KL2 Scholar Dr. Jordan Nestor awarded four year American Society of Nephrology Career Development Grant

Press Release from American Society of Nephrology, March 2024:

"Congratulations to the newest recipient of the ASN KidneyCure-Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (ASN-AMFDP) Grant: Jordan Gabriela Nestor, MD, FASN.

Dr. Nestor, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, was awarded $105,000 annually for up to four years for her research project titled Utilizing Temporal Electronic Health Record (EHR) for Early Detection of Collagen Type IV-Associated Nephropathy (COL4A-AN).

The ASN-AMFDP Award is made in partnership between the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP) with the aim to increase diversity among future leaders in nephrology by supporting the research and career development of a kidney scholar and future health care leader from a historically disadvantaged background."

Dr. Nestor is a current KL2 Scholar and former TL1 trainee of the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.