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Larry Beck and Nori Hayashi’s Commentary on Moore’s Law for Membranous Nephropathy Published in Kidney International

Dr. Laurence H. Beck Jr., Associate Professor of Medicine in the Renal Department at Boston University/Boston Medical Center, and Dr. Norifumi Hayashi, visiting researcher from Kanazawa Medical University in Japan, have published commentary on Moore’s Law for Membranous Nephropathy in Kidney International. The title of this Commentary is even more... More

Insa Schmidt, Lauren Stern, and Merav Shohet receive SSRC Rapid-Response Grant on Covid-19 and the Social Sciences

Doctors Insa Schmidt and Lauren Stern of BU/BMC's Section of Nephrology, along with BU Anthropology professor Dr. Merav Shohet, have received a Rapid-Response Grant on Covid-19 and the Social Sciences from The Social Science Research Council. The team will investigate Stigma Syndemics and End-Stage Kidney Disease in Disenfranchised Urban Communities... More

Titi Ilori receives the NIH grant to study the role of diet and APOL1 in CKD

Dr. Ilori receives the Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases to study the "The Role of Dietary Nutrients in CKD Progression and ApolipoproteinL1 (APOL1) Nephropathy".  She intends  to build a career focused on mechanistic and interventional studies on the effect of dietary... More

Waikar Lab receives new Kidney Precision Medicine Project Awards

Dr. Sushrut Waikar, Chief of Nephrology, recently receives two grants from the Kidney Disease Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) to enhance the clinical phenotyping of participants undergoing kidney biopsy: one grant will fund kidney physiologic measurements including mGFR using iohexol clearance and renal plasma flow using PAH clearance, before and after an... More

BMC Nephrology Accepted for the CMS’s Kidney Care First Option

Dr. Jesse Bhatia's application, on behalf of BU Nephrology, is accepted for the Kidney Care First Option of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation's Kidney Care Choices Model. This unique payment system is a part of the Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative of the US government which encourages innovations in... More