2025 Excellence Award for Hypertension Research Lecturer – S. Ananth Karumanchi, MBBS

S. Ananth Karumanchi, MBBS

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California

Dr. Ananth Karumanchi, Medallion Chair in Vascular Biology, is Director of Renovascular Research and Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.

Dr. Karumanchi’s laboratory is focused on discovering pathogenic pathways and bringing therapies to patients in the areas of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and chronic kidney disease. Dr. Karumanchi’s research activities are vertically integrated, ranging from molecular and cell biological studies to animal models to first-in-class human clinical trials.

Dr. Karumanchi has published more than 350 papers, with several publications in NEJM, JAMA, Circulation, Nature, Science, Nature Medicine, and the JCI. For his work on elucidating the pathogenesis of hypertension in pregnancy, Dr. Karumanchi has received prestigious awards such as the Gregory Pincus Memorial Medal from the UMass Chan Medical School (2021) and the Jean Hamburger Prize from the International Society of Nephrology (2022).

He was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) in 2007 and Association of American Physicians (AAP) in 2015. Dr. Karumanchi’s research has been funded by the NIH, AHA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Gates Foundation.