Katalin Susztak, MD, PHD

Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases IV
  • Professor of Medicine in Genetics
  • Professor of Medicine in Pediatrics

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
Dr. Susztak is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Balzer MS, Zhou J, Abedini A, Ma Z, Hou Y, Yadav T, Grundmann M, Pavkovic M, Susztak K. Single-Cell Resolution Drug Effects of Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone Blockade in ZSF1 Rat Diabetic Kidney Disease , J Am Soc Nephrol, 37: 2026,1438-1456


Levinsohn J, Grindel S, Dumoulin B, Abedini A, Conte C, Huang AZ, Levin-Klein R, Weisz B, Rabinowitz G, Bergeson AM, Ha E, Klötzer KA, Zhang N, Titchenell P, Li M, Park JS, Arroyo JP, Finn LS, Sasaki K, Beckerman P, Pleniceanu O, Romagnani P, Hughes AJ, Susztak K. Single-cell spatial mapping of human kidney development implicates the microenvironment in guiding cell fate decisions , Nat Genet: 2026


Hou Y, Kloetzer K, Dumoulin B, Ha E, Liu H, Mukhi D, Andrade-Silva M, Hu X, Pan S, Susztak K. ELF3 links kidney function GWAS loci to maladaptive epithelial inflammation , Sci Adv, 12: 2026,eaec6741


Xu K, Khan A, Shang N, Zeng W, Wang C, Berrouet C, Shen TH, Narayanan P, Deng J, DiPerna C, Williams C, Cuacuas S, Olsen TR, Arace J, Ghotra A, Monical W, Borisov O, Haug S, Liu H, Ha E, Banlengchit R, Levitman A, Patel D, Chou C, Halibart B, Guo TW, Simmons S, Goswami S, Nesanir K, Fujita M, Kullo IJ, Jarvik GP, Wei WQ, Feng Q, Jiang L, Stein CM, Weng C, Hripscak G, Gharavi AG, Susztak K, De Jager PL, Köttgen A, Barasch J, Sims PA, Kiryluk K. Mapping Genetic Susceptibility to Urinary Tract Infection from Kidney Papilla to Bladder , medRxiv: 2026


Mohandes S, Fakhreddine M, Sheng H, Al Dulaimee M, Mottl A, Scialla J, Almaani S, Luciano R, Isakova T, Bansal S, Argyropoulos C, Avasare R, Singh M, Campbell KN, Townsend R, Coppock G, Palmer M, Susztak K; TRIDENT Consortium. Percutaneous Native Kidney Biopsy Complications in Diabetic Patients in the TRIDENT Cohort , Clin J Am Soc Nephrol: 2026


Yao S, Jing Z, Jiang S, Li W, Yamamoto Y, Dumoulin B, Sachs N, Maegdefessal L, Susztak K, Wang L, Kadara H, Li M. Cross-Modality Alignment of Spatial Transcriptomics, Multiplexed Imaging, and Histology with PHARAOH , Res Sq: 2026


Kolligundla LP, Mukhi D, Levinsohn J, Bergerson A, Hou Y, Liu H, Capell BC, Susztak K. KDM1A regulates nephron progenitor programs and is associated with human kidney disease risk , Nephrol Dial Transplant: 2026


Isnard P, Makinistoglu MP, Leibovici M, Levinsohn J, Zimmermann N, Cohen C, Garbay S, Nguyen C, Gaglioti D, Chiral M, Grevellec-Christophorou A, Fiorentino A, Peters DJM, Fischer E, Bienaimé F, Susztak K, Terzi F, Pontoglio M. HNF1B integrates signals in a feed-forward loop driving kidney disease progression , Science, 392: 2026,eaea3219


Sandholm N, Cole JB, Nair V, Brennan E, Giardini E, Haukka JK, Ha E, Syreeni A, Dahlström EH, Salem RM, Fermin D, Mercader J, Smyth L, Hill C, Mychaleckyj J, McGurnaghan S, Miller RG, Costacou T, Snell-Bergeon J, Paterson AD, Verkauskiene R, Sokolovska J, Panduru NM, Zerbini G, Brismar K, Krolewski AS, Harjutsalo V, Rossing P, Hadjadj S, McKay G, McKnight AJ, Maxwell AP, Susztak K, Godson C, Kretzler M, Hirschhorn JN, Florez JC, Groop PH; GENIE Consortium. Response to the Letter to the Editor Entitled "A Missing Genomic Dimension: The Small but Central Mitochondrial Genome in Diabetic Kidney Disease Genetics" , Kidney Int Rep, 11: 2026,106572


Sager RA, Susztak K, Hakimi AA. Inflammation-Driven Field Cancerization in End-Stage Kidney Disease , Cancer Discov, 16: 2026,426-427


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