Collaborating for the Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research in Benign Urology
Alison Huang, MD, MAS, was selected for 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 Program at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Huang’s grant is titled “Antibiotic-Sparing Strategies to Prevent Urinary Tract Infection After Menopause.” …
The American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) will hold its annual Pelvic Floor Disorder (PFD) Week on October 4th-7th, 2026 in Denver, CO. CAIRIBU is proud to feature its affiliated investigators who will present at the meeting. See below for the schedule of speakers:
Neurogenic bowel dysfunction affects more than 80% of individuals with spina bifida and remains one of the most significant challenges impacting health, independence, and quality of life. In a recent article in AUANews, Maryellen Kelly, DNP, MHSc, an alumnus of the Duke University K12 Program, and David Chu, MD, MSCE, co-investigator of the CAIRIBU Children’s …
“Is the prostate growing and getting harder, so it squeezes on the tube and narrows the tube, or is it that the tube itself is actually getting smaller, or is it a combination of these things?” This is a fundamental question to understanding benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a disease affecting the majority of aging men. …
For decades, kidney stone disease has been understood primarily as a disorder of urinary chemistry. In a recent article in AUANews, CAIRIBU Urobiome Research Interest Group investigator Aaron Miller, PhD, highlights a growing body of evidence suggesting that microbes within the urinary tract may also play an important role in stone formation, offering a new …
