{"id":1334,"date":"2020-01-15T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T20:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/?page_id=1334"},"modified":"2023-11-16T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T16:15:46","slug":"waikar-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/research\/waikar-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Waikar Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/waikarlab\/\">Waikar Lab&#8217;s<\/a> overall goal is to improve the lives of our patients suffering from kidney disease through patient-oriented research. We use a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to perform observational studies, biomarker discovery\/validation, clinical trials, and translational research. Our research projects are purposefully wide ranging and address areas of\u00a0 direct importance to patient care and public health.\u00a0 Major current projects include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpmp.org\/\">NIH Kidney Precision Medicine Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ckducureconsortium.org\/\">The Chronic Kidney Disease of Uncertain Etiology (CKDu) in Agricultural Communities (CURE) Research Consortium<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Randomized controlled trial of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/classic.clinicaltrials.gov\/ct2\/show\/NCT05759468?term=bhasin&amp;draw=2&amp;rank=2\">NAD supplementation for diabetic kidney disease<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R25 training program, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/research\/kidney-technology-research\/\">Boston University Kidney and Medical Engineering Program (BU-KIDMEP)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reporter.nih.gov\/search\/4NM_FYPN20KYSpi8Js1Qsw\/project-details\/10520270\">Multi-omics of chronic kidney disease <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Five selected publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Lake BB et al. An atlas of healthy and injured cell states and niches in the human kidney. <em>Nature 2023<\/em><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>2. Ilori TO et al. Rationale and Design of the Diet, CKD, and Apolipoprotein L1 Study in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries. <em>Kidney Int Rep 2023<\/em><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>3. Buckley LF et al. Associations Between Kidney Histopathologic Lesions and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease. <em>JAMA cardiol 2023<\/em><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>4. Verma A et al. Aldosterone in chronic kidney disease and renal outcomes. <em>Eur Heart J 2022<\/em><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>5. Waikar SS et al. Association of urinary oxalate excretion with the risk of chronic kidney disease progression. <em>JAMA Internal Medicine 2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Waikar Lab&#8217;s overall goal is to improve the lives of our patients suffering from kidney disease through patient-oriented research. We use a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to perform observational studies, biomarker discovery\/validation, clinical trials, and translational research. Our research projects are purposefully wide ranging and address areas of\u00a0 direct importance to patient care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14042,"featured_media":1127,"parent":1289,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1334\/revisions\/3585"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/nephrology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}