June 2022 Newsletter
The Biostatistical Resource provides statistical support to the research projects, pilot projects, and the other cores in the UAB-UCSD O'Brien Center. This program offers planning advice to investigators looking to create a project proposal. Experts generally begin to work with pilot grantees once their letter of interest is submitted.
January 2022 Newsletter
Core C of the O’Brien Center offers support to acute kidney injury investigators in small molecule, biomarker, and mitochondrial function analysis.Isotope dilution analysis of creatinine has passed the 60,000 assays point. Metabolomics, a comprehensive assay of all small molecules (cell metabolites, food-derived compounds, bacterial metabolites, drugs and personal products) in biofluids and tissues has been applied to a study of COVID-19 patients with and without AKI...
September 2021 Newsletter
Core B, the resource for pre-clinical studies of AKI, has two new methodologies developed by its Renal Physiology Sub-Core:A mouse model that converts the C57BL/6 mouse strain from being CKD resistant in response to subtotal nephrectomy (STN) to “CKD susceptible.”
