CAIRIBU News
CAIRIBU NEWS
CAIRIBU News is your source for the latest updates from across our research community, from groundbreaking discoveries and newly funded projects to investigator highlights and upcoming events. Stay connected with announcements, achievements, and opportunities that advance collaboration and accelerate scientific progress within CAIRIBU.
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Investigator Spotlight
See features of accomplishments by CAIRIBU Investigators.
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Personnel Updates
See announcements of individuals added to CAIRIBU centers or of new funded centers.
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Award Recipients
See announcements of CAIRIBU investigators securing new funding or awards given at conferences.
Investigator Spotlight
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Ajinkya Limkar, MD-PhD Candidate, Publishes Preprint in bioRxiv – Explores Link Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Urinary Incontinence
Ajinkya Limkar, MD-PhD candidate at UW–Madison and research assistant at the UW-Madison George M. O’Brien Urology Cooperative Research Center, recently published a preprint in bioRxiv journal titled, “Amyloid-beta is present in the spinal cord…
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Nicole De Nisco, PhD Editorial – D-Mannose for rUTI Management
Nicole De Nisco, PhD, leader of the CAIRIBU Urobiome Research Interest Group, recently published an editorial in the Journal of Urology Open Plus titled “Is D-Mannose Dead in the Water or Is…
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Alison Huang, MD, MAS, Receives Funding to Advance Patient-Centered rUTI Research
Alison Huang, MD, MAS, was awarded funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) for a proposal in patient-centered healthcare research. Dr. Huang is the PI of the CAIRIBU KUroEpi Career Development…
Personnel Updates
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New Duke K12 Scholar – Christina Bergemann, PhD
Christina Bergemann, PhD, was recently appointed as a K12 Scholar in the CAIRIBU Multidisciplinary K12 Urologic Research Career Development Program (KURe) at Duke University, led by Cindy Amundsen, MD. Duke’s KURe Program…
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New UMich UroEPI Scholar
Catherine Nam, MD was recently appointed as a K12 Scholar for the CAIRIBU Urological Epidemiology Career Development Program (UroEPI) at the University of Michigan. Congratulations, Dr. Nam!
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New UW-Madison KURe Scholars
Lindsey Felth Tanaka, PhD and Marcela Ambrogi, PhD were recently appointed as K12 Scholars for the CAIRIBU Multidisciplinary K12 Urologic Research Career Development Program (KURe) at UW-Madison.
Award Recipients
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Urobiome Summer Meeting Award Recipients
The 2026 CAIRIBU Urobiome Research Interest Group Summer Meeting provided opportunities for trainees to showcase their projects. Trainees who presented the best abstracts, lightning talk, and posters were recognized for demonstrating exceptional…
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Urobiome RIG Summer Meeting Trainee Travel Awards
The CAIRIBU Urobiome Research Interest Group Summer Meeting will convene in Madison, WI on July 30-31. This in-person meeting will bring together investigators and trainees from within the CAIRIBU Urobiome Research Interest Group (U-RIG) community…
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Announcing Additional 2026 Collaboration Award Recipients
CAIRIBU Collaboration Awards support short-term, novel, high-risk, non-malignant urologic research. The April application deadline saw a record number of applications. Based on reviewers’ comments and NIDDK Program Officers’ review, the CAIRIBU Interactions…
Other
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Public Comments Requested
1. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes a major revision to how federal grants are administered across all federal agencies. Proposed OMB changes that would impact scientific research include how…
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IC/BPS Global Consensus Meeting
See information and the complete recorded proceedings of the April 2025 IC/BPS Global Consensus meeting at Wake Forest University. 7 review articles from the consensus meeting are are available in PubMed: Wolff…
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10th Annual Duke KURe Symposium
The Duke KURe Program hosted its 10th Annual Multidisciplinary Benign Urology Research Symposium on April 9th, 2025. Read more to see the CAIRIBU-affiliated trainees awarded CAIRIBU Interactions Core Travel Awards to attend this meeting.