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
Verma A, Schmidt IM, Claudel SE, Waikar SS. Prediction Utility of Urinary Albumin-Creatinine vs Protein-Creatinine Ratios in Chronic Kidney Disease. JAMA. 2026 Oct 20; 336(15):1366-1368. PMID: 42776523.
Published on 10/8/2026Claudel SE, Zhao R, Schmidt IM, Bjornstad P, Srivastava A, Waikar SS, Verma A. Phenotypes of diabetic kidney disease and cardiovascular outcomes. Eur J Intern Med. 2026 Oct 08; 107232. PMID: 42850142.
Published on 8/21/2026Han SS, Surapaneni AL, Schmidt IM, Yun D, Ma X, Moon KC, Srivastava A, Palsson R, Stillman IE, Waikar SS, Grams ME, Rhee EP. Circulating Ephrin-Eph Signaling Reflects Interstitial Fibrosis and Tubular Atrophy in Diabetic Kidney Disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2026 Aug 21. PMID: 42627699.
Published on 8/10/2026Schaub JA, Menon R, Melo Ferreira R, Kiernan E, Schmidt IM, Limonte CP, Yennapureddy S, Cheng YH, Herlitz L, Rosenberg AZ, Henderson JM, Smith KD, Hodgin JB, Otto E, Moeckel GW, Cantley LG, Setty S, Balis UG, Demeke D, Fogo AB, Bomback AS, D'Agati VD, Stillman IE, Torrealba JR, Hendricks AR, Bracamonte E, Moreno V, Bhatraju P, Mottl AK, Brosius FC, Thajudeen B, Coca SG, Palevsky PM, Randhawa PS, Murugan R, Barisoni L, Alpers CE, Menez S, Wilson FP, Moledina DG, Eadon MT, Kretzler M, Himmelfarb J, Parikh CR. Acute tubular injury versus acute interstitial nephritis in the kidney precision medicine project. JCI Insight. 2026 Aug 10; 11(15). PMID: 42579799.
Published on 7/29/2026Tsai MT, Li SY, Kim D, Park J, Schmidt IM, Zhao R, Waikar SS, Hsieh TH, Yang H, Chen TH, Ou SM, Yang RB. Galectin-9 as a Circulating Marker of Mesangial Injury and Prognosis in Biopsy-Proven Kidney Disease. Am J Nephrol. 2026 Jul 29; 1-13. PMID: 42525588.
Published on 6/27/2026Chen TK, Surapaneni AL, Estrella MM, Appel LJ, Obeid W, Parikh CR, Rooney MR, Yu B, Rhee EP, Schmidt IM, Waikar SS, Grams ME. Metabolomic Signatures of Inflammation in Chronic Kidney Disease. Kidney Med. 2026 Sep; 8(9):101458. PMID: 42668601.
Published on 6/26/2026Sekula P, Butz E, Schaeffner E, Nolde JM, Schmidt IM, Brackmann LK, Fischer B, Girndt M, Günther K, Hannemann A, Harth V, Heinsohn T, Karch A, Keil T, Krist L, Lange B, Leitzmann M, Meinke-Franze C, Meister J, Mikolajczyk R, Mons U, Nimptsch K, Obi N, Övermöhle C, Pischon T, Schikowski T, Schöttker B, Schulze MB, Schwichtenberg J, Stang A, Teismann H, Völzke H, Endlich K, Nauck M, Scholz M, Heid IM, Lieb W, Köttgen A. Glomerular Filtration Rate, Albuminuria, and Reported Kidney Disease in Comparison: Results From the German National Cohort (NAKO). Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2026 Jun 26; 123(13):345-352. PMID: 42028694.
Published on 6/17/2026Chrysopoulou M, de la Rosa X, Tan Y, Kovalenko E, Hahn O, Andersen JF, Lassé M, Matchkov V, Wulfmeyer VC, Jaegers J, Billing AM, Colby E, Bleich M, Schermer B, Kostidis S, Giera M, Peti-Peterdi J, Rhee EP, Grams ME, Waikar SS, Waldman M, Tomas NM, Saleem MA, Himmerkus N, Schmidt IM, Berg P, Demir F, Rinschen MM. Diversion of Arginine's dietary metabolic fate in proteinuric kidney disease. Res Sq. 2026 Jun 17. PMID: 42370251.
Published on 6/4/2026Rosan 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 Jun 04; 39(1):215-217. PMID: 41921046.
Published on 5/29/2026Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Verma A. Predictors of Variability in Urine Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio in the General US Adult Population. Am J Nephrol. 2026 May 29; 1-8. PMID: 42213595.
Media Mentions
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