Other Urology Organizations

March 27, 2026

Keystone Symposia. Explore new frontiers in biology and medicine
Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP)
MDLinx. A listing of upcoming urology conferences for networking, learning, and earning CME credits
Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain (MAPP Research Network). The MAPP Research Network conducted collaborative research on urological chronic pelvic pain disorders—specifically, interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome
NIDDK Information Network (dkNET). dkNET is a research resource information portal that helps researchers find resources relevant to their research and keep up to date on new tools, services and mandates to support robust and reproducible science

Pediatric KIDney Stone (PKIDS) Care Improvement Network. PEDSnet is a large, national community of hospitals and healthcare organizations, researchers and clinicians, and patients and families. The community works together to identify the most important research questions that can reduce children’s suffering and support their healthy development.
Prevention of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (PLUS) Research Consortium. A group of researchers at universities across the US who studied bladder health.
Symptoms of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction Research Network (LURN). A team of surgeons, doctors and medical research professionals assembled to study lower urinary tract dysfunction.
Urinary Stone Disease Research Network (USDRN). The USDRN is an NIDDK-funded consortium assembled to study kidney stone prevention and urinary stent pain.

Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation (OHF)
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Research on Calculus Kinetics Society (ROCK)
Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA)
Society for Basic Urologic Research (SBUR)
Society of Benign Prostate Disease (SoBPD)
Society for Pelvic Research (SPR)
Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI)
Society for the Study of Male Reproduction (SSMR)
Society for Women in Urology (SWIU)
Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS)
Society of Gynecologic Surgeons (SGS)
Societies for Pediatric Urology (SPU)
Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine and Urogenital Reconstruction (SUFU)
Spina Bifida Association (SBA)
UTI Global Alliance (UTIGA)
Let’s Talk UTI: A patient advocacy resource creating awareness, education, and community around urinary tract infections

NIH/NIDDK – Recent Advances & Emerging Opportunities – Annual Report, 2025 (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
- Specific chapters below:
Urology Interagency Coordinating Committee (UICC) Meeting, June 2024, “Urology Community Partnerships for Research” (convened by NIDDK, KUH) – Summary of Research Needs in Urology
NIH/NIA – The National Institute on Aging: Strategic Directions for Research, 2020-2025
NIH – Strategic Plan for Data Science (2023-2028)

NIH/NIDDK – Recent Advances & Emerging Opportunities, annual report (JANUARY 2022)
NIH/NIDDK – From J Urol (2019): Strengthening research in benign urology: dispelling myths that impede success (pervasive myths commonly encountered by Program Officers)
PLUS Research Consortium – From Neurourol Urodyn (2020): Is the juice worth the squeeze? Transdisciplinary team science in bladder health
American Urological Association – National Urology Research Agenda (a Urology Care Foundation “roadmap for priorities in urologic disease research”, produced in 2010)
NIH – Strategic Plan for Data Science (June 2018)
American Geriatrics Society and National Institute on Aging Urinary Incontinence Planning Committee and Faculty for the conference, “Bedside-to-Bench Conference on Urinary Incontinence in Older Adults” – Review article published in J Am Geriatr Soc (2018): A translational research agenda for a complex geriatric syndrome