Rebecca Lee Linn, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Contact information
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3401 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3401 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-1728
Fax: 215-590-1736
Fax: 215-590-1736
Email:
linnr@chop.edu
linnr@chop.edu
Education:
BS (Biological Chemistry, Cum Laude)
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2007.
MD
St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 2012.
Permanent linkBS (Biological Chemistry, Cum Laude)
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2007.
MD
St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 2012.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Placental pathologyPerinatal pathology
Description of Research Expertise
Placental pathologyPerinatal pathology
Selected Publications
Golden TN, Mani S, Linn RL, Leite R, Trigg NA, Wilson A, Anton L, Mainigi M, Conine CC, Kaufman BA, Strauss JF, Parry S, Simmons RA: Extracellular Vesicles Alter Trophoblast Function in Pregnancies Complicated by COVID-19. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles 14(4): e70051, April 2025.Coorens THH, Guillaumet-Adkins A, Kovner R, Linn RL, Roberts VHJ, Sule A, Van Hoose PM; dGTEx Consortium. : The human and non-human primate developmental GTEx projects. Nature 637(8046): 557-564, January 2025 Notes: Epub 2025 Jan 15.
Josowitz R, Ho DY, Shankar S, Mondal A, Zavez A, Linn RL, Tian Z, Gaynor JW, Rychik J.: Congenital Heart Disease Fetuses Have Decreased Mid-Gestational Placental Flow, Placental Malperfusion Defects, and Impaired Growth. JACC Adv 4(2): 101559, January 2025.
Cheng K, Seita Y, Whelan EC, Yokomizo R, Hwang YS, Rotolo A, Krantz ID, Ginsberg JP, Kolon TF, Lal P, Luo X, Pierorazio PM, Linn RL, Ryeom S, Sasaki K.: Defining the cellular origin of seminoma by transcriptional and epigenetic mapping to the normal human germline. Cell Reports 43(6): 114323, June 2024 Notes: Epub 2024 Jun 10.
Gaynor JW, Moldenhauer JS, Zullo EE, Burnham NB, Gerdes M, Bernbaum JC, D'Agostino JA, Linn RL, Klepczynski B, Randazzo I, Gionet G, Choi GH, Karaj A, Russell WW, Zackai EH, Johnson MP, Gebb JS, Soni S, DeBari SE, Szwast AL, Ahrens-Nicklas RC, Drivas TG, Jacobwitz M, Licht DJ, Vossough A, Nicolson SC, Spray TL, Rychik J, Putt ME.: Progesterone for Neurodevelopment in Fetuses With Congenital Heart Defects: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open 7(5): e2412291, May 2024.
Fang Bian, Yan Feng, Julia Angel, Rebecca L Linn.: Neonatal Hemochromatosis in a Fetus with De Novo PTEN Mutation: An Autopsy Case Report and Literature Review. Society for pediatric pathology 2024 spring meeting. Baltimore, MD. March 2024.
Josowitz R, Linn R, Rychik J.: The Placenta in Congenital Heart Disease: Form, Function and Outcomes. Neoreviews 24(9): e569-e582, Sep 2023.
Johng S, Licht DJ, Hedrick HL, Rintoul N, Linn RL, Gebb JS, Xiao R, Massey SL: Prenatal Brain Maturation is Delayed in Neonates with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. J Pediatr 16(264), Sep 2023.
González IA, Linn R.: Clinicopathologic characterization of gallbladder graft-versus-host disease in pediatric population. Human Pathology 139: 9-16, Sep 2023.
Nomakuchi TT, Danowitz M, Stewart B, Leonard J, Isumi K, Krantz I, Kolon TF, Langdon D, Skraban C, Van Batavia JV, Zackai E, Jiao K, Linn R, Alexander C, Zaontz M, Vogiatzi MG, Pyle LC: Expanding the reproductive organ phenotype of CHD7-spectrum disorder. AM J MED Genet A 191(5): 1418-1424, May 2023.