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Matthew B. Palmer, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Director, Renal Pathology Service
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Contact InformationHospital of the University of Pennsylvania
6 Founders Pavilion
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Email: matthew.palmer@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Specialty Division

Anatomic Pathology

Education

BS (Zoology and Russian), Brigham Young University, 1998
MD (Doctor of Medicine), Emory University School of Medicine, 2008
PhD (Biochemistry, Cell, and Developmental Biology), Emory University, 2008

Specialty Certification

American Board of Pathology, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 2012

Postgraduate Training

Resident, Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Yale-New Haven Hospital/Yale School of Medicine, 2008-2012
Fellow in Renal and Genitourinary Pathology, Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 2012-2013

Awards and Honors

University Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 1992
DOE Undergraduate Research Fellowship, UC Davis, 1996
Dean's List, College of Biology and Agriculture, Brigham Young University, 1996
NSF Research Training Program, National Museum of Natural History, 1998
NIH Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship, Emory University, 1999-2008
NIH Cell and Molecular Biology Training Grant, Emory University, 2005
Woodruff Scholarship, Emory University School of Medicine, 2007-2008

Memberships and Professional Organizations

Renal Pathology Society, 2012-present
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, 2012-2014
College of American Pathologists, 2012-2014
Nephrotic Syndrome Study Network (NEPTUNE), 2013-present
American Society of Nephrology, 2015-present
Cure Glomerulonephropathy Network (CureGN), 2016-present
Transformative Research in Diabetic Nephropathy (TRIDENT), 2016-present

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Selected Publications

Single-cell multi-omic and spatial profiling of human kidneys implicates the fibrotic microenvironment in kidney disease progression.

Abedini A, Levinsohn J, Klötzer KA, Dumoulin B, Ma Z, Frederick J, Dhillon P, Balzer MS, Shrestha R, Liu H, Vitale S, Bergeson AM, Devalaraja-Narashimha K, Grandi P, Bhattacharyya T, Hu E, Pullen SS, Boustany-Kari CM, Guarnieri P, Karihaloo A, Traum D, Yan H, Coleman K, Palmer M, Sarov-Blat L, Morton L, Hunter CA, Kaestner KH, Li M, Susztak K., Nature Genetics 56(8): 1712-1724, 2024, PMID:39048792

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Perioperative nivolumab versus observation in patients with renal cell carcinoma undergoing nephrectomy (PROSPER ECOG-ACRIN EA8143): an open-label, randomised, phase 3 study.

Allaf ME, Kim SE, Master V, McDermott DF, Harshman LC, Cole SM, Drake CG, Signoretti S, Akgul M, Baniak N, Li-Ning E, Palmer MB, Emamekhoo H, Adra N, Kaimakliotis H, Ged Y, Pierorazio PM, Abel EJ, Bilen MA, Ogan K, Moon HH, Ramaswamy KA, Singer EA, Mayer TM, Lohrey J, Margulis V, Gills J, Delacroix SE, Waples MJ, James AC, Wang P, Choueiri T, Michaelson MD, Kapoor A, Heng DY, Shuch B, Leibovich BC, Lara PN, Manola J, Maskens D, Battle D, Uzzo R, Bratslavsky G, Haas NB, Carducci MA., Lancet Oncology 25(8): 1038-1052, 2024, PMID:38942046

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Unraveling the epigenetic code: human kidney DNA methylation and chromatin dynamics in renal disease development.

Yan Y, Liu H, Abedini A, Sheng X, Palmer M, Li H, Susztak K., Nature Communications 15(1): 873, 2024, PMID:38287030

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Clinicopathologic Features of Antibrush Border Antibody Disease.

Murphy JD, Caza TN, Cassol CA, Storey A, Ambruzs JM, Boils C, Walker PD, Sharma S, Messias N, Hennigar R, Andeen NK, VanBeek C, Palmer M, Sankar L, Sanghi P, Dinesh K, Dicker L, Urisman A, Larsen CP., Kidney International Reports 9(2): 370-382, 2023, PMID:38344713

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Cure Glomerulonephropathy Pathology Classification and Core Scoring Criteria, Reproducibility, and Clinicopathologic Correlations

Matthew B Palmer; Virginie Royal; J. Charles Jennette; Abigail R. Smith; Qian Liu; Josephine M. Ambruzs; Nicole K. Andeen; Vivette D. D’Agati; Agnes B. Fogo; Joseph Gaut; Rasheed A. Gbadegesin; Larry A. Greenbaum; Jean Hou; Margaret E Helmuth; Richard A. Lafayette; Helen Liapis; Bruce Robinson; Michael B. Stokes; Katherine Twombley; Hong Yin; Cynthia C. Nast; for the CureGN Consortium, Glomerular Diseases 3(1): 248-257, 2023

Metastatic solid tumors to the testis: a clinicopathologic evaluation of 157 cases from an international collaboration.

Nova-Camacho LM, Acosta AM, Trpkov K, Sangoi AR, Pierre A, Chou A, Yilmaz A, Morini A, Rodrigues Â, Fletcher CDM, Perez-Montiel D, Maclean F, Contreras F, Queipo FJ, Muñiz Unamunzaga G, Mesa H, de Torres I, Ruiz I, Alvarado-Cabrero I, Lobo J, Schwartz L, Cheng L, Akgul M, García-Martos M, Palmer MB, Aron M, Raspollini MR, Manrique Celada M, Hwang M, Idrees MT, Rioux-Leclercq N, Zalles N, Vergara N, Lal P, Wobker S, Kammerer-Jacquet SF, Prendeville S, Tilmant T, Ulbright TM, Verkarre V, Collins K, Williamson SR, Panizo A., Human Pathology 139(): 37-46, 2023, PMID:37331529

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Unbiased Human Kidney Tissue Proteomics Identifies Matrix Metalloproteinase 7 as a Kidney Disease Biomarker

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, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 34(7): 1279-1291, 2023, PMID:37022120

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CureGN-Diabetes Study: Rationale, Design, and Methods of a Prospective Observational Study of Glomerular Disease Patients with Diabetes

Mottl AK, Bomback AS, Mariani LH, Coppock G, Jennette JC, Almaani S, Gipson DS, Kelley S, Kidd J, Laurin LP, Mucha K, Oliverio A, Palmer M, Rizk D, Sanghani N, Stokes MB, Susztak K, Wadhwani S, Nast CC., Glomerular Diseases 3(1): 155-164, 2023, PMID:37901700

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L1 Cell Adhesion Molecule (L1CAM) Expression and Molecular Alterations Distinguish Low-Grade Oncocytic Tumor From Eosinophilic Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma.

Alghamdi M, Chen JF, Jungbluth A, Koutzaki S, Palmer MB, Al-Ahmadie HA, Fine SW, Gopalan A, Sarungbam J, Sirintrapun SJ, Tickoo SK, Reuter VE, Chen YB., Modern Pathology 37(5): 100467, 2023, PMID:38460672

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Stretch regulates alveologenesis and homeostasis via mesenchymal Gαq/11-mediated TGFβ2 activation

Goodwin AT, John AE, Joseph C, Habgood A, Tatler AL, Susztak K, Palmer M, Offermanns S, Henderson NC, Jenkins RG, Development 150(9): , 2023, PMID:37102682

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