UKRO and Rep Schiff Discuss Protecting NIH Funding from Sequestration Cuts


Yesterday UKRO President, Ken Kleinberg, Vito Campese, M.D., Chief of Nephrology of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and kidney researcher Alicia McDonough, Ph.D., met with Representative Adam Schiff to ask for his help in preventing sequestration cuts that would severely limit NIH funding for research. Speaking on behalf of UKRO and the USC/UKRO … Continue reading UKRO and Rep Schiff Discuss Protecting NIH Funding from Sequestration Cuts

2010 Special Projects Grants Announcement


UKRO is pleased to announce three $60,000 special project grants that will provide seed funding for the earliest phases of cutting-edge research.  Our support allows the following investigators to make discoveries that may lead to even greater funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and, we hope, significant medical breakthroughs. · Dr. Alicia McDonough, … Continue reading 2010 Special Projects Grants Announcement