Recent grants provided by Kids Kidney Research
All applications made to Kids Kidney Research must first comply with our Research Strategy. The potential applicant is requested to provide information sufficient for our reviewers. They will look critically in a number of areas:
- validity of the research
- methodology
- efficiency of resources used.
The applicant will need to comply with our
terms and conditions and the application may be scrutinised by the ethics committee of the organisation concerned. IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) is also considered, in case there is a commercial side to the research - rare in the type of research we usually fund.
Applications for Grants must be received by Kids Kidney Research between 1st September and 31st December in any given year. Applications at other times will not be considered unless by prior agreement.
Kids Kidney Research will provide a decision on each application by 30
th June of the following year, with drawdown of the grant scheduled for September of the same year.
Here you will see some of the successful grants. The physical giving of the money for research is linked directly to the interim reports we receive once a project is underway.
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Recently, kidney researchers have identified several genes, which if mutated, lead to cystic kidneys... More>> |
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Teaching parents to become home-based care givers of children's long term kidney conditions More>> |
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Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome is the leading reason why children's kidneys fail and require kidney dialysis... More>> |
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PhD studentship: Targeting blood vessels to prevent autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease. More>> |
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Kidney failure is a devastating disease in childhood, with reduced life-expectancy and quality of life. About half of these children were born with kidneys which have not formed properly before birth. More>> |
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Cardiovascular disease reduces life expectancy by 40-60 years in children on dialysis. An important cause is derangement of the hormones PTH and vitamin D... More>> |
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Kidney disease in childhood is very rare, making it difficult to study. Disease registers are essential to get clinical ... More>> |
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Inflammation of the kidneys usually leads to a kidney biopsy to define the severity and nature of the inflammation. One possible diagnosis on the biopsy is membranous nephropathy (MN). More>> |
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Development of the kidney involves interactions between only two cells types that differentiate into nearly all of the different tissues in the adult kidney. More>> |
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Nephrotic syndrome is a disease of kidney filtration, whereby huge amounts of protein are lost in the urine due to a defect in the primary filtering cell of the kidney, the podocyte. More>> |
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Patients on dialysis have a very high risk of developing disease of the heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular disease). More>> |
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DiGeorge Syndrome presents with heart defects, palatal anomalies, low blood calcium....... More>> |
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Vascular endothelial growth factor is a remarkable growth stimulus to the fetal bladder. How does this molecule stimulate bladder growth and is it implicated in congenital bladder disease? More>> |
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High blood pressure in children is usually the result of defined disorders of the kidney and hormonal systems. Renal artery stenosis (RAS)... More>> |
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Helping parents when their unborn child is diagnosed with a bladder or kidney blockage... More>> |
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Understanding why blockage of fetal urine flow causes severe urinary tract disease More>> |
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a disease with inflammation that affects different organs in children and adults, which is treated by suppressing the immune system and whose cause is unclear. More>> |
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Galectin-3 is a naturally occurring protein involved in several cellular processes, including cell division and death, and the way cells stick to each other. Increased galectin-3 levels.... More>> |
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This project is funded jointly by Kids Kidney Research and the National Kidney Research Fund More>> |
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Young people with chronic renal failure (CRF) have a 700-fold increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease than the general population. More>> |
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Kidney and renal tract malformations can affect more than one member of a family, making a genetic basis likely. More>> |
