Research Grant Program – Request for Application
The KSC and UroGPT are excited to announce a new award that focuses on improving Kidney stone care by leveraging the power of AI, specifically Urogpt, a well designed, accurate and informative patient facing kidney stone tool.
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Purpose
The Kidney Stone Collaborative (KSC) is funding a competitive research award to advance the understanding of how and whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) affects the care of patients with kidney stones. This award supports research evaluating the role of specialized AI-based patient educational tools, specifically, UroGPT™, in patient education, healthcare utilization and communication between patients and their teams.
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Award Amount Up to $20,000 Total Costs, No Indirect |
Project Period Up to 12 Months |
Application Deadline February 8, 2027 11:59PM ET – No exceptions |
- MD, PhD, DO, or equivalent doctoral degree
- Full-time faculty/research appointment at a U.S. nonprofit academic, medical, or research institution or large group practice
- Postdocs/instructors eligible with a faculty mentor letter
- No concurrent KSC grant funding
- Submit one PDF: face page, lay abstract, specific aims, research strategy, budget, biosketch(es), regulatory status, references
- 11 pt font, 1″ margins, single-spaced
- Email to: info@stonecollab.org
- Full Instructions: Download PDF
How Applications Are Reviewed
Every application is independently scored by at least three members of KSC’s Scientific Review Board — an independent panel of expert researchers and clinicians — using a standardized scoring rubric listed below.
(1) Importance of the Research: (Significance, Innovation), scored 1-9
(2) Rigor and Feasibility (Approach), scored 1-9
(3) Alignment with the funding cycle’s stated priorities, scored 1-9
(4) Expertise and Resources (Investigator, Environment), to be evaluated as either sufficient for the proposed research or not. Not given a score.
*All applicants receive written feedback regardless of outcome. Reviewers with any conflict of interest will recuse themselves
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