Robert B. Wilson

Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Contact information
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Room 6024, Colket Translational Research Building
3501 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Room 6024, Colket Translational Research Building
3501 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 267-425-2201
Email:
WILSONR@MAIL.MED.UPENN.EDU
WILSONR@MAIL.MED.UPENN.EDU
Education:
Sc.B. (Biochemistry)
Brown University, 1982.
A.B. (Music)
Brown University, 1982.
Ph.D. (Genetics)
University of Pennsylvania, 1989.
M.D.
University of Pennsylvania, 1989.
Permanent linkSc.B. (Biochemistry)
Brown University, 1982.
A.B. (Music)
Brown University, 1982.
Ph.D. (Genetics)
University of Pennsylvania, 1989.
M.D.
University of Pennsylvania, 1989.
Selected Publications
Rojsajjakul, T., Mesaros, C., Do, W., Wilson, R. B., Blair, I. A.: A standard from stable isotope labeling in bacteria (SILIB) allows quantification of a critical zebrafish frataxin protein undetectable by conventional methods. Analytical Chemistry Page: Under Review, 2025.Graham, B., Master, S. R., Obstfeld, A., Wilson, R. B.: A Multi-Analyte Machine Learning Model to Detect Wrong Blood in Complete Blood Count Tube Errors in a Pediatric Setting. Clinical Chemistry Page: In Press, 2024.
Lee, T., Gocal, J., Do, W., Westfall, A., Spagnoli, S. T., Lin, D., Janock, C., Ernst, S., Seiler, C., Wilson, R. B.: A Zebrafish Model of Friedreich Ataxia. Manuscript in preparation 2024.
Mukherjee, S.,Pereboeva, L., Fil, D., Saikia, A., Lee, J., Li, J., Cotticelli, M. G., Wilson, R. B., Napierala M., Napierala, J. S.: Design and validation of cell-based potency assays for frataxin supplementation treatments. Molecular Therapy Methods & Clinical Development In the press, 2024.
Rodden, L. N., Rummey, C., Kessler, S., Wilson, R. B., Lynch, D. R.: A novel metric for predicting severity of disease features in Friedreich ataxia. Movement Disorders 38: 970-977, 2023.
Cotticelli, M. G., Xia, S., Truit, R., Doliba, N. M., Rozo, A. V., Tobias, J. W., Lee, T., Chen, J., Napierala, J. S., Napierala, M., Yang, W., Wilson, R. B.: Acute frataxin knockdown in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes activates a type I interferon response. Disease Models & Mechanisms 16(5): dmm049497, 2023.
Wang, D., Ho, E. S., Cotticelli, M. G., Xu, P., Napierala, J. S., Hauser, L. A., Napierala, M., Wilson, R. B., Lynch, D. R., Mesaros, C.: Skin fibroblast metabolomic profiling reveals that lipid dysfunction predicts the severity of Friedreich's ataxia. Journal of Lipid Research 63: 100255, 2022 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlr.2022.100255.
Kim, C. Y., Johnson, H., Peltier, S., Spitalnik, S. L., Hod, E. A., Francis, R. O., Hudson, K. E., Stone, E. F., Gordy, D. E., Fu, X. Zimring, J. C., Amireault, P., Buehler, P. W., Wilson, R. B., D'Alessandro, A., Shchepinov, M., Thomas, T. A.: Deuterated Linoleic Acid Attenuates the RBC Storage Lesion in A Mouse Model of Poor RBC Storage. Frontiers in Physiology 13: 868578, 2022.
Cotticelli, M. G., Forestieri, R., Xia, S., Joyasawal, S., Lee, T., Xu, K., Smith, A., Huryn, D., Wilson, R. B.: Identification of a Novel Oleic Acid Analog with Protective Effects in Multiple Cellular Models of Friedreich Ataxia. ACS Chemical Neuroscience 11: 2535−2542, 2020.
Yoon, J.-Y., Rosenbaum, J. N., Vergara, N., Cohen, R. B., Wilson, Robert B.: Bayesian Approach to Interpreting Somatic Cancer Sequencing Data: A Case in Point. Journal of Clinical Pathology Page: 206895, 2020.