Benjamin Adam

Chair, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Dept
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Dept

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Chair, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Dept
Email
baadam@ualberta.ca

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Dept
Email
baadam@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Pathology Gene expression Transplantation Kidney disease Lung disease Heart disease


About

Dr. Adam is an Anatomical Pathologist at the University of Alberta Hospital and Associate Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology. He completed medical school and residency training in Anatomical Pathology at the University of Alberta, and subspecialty training in Renal Pathology at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Thoracic Pathology at Toronto General Hospital, and Transplantation Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His research is focused on molecular transplantation pathology, including the use of gene expression technologies to diagnose and assess allograft rejection, infection, and injury.

Featured Publications

Fiorella Calabrese, David M. Hwang, Francesca Lunardi, Riccardo Iannaco, Julien Adam, Levent M. Akyürek, Benjamin Adam, Balko Jan, Gerald Berry, Lauren D’Sa, Aurelie Fabre, Antonin Fattori, Gregory A. Fishbein, Kristianna M. Fredenburg, Teresa Hermida Romero, Aliya N. Husain, Kirk Jones, Izidor Kern, Chieh-Yu Lin, Rita Louis, Nuria Mancheño, Angeles Montero-Fernandez, Felicitas Oberndorfer, Prodipto Pal, Elizabeth N. Pavlisko, Muhammad Raheel Qureshi, Myriam Remmelink, Anja C. Roden, Gabriel Sica, Arno Vanstapel, Jan von der Thüsen, Alexander Wein, Birgit Weynand, Francis H.X. Yap, Glen P. Westall, Deborah J. Levine

JHLT Open. 2026 February; 10.1016/j.jhlto.2025.100415


Benjamin A. Adam, Kristalee Watson, Arashdeep Saini, Peter Dromparis, Ainslie Eberhart, Wirongrong Churngchow, Sridevi Koduru, Maziar Riazy, Sean J. Barbour, Michael Mengel

Glomerular Diseases. 2025 November; 10.1159/000549541


Michael Eder, Marian C. Clahsen-van Groningen, Michael Mengel, Haris Omic, Daniel Cejka, Benjamin Adam, Nicolas Kozakowski, Željko Kikić

International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2025 November; 10.3390/ijms262210945


Sanaz Hatami, Joshua Hefler, Guilherme da Silva, Mitchell Wagner, Mobashir Khan, Sayed Himmat, Shubham Shan, Xiuhua Wang, Benjamin Adam, James Shapiro, Jayan Nagendran, Darren H. Freed

The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2025 September; 10.1016/j.healun.2025.09.012


Mitchell J. Wagner, Guilherme Mainardi Aguiar da Silva, Sanaz Hatami, Mubashir Khan, Lily Lin, Xiuhua Wang, Tara Pidborochynski, Benjamin Adam, Jayan Nagendran, Jennifer Conway, Darren H. Freed

ASAIO Journal. 2025 August; 10.1097/MAT.0000000000002366


Joy Wang, Pradyumna Kedarisetti, Ewan McAlister, Matthew Mallay, Jeffrey Woodacre, Benjamin Adam, Remegio Maglantay, Juan Jovel, Frank Wuest, Jeremy Brown, Roger Zemp

2025 April; 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5939271/v1


Brendon S. Restall, Nathaniel J. M. Haven, Matthew T. Martell, Brendyn D. Cikaluk, Joy Wang, Pradyumna Kedarisetti, Saymon Tejay, Benjamin A. Adam, Gopinath Sutendra, Xingyu Li, Roger J. Zemp

Science Advances. 2024 October; 10.1126/sciadv.adl5729


Alessia Giarraputo, Valentin Goutaudier, Blaise Robin, Annalisa Angelini, Marta Sablik, Olivier Aubert, Ivy A. Rosales, Rex N. Smith, Candice Roufosse, Benjamin Adam, Mark Haas, Robert B. Colvin, Carmen Lefaucheur, Michael Mengel, Dina Zielinski, Alexandre Loupy

Kidney International Reports. 2024 May; 10.1016/j.ekir.2024.04.054


Elizabeth N. Pavlisko, Benjamin A. Adam, Gerald J. Berry, Fiorella Calabrese, Nahir Cortes-Santiago, Carolyn H. Glass, Martin Goddard, John R. Greenland, Daniel Kreisel, Deborah J. Levine, Tereza Martinu, Stijn E. Verleden, S. Sam Weigt, Antoine Roux

American Journal of Transplantation. 2024 April; 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.10.022


Maarten Naesens, Candice Roufosse, Mark Haas, Carmen Lefaucheur, Roslyn B. Mannon, Benjamin A. Adam, Olivier Aubert, Georg A. Böhmig, Jasper Callemeyn, Marian Clahsen-van Groningen, Lynn D. Cornell, Anthony J. Demetris, Cinthia B. Drachenberg, Gunilla Einecke, Agnes B. Fogo, Ian W. Gibson, Philip Halloran, Luis G. Hidalgo, Catherine Horsfield, Edmund Huang, Željko Kikić, Nicolas Kozakowski, Brian Nankivell, Marion Rabant, Parmjeet Randhawa, Leonardo V. Riella, Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze, Carrie Schinstock, Kim Solez, Anat R. Tambur, Olivier Thaunat, Chris Wiebe, Dina Zielinski, Robert Colvin, Alexandre Loupy, Michael Mengel

American Journal of Transplantation. 2024 March; 10.1016/j.ajt.2023.10.016


Matthew T. Martell, Nathaniel J. M. Haven, Brendyn D. Cikaluk, Brendon S. Restall, Ewan A. McAlister, Rohan Mittal, Benjamin A. Adam, Nadia Giannakopoulos, Lashan Peiris, Sveta Silverman, Jean Deschenes, Xingyu Li, Roger J. Zemp

Nature Communications. 2023 September; 10.1038/s41467-023-41574-2


Wendy Tu, Ravi V. Gottumukkala, Nicola Schieda, Luke Lavallée, Benjamin A. Adam, Stuart G. Silverman

RadioGraphics. 2023 July; 10.1148/rg.220148


Benjamin A. Adam

Kidney360. 2022 November; 10.34067/KID.0005852022


Željko Kikić, Benjamin A. Adam, Anna Buxeda Porras, Carmen Lefaucheur, Alexandre Loupy, Heinz Regele, Daniel Cejka, Mark Haas, Robert B. Colvin, Michael Mengel

Kidney International. 2022 November; 10.1016/j.kint.2022.10.024


Research Square. 2022 January; 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1377499/v1


Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2022 January; 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.09.045


Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. 2022 January; 10.1007/s00432-022-03924-3


Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2022 January; 10.1016/j.healun.2022.06.021


Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. 2022 January;


Anticancer Research. 2022 January; 10.21873/anticanres.15580


Nattawat Klomjit, Mireille El Ters, Benjamin A. Adam, Priya Sampathkumar, Raymund R. Razonable, Sandra J. Taler, Timucin Taner, Mariam Priya Alexander

American Journal of Transplantation. 2022 January; 10.1111/ajt.16783


Mariam P. Alexander, Kiran K. Mangalaparthi, Anil K. Madugundu, Ann M. Moyer, Benjamin A. Adam, Michael Mengel, Smrita Singh, Sandra M. Herrmann, Andrew D. Rule, E. Heidi Cheek, Loren P. Herrera Hernandez, Rondell P. Graham, Denic Aleksandar, Marie-Christine Aubry, Anja C. Roden, Catherine E. Hagen, Reade A. Quinton, Melanie C. Bois, Peter T. Lin, Joseph J. Maleszewski, Lynn D. Cornell, Sanjeev Sethi, Kevin D. Pavelko, Jon Charlesworth, Ramya Narasimhan, Christopher P. Larsen, Stacey A. Rizza, Samih H. Nasr, Joseph P. Grande, Trevor D. McKee, Andrew D. Badley, Akhilesh Pandey, Timucin Taner

Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2021 October; 10.1016/j.mayocp.2021.07.001


Benjamin A. Adam, Naoka Murakami, Graeme Reid, Katie Du, Ruqaya Jasim, Christie L. Boils, Lihong Bu, Peter D. Hill, Allan G. Murray, Karine Renaudin, Candice Roufosse, Astrid Weins, Kevin Wen, Leonardo V. Riella, Michael Mengel

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2021 September; 10.2215/CJN.00920121


Biomedical Optics Express. 2021 January; 10.1364/BOE.443751


ResearchSquare. 2021 January; 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1015559


Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research. 2021 January; 10.1007/s12265-020-10080-x


Benjamin A. Adam, Zeljko Kikic, Siegfried Wagner, Yassine Bouatou, Juliette Gueguen, Fanny Drieux, Graeme Reid, Katie Du, Jan H. Bräsen, Vivette D. D’Agati, Cinthia B. Drachenberg, Evan A. Farkash, Alton Brad Farris, Laurette Geldenhuys, Alexandre Loupy, Volker Nickeleit, Marion Rabant, Parmjeet Randhawa, Heinz Regele, Michael Mengel

American Journal of Transplantation. 2020 December; 10.1111/ajt.15980


American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2020 September; 10.1111/ajt.16306


Alexandre Loupy, Mark Haas, Candice Roufosse, Maarten Naesens, Benjamin Adam, Marjan Afrouzian, Enver Akalin, Nada Alachkar, Serena Bagnasco, Jan U. Becker, Lynn D. Cornell, Marian C. Clahsen-van Groningen, Anthony J. Demetris, Duska Dragun, Jean-Paul Duong van Huyen, Alton B. Farris, Agnes B. Fogo, Ian W. Gibson, Denis Glotz, Juliette Gueguen, Zeljko Kikic, Nicolas Kozakowski, Edward Kraus, Carmen Lefaucheur, Helen Liapis, Roslyn B. Mannon, Robert A. Montgomery, Brian J. Nankivell, Volker Nickeleit, Peter Nickerson, Marion Rabant, Lorraine Racusen, Parmjeet Randhawa, Blaise Robin, Ivy A. Rosales, Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze, Carrie A. Schinstock, Daniel Seron, Harsharan K. Singh, Rex N. Smith, Mark D. Stegall, Adriana Zeevi, Kim Solez, Robert B. Colvin, Michael Mengel

American Journal of Transplantation. 2020 September; 10.1111/ajt.15898


Clinical transplantation. 2020 August; 10.1111/ctr.14065


Transplantation proceedings. 2020 July; 10.1016/j.transproceed.2020.05.007


American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2020 June; 10.1111/ajt.16059


Respiratory medicine case reports. 2020 June; 10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101128


American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2020 June; 10.1111/ajt.16083


Virginie Royal, Nelson Leung, Stéphan Troyanov, Samih H. Nasr, Laure Écotière, Richard LeBlanc, Benjamin A. Adam, Andrea Angioi, Mariam P. Alexander, Anna Maria Asunis, Antonella Barreca, Paola Bianco, Camille Cohen, Maria E. Drosou, Huma Fatima, Roberta Fenoglio, François Gougeon, Jean-Michel Goujon, Guillermo A. Herrera, Bertrand Knebelmann, Nicola Lepori, Francesca Maletta, Rita Manso, Shveta S. Motwani, Antonello Pani, Marion Rabant, Helmut G. Rennke, Dario Rocatello, Frida Rosenblum, Paul W. Sanders, Afonso Santos, Karina Soto, Banu Sis, Guy Touchard, Christopher P. Venner, Frank Bridoux

Blood. 2020 May; 10.1182/blood.2019003807


Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.). 2020 April; 10.3747/co.27.5533


Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2020 February; 10.1093/cid/ciz497


The Journal of clinical investigation. 2020 January; 10.1172/jci128469


Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2020 January; 10.2215/CJN.13000820


Transplantation. 2019 November; 10.1097/tp.0000000000002911


PloS one. 2019 August; 10.1371/journal.pone.0220786


Transplantation proceedings. 2019 July; 10.1016/j.transproceed.2019.03.042


American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2018 October; 10.1111/ajt.15123


American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. 2018 August; 10.1111/ajt.14990


Nature communications. 2018 June; 10.1038/s41467-018-04743-2


R.N. Smith, M. Matsunami, B.A. Adam, I.A. Rosales, T. Oura, A.B. Cosimi, T. Kawai, M. Mengel, R.B. Colvin

American Journal of Transplantation. 2018 June; 10.1111/ajt.14637


R.N. Smith, B.A. Adam, I.A. Rosales, M. Matsunami, T. Oura, A.B. Cosimi, T. Kawai, M. Mengel, R.B. Colvin

American Journal of Transplantation. 2018 June; 10.1111/ajt.14639


Transplantation direct. 2018 February; 10.1097/txd.0000000000000752


B.A. Adam, R.N. Smith, I.A. Rosales, M. Matsunami, B. Afzali, T. Oura, A.B. Cosimi, T. Kawai, R.B. Colvin, M. Mengel

American Journal of Transplantation. 2017 November; 10.1111/ajt.14327


B. Afzali, E. Chapman, M. Racapé, B. Adam, P. Bruneval, F. Gil, D. Kim, L. Hidalgo, P. Campbell, B. Sis, J.P. Duong Van Huyen, M. Mengel

American Journal of Transplantation. 2017 February; 10.1111/ajt.13956


Mahtab Tavasoli, Laiji Li, Abass Al-Momany, Lin-Fu Zhu, Benjamin A. Adam, Zhixiang Wang, Barbara J. Ballermann

Kidney International. 2016 April; 10.1016/j.kint.2016.01.001


Benjamin Adam, Bahman Afzali, Katherine M. Dominy, Erin Chapman, Reeda Gill, Luis G. Hidalgo, Candice Roufosse, Banu Sis, Michael Mengel

Clinical Transplantation. 2016 February; 10.1111/ctr.12689


Benjamin Adam, Michael Mengel

BMC Nephrology. 2015 August; 10.1186/s12882-015-0136-z


Jian-Qiang Lu, Benjamin Adam, Andrew S. Jack, Anna Lam, Robert W. Broad, Constance L. Chik

Endocrine Pathology. 2015 July; 10.1007/s12022-015-9383-6


Benjamin Adam, Michael Mengel

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology. 2015 May; 10.1152/ajprenal.00153.2015


Timothy Cooper, Vincent L. Biron, Ben Adam, Alexander C. Klimowicz, Lakshmi Puttagunta, Hadi Seikaly

JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery. 2015 March; 10.1001/jamaoto.2014.3335


B. Adam, P. Randhawa, S. Chan, G. Zeng, H. Regele, Y. B. Kushner, R. B. Colvin, J. Reeve, M. Mengel

American Journal of Transplantation. 2014 August; 10.1111/ajt.12794


A. B. Farris, S. Chan, J. Climenhaga, B. Adam, C. O. C. Bellamy, D. Serón, R. B. Colvin, J. Reeve, M. Mengel

American Journal of Transplantation. 2014 February; 10.1111/ajt.12641


Timothy Cooper, Vincent Biron, Ben Adam, Alexander C Klimowicz, Lakshmi Puttagunta, Hadi Seikaly

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery. 2013 January; 10.1186/1916-0216-42-57


Leah C. Young, Kathleen M. Bone, Peng Wang, Fang Wu, Benjamin A. Adam, Samar Hegazy, Pascal Gelebart, Jelena Holovati, Liang Li, Susan E. Andrew, Raymond Lai

The American Journal of Pathology. 2011 July; 10.1016/j.ajpath.2011.03.045


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