John Lee

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Associate Professor of Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine

Contact information
Weill Cornell Medical College
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
525 East 68th Street, Box #3
New York, NY 10065
Office: (212) 746-4430
Education:
A.B. (A.B. in Biochemical Sciences, magna cum laude)
Harvard College, 2003.
M.D. (Medical Degree)
Weill Cornell Medical College, 2007.
M.S. (M.S in Clinical and Translational Investigation)
Weill Cornell Medical College, 2016.
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Selected Publications

Silvia Wu, Nicholas Tedrow, Abhinav Bhalla, Alex Devito, Sheavonnie Wright, Friederike Selbach, Darshana M. Dadhania, Carol Li, Vesh Srivatana, Jeffrey Silberzweig, John R. Lee: A Staphylococcus Dominant Nasal Microbiota in Hemodialysis Patients. Kidney Medicine 7(10), October 2025.

Shuai Li, Runzhe Li, John R Lee, Ni Zhao, Wodan Ling: ZINQ-L: a zero-inflated quantile approach for differential abundance analysis of longitudinal microbiome data Frontiers in genetics 1(5): 1494401, January 2025.

Mark B Lockwood, Choa Sung, Suzanne A Alvernaz, John R Lee, Jennifer L Chin, Mehdi Nayebpour, Beatriz Peñalver Bernabé, Lisa M Tussing-Humphreys, Hongjin Li, Mario Spaggiari, Alessandro Martinino, Chang G Park, George E Chlipala, Ardith Z Doorenbos, Stefan J Green: The Gut Microbiome and Symptom Burden After Kidney Transplantation: An Overview and Research Opportunities Biological research for nursing 26(4): 636-656, October 2024.

Ying Li, Teresa Lee, Kai Marin, Xing Hua, Sujatha Srinivasan, David N Fredricks, John R Lee, Wodan Ling: SurvBal: compositional microbiome balances for survival outcomes Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 40(140): btae612, October 2024.

Hanbo Dong, Runzhe Li, Ni Zhao, Darshana M Dadhania, Manikkam Suthanthiran, John R Lee, Wodan Ling: Antibiotic subclasses differentially perturb the gut microbiota in kidney transplant recipients Frontiers in Transplant(3), 1400067, September 2024.

Amal Naji, Drew Siskin, Michael H Woodworth, John R Lee, Colleen S Kraft, Nirja Mehta: The Role of the Gut, Urine, and Vaginal Microbiomes in the Pathogenesis of Urinary Tract Infection in Women and Consideration of Microbiome Therapeutics Open forum infectious diseases 11(9): 471, August 2024.

Meredith Aull, Pauline Paton, Perry, Jennifer Lee, John R Lee, Thalia Salinas, Deirdre Sawinski, Jun B Lee, Choli Hartono, Muthukumar Thangamani, Sandip Kapur, Manikkam Suthanthiran, Darshana Dadhania: How Low Can you Go with Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Induction Therapy. American Journal of Transplantation 24(6): S918, June 2024 Notes: Abstract C141.

Carol Li, Darshana Dadhania, Manikkam Suthanthiran, John R Lee: Gut Microbial Derived Fecal Short Chain Fatty Acid Abundance Correlates with Urinary Tract Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients. American Journal of Transplantation 24(6): S942, June 2024 Notes: Abstract C196.

Liz-Audrey Kounatse Djomnang, Carol Li, Omary Mzava, Alexandre Pellan Cheng, Adrienne Chang, Joan Sesing Lenz, Manikkam Suthanthiran, John R Lee, Darshana M Dadhania, Iwijn De Vlaminck: A quantitative comparison of urine centrifugation and filtration for the isolation and analysis of urinary nucleic acid biomarkers Scientific Reports 14(14): 10872, May 2024.

Sylvia Wu, Nicholas Tedrow, Abhinav Bhalla, Alex Devito, Sheavonnie Wright, Carol Li, Darshania Dadhania, Vesh Srivatana, Jeffrey Silberzweig. John R Lee: A Distinct Nasal Microbiota in Hemodialysis Patients: A Pilot Study. American Journal of Kidney Disease 83(4): S84, April 2024.

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