Below are links to clinical, basic research, and professional organizations in the benign urology sphere and other areas of urologic interest:
- The Urinary Stone Disease Research Network (USDRN) PUSH study (Prevention of Urinary Stones with Hydration) is accepting remote participants. Information about getting your patients involved is HERE.
- NIDDK Information Network (dkNET) dkNET is a research resource information portal that helps researchers find resources relevant to their research and keep up to date on new tools, services and mandates to support robust and reproducible science. dkNET, an information hub for researchers in NIDDK relevant disease fields, provides training, webinars, and information about funding opportunities and community events, and helps researchers navigate and comply with new NIH regulations and mandates on resource authentication and data management and sharing
- dkNET Resource Links: Resource Reports; Discovery Portal; Suggested Data Repositories; Research Data Management; Authentication Reports, Hypothesis Center
- Training: Webinar Series; YouTube channel (webinar recordings, tutorials)
- GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project (GUDMAP)
- Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain (MAPP Research Network)
- Symptoms of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction Research Network (LURN)
- Prevention of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (PLUS) Research Consortium
- Pediatric KIDney Stone (PKIDS) Care Improvement Network
- Society for Basic Urologic Research (SBUR)
- Society of Benign Prostate Disease (SoBPD)
- Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine and Urogenital Reconstruction (SUFU)
- Endourological Society
- Research on Calculus Kinetics (ROCK) Society
- American Urological Association (AUA)
- American Urogynecologic Society
- Rebuilding a Kidney
- Kidney Precision Medicine Project
- Center for Microbe Innovation at UC San Diego
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine
- Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons
- The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- American Society of Andrology
- Society for Pelvic Research
- Associated Urological Specialists
- American Society for Microbiology
- International Continence Society
- International Neuro-Urology Society
- Canadian Urological Association
- European Association of Urology
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Available for download
- NIH/NIDDK – NIDDK – Recent Advances & Emerging Opportunities, annual report (January 2022)
- NIH/NIDDK – Annual report from the National Institute of Digestive, Diabetes and Kidney Diseases (January 2021): Recent Advances & Emerging Opportunities
- NIH/NIDDK – Pervasive myths commonly encountered by NIDDK Program Officers (POs) are addressed in this article from J Urol (2019): Strengthening research in benign urology: dispelling myths that impede success
- PLUS Research Consortium – Published in Neurourol Urodyn (2020): Is the juice worth the squeeze? Transdisciplinary team science in bladder health
- American Geriatrics Society and National Institute on Aging Urinary Incontinence Planning Committee and Faculty for the conference, “Bedside-to-Bench Conference on Urinary Incontinence in Older Adults” – Review article published in J Am Geriatr Soc (2018): A translational research agenda for a complex geriatric syndrome
- American Urological Association – A Urology Care Foundation “roadmap for priorities in urologic disease research,” produced in 2010: National Urology Research Agenda