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Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Katalin Susztak is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a strong focus on medicine, particularly nephrology and molecular biology.

The main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Susztak's work covers several subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Nephrology
  • Genetics
  • Immunology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

The research topics they have contributed to prominently feature:

  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
  • Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies
  • Renal and related cancers
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology

Noteworthy recent publications include:

  • "Discovery of 318 new risk loci for type 2 diabetes and related vascular outcomes among 1.4 million participants in a multi-ancestry meta-analysis", 2020, Nature Genetics
  • "Podocytopathies", 2020, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • "Deep learning enables accurate clustering with batch effect removal in single-cell RNA-seq analysis", 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Single cell transcriptomics identifies a unique adipose lineage cell population that regulates bone marrow environment", 2020, eLife
  • "Renal tubule Cpt1a overexpression protects from kidney fibrosis by restoring mitochondrial homeostasis", 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Susztak include:

  • Amin Abedini
  • Hongbo Liu
  • Michael S. Balzer
  • Xin Sheng
  • Ziyuan Ma

Their work has been published primarily in:

  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Kidney International
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation

Katalin Susztak has been recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Glucose-Induced Reactive Oxygen Species Cause Apoptosis of Podocytes and Podocyte Depletion at the Onset of Diabetic Nephropathy

    Katalin Susztak;Amanda C. Raff;Mario Schiffer;Erwin P. Böttinger

  • Defective fatty acid oxidation in renal tubular epithelial cells has a key role in kidney fibrosis development

    Hyun Mi Kang;Seon Ho Ahn;Peter Choi;Yi An Ko

  • Single-cell transcriptomics of the mouse kidney reveals potential cellular targets of kidney disease

    Jihwan Park;Rojesh Shrestha;Chengxiang Qiu;Ayano Kondo

  • Diabetic kidney disease

    Merlin C. Thomas;Michael Brownlee;Katalin Susztak;Kumar Sharma

  • Molecular mechanisms of diabetic kidney disease

    Kimberly J. Reidy;Hyun Mi Kang;Thomas H. Hostetter;Katalin Susztak

  • Mouse Models of Diabetic Nephropathy

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

  • Bulk tissue cell type deconvolution with multi-subject single-cell expression reference

    Xuran Wang;Jihwan Park;Katalin Susztak;Nancy R. Zhang

  • Transcriptome Analysis of Human Diabetic Kidney Disease

    Karolina I. Woroniecka;Ae Seo Deok Park;Davoud Mohtat;David B. Thomas

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • Trans-ethnic association study of blood pressure determinants in over 750,000 individuals.

    A Giri;J N Hellwege;J M Keaton;J M Keaton;J Park

  • The Notch pathway in podocytes plays a role in the development of glomerular disease

    Thiruvur Niranjan;Bernhard Bielesz;Antje Gruenwald;Manish P Ponda

  • Mitochondrial Damage and Activation of the STING Pathway Lead to Renal Inflammation and Fibrosis

    Ki Wung Chung;Poonam Dhillon;Shizheng Huang;Xin Sheng

  • A signature of circulating inflammatory proteins and development of end-stage renal disease in diabetes.

    Monika A Niewczas;Monika A Niewczas;Meda E Pavkov;Jan Skupien;Jan Skupien;Adam Smiles

  • Epithelial Notch signaling regulates interstitial fibrosis development in the kidneys of mice and humans

    Bernhard Bielesz;Yasemin Sirin;Yasemin Sirin;Han Si;Thiruvur Niranjan

  • Developmental signalling pathways in renal fibrosis: the roles of Notch, Wnt and Hedgehog

    Maria Edeling;Grace Ragi;Shizheng Huang;Hermann Pavenstädt

  • Target genes, variants, tissues and transcriptional pathways influencing human serum urate levels

    Adrienne Tin;Jonathan Marten;Victoria L. Halperin Kuhns;Yong Li

  • Transgenic expression of human APOL1 risk variants in podocytes induces kidney disease in mice

    Pazit Beckerman;Jing Bi-Karchin;Ae Seo Deok Park;Chengxiang Qiu

  • Deep learning enables accurate clustering with batch effect removal in single-cell RNA-seq analysis

    Xiangjie Li;Xiangjie Li;Xiangjie Li;Kui Wang;Kui Wang;Yafei Lyu;Huize Pan

  • Correction: Diabetic kidney disease

    Merlin C. Thomas;Michael Brownlee;Katalin Susztak;Kumar Sharma

Frequent Co-Authors

Mingyao Li
Mingyao Li University of Pennsylvania
Erwin P. Bottinger
Erwin P. Bottinger Hasso Plattner Institute
Anna Köttgen
Anna Köttgen University of Freiburg
Joel N. Hirschhorn
Joel N. Hirschhorn Boston Children's Hospital
Todd L. Edwards
Todd L. Edwards Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Peter Rossing
Peter Rossing University of Copenhagen
Daniel J. Rader
Daniel J. Rader University of Pennsylvania
Amit Verma
Amit Verma Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Kumar Sharma
Kumar Sharma The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
David-Alexandre Trégouët
David-Alexandre Trégouët University of Bordeaux

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