The University of Kansas Medical Center is a recognized research leader with a strong tradition of commitment to training the physicians, nurses, health care professionals and researchers of tomorrow. Research and other scholarly activity are integral parts of the Nephrology Fellowship Program.

• Fellows on a two-year clinical track have one elective month each year which they may choose to spend pursuing one or more mentored research projects of limited scope.
• For fellows on the research track, their training program incorporates two to three years dedicated to full-time laboratory or clinical research.
• The major areas of research strength are: polycystic kidney disease, glomerular development and disease, mineral metabolism, transport physiology, and kidney diseases outcomes research. For details of our active research programs, please see the Kidney Institute website.