Kidney Precision Medicine Project

The Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) is an ambitious, multi-year project funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases with the purpose of understanding and finding new ways to treat chronic kidney disease (CKD) and acute kidney injury (AKI). KPMP accomplish this by obtaining kidney tissue from KPMP participants, analyzing it using state-of-the-art technologies, and developing next generation software tools to visualize and share the resulting data. This will allow us to redefine kidney disease in molecular terms and identify novel targeted therapies.

Dr. Waikar is the contact Principal Investigator for the Boston recruitment sites for chronic kidney disease in KPMP. Recruitment sites in Boston include Joslin Diabetes Center (co-PI: Dr. Sylvia Rosas), and Boston Medical Center (Dr. Waikar). Biopsies are performed at Boston Medical Center by Dr. Suvranu Ganguli and at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center by Dr. Stewart Lecker.