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Iain A. Drummond is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research covers a diverse range of topics with a particular focus on renal and related cancers, genetic and kidney cyst diseases, and organ donation and transplantation.

The scientist's primary fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these broad fields, Drummond has focused on several subfields:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Nephrology

The main research topics associated with Drummond's work include:

  • Renal and related cancers
  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases
  • Organ Donation and Transplantation
  • Renal cell carcinoma treatment
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research

Drummond has a record of publications in a range of notable venues. These include:

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

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Drummond illustrate their research interests and contributions:

  • Single-cell transcriptome reveals insights into the development and function of the zebrafish ovary, 2022, eLife
  • Kidney developmental effects of metal-herbicide mixtures: Implications for chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology, 2020, Environment International
  • Kidney repair and regeneration: perspectives of the NIDDK (Re)Building a Kidney consortium, 2022, Kidney International
  • Variable phenotypes and penetrance between and within different zebrafish ciliary transition zone mutants, 2022, Disease Models & Mechanisms
  • Genetic compensation for cilia defects in cep290 mutants by upregulation of cilia-associated small GTPases, 2021, Journal of Cell Science

The researcher frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Heiko Schenk
  • Caramai N. Kamei
  • Brad H. Rovin
  • Olivier Devuyst
  • Leif Oxburgh

Best Publications

  • The centrosomal protein nephrocystin-6 is mutated in Joubert syndrome and activates transcription factor ATF4

    John A. Sayer;John A. Sayer;Edgar A. Otto;John F. O'Toole;Gudrun Nurnberg

  • Cilia-driven fluid flow in the zebrafish pronephros, brain and Kupffer's vesicle is required for normal organogenesis

    Albrecht G. Kramer-Zucker;Felix Olale;Courtney J. Haycraft;Bradley K. Yoder

  • Mutations in INVS encoding inversin cause nephronophthisis type 2, linking renal cystic disease to the function of primary cilia and left-right axis determination.

    Edgar A. Otto;Bernhard Schermer;Tomoko Obara;John F. O'Toole

  • Repression of the insulin-like growth factor II gene by the Wilms tumor suppressor WT1.

    IA Drummond;SL Madden;P Rohwer-Nutter;GI Bell

  • Positional cloning uncovers mutations in PLCE1 responsible for a nephrotic syndrome variant that may be reversible.

    Bernward Hinkes;Roger C. Wiggins;Rasheed Gbadegesin;Christopher N. Vlangos

  • Early development of the zebrafish pronephros and analysis of mutations affecting pronephric function

    Iain A. Drummond;Arindam Majumdar;Hartmut Hentschel;Marlies Elger

  • Exome Capture Reveals ZNF423 and CEP164 Mutations, Linking Renal Ciliopathies to DNA Damage Response Signaling

    Moumita Chaki;Rannar Airik;Amiya K. Ghosh;Rachel H. Giles

  • Increased expression of the insulin-like growth factor I receptor gene, IGF1R, in Wilms tumor is correlated with modulation of IGF1R promoter activity by the WT1 Wilms tumor gene product.

    H Werner;G G Re;I A Drummond;V P Sukhatme

  • Polycystin 1 is required for the structural integrity of blood vessels.

    Keetae Kim;Iain Drummond;Oxana Ibraghimov-Beskrovnaya;Katherine Klinger

  • The Polycystic Kidney Disease 1 Gene Product Modulates Wnt Signaling

    Emily Kim;Thierry Arnould;Lorenz K. Sellin;Thomas Benzing

  • CCDC103 mutations cause primary ciliary dyskinesia by disrupting assembly of ciliary dynein arms

    Jennifer R Panizzi;Anita Becker-Heck;Victoria H Castleman;Dalal A Al-Mutairi;Dalal A Al-Mutairi

  • roundabout4 is essential for angiogenesis in vivo.

    Victoria M. Bedell;Sang-Yeob Yeo;Kye Won Park;Jeffrey Chung

  • Organization of the pronephric filtration apparatus in zebrafish requires Nephrin, Podocin and the FERM domain protein Mosaic eyes.

    Albrecht G. Kramer-Zucker;Stephanie Wiessner;Abbie M. Jensen;Iain A. Drummond

  • Notch signaling controls the differentiation of transporting epithelia and multiciliated cells in the zebrafish pronephros.

    Yan Liu;Narendra Pathak;Albrecht Kramer-Zucker;Iain A. Drummond

  • Acute renal failure in zebrafish: a novel system to study a complex disease

    Dirk M. Hentschel;Kwon Moo Park;Lucia Cilenti;Antonis S. Zervos

  • A defect in a novel Nek-family kinase causes cystic kidney disease in the mouse and in zebrafish.

    Shanming Liu;Weining Lu;Tomoko Obara;Shiei Kuida

  • Zebrafish Ciliopathy Screen Plus Human Mutational Analysis Identifies C21orf59 and CCDC65 Defects as Causing Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia

    Christina Austin-Tse;Jan Halbritter;Maimoona B Zariwala;Renée M. Gilberti

  • The zebrafish fleer gene encodes an essential regulator of cilia tubulin polyglutamylation.

    Narendra Pathak;Tomoko Obara;Steve Mangos;Yan Liu

  • Transcriptional repression of the insulin-like growth factor I receptor (IGF-I-R) gene by the tumor suppressor WT1 involves binding to sequences both upstream and downstream of the IGF-I-R gene transcription start site.

    H Werner;F J Rauscher;V P Sukhatme;I A Drummond

  • ZMYND10 Is Mutated in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia and Interacts with LRRC6

    Maimoona A. Zariwala;Heon Yung Gee;Małgorzata Kurkowiak;Małgorzata Kurkowiak;Małgorzata Kurkowiak;Dalal A. Al-Mutairi;Dalal A. Al-Mutairi

Frequent Co-Authors

Friedhelm Hildebrandt
Friedhelm Hildebrandt Boston Children's Hospital
Vikas P. Sukhatme
Vikas P. Sukhatme Emory University
Edgar A. Otto
Edgar A. Otto University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Corinne Antignac
Corinne Antignac Institut Imagine
Sophie Saunier
Sophie Saunier Université Paris Cité
Heymut Omran
Heymut Omran University of Münster
David R. Beier
David R. Beier Seattle Children's Hospital
Bradley K. Yoder
Bradley K. Yoder University of Alabama at Birmingham
Gerd Walz
Gerd Walz University of Freiburg
Walter F. Boron
Walter F. Boron Case Western Reserve University

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