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About GIGA-kids Study

The GIGA-kids Study (Genomics of IgA-related disorders in kids Study) is a multicenter collaborative study based at Columbia University and sponsored by the Midwest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium (MWPNC). The study aims to recruit over 1,000 children with IgA nephropathy or Henoch-Schönlein purpura (with or without nephritis) for the purpose of genetic, genomic and biomarker studies.

IgA nephropathy represents the leading cause of kidney failure among young adults. Henoch-Schönlein purpura is a related disorder with skin manifestations that frequently leads to nephropathy in children. Our prior genetic studies suggest that patients carrying more risk alleles have an earlier onset of disease. Accordingly, GIGA-kids extends our genetic investigations to pediatric patients, aiming to validate the known disease markers and to discover new genetic and biochemical predictors of disease that may be specific to children.

GIGA-kids Investigators

Midwest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium (Clinical Sites):

Robert Wyatt, MD, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN
Raoul Nelson, MD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Columbia University, New York, NY (Genetics):

Krzysztof Kiryluk, MD, Columbia University, New York City, NY
Ali Gharavi, MD, Columbia University, New York City, NY

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (Biomarkers):

Jan Novak, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Bruce Julian, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Nationwide Children’s, Columbus, OH (Data Coordinating Center):

William Smoyer, MD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH

GIGA-kids Clinical Network

Actively Recruiting

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN

Site PI: Colleen Hastings, MD, MS

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Site PI: Raoul Nelson, MD

Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH

Site PI: William Smoyer, MD

Columbia University, New York City, NY

Site PI: Lin Fangming, MD

Cornell University, New York City, NY

Site PI: Oleh Akchurin, MD

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX

Site PI: Tetyana Vasylyeva, MD

Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH

Site PI: Elif Erkan, MD

Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA

Site PI: Joseph T. Flynn, MD

University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Site PI: Aftab S. Chishti, MD

New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY

Site PI: Dmitry Samsonov, MD

Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Site PI: Dr. Patricia Weng, MD

Medical College of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, WI

Site PI: Raji Sreedharan, MD

Valley Children's Hospital, Madera, CA

Site PI: Nianzhou Xiao, MD

...additional sites pending confirmation

Past Contributors

Children's Hospital New Orleans, LSU Health Sciences Center, LA

Site PI: Diego H. Aviles, MD

Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, Richmond, Virginia

Site PI: Dr. Nianzhou Xiao, MD

Cleveland Clinic Children's, Cleveland, OH

Site PI: Raed Bou Mater, MD

Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, CT

Site PI: Cynthia Silva, MD, and Sherene Mason, MD

Driscoll Children's Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX

Site PI: Samhar Al-AKash, MD

East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Site PI: Guillermo Hidalgo, MD

Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI

Site PI: Alejandro Quiroga, MD

Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Site PI: Margaret E. Bock, MD

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Site PI: Katherine E. Twombley, MD

Miller School of Medicine, Holtz Children's Hospital, Miami, FL

Site PI: Carolyn Abitbol, MD

Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI

Site PI: David Selewski, MD

Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ

Site PI: Frana Iorember, MD

St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO

Site PI: Keefe Thomas Davis, MD, and Michael Seifert, MD

Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, Stony Brook, NY

Site PI: Robert Woroniecki, MD, and Katarina Supe-Markovina, MD

SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Site PI: Mahmoud Kallash, MD

Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX

Site PI: Scott Wenderfer, MD, and Ewa Elenberg, MD

University Of Alberta, Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, CA

Site PI: Abdullah AlAbbas, MD

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Site PI: Michelle Rheault, MD

University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX

Site PI: Dr. Daniel Ranch, MD

GIGA-Europe Network

GIGA-Europe Network

Mirrors the US-based GIGA-kids network and opens our studies to European nephrology centers. The network consists of centers in Italy, Poland, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Turkey and the UK.