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

Overview

Kumar Sharma is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their subfields of focus include Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Physiology, Nephrology, and Geophysics. Sharma's work covers a variety of main topics including Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Earthquake Detection and Analysis, Pancreatic function and diabetes, Diet and metabolism studies, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Dialysis and Renal Disease Management, and Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes.

Sharma has published numerous articles across several notable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Diabetes, and American Journal of Nephrology.

Some of their recent papers with publication year and venue are:

  • A role for tubular Na+/H+ exchanger NHE3 in the natriuretic effect of the SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin, 2020, American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology
  • Rationale and design of the Kidney Precision Medicine Project, 2021, Kidney International
  • A reference tissue atlas for the human kidney, 2022, Science Advances
  • Gut Microbial Changes in Diabetic db/db Mice and Recovery of Microbial Diversity upon Pirfenidone Treatment, 2020, Microorganisms
  • Temporal Telomere and DNA Damage Responses in the Space Radiation Environment, 2020, Cell Reports

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sharma include Guanshi Zhang, Theodore Alexandrov, Christopher Anderton, Ljiljana Paša-Tolić, and Jessica Lukowski.

In addition to research articles, Sharma has contributed to book publications, including a work published by Springer Nature titled Computational and Experimental Methods in Mechanical Engineering (2021).

Among the awards received, Sharma was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • KDOQI Clinical Practice Guideline for Diabetes and CKD: 2012 Update

    RW Bilous;JM Gonzalez-Campoy;JE Fradkin;M Mauer

  • Resveratrol delays age-related deterioration and mimics transcriptional aspects of dietary restriction without extending life span.

    Kevin J. Pearson;Joseph A. Baur;Kaitlyn N. Lewis;Leonid Peshkin

  • 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

  • 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

  • The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight.

    Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman;Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman;Manjula Darshi;Stefan J. Green;Ruben C. Gur

  • 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

  • Diabetic kidney disease

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

  • Mouse Models of Diabetic Nephropathy

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

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

    Kumar Sharma;Fuad N Ziyadeh

  • Adiponectin regulates albuminuria and podocyte function in mice

    Kumar Sharma;Satish RamachandraRao;Gang Qiu;Hitomi Kataoka Usui

  • 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

  • Diabetic kidney disease in the db/db mouse

    Kumar Sharma;Peter McCue;Stephen R. Dunn

  • Metabolomics Reveals Signature of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Diabetic Kidney Disease

    Kumar Sharma;Bethany Karl;Anna V. Mathew;Jon A. Gangoiti

  • AMPK dysregulation promotes diabetes-related reduction of superoxide and mitochondrial function

    Laura L. Dugan;Young Hyun You;Young Hyun You;Sameh S. Ali;Maggie Diamond-Stanic;Maggie Diamond-Stanic

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

    Gunter Wolf;Kumar Sharma;Ying Chen;Mark Ericksen

  • Renal sodium–glucose transport: role in diabetes mellitus and potential clinical implications

    George L. Bakris;Vivian A. Fonseca;Kumar Sharma;Ernest M. Wright

  • Mechanisms Linking Obesity, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Fatty Liver Disease: The Roles of Fetuin-A, Adiponectin, and AMPK

    Joachim H. Ix;Kumar Sharma

  • Knockout of Na-glucose transporter SGLT2 attenuates hyperglycemia and glomerular hyperfiltration but not kidney growth or injury in diabetes mellitus

    Volker Vallon;Volker Vallon;Michael Rose;Maria Gerasimova;Joseph Satriano;Joseph Satriano

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

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

  • Correction: Diabetic kidney disease

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Fuad N. Ziyadeh
Fuad N. Ziyadeh American University of Beirut
Volker Vallon
Volker Vallon University of California, San Diego
Per-Henrik Groop
Per-Henrik Groop University of Helsinki
Erwin P. Bottinger
Erwin P. Bottinger Hasso Plattner Institute
Theodore Alexandrov
Theodore Alexandrov European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Loki Natarajan
Loki Natarajan University of California, San Diego
Katalin Susztak
Katalin Susztak University of Pennsylvania
Ian H. de Boer
Ian H. de Boer University of Washington
Vlado Perkovic
Vlado Perkovic George Institute for Global Health
Suresh K. Joseph
Suresh K. Joseph Thomas Jefferson University

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