November 16, 2022
National Institutes of Health Offers Albert Einstein College of Medicine Grants Totaling $6.6M to Run NYC Train KUHR
T The Albert Einstein College of Medicine has been granted a five-year, $6.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to direct a group of medical schools based in New York that will educate future researchers in the fields of kidney, urology, and haematology.
The funding creates the NYC Train KUHR, or New York Consortium for Interdisciplinary Training in Kidney, Urological, and Haematological Research, which brings together specialists in research and instruction from Einstein, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.
NYC Train KUHR is the only NIH-funded consortium in the Northeast focused on KUH disease research and training, and one of only seven nationwide. Trainees accepted into the programme will be assigned at least two mentors who will help guide and inform their research.
…more than 100 scientists skilled in kidney, urologic, and hematologic (KUH) disease research will collaborate to mentor pre- and post-doctoral fellows in interdisciplinary research involving these specialties…
According to Michal Melamed, M.D., M.S., the grant's lead principal investigator and professor of medicine, paediatrics, epidemiology & population health at Einstein and a nephrologist at Montefiore Health System, "More than 100 scientists skilled in kidney, urologic, and hematologic (KUH) disease research will collaborate to mentor pre- and post-doctoral fellows in interdisciplinary research involving these specialties.
The new grant expands on decades of training programmes at some of the participating institutions. "Individually, our institutions have a strong track record of accomplishments in basic science, translational, and clinical research under these conditions. Our combined strengths are amplified, and we can share our collective knowledge with new trainees who will continue to advance in the field" Kirk Campbell, M.D., professor of medicine and co-principal investigator at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine.
Each year, NYC Train KUHR will recruit up to ten trainees who will have the opportunity to work with mentors from various institutions, access data and scientific models from previous and current studies, and attend regular networking and professional development presentations.
The grant will also fund the establishment of an undergraduate summer programme for students from underrepresented groups in medicine who are interested in kidney, urology, or haematology research. "One of our top priorities is to increase the diversity of physicians and researchers in our fields," said co-principal investigator Sandeep Mallipattu, M.D., chief of the division of nephrology and hypertension at Stony Brook University's Renaissance School of Medicine.
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