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Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey is affiliated with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine with a focus on subfields including Physiology, Immunology and Allergy, Dermatology, Immunology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics related to asthma and respiratory diseases, dermatology and skin diseases, allergic rhinitis and sensitization, food allergy and anaphylaxis research, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, respiratory viral infections research, and pediatric health and respiratory diseases.

Among recent publications, the following papers are notable:

  • "Mepolizumab for urban children with exacerbation-prone eosinophilic asthma in the USA (MUPPITS-2): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group trial" (2022, The Lancet)
  • "Childhood Asthma Incidence, Early and Persistent Wheeze, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Factors in the ECHO/CREW Consortium" (2022, JAMA Pediatrics)
  • "Associations between outdoor air pollutants and non-viral asthma exacerbations and airway inflammatory responses in children and adolescents living in urban areas in the USA: a retrospective secondary analysis" (2023, The Lancet Planetary Health)
  • "Seasonal airway microbiome and transcriptome interactions promote childhood asthma exacerbations" (2022, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology)
  • "Expression quantitative trait locus fine mapping of the 17q12-21 asthma locus in African American children: a genetic association and gene expression study" (2020, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine)

Frequent co-authors associated with their research include Leonard B. Bacharier, Daniel J. Jackson, Lisa J. Martin, James E. Gern, and Edward M. Zoratti.

Their work is published regularly in several academic venues, with frequent publications in the:

  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Allergy

Best Publications

  • The association of atopy with a gain-of-function mutation in the alpha subunit of the interleukin-4 receptor.

    Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey;Michal F. Friedrich;Laura A. Esswein;Matthew L. Thomas

  • IL-13 receptors and signaling pathways: An evolving web

    Gurjit K.Khurana Hershey

  • Preseasonal treatment with either omalizumab or an inhaled corticosteroid boost to prevent fall asthma exacerbations.

    Stephen J. Teach;Michelle A. Gill;Alkis Togias;Christine A. Sorkness

  • Chemokines in asthma: cooperative interaction between chemokines and IL-13.

    Nives Zimmermann;Gurjit Khurana Hershey;Paul S Foster;Marc E Rothenberg

  • Importance of cytokines in murine allergic airway disease and human asthma.

    Fred D. Finkelman;Simon P. Hogan;Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey;Marc E. Rothenberg

  • Environmental exposures and mechanisms in allergy and asthma development

    Liza Bronner Murrison;Liza Bronner Murrison;Eric B. Brandt;Jocelyn Biagini Myers;Jocelyn Biagini Myers;Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey;Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey

  • Variants of thymic stromal lymphopoietin and its receptor associate with eosinophilic esophagitis

    Joseph D. Sherrill;Pei Song Gao;Emily M. Stucke;Carine Blanchard

  • Diesel exhaust particle induction of IL-17A contributes to severe asthma.

    Eric B. Brandt;Melinda Butsch Kovacic;Gerald B. Lee;Aaron M. Gibson

  • Intrinsically defective skin barrier function in children with atopic dermatitis correlates with disease severity.

    Jayanta Gupta;Jayanta Gupta;Emilie Grube;Mark B. Ericksen;Michelle D. Stevenson

  • Infant origins of childhood asthma associated with specific molds

    Tiina Reponen;James Lockey;David I. Bernstein;Stephen J. Vesper

  • The R576 IL-4 receptor α allele correlates with asthma severity☆☆☆★

    Lillian Rosa-Rosa;Nives Zimmermann;Jonathan A. Bernstein;Marc E. Rothenberg

  • Commensal Candida albicans Positively Calibrates Systemic Th17 Immunological Responses.

    Tzu-Yu Shao;W.X. Gladys Ang;Tony T. Jiang;Felicia Scaggs Huang

  • Trefoil factor 2 rapidly induces interleukin 33 to promote type 2 immunity during allergic asthma and hookworm infection

    Marsha Wills-Karp;Reena Rani;Krista Dienger;Ian Lewkowich

  • Traffic-related air pollution exposure in the first year of life and behavioral scores at 7 years of age.

    Nicholas C Newman;Patrick J. Ryan;Grace LeMasters;Linda Levin

  • Epithelial EGF receptor signaling mediates airway hyperreactivity and remodeling in a mouse model of chronic asthma

    Timothy D. Le Cras;Thomas H. Acciani;Elizabeth M. Mushaben;Elizabeth L. Kramer

  • V75R576 IL-4 Receptor α Is Associated with Allergic Asthma and Enhanced IL-4 Receptor Function

    Kimberly A. Risma;Ning Wang;Ryan P. Andrews;Christie M. Cunningham

  • Functional Variant in the Autophagy-Related 5 Gene Promotor is Associated with Childhood Asthma

    Lisa J. Martin;Jayanta Gupta;Soma S. S. K. Jyothula;Melinda Butsch Kovacic

  • A comparison of proximity and land use regression traffic exposure models and wheezing in infants.

    Patrick H. Ryan;Grace K. LeMasters;Pratim Biswas;Linda Levin

  • High environmental relative moldiness index during infancy as a predictor of asthma at 7 years of age.

    Tiina Reponen;Stephen Vesper;Linda Levin;Elisabet Johansson

  • Transcriptome networks identify mechanisms of viral and nonviral asthma exacerbations in children.

    Matthew C Altman;Matthew C Altman;Michelle A Gill;Elizabeth Whalen;Denise C Babineau

  • A Functional IL-13 Receptor is Expressed on Polarized Murine CD4+ Th17 Cells and IL-13 Signaling Attenuates Th17 Cytokine Production

    Dawn C. Newcomb;Weisong Zhou;Martin L. Moore;Kasia Goleniewska

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa J. Martin
Lisa J. Martin Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
David I. Bernstein
David I. Bernstein University of Cincinnati
Carolyn M. Kercsmar
Carolyn M. Kercsmar Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Tiina Reponen
Tiina Reponen University of Cincinnati
Andrew H. Liu
Andrew H. Liu University of Colorado Denver
Rebecca S. Gruchalla
Rebecca S. Gruchalla The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
William W. Busse
William W. Busse University of Wisconsin–Madison
Peter J. Gergen
Peter J. Gergen National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Marc E. Rothenberg
Marc E. Rothenberg Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Meyer Kattan
Meyer Kattan Columbia University

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