Sushrut S. Waikar MD
Section Chief, Nephrology
Norman G. Levinsky Professor, Nephrology
650 Albany St | (617) 638-7330swaikar@bu.edu
Sections
Nephrology
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).
Other Positions
Education
MD, Yale University
MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
English/Neuroscience/Neurology, BA, Amherst College
Publications
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 Nov 04; 14(21):e042348. PMID: 41147404.
Published on 10/28/2025Claudel SE, Waikar SS. Biomarkers in CKD: What Does the Future Hold? J Am Soc Nephrol. 2025 Oct 28. PMID: 41148217.
Published on 10/28/2025Wen 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.
Published on 10/8/2025Pandit 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.
Published on 9/9/2025Leaf 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 Oct 22; 10(20). PMID: 40924491.
Published on 9/4/2025Huang 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 Oct 09; 390(6769):164-172. PMID: 40906782.
Published on 9/3/2025Shoushtari 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.
Published on 8/15/2025Asghari 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.
Published on 8/6/2025Ilori TO, Mamven M, Raji YR, Kwakyi E, Omotoso BA, Braimoh R, Solarin A, Umeizudike T, Zhao R, Kestenbaum B, Prince DK, Ripiye N, Ijeoma C, Slear J, Mumuni AA, Arogundade F, Salako BL, Gbadegesin R, Parekh RS, Dupuis J, Adu D, Ulasi I, Amira CO, Ojo A, Anderson CAM, Waikar SS. Association of Dietary Sodium and Potassium With Blood Pressure and Proteinuria in Africans With Kidney Disease. Kidney Int Rep. 2025 Oct; 10(10):3416-3430. PMID: 41141514.
Published on 7/29/2025Wittig 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.
Media Mentions
Published on 7/9/2024
UACR Variability in Type 2 Diabetes Warrants Repeat Testing
Published on 4/7/2023
Kidney biopsy findings predict risk of cardiovascular events in CKD
Published on 3/23/2023
Kidney Biopsy Findings Predict Risk for Cardiovascular Events in CKD
Published on 3/20/2023
Kidney Biopsy Findings Predict Risk of Cardiovascular Events in CKD
Published on 4/15/2021
Existing Race-Based Predictions Can Perpetuate Racism in Nephrology
Published on 8/25/2020
Interpretation of urine sediment tests varies among nephrologists
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