If you have ever started or submitted an application for healthcare financial assistance, UNC Researchers would like to interview you about your experience! Participants in a one time, 60 minute interview about the process of applying for healthcare financial assistance will receive $50 for their time. Interviews can take place in person, on zoom, or over the phone. Interviews can take place in English or Spanish. At this time we are not able to offer interviews to people who applied to UNC or Duke, we are interested in hearing from people who applied to other programs (such as Atrium, Novant, Wake, Vidant, ECU, Cape Fear Health Net, Physicians Reach Out, or Project Access).

Help shape the future of lupus! Do you want to provide a game-changing contribution to lupus-centered research? Help us make clinical research more efficient and effective. If you have lupus, you can participate by providing samples we can study, such as blood, urine, saliva, and/or stool, to help doctors combat lupus head-on. Compensation provided.

Do you have type 2 diabetes? Do you have kidney failure and require hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis? You may be able to take part in a research study to find out if using an approved medication (semaglutide) improves blood sugar control. Study medication and diabetes management provided. Participants will be compensated for their time.

Have you been diagnosed with Kidney Cancer? If so, you may be able to take part in a research study comparing a drug called cabozantinib to another treatment after receiving standard of care treatment in patients.

Atrasentan is an investigational drug. That means it has not yet been approved by the FDA as a medicine. Researchers want to find out if taking atrasentan along with a drug called an SGLT2 inhibitor is safe and helps people with IgA nephropathy.

This study is being done to see if the study drug, called BI 764198, may help people with a type of kidney disease called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (abbreviated FSGS). Researchers are trying to figure out if the study drug can reduce the amount of protein in your urine, also known as "proteinuria".

Do you have Chronic Kidney Disease that is due to Type 2 Diabetes? You may be able to take part in a research study to help learn about the safety and impact of a study treatment that is injected into one of your kidneys.

The study treatment, finerenone, is being developed to help people who have long lasting kidney disease, also known as chronic kidney disease (CKD). It works by blocking a certain hormone called aldosterone that causes injury and inflammation in the heart and kidney which is known to play a role in CKD. In this study, the researchers want to learn if finerenone works the same way in kidney transplant recipients. Some subjects will receive the study drug and some will receive a placebo.

Have you been listed for kidney transplant at UNC? If so, you may be able to take part in a research study to help us learn how the process of waiting for a kidney transplant impacts you.

Have you been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes? If so, you may qualify for a research study to see if two medicines help to treat kidney disease.