Hamid Rabb
ISN Bywaters Award
The Bywaters Award acknowledges outstanding contributions made to the understanding of Acute Kidney Injury. This year’s winner is Hamid Rabb.
Dr. Hamid Rabb was born in Bangladesh and raised in Montreal. His passion for nephrology grew during an externship with Floyd Rector at UCSF while studying medicine at McGill. Richard Glassock further inspired him during his residency at Harbor-UCLA. Cecil Coggins and Joseph Bonventre supervised his clinical training in nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard, where, incidentally, Eric Bywaters trained, followed by leukocyte biology training with Amin Arnaout. After stints in Florida and Minnesota, Hamid has served at Johns Hopkins for the last 21 years in various roles, including Kidney Transplant Medical Director, Vice Chairman of Medicine, and Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Hamid Rabb’s pioneering basic research over the last 30 years has transformed understanding of the cellular and molecular basis for inflammation as an important mediator of AKI and AKI to CKD transition.
His team was the first to mechanistically unravel organ crosstalk pathways that mediate mortality during AKI. These discoveries led to his election to the American Society of Clinical Investigation, Association of American Physicians, and achievement awards from the American Transplant Society, American Nephrologists of Indian Origin, the Canadian government, and the Bangladesh Medical Association of North America. He has also received awards from the American Medical Association and Bangladesh Post-Graduate Institute for his work with underserved populations.
Dr. Hamid Rabb comments, “I am deeply appreciative and humbly receive this award.”