Sushrut S. Waikar, MD

Norman G. Levinsky Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Sushrut S. Waikar, MD, MPH received a BA in English and Neuroscience at Amherst College, his MD at Yale, and an MPH at Harvard. He is the Norman G. Levinsky Professor of Medicine at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and Chief of Nephrology at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Waikar's research interests and active projects include epidemiologic, translational, and interventional studies to address novel and clinically important questions in nephrology. Current areas of investigation include optimal diagnostic testing in acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease; biomarkers of kidney pathology and kidney fibrosis; the identification of relevant targets for interventional trials in kidney disease; and randomized controlled trials. He is a Principal Investigator of several NIH grants including the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (U01 DK133092), Multi-omics and Chronic Kidney Disease: Correlation with Histology (R01 DK108803), Discovery Science Collaborative for CKDu (U01 DK130060), NAD Augmentation to Treat Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial (U01AG076789) andThe Boston University Kidney and Medical Engineering Program (BU-KIDMEP, R25 DK128858).

Publications

  • Published 9/9/2025

    Leaf DE, Shenoy T, Zinchuk K, Gupta S, Dias JA, Sanchez-Almanzar D, Ginde AA, Athar H, Cheng C, Tamura T, Kim EY, Waikar SS. Randomized trial of activated vitamin D for acute kidney injury prevention in critically ill patients. JCI Insight. 2025 Sep 09. PMID: 40924491.

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  • Published 9/4/2025

    Huang H, Wang Y, Zsengeller ZK, Gorham JM, Vemireddy V, Clark AJ, Pan H, Dreyfuss JM, Jotwani V, Shlipak MG, Sarnak MJ, Parikh CR, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Katz R, Waikar SS, Lake NJ, Lek M, Shi W, Puiu D, Hong YS, Seidman JG, Arking DE, Parikh SM. Reversible compromise of physiological resilience by accumulation of heteroplasmic mtDNA mutations. Science. 2025 Sep 04; eadk7978. PMID: 40906782.

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  • Published 9/3/2025

    Shoushtari SI, Liaw E, Alluri S, Sheikh Z, Kumar S, Huynh C, Schmidt IM, Ness S, Chen X, Siegel NH, Waikar SS, Stein TD, Lu W, Subramanian ML. The association between SLIT2 in human vitreous humor and plasma and neurocognitive test scores. J Alzheimers Dis. 2025 Sep 03; 13872877251374287. PMID: 40899951.

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  • Published 8/15/2025

    Asghari M, Sabo AR, Barwinska D, Melo Ferreira R, Ferkowicz MJ, Bowen WS, Cheng YH, Gisch DL, Gulbronson C, Phillips CL, Kelly KJ, Sutton TA, Williams JC, Vazquez M, O'Toole J, Palevsky P, Rosas SE, Waikar SS, Kiryluk K, Parikh C, Hodgin JB, Sarder P, De Boer IH, Himmelfarb J, Kretzler M, Jain S, Eadon MT, Winfree S, El-Achkar TM, Dagher PC. Integration of spatial protein imaging and transcriptomics in the human kidney tracks the regenerative potential of proximal tubules. Sci Adv. 2025 Aug 15; 11(33):eadv8918. PMID: 40815665.

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  • Published 7/29/2025

    Wittig M, Verma A, Bellavia A, Rosan S, Claudel SE, Surapaneni A, Palsson R, Srivastava A, Stillman IE, Henderson JM, Beck LH, Hodgin JB, Grams ME, Rhee EP, Huber TB, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM. The Associations of Foot Process Effacement with Kidney Histopathologic Lesions and Disease Progression. Kidney360. 2025 Jul 29. PMID: 40728890.

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Other Positions

  • Interim Chief and Chair, Medicine
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Section Chief, Medicine
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

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Education

  • Yale University, MD
  • Harvard School of Public Health, MPH
  • Amherst College, BA

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