 Welcome to the new website of the KRESCENT Program. It gives me
great pleasure to introduce the Kidney Research Scientist Core
Education and National Training Program, better known as KRESCENT -- an
exciting and unique training initiative aimed at enhancing kidney
research capacity in Canada. Our goal is to train an increased number
of highly skilled scientists, with a focus on the prevention of
end-stage renal disease and new treatments to improve the health of
Canadians affected by kidney disease. KRESCENT is a multi-partner
collaboration, founded by the Kidney Foundation of Canada, the Canadian
Society of Nephrology, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
What makes KRESCENT different?The
program is unique in that participants are selected from all themes
relevant to kidney research (e.g. biomedical, clinical, health
services, and social, cultural, environmental and population health),
and from multiple disciplines (e.g. basic scientists, clinician
scientists, allied health and health service researchers).
The KRESCENT Program offers a national core curriculum and mentorship.
Participants gain from exposure to a curriculum that emphasizes the
development of transdisciplinary research and knowledge translation
across research themes. The curriculum is focused on kidney research
themes, and is meant to complement any core course work/ degree
programs in research design, methodology, and other core content areas,
which might be available within participating institutions. For more
information on the curriculum, please see the curriculum overview.
KRESCENT after 5 Years We
are proud to announce that since the first competition in 2004, we
have awarded 24 Post-Doctoral Fellowships, 7 New Investigator Awards
and 1 Allied Health Doctoral Award. To learn more about these talented
recipients, you can read about their exciting research in the Awardees section
of the site. We invite you to visit our site regularly, as we will
continue to highlight the publications and achievements of our awardees.
We hope the KRESCENT pages will inspire you to apply. If you have any
questions, please feel free to contact the Program Manager.
Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the founding
partners, sponsors and volunteers/committee members for their
continuous support in helping to train the future Canadian leaders in
kidney research.
Dr. Kevin Burns
Program Director
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