A new $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will continue groundbreaking research into chronic kidney disease (CKD) by Tulane University. A team of investigators, including epidemiology chair Dr. Jiang He, has been conducting a landmark kidney study — the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study since 2001. The new grant allows the team to investigate novel risk factors for the progression of CKD, cardiovascular disease and other related disease outcomes among patients with CKD.