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Moin A. Saleem is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on nephrology, encompassing a range of topics within renal diseases and related molecular biology and genetics fields. The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of renal diseases, chronic kidney disease coupled with diabetes, and genetic kidney disorders.

Saleem's publication record includes significant work in major medical journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • Pediatric Nephrology
  • Kidney International
  • Scientific Reports

Their scholarly output spans multiple fields of study, predominantly Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these, subfields include:

  • Nephrology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine
  • Gastroenterology

Some of the main research topics covered by Saleem are:

  • Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies
  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
  • Renal and related cancers
  • Celiac Disease Research and Management
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema
  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases

The scientist has coauthored extensively with a group of frequent collaborators, including Gavin I. Welsh, Daniel P. Gale, Jonathan Barratt, Agnieszka Bierżyńska, and Ania Koziell.

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Saleem include:

  • Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system, 2020, Nature
  • IPNA clinical practice recommendations for the diagnosis and management of children with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome, 2020, Pediatric Nephrology
  • Long-Term Outcomes in IgA Nephropathy, 2023, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Effects of rare kidney diseases on kidney failure: a longitudinal analysis of the UK National Registry of Rare Kidney Diseases (RaDaR) cohort, 2024, The Lancet
  • Hyperglycemia alters mitochondrial respiration efficiency and mitophagy in human podocytes, 2021, Experimental Cell Research

Best Publications

  • A Conditionally Immortalized Human Podocyte Cell Line Demonstrating Nephrin and Podocin Expression

    Moin A Saleem;Michael J O'Hare;Jochen Reiser;Richard J Coward

  • Circulating urokinase receptor as a cause of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

    Changli Wei;Shafic El Hindi;Jing Li;Alessia Fornoni

  • Podocin, a raft-associated component of the glomerular slit diaphragm, interacts with CD2AP and nephrin

    Karin Schwarz;Matias Simons;Jochen Reiser;Moin A. Saleem

  • Insulin signaling to the glomerular podocyte is critical for normal kidney function

    Gavin I Welsh;Lorna J Hale;Vera Eremina;Marie Jeansson

  • Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system

    Ernest Turro;William J Astle;Karyn Megy;Stefan Graf

  • ADCK4 mutations promote steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome through CoQ10 biosynthesis disruption

    Shazia Ashraf;Heon Yung Gee;Stephanie Woerner;Stephanie Woerner;Letian X. Xie

  • Carnosine as a protective factor in diabetic nephropathy: association with a leucine repeat of the carnosinase gene CNDP1.

    Bart Janssen;Daniela Hohenadel;Paul Brinkkoetter;Verena Peters

  • Molecular basis of the functional podocin–nephrin complex: mutations in the NPHS2 gene disrupt nephrin targeting to lipid raft microdomains

    Tobias B. Huber;Matias Simons;Björn Hartleben;Leonie Sernetz

  • The human glomerular podocyte is a novel target for insulin action.

    Richard J M Coward;Gavin I Welsh;Jing Yang;Candida Tasman

  • 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

  • Genomic and clinical profiling of a national nephrotic syndrome cohort advocates a precision medicine approach to disease management

    Agnieszka Bierzynska;Hugh J. McCarthy;Katrina Soderquest;Ethan S. Sen

  • WT1 Mutants Reveal SRPK1 to Be a Downstream Angiogenesis Target by Altering VEGF Splicing

    Elianna M. Amin;Sebastian Oltean;Jing Hua;Melissa V.R. Gammons

  • Globotriaosylsphingosine actions on human glomerular podocytes: implications for Fabry nephropathy

    Maria D. Sanchez-Niño;Ana B. Sanz;Susana Carrasco;Moin A. Saleem

  • The podocyte cytoskeleton—key to a functioning glomerulus in health and disease

    Gavin I. Welsh;Moin A. Saleem

  • IPNA clinical practice recommendations for the diagnosis and management of children with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome

    Agnes Trautmann;Marina Vivarelli;Susan Samuel;Debbie Gipson

  • Novel conditionally immortalized human proximal tubule cell line expressing functional influx and efflux transporters

    Martijn J. Wilmer;Moin A. Saleem;Rosalinde Masereeuw;Lan Ni

  • Functional evidence that vascular endothelial growth factor may act as an autocrine factor on human podocytes.

    Rebecca R. Foster;Rachel Hole;Karen Anderson;Simon C. Satchell

  • Podocyte injury induced by mesangial-derived cytokines in IgA nephropathy

    Kar Neng Lai;Joseph C. K. Leung;Loretta Y. Y. Chan;Moin A. Saleem

  • Co-Localization of Nephrin, Podocin, and the Actin Cytoskeleton: Evidence for a Role in Podocyte Foot Process Formation

    Moin A. Saleem;Lan Ni;Ian Witherden;Karl Tryggvason

  • Conditionally immortalized human glomerular endothelial cells expressing fenestrations in response to VEGF

    S.C. Satchell;C.H. Tasman;A. Singh;L. Ni

Frequent Co-Authors

Gavin I. Welsh
Gavin I. Welsh University of Bristol
Friedhelm Hildebrandt
Friedhelm Hildebrandt Boston Children's Hospital
Harry Holthöfer
Harry Holthöfer University of Helsinki
David O. Bates
David O. Bates University of Nottingham
Corinne Antignac
Corinne Antignac Institut Imagine
Karl Skorecki
Karl Skorecki Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Alberto Ortiz
Alberto Ortiz Autonomous University of Madrid
Hermann Pavenstädt
Hermann Pavenstädt University of Freiburg
Jeremy M. Tavaré
Jeremy M. Tavaré University of Bristol
Richard P. Lifton
Richard P. Lifton Rockefeller University

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