Penn Medicine Provider
Katalin Susztak, MD, PHD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up

About me

  • Professor of Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension)
  • Professor of Medicine in Genetics
  • Professor of Medicine in Pediatrics

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Qualifications and experience

My research

Deshpande RS, Langham MC, Susztak K, Wehrli FW. MRI-based quantification of whole-organ renal metabolic rate of oxygen , NMR Biomed: 2024


Mukhi D, Li L, Liu H, Doke T, Kolligundla LP, Ha E, Klötzer KA, Abedini A, Mukherjee S, Wu J, Dhillon P, Hu H, Guan D, Funai K, Uehara K, Titchenell PM, Baur JA, Wellen KE, Susztak K. ACSS2 gene variants determine kidney disease risk by controlling de novo lipogenesis in kidney tubules , J Clin Invest: 2023


Latt KZ, Yoshida T, Shrivastav S, Abedini A, Reece JM, Sun Z, Lee H, Okamoto K, Dagur P, Heymann J, Zhao Y, Chung JY, Hewitt S, Jose PA, Lee K, He JC, Winkler CA, Knepper MA, Kino T, Rosenberg AZ, Susztak K, Kopp JB. HIV viral protein R induces loss of DCT1-type renal tubules , bioRxiv: 2023


Zhou J, Abedini A, Balzer MS, Shrestha R, Dhillon P, Liu H, Hu H, Susztak K. Unified Mouse and Human Kidney Single-Cell Expression Atlas Reveal Commonalities and Differences in Disease States , J Am Soc Nephrol, 34: 2023,1843-1862


Hung AM, Assimon VA, Chen HC, Yu Z, Vlasschaert C, Triozzi JL, Chan H, Wheless L, Wilson O, Shah SC, Mack T, Thompson T, Matheny ME, Chandrasekar S, Mozaffari SV, Chung CP, Tsao P, Susztak K, Siew ED, Estrada K, Gaziano JM, Graham RR, Tao R, Hoek M, Robinson-Cohen C, Green EM, Bick AG; Million Veteran Program. Genetic Inhibition of APOL1 Pore-Forming Function Prevents APOL1-Mediated Kidney Disease , J Am Soc Nephrol, 34: 2023,1889-1899


Levinsohn J, Li S, Ha E, Susztak K. Combing Genome-Wide Association Studies and Single-Cell Analysis to Elucidate the Mechanisms of Kidney Disease: Proceedings of the Henry Shavelle Professorship , Glomerular Dis, 3: 2023,258-265


Onodera T, Wang MY, Rutkowski JM, Deja S, Chen S, Balzer MS, Kim DS, Sun X, An YA, Field BC, Lee C, Matsuo EI, Mizerska M, Sanjana I, Fujiwara N, Kusminski CM, Gordillo R, Gautron L, Marciano DK, Hu MC, Burgess SC, Susztak K, Moe OW, Scherer PE. Endogenous renal adiponectin drives gluconeogenesis through enhancing pyruvate and fatty acid utilization , Nat Commun, 14: 2023,6531


Abedini A, Sanchez-Navarro A, Wu J, Klötzer KA, Ma Z, Poudel B, Doke T, Balzer MS, Frederick J, Cernecka H, Liu H, Liang X, Vitale S, Kolkhof P, Susztak K. Single-cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility profiling elucidate the kidney protective mechanism of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists , J Clin Invest: 2023


Zhang Z, Mathew D, Lim T, Mason K, Martinez CM, Huang S, Wherry EJ, Susztak K, Minn AJ, Ma Z, Zhang NR. Signal recovery in single cell batch integration , bioRxiv: 2023


Hirohama D, Abedini A, Moon S, Surapaneni A, Dillon ST, Vassalotti A, Liu H, Doke T, Martinez V, Md Dom Z, Karihaloo A, Palmer MB, Coresh J, Grams ME, Niewczas MA, Susztak K. Unbiased Human Kidney Tissue Proteomics Identifies Matrix Metalloproteinase 7 as a Kidney Disease Biomarker , J Am Soc Nephrol, 34: 2023,1279-1291


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