Overview
Updated 14 Jul 2026
David Leaf, MD, MMSC, is Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School. The public record shows 223 publications with 14,356 citations (h-index 58), centered on Acute Kidney Injury Research, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers. It also documents an investigator role on 8 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 3 companies, 7 NIH-funded awards (2013–2026).
- Most recent indexed publication: 2026 · Nature reviews. Nephrology
- Top research focus: Acute Kidney Injury Research
- 8 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Open Payments reporting from 3 companies
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Indications focusfrom trials led + research topics
Research focusOpenAlex concept fingerprint
Drugs & moleculesacross trials, industry payments and publications
Works withtrial sponsors and companies reporting payments
Scholarshipindexed output and impact (OpenAlex)
View publications ↓Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID; 25 in PubMed.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index (OpenAlex). i10-index 128.
Clinical & industrytrials, payments and federal funding
Clinical trials
Updated 14 Jul 2026
Listed as an investigator on 8 registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:
- Infliximab for Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Associated AKI
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
InvestigatorPhase 4Not, yet, recruitingNCT07683975 - MAGIC AKI: Magnesium for the Prevention of HIOC-Associated AKI
Sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital
InvestigatorPhase 2RecruitingNCT05730816 - Deferoxamine for the Prevention of Cardiac Surgery-Associated Acute Kidney Injury
Sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital
InvestigatorPhase 2Active, not recruitingNCT04633889
Industry payments
Updated 14 Jul 2026
3 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Program year20251 payment
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.Program year20251 payment
- Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Program year202413 payments$25,762openpaymentsdata.cms.gov ↗
NIH funding
Updated 14 Jul 2026
7 NIH research awards on record, funded 2013–2026 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial of Glucocorticoid-Sparing Immunosuppressive Treatments for Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated AKI
Massachusetts General Hospital
FY2026$312,324R01DK144161 - Development, Validation, and Harmonization of Methods for Collection and Measurement of NAD+ and Related Metabolites: Application to a Randomized Trial of Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass
Brigham and Women'S Hospital
FY2025$1,213,239U01AG089040 - Hepcidin-Ferroportin-Iron Axis in Cardiac Surgery-associated Acute Kidney Injury
Brigham and Women'S Hospital
FY2025$767,918R01DK126685
Congress activity
Updated 14 Jul 2026
3 congress contributions (2018–2025) across ASH per OpenAlex. The most recent:
- Immune thrombocytopenia in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors
ASH Annual Meeting
ASH2025Co-author - Clinical Outcomes in Patients with High-Dose Methotrexate Toxicity Treated with Vs. without Glucarpidase
ASH Annual Meeting
ASH2023Co-author - Clinical Features of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia: A Series of 14 Cases
ASH Annual Meeting
ASH2018Co-author
Published abstracts are attributed via the same ORCID-disambiguated authorship as publications, so each is DOI-verified. Podium roles (invited talks, session chairs) and oral/poster type are added as program data is confirmed.
Publications
Updated 14 Jul 2026
Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.
Most-cited worksby citation count (OpenAlex)
- 01
- 02
- 03Target Trial Emulation853 citations2022
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Contact
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Office address
75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115
Network
Updated 14 Jul 2026
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Background & recognition
Updated 14 Jul 2026
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Educationdegrees and training on record
- verifiedCorroborated by findmyKOL. We matched this record across two or more independent public sources (or a verified ORCID / NPI identifier bridge) before attributing it to this person.How we verify →doctors.massgeneralbrigham.org ↗
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- MMSc in Clinical Investigation
Harvard Medical School
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University of Pennsylvania (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
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Editorial & leadership rolesjournal and society appointments
- Associate Editor
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), oversees clinical and translational AKI submissions
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Mass General Brigham Institutional Review Board (IRB)
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Awards & honorshonors on the public record
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Secondary affiliationsappointments beyond the home institution
- Director of Clinical and Translational Research in Acute Kidney Injury
Division of Renal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Online presence
Updated 14 Jul 2026
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- LinkedIn
LinkedIn profile (auth-walled, unverified beyond headline match: "David Leaf - Journal of the American Society of Nephrology")
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