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Susan Bonner-Weir

Susan Bonner-Weir

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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119
Citations
58136
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Susan Bonner-Weir is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has produced significant research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields, including Surgery, Genetics, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Molecular Biology, and Physiology.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as pancreatic function and diabetes, diabetes and associated disorders, diabetes management and research, metabolism related to diabetes and cancer, calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism, cannabis and cannabinoid research, and phagocytosis and immune regulation.

Among the recent published papers by Susan Bonner-Weir are:

  • Inadequate β-cell mass is essential for the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes, 2020, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Beta cell identity changes with mild hyperglycemia: Implications for function, growth, and vulnerability, 2020, Molecular Metabolism
  • Unique Human and Mouse β-Cell Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype (SASP) Reveal Conserved Signaling Pathways and Heterogeneous Factors, 2021, Diabetes
  • PAHSAs reduce cellular senescence and protect pancreatic beta cells from metabolic stress through regulation of Mdm2/p53, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Externalized phosphatidylinositides on apoptotic cells are eat-me signals recognized by CD14, 2022, Cell Death and Differentiation

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Gordon C. Weir, Jennifer Hollister-Lock, María F. Rubín de Celis, Hui Pan, and Brooke Sullivan.

The most common venues for their publications include Diabetes, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Molecular Metabolism, and Frontiers in Endocrinology.

Susan Bonner-Weir was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • β-Cell Deficit and Increased β-Cell Apoptosis in Humans With Type 2 Diabetes

    Alexandra E. Butler;Juliette Janson;Susan Bonner-Weir;Robert A Ritzel

  • Disruption of IRS-2 causes type 2 diabetes in mice

    Dominic J. Withers;Julio Sanchez Gutierrez;Heather Towery;Deborah J. Burks

  • Exendin-4 stimulates both beta-cell replication and neogenesis, resulting in increased beta-cell mass and improved glucose tolerance in diabetic rats.

    Gang Xu;D. A. Stoffers;J. F. Habener;S. Bonner-Weir

  • Translational Control Is Required for the Unfolded Protein Response and In Vivo Glucose Homeostasis

    Donalyn Scheuner;Benbo Song;Edward McEwen;Chuan Liu

  • In vitro cultivation of human islets from expanded ductal tissue

    Susan Bonner-Weir;Monica Taneja;Gordon C. Weir;Krystyna Tatarkiewicz

  • Five Stages of Evolving Beta-Cell Dysfunction During Progression to Diabetes

    Gordon C. Weir;Susan Bonner-Weir

  • p16INK4a induces an age-dependent decline in islet regenerative potential.

    Janakiraman Krishnamurthy;Matthew R. Ramsey;Keith L. Ligon;Chad Torrice

  • A Second Pathway for Regeneration of Adult Exocrine and Endocrine Pancreas: A Possible Recapitulation of Embryonic Development

    Susan Bonner-Weir;Leslie A Baxter;George T Schuppin;Fannie E Smith

  • Selective β-Cell Loss and α-Cell Expansion in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Korea

    Kun Ho Yoon;Seung Hyun Ko;Jae Hyoung Cho;Jung Min Lee

  • Dynamics of beta-cell mass in the growing rat pancreas. Estimation with a simple mathematical model.

    Diane T Finegood;Luisa Scaglia;Susan Bonner-Weir

  • Insulinotropic glucagon-like peptide 1 agonists stimulate expression of homeodomain protein IDX-1 and increase islet size in mouse pancreas.

    Doris A. Stoffers;Timothy J. Kieffer;Mehboob A. Hussain;Daniel J. Drucker

  • Role of apoptosis in failure of beta-cell mass compensation for insulin resistance and beta-cell defects in the male Zucker diabetic fatty rat.

    Anthony Pick;Joshua Clark;Christian Kubstrup;Matteo Levisetti

  • Chronic hyperglycemia triggers loss of pancreatic beta cell differentiation in an animal model of diabetes.

    Jean-Christophe Jonas;Arun Sharma;Wendy Hasenkamp;Hasan Ilkova

  • Development of a novel polygenic model of NIDDM in mice heterozygous for IR and IRS-1 null alleles.

    Jens C Brüning;Jonathon Winnay;Susan Bonner-Weir;Simeon I Taylor

  • New Perspectives on the Microvasculature of the Islets of Langerhans in the Rat

    S Bonner-Weir;L Orci

  • New sources of pancreatic beta-cells.

    Susan Bonner-Weir;Gordon C Weir

  • Partial pancreatectomy in the rat and subsequent defect in glucose-induced insulin release.

    S Bonner-Weir;D F Trent;G C Weir

  • Beta-cell adaptation and decompensation during the progression of diabetes.

    Gordon C. Weir;David Ross Laybutt;Hideaki Kaneto;Susan Bonner-Weir

  • Compensatory growth of pancreatic beta-cells in adult rats after short-term glucose infusion.

    Susan Bonner-Weir;Deanna Deery;John L Leahy;Gordon C Weir

  • Residual Insulin Production and Pancreatic β-Cell Turnover After 50 Years of Diabetes: Joslin Medalist Study

    Hillary A. Keenan;Jennifer K. Sun;Jared Levine;Alessandro Doria

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon C. Weir
Gordon C. Weir Harvard University
Arun K. Sharma
Arun K. Sharma University of Calcutta
George L. King
George L. King Harvard University
Dennis C. Sgroi
Dennis C. Sgroi Harvard University
George S. Eisenbarth
George S. Eisenbarth University of Colorado Denver
Mary-Elizabeth Patti
Mary-Elizabeth Patti Harvard University
Allison B. Goldfine
Allison B. Goldfine Harvard University
Joel F. Habener
Joel F. Habener Harvard University
Ton J. Rabelink
Ton J. Rabelink Leiden University Medical Center
Lorenzo Piemonti
Lorenzo Piemonti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

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