The NURTuRE project was devised to create a national kidney biobank as recommended in the UK Renal Research Strategy 2016. 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.

  Prospective applicants will need to contact NURTuRE and apply to the NURTuRE Scientific Board for permission to use this dataset. Biological samples availability - Samples are available via the NURTuRE biobank - https://nurturebiobank.org/