The 2022 NephJC Kidneys Award Winners

Last night at the NephJC Party we announced the winners of the 2022 NephJC Kidneys Award Winners.

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The first four awards are voted on by the entire #NephTwitter community

Astrid Weins breakthrough paper on Minimal Change Disease barely nudged out two-time nominee (that’s not supposed to happen) Rajiv Agarwal’s CLICK trial to win.

2022 NephJC Kidney for Manuscript of the Year: Discovery of Autoantibodies Targeting Nephrin in Minimal Change Disease Supports a Novel Autoimmune Etiology.

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We love to promote new and ambitious social media projects in social media and we dedicate this award to the person who started this whole movement, Nathan Hellman.

2022 Nathan Hellman Social Media Award goes to Kidney International Reports Social Media Team lead by Sophia Ambruso

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Visual abstracts changed the way we share and discuss manuscripts in the short-attention-span era of social media. CJASN and NephJC are pioneers for this media and co-sponsor this next award

2022 NephJC CJASN Visual Abstract of the year goes to Carlo Trinidad


Social Justice and social media go together like CKD and SGLT2i. Since 2020 NephJC has had a Social Justice Award.

The 2022 Social Justice Award goes to Katie Rizzolo and Dinushika Mohottige for the NephMadness Inequities Region Scouting Report

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The second series of awards are voted on by the NephJC Working group.

NephJC is a volunteer organization and is dependant on people donating their time and energy to making this work. The MVP goes to the person who best exemplifies this ethos.

The 2022 NephJC MVP goes to Joshua Waitzman

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NephJC depends on a constant supply of new people to help run the program. Many of these people do great work but we recognize one that is the greatest.

The 2022 Rookie of the Year goes to Cristina Popa

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NephJC asks scientists to paticipate in the chats and podcasts and really depends on them to provide a lot of the content that makes NephJC works. The work group votes on the best of these participants.

The 2022 Engaged Scientist of the Year goes to Mike Walsh

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And one award is decided on by the NephJC board. This is Matt Sparks, Anna Burgner, Michelle Rheault, Swapnil Hiremath, and Joel Topf. This award is for person who is essential for making the whole enterprise of NephJC move forward.

The 2022 NephJC Founders Award goes to Mythri Shankar

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