Research Grants
Grants are made annually in relatively significant amounts and have, to-date, helped achieve credible and tangible results in the fields in which the Foundation operates. Applications are reviewed by the executive committee and then vetted by the advisory board, which consists of some of the brightest minds in the respective areas of interest.

Previous recipients include Norman Siegel, MD, Vivette D. D'Agati, MD, Pierre Ronco, MD, Ph.D., Detlef Bockenhauer, MD, Ph.D., Susan L. Hogan, Ph.D., MPH, and Laurence H. Beck, Jr., MD, Ph.D.

Advisors on Grant Selection Full Profiles >

William Couser, MD
Head, Global Outreach Programs (ISN-GO) at IInternational Society of Nephrology and Affiliate Professor of Medicine at University of Washington

Ronald Falk, MD
Chief, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Director, UNC Kidney Center
University of North Carolina

John Hardin, MD
Chief Science Officer
Arthritis Foundation

Ilya Hulinsky, MD, PhD.
Yale New Haven Health System
Hospital of St. Raphael
St. Vincent's Medical Center

Pierre Ronco, MD, PhD
Chief of the Renal Division
Chief of INSERM Unit 489/702
Tenon Hospital

David J. Salant, MD
Chief of the Renal Section and
Professor of Medicine
Boston University

Stuart Evan Seropian, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Hematology and Oncology
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Yale School of Medicine

NIH worked with organizations including Halpin Foundation on the formation of NEPTUNE. One result was a brochure about Membranous Nephropathy and what patients and families can do.

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