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Alan W. Stitt is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to subfields such as ophthalmology, molecular biology, immunology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and neurology.

The main topics addressed in their work include retinal diseases and treatments, retinal imaging and analysis, retinal development and disorders, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, angiogenesis and VEGF in cancer, glaucoma and retinal disorders, and immune cells in cancer.

Key recent publications by Alan W. Stitt include:

  • "Current understanding of the molecular and cellular pathology of diabetic retinopathy," 2021, Nature Reviews Endocrinology
  • "Common pathways in dementia and diabetic retinopathy: understanding the mechanisms of diabetes-related cognitive decline," 2021, Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • "The Role of Lipoxidation in the Pathogenesis of Diabetic Retinopathy," 2021, Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • "Claudin-5 Redistribution Induced by Inflammation Leads to Anti-VEGF-Resistant Diabetic Macular Edema," 2020, Diabetes
  • "Current Concepts on Endothelial Stem Cells Definition, Location, and Markers," 2021, Stem Cells Translational Medicine

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Alan W. Stitt include Reinhold J. Medina, Karis Little, Edoardo Pedrini, Varun Pathak, and Josy Augustine.

The scientist has published predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Diabetes, Diabetologia, and Current Eye Research.

Alan W. Stitt became a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2018.

Best Publications

  • The progress in understanding and treatment of diabetic retinopathy

    Alan W. Stitt;Timothy M. Curtis;Mei Chen;Reinhold J. Medina

  • Diabetic retinopathy: current understanding, mechanisms, and treatment strategies

    Elia J. Duh;Jennifer K. Sun;Alan W. Stitt

  • Neurodegeneration in diabetic retinopathy: does it really matter?

    Rafael Simó;Alan W. Stitt;Thomas W. Gardner

  • The AGE Inhibitor Pyridoxamine Inhibits Development of Retinopathy in Experimental Diabetes

    Alan Stitt;Thomas A. Gardiner;Nathan L. Anderson;Paul Canning

  • The pathology associated with diabetic retinopathy

    Judith Lechner;Olivia E O'Leary;Alan W Stitt

  • Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) co-localize with AGE receptors in the retinal vasculature of diabetic and of AGE-infused rats.

    A. W. Stitt;Y. M. Li;T. A. Gardiner;R. Bucala

  • Molecular identity and cellular distribution of advanced glycation endproduct receptors: relationship of p60 to OST-48 and p90 to 80K-H membrane proteins

    Yong Ming Li;Tomoko Mitsuhashi;Donald Wojciechowicz;Nobuyoshi Shimizu

  • Endothelial Progenitors: A Consensus Statement on Nomenclature.

    Reinhold J. Medina;Chad L. Barber;Florence Sabatier;Francoise Dignat-George

  • Microvascular lesions of diabetic retinopathy: clues towards understanding pathogenesis?

    T M Curtis;T A Gardiner;A W Stitt

  • Advanced glycation: an important pathological event in diabetic and age related ocular disease.

    Alan W Stitt

  • Current understanding of the molecular and cellular pathology of diabetic retinopathy.

    David A. Antonetti;Paolo S. Silva;Paolo S. Silva;Alan W. Stitt

  • The role of advanced glycation in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy

    Alan W. Stitt

  • Constitutive nitric oxide synthase expression in retinal vascular endothelial cells is suppressed by high glucose and advanced glycation end products.

    Usha Chakravarthy;Ruth G. Hayes;Alan W. Stitt;Edel McAuley

  • Prediction of Heart Failure Mortality in Emergent Care: A Cohort Study

    Douglas S Lee;Audra Stitt;Peter C Austin;Therese A Stukel

  • AGEs, RAGE, and Diabetic Retinopathy

    Hongliang Zong;Micheal Ward;Alan W. Stitt

  • Endothelial Progenitors as Tools to Study Vascular Disease

    Reinhold J. Medina;Christina L. O'Neill;T. Michelle O'Doherty;Sarah E. J. Wilson

  • The role of advanced glycation end products in retinal microvascular leukostasis

    Tara C. B. Moore;Jonathan E. Moore;Jonathan E. Moore;Yuichi Kaji;Norma Frizzell

  • Differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to cells similar to cord-blood endothelial colony–forming cells

    Nutan Prasain;Man Ryul Lee;Sasidhar Vemula;Jonathan Luke Meador

  • Symptom burden and performance status in a population-based cohort of ambulatory cancer patients.

    Lisa Barbera;Lisa Barbera;Hsien Seow;Hsien Seow;Doris Howell;Rinku Sutradhar;Rinku Sutradhar

  • AGEs and Diabetic Retinopathy

    Alan W Stitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Heping Xu
Heping Xu Queen's University Belfast
Suzanne R. Thorpe
Suzanne R. Thorpe University of South Carolina
Michael E. Boulton
Michael E. Boulton University of Alabama at Birmingham
John J. McGarvey
John J. McGarvey Queen's University Belfast
Ian Fairweather
Ian Fairweather Queen's University Belfast
Usha Chakravarthy
Usha Chakravarthy Queen's University Belfast
Helen Vlassara
Helen Vlassara Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
John W. Baynes
John W. Baynes University of South Carolina
Anthony Cerami
Anthony Cerami Araim Pharmaceuticals (United States)
Peter Humphries
Peter Humphries Trinity College Dublin

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