FORWARD Centers
The Fostering Research with Additional Resources and Development (FORWARD) Urology Centers program aims to expand the non-malignant urology research community. Each center supports a research project led by a multidisciplinary team of investigators, including at least one early stage investigator (ESI) or new urology researcher. The generated data will aid in securing independent grants (e.g., R01s).
Albert Einstein College of Medicine: 2019-2021 – PI, Kelvin Davies, PhD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Harvard University: 2018-2020 – PI, Mark Zeidel, MD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia-University of Pennsylvania: 2020-2022 – PI, Greg Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE
Columbia University: 2018-2020 – PI, Simone Sanna-Cherchi, MD
Duke University: 2019-2021 – PI, Pei Zhong, PhD; 2022-2025 – PIs, Pei Zhong, PhD, Christine Payne, PhD
Medical College of Wisconsin: 2020-2022 – PI, Kathryn Flynn, PhD
Michigan Interdisciplinary Center for Urology Research and Education: 2021-2023 – PIs, Bernadette Zwaans, PhD; Michael Chancellor, MD
NorthShore University HealthSystem-Purdue University: 2018-2020 – PIs, Simon Hayward, PhD and Timothy Ratliff, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham: 2018-2022 – PI, Dean G. Assimos, MD
University of California – San Francisco: 2016-2018 – PI, Thomas Chi, MD, MBA
University of Tennessee Health Science Center: 2019-2021 – PI, Robert Wake, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center: 2019-2021 – PI, Maria Hadjifrangiskou, PhD
Washington University: 2018-2020 – PI, Indira Mysorekar, PhD