Research

Research

Research Projects and Biobanks

By combining the academic strength of the members, the group also aims to maximise research funding credibility and to provide a mechanism for national and international research network engagement. The RITA-Ireland Vasculitis (RIV) Registry and biobank (RITA-Ireland Vasculitis RIV Registry and Biobank - Medicine | Trinity College Dublin) is an established infrastructure which feeds into the academic arm of the DVAG MDM.

The RIV Registry and Biobank’s aim is to capture long-term longitudinal clinical data and high quality biological samples from patients with systemic vasculitis and allergic disorders, disease controls and healthy controls. Coordinated from Tallaght University Hospital, it currently receives data and samples from 10 centres across Ireland and has been actively recruiting since September 2012. In this relatively short period of time it has become one of the most important bio-resources in this field globally.

The majority of recruits have the rare disease ANCA vasculitis. Irish registry database with the pan-UK UKIVAS initiative In 2022, the RKD Registry and Biobank was renamed the RITA-Ireland Vasculitis (RIV) Registry and Biobank after joining ERN-RITA.

Research Sections

Alterations in circulating lymphoid cell populations (Fazekas et al, 2018)

Anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies (Popat, et al 2017)

Changes in urinary metabolomic profile (Al Ani et al, 2016)

Clinical heterogeneity in Familial IgA Nephropathy (Fennelly et al, 2018)

Prolonged Duration of Renal Recovery (Oomatia et al, 2016)

The Irish Kidney Gene Project (Connaughton et al, 2015)

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