October 2022

Dear KPMP Participant,

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Please join us as we celebrate the completion of the first five years of the Kidney Precision Medicine Project. Because of your heroism, KPMP has achieved a milestone that is already starting to show promise for people living with or at risk for kidney disease.

Safety and efficacy have been hallmarks of the KPMP research. To achieve this, the first two years were devoted to developing detailed protocols (plans with detailed guidelines), patient-oriented informed consent forms, and collateral to explain KPMP and its goals to the general public. While it took awhile, these efforts were thorough, thoughtful, and we are pleased to say that it was worth it.

Before we discuss where we go from here, let’s recap some of the important contributions that have resulted from your participation in this research.

‍Study participants recruitment:
You are the real heroes of KPMP. Thanks to you, we have completed 180+ biopsies. WhileCOVID-19 impacted everyone’s ability to go into the hospitals for the study, it did create an opportunity for us to open the KPMP COVID-19 sub-study that enrolled 90 participants. Without your unselfish contribution we would not be making progress in understanding kidney diseases, their origins and progression.
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Publications:
A key part of successful research is telling patients, physicians, and other researchers about what we are learning in KPMP. Thus far we have published over 33 articles. To help make them understandable to people who aren’t kidney experts, we include a short plain-language summary on our website.

One exciting new publication is “A Reference Tissue Atlas for the Human Kidney”. This paper is the first of many more papers will include data from biopsies you have generously donated.

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We are pleased to inform you that the NIH’s NIDDK (the institute focused on studying kidney diseases) has expanded KPMP during the next 5-year grant period. Going forward, KPMP will add new recruitment sites (RS) in Arizona, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and North Carolina.

Feel free to share the locations of the new and existing recruitment sites with your family, friends and colleagues, in case they want to participate in KPMP. We are available to help. If you know of someone that is interested in joining the KPMP study in one of these locations, invite them to:

Go to KPMP.ORG to learn more
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Contact their nearest recruitment site

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Without your generous contribution, KPMP, the kidney atlas and the roadmap to new treatments and therapies would not be possible. You are truly a KPMP Hero!

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Sincerely,

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Administrative Core (AC)

Biomimetic Phantoms (OP)

Boston University

Cleveland Clinic

Clinical Data and sample Coordinating Center (CDCC)

Columbia University

Data Analysis Hub (DAH)

Data Management (DMC)

Data Visualization Hub (DVH)

Enhanced clinical phenotyping (OP)

Glue Grants

Healthy Reference Tissue (OP)

Indiana University

Indiana University - The Ohio State University (IU-OSU)

Johns Hopkins

Joslin Diabetes Center/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

KPMP Biomarker Measurements (OP)

Mount Sinai

New Cohorts (OP)

New Tissue Interrogation Technologies (OP)

PREMIERE (UM-Broad-Princeton)

UCSF

University of Arizona

University of California San Francisco - Stanford University (UCSF-SU)

University of Cincinnati

University of Colorado

University of Illinois, Chicago

University of Minnesota

University of North Carolina

University of Pittsburgh

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - European Molecular Biology Laboratory (UTHSA-PNNL-EMBL)

University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas

Vanderbilt

Washington University St. Louis

Whole Genome Sequencing (CLIA) (OP)

Yale

Yale University

Ashveena Dighe, MS, MPH

E. Steve Woodle, MD, FACS

Principal Investigator

Ian de Boer, MD, MS

James C. Williams, PhD

Principal Investigator

Jeffrey Spraggins, PhD

Principal Investigator

Jonathan Taliercio, DO

Katy Borner, PhD

Lloyd Cantley, MD

Principal Investigator

M. Todd Valerius

Minnie Sarwal, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator

Nils Gehlenborg, PhD

Robyn McClelland, PhD

Sean Mooney

Robert Toto, MD

Principal Investigator

Jeff Hodgin, MD

Principal Investigator

Chris Anderton

Principal Investigator

Ravi Iyengar, PhD

Principal Investigator

Nir Hacohen, PhD

Principal Investigator

Kumar Sharma, MD, FAHA

Principal Investigator

Jonathan Barasch, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator

Amy Mottl, MD, MPH, FASN

Principal Investigator

Ana Ricardo, MD, MPH, MS

Principal Investigator

Andrew Bomback, MD, MPH

Principal Investigator

Chirag Parikh, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator

Dan Hall, MD, MDiv, MHSc, FACS

Principal Investigator

Dennis Moledina, MBBS, PhD

Principal Investigator

Elena Hsieh, MD

Principal Investigator

Emilio Poggio, MD

Principal Investigator

F. Perry Wilson, MD

Principal Investigator

Frank C. "Chip" Brosius, III, MD

Principal Investigator

Girish Nadkarni, MD

Principal Investigator

James Lash, MD

Principal Investigator

John O'Toole, MD

Principal Investigator

John Sedor, MD

Principal Investigator

Joshua Thurman, MD

Principal Investigator

Kirk Campbell, MD

Principal Investigator

Krzysztof Kiryluk, MD

Principal Investigator

Luiza Caramori, MD

Principal Investigator

Miguel Vasquez, MD

Principal Investigator

Patrick Nachman, MD

Principal Investigator

Paul Palevsky, MD

Principal Investigator

Steven Coca, DO

Principal Investigator

Steven Menez, MD, MHS

Principal Investigator

Sushrut Waikar, MD, MPH

Principal Investigator

Sylvia Rosas, MD

Principal Investigator

Vijay Kakade, PhD

Principal Investigator

Bijin Thajudeen, MD

Co-Investigator

David Beyda, MD

Co-Investigator

Erika Bracamonte, MD

Co-Investigator

Evan Zeitler, MD

Principal Investigator

Gregory Woodhead, MD, PhD

Co-Investigator

Isaac Stillman

Co-Investigator

Jerica Berge, PhD

Co-Investigator

Joji Tokita, MD

Co-Investigator

Lili Chan, MD

Co-Investigator

Oyedele Adeyi, MD

Co-Investigator

Paul Drawz, MD

Co-Investigator

Roy Chaudhury, MD, PHD, FASN

Principal Investigator

Sami Safadi, MD

Co-Investigator

Siobhan Flanagan, MD

Co-Investigator

Susan Wolf, JD

Co-Investigator

Tasma Harindhanavudhi

Co-Investigator

Yanli Ding, MD/PhD

Co-Investigator

Noralinda Viloria

Lab Coordinator

Pam Corona, MD, MS

Program Manager

Kun Zhang, PhD

Principal Investigator

Zoltan Laszik, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator

Matthias Kretzler, MD

Principal Investigator

Raghavan Murugan, MD, MS, FRCP, FCCM

Principal Investigator

Pierre Dagher, MD

Principal Investigator

Tarek Ashkar (El-Achkar), MD

Principal Investigator

Sanjay Jain, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator

Jonathan Himmelfarb, MD

Principal Investigator

Olga Troyanskaya, PhD

Principal Investigator

Adam Burgess

Research Coordinator

Amada Renteria

Research Coordinator

Angela M. Victoria-Castro, MD

Research Coordinator

Anne Froment, MSW

Research Coordinator

Ashley Burg

Research Coordinator

Baltazar Campos, MPH

Research Coordinator

Cecilia Berrouet

Research Coordinator

Dane Munar

Research Coordinator

Dhatri Kakarla

Research Coordinator

Diana Sendrey, RN

Research Coordinator

Eunice Carmona Powell

Research Coordinator

Frida Calerone

Research Coordinator

German Varela, MD

Research Coordinator

Gina Koch

Research Coordinator

Ingrid Onul

Research Coordinator

Isabel Donohoe

Research Coordinator

Jen Hernandez

Research Coordinator

Jenny Molina-Guzman

Research Coordinator

Katherine Mendoza

Research Coordinator

Leslie Cooperman, RN

Research Coordinator

Marissa Patel

Research Coordinator

Mary Mac Collie

Research Coordinator

Melissa Rubinsky

Nurse Practitioner

Melissa Shaw

Research Coordinator

Nancy Wang

Research Coordinator

Natalie Meza

Research Coordinator

October 2022

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