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Insa Schmidt, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Medicine

Nephrology

MD, Universitaet Hannover
MPH, Harvard School of Public Health

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ORCID : 0000-0002-0420-6570

Insa M. Schmidt, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine in the Section of Nephrology. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of kidney disease and the development of non-invasive biomarkers to improve the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Her work has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, the American Society of Nephrology’s Carl W. Gottschalk Research Scholar Grant, and the Boston University Department of Medicine Research Accelerator Program. Committed to patient-oriented research, she is currently funded by an NIDDK K01 award to study advanced disease phenotyping and outcome prediction in CKD using multi-source data, including proteomics, digital pathology, and clinical information.

BU Research
BMC Research

Stigma Syndemics and End-Stage Kidney Disease in Disenfranchised Urban Communities Fighting COVID- 19
10/01/2020 - 12/31/2021 (Multi-PI)
PI: Insa Schmidt, MD, MPH
Social Science Research Council

Deep learning approach for the assessment of arterial and arteriolar lesions in kidney biopsies and prediction of cardiovascular risk
09/01/2024 - 08/31/2029 (PI)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
1K01DK136973-01A1

A deep learning framework for the automated assessment of kidney pathology and prognosis
07/01/2023 - 06/30/2025 (PI)
American Society of Nephrology

Biomarker-based phenotyping for novel cardiovascular risk assessment in patients with chronic kidney disease
07/01/2020 - 06/30/2022 (PI)
American Philosophical Society

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Schmidt IM, Rhee EP. Interpreting Metabolomics and Proteomics in Kidney Disease: A Practical Guide. Am J Kidney Dis. 2025 Nov 03. PMID: 41192615; DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2025.08.014;

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.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 41147404; DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.125.042348;

Wen 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.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 41177530; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.0000000915;

Pandit 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.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 41062686; PMCID: PMC12508135; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-19193-2;

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 Oct; 107(4):1555-1566.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Subramanian, Manju
Siegel, Nicole
Waikar, Sushrut
Stein, Thor
Lu, Weining

PMID: 40899951; DOI: 10.1177/13872877251374287;

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.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Henderson, Joel
Beck, Laurence
Claudel, Sophie
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 40728890; DOI: 10.34067/KID.0000000894;

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.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Subramanian, Manju
Siegel, Nicole
Kumar, Sudhir
Waikar, Sushrut
Stein, Thor
Lu, Weining

PMID: 40631316; PMCID: PMC12236819; DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.03.652072;

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.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut
Ramachandran, Vasan

PMID: 40587944; PMCID: PMC12329602; DOI: 10.1159/000547138;

Claudel SE, Schmidt IM, Waikar SS, Verma A. Albuminuria: A Marker of Adverse Kidney Outcomes in Heart Failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2025 Apr 01; 85(12):1372-1375.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Claudel, Sophie
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 40139894; PMCID: PMC12046502; DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2025.01.025;

Schmidt IM, Verma A, Claudel SE, Palsson R, Srivastava A, Stillman IE, Beck LH, Waikar SS. Genetic Testing in Biopsy-Confirmed Kidney Disease. Kidney Med. 2025 May; 7(5):100994.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Beck, Laurence
Claudel, Sophie
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 40321977; PMCID: PMC12049994; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2025.100994;

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Heinze M, Schell M, Mayer C, Nägele FL, Petersen M, Alba Schmidt E, Schmidt IM, Cheng B, Huber TB, Thomalla G, Schmidt-Lauber C. Kidney Function and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease. Am J Kidney Dis. 2025 Jul; 86(1):136-138. PMID: 40024469

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; 36(7):1343-1351.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Claudel, Sophie
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 39932805; PMCID: PMC12187233; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.0000000637;

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.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 39848531; PMCID: PMC12376195; DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2024.11.009;

Schmidt IM, Kefalogianni E, Zhao R, Verma A, Sabbisetti V, Rahman M, Pradhan N, Srivastava A, He J, Chen J, Waikar SS, Herrlich A. Associations of Serum Amphiregulin Levels With Kidney Failure and Mortality: The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC). Kidney Med. 2025 Mar; 7(3):100958.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 40071064; PMCID: PMC11894294; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2024.100958;

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.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Claudel, Sophie
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 38825979; PMCID: PMC11629963; DOI: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwae189;

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.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 39634330; PMCID: PMC11615146; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2024.100920;

Chen TK, Surapaneni AL, Schmidt IM, Waikar SS, Coresh J, Liu H, Susztak K, Rhee EP, Liu C, Schlosser P, Grams ME. Proteomics and Incident Kidney Failure in Individuals With CKD: The African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension and the Boston Kidney Biopsy Cohort. Kidney Med. 2024 Dec; 6(12):100921.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 39634331; PMCID: PMC11615895; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2024.100921;

Schmidt IM, Surapaneni AL, Zhao R, Upadhyay D, Yeo WJ, Schlosser P, Huynh C, Srivastava A, Palsson R, Kim T, Stillman IE, Barwinska D, Barasch J, Eadon MT, El-Achkar TM, Henderson J, Moledina DG, Rosas SE, Claudel SE, Verma A, Wen Y, Lindenmayer M, Huber TB, Parikh SV, Shapiro JP, Rovin BH, Stanaway IB, Sathe NA, Bhatraju PK, Coresh J, Rhee EP, Grams ME, Waikar SS. Plasma proteomics of acute tubular injury. Nat Commun. 2024 Aug 27; 15(1):7368.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Henderson, Joel
Claudel, Sophie
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 39191768; PMCID: PMC11349760; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51304-x;

Yeo WJ, Surapaneni AL, Hasson DC, Schmidt IM, Sekula P, Köttgen A, Eckardt KU, Rebholz CM, Yu B, Waikar SS, Rhee EP, Schrauben SJ, Feldman HI, Vasan RS, Kimmel PL, Coresh J, Grams ME, Schlosser P. Serum and Urine Metabolites and Kidney Function. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Sep 01; 35(9):1252-1265.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 38844075; PMCID: PMC11387034; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.0000000000000403;

Kim T, Surapaneni AL, Schmidt IM, Eadon MT, Kalim S, Srivastava A, Palsson R, Stillman IE, Hodgin JB, Menon R, Otto EA, Coresh J, Grams ME, Waikar SS, Rhee EP. Plasma Proteins Associated with Chronic Histopathologic Lesions on Kidney Biopsy. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Jul 01; 35(7):910-922.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 38656806; PMCID: PMC11230715; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.0000000000000358;

Schlosser P, Surapaneni AL, Borisov O, Schmidt IM, Zhou L, Anderson A, Deo R, Dubin R, Ganz P, He J, Kimmel PL, Li H, Nelson RG, Porter AC, Rahman M, Rincon-Choles H, Shah V, Unruh ML, Vasan RS, Zheng Z, Feldman HI, Waikar SS, Köttgen A, Rhee EP, Coresh J, Grams ME. Association of Integrated Proteomic and Metabolomic Modules with Risk of Kidney Disease Progression. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2024 Jul 01; 35(7):923-935.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 38640019; PMCID: PMC11230725; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.0000000000000343;

Verma A, Schmidt IM, Claudel S, Palsson R, Waikar SS, Srivastava A. Association of Albuminuria With Chronic Kidney Disease Progression in Persons With Chronic Kidney Disease and Normoalbuminuria : A Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. 2024 Apr; 177(4):467-475.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Claudel, Sophie
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 38560911; PMCID: PMC12124184; DOI: 10.7326/M23-2814;

Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Vasan RS, Verma A. The relationship between low levels of albuminuria and cardiovascular mortality among apparently healthy adults. medRxiv. 2023 Dec 24.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 38196576; PMCID: PMC10775339; DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.21.23300378;

Claudel SE, Schmidt IM, Gopal DM, Verma A. Elevated cardiac biomarkers in relatively healthy U.S. adults. Eur J Intern Med. 2024 Mar; 121:152-154.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Gopal, Deepa
Schmidt, Insa
Claudel, Sophie

PMID: 38087666; PMCID: PMC11879143; DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2023.12.006;

Srivastava A, Schmidt IM, Palsson R. Combined Angiotensin Inhibition for CKD: The Truth Is Rarely Pure and Never Simple. Am J Kidney Dis. 2024 Feb; 83(2):130-132. PMID: 38069999; PMCID: PMC12085227; DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2023.10.003;

Claudel SE, Schmidt IM, Gopal DM, Verma A. Elevated Cardiac Biomarkers in Relatively Healthy U.S. Adults. medRxiv. 2023 Nov 27.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Gopal, Deepa
Schmidt, Insa

PMID: 38076817; PMCID: PMC10705644; DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.27.23299072;

Shohet M, Nguyen NH, Stern LD, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM. Structural and Psychosocial Challenges Among Underserved Patients Receiving Hemodialysis During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study. Kidney Med. 2023 Nov; 5(11):100717.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Stern, Lauren
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 37817797; PMCID: PMC10561110; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2023.100717;

Jhaveri KD, Schmidt IM, Oh J, Damashek LJ, Jain K. A Qualitative Evaluation of Advanced Training Programs in Glomerular Diseases: Results From a Program Directors' Survey. Kidney Int Rep. 2023 Nov; 8(11):2183-2186. PMID: 38025239; PMCID: PMC10658223; DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2023.08.023;

Srialluri N, Surapaneni A, Schlosser P, Chen TK, Schmidt IM, Rhee EP, Coresh J, Grams ME. Circulating Proteins and Mortality in CKD: A Proteomics Study of the AASK and ARIC Cohorts. Kidney Med. 2023 Oct; 5(10):100714. PMID: 37711886; PMCID: PMC10498294; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2023.100714;

Schmidt IM. Revisiting nephrology care: a medical humanities perspective. J Nephrol. 2023 Jul; 36(6):1497-1499. PMID: 37341965

Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Verma A. Kidney Disease-Related Mortality Among Asian Americans. Kidney Med. 2023 Aug; 5(8):100676.View Related Profiles.

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Schmidt, Insa
Claudel, Sophie
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 37576431; PMCID: PMC10421978; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2023.100676;

Buckley LF, Schmidt IM, Verma A, Palsson R, Adam D, Shah AM, Srivastava A, Waikar SS. Associations Between Kidney Histopathologic Lesions and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease. JAMA Cardiol. 2023 Apr 01; 8(4):357-365.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 36884237; PMCID: PMC9996453; DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2023.0056;

Schmidt IM, Shohet M, Serrano M, Yadati P, Menn-Josephy H, Ilori T, Eneanya ND, Cleveland Manchanda EC, Waikar SS. Patients' Perspectives on Race and the Use of Race-Based Algorithms in Clinical Decision-Making: a Qualitative Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Jul; 38(9):2045-2051.View Related Profiles.

Cleveland Manchanda, Emily
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Yadati, Pranav
Waikar, Sushrut
Ilori, Titilayo

PMID: 36811702; PMCID: PMC9945816; DOI: 10.1007/s11606-023-08035-4;

Schmidt IM, Myrick S, Liu J, Verma A, Srivastava A, Palsson R, Onul IF, Stillman IE, Avillach C, Patil P, Waikar SS. The use of plasma biomarker-derived clusters for clinicopathologic phenotyping: results from the Boston Kidney Biopsy Cohort. Clin Kidney J. 2023 Jan; 16(1):90-99.View Related Profiles.

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Avillach, Claire
Schmidt, Insa
Patil, Prasad
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 36726432; PMCID: PMC9871860; DOI: 10.1093/ckj/sfac202;

Schmidt IM, Colona MR, Srivastava A, Yu G, Sabbisetti V, Bonventre JV, Waikar SS. Plasma Kidney Injury Molecule-1 in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Discordance Between ELISA and Proximity Extension Assay. Kidney Med. 2022 Aug; 4(8):100496.View Related Profiles.

Yu, Guanghao
Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 36061370; PMCID: PMC9437607; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2022.100496;

Limonte CP, Valo E, Drel V, Natarajan L, Darshi M, Forsblom C, Henderson CM, Hoofnagle AN, Ju W, Kretzler M, Montemayor D, Nair V, Nelson RG, O'Toole JF, Toto RD, Rosas SE, Ruzinski J, Sandholm N, Schmidt IM, Vaisar T, Waikar SS, Zhang J, Rossing P, Ahluwalia TS, Groop PH, Pennathur S, Snell-Bergeon JK, Costacou T, Orchard TJ, Sharma K, de Boer IH. Urinary Proteomics Identifies Cathepsin D as a Biomarker of Rapid eGFR Decline in Type 1 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2022 Jun 02; 45(6):1416-1427.View Related Profiles.

Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 35377940; PMCID: PMC9210873; DOI: 10.2337/dc21-2204;

Claudel SE, Schmidt IM, Verma A. A Call for Implementation Science: Achieving Equitable Access to SGLT2 Inhibitors. Kidney360. 2022 May 26; 3(5):942-944.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Claudel, Sophie

PMID: 36128478; PMCID: PMC9438421; DOI: 10.34067/KID.0001512022;

Liu J, Tio MC, Verma A, Schmidt IM, Ilori TO, Knauf F, Mc Causland FR, Waikar SS. Determinants and Outcomes Associated With Urinary Calcium Excretion in Chronic Kidney Disease. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022 01 01; 107(1):e281-e292.View Related Profiles.

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Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut
Ilori, Titilayo

PMID: 34390334; PMCID: PMC8684460; DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgab574;

Schmidt IM, Sarvode Mothi S, Wilson PC, Palsson R, Srivastava A, Onul IF, Kibbelaar ZA, Zhuo M, Amodu A, Stillman IE, Rennke HG, Humphreys BD, Waikar SS. Circulating Plasma Biomarkers in Biopsy-Confirmed Kidney Disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2022 01; 17(1):27-37.View Related Profiles.

Amodu, Afolarin
Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 34759008; PMCID: PMC8763150; DOI: 10.2215/CJN.09380721;

Garimella PS, Katz R, Waikar SS, Srivastava A, Schmidt I, Hoofnagle A, Palsson R, Rennke HG, Stillman IE, Wang K, Kestenbaum BR, Ix JH. Kidney Tubulointerstitial Fibrosis and Tubular Secretion. Am J Kidney Dis. 2022 May; 79(5):709-716.View Related Profiles.

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Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 34571064; PMCID: PMC8973399; DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2021.08.015;

Amodu A, Porteny T, Schmidt IM, Ladin K, Waikar SS. Nephrologists' Attitudes Toward Native Kidney Biopsy: A Qualitative Study. Kidney Med. 2021 Nov-Dec; 3(6):1022-1031.View Related Profiles.

Amodu, Afolarin
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PMID: 34939011; PMCID: PMC8664729; DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2021.06.014;

Schmidt IM, Srivastava A, Sabbisetti V, McMahon GM, He J, Chen J, Kusek JW, Taliercio J, Ricardo AC, Hsu CY, Kimmel PL, Liu KD, Mifflin TE, Nelson RG, Vasan RS, Xie D, Zhang X, Palsson R, Stillman IE, Rennke HG, Feldman HI, Bonventre JV, Waikar SS. Plasma Kidney Injury Molecule 1 in CKD: Findings From the Boston Kidney Biopsy Cohort and CRIC Studies. Am J Kidney Dis. 2022 02; 79(2):231-243.e1.View Related Profiles.

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Waikar, Sushrut
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PMID: 34175376; PMCID: PMC8709877; DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2021.05.013;

Schmidt IM, Colona MR, Kestenbaum BR, Alexopoulos LG, Palsson R, Srivastava A, Liu J, Stillman IE, Rennke HG, Vaidya VS, Wu H, Humphreys BD, Waikar SS. Cadherin-11, Sparc-related modular calcium binding protein-2, and Pigment epithelium-derived factor are promising non-invasive biomarkers of kidney fibrosis. Kidney Int. 2021 09; 100(3):672-683.View Related Profiles.

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Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 34051265; PMCID: PMC8384690; DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2021.04.037;

Schmidt IM, Waikar SS. Separate and Unequal: Race-Based Algorithms and Implications for Nephrology. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021 03; 32(3):529-533.View Related Profiles.

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Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 33510038; PMCID: PMC7920170; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2020081175;

Zheng Z, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Landis JR, Hsu CY, Shafi T, Feldman HI, Anderson AH, Wilson FP, Chen J, Rincon-Choles H, Ricardo AC, Saab G, Isakova T, Kallem R, Fink JC, Rao PS, Xie D, Yang W. Subtyping CKD Patients by Consensus Clustering: The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021 03; 32(3):639-653.View Related Profiles.

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Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 33462081; PMCID: PMC7920178; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2020030239;

Srivastava A, Schmidt IM, Palsson R, Weins A, Bonventre JV, Sabbisetti V, Stillman IE, Rennke HG, Waikar SS. The Associations of Plasma Biomarkers of Inflammation With Histopathologic Lesions, Kidney Disease Progression, and Mortality-The Boston Kidney Biopsy Cohort Study. Kidney Int Rep. 2021 Mar; 6(3):685-694.View Related Profiles.

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Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 33732983; PMCID: PMC7938082; DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2020.12.025;

Schmidt, IM. Immunity-Based Licenses and the Politics of the Body. BMC Medical Humanities Blog. 2020. View Publication

Schmidt IM, Verma A, Waikar SS. Circulating plasma angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 concentrations in patients with kidney disease. Eur Heart J. 2020 07 01; 41(32):3097-3098.View Related Profiles.

Verma, Ashish
Schmidt, Insa
Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 32691065; PMCID: PMC7470752; DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa523;

Li P, Schmidt IM, Sabbisetti V, Tio MC, Opotowsky AR, Waikar SS. Plasma Endothelin-1 and Risk of Death and Hospitalization in Patients Undergoing Maintenance Hemodialysis. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 06 08; 15(6):784-793.View Related Profiles.

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Waikar, Sushrut

PMID: 32381583; PMCID: PMC7274287; DOI: 10.2215/CJN.11130919;

Schmidt IM, Hübner S, Nadal J, Titze S, Schmid M, Bärthlein B, Schlieper G, Dienemann T, Schultheiss UT, Meiselbach H, Köttgen A, Flöge J, Busch M, Kreutz R, Kielstein JT, Eckardt KU. Patterns of medication use and the burden of polypharmacy in patients with chronic kidney disease: the German Chronic Kidney Disease study. Clin Kidney J. 2019 Oct; 12(5):663-672. PMID: 31584562; PMCID: PMC6768303; DOI: 10.1093/ckj/sfz046;

Schmidt IM, Kreutz R, Dräger D, Zwillich C, Hörter S, Kuhlmey A, Gellert P. Lower Prescription Rates in Centenarians with Heart Failure and Heart Failure and Kidney Disease Combined: Findings from a Longitudinal Cohort Study of Very Old Patients. Drugs Aging. 2018 10; 35(10):907-916. PMID: 30187290; DOI: 10.1007/s40266-018-0581-z;

Kreutz R, Schmidt IM, Dräger D, Brüggen F, Hörter S, Zwillich C, Kuhlmey A, Gellert P. Atrial fibrillation and medication treatment among centenarians: Are all very old patients treated the same? Geriatr Gerontol Int. 2018 Dec; 18(12):1634-1640. PMID: 30259631; DOI: 10.1111/ggi.13531;

He CH, Lee CG, Dela Cruz CS, Lee CM, Zhou Y, Ahangari F, Ma B, Herzog EL, Rosenberg SA, Li Y, Nour AM, Parikh CR, Schmidt I, Modis Y, Cantley L, Elias JA. Chitinase 3-like 1 regulates cellular and tissue responses via IL-13 receptor a2. Cell Rep. 2013 Aug 29; 4(4):830-41. PMID: 23972995; PMCID: PMC3988532; DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.07.032;

Knauf F, Asplin JR, Granja I, Schmidt IM, Moeckel GW, David RJ, Flavell RA, Aronson PS. NALP3-mediated inflammation is a principal cause of progressive renal failure in oxalate nephropathy. Kidney Int. 2013 Nov; 84(5):895-901. PMID: 23739234; PMCID: PMC3772982; DOI: 10.1038/ki.2013.207;

Schmidt IM, Hall IE, Kale S, Lee S, He CH, Lee Y, Chupp GL, Moeckel GW, Lee CG, Elias JA, Parikh CR, Cantley LG. Chitinase-like protein Brp-39/YKL-40 modulates the renal response to ischemic injury and predicts delayed allograft function. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2013 Feb; 24(2):309-19. PMID: 23291472; PMCID: PMC3559482; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2012060579;

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 55 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 13 publications in 2025

Bar chart showing 55 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 13 publications in 2025

Year	Publications
2013	3
2018	2
2019	1
2020	3
2021	8
2022	5
2023	11
2024	9
2025	13

Media Mentions

Study investigates patients' perspectives on use of race-based algorithms in clinical decision-making

News Medical 2/24/2023

Plasma kidney injury molecule levels linked to kidney failure, lesions

Healio 7/7/2021

2023-2025 American Society of Nephrology: Carl W. Gottschalk Research Award

2023 Boston University: DOM Research Accelerator Program

2022 Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN Trainee of the Year Award

2020 Kidney Precision Medicine Project, Face-to-Face Meeting, Arlington, VA: Opportunity Pool Travel Grant

2020-2022 American Philosophical Society: Daland Fellowship in Clinical Investigation, Boston, MA

2020 American Society of Nephrology, Kidney Week: Karen L. Campbell, PhD, Trainee Support Award

2019 Kidney Precision Medicine Project, Face-to-Face Meeting, Arlington, VA: Opportunity Pool Travel Grant

2018 Cardiorenal Research Dialogue, Bayer, Berlin, Germany: Poster Prize Award

2018-2019 Harvard University, Boston, MA: Charles W. Holtzer Fellowship Award, full-ride scholarship

2018-2019 German Academic Scholarship Foundation: Scholarship, ERP-program

2011 American Society of Nephrology: Top Abstract Award

2009-2010 Yale University, New Haven, CT: Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service

In addition to these self-described keywords below, a list of MeSH based concepts is available here.

Epidemiology
Kidney Disease, Chronic
Kidney Diseases
Cardiovascular Disease
Proteomics
Metabolomics

I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, with research expertise in the epidemiology of kidney disease and the identification of novel biomarkers in acute and chronic kidney diseases using omics-based approaches. I have mentored undergraduate and graduate students, residents, and fellows on a range of research projects and academic development. I am committed to fostering a supportive mentoring environment where mentees can thrive as they navigate their individual paths in academic medicine and research.

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