RFA-KPMP-OP-24-002
Early Career Investigator Travel Grants for September 2025 KPMP Meeting
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) requests applications for the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) Opportunity Pool Travel Grant. All applications must be submitted through this form by 5:00 PM ET on Friday July 11, 2025. The full RFA can be found here.
The objectives of the KPMP are to ethically obtain and evaluate human kidney biopsies from participants with AKI or CKD, create a kidney tissue atlas, define disease subgroups, and identify critical cells, pathways, and targets for novel therapies.
The consortium would like to encourage wide participation in the KPMP face-to-face meetings held throughout the year. To this end, eligible investigators for this opportunity announcement would be any early-career investigators who are engaged in basic, clinical, or translational research relevant to the goals of the KPMP and are not currently KPMP key personnel. For the purposes of this announcement, early-career investigators include graduate or medical students, post-doctoral fellows, clinical residents and fellows, and junior faculty.
Early-career investigators attending the meeting will learn about KPMP protocols in development, scientific technologies to be applied to the interrogation of kidney biopsy tissue, the role of patient engagement in KPMP, and how data management and visualization tools will be applied to the creation of a kidney atlas. It is expected that this opportunity will lead to increased collaborations for the KPMP consortium. All eligible applicants, including past awardees, are encouraged to apply.
The KPMP is hosting its next face-to-face meeting on September 30 & October 1, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Junior investigators conducting research of interest to the KPMP and who are interested in attending may apply for a travel grant for up to $1,500 (based on space availability and scoring). Selected awardees must give a poster presentation on their submitted research at the meeting on September 30, 2025, at the Kellogg Conference Center at Gallaudet University Approximately 12-18 awardees will be selected to attend the meeting.
To apply for the travel grant, please submit a NIH formatted biosketch and an abstract (single PDF file, maximum 250 words, may include one figure or table) of your proposed presentation by 5:00 PM ET on Friday July 11, 2025. Abstract review will be facilitated by the KPMP, and awardees will be notified by August 8, 2025
For questions, contact: Ashveena Dighe, Director, KPMP Administrative Core ashveena.dighe@mssm.edu.
Award Terms
- Up to $1,500 in travel costs (including: airfare*, lodging, ground transportation, meals**).
*Coach/Economy class. Fly America Act applies to Foreign National awardees.
**Meals are reimbursed up to the allowable GSA.gov per diem rates. No alcohol can be reimbursed. All travel costs must comply with Mount Sinai’s travel policies.
- Receipts (scanned and electronic) are required and must be submitted to the KPMP Administrator within 30 days after the meeting.
- Award will be issued in the form of travel reimbursement to the awardee.
- Awardees will be responsible for the costs of poster printing.
- Travel awards cannot be used to fund key personnel travel.
- Awardees from non-KPMP affiliated sites must agree to sign a confidential disclosure agreement upon acceptance of award.
- Awardee agrees to also submit .pdf or .ppt versions of their poster presentation to KPMP consortium.