Small Business: Renal and Urological Sciences – KUDS (11)
This special emphasis panel reviews small business applications that focus on kidney, urinary tract, and male genital system therapies, devices, and diagnostics; applications in areas concerned with the emerging technologies and methodologies across all aspects of pregnancy, reproductive and developmental physiology; and development of methods for diagnosis or treatment of skin wounds, diabetic and pressure ulcers, burn injuries, degenerative diseases and disorders of skin. This includes clinical, translational, and fundamental studies and investigators may employ a range of approaches that include genetics, genomics and proteomics, molecular, cell, and computational biology, biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering, imaging, analyses of model organisms, and human studies.
Review Dates
Topics
- Development and evaluation of new techniques for investigating, diagnosing and treating disorders of the kidney, urinary tract, and male genital system.
- Development of new techniques and evaluation of the efficacy of dialysis.
- Application of new technologies and methodologies to the diagnosis and treatment of urologic diseases.
- Novel approaches to regeneration and tissue engineering of the kidney, urinary tract and male genital system.
- Clinical assessment of genitourinary diseases including urinary incontinence and pelvic floor dysfunction
- Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and development of devices related to reproduction.
- Studies of sperm, oocyte and fertilization and male contraceptives.
- Disorders of implantation, pregnancy and their treatment and study of female contraceptives.
- Development of methods for diagnosis or treatment of skin wounds, diabetic and pressure ulcers, burn injuries, degenerative diseases and disorders of skin.
