NURTuRE Chronic Kidney Disease (NCKD)

The NURTuRE project was devised to create a national kidney biobank as recommended in the UK Renal Research Strategy 2016. Strategic Aims: To work towards achieving this NURTuRE will:

- Create a national Kidney Bio Bank for collection and storage of biological samples from 3,000 CKD patients and up to 800 NS patients, to provide a strategic resource for fundamental and translational research.
- Develop and implement proactive UK protocol driven cohort studies in CKD and NS to investigate determinants of and risk factors for clinically important adverse outcomes.
- Engage patient cohorts, with consent to approach for any future research study. NURTuRE Objectives:
- The provision of comprehensive clinical and laboratory data from cohort studies.
- The provision of high quality bio-samples with centralised storage/retrieval.
- To carry out core biomarker analysis of biopsy specimens in biofluids of all patients recruited and parallel assessment.
- Follow-up specimen collection. First patient recruitment - By 31 June 2017
CKD - baseline and 100 % follow up collections, over 2 years NS: baseline and 20% follow up - over 3 years. Healthy Volunteers - baseline

Biological samples availability - Samples are available via the NURTuRE biobank - https://nurturebiobank.org/