Acknowledgements
LEARNS, nephrotic syndrome
NEPHROTIC SYNDROME, STEROID-SENSITIVE NEPHROTIC SYNDROME
The authors would like to thank all local investigators from the participating hospitals involved in the LEARNS study. The LEARNS study is an interuniversity collaboration in the Netherlands that is established to perform a double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial on the efficacy of levamisole on relapses in children with a first episode of steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome, and to study basic mechanisms underlying nephrotic syndrome and the mode of action of levamisole. Principal investigators are (in alphabetical order): A.H.M. Bouts (Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), S. Florquin (Department of Pathology, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), J.E. Guikema (Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), L. Haverman (Psychosocial Department, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), L.P.W.J. van den Heuvel (Radboud Institute for Molecular Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands), E. Levtchenko (Department of Pediatric Nephrology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium), R.A.A. Mathôt (Department of Hospital Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacology, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), M.F. Schreuder (Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands), B. Smeets (Radboud Institute for Molecular Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands), and J.A.E. van Wijk (Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands).