
Congratulations on the K99/R00 award from NIH/NIDDK to elucidate the role of higher-order chromatin organization during erythropoiesis!

Huge congratulations on receiving the 2025 KidneyCure TIG (Transition to Independence Grant) — well deserved. You are an inspiring future leader in the KUH field.

Congratulations on the NIH/NIDDK F32 award to explore BCAA catabolism in AKI and fibrosis! A tremendous achievement—so proud of you, Sama!

So thrilled to congratulate Dr. Jeffrey Arace and his mentors, Drs. Brasch and Kuryluk, on Jeffrey’s winning first place at the New York Society of Nephrology Fellows Night!

Huge congratulations, John, on defending your doctoral thesis! You’re our first NYC Train KUHR predoctoral student to earn a PhD, with more to come in the year ahead.

Huge congratulations on the F30 award from NIH/NIDDK for deciphering the impact of early-life immune stimulation on shaping long-term hematopoiesis!

Congratulations on receiving the NYC Partnership Pilot Projects 2026 grant to support community screening and education for Cardiovascular–Kidney–Metabolic (CKM) syndrome!

Congratulations on being awarded an NIH Loan Repayment Program (LRP) award!
Preterm birth increases susceptibility to hyperglycemia induced glomerular alterations in male mice.
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Activation of branched chain amino acid catabolism protects against nephrotoxic acute kidney injury.
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Krüppel-Like Factor 6 Induces RNA Polymerase II Subunit RPB1 to Promote Kidney Injury.
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The physiology and pathophysiology of branched-chain amino acids in the kidney.
Nephron. 2026 Mar 5:1-15. PMID: 41785211.
Podocyte YAP/TAZ Hyperactivation is a driver of glomerular epithelial proliferative diseases in mice and humans.
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Gene modification: Exploring the potential in treating kidney diseases.
Pharmacol Res. 2026 Feb;224:108104. PMID: 41554351.
Podocyte-derived endothelin-1 and endothelial cell endothelin A receptors are essential for glomerular injury in mouse models of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
Kidney Int. 2026 Feb 9. PMID: 41672248.
mTOR blockade prevents progressive proteinuria but induces hyperglycaemia in obese Dahl salt-sensitive rats before puberty.
Exp Physiol. 2025 Oct 27. PMID: 41146401.
Failure of endocytic flux in Donnai-Barrow Syndrome caused by LRP2 p.C1400R.
JCI Insight. 2026 Apr 23:e199341. PMID: 42024452.
Treatment-emergent coagulopathy during azacitidine/venetoclax induction in AML.
Blood Neoplasia. 2026 Feb 21;3(2):100210. PMID: 41938746; PMCID: PMC13050052.
A Switch in Iron Delivery Is Critical for Postnatal Kidney Development.
Kidney360. 2026 Feb 17. PMID: 41701548.
Geometric Deep Learning for Multimodal Data in CKD.
J Am Soc Nephrol. 2025 Jun 3;36(9):1864-1866. PMID: 40459949; PMCID: PMC12416936.
sing Predictive Models and AI for AKI Research.
Semin Nephrol. 2026 Jan;46(1):151673. PMID: 41068025.
Smart Learning: Artificial Intelligence in Kidney Disease Education.
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2026 Mar 26. PMID: 41885935.
APOL1 Nephropathy Risk Variants Through the Life Course: A Review.
Am J Kidney Dis. 2024;84:102-110. doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2023.12.014
A novel method leveraging time series data to improve subphenotyping and application in critically ill patients with COVID-19.
Artif Intell Med. 2024;148:102750. doi:10.1016/j.artmed.2023.102750
Machine learning models to predict end-stage kidney disease in chronic kidney disease stage 4.
BMC Nephrol. 2023;24:376. doi:10.1186/s12882-023-03424-7
Changes in graft outcomes in recipients <10 kg over 25 years of pediatric kidney transplantation in the United States.
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Mycophenolate Mofetil Versus Prednisone for Induction Therapy in Steroid-Sensitive Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome in Children: An Observational Study.
Kidney Med. 2024;6:100776. doi:10.1016/j.xkme.2023.100776
Urinary Plasminogen as a Marker of Disease Progression in Human Glomerular Disease.
Am J Kidney Dis. 2024;84:205-214.e201. doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2024.01.520
Open-Source System for Real-Time Functional Assessment of In Vitro Filtration Barriers.
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Changes in graft outcomes in recipients <10 kg over 25 years of pediatric kidney transplantation in the United States.
Pediatr Transplant. 2024 Feb;28(1):e14679. doi: 10.1111/petr.14679. Epub 2023 Dec 27. PMID: 38149338; PMCID: PMC10872313.
Maternal inflammation regulates fetal emergency myelopoiesis.
Cell. 2024 Mar 14;187(6):1402-1421.e21. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.02.002. Epub 2024 Feb 29. PMID: 38428422; PMCID: PMC10954379.
A novel method leveraging time series data to improve subphenotyping and application in critically ill patients with COVID-19.
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Metabolic acidosis in pediatric kidney transplant recipients.
Pediatr Nephrol. 2023;38:4165-4173. doi:10.1007/s00467-023-06072-z
Federated Learning in Health care Using Structured Medical Data.
Adv Kidney Dis Health. 2023 Jan;30(1):4-16. doi: 10.1053/j.akdh.2022.11.007. PMID: 36723280; PMCID: PMC10208416.
Joint Modeling of Social Determinants and Clinical Factors to Define Subphenotypes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival: Cluster Analysis.
JMIR Aging. 2023 Dec 6;6:e51844. doi: 10.2196/51844. PMID: 38059569; PMCID: PMC10721134.
Discrepancy between predicted and measured exercise intensity for eliciting the maximal rate of lipid oxidation.
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Cutting Edge: Neutrophil Complement Receptor Signaling Is Required for BAFF-Dependent Humoral Responses in Mice.
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Podocyte-Parietal Epithelial Cell Interdependence in Glomerular Development and Disease.
J Am Soc Nephrol. 2023 May 1;34(5):737-750. doi: 10.1681/ASN.0000000000000104. Epub 2023 Feb 16. PMID: 36800545; PMCID: PMC10125654.
Joint Modeling of Clinical and Biomarker Data in Acute Kidney Injury Defines Unique Subphenotypes with Differing Outcomes.
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Impact of Vaccination on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients With COVID-19 Infection.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2023 Jan 27;81(9):928–30. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.12.006. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36813689; PMCID: PMC9939951.
Viral Glomerulopathy.
Glomerular Dis. 2023 Aug 8;3(1):148-154. doi: 10.1159/000531434. PMID: 37901695; PMCID: PMC10601964.
Metabolic acidosis in pediatric kidney transplant recipients.
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Mycophenolate Mofetil Versus Prednisone for Induction Therapy in Steroid- Sensitive Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome in Children: An Observational Study.
Kidney Med. 2023 Dec 10;6(3):100776.PMCID: PMC10904994.
Hematopoietic stem cells through the ages: A lifetime of adaptation to organismal demands.
Cell Stem Cell. 2023. (Review) PMCID: PMC10842631*Contributed equally to this work.
Adaptive DNA amplification of synthetic gene circuit opens a way to overcome cancer chemoresistance.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Dec 5;120(49):e2303114120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2303114120. Epub 2023 Nov 29. PMID: 38019857; PMCID: PMC10710087.
Association of DDX5/p68 protein with the upstream erythroid enhancer element (EHS1) of the gene encoding the KLF1 transcription factor.
J Biol Chem. 2023 Dec;299(12):105489. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105489. Epub 2023 Nov 22. PMID: 38000658; PMCID: PMC10750184.
Single-Cell Spatial MIST for Versatile, Scalable Detection of Protein Markers.
Biosensors (Basel). 2023 Aug 27;13(9):852. doi: 10.3390/bios13090852. PMID: 37754086; PMCID: PMC10526469.
CDK-independent role of D-type cyclins in regulating DNA mismatch repair.
Molecular Cell. doi.org/10.1016/j. molcel. 2024.02.010.
Development of Renal Function.
Rudolph's Pediatrics, 24e. McGraw Hill (In Press).
Machine learning models to predict end-stage kidney disease in chronic kidney disease stage 4.
BMC Nephrol. 2023 Dec 19;24(1):376. doi: 10.1186/s12882-023-03424-7. PMID: 38114923; PMCID: PMC10731874.
Pet safety guidelines for pediatric transplant recipients.
Pediatr Transplant. 2024 Feb;28(1):e14527. doi: 10.1111/petr.14527. Epub 2023 Aug 7. PMID: 37550270.
Viral Glomerulopathy
Glomerular Dis. 2023 Aug 8;3(1):148-154. doi: 10.1159/000531434. PMID: 37901695; PMCID: PMC10601964.
Joint Modeling of Clinical and Biomarker Data in Acute Kidney Injury Defines Unique Subphenotypes with Differing Outcomes: The ASSESS-AKI Study.
JClinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN. 2023 Mar 28.
Using sequence clustering to identify clinically relevant subphenotypes in patients with COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care unit.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2022 Mar;29(3):489-99.
The single-cell landscape of kidney immune cells reveals transcriptional heterogeneity in early diabetic kidney disease.
Kidney Int. 2022 Sep 13;S0085-2538(22)00715-3. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2022.08.026. PMID: 36108806
Aged glomeruli: a link between PD-1 and podocytes.
J Clin Invest. 2022 Aug 15;132(16):e162330. PMID: 35968780