Abstract: INFO04-FR
The Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP)
Session Information
- Informational Posters - 2
October 23, 2026 | Location: Exhibit Hall A, Convention Center
Abstract Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Category: CKD (Non-Dialysis)
- No subcategory defined
Authors
- Dighe, Ashveena, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States
- Himmelfarb, Jonathan, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States
- Kretzler, Matthias, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Group or Team Name
- Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP)
Description
The Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) is a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases funded consortium that aims to better understand and treat human kidney diseases. The goals of KPMP are to ethically and safely obtain kidney biopsies from participants with diagnosed acute kidney injury (AKI) or chronic kidney disease (CKD), to find disease subgroups to better stratify kidney disease patients, to identify critical cells pathways and targets for novel therapies, and to create a kidney tissue atlas.
Currently, over 40 sites make up the consortium, including thirteen sites that serve as AKI or CKD recruitment & biopsy centers, and six multi-site tissue interrogation centers that analyze the biopsy tissues through a combination of imaging, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic technologies. The KPMP Opportunity Pool has funded 36 projects to serve as key enhancers and accelerators for the success of the consortium. Additionally, 180+ travel awards have been issued to early-career investigators via the Opportunity Pool. Coordination of study activities is led by several sites in a federated Central Hub. Central Hub responsibilities include administrative organization and data coordination. Data integration and visualization are overseen by the Kidney Mapping Atlas Project (KMAP). Patient engagement is paramount to the work of the consortium; kidney patients advise all study activities by serving on the KPMP Community Engagement Committee, as well as other consortium committees, including the Steering Committee.
KPMP by design is a publicly available open resource for both research and lay communities. The KPMP website www.kpmp.org is a gateway to access all study resources, including protocols and kidney tissue atlas. Non-identifiable data for the 700+ biopsied participants is made available to the research community immediately after quality control, annotation, and validation at www.atlas.kpmp.org. There are currently over 22,500+ files available to the research community encompassing molecular, clinical, and imaging data types, as well as visualization and exploration tools to help researchers understand and mine KPMP data. Funded collaboration opportunities are periodically available through RFAs on the study website.
Acknowledgment
The Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) is supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
Funding
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)