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Medical School Acceptances

April, 2025
Sarah Kaunfer, Audrey Monson, and Tushar Shenoy were all accepted into medical schools for matriculation in Summer 2025! Sarah will be attending Sidney Kimmel Medical College. Audrey will be attending West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. Tushar will be attending The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

Publication

January, 2025
Shruti Gupta (first author) and Sarah Kaunfer (co-first author) published a paper in Blood entitled, “Glucarpidase for Treatment of High-Dose Methotrexate Toxicity”.

NIH U01 Grant

September, 2024
David Leaf, Shalender Bhasin, and Stephen Gardell were awarded a $5.7 million U01 grant from the NIH/NIA for their proposal, “Development, Validation, and Harmonization of Methods for Collection and Measurement of NAD+ and Related Metabolites: Application to a Randomized Trial of Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass.”

Publication

August, 2024
Shruti Gupta and David Leaf’s paper, “F18-FDG PET imaging as a diagnostic tool for immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated acute kidney injury“, was published in JCI.

APEX Pilot Grant

May 2024
Rebecca Karp Leaf was awarded a pilot grant from the American Porphyrias Expert Collaborative (APEX) for her proposal, “Evaluation of the risks and benefits of sex hormones in women with acute hepatic porphyria.”

Publication

March, 2024
Shruti Gupta and David Leaf’s paper, “Derivation and external validation of a simple risk score for predicting severe acute kidney injury after intravenous cisplatin: cohort study“, was published in BMJ.

Young Physician-Scientist Award

January, 2024
Shruti Gupta is a recipient of a Young Physician-Scientist Award from the American Society of Clinical Investigation.

JASN Associate Editor

October 9, 2023
David Leaf was selected to be an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. His six-year term began in January, 2024.

Research Grant

October 1, 2023
Shruti Gupta received a Wong Family Award in Translational Oncology from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for her proposal to study biomarkers of immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated AKI.

Best Paper Award

September 2022
Shruti Gupta’s paper entitled, “Acute kidney injury in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors” was selected by the Editorial Board of J Immunother Cancer as the best Clinical/Translational Cancer Immunotherapy Paper of 2021.

NIH R01 Grant

July 2022
David Leaf was awarded an R01 grant from the NIH/NIDDK for his proposal, “Hepcidin-Ferroportin-Iron Axis in Cardiac Surgery-associated Acute Kidney Injury.”

Medical School Acceptance

May 2022
Congratulations to Charlotte Thomas on being accepted into Harvard Medical School!

NIH K23 Grant

January, 2022
Shruti Gupta was awarded a K23 Career Development Award from the NIH/NIDDK for her proposal, “Novel Pathways and Therapeutic Targets for Cisplatin-Associated Acute Kidney Injury.”

American Society of Onconephrology

December, 2021
Shruti Gupta is the Founder and first President of the American Society of Onconephrology!

Top Paper Award

January 27, 2021
Shruti Gupta’s paper entitled, “AKI Treated with Renal Replacement Therapy in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19” was selected as one of the top 5 original research papers published in J Am Soc Nephrol in 2020.

NIH R01 Grant

September 1, 2020
David Leaf was awarded an R01 grant from the NIH/NIDDK for his proposal entitled, “Deferoxamine for the Prevention of Acute Kidney Injury.” The grant is funding DEFEAT-AKI, a phase II, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of iron chelation with deferoxamine for prevention of cardiac surgery-associated AKI.

NIH R01 Grant

May 1, 2019
David Leaf was awarded an R01 grant from the NIH/NHLBI for his proposal entitled, “Precision Medicine Approach to Vitamin D3 Administration in Critically Ill Patients.”