Father, Husband, Nephrologist, Researcher

Boston, MA
Congrats to all the STOP-COVID Investigators on this important work! Early Treatment With Tocilizumab and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 ja.ma/3kicqRF via @JAMAInternalMed part of @JAMANetwork
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#Review in #ASNJASN helps clinicians balance effective cancer treatment with kidney safety, promoting earlier diagnosis, appropriate biopsy use, timely therapy, and informed decisions about restarting immunotherapy. kidney.pub/JASN1232
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Among adults with tumour lysis syndrome, early rasburicase treatment was associated with about one third lower risk of acute kidney injury requiring kidney replacement therapy or death compared with delayed or no rasburicase treatment, finds new BMJ study bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…
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Excited to share our study on RBC exchange transfusion in severe babesiosis, now in @JAMAInternalMed. With Peter Krause and collaborators across 82 hospitals, we found substantially improved clinical outcomes in severe disease. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Congratulations to David Leaf @DavidLeaf9 and Leonardo Riella @LVRiella for election into the American Soc of Clinical Investigation @the_asci. They join M. Amin Arnaout, Jodie Babitt, Joseph Bonventre, Anna Greka, Herbert Lin, Eugene Rhee, Jing Zhou as MGB divison members
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Super proud of my wife, @Rsk2003, for presenting our work on ICI-ITP at @ASH_hematology! Our paper also came out today in #BloodJournal (doi.org/10.1182/blood.202503…). Very grateful to all of our wonderful collaborators who made this possible!
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Does Vitamin D protect against kidney injury? Here, @waikarss @DavidLeaf9 & team @BrighamWomens conduct a phase 2, randomized, double-blind, multi-dose, 3-arm clinical trial in critically ill adults. While treatment with calcifediol or calcitriol upregulated genes in several pathways and had anti-inflammatory effects, it did not prevent acute kidney injury: insight.jci.org/articles/vie…
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Huge thanks to @waikarss, @EdyKim5, and @NIDDKgov, without whom this would not have been possible.
In a new study, researchers from @MGBKidneys and colleagues investigate vitamin D and acute kidney injury prevention. The study was published in @JCI_insight. Read more: insight.jci.org/articles/vie… @DavidLeaf9
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Prophylactic IV magnesium administration was associated with a lower risk of cisplatin-associated acute kidney injury (CP-AKI) in patients with cancer undergoing cisplatin chemotherapy. ja.ma/4jKv4Qq
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Most viewed this week from @JAMAOnc: Prophylactic IV magnesium administration was associated with a lower risk of cisplatin-associated acute kidney injury (CP-AKI) in patients with cancer undergoing cisplatin chemotherapy. ja.ma/44fFHqa
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Wonderful evening having dinner with our friends from BioIron. @BioIronSocial @ManciasLab @iqbalhamzalab @DavidLeaf9 @IronResearchLab
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🚨New Blood issue out now featuring: Glucarpidase for treatment of high-dose methotrexate toxicity ow.ly/QlV750VHfxn @ShrutiGKidney @SarahKaunfer @DavidLeaf9
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Happy Miracle on Ice Day if you’re observing it. 45 years ago today, February 22, 1980, a bunch of hard-nosed American college kids beat the seemingly invincible Soviets at 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY. “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!”
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Tweetorial on MTX related renal toxicity @onconephsociety @ASCO @ASH_hematology @BloodCancerJnl -- See below to start!
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Huge congrats to @ShrutiGkidney, @sarahkaunfer, and our many collaborators throughout the country on this achievement! Thrilled to see this in @BloodJournal.
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