
Tarek Ashkar
Terence P. Kahn Professor of Nephrology · Indiana University School of Medicine
Credentials: · · · · · ·
History

- 1995–1999
Doctor of Medicine
Research
An atlas of healthy and injured cell states and niches in the human kidney
Nature · 2023 · 622 citations
JCI Insight · 2021 · 169 citations
Rate of kidney function decline associates with mortality
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · 2010 · 168 citations

47 papers

41 papers · 22 as a resident

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Grants
- 2026–2030
Alternative Splicing of UMOD as a Protective Mechanism for Thick Ascending Cells in Kidney Injury.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · R01
Contact PI · $674.7K · Indiana University Indianapolis
- 2023–2028
Indiana Center for Advanced Renal Microscopy and Molecular Imaging
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · U54
Project lead · $1.2M · Indiana University Indianapolis
- 2017–2027
Integrated Spatial Interrogation of Cellular and Molecular Signatures of Human Kidney Disease
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · U01
PI · $5.4M · Indiana University Indianapolis
- 2022–2027
Kidney Single Cell and Spatial Molecular Atlas Project - KIDSSMAP
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · U54
PI · $5.4M · Washington University
Clinical trials
- 2007–2013
Minocycline to Prevent Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiac Surgery
Principal investigator · Completed
Tarek M. El-Achkar
- 2008–2009
Impact of Early Renal Involvement on the Development of Severe In-hospital Renal Failure
Study director · Unknown
Saint Louis VA Medical Center



