Dr. Anand’s R01 and generate new knowledge to facilitate ongoing research in the field of chronic
kidney disease of uncertain etiology.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10940310
- **Project number:** 3R01DK127138-04S1
- **Recipient organization:** STANFORD UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Shuchi Anand
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $51,827
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2021-01-28 → 2025-12-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10940310

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10940310, Chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology: applying a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the world's most common tubulointerstitial kidney disease (3R01DK127138-04S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10940310. Licensed CC0.

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