Insa Marie Schmidt MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Nephrology

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Insa Schmidt
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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.

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Education

Medicine, MD, Universitaet Hannover

MPH, Harvard School of Public Health

Publications

Published on 11/3/2025

Schmidt IM, Rhee EP. Interpreting Metabolomics and Proteomics in Kidney Disease: A Practical Guide. Am J Kidney Dis. 2025 Nov 03. PMID: 41192615.

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Published on 10/28/2025

Thomas P, Missikpode C, Martinez OG, Verma A, Zhao R, Claudel SE, Schmidt IM, van Raalte DH, Bjornstad P, Layden BT, Lash JP, Waikar SS, Srivastava A. Association of Pancreas Volume With Adverse Clinical Outcomes. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Oct 28; e042348. PMID: 41147404.

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Published on 10/28/2025

Wen D, Zhang Q, van Agthoven J, Weins A, Rosales IA, Zhou W, Kim T, Parada XV, Colvin RB, Pollak MR, Grams ME, Schmidt IM, Waikar SS, Arnaout MA, Rhee EP. Testican-2 Interaction with the Extracellular Matrix and Podocyte Protection. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2025 Oct 28. PMID: 41177530.

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Published on 10/8/2025

Pandit K, Coudray N, Quiros AC, Surapaneni A, Upadhyay D, Vanguri RS, Hirohama D, Mohandes S, Schlosser P, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Wen Y, Parikh CR, Rhee EP, Waikar SS, Schmidt I, Rosenberg AZ, Palmer MB, Susztak K, Grams ME, Tsirigos A. Unbiased self supervised learning of kidney histology reveals phenotypic and prognostic insights. Sci Rep. 2025 Oct 08; 15(1):35131. PMID: 41062686.

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Published on 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 on 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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Published on 7/2/2025

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. bioRxiv. 2025 Jul 02. PMID: 40631316.

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Published on 6/30/2025

Lopez-Silva C, Surapaneni A, Coresh J, Chen TK, Schlosser P, Rhee EP, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Deo R, Ganz P, Dubin R, Ramachandran VS, Kimmel PL, Schrauben SJ, Parikh CR, Bonventre JV, Dobre M, Rao PS, Ricardo AC, Weir MR, Grams ME. Circulating Proteins for Prediction of Kidney Disease Progression and Cardiovascular Outcomes: Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Four Cohorts. Am J Nephrol. 2025 Jun 30; 1-12. PMID: 40587944.

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Published on 4/1/2025

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.

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Published on 3/17/2025

Schmidt 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.

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Media Mentions

Published on 2/24/2023

Study investigates patients' perspectives on use of race-based algorithms in clinical decision-making

Published on 7/7/2021

Plasma kidney injury molecule levels linked to kidney failure, lesions

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