Collaborating for the Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research in Benign Urology
Aaron Miller, PhD, recently presented his research during the Robert Krane Lecture at the 26th Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) Annual Fall Scientific Meeting. His presentation was titled "Beyond Infection: Implications of Biofilms on Implantable Medical Devices."
Ajinkya Limkar, MD/PhD candidate at UW-Madison and research assistant at the UW-Madison George M. O’Brien Urology Cooperative Research Center, recently received a highly competitive F30 fellowship from the NIH. Ajinkya's study aims to determine the role of senescent cells in BPH/LUTS pathogenesis and evaluate the therapeutic potential of senescent cell elimination.
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!
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.
David Bayne, MD, MPH, was recently awarded a K23 titled "Use of the electronic health record to target a patient navigation intervention preventing loss to follow up in the treatment of urinary stone disease." Dr. Bayne is a K12 alumnus from the CAIRIBU UCSF-Kaiser Permanente KUroEpi Program.
Jessie Ge, MD was recently named the newest KURe Scholar at Stanford University. Dr. Ge completed medical school at Washington University in St. Louis and her urology residency at Stanford University.
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 et al, Sullivan et al, Snipes et al, Mezes et al, Hayes et al, Werneburg et al, Ruetten et al
See here for the 2023 CAIRIBU Collaboration Award recipients Rose Khavari, MD, PhD, Henry Schreiber, PhD, Ramy Goueli, MD, MHS.
Jim Hokanson, PhD is the 2024 CAIRIBU Collaboration award recipient for his project "Neuroanatomical basis for tibial neuromodulation".
Kim Keil Stietz, PhD is the 2024 CAIRIBU Collaboration award recipient for her project "Genetic origin of incontinence linked to Shh signaling.".
