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 9/9/2025

Leaf 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 Sep 09. PMID: 40924491.

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Published on 9/4/2025

Huang 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 Sep 04; eadk7978. PMID: 40906782.

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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 8/15/2025

Asghari 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.

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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

Lebov JF, Brooks DR, Aceituno A, Acosta H, Velázquez JA, Anand S, Aragón A, Arias-Hidalgo M, Bhalla V, Courville K, Crowe J, Cubilla-Batista I, Engel LS, Franceschini N, Friedman DJ, Garcia-Trabanino R, González-Quiroz M, Gummidi B, Guzmán-Quilo C, Jha V, Joubert BR, Kesler K, Levin A, López-Bonilla IM, Mendley SR, Mohan S, Navas-Acien A, Parsa A, Rohloff P, Romero EJ, Ruepert C, Sánchez-Polo V, Scammell MK, Solano-Diaz K, Trochinski L, van Geen A, Waikar SS. Rationale and Design of the International Prospective Study of CKD of Uncertain Etiology in Agricultural Communities. Kidney Int Rep. 2025 Sep; 10(9):3192-3201. PMID: 40980658.

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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 6/26/2025

Aronov AG, Verma A, Ricardo AC, Kelly TN, Waikar SS, Lash JP, Srivastava A. Associations of Proteinuria Trajectories with Kidney Failure and Death in Individuals with CKD. Kidney360. 2025 Jun 26. PMID: 40569689.

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Published on 6/23/2025

Tamargo CL, Coca SG, Thiessen Philbrook H, Hu DG, Ix JH, Shlipak MG, Fried LF, Gutierrez OM, Waikar SS, Schrauben SJ, Schelling JR, Ganz P, Kimmel PL, Greenberg JH, Deo R, Takakura A, Vasan RS, Bonventre JV, Parikh CR. The distal nephron biomarkers associate with diabetic kidney disease progression. JCI Insight. 2025 Jun 23; 10(12). PMID: 40548378.

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