2026 Fuad N. Ziyadeh: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	79	17478	16424	5	5	186	25219

Research.com Recognitions

Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Fuad N. Ziyadeh is affiliated with the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and related biomedical sciences, with a focus on physiology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, immunology, epidemiology, and surgery.

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

Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling
Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension
Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema
Diabetes Treatment and Management
Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism
Eicosanoids and Hypertension Pharmacology

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Assaad A. Eid, Rachel Njeim, Sahar Alkhansa, Batoul Dia, and Mohamad Noureldein. This collaboration reflects a consistent research network contributing to their areas of specialization.

Publication venues where Fuad N. Ziyadeh has frequently contributed are:

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Diabetes
Journal of Advanced Research
Antioxidants
Frontiers in Pharmacology

Selected recent papers include:

VEGF-A: A Novel Mechanistic Link Between CYP2C-Derived EETs and Nox4 in Diabetic Kidney Disease, 2023, Diabetes
Modulation of proteomic and inflammatory signals by Bradykinin in podocytes, 2020, Journal of Advanced Research
Vascular Cells Proteome Associated with Bradykinin and Leptin Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Signals, 2020, Antioxidants
Modulation of Neuro-Inflammatory Signals in Microglia by Plasma Prekallikrein and Neuronal Cell Debris, 2021, Frontiers in Pharmacology
Biospecimen Repositories in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Insights From an American University of Beirut and Memorial Sloan Kettering Collaboration, 2023, JCO Global Oncology

Their research contributions are distributed mainly across medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with 30 publications in medicine and 13 in biochemistry and related molecular studies.

Fuad N. Ziyadeh has been recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

Hyperglycemia-induced mitochondrial superoxide overproduction activates the hexosamine pathway and induces plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 expression by increasing Sp1 glycosylation

Xue Liang Du;Diane Edelstein;Luciano Rossetti;Ivan George Fantus

1533
Citations
Long-term prevention of renal insufficiency, excess matrix gene expression, and glomerular mesangial matrix expansion by treatment with monoclonal antitransforming growth factor-β antibody in db/db diabetic mice

Fuad N. Ziyadeh;Brenda B. Hoffman;Dong Cheol Han;M. Carmen Iglesias-de la Cruz

1342
Citations
Neutralization of TGF-beta by anti-TGF-beta antibody attenuates kidney hypertrophy and the enhanced extracellular matrix gene expression in STZ-induced diabetic mice.

Kumar Sharma;Yulin Jin;Jia Guo;Fuad N Ziyadeh

896
Citations
From the periphery of the glomerular capillary wall toward the center of disease: podocyte injury comes of age in diabetic nephropathy.

Gunter Wolf;Sheldon Chen;Fuad N. Ziyadeh

822
Citations
Hyperglycemia and diabetic kidney disease. The case for transforming growth factor-beta as a key mediator.

Kumar Sharma;Fuad N Ziyadeh

801
Citations
Stimulation of collagen gene expression and protein synthesis in murine mesangial cells by high glucose is mediated by autocrine activation of transforming growth factor-beta.

F. N. Ziyadeh;Kumar Sharma;M. Ericksen;G. Wolf

756
Citations
Leptin and renal disease.

Gunter Wolf;Sheldon Chen;Dong Cheol Han;Dong Cheol Han;Fuad N. Ziyadeh;Fuad N. Ziyadeh

749
Citations
Molecular mechanisms of diabetic renal hypertrophy.

Gunter Wolf;Fuad N. Ziyadeh

713
Citations
Mediators of diabetic renal disease: the case for tgf-Beta as the major mediator.

Fuad N Ziyadeh

680
Citations
Role of basic fibroblast growth factor-2 in epithelial-mesenchymal transformation.

Frank Strutz;Michael Zeisberg;Fuad N. Ziyadeh;Chang Qing Yang

628
Citations
Leptin stimulates proliferation and TGF-β expression in renal glomerular endothelial cells: Potential role in glomerulosclerosis

Gunter Wolf;Gunter Wolf;Andreas Hamann;Andreas Hamann;Dong Cheol Han;Dong Cheol Han;Udo Helmchen;Udo Helmchen

591
Citations
Pathogenesis of the Podocytopathy and Proteinuria in Diabetic Glomerulopathy

Fuad N Ziyadeh;Gunter Wolf

561
Citations
Angiotensin II-induced hypertrophy of cultured murine proximal tubular cells is mediated by endogenous transforming growth factor-beta.

G. Wolf;E. Mueller;R. A. K. Stahl;F. N. Ziyadeh

458
Citations
High glucose-induced proliferation in mesangial cells is reversed by autocrine TGF-β

Gunter Wolf;Kumar Sharma;Ying Chen;Mark Ericksen

444
Citations
Diabetic nephropathy and transforming growth factor-β: Transforming our view of glomerulosclerosis and fibrosis build-up

Sheldon Chen;Belinda Jim;Fuad N Ziyadeh

423
Citations
Increased renal production of transforming growth factor-beta1 in patients with type II diabetes.

Kumar Sharma;Fuad N Ziyadeh;Bashar Alzahabi;Tracy A McGowan

390
Citations
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Proteinuria in Diabetic Nephropathy

Gunter Wolf;Fuad N. Ziyadeh

374
Citations
The emerging role of transforming growth factor-beta in kidney diseases.

Kumar Sharma;F. N. Ziyadeh

374
Citations
The Extracellular Matrix in Diabetic Nephropathy

Fuad N. Ziyadeh

360
Citations
The role of angiotensin II in diabetic nephropathy: Emphasis on nonhemodynamic mechanisms

Gunter Wolf;Gunter Wolf;Fuad N. Ziyadeh;Fuad N. Ziyadeh

359
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kumar Sharma The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Eric G. Neilson Northwestern University

Rolf A.K. Stahl Universität Hamburg

Jeffrey B. Kopp National Institutes of Health

Yehia Mechref Texas Tech University

Raghu Kalluri The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Charles D. Pusey Imperial College London

Mary B. Leonard Stanford University

John E. Tomaszewski University at Buffalo, State University of New York

José Alcamí Instituto de Salud Carlos III

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