Insa Marie Schmidt MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Nephrology
650 Albany St | (617) 638-7323ischmidt@bu.edu
Sections
Nephrology
Biography
Insa M. Schmidt, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine in the Section of Nephrology. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of kidney disease and the development of non-invasive biomarkers to improve the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Her work has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, the American Society of Nephrology’s Carl W. Gottschalk Research Scholar Grant, and the Boston University Department of Medicine Research Accelerator Program. Committed to patient-oriented research, she is currently funded by an NIDDK K01 award to study advanced disease phenotyping and outcome prediction in CKD using multi-source data, including proteomics, digital pathology, and clinical information.
Education
Medicine, MD, Universitaet Hannover
MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
Publications
Claudel SE, Schmidt IM, Waikar SS, Verma A. Albuminuria: A Marker of Adverse Kidney Outcomes in Heart Failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2025 Apr 01; 85(12):1372-1375. PMID: 40139894.
Published on 3/17/2025Schmidt IM, Verma A, Claudel SE, Palsson R, Srivastava A, Stillman IE, Beck LH, Waikar SS. Genetic Testing in Biopsy-Confirmed Kidney Disease. Kidney Med. 2025 May; 7(5):100994. PMID: 40321977.
Published on 2/28/2025Heinze M, Schell M, Mayer C, Nägele FL, Petersen M, Alba Schmidt E, Schmidt IM, Cheng B, Huber TB, Thomalla G, Schmidt-Lauber C. Kidney Function and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease. Am J Kidney Dis. 2025 Feb 28. PMID: 40024469.
Published on 2/11/2025Claudel SE, Schmidt IM, Waikar SS, Verma A. Cumulative Incidence of Mortality Associated with Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Syndrome. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2025 Feb 11. PMID: 39932805.
Published on 1/21/2025Kim T, Surapaneni AL, Leo H, Fino NF, Inker LA, Levey AS, Schmidt IM, Waikar SS, Coresh J, Grams ME, Rhee EP. Renal Arteriovenous Gradients for Greater Than 10,000 Circulating Proteins. Am J Kidney Dis. 2025 May; 85(5):659-662. PMID: 39848531.
Published on 12/27/2024Schmidt IM, Kefalogianni E, Zhao R, Verma A, Sabbisetti V, Rahman M, Pradhan N, Srivastava A, He J, Chen J, Waikar SS, Herrlich A. Associations of Serum Amphiregulin Levels With Kidney Failure and Mortality: The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC). Kidney Med. 2025 Mar; 7(3):100958. PMID: 40071064.
Published on 12/4/2024Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Vasan RS, Verma A. The relationship between low levels of albuminuria and mortality among adults without major cardiovascular risk factors. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2024 Dec 04; 31(17):2046-2055. PMID: 38825979.
Published on 10/16/2024Lopez-Silva C, Surapaneni A, Schmidt IM, Upadhyay D, Srivastava A, Palsson R, Stillman IE, Rhee EP, Waikar SS, Grams ME. Circulating Protein and Metabolite Correlates of Histologically Confirmed Diabetic Kidney Disease. Kidney Med. 2024 Dec; 6(12):100920. PMID: 39634330.
Published on 10/16/2024Chen TK, Surapaneni AL, Schmidt IM, Waikar SS, Coresh J, Liu H, Susztak K, Rhee EP, Liu C, Schlosser P, Grams ME. Proteomics and Incident Kidney Failure in Individuals With CKD: The African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension and the Boston Kidney Biopsy Cohort. Kidney Med. 2024 Dec; 6(12):100921. PMID: 39634331.
Published on 8/27/2024Schmidt IM, Surapaneni AL, Zhao R, Upadhyay D, Yeo WJ, Schlosser P, Huynh C, Srivastava A, Palsson R, Kim T, Stillman IE, Barwinska D, Barasch J, Eadon MT, El-Achkar TM, Henderson J, Moledina DG, Rosas SE, Claudel SE, Verma A, Wen Y, Lindenmayer M, Huber TB, Parikh SV, Shapiro JP, Rovin BH, Stanaway IB, Sathe NA, Bhatraju PK, Coresh J, Rhee EP, Grams ME, Waikar SS. Plasma proteomics of acute tubular injury. Nat Commun. 2024 Aug 27; 15(1):7368. PMID: 39191768.
Media Mentions
Published on 2/24/2023
Published on 7/7/2021
Plasma kidney injury molecule levels linked to kidney failure, lesions
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