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Overview

Robert J. Lee is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans several topics centered on health and environmental concerns, with particular focus on asthma, respiratory diseases, and global health care issues.

Lee's recent publications include the following:

  • Evaluating the relationship between socioeconomic disparity and potential PFAS contamination in the United States with machine learning: Implications for public health and environmental justice (2023) in the International Research Journal of Public and Environmental Health
  • Robert C. Lee (2020) in Authors group
  • Estimating the cost of asthma: moderating effect of race/ethnicity on the relationship between asthma severity and the direct cost (2024) in Journal of Asthma

Their work has been published in these venues:

  • International Research Journal of Public and Environmental Health
  • Authors group
  • Journal of Asthma

Frequent coauthors contributing to studies alongside Lee include:

  • Sameer Menghani
  • Jonathan Yang
  • Lena Haefele
  • Louise Carroll
  • Sathvik Samant

Lee's academic investigations focus on the subfields of Physiology and General Health Professions.

The main research topics addressed by their publications are:

  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Global Health Care Issues

Best Publications

  • Targeted drug delivery via the folate receptor.

    Jennifer Sudimack;Robert J Lee

  • The prevention of progression of arterial disease and diabetes (POPADAD) trial: factorial randomised placebo controlled trial of aspirin and antioxidants in patients with diabetes and asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease

    Jill Belch;Angus MacCuish;Iain Campbell;Stuart Cobbe

  • Modification and validation of the Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score (version 3)

    Chetan Mukhtyar;Robert Lee;Denise Brown;David Carruthers

  • High prevalence of benign prostatic hypertrophy in the community.

    W.M. Garraway;R.J. Lee;G.N. Collins

  • Delivery of liposomes into cultured KB cells via folate receptor-mediated endocytosis

    Robert J. Lee;Philip S. Low

  • Short-term effects of daily aspirin on cancer incidence, mortality, and non-vascular death: analysis of the time course of risks and benefits in 51 randomised controlled trials

    Peter M. Rothwell;Jacqueline F. Price;F. Gerald R. Fowkes;Alberto Zanchetti

  • Folate-mediated tumor cell targeting of liposome-entrapped doxorubicin in vitro

    Robert J Lee;Philip S Low

  • Efficient gene transfer using reversibly cross-linked low molecular weight polyethylenimine.

    Michael A. Gosselin;Wenjin Guo;Robert J. Lee

  • Folate-targeted, Anionic Liposome-entrapped Polylysine-condensed DNA for Tumor Cell-specific Gene Transfer

    Robert J. Lee;Leaf Huang

  • T2R38 taste receptor polymorphisms underlie susceptibility to upper respiratory infection

    Robert J. Lee;Guoxiang Xiong;Jennifer M. Kofonow;Bei Chen

  • The role of helper lipids in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) designed for oligonucleotide delivery.

    Xinwei Cheng;Robert J. Lee

  • Lyotropic liquid crystal systems in drug delivery

    Chenyu Guo;Jun Wang;Fengliang Cao;Robert J. Lee

  • Liposomes as carriers of hydrophilic small molecule drugs: strategies to enhance encapsulation and delivery.

    Josimar de Oliveira Eloy;Josimar de Oliveira Eloy;Marina Claro de Souza;Raquel Petrilli;Juliana Palma Abriata Barcellos

  • Receptor-targeted nanocarriers for therapeutic delivery to cancer.

    Bo Yu;Heng Chiat Tai;Weiming Xue;L. James Lee

  • Bitter and sweet taste receptors regulate human upper respiratory innate immunity

    Robert J. Lee;Jennifer M. Kofonow;Philip L. Rosen;Adam P. Siebert

  • Delivery of antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotides against the human epidermal growth factor receptor into cultured KB cells with liposomes conjugated to folate via polyethylene glycol.

    Susan Wang;Robert J. Lee;Greg Cauchon;David G. Gorenstein

  • Targeted drug delivery via folate receptors

    Xiaobin Zhao;Hong Li;Robert J Lee

  • Chronic rhinosinusitis pathogenesis

    Whitney W. Stevens;Robert J. Lee;Robert P. Schleimer;Noam A. Cohen;Noam A. Cohen;Noam A. Cohen

  • Media Meets Semantic Web --- How the BBC Uses DBpedia and Linked Data to Make Connections

    Georgi Kobilarov;Tom Scott;Yves Raimond;Silver Oliver

  • asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease and antioxidants in patients with diabetes and randomised placebo controlled trial of aspirin factorial disease and diabetes (POPADAD) trial: The prevention of progression of arterial

    Stuart Pringle;Ron MacWalter;John McKnight;Colin Semple

Frequent Co-Authors

Noam A. Cohen
Noam A. Cohen University of Pennsylvania
Bo Yu
Bo Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
L. James Lee
L. James Lee The Ohio State University
John C. Byrd
John C. Byrd University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Guido Marcucci
Guido Marcucci City Of Hope National Medical Center
Shujun Liu
Shujun Liu University of Minnesota
Philip S. Low
Philip S. Low Purdue University West Lafayette
Michael A. Caligiuri
Michael A. Caligiuri City Of Hope National Medical Center
Ching-Shih Chen
Ching-Shih Chen The Ohio State University
Clara D. Bloomfield
Clara D. Bloomfield The Ohio State University

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