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Adriana Krizova
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Latest papers
Characterizing the Transcriptional Features that Underlie Established Injury and Disease Progression in Diabetic Kidney Disease.
PubMed · 2026
Reduced podocyte stiffness is a feature of proteinuric kidney disease.
Kidney international · 2026
A first-in-human study of quantitative ultrasound to assess transplant kidney fibrosis.
Nature medicine · 2025
Latest funding
- $491,750
Using "enhanced ultrasound" to help select the best kidneys for transplantation
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
23 publications.
Characterizing the Transcriptional Features that Underlie Established Injury and Disease Progression in Diabetic Kidney Disease.
Paraish S. Misra, Shukai Huang, Lauren Caldwell, Xiaolin He, Tianzhou Zhang, Adriana Krizova, Kevin D. Burns, Richard E Gilbert, Jeffrey L. Wrana, Darren A. Yuen
Reduced podocyte stiffness is a feature of proteinuric kidney disease.
Severino LU, He X, Mandapati A, Zhang T, Batchu SN, Sachan V, Kennedy J, Kek K, Krizova A, Lausecker F, Yip C, Advani A, Lennon R, Chase SE, Krendel M, Yuen DA
A first-in-human study of quantitative ultrasound to assess transplant kidney fibrosis.
Hysi E, Baek J, Koven A, He X, Ulloa Severino L, Wu Y, Kek K, Huang S, Krizova A, Farcas M, Ordon M, Fok KH, Stewart R, Pace KT, Kolios MC, Parker KJ, Yuen DA
Podocyte YAP and TAZ hyperactivation drives glomerular epithelial proliferative diseases in mice and humans
Xiaolin L. He, Estefania Rodriguez Ballestas, Li Zeng, Tianzhou Zhang, Caitríona M. McEvoy, Paraish S. Misra, Victoria Ki, Arnold J. Apostol, Jenny S. J. Wong, Kristin A. Meliambro, Justina Ray, Marina de Cos, Maria Elena Melica, Paola Romagnani, Ye Feng, Adriana Krizova, Ira Doressa Anne L. How, Ivy A. Rosales, Robert B. Colvin, John Cijiang He, Kirk Nicholas Campbell, Darren A. Yuen
Imaging Mass Cytometry in Psoriatic Disease Reveals Immune Profile Heterogeneity in Skin and Synovial Tissue.
Eder L, Caucheteux SM, Afiuni-Zadeh S, Croitoru D, Krizova A, Limacher JJ, Ritchlin C, Jackson H, Piguet V
Budget impact analysis of molecular subtype profiling in endometrial cancer.
Plotkin A, Olkhov-Mitsel E, Nofech-Mozes S, Djordjevic B, Mirkovic J, Fitzpatrick M, Krizova A, Look Hong NJ
NUAK1 promotes organ fibrosis via YAP and TGF-β/SMAD signaling.
Zhang T, He X, Caldwell L, Goru SK, Ulloa Severino L, Tolosa MF, Misra PS, McEvoy CM, Christova T, Liu Y, Atin C, Zhang J, Hu C, Vukosa N, Chen X, Krizova A, Kirpalani A, Gregorieff A, Ni R, Chan K, Gill MK, Attisano L, Wrana JL, Yuen DA
Myofibroblast YAP/TAZ activation is a key step in organ fibrogenesis.
He X, Tolosa MF, Zhang T, Goru SK, Ulloa Severino L, Misra PS, McEvoy CM, Caldwell L, Szeto SG, Gao F, Chen X, Atin C, Ki V, Vukosa N, Hu C, Zhang J, Yip C, Krizova A, Wrana JL, Yuen DA
CAIX Immunostaining in Non-neoplastic Renal Diseases.
Yousef A, Kim SS, Krizova A
Investigating miRNA-related Pathways Contributing to Kidney Cancer Pathogenesis.
Yousef P, Ibrahim R, Boulos C, Khatab Z, Pasic M, Krizova A
Using "enhanced ultrasound" to help select the best kidneys for transplantation
Principal investigators: Yuen, Darren A; Needles, Andrew; Kolios, Michael C
Keywords: Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound; Fibrosis; Kidney Transplantation; Microvascular Injury; Photoacoustic Ultrasound; Ultrasound
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Antonio Finelli and Andrew Evans: 34 shared papers
- Jeffrey Wrana and Hartland Jackson: 24 shared papers
- Andrew Advani and Darren Yuen: 23 shared papers
- Darren Yuen and Eno Hysi: 14 shared papers
- George Yousef and Rola Saleeb: 14 shared papers
- Jeffrey Wrana and Alex Gregorieff: 13 shared papers
- Darren Yuen and Anish Kirpalani: 11 shared papers
- Bojana Djordjevic and Jelena Mirkovic: 9 shared papers
- Antonio Finelli and George Yousef: 8 shared papers
- Darren Yuen and Adriana Krizova: 7 shared papers
- Jeffrey Wrana and Darren Yuen: 5 shared papers
- Antonio Finelli and Rola Saleeb: 4 shared papers
- George Yousef and Andrew Evans: 4 shared papers
- George Yousef and Adriana Krizova: 4 shared papers
- Rola Saleeb and Andrew Evans: 4 shared papers
- Rola Saleeb and Adriana Krizova: 4 shared papers
- Christopher Yip and Jeffrey Wrana: 3 shared papers
- Jeffrey Wrana and Adriana Krizova: 3 shared papers
- Antonio Finelli and Hartland Jackson: 3 shared papers
- Christopher Yip and Darren Yuen: 2 shared papers
- Christopher Yip and Adriana Krizova: 2 shared papers
- George Yousef and Anna Plotkin: 2 shared papers
- Eno Hysi and Michael Ordon: 2 shared papers
- Bojana Djordjevic and Anna Plotkin: 2 shared papers
- Adriana Krizova and Michael Ordon: 2 shared papers
- Jonathan Downar and Ari Zaretsky: 1 shared paper
- Jonathan Downar and Adriana Krizova: 1 shared paper
- Christopher Yip and Andrew Advani: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Advani and Jeffrey Wrana: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Advani and Adriana Krizova: 1 shared paper
- Jeffrey Wrana and Anish Kirpalani: 1 shared paper
- Darren Yuen and Alex Gregorieff: 1 shared paper
- Darren Yuen and Kai-Ho Fok: 1 shared paper
- Darren Yuen and Michael Ordon: 1 shared paper
- Anish Kirpalani and Alex Gregorieff: 1 shared paper
- Anish Kirpalani and Adriana Krizova: 1 shared paper
- Antonio Finelli and Adriana Krizova: 1 shared paper
- Alex Gregorieff and Adriana Krizova: 1 shared paper
- George Yousef and John Bartlett: 1 shared paper
- George Yousef and Dina Boles: 1 shared paper
- Hartland Jackson and Adriana Krizova: 1 shared paper
- Hartland Jackson and David Croitoru: 1 shared paper
- Rola Saleeb and John Bartlett: 1 shared paper
- Rola Saleeb and Dina Boles: 1 shared paper
- Eno Hysi and Adriana Krizova: 1 shared paper
- Eno Hysi and Kai-Ho Fok: 1 shared paper
- Catherine Forse and Adriana Krizova: 1 shared paper
- Catherine Forse and D'Arcy Little: 1 shared paper
- Ari Zaretsky and Adriana Krizova: 1 shared paper
- Bojana Djordjevic and Adriana Krizova: 1 shared paper
- John Bartlett and Dina Boles: 1 shared paper
- John Bartlett and Adriana Krizova: 1 shared paper
- Dina Boles and Adriana Krizova: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Evans and Adriana Krizova: 1 shared paper
- Adriana Krizova and Anna Plotkin: 1 shared paper
- Adriana Krizova and Jelena Mirkovic: 1 shared paper
- Adriana Krizova and David Croitoru: 1 shared paper
- Adriana Krizova and Kai-Ho Fok: 1 shared paper
- Adriana Krizova and D'Arcy Little: 1 shared paper
- Anna Plotkin and Jelena Mirkovic: 1 shared paper
- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
- Department of Surgery
- Department of Molecular Genetics
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Medical Imaging
- Department of Psychiatry
- Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Darren Yuen
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
7 shared papers, latest 2026
Rola Saleeb
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
4 shared papers, latest 2021
George Yousef
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
4 shared papers, latest 2021
Jeffrey Wrana
Department of Molecular Genetics
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Michael Ordon
Department of Surgery
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Christopher Yip
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Lorna Mirham
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Jelena Mirkovic
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
1 shared papers, latest 2023
David Croitoru
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Nicole Hong
Staff Physician, Division of Surgical Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Kai-Ho Fok
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Robert Stewart
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Walter Montanera
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Anna Plotkin
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
1 shared papers, latest 2023
D'Arcy Little
Department of Medical Imaging
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Michael Kolios
Department of Physics
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Anish Kirpalani
Department of Medical Imaging
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Antonio Finelli
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Richard Gilbert
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Kevin Burns
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Alex Gregorieff
Department of Pathology
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Lihi Eder
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Vincent Piguet
Department of Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Hartland Jackson
Department of Molecular Genetics
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Sharon Nofech-Mozes
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Eno Hysi
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Monica Farcas
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Catherine Forse
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Nicole Look Hong
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Kenneth Pace
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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