# Mentored Patient Oriented Research in Kidney Disease

> **NIH NIH K24** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2020 · $173,565

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
 Since first becoming an Assistant Professor in Nephrology in 2006, I have been deeply committed to
patient oriented research (POR) in nephrology, and to mentorship. This has led to considerable successes. I
am PI on multiple NIH R01 awards and contracts, and am leading clinical trials in nephrology. In regards to
mentorship, I am currently primary mentor to two K awardees, secondary mentor to an additional K awardee,
and am also mentoring a cadre of nephrology MD and PhD post-doctoral fellows, medical residents, and pre-
doctoral students. One prior mentee is leading her own R01 as PI, and several have transitioned to the
Associate Professor level. My mentees have been successful garnering grant support and publishing high
impact manuscripts as first author. However, with increasing demands on my time, and with the need to fund
my professional effort, I am limited in my abilities to expand my mentorship activities. I have a wealth of
talented potential trainees, and find great satisfaction mentoring. Similarly, by necessity, my funded research
awards are built on my current skills and expertise. Yet, I am excited about new ideas that I believe can be
transformative, but am ill equipped to obtain research awards and advance these ideas without additional
training in the new areas of interest. My strong desire to spend more time mentoring, to expand my pool of
mentees, and to obtain new research training has led me to propose this K24. Within it, my aims are to (1) to
dedicate time to expand my mentorship capacities to promising junior investigators in patient oriented research
in kidney disease, and (2) to obtain new research expertise in (a) cell free DNA technology, (b) approaches to
FDA biomarker qualification, and (c) leadership and team management skills.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9929575
- **Project number:** 5K24DK110427-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** Joachim H Ix
- **Activity code:** K24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $173,565
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-09-16 → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9929575

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9929575, Mentored Patient Oriented Research in Kidney Disease (5K24DK110427-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9929575. Licensed CC0.

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