Trivedi, Ruchir
Fares, George
Nunez, Victoria Barany
Campbell, Ryan
Clement, Megyn
Burleson, Joseph
Himmelfarb, Jonathan
Ioannidou, Effie http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1954-5900
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R21DK108076)
Article History
Received: 4 May 2018
Accepted: 25 June 2018
First Online: 11 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study is conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The study received full board status review and approval by IRB Panel 1 including members: Karen Beyard PhD, Kai Chen MD PhD, Linda Choquette MSHC CCRP, Pamela Colwell BS, Alan Curto JD, Terese Donovan MS RN, Julian Ford PhD, William Kleinman JD, Kourosh Parham MD PhD, David Pendrys DDS PhD, Deborah Redford-Badwal DDS PhD, Melinda Sanders MD, Mitchell Sauerhoff PhD, Meryem Tuncel MD, Jeffrey Wasser MD, Catherine Wilcox M. Div, Andrew Winokur MD PhD. The study received approval by the UCONN Health Institutional Review Board (Approval number #16–111-1). The potential participants are enrolled after reviewing and signing the IRB approved informed consent.
: RT, VBN, RC, MC, JB, EI declare no competing interest.GF holds shares at the American Renal Associates.JH serves as a consultant for Corvidia, Inc.
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