Collaborating for the Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research in Benign Urology
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 …
Quentin Clemens, MD, MS, was first author on a recent paper, “Transitions From Regional to Widespread Pain in Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain II Research Network Study.” The well-designed prospective study featured a 3-year follow-up, multiple participating sites, and standardized data collection and included both …
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 to share research, nurture collaboration, and innovate solutions to the major challenges faced within the nascent field. Highlights include a keynote lecture by …
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 Core was able to offer three additional awards this year. Each award provides up to $120,000 total costs for one year. The three …
The CAIRIBU Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Research Interest Group (BPH RIG) has officially launched. Kazumi Taguchi, MD, PhD (The University of Alabama at Birmingham), Petra Popovics, PhD (Old Dominion University), Scott Quarrier, MD, MPH (University of Rochester), and Renee Vickman, PhD (NorthShore University Health System), will lead the RIG. The group connects investigators from a variety …
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 research funding applications are selected for funding. 2. The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) research portfolio for FY 2027 is under review …
Junqin Chen, PhD, post-doctoral scholar at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Pei Zhong, studies the mechanism of stone fragmentation in laser lithotripsy. Dr. Zhong is the PI of a prior CAIRIBU P20 Center at Duke University. Recently, Drs. Chen and Zhong published an article together comparing the differences between holmium:YAG and thulium fiber …
Indira Mysorekar, PhD was appointed vice dean for research, basic science and graduate studies at Penn State College of Medicine. She will also be the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Medicine and professor of medicine and cell and biological systems. Her 18-year research career has focused on host- pathogen interactions in …
