Sushrut S. Waikar MD

Section Chief, Nephrology

Norman G. Levinsky Professor, Nephrology

650 Albany St | (617) 638-7330
swaikar@bu.edu

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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).

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Education

MD, Yale University

MPH, Harvard School of Public Health

English/Neuroscience/Neurology, BA, Amherst College

Publications

Published on 2/21/2025

Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Verma A. Albuminuria References Ranges in Healthy US Adults. J Appl Lab Med. 2025 Feb 21. PMID: 39981782.

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Published on 2/11/2025

Claudel 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.

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Published on 1/21/2025

Kim 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.

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Published on 1/16/2025

Greenberg JH, Abraham AG, Xu Y, Schelling JR, Coca SG, Schrauben SJ, Wilson FP, Waikar SS, Vasan RS, Gutierrez OM, Shlipak MG, Ix JH, Warady BA, Kimmel PL, Bonventre JV, Parikh CR, Denburg M, Furth S. Biomarker Panels for Discriminating Risk of CKD Progression in Children. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2025 Jan 16. PMID: 39820177.

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Published on 1/4/2025

Waikar SS, Mogg R, Baker AF, Frendl G, Topper M, Adler S, Sultana S, Zhao R, King NMP, Piccoli SP, Sauer JM, Hoffmann S, Nunes I, Sistare FD. Urinary Kidney Injury Biomarker Profiles in Healthy Individuals and After Nephrotoxic and Ischemic Injury. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2025 Jan 04. PMID: 39754474.

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Published on 12/4/2024

Claudel 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.

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Published on 12/2/2024

Asghari M, Sabo AR, Barwinska D, Ferreira RM, Ferkowicz M, 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, Hodgins J, Sarder P, De Boer IH, Himmelfarb J, Kretzler M, Jain S, Eadon MT, Winfree S, El-Achkar TM, Dagher PC. Integration of spatial multiplexed protein imaging and transcriptomics in the human kidney tracks the regenerative potential timeline of proximal tubules. bioRxiv. 2024 Dec 02. PMID: 39677736.

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Published on 11/12/2024

Rizzolo K, Jauregui RG, Teakell J, Chonchol M, Waikar SS, Cervantes L. Home Dialysis for Latinx Individuals Living with Kidney Failure: A Qualitative Study of Interdisciplinary Dialysis Clinicians. Kidney360. 2025 Jan 01; 6(1):86-94. PMID: 39531314.

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Published on 10/21/2024

Pyle L, Choi YJ, Narongkiatikhun P, Sharma K, Waikar S, Layton A, Tommerdahl KL, de Boer I, Vigers T, Nelson RG, Lynch J, Brosius F, Saulnier PJ, Goodrich JA, Tryggestad JB, Isganaitis E, Bacha F, Nadeau KJ, van Raalte D, Kretzler M, Heerspink H, Bjornstad P. Proteomic Analysis Uncovers Multiprotein Signatures Associated with Early Diabetic Kidney Disease in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Dec 01; 19(12):1603-1612. PMID: 39432369.

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Published on 10/16/2024

Lopez-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.

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