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
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
Web Links
Selected Publications
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
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
Single-cell analysis highlights differences in druggable pathways underlying adaptive or fibrotic kidney regeneration
Balzer MS, Doke T, Yang YW, Aldridge DL, Hu H, Mai H, Mukhi D, Ma Z, Shrestha R, Palmer MB, Hunter CA, Susztak K, Nature Communications 13(1): 4018, 2022, PMID:35821371
Antisense oligonucleotides ameliorate kidney dysfunction in podocyte-specific APOL1 risk variant mice
Yang YW, Poudel B, Frederick J, Dhillon P, Shrestha R, Ma Z, Wu J, Okamoto K, Kopp JB, Booten SL, Gattis D, Watt AT, Palmer M, Aghajan M, Susztak K., Molecular Therapeutics 30(7): 2491-2504, 2022, PMID:35450819
Epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses define core cell types, genes and targetable mechanisms for kidney disease
Liu H, Doke T, Guo D, Sheng X, Ma Z, Park J, Vy HMT, Nadkarni GN, Abedini A, Miao Z, Palmer M, Voight BF, Li H, Brown CD, Ritchie MD, Shu Y, Susztak K., Nature Genetics 54(7): 950-962, 2022, PMID:35710981
Quantification of Glomerular Structural Lesions: Associations With Clinical Outcomes and Transcriptomic Profiles in Nephrotic Syndrome.
Hodgin JB, Mariani LH, Zee J, Liu Q, Smith AR, Eddy S, Hartman J, Hamidi H, Gaut JP, Palmer MB, Nast CC, Chang A, Hewitt S, Gillespie BW, Kretzler M, Holzman LB, Barisoni L, American Journal of Kidney Diseases 79(6): 807-819, 2022, PMID:34864148
Renal oncocytoma with both lymphovascular invasion and prominent intracytoplasmic vacuole-like spaces: a case report and review of the literature
Luo X, Preciado C, Nayak A, Schwartz LE, Guzzo T, Williamson SR, Palmer MB, Lal P, International Journal of Surgical Pathology 30(3): 300-306, 2022, PMID:34488464
End Stage Mitochondrial Cardiomyopathy and Heart Transplantation Due to Biallelic Pathogenic C1QBP Variants
Wilcox NS, Prenner SB, Cevasco M, Condit C, Goldstein A, Peterson JT, Tondi Resta I, Palmer M, Lal P, Owens AT, Pieretti J, Drivas TG, Reza N., Circulation Genomics and Precision Medicine 15(2): , 2022, PMID:35119291
A multi-center retrospective cohort study defines the spectrum of kidney pathology in Coronavirus 2019 Disease (COVID-19)
May RM, Cassol C, Hannoudi A, Larsen CP, Lerma E, Haun RS, Braga JR, Hassen SI, Wilson J, VanBeek C, Vankalakunti M, Barnum L, Walker PD, Bourne TD, Messias NC, Ambruzs JM, Boils CL, Sharma SS, Cossey LN, Baxi PV, Palmer M, Zuckerman J, Walavalkar V, Urisman A, Gallan A, Al-Rabadi LF, Rodby R, Luyckx V, Espino G, Santhana-Krishnan S, Alper B, Lam SG, Hannoudi GN, Matthew D, Belz M, Singer G, Kunaparaju S, Price D, Sauabh C, Rondla C, Abdalla MA, Britton ML, Paul S, Ranjit U, Bichu P, Williamson SR, Sharma Y, Gaspert A, Grosse P, Meyer I, Vasudev B, El Kassem M, Velez JCQ, Caza TN, Kidney International 100(6): 1303-1315, 2021, PMID:34352311
Renal histologic analysis provides complementary information to kidney function measurement for patients with early diabetic or hypertensive disease
Quinn G, Abedini A, Liu H, Ma Z, Cucchiara A, Havasi A, Hill J, Palmer M*, Susztak K*, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 32(11): 2863-2876, 2021
