Summary
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) serves as the National Coordinating Center (NCC) for the George M. O’Brien Kidney Resource Alliance (OKRA) Consortium, leading, managing, and harmonizing its activities to advance kidney-related research.
What they want
The UAB OKRA NCC has five aims: (1) Providing administrative support, facilitating communication and coordination, and enhancing synergy by implementing standard operating procedures and sub-committees for the O’Brien consortium; (2) Creating and maintaining a centralized website and resource request intake portal to facilitate and track all requests for OKRA resources from the NRCs; (3) Implementing an outreach and training plan to engage researchers in collaboration with the OKRA NRCs; (4) Engaging patient viewpoints, priorities and preferences through feedback on the NRCs’ scientific aims and activities to inform the OKRA Consortium; and (5) Administering a national Opportunity Pool Program with high impact to support early-stage investigators, investigators new to kidney research and collaborations with the broader kidney community.
Deliverables
- Standard operating procedures and sub-committees for the O’Brien consortium
- Centralized website and resource request intake portal
- Outreach and training plan
- Patient viewpoint feedback mechanisms
- National Opportunity Pool Program
Technical requirements
- Established Data Coordinating Center Unit
- Centralized website and data management systems
Key personnel
- Epidemiologist
- Nephrologist
- Biostatisticians
- Kidney physiologists
- Health behaviorists
- Research mentors
Risks & flags
Incumbent: University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
