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  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Gregory R. Dressler is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their work spans medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a primary focus on renal and related cancers. The scientist's research also covers acute kidney injury, organ donation and transplantation, renal cell carcinoma treatment, chronic kidney disease and diabetes, retinal development and disorders, as well as developmental biology and gene regulation.

Dressler has published extensively, with 18 works in medicine and 16 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their subfields include molecular biology, nephrology, public health, environmental and occupational health, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and genetics.

Recent publications include:

  • Pax2 and Pax8 Proteins Regulate Urea Transporters and Aquaporins to Control Urine Concentration in the Adult Kidney, 2020, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Multiple roles for Pax2 in the embryonic mouse eye, 2021, Developmental Biology
  • Regeneration after acute kidney injury requires PTIP-mediated epigenetic modifications, 2020, JCI Insight
  • Identification of Pax protein inhibitors that suppress target gene expression and cancer cell proliferation, 2021, Cell Chemical Biology
  • Renal-specific loss of ferroportin disrupts iron homeostasis and attenuates recovery from acute kidney injury, 2023, American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology

Dressler frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Developmental Biology
  • JCI Insight
  • Cell Chemical Biology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Abdul Soofi
  • Jeffrey A. Beamish
  • Asha C. Telang
  • Madison C. McElliott
  • Anas Al-Suraimi

Among the topics explored in Dressler's publications are renal and related cancers, acute kidney injury research, organ donation and transplantation, renal cell carcinoma treatment, chronic kidney disease and diabetes, retinal development and disorders, and developmental biology and gene regulation.

In 2014, Dressler was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Pax-2 controls multiple steps of urogenital development

    Miguel Torres;Emilia Gómez-Pardo;Gregory R. Dressler;Peter Gruss

  • Oct-4: a germline-specific transcription factor mapping to the mouse t-complex.

    Hans R. Schöler;Gregory R. Dressler;Rudi Balling;Heidi Rohdewohld

  • The Cellular Basis of Kidney Development

    Gregory R. Dressler

  • Pax2, a new murine paired-box-containing gene and its expression in the developing excretory system.

    Gregory R. Dressler;Urban Deutsch;Kamal Chowdhury;Howard O. Nornes

  • PTIP associates with MLL3- and MLL4-containing histone H3 lysine 4 methyltransferase complex

    Young Wook Cho;Teresa Hong;Sun Hwa Hong;Hong Guo

  • Six2 is required for suppression of nephrogenesis and progenitor renewal in the developing kidney.

    Michelle Self;Oleg V Lagutin;Beth Bowling;Jaime Hendrix

  • Pax-2 is a DNA-binding protein expressed in embryonic kidney and Wilms tumor

    Gregory R. Dressler;Edwin C. Douglass

  • Spatially and temporally restricted expression of Pax2 during murine neurogenesis

    Howard O. Nornes;Gregory R. Dressler;Elzbieta W. Knapik;Urban Deutsch

  • Pax 1, a member of a paired box homologous murine gene family, is expressed in segmented structures during development

    Urban Deutsch;Gregory R. Dressler;Peter Gruss

  • Advances in early kidney specification, development and patterning

    Gregory R. Dressler

  • Pax-2 is required for mesenchyme-to-epithelium conversion during kidney development

    Uwe W. Rothenpieler;Gregory R. Dressler

  • Regulation of ureteric bud outgrowth by Pax2-dependent activation of the glial derived neurotrophic factor gene.

    Patrick D. Brophy;Lance Ostrom;Katherine M. Lang;Gregory R. Dressler

  • Deregulation of Pax-2 expression in transgenic mice generates severe kidney abnormalities

    Gregory R. Dressler;J. Erby Wilkinson;Uwe W. Rothenpieler;Larry T. Patterson

  • Repression of Pax-2 by WT1 during normal kidney development

    G. Ryan;V. Steele-Perkins;J.F. Morris;F.J. Rauscher

  • Nephrogenic Factors Promote Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells into Renal Epithelia

    Doyeob Kim;Gregory R. Dressler

  • Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor activates the receptor tyrosine kinase RET and promotes kidney morphogenesis

    Quinn C. Vega;Carolyn A. Worby;Mark S. Lechner;Jack E. Dixon

  • Kielin/chordin-like protein, a novel enhancer of BMP signaling, attenuates renal fibrotic disease.

    Jingmei Lin;Sanjeevkumar R Patel;Xu Cheng;Eun Ah Cho

  • Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity

    Joseph B. Weiss;Tonia Von Ohlen;Dervla M. Mellerick;Gregory Dressler

  • The BRCT-domain containing protein PTIP links PAX2 to a histone H3, lysine 4 methyltransferase complex.

    Sanjeevkumar R. Patel;Doyeob Kim;Inna Levitan;Gregory R. Dressler

  • Differential expression and function of cadherin-6 during renal epithelium development

    Eun Ah Cho;Larry T. Patterson;William T. Brookhiser;Steven Mah

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Gruss
Peter Gruss Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Urban Deutsch
Urban Deutsch University of Bern
Kai Ge
Kai Ge National Institutes of Health
Ming Jer Tang
Ming Jer Tang National Cheng Kung University
Rudi Balling
Rudi Balling University of Bonn
Kamal Chowdhury
Kamal Chowdhury Max Planck Society
Chris Q. Doe
Chris Q. Doe Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chris Kintner
Chris Kintner Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Lawrence B. Holzman
Lawrence B. Holzman University of Pennsylvania
Jean-Louis Guénet
Jean-Louis Guénet Institut Pasteur

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