The HIRN Year 5 & Year 6 Executive Summary Report is now available online! The report reflects significant HIRN breakthroughs, developments and advancements across the entire network. This 2-year report reflects activity from October 2018 through September 2020.

Cover Image: Dan Huh, Univ. Pennsylvania, CHIB Stanger UG3. A cross-sectional view of a vascularized three-dimensional biomimetic device visualized by scanning electron microscopy. A micro-capillary is seen in cross-section along with a functional pericyte (upper right) and surrounding matrix.

All members of of the HIRN network are invited to participate in the Annual Investigator Meeting which will be held Wednesday September 14 – Friday September 16, 2022. The meeting will be a hybrid format. We strongly encourage in-person attendance but we will utilize zoom webinar to support remote attendees.

*Update abstracted submission deadline: Wednesday, July 13th at 5:00 pm Pacific

Contact the HIREC for registration details or information on how to participate as an exhibitor.

• • HIRN CTAR (RFA-DK-22-009)
    Due: October 26, 2022
    Requesting projects to develop strategies to target the human pancreatic environment in-vivo to deliver regulatory cells, molecules or gene constructs that can protect or replenish functional beta cell mass, or to engineer cellular or synthetic sentinel biomarkers that can safely monitor the islet tissue environment in individuals at risk of developing T1D.

  • NIH Integrated Physiology of Exocrine and Endocrine Pancreas in T1D (RFA-DK-22-022)
    Due February 21, 2023

  • NIH Gateway Awards (RFA-DK-21-030)
    Due March 20, 2023

     

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases is planning a public workshop to discuss the challenges and best practices for obtaining and using healthy reference tissue as a benchmark for disease and for assessing the technical variability of imaging and -omic assays.  This workshop also will identify state-of-the-art, fit-for-purpose standards for these assays and stimulate discussion of the next generation of standards. The workshop aims to address these issues through the lens of kidney precision medicine while surfacing lessons learned from other fields and sharing solutions that could enhance all atlas-building efforts broadly.

Date/Time: July 25, 2022 (10 am – 5pm Eastern)

The following are recipients of HIRN 2021 Trainee Scholarships. These trainees submitted submitted abstracts that were competitively reviewed by members of the HIRN Annual Meeting Planning Committee and selected as being highly meritorious.