Vito M Campese, MD/UKRO Kidney Research Center

Welcome to the Vito M Campese, MD/UKRO Kidney Research Center of USC!

This site provides a comprehensive resource for health professionals, research scientists and individuals seeking information on kidney disease, research resources, databases, center activities, and collaborative opportunities.

Our center investigators and research teams offer expertise in medicine/nephrology, urology, physiology, pathophysiology, stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, organ development, injury and repair, biomedical engineering, translational medicine, population and public health, and neuroscience.

Janos Peti-Peterdi, MD, PhD
Director, Vito M Campese, MD/UKRO Kidney Research Center

Mission

The core mission of our center is to support, perform, and advance state-of-the-art kidney and related cardiovascular, hypertension, and metabolism research by bringing together investigators from multiple disciplines to work collaboratively toward improving our understanding of the intricate functions and mechanisms of the kidney in health and disease. We strive to develop treatments and cures for kidney diseases specifically, as well as for their multiple organ complications including cardiovascular kidney metabolic syndrome. Center activities focus on kidney degeneration and regeneration and apply a holistic approach that encompasses basic, translational, and clinical research.

Goals

To accomplish our mission, we aim to stimulate collaborations, as well as boost and energize ongoing projects by facilitating and supporting state-of-the-art research resources and expertise via interlinked biomedical cores including kidney function phenotyping and imaging, stem cell and organoids, therapeutics and drug delivery, and clinical resources and trial cores. To expand the kidney research community, the center will promote new faculty recruitment, the inclusion of investigators from diverse career stages and backgrounds and offer educational and training opportunities including summer student enrichment programs and provide pilot funding to facilitate novel advances in kidney research. These combined efforts are focused on the Kidney Research Center becoming a hub recognized nationally and globally for significant advances in preventing and treating kidney diseases.