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  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Charles E. Alpers is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a substantial emphasis on nephrology, immunology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, molecular biology, and genetics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies
  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Renal and Vascular Pathologies
  • Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema

Frequent publication venues for Charles E. Alpers include:

  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Kidney International
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Kidney International Reports

Coauthors with whom Charles E. Alpers has frequently collaborated include:

  • Laura Barisoni
  • Shreeram Akilesh
  • Roberto F. Nicosia
  • Jonathan Barratt
  • Kelly D. Smith

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets for diabetic kidney disease (2022), Kidney International
  • Efficacy and safety of sparsentan versus irbesartan in patients with IgA nephropathy (PROTECT): 2-year results from a randomised, active-controlled, phase 3 trial (2023), The Lancet
  • Sparsentan in patients with IgA nephropathy: a prespecified interim analysis from a randomised, double-blind, active-controlled clinical trial (2023), The Lancet
  • Multicenter Clinicopathologic Correlation of Kidney Biopsies Performed in COVID-19 Patients Presenting With Acute Kidney Injury or Proteinuria (2020), American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Rationale and design of the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (2021), Kidney International

Charles E. Alpers has been recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1998.

Best Publications

  • The Classification of Glomerulonephritis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Revisited

    Jan J. Weening;Vivette D. D'Agati;Melvin M. Schwartz;Surya V. Seshan

  • VEGF inhibition and renal thrombotic microangiopathy.

    Vera Eremina;J. Ashley Jefferson;Jolanta Kowalewska;Howard Hochster

  • The Oxford classification of IgA nephropathy: Rationale, clinicopathological correlations, and classification

    Daniel C. Cattran;Rosanna Coppo;H. Terence Cook;John Feehally

  • Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis associated with hepatitis C virus infection

    Richard J. Johnson;David R. Gretch;Hideaki Yamabe;Jaime Hart

  • The Oxford classification of IgA nephropathy: pathology definitions, correlations, and reproducibility

    Ian S.D. Roberts;H. Terence Cook;Stéphan Troyanov;Charles E. Alpers

  • Oxford Classification of IgA nephropathy 2016: an update from the IgA Nephropathy Classification Working Group

    Hernán Trimarchi;Jonathan Barratt;Daniel C. Cattran;H. Terence Cook

  • Osteopontin is elevated during neointima formation in rat arteries and is a novel component of human atherosclerotic plaques

    Cecilia M. Giachelli;Nancy Bae;Manuela Almeida;David T. Denhardt

  • Mouse Models of Diabetic Nephropathy

    Frank C. Brosius;Charles E. Alpers;Erwin P. Bottinger;Matthew D. Breyer

  • Neovascular Expression of E-Selectin, Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1, and Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1 in Human Atherosclerosis and Their Relation to Intimal Leukocyte Content

    Kevin D. O’Brien;Thomas O. McDonald;Alan Chait;Margaret D. Allen

  • Revision of the International Society of Nephrology/Renal Pathology Society classification for lupus nephritis: clarification of definitions, and modified National Institutes of Health activity and chronicity indices

    Ingeborg M. Bajema;Suzanne Wilhelmus;Charles E. Alpers;Jan A. Bruijn

  • Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome and C3 glomerulopathy: conclusions from a “Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes” (KDIGO) Controversies Conference

    Timothy H.J. Goodship;H. Terence Cook;Fadi Fakhouri;Fernando C. Fervenza

  • C3 glomerulopathy: consensus report

    Matthew C. Pickering;Vivette D. D'agati;Carla M. Nester;Richard J. Smith

  • Apolipoproteins B, (a), and E Accumulate in the Morphologically Early Lesion of ‘Degenerative’ Valvular Aortic Stenosis

    Kevin D. O’Brien;Dennis D. Reichenbach;Santica M. Marcovina;Johanna Kuusisto

  • Renal injury from angiotensin II-mediated hypertension.

    Richard J. Johnson;Charles E. Alpers;Ashio Yoshimura;Donna Lombardi

  • Autopsy findings in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

    Kevin Welch;Walter Finkbeiner;Charles E. Alpers;Walter Blumenfeld

  • Osteopontin Is Expressed in Human Aortic Valvular Lesions

    Kevin D. O’Brien;Johanna Kuusisto;Dennis D. Reichenbach;Marina Ferguson

  • Interstitial Collagenase (MMP-1) Expression in Human Carotid Atherosclerosis

    Seppo T. Nikkari;Kevin D. O’Brien;Marina Ferguson;Thomas Hatsukami

  • Expression of smooth muscle cell phenotype by rat mesangial cells in immune complex nephritis. Alpha-smooth muscle actin is a marker of mesangial cell proliferation.

    R J Johnson;H Iida;C E Alpers;M W Majesky

  • Glomerular cell proliferation and PDGF expression precede glomerulosclerosis in the remnant kidney model

    Jürgen Floege;Mark W. Burns;Charles E. Alpers;Ashio Yoshimura

  • ATYPICAL HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME AND C3 GLOMERULOPATHY: CONCLUSIONS FROM A «KIDNEY DISEASE: IMPROVING GLOBAL OUTCOMES» (KDIGO) CONTROVERSIES CONFERENCE

    Timothy H.J. Goodship;H. Terence Cook;Fadi Fakhouri;Fernando C. Fervenza

Frequent Co-Authors

Agnes B. Fogo
Agnes B. Fogo Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Richard J. Johnson
Richard J. Johnson University of Colorado Denver
William G. Couser
William G. Couser University of Washington
Stuart J. Shankland
Stuart J. Shankland University of Washington
Jürgen Floege
Jürgen Floege RWTH Aachen University
Kelly D. Smith
Kelly D. Smith University of Washington
J. Charles Jennette
J. Charles Jennette University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Vivette D. D'Agati
Vivette D. D'Agati Columbia University
Kevin D. O'Brien
Kevin D. O'Brien University of Washington
Cecilia M. Giachelli
Cecilia M. Giachelli University of Washington

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