Lakshman Gunaratnam

Principal Investigator

Biography

Dr. Lakshman Gunaratnam is a Professor of Medicine and clinician-scientist at Western University. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Toronto in immunology and then went on to attend medical school and complete residency training in internal medicine at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Gunaratnam completed research fellowships at the University of Ottawa and Harvard Medical School in cancer biology and acute kidney injury, respectively. After completing his clinical fellowship in nephrology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2009, he did additional training in renal transplantation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Gunaratnam is currently the Medical Co-Director of the kidney transplant program at London Health Sciences Centre. His clinical and research interests are in renal acute kidney injury, kidney transplantation and cancer immunology.

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Publications (last 3 years)

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Genetic Testing in Adults over 50 Years with Chronic Kidney Disease: Diagnostic Yield and Clinical Implications in a Specialized Kidney Genetics Clinic.

Schott C, Alajmi M, Bukhari M, Relouw S, Wang J, McIntyre AD, Baker C, Colaiacovo S, Campagnolo C, Almada Offerni G, Blake PG, Chiu M, Cowan A, Garg AX, Gunaratnam L, House AA, Huang SS, Iyer H, Jain AK, Jevnikar AM, Johnson J, Lotfy K, Moist L, Rehman F, Roshanov PS, Sultan N, Weir MA, Basharat P, Florendo-Cumbermack A, Khan T, Thain J, Kidd K, Kmoch S, Bleyer AJ, Bhangu J, Hegele RA, Connaughton DM

Genes (Basel) • 2025

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Implementation of a Kidney Genetic Service Into the Diagnostic Pathway for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease in Canada.

Schott C, Arnaldi M, Baker C, Wang J, McIntyre AD, Colaiacovo S, Relouw S, Offerni GA, Campagnolo C, Van Nynatten LR, Pourtousi A, Drago-Catalfo A, Lebedeva V, Chiu M, Cowan A, Filler G, Gunaratnam L, House AA, Huang S, Iyer H, Jain AK, Jevnikar AM, Lotfy K, Moist L, Rehman F, Roshanov PS, Sharma AP, Weir MA, Kidd K, Bleyer AJ, Hegele RA, Connaughton DM

Kidney Int Rep • 2025

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Canadian Highly Sensitized Patient Program Report: A 1000 Kidney Transplants Story.

Shamseddin MK, Paraskevas S, Mainra R, Maru K, Piggott B, Jagusic D, Yetzer K, Gunaratnam L, Ribic C, Kim J, Singh S, Hoar S, Prasad GVR, Masse M, Houde I, Khalili M, West K, Liwski R, Martin S, Gogan N, Karpinski M, Monroy-Cuadros M, Gourishankar S, Johnston O, Lan J, Nguen C, Gill J, Pâquet M

Can J Kidney Health Dis • 2024

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Bringing a Systems Approach to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation.

Horton A, Loban K, Nugus P, Fortin MC, Gunaratnam L, Knoll G, Mucsi I, Chaudhury P, Landsberg D, Pâquet MR, Cantarovich M, Sandal S

Kidney Int Rep • 2024

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Impact of Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 Dosing Interval in Hemodialysis Patients.

Lamarche C, Tennankore K, Marchitto L, Beabien-Souligny W, Goupil R, Nadeau-Fredette AC, Gunaratnam L, Mac-Way F, Benlarbi M, Chatterjee D, Tom A, Medjahed H, Kaufmann DE, Finzi A, Suri RS, Réseau Néphrologique Québécois (Quebec Renal Network) COVID-19 Study Investigators

Kidney Int Rep • 2024

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Inhibition of NK cell cytotoxicity by tubular epithelial cell expression of Clr-b and Clr-f.

Fuhrmann B, Jiang J, Mcleod P, Huang X, Balaji S, Arp J, Diao H, Ma S, Peng T, Haig A, Gunaratnam L, Zhang ZX, Jevnikar AM

Curr Res Immunol • 2024

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Vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease associated with pathogenic variants in ABCC6.

Schott C, Dilliott AA, Wang J, McIntyre AD, Son S, Colaiacovo S, Baker C, Gunaratnam L, House AA, Susan Huang SH, Iyer H, Johnson J, Lotfy K, Masellis M, Munoz DP, Rehman F, Roshanov PS, Swartz RH, Weir MA, Hegele RA, Connaughton DM

Gene • 2024

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The CaMK Family Differentially Promotes Necroptosis and Mouse Cardiac Graft Injury and Rejection.

Lu H, Jiang J, Min J, Huang X, McLeod P, Liu W, Haig A, Gunaratnam L, Jevnikar AM, Zhang ZX

Int J Mol Sci • 2024

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Sensing Dying Cells in Health and Disease: The Importance of Kidney Injury Molecule-1.

Tutunea-Fatan E, Arumugarajah S, Suri RS, Edgar CR, Hon I, Dikeakos JD, Gunaratnam L

J Am Soc Nephrol • 2024

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Characterizing Cluster-Based Frailty Phenotypes in a Multicenter Prospective Cohort of Kidney Transplant Candidates.

Abidi SHR, Zincir-Heywood N, Abidi SSR, Jalakam K, Abidi S, Gunaratnam L, Suri R, Cardinale H, Vinson A, Prasad B, Walsh M, Yohanna S, Worthen G, Tennankore K

Stud Health Technol Inform • 2024

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The effect of late-onset CMV infection on the outcome of renal allograft considering initial graft function.

Shahmirzadi MR, Gunaratnam L, Jevnikar AM, Luke P, House AA, Silverman MS, Hosseini-Moghaddam SM

Transpl Infect Dis • 2023

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Outcomes in ANCA-associated vasculitis patients with end-stage kidney disease on renal replacement therapy-A meta-analysis.

Pope V, Sivashanmugathas V, Moodley D, Gunaratnam L, Barra L

Semin Arthritis Rheum • 2023

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Health System-Level Barriers to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Protocol for a Comparative Case Study Analysis.

Horton A, Loban K, Nugus P, Fortin MC, Gunaratnam L, Knoll G, Mucsi I, Chaudhury P, Landsberg D, Paquet M, Cantarovich M, Sandal S

JMIR Res Protoc • 2023

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Impaired Efferocytosis by Synovial Macrophages in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis.

Del Sordo L, Blackler GB, Philpott HT, Riviere J, Gunaratnam L, Heit B, Appleton CT

Arthritis Rheumatol • 2023

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