The Johns Hopkins Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Research and Clinical Core Center is founded on a tradition of innovative PKD research at Johns Hopkins. The goal of the Center is to promote translational PKD research by providing unique resources and expertise to an international group of investigators. The Center is supported by a P30 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Biomedical Cores
Core B: Antibody Validation and Vectorology Core
Core C: Mouse Models and Biobank
Core D: Cell Culture and Engineering
Core E: Clinical and Translational Core Resource

Educational Programs
The Center offers educational enrichment programs that strive to encourage critical thought which will yield creative approaches to research questions related to cystic kidney diseases.

Pilot and Feasibility Program
The Pilot and Feasibility Program can support up to three new projects per year. In selecting projects preference is given to innovative lines of inquiry, junior investigators, and new investigators in the PKD field.

Join our Research Base
To become a member of our research base, contact Center Administrator, to submit a biosketch.

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Calendar

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PKD Seminars Series for 2012:

January 13, 2012 | Vicente E. Torres, MD, PhD
Mayo Clinic, Departments of Nephrology and Hypertension

April 19, 2012 | Bradley K. Yoder, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham

May 4, 2012 | Meral Gunay-Aygun, MD
JHU, Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Genetic Medicine

Key Dates for 2012 Pilot & Feasibility Program
Letter of Intent due: July 2, 2012
Full Application due: August 1, 2012
Peer Review of Full Applications: September 2012
Announcement of P & F Awardees: October 2012

Annual Johns Hopkins PKD Core Center Meeting (2012)
Date TBA

Science/Journal Club Meeting
Tuesdays, 1-2:30PM
PKD Conference Room, Rangos Building, Room 559
Contact Karleen Schuhart for more information.

Summer Student Program (2012)
Applicants for 2012 have been selected. Thank you for your interest.

Congratulations to Alexandria Broadnax!
Alexandria participated in our Summer Student Program in 2011. She recently won a poster session award at ABRCMS!

Annual Johns Hopkins PKD Core Center Meeting (2011)
September 20-21, 2011

  • Gregory Pazour, Ph.D., Associate Professor
    "New Roles for an Ancient Organelle: Ciliary Defects Cause Cystic Kidney Disease and Structural Birth Defects"
    11AM-Noon, Rangos Conference Room 590
  • Ronald Perrone, M.D.
    "The PKD Outcomes Consortium: Developing a Biomarker for PKD Progression"
    4-5PM, Rangos Conference Room 590

February 14, 2011 | Gregory Germino
Splicing Dicing and Smurfs: The ARPKD Story

February 14, 2011 | Gregory Germino
Right Here! Right Now! Pursuing Scientific Opportunity in 2011

March 25, 2011 | Stefan Somlo
2-3PM, Cader Room, Harvey 508
Duvuru Geetha, MD
“Treatment of ANCA Vasculitis: RAVE Trial and Others”

April 29, 2011 | Johns Hopkins Renal Grand Rounds
2-3PM, Cader Room, Harvey 508
Duvuru Geetha, MD
"A Genetic Interaction Network of Genes for Human Polycystic Kidney and Liver Diseases."

Science/Journal Club Meeting
Wednesdays, 12:30-2PM
PKD Conference Room, Rangos Building 559
Contact Karleen Schuhart for more information.

May 6, 2011
Johns Hopkins Renal Grand Rounds
2-3PM, Cader Room, Harvey 508
Dr. Sylvia Rosas,Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"Vascular Calcifications in Chronic Kidney Disease"

May 9, 2011
Executive Steering Committee Meeting
Noon-1PM
PKD Conference Room, Rangos Building, Room 559

May 13, 2011
Johns Hopkins Renal Grand Rounds
2-3PM, Cader Room, Harvey 508
Dr. Michael Kuperman, Fellow, Nephropathology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
"Focal and Segmental Glomerulosclerosis: A Model for ESRD"

May 19, 2011, 6:00 PM | National Kidney Foundation of Maryland Scientific Session, "Migration and Trafficking of Regulatory T cells for Transplantation Tolerance"
Keynote Speaker Jonathan S. Bromberg, M.D. Ph.D.

Summer Student Program (2011)
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/graduateprograms/sip.cfm

May 20, 2011
Johns Hopkins Renal Grand Rounds
2-3PM, Cader Room, Harvey 508
Dr. Margaret Bia, Professor of Medicine
Senior Transplant Nephrologist
Yale Medical Center
"K-DIGO Guidelines for Kidney Transplant Recipients"

June 14, 2011
Executive Steering Committee Meeting 11AM-Noon, PKD Conference Room, Rangos Building, Room 559

Summer Student Poster Session
Executive Steering Committee Meeting
Friday, August 5th
2:00 – 5:00 pm
1st session 2:00–3:15PM
2nd session 3:30–5:00PM
Turner Concourse

Honey Fest - PKD Charity Event
August 19-21, 2011
Contact Person: Josiah Woods
609.703.9349 | josiahwoods@yahoo.com
Learn more about the festival:
www.honeyfest.org and on Facebook.

Johns Hopkins Division of Nephrology and Johns Hopkins Medicine provide multidisciplinary care for patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease. Make an appointment.

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