Faculty

Tilo Grosser, M.D.

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Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine (Experimental Therapeutics)
Department: Medicine

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Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Smilow Center for Translational Research
3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Building 421
10th Floor, Room 103
Philadelphia, PA 19104-5158
Office: (215) 573-7600
Education:
M.D. (Medicine)
Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1996.
Dr. med. (Medical research doctorate in Cardiovascular Pharmacology)
Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1998.
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Description of Research Expertise

Dr. Grosser's lab studies the human biology of inflammation and the translational therapeutics of lipid mediators. He is interested in understanding how the benefit of drugs targeting lipid mediators (e.g. NSAIDs) can be exploited while managing or avoiding their adverse effects. If this can be established for NSAIDs, where there is a subtle trade-off between benefit and risk at the population level (but less subtle at the individual level), it may serve as a general paradigm for the personalization of other commonly used classes of drugs. Dr. Grosser conducts human deep-phenotyping trials designed to elucidate genomic and non-genomic variability in the response to drugs. He studies molecular mechanisms using genomics, proteomics, lipidomics approaches in humans and model organisms.

Selected Publications

Lordan R, FitzGerald GA, Grosser T: Reopening schools during COVID-19. Science 369: 1146, 2020 Notes: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6508/1146.long.

Theken KN, Lee CR, Gong L, Caudle KE, Formea CM, Gaedigk A, Klein TE, Agúndez JAG, Grosser T: Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) Guideline for CYP2C9 and Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs. Clin Pharmacol Ther 108 (2): 191-200, 2020 Notes: https://files.cpicpgx.org/data/guideline/publication/NSAID/2020/32189324.pdf.

Theken KN, Hersh EV, Lahens NF, Lee HM, Granquist EJ, Giannakopoulos H, Levin LM, Secreto-Dankanich SA, Grant GR, Detre JA, FitzGerald GA, Grosser T* (Co-Corresponding Author), Farrar JT*: Variability in the Analgesic Response to Ibuprofen Is Associated With Cyclooxygenase Activation in Inflammatory Pain. Clin Pharmacol Ther 106(3): 632-641, 2019 Notes: https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpt.1446.

Theken KN, Grosser T: Weight-adjusted aspirin for cardiovascular prevention. Lancet 392(10145): 361-362, 2018 Notes: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673618313072?via%3Dihub.

Grosser T, Woolf CJ, FitzGerald GA: Time for nonaddictive relief of pain. Science 355(6329): 1026-1027, 2017.

Bhatt DL, Grosser T, Dong JF, Logan D, Jeske W, Angiolillo DJ, Frelinger AL 3rd, Lei L, Liang J, Moore JE, Cryer B, Marathi U.: Enteric Coating and Aspirin Nonresponsiveness in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. J Am Coll Cardiol 69(6): 603-612, 2017.

Li X, Fries S, Li R, Lawson JA, Propert KJ, Diamond SL, Blair IA, FitzGerald GA, Grosser T: Differential impairment of aspirin-dependent platelet cyclooxygenase acetylation by nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111(47): 16830-5, 2014 Notes: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/47/16830.long.

Grosser T, Fries S, Lawson JA, Kapoor SC, Grant GR, FitzGerald GA: Drug Resistance and Pseudoresistance: An Unintended Consequence of Enteric Coating Aspirin. Circulation 127(3): 377-85, 2013 Notes: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/127/3/377.full.

Lucitt MB, Price TS, Pizarro A, Wu W, Yocum AK, Seiler C, Pack MA, Blair IA, FitzGerald GA, Grosser T: Analysis of the zebrafish proteome during embryonic development. Mol Cell Proteomics 7(5): 981-94, 2008 Notes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2401336/

Fries S*, Grosser T* [* Co-First Authors], Price TS, Lawson JA, Kapoor S, DeMarco S, Pletcher MT, Wiltshire T, FitzGerald GA: Marked interindividual variability in the response to selective inhibitors of cyclooxygenase-2. Gastroenterology 130: 55-64, 2006.

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Last updated: 01/07/2022
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