[1] During his over 30-year tenure at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Coresh studied risk factors for vascular disease across different organs including the heart, kidney and brain with the goal of improving health and research.

[4] In this role, he was recognized with the AHA Lifestyle Council Mentorship Award as "a person who has provided exceptional individual and institutional mentoring and advocacy for cardiovascular epidemiology researchers.

[8] In 2009, Coresh was the co-author of "Identification of a urate transporter, ABCG2, with a common functional polymorphism causing gout" which received the PNAS paper Cozzarelli Prize for outstanding scientific excellence and originality.

[8] As the leader of the Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium, Coresh analyzed data from 1.7 million participants recruited into 35 cohorts in dozens of countries from 1975 to 2011 and followed for an average of 5 years.

[11] Due to his overall research, Coresh was the recipient of the 2015 National Kidney Foundation's David Hume Award, their highest honor given to individuals "who exemplifies the high ideals of scholarship and humanism in an outstanding manner.