When you look at the NephJC Kidneys there are two gaps in the awards. No awards were given in 2023 because we were just too tired (running this joint is hard). But the lack of 2025 awards just comes from the fact that we rescheduled the our academic year to correspond with the rest of the universe and starting in July rather than starting with the calendar year.
Yesterday the NephJC Editorial Internship class graduated.
As part of that graduation we awarded the 2026 NephJC Kidneys, the best looking trophy in nephrology.
Here are the previous winners:
The first four awards are voted on by the entire #NephTwitter community
The manuscript of the year goes to PISCES by showing that we can make a difference in hemodialysis.
2026 NephJC Kidney for Manuscript of the Year: Fish-Oil Supplementation and Cardiovascular Events in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis.
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.
2026 Nathan Hellman Social Media Award goes to Roger Rodby and RUSH Nephrology for Renal Biopsy Cases
Visual abstracts changed the way we share and discuss manuscripts in the short-attention-span era of social media. CJASN and NephJC are the pioneers for this media.
2026 Visual Abstract of the Year goes to Husam Alzayer
Social Justice and social media go together like CKD and SGLT2i/ARB/GLP1/nsMRAs. Since 2020 NephJC has had a Social Justice Award. In a world full of insane changes, we need a little more justice.
The 2026 Social Justice Award goes to World Kidney Day- Kidney Health for All
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. NephJC only gets better and better because of this persons unyielding efforts to get the job done.
The 2026 NephJC MVP goes to co-editor in chief Brian Rifkin
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 2026 Rookie of the Year goes to Akshaya Jayachandran
NephJC asks scientists to participate in the chats and podcasts and really depends on them to provide a lot of the content that makes NephJC work. The work group votes on the best of these participants. This year’s winner is sharp, funny, and friendly IgA expert with an accent…
The 2026 Engaged Scientist of the Year goes to Jonathan Barratt
That’s a wrap on the 2026 NephJC Kidneys! In the end, it’s not about the awards, it’s about the we do, the education we share, the friendships we build, and the inspiration driving nephrology forward. Let’s keep creating the #FOAMed to light the way for the next generation of nephrologists. Congratulations to all the winners!
The updated table of winners…
