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Overview

Gavin I. Welsh is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and has an extensive research profile primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work focuses largely on nephrology, with additional contributions spanning molecular biology, genetics, surgery, and immunology.

Their research explores topics including renal diseases and glomerulopathies, chronic kidney disease and diabetes, renal and related cancers, trauma and coagulopathy, the complement system in diseases, coagulation mechanisms, and hormonal regulation and hypertension.

Welsh has published extensively in leading academic journals. Frequent publication venues include the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Clinical Kidney Journal, and Kidney International.

Selected recent papers illustrate the range and focus of their research:

  • "The complex interplay between kidney injury and inflammation" (2020), Clinical Kidney Journal
  • "Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonism in diabetes reduces albuminuria by preserving the glomerular endothelial glycocalyx" (2023), JCI Insight
  • "Adeno-associated virus gene therapy prevents progression of kidney disease in genetic models of nephrotic syndrome" (2023), Science Translational Medicine
  • "Response to First Course of Intensified Immunosuppression in Genetically Stratified Steroid Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome" (2020), Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • "Highly efficient CRISPR-mediated large DNA docking and multiplexed prime editing using a single baculovirus" (2022), Nucleic Acids Research

Welsh collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Moin A. Saleem
  • Simon C. Satchell
  • Rebecca R. Foster
  • Richard J. Coward
  • Matthew Butler

Best Publications

  • Glycogen synthase kinase-3 is rapidly inactivated in response to insulin and phosphorylates eukaryotic initiation factor eIF-2B.

    G. I. Welsh;Christopher Proud

  • Insulin signaling to the glomerular podocyte is critical for normal kidney function

    Gavin I Welsh;Lorna J Hale;Vera Eremina;Marie Jeansson

  • Regulation of eukaryotic initiation factor eIF2B: glycogen synthase kinase-3 phosphorylates a conserved serine which undergoes dephosphorylation in response to insulin

    Gavin I Welsh;Christa M Miller;A.Jane Loughlin;Nigel T Price

  • Regulation of Protein Kinase B and Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 by Insulin and β-Adrenergic Agonists in Rat Epididymal Fat Cells ACTIVATION OF PROTEIN KINASE B BY WORTMANNIN-SENSITIVE AND -INSENSITIVE MECHANISMS

    S. Kelly Moule;Gavin I. Welsh;Nigel J. Edgell;Emily J. Foulstone

  • The human glomerular podocyte is a novel target for insulin action.

    Richard J M Coward;Gavin I Welsh;Jing Yang;Candida Tasman

  • Genomic and clinical profiling of a national nephrotic syndrome cohort advocates a precision medicine approach to disease management

    Agnieszka Bierzynska;Hugh J. McCarthy;Katrina Soderquest;Ethan S. Sen

  • Wortmannin inhibits the effects of insulin and serum on the activities of glycogen synthase kinase-3 and mitogen-activated protein kinase.

    Gavin I Welsh;EJ Foulstone;SW Young;Jeremy M Tavare

  • WT1 Mutants Reveal SRPK1 to Be a Downstream Angiogenesis Target by Altering VEGF Splicing

    Elianna M. Amin;Sebastian Oltean;Jing Hua;Melissa V.R. Gammons

  • The podocyte cytoskeleton—key to a functioning glomerulus in health and disease

    Gavin I. Welsh;Moin A. Saleem

  • GSK3: a SHAGGY frog story.

    Gavin I. Welsh;Colette E. Wilson;Christopher G. Proud

  • Simultaneous Sequencing of 24 Genes Associated with Steroid-Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome

    Hugh J. McCarthy;Agnieszka Bierzynska;Matt Wherlock;Milos Ognjanovic

  • Protein kinase B phosphorylation of PIKfyve regulates the trafficking of GLUT4 vesicles.

    Daniel C. Berwick;Ghislaine C. Dell;Gavin I. Welsh;Kate J. Heesom

  • Reactive oxygen species modulate the barrier function of the human glomerular endothelial glycocalyx.

    Anurag Singh;Anurag Singh;Raina D Ramnath;Rebecca R Foster;Emma C Wylie

  • Role for the microtubule cytoskeleton in GLUT4 vesicle trafficking and in the regulation of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake.

    Laura M. Fletcher;Gavin I. Welsh;Paru B. Oatey;Jeremy M. Tavaré

  • Nephrin Is Critical for the Action of Insulin on Human Glomerular Podocytes

    Richard J M Coward;Gavin I Welsh;Ania Koziell;Sagair Hussain

  • Saturated fatty acids induce insulin resistance in human podocytes: implications for diabetic nephropathy

    Rachel Lennon;Deborah Pons;Matthew A. Sabin;Christina Wei

  • High glucose causes dysfunction of the human glomerular endothelial glycocalyx

    Anurag Singh;Vincent Friden;Ishita Dasgupta;Rebecca Rachael Foster

  • Molecular and cellular events mediating glomerular podocyte dysfunction and depletion in diabetes mellitus

    P. Anil Kumar;Gavin I. Welsh;Moin A. Saleem;Ram K. Menon

  • Nephrin-signature molecule of the glomerular podocyte?

    Gavin I Welsh;Moin A Saleem

  • Role of protein kinase B in insulin-regulated glucose uptake

    Gavin I Welsh;Ingeborg Hers;DC Berwick;G Dell

Frequent Co-Authors

Moin A. Saleem
Moin A. Saleem University of Bristol
Jeremy M. Tavaré
Jeremy M. Tavaré University of Bristol
Christopher G. Proud
Christopher G. Proud University of Adelaide
David O. Bates
David O. Bates University of Nottingham
Richard M. Denton
Richard M. Denton University of Bristol
Jeffrey M P Holly
Jeffrey M P Holly University of Bristol
Gianni D. Angelini
Gianni D. Angelini University of Bristol
Carl May
Carl May London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Susan E. Quaggin
Susan E. Quaggin Northwestern University
Claudia Kemper
Claudia Kemper National Institutes of Health

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