Derek Ng
KI-ISN Early Career Researcher Award: Clinical Science
The KI-ISN Early Career Researcher Awards recognize outstanding research in basic and clinical science published in Kidney International (KI) in 2023.
Dr. Derek Ng received his PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. He has been the Principal Investigator of the Data Coordinating Center of the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) cohort study since 2018. His scientific contributions in pediatric nephrology include GFR measurement and estimation, characterizing the life course of pediatric CKD to kidney replacement therapy, identifying risk factors associated with accelerated disease progression, the severity and treatment of hypertension, and epidemiologic methods for longitudinal and competing risks analyses. His research interests are in the conduct of observational cohorts of pediatric kidney diseases and application of prediction methodology for translational clinical tools.
Dr. Ng was named one of the KI-ISN Early Career Researchers for Clinical Science for his paper, Development of an adaptive clinical web-based prediction tool for kidney replacement therapy in children with chronic kidney disease [https://www.kidney-international.org/article/S0085-2538(23)00474-X/abstract].
The KI-ISN Early Career Researchers will be acknowledged in the WCN ‘Editors’ Pick of ISN Journals: KI and KIR’ session taking place Monday, April 15, 2024, from 9-10:30 am Argentina Time in Hall C2.