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Overview

Prasad Devarajan is affiliated with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Nephrology as well as related subfields including Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Epidemiology, and Rheumatology.

The scientist's main areas of work are centered on kidney-related conditions and systemic diseases. Key topics include Acute Kidney Injury Research, Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes, Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies, Renal and related Cancers, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research, Dialysis and Renal Disease Management, and Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment.

Devarajan has contributed extensively to academic literature, with recent papers including:

  • Chronic Inflammation in Chronic Kidney Disease Progression: Role of Nrf2 (2021) published in Kidney International Reports
  • Single-Cell Profiling of AKI in a Murine Model Reveals Novel Transcriptional Signatures, Profibrotic Phenotype, and Epithelial-to-Stromal Crosstalk (2020) published in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Cystatin C as a biomarker of chronic kidney disease: latest developments (2020) published in Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics
  • Post-Acute Kidney Injury Proteinuria and Subsequent Kidney Disease Progression (2020) published in JAMA Internal Medicine
  • A prospective cohort study of acute kidney injury and kidney outcomes, cardiovascular events, and death (2020) published in Kidney International

Collaborations have been a significant aspect of Devarajan's career. Frequent co-authors include Michael Zappitelli, Qing Ma, Stuart L. Goldstein, Jason H. Greenberg, and Hermine I. Brunner.

Publication venues where Devarajan's work has appeared multiple times include the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Pediatric Nephrology, Kidney International Reports, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, and American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology.

Recognition of professional contributions includes membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) as a biomarker for acute renal injury after cardiac surgery

    Jaya Mishra;Catherine Dent;Ridwan Tarabishi;Mark M Mitsnefes

  • Identification of Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin as a Novel Early Urinary Biomarker for Ischemic Renal Injury

    Jaya Mishra;Qing Ma;Anne Prada;Mark Mitsnefes

  • Accuracy of Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) in Diagnosis and Prognosis in Acute Kidney Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Michael Haase;Rinaldo Bellomo;Prasad V Devarajan;Peter Schlattmann

  • Update on mechanisms of ischemic acute kidney injury.

    Prasad Devarajan

  • Endocytic delivery of lipocalin-siderophore-iron complex rescues the kidney from ischemia-reperfusion injury

    Kiyoshi Mori;H. Thomas Lee;Dana Rapoport;Ian R. Drexler

  • Urine NGAL Predicts Severity of Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiac Surgery: A Prospective Study

    Michael Bennett;Catherine L. Dent;Qing Ma;Sudha Dastrala

  • Dual Action of Neutrophil Gelatinase–Associated Lipocalin

    Kai M. Schmidt-Ott;Kiyoshi Mori;Jau Yi Li;Avtandil Kalandadze

  • Sensitivity and Specificity of a Single Emergency Department Measurement of Urinary Neutrophil Gelatinase–Associated Lipocalin for Diagnosing Acute Kidney Injury

    Thomas L Nickolas;Matthew J O'Rourke;Jun Yang;Meghan E Sise

  • The outcome of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin-positive subclinical acute kidney injury: a multicenter pooled analysis of prospective studies.

    Michael Haase;Prasad Devarajan;Anja Haase-Fielitz;Rinaldo Bellomo

  • Urinary IL-18 is an early predictive biomarker of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery.

    C.R. Parikh;J. Mishra;H. Thiessen-Philbrook;B. Dursun

  • Urinary biomarkers in the early diagnosis of acute kidney injury

    W.K. Han;S.S. Waikar;A. Johnson;R.A. Betensky

  • Amelioration of Ischemic Acute Renal Injury by Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin

    Jaya Mishra;Kiyoshi Mori;Qing Ma;Caitlin Kelly

  • Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin: A Novel Early Urinary Biomarker for Cisplatin Nephrotoxicity

    Jaya Mishra;Kiyoshi Mori;Qing Ma;Caitlin Kelly

  • Differential gene expression following early renal ischemia/reperfusion

    Suroj Supavekin;Weijia Zhang;Raju Kucherlapati;Frederick J. Kaskel

  • Urine NGAL and IL-18 are predictive biomarkers for delayed graft function following kidney transplantation.

    C. R. Parikh;A. Jani;J. Mishra;Q. Ma

  • NGAL is an early predictive biomarker of contrast-induced nephropathy in children.

    Russel Hirsch;Catherine Dent;Holly Pfriem;Janene Allen

  • Plasma neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin predicts acute kidney injury, morbidity and mortality after pediatric cardiac surgery: a prospective uncontrolled cohort study.

    Catherine L Dent;Qing Ma;Sudha Dastrala;Michael Bennett

  • Novel and conventional serum biomarkers predicting acute kidney injury in adult cardiac surgery—A prospective cohort study*

    Ania Haase-Fielitz;Rinaldo Bellomo;Prasad V Devarajan;David A Story

  • Postoperative Biomarkers Predict Acute Kidney Injury and Poor Outcomes after Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

    Chirag R. Parikh;Prasad Devarajan;Michael Zappitelli;Kyaw Sint;Kyaw Sint

  • Urinary biomarkers in the early diagnosis of acute kidney injury. Commentary

    C. R. Parikh;A. X. Garg;W. K. Han;S. S. Waikar

Frequent Co-Authors

Chirag R. Parikh
Chirag R. Parikh Johns Hopkins University
Michael J. Bennett
Michael J. Bennett University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Steven G. Coca
Steven G. Coca Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Michael G. Shlipak
Michael G. Shlipak University of California, San Francisco
Rinaldo Bellomo
Rinaldo Bellomo Monash University
Stuart L. Goldstein
Stuart L. Goldstein Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Jonathan Barasch
Jonathan Barasch Columbia University
Amit X. Garg
Amit X. Garg University of Western Ontario
Charles L. Edelstein
Charles L. Edelstein University of Colorado Denver
Kiyoshi Mori
Kiyoshi Mori University of Shizuoka

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