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Opeyemi Olabisi

Associate Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Nephrology

Selected Grants


Endocrinology and Metabolism Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2024 - 2029

Identification of Host-Specific Determinants of APOL1-associated COVAN

ResearchMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2024 - 2029

Duke Preparing Research Scholars in Biomedical Sciences- Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2022 - 2027

Mechanisms of HIV persistence in the kidney (R01)

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2022 - 2027

JAK-STAT Inhibition to Reduce Racial Disparities in Kidney Disease

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities · 2021 - 2027

APOL1 Mediated Kidney Disease

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 2026 - 2027

REGULATORS OF CALCINEURIN PATHWAYS AS DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC TARGETS FOR NEPHROTIC SYNDROME

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2026

Etiology of Persistent Microalbuminuria in Nigeria

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Vanderbilt University Medical Center · 2021 - 2026

A-018101 Lilly USA

Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lilly USA, LLC · 2022 - 2026

NEPTUNE Public-Private Partnership ("MATCH Study")

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Regents of the University of Michigan · 2022 - 2025

Nephrotic Syndrome Rare Disease Clinical Research Network III (NEPTUNE III) ("Study")

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Regents of the University of Michigan · 2019 - 2025

Alport Syndrome Natural History Ancillary Study

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Regents of the University of Michigan · 2023 - 2025

Nephcure

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NEPHCURE Kidney International · 2023 - 2024

Icagen SRA

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Icagen, Inc · 2021 - 2024

A Human Stem Cell-Derived Podocyte Model for APOL1 Nephropathy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024

Duke Training Grant in Nephrology

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPreceptor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1995 - 2023

Unmasking the Molecular Mechanism of ApoL1 Nephropathy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · 2020 - 2020

External Relationships


  • Maze Therapeutics

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