This funding opportunity supports renewal applications for Field Epidemiology Sites within the CURE Consortium focused on Chronic Kidney Disease of Uncertain Etiology (CKDu) in agricultural communities. Funded activities include participant recruitment, study visits, and collection of biological and environmental samples. The consortium aims to understand CKDu etiologies, exposures affecting disease progression, and potential therapeutic targets, serving as a resource for ancillary studies.
Eligible applicants include state and county governments, public and private higher education institutions, Native American tribal governments and organizations, public housing authorities, for-profit and small businesses, federal agencies, U.S. territories, faith-based and community organizations,
