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Katalin Susztak

@ksusztak.bsky.social
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Physician Scientist | Nephrology | Translational Research | Single-Cell & Spatial Omics | Precision Medicine | Kidney Innovation | Advocate for Patient-Centered Science | Views My Own

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UPENN_ITMAT @itmat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Plasticity in #CellCellCommunication may be central for how cell fate is robustly established in complex patterned tissues doi.org/10.1038/s415... @ksusztak.bsky.social #SingleCellRNASequencing #SpatialTranscriptomics #KidneyDevelopment
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Single-cell spatial mapping of human kidney development implicates the microenvironment in guiding cell fate decisions - Nature Genetics
The spatial organization of human kidney development is explored using single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics, highlighting the crucial role of microenvironmental signals in guiding ce...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Mediators of cell fate decisions in human fetal kidney development identified using spatial transcriptomics @natgenet.nature.com @ksusztak.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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ASN Publications @asnpublications.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Kidney biopsies in adults with diabetes are generally safe, and using smaller-diameter needles, minimizing unnecessary trauma, and ensuring adequate operator experience may have a bigger impact than patient-related risk factors alone. kidney.pub/CJASN1083... #ASNCJASN @ksusztak.bsky.social
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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
By summarizing these patterns in a tissue signature and a plasma panel, the researchers, @ksusztak.bsky.social et al, have improved detection and risk stratification compared to clinical models. 2/3
Niches decipher the fabric architecture.The profibrotic microenvironment in DKD.
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Michael S. Balzer @balzer-lab.org · 03/05/2026
🚨CONGRATS @ksusztak.bsky.social @bernhard-dumoulin.bsky.social & team on a fantastic @nature.com paper! DKD isn’t 1 disease! #spatial & #singlecell data reveal distinct injury niches—including B cell–rich immune subtype linked to faster progression. #Nephrology #PrecisionMedicine #NephSky #MedSky 🧪
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Immune microenvironments comprising aggregated B cells in a subset of individuals who have accelerated diabetic kidney disease progression @nature.com @ksusztak.bsky.social @upenn.edu www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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UPENN_ITMAT @itmat.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Nine-protein #APOL1 #ProteomicRiskScore (#APRS) predicting composite outcome of ≥40% #eGFRdecline, #KidneyFailure or death to bridge gap between #GeneticSusceptibility & clinical translation www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ksusztak.bsky.social #TranslationalScience
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Proteomic risk score for early prediction of kidney disease progression in individuals with APOL1 high-risk genotypes - Nature Medicine
For individuals with APOL1 high-risk genotypes, which are enriched in individuals of African ancestry, a nine-protein proteomic risk score enables early prediction of kidney disease progression and ma...
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NU Dept. of Medicine @nuintmed.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Join us and @ksusztak.bsky.social TOMORROW for our Ivanovich Lectureship!
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ASN Publications @asnpublications.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This #ASNJASN study explored how enalapril, a common RAAS inhibitor used for kidney protection, affects different cell types in the kidney, particularly focusing on the distal nephron. Read more: kidney.pub/JASN0995 #BasicResearch Katalin Susztak Michael S. Balzer
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Michael S. Balzer @balzer-lab.org · 08/01/2026
Excited to share our recent JASN paper on enalapril effects in #DKD using #single-cell approaches.🧪 Thanks to the whole team @nephrointberlin.bsky.social @PennKidney, and @Bayer. Special 🙏 to my mentor @ksusztak.bsky.social. Her insightful X thread is copied below. 🔗 t.ly/oNjkJ #NephSky #MedSky
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UPENN_ITMAT @itmat.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Defining the role of #ApolipoproteinL1 (#APOL1) #RiskVariants on #BloodPressure www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... @ksusztak.bsky.social‬ #HealthEquity #KidneyHealth #TranslationalScience
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Cell-Specific Inducible Human APOL1 Risk Variant Expression in Mice Causes Hypertension and Renal Damage | Circulation
BACKGROUND: Black people bear a disproportionate burden of hypertension and hypertension-attributed chronic kidney disease. A role of apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) risk variants (RVs; G1 and G2) in these ...
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Nephrology Times @nephtimes.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Katalin Susztak accepting the Homer W. Smith Award. #KidneyWk
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Michael S. Balzer @balzer-lab.org · 07/11/2025
👏Huge congratulations to my fantastic mentor @ksusztak.bsky.social for receiving the 2025 ASN Homer Smith award.
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Tibor Rohacs @rohacstibor.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Super-proud of my amazing wife @ksusztak.bsky.social, a real trailblazer scientist, a newly-elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, and the recipient of the Homer W Smith award from the American Society of Nephrology. It was great celebrating with you in Houston at #KidneyWk.
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Vikram Paralkar @paralkarlab.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Congratulations @ksusztak.bsky.social and Gerd Blobel (not on Bluesky)!!!
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National Academy of Medicine @nam.edu · 20/10/2025
Congratulations and welcome to the 100 new members elected today to the National Academy of Medicine! #NAMmtg nam.edu/news-and-ins...
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 16/10/2025
The opening plenary at #KidneyWk looks phenomenal Renal RCT Renaissance is upon us (LBCT list drops tomorrow) www.asn-online.org/education/ki...
program for thursday at kidney wk

including 2 LBCTs and Vlado P talking on RCTs and curing kidney disease
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SFB 1453 NephGen @sfb1453.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
We are delighted that our external advisory board member @ksusztak.bsky.social will be receiving this year’s Homer Smith Award at Kidney Week 2025. www.kidneynews.org/view/journal... Congratulations Katalin, so well deserved! 👏👏💐
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NKF Nephrology Professionals @nkf-professionals.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
👏 Congratulations to Katalin Susztak, MD, PhD, recipient of the 2026 David M. Hume Memorial Award! Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/47Taye5 We look forward to celebrating our award winners at SCM26 #NKFClinicals. Stay tuned for registration opening October 2025. @ksusztak.bsky.social
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UPENN_ITMAT @itmat.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Comprehensive #Proteogenomics (pQTL) of human kidneys discerning genetically regulated protein changes in #KidneyFunction and #CardioKidneyMetabolicDisease (CKM) offer targetable mechanism www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ksusztak.bsky.social‬ #TranslationalScience
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The proteogenomic landscape of the human kidney and implications for cardio-kidney-metabolic health - Nature Medicine
Based on 337 human kidney and plasma samples, the authors generate the first kidney pQTL dataset and explore novel risk loci that are relevant for cardio-kidney-metabolic health.
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Michael S. Balzer @balzer-lab.org · 08/08/2025
🔥 Huge congrats to @ksusztak.bsky.social & team on a landmark @natgenet.nature.com paper! 🚶‍♂️🐁🐀Cross-species 🫘kidney pathway dysregulation via #singlecell functional profiling of individual samples — opening new therapeutic avenues. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 #NephSky #MedSky
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Simone Sanna-Cherchi 🧬 @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
After random seating permutations and precise “single-human” clustering, here the ASN young investigator, mid career, and Homer Smith awards … of course with the queen in the middle ❤️ @asnkidney.bsky.social @ksusztak.bsky.social @rkramann.bsky.social @isgd.bsky.social #podocyteconference
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International Society of Glomerular Disease @isgd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
First Emerging Career premeeting keynote from @ksusztak.bsky.social on “Mapping to Mechanism to Medicine” Kidney Disease Genetic Scorecard tool: susztaklab.com/GWAS2M/
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ASN Publications @asnpublications.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New integrated approach identified candidate genes with diabetes-specific effects on kidney function, advancing the understanding of DKD pathophysiology. bit.ly/JASN0718 #ASNJASN #BasicResearch #GeneticResearch @ksusztak.bsky.social
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 03/06/2025
Congrats to all the @asnkidney.bsky.social lifetime and mid-career awardees! @ksusztak.bsky.social @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social @shinamenon.bsky.social @michellejtx.bsky.social and everyone else!
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Anastasia Baryshnikova @abarysh.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Our updated APOL1 manuscript just went live on #bioRxiv – perfectly timed with #APOL1AwarenessDay (April 29). We've sharpened our hypothesis and focused the supporting evidence for a clearer story. #APOL1 #KidneyResearch #UKBiobank #pQTL www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Platform-dependent effects of genetic variants on plasma APOL1
Mutations in apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) are strongly associated with protection against parasitic infections and increased risk of kidney disease in individuals of African ancestry. To better understan...
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UPENN_ITMAT @itmat.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
CHAC1 emerging as #KidneyDisease #RiskGene with a central role of modulating tubule cell glutathione and #Ferroptosis doi.org/10.1126/scit... @ksusztak.bsky.social‬ #DrugDevelopmentOption #TranslationalScience
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Glutathione-specific gamma–glutamylcyclotransferase 1 (CHAC1) increases kidney disease risk by modulating ferroptosis
CHAC1 is a kidney disease risk gene, and removal of one copy of Chac1 protects mice from kidney disease by controlling glutathione and ferroptosis.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
CHAC1 is a kidney disease risk gene, and removal of one copy of Chac1 protects mice from kidney disease by controlling glutathione and ferroptosis @ksusztak.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Matt Sampson @kidneyomicsamps.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Where to go for a nice post-NKF brunch with @ksusztak.bsky.social ? To a spot whose acronym they use for marketing represents what the two of us are trying to stamp out using #kidneyomics 🧬🫘
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Cristian Pattaro @cpattaro.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Wondering whether you should read the great kidney disease genetic scorecard paper by @hongbo919.bsky.social @ksusztak.bsky.social on 2.2Mio people? Here 👇 rdcu.be/eejuB Matthias Wuttke at @sfb1453.bsky.social and I report some highlights for you (and recommend reading the original work) #nephgen
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GWAS scorecard prioritizes kidney genes using coding and regulatory variants
Nature Reviews Nephrology - Based on genome-wide association study data from 2.2 million individuals, a functional prioritization scorecard integrates classical omics with allele-specific gene...
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Simone Sanna-Cherchi 🧬 @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Our #rFSGS biobank is growing and we welcome patients from all over the world! Please reach out to us if you are a patient or a physician caring for one. We are creating a resource for everyone to use with the goal of resolving this disease and find new cures. #KidneyMonth2025 #RareDisease #genetics
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Katalin Susztak @ksusztak.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
U.S. judge blocks NIH’s plan to slash overhead cost payments | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. judge blocks NIH’s plan to slash overhead cost payments
Injunction allows universities to keep receiving billions to recover costs of supporting federal research on campus
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University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry @urochestersmd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
New #URochesterResearch in @science.org unlocks the mysteries of “junk” DNA. Researchers led by @ksusztak.bsky.social of @pennmedicine.bsky.social pooled 32 types of genetic data to link mutations in non-coding (or junk) DNA to their functions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Kidney multiome-based genetic scorecard reveals convergent coding and regulatory variants
Kidney dysfunction is a major cause of mortality, but its genetic architecture remains elusive. In this study, we conducted a multiancestry genome-wide association study in 2.2 million individuals and...
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Simone Sanna-Cherchi 🧬 @genetickidneydoc.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Not only an awesome paper! But it also saves me a long pubmed search to look for something to present at Journal Club this week :) Thank you twice @ksusztak.bsky.social !! In these surreal times, science still shows us a way forward. #Nephsky #Medsky #Genetics #science
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Katalin Susztak @ksusztak.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🎇Our new paper in @ScienceMagazine : Kidney Multiome-Based Genetic Scorecard Reveals Convergent Coding and Regulatory Variants. @Hongbo919Liu science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Kidney multiome-based genetic scorecard reveals convergent coding and regulatory variants
Kidney dysfunction is a major cause of mortality, but its genetic architecture remains elusive. In this study, we conducted a multiancestry genome-wide association study in 2.2 million individuals and...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Kidney multiome-based genetic scorecard reveals convergent coding and regulatory variants @science.org @ksusztak.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Kidney multiome-based genetic scorecard reveals convergent coding and regulatory variants
Kidney dysfunction is a major cause of mortality, but its genetic architecture remains elusive. In this study, we conducted a multiancestry genome-wide association study in 2.2 million individuals and...
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Johann Morelle @johannmorelle.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Impressive and important work by @ksusztak.bsky.social and team, published in @science.org! Kidney multiome-based genetic scorecard reveals convergent coding and regulatory variants #Nephsky #Medsky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Kidney multiome-based genetic scorecard reveals convergent coding and regulatory variants
Kidney dysfunction is a major cause of mortality, but its genetic architecture remains elusive. In this study, we conducted a multiancestry genome-wide association study in 2.2 million individuals and...
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Katalin Susztak @ksusztak.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The Taj Mahal: a symbol of love, but also a perfect metaphor for science—the vision of grandeur, devotion, and the power of legacy. #WCN #ISN
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Katalin Susztak @ksusztak.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
To everyone's surprise, it turns out that attaching a money-sucking machine to a hospital system makes it worse.
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Private equity reduces patient care while enriching investors, Senate report finds
The bipartisan investigation of hospital systems purchased by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners reinforced the findings of past academic research.
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Katalin Susztak @ksusztak.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Steadying the Leaning Tower as we hold up the last days of 2024! 🏛️ Here's to a balanced and brighter 2025 ahead.
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Anna Gloyn @annagloyn.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Excited to have been involved in this: The utility of at home continuous glucose monitoring coupled with machine learning to predict metabolic subtypes. Study was led by Mike Synder & Tracey McLaughlin & championed by Ahmed Metwally. @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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