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 5/29/2026

    Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Verma A. Predictors of variability in urine albumin to creatinine ratio in the general U.S. adult population. Am J Nephrol. 2026 May 29; 1-10. PMID: 42213595.

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  • Published 5/19/2026

    Menon R, Kimmel PL, Otto EA, Subramanian L, O'Connor CL, Godfrey B, Smith C, Alakwaa F, Berthier CC, Sarwal MM, Woodle ES, Pyle L, Choi YJ, Ladd P, Sedor JR, Rosas SE, Waikar SS, Naik AS, Melo Ferreira R, Eadon MT, Bitzer M, Bjornstad P, Hodgin JB, Kretzler M. Not all reference samples are equal in single-cell transcriptomics of human kidney tissue. JCI Insight. 2026 May 19. PMID: 42160485.

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  • Published 4/1/2026

    Rosan SH, Verma A, Claudel SE, Srivastava A, Palsson R, Stillman IE, Henderson J, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM. Associations of serum uric acid levels with podocyte injury and kidney histopathologic lesions. J Nephrol. 2026 Apr 01. PMID: 41921046.

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  • Published 3/17/2026

    Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Scammell MK. An update on the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. 2026 May 01; 35(3):353-359. PMID: 41846326.

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  • Published 3/6/2026

    Fallegger R, Gomez-Ochoa SA, Boys C, Flores ROR, Tanevski J, Pashos E, Feliers D, Piper M, Schaub JA, Zhou Z, Mao W, Chen X, Sealfon RSG, Menon R, Nair V, Eddy S, Alakwaa FM, Pyle L, Choi YJ, Bjornstad P, Alpers CE, Bitzer M, Bomback AS, Caramori ML, Demeke D, Fogo AB, Herlitz LC, Kiryluk K, Lash JP, Murugan R, O'Toole JF, Palevsky PM, Parikh CR, Rosas SE, Rosenberg AZ, Sedor JR, Vazquez MA, Waikar SS, Wilson FP, Hodgin JB, Barisoni L, Himmelfarb J, Jain S, Ju W, Troyanskaya OG, Kretzler M, Eadon MT, Saez-Rodriguez J. Shared multicellular injury programs of acute and chronic kidney disease enable mechanistic patient stratification. medRxiv. 2026 Mar 06. PMID: 41822697.

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Other Positions

  • 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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