Selected April Publications from BIDMC Faculty

Building on our culture of collaboration and innovation, our researchers are helping to transform medicine and health care delivery. Below are selected academic publications issued in April 2021.

Insulin action in adipocytes, adipose remodeling, and systemic effects
Cell Metabolism / Review / April 6, 2021
BIDMC Authors: Anna Santoro, Barbara B. Kahn

COVID-19 pandemic: A wake-up call for clean air
Annals of the American Thoracic Society / Commentary / April 9, 2021
BIDMC Authors: Stephen Andrew Mein, Mary Rice (Department of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine)

Identification of a targetable KRAS-mutant epithelial population in non-small cell lung cancer
Communications Biology / Research / April 14, 2021
BIDMC Authors: Valerie Maymi, Nicole Pandell, Eva Csizmadia, Olivier Kocher, John Clohessy, Elena Levantini (Division of Hematology-Oncology)

Bibliometric analysis of neurology articles published in general medicine journals
JAMA Network Open / Research / April 15, 2021
BIDMC Authors: Mitch Wilson (Department of Neurology)

Blood pressure effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy in transgender and gender diverse adults
Hypertension / Research / April 19, 2021
BIDMC Author: Michael Irwig (Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism)

FANCM regulates repair pathway choice at stalled replication forks
Molecular Cell / Research / April 20, 2021
BIDMC Authors: Arvind Panday, Nicholas A. Willis, Rajula Elango, Erin E. Duffey, Ralph Scully (Division of Hematology-Oncology)

Association of maternal perinatal SARS-CoV-2 infection with neonatal outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts
JAMA Network Open / Research / April 23, 2021
BIDMC Authors: Asimenia Angelidou, Neha Chaudhary, Ivana Culic, Diana Yanni (Department of Neonatology)

SHP2 drives inflammation-triggered insulin resistance by reshaping tissue macrophage populations
Science Translational Medicine / Research / April 28, 2021
BIDMC Author: Romain Paccoud (Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism)

Commitment and oncogene-induced plasticity of human stem cell-derived pancreatic acinar and ductal organoids
Cell Stem Cell / Research / April 28, 2021
BIDMC Authors: Ling Huang, Ridhdhi Desai, Dipikaa Akshinthala, Christine Maria Lim, Raul Gonzalez, Lakshmi B. Muthuswamy, Senthil K. Muthuswamy (Department of Medicine, Cancer Research Institute)

COVID-19 tissue atlases reveal SARS-CoV-2 pathology and cellular targets
Nature / Research / April 29, 2021
BIDMC Authors: Yered Pita-Juárez, Pourya Naderi, Yury Popov, Sebastian Niezen, Linus Tsai, Olga Brook, Jonathan Hecht, Deepti Pant, Winston Hide, Stefan Riedel, Gyongyi Szabo, Z. Gordon Jiang, Ioannis Vlachos (Department of Pathology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Research Institute)