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Research
Latest papers
Proximity-based proteomics (BioID) uncovers the Rho GTPase interactome in kidney podocytes.
Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
Genetic Assessment of Living Kidney Transplant Donors: A Survey of Canadian Practices.
Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2025
Epigenomic and phenotypic characterization of DEGCAGS syndrome.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2024
Latest funding
- $95,608
Toward Equitable Genetic Services for Hereditary Kidney Disease: A Canadian Needs Assessment and Implementation Toolkit
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $1,101,600
Autosomal recessive variants in TNS1 constitute a novel cause of proteinuric renal disease due to mesangial cell dysfunction.
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
- $6,000
Uncovering novel genotype-phenotype relationships in chronci kidney disease
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
7 publications.
Proximity-based proteomics (BioID) uncovers the Rho GTPase interactome in kidney podocytes.
Ibrahim S, Matsuda J, Nurcombe ZW, Boulais J, Aoudjit L, Foxman E, Kazan C, Suzuki S, Leclerc S, Shimada N, Kitzler T, Coté JF, Takano T
Genetic Assessment of Living Kidney Transplant Donors: A Survey of Canadian Practices.
Zahran S, Bei KF, Adil A, Okoh P, Kitzler T, Alam A
Epigenomic and phenotypic characterization of DEGCAGS syndrome.
Karimi K, Weis D, Aukrust I, Hsieh TC, Horackova M, Paulsen J, Mendoza Londono R, Dupuis L, Dickson M, Lesman H, Lau T, Murphy D, Hama Salih K, Al-Musawi BMS, Al-Obaidi RGY, Rydzanicz M, Biela M, Santos MS, Aldeeri A, Gazda HT, Pais L, Shril S, Døllner H, Bartakke S, Laccone F, Soltysova A, Kitzler T, Soliman NA, Relator R, Levy MA, Kerkhof J, Rzasa J, Houlden H, Pilshofer GV, Jobst-Schwan T, Hildebrandt F, Sousa SB, Maroofian R, Yu TW, Krawitz P, Sadikovic B, Douzgou Houge S
Pulmonary lymphangiectasia in myotubular myopathy: a novel unrecognized association?
de Carvalho Nunes G, Grenier K, Maedler Kron C, Kitzler T, Helou JE, Rosenblatt DS, Olivier F
Carney complex: a curious case of a rare cancer syndrome caused by a novel pathogenic mutation in the PRKAR1A gene.
Gupta N, Kitzler T, Albrecht S, Larouche V
Intrinsic tumor necrosis factor-α pathway is activated in a subset of patients with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
Chung CF, Kitzler T, Kachurina N, Pessina K, Babayeva S, Bitzan M, Kaskel F, Colmegna I, Alachkar N, Goodyer P, Cybulsky AV, Torban E
Novel unbiased assay for circulating podocyte-toxic factors associated with recurrent focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
Kachurina N, Chung CF, Benderoff E, Babayeva S, Bitzan M, Goodyer P, Kitzler T, Matar D, Cybulsky AV, Alachkar N, Torban E
Toward Equitable Genetic Services for Hereditary Kidney Disease: A Canadian Needs Assessment and Implementation Toolkit
Principal investigators: Russo, Felicia; Kitzler, Thomas M
Keywords: Educational Toolkit; Genetic Counselling; Genetic Service Delivery; Inherited Kidney Disease; Renal Genetics Clinic
Autosomal recessive variants in TNS1 constitute a novel cause of proteinuric renal disease due to mesangial cell dysfunction.
Principal investigators: Kitzler, Thomas M; Downie, Mallory L
Keywords: Chronic Renal Failure; Exome And Genome Sequencing; Proteinuric Renal Disease; Zebrafish
Uncovering novel genotype-phenotype relationships in chronci kidney disease
Principal investigators: Sentell, Zachary T
Keywords: Genetic Tesgting; Genome; Kidney Disease; Molecular Diagnosis; Nephronophthisis; Whole-Genome Sequencing
Rare variants in syndromic ciliopathy genes as novel causes of isolated renal disease in adults
Principal investigators: Sentell, Zachary T
Keywords: Chronic Kidney Disease; Crispr-Cas9; Exome Analysis; Genetics; Mendelian Inheritance; Molecular Diagnostics; Next-Generation Sequencing; Patient-Derived Cells; Precision Medicine; Zebrafish
A comprehensive approach to study genetic causes of chronic kidney disease
Principal investigators: Kitzler, Thomas M
Keywords: Kidney Disease
A comprehensiveapproach to studygenetic causes ofchronic kidney disease
Principal investigators: Kitzler, Thomas M
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From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Medicine/Nephrology
- Medicine
- PATHOLOGY & LABORATORY MEDICINE, Western University
- Rheumatology
- Other
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Elena Torban
Medicine/Nephrology
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Paul Goodyer
Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Bekim Sadikovic
PATHOLOGY & LABORATORY MEDICINE, Western University
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Tomoko Takano
Medicine/Nephrology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Ines Colmegna
Rheumatology
1 shared papers, latest 2019
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