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Overview

Mark A. Sussman is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States, focusing primarily on the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery, Physiology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their publication record includes numerous papers concentrated on key research topics such as Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Congenital Heart Defects Research, Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling, and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Enhancing myocardial repair with CardioClusters (2020), Nature Communications
  • Regeneration of infarcted mouse hearts by cardiovascular tissue formed via the direct reprogramming of mouse fibroblasts (2021), Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) cardiomyocyte-secreted exosomes promote the pathogenesis of DMD-associated cardiomyopathy (2020), Disease Models & Mechanisms
  • Pim1 maintains telomere length in mouse cardiomyocytes by inhibiting TGFβ signalling (2020), Cardiovascular Research
  • PIM1 Promotes Survival of Cardiomyocytes by Upregulating c-Kit Protein Expression (2020), Cells

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mark A. Sussman include Fareheh Firouzi, Carolina Esquer, Oscar Echeagaray, Natalie Gude, and Megan Monsanto.

Key publication venues where their work frequently appears are Cardiovascular Research, Circulation, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of the American Heart Association, and The Journal of Cardiovascular Aging.

Best Publications

  • Cardiac Stem Cell and Myocyte Aging, Heart Failure, and Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Overexpression

    Daniele Torella;Marcello Rota;Daria Nurzynska;Ezio Musso

  • Enhanced Effect of Combining Human Cardiac Stem Cells and Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Reduce Infarct Size and to Restore Cardiac Function After Myocardial Infarction

    Adam R. Williams;Konstantinos E. Hatzistergos;Benjamin Addicott;Fred McCall

  • Animal Models of Heart Failure A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Steven R. Houser;Kenneth B. Margulies;Anne M. Murphy;Francis G. Spinale

  • The Rac and Rho Hall of Fame: A Decade of Hypertrophic Signaling Hits

    Joan Heller Brown;Dominic P. Del Re;Mark A. Sussman

  • Cardiomyocyte regeneration: A consensus statement

    Thomas Eschenhagen;Roberto Bolli;Thomas Braun;Loren J. Field

  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Gene Induction and Protection From Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in the Hearts of Transgenic Mice With a Tamoxifen-Regulated Form of ATF6

    Joshua J. Martindale;Rayne Fernandez;Donna Thuerauf;Ross Whittaker

  • Activation of the Unfolded Protein Response in Infarcted Mouse Heart and Hypoxic Cultured Cardiac Myocytes

    Donna J. Thuerauf;Marie Marcinko;Natalie Gude;Marta Rubio

  • Bone marrow cells adopt the cardiomyogenic fate in vivo

    Marcello Rota;Jan Kajstura;Toru Hosoda;Claudia Bearzi

  • Myocardial Akt Activation and Gender: Increased Nuclear Activity in Females Versus Males

    Dreama Camper-Kirby;Sara Welch;Angela Walker;Isao Shiraishi

  • Decreased SLIM1 expression and increased gelsolin expression in failing human hearts measured by high-density oligonucleotide arrays.

    Jiacheng Yang;Christine Moravec;Christine Moravec;Mark A Sussman;Nicholas R Dipaola

  • Loss of MCL-1 leads to impaired autophagy and rapid development of heart failure

    Robert L. Thomas;David J. Roberts;Dieter A. Kubli;Youngil Lee

  • Pim-1 regulates cardiomyocyte survival downstream of Akt

    John A Muraski;Marcello Rota;Yu Misao;Jenna Fransioli

  • Juvenile Exposure to Anthracyclines Impairs Cardiac Progenitor Cell Function and Vascularization Resulting in Greater Susceptibility to Stress-Induced Myocardial Injury in Adult Mice

    Chengqun Huang;Xiaoxue Zhang;Jennifer M. Ramil;Shivaji Rikka

  • Myocardial AKT: The Omnipresent Nexus

    Mark A. Sussman;Mirko Völkers;Kimberlee Fischer;Brandi Bailey

  • Nuclear Targeting of Akt Enhances Kinase Activity and Survival of Cardiomyocytes

    Isao Shiraishi;Jaime Melendez;Youngkeun Ahn;Maryanne Skavdahl

  • Activation of Notch-Mediated Protective Signaling in the Myocardium

    Natalie A. Gude;Gregory Emmanuel;Weitao Wu;Christopher T. Cottage

  • Enhancement of Myocardial Regeneration Through Genetic Engineering of Cardiac Progenitor Cells Expressing Pim-1 Kinase

    Kimberlee M. Fischer;Christopher T. Cottage;Weitao Wu;Shabana Din

  • Myofibril degeneration caused by tropomodulin overexpression leads to dilated cardiomyopathy in juvenile mice.

    Mark A. Sussman;Sara Welch;Natalie Cambon;Raisa Klevitsky

  • BNIP3L/NIX and FUNDC1-mediated mitophagy is required for mitochondrial network remodeling during cardiac progenitor cell differentiation

    Mark A Lampert;Amabel M Orogo;Rita H Najor;Babette C Hammerling

  • Abstract 1523: Pim-1 Regulates Cardiomyocyte Survival Downstream of Akt

    John A Muraski;Jenna Fransioli;Natalie Gude;Joshua Martindale

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher C. Glembotski
Christopher C. Glembotski University of Arizona
Åsa B. Gustafsson
Åsa B. Gustafsson University of California, San Diego
Piero Anversa
Piero Anversa Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jan Kajstura
Jan Kajstura Brigham and Women's Hospital
Annarosa Leri
Annarosa Leri Brigham and Women's Hospital
Joan Heller Brown
Joan Heller Brown University of California, San Diego
Jeffery D. Molkentin
Jeffery D. Molkentin Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Steven R. Houser
Steven R. Houser Temple University
Joshua M. Hare
Joshua M. Hare University of Miami
Larry Kedes
Larry Kedes University of Southern California

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