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Robert N. Baldassano is affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas related to medicine, with significant contributions in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's research spans multiple subfields including genetics, epidemiology, surgery, molecular biology, and immunology. Their main topics of work concentrate on inflammatory bowel disease, microscopic colitis, gut microbiota and health, Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies, eosinophilic esophagitis, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, and IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways.

Frequent coauthors of Robert N. Baldassano include:

  • Anne M. Griffiths
  • Lee A. Denson
  • Lindsey Albenberg
  • Jeffrey S. Hyams
  • Anthony Otley

They have an extensive publication record in notable venues, including:

  • Gastroenterology
  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Increased Intestinal Permeability Is Associated With Later Development of Crohn's Disease, 2020, Gastroenterology
  • The stepwise assembly of the neonatal virome is modulated by breastfeeding, 2020, Nature
  • Enterococci enhance Clostridioides difficile pathogenesis, 2022, Nature
  • Mediterranean-Like Dietary Pattern Associations With Gut Microbiome Composition and Subclinical Gastrointestinal Inflammation, 2022, Gastroenterology
  • Dynamics of the Stool Virome in Very Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 2020, Journal of Crohn's and Colitis

Best Publications

  • Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography

    Tanya Yatsunenko;Federico E Rey;Mark J Manary;Mark J Manary;Indi Trehan;Indi Trehan

  • Linking Long-Term Dietary Patterns with Gut Microbial Enterotypes

    Gary D. Wu;Jun Chen;Christian Hoffmann;Christian Hoffmann;Kyle Bittinger

  • The Treatment-Naive Microbiome in New-Onset Crohn’s Disease

    Dirk Gevers;Subra Kugathasan;Lee A. Denson;Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci

    Andre Franke;Dermot P B McGovern;Jeffrey C. Barrett;Kai Wang

  • Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47.

    Carl A. Anderson;Gabrielle Boucher;Charlie W. Lees;Andre Franke

  • Induction and Maintenance Infliximab Therapy for the Treatment of Moderate-to-Severe Crohn’s Disease in Children

    Jeffrey Hyams;Wallace Crandall;Subra Kugathasan;Anne Griffiths

  • Inflammation, Antibiotics, and Diet as Environmental Stressors of the Gut Microbiome in Pediatric Crohn's Disease.

    James D. Lewis;Eric Z. Chen;Robert N. Baldassano;Anthony R. Otley

  • Correlation between intraluminal oxygen gradient and radial partitioning of intestinal microbiota.

    Lindsey Albenberg;Tatiana V. Esipova;Colleen P. Judge;Kyle Bittinger

  • Prediction of complicated disease course for children newly diagnosed with Crohn's disease: a multicentre inception cohort study

    Subra Kugathasan;Lee A. Denson;Thomas D. Walters;Mi Ok Kim

  • Effect of a probiotic preparation (VSL#3) on induction and maintenance of remission in children with ulcerative colitis.

    Erasmo Miele;Filomena Pascarella;Eleonora Giannetti;Lucia Quaglietta

  • Children with early-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): analysis of a pediatric IBD consortium registry.

    Melvin B. Heyman;Barbara S. Kirschner;Benjamin D. Gold;George Ferry

  • Differentiating ulcerative colitis from Crohn disease in children and young adults: report of a working group of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition and the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.

    Athos Bousvaros

  • Optimizing methods and dodging pitfalls in microbiome research

    Dorothy Kim;Casey E. Hofstaedter;Chunyu Zhao;Lisa Mattei

  • Common variants at five new loci associated with early-onset inflammatory bowel disease.

    Marcin Imielinski;Robert N. Baldassano;Anne Griffiths;Richard K. Russell

  • Pediatric Crohn disease patients exhibit specific ileal transcriptome and microbiome signature

    Yael Haberman;Timothy L. Tickle;Phillip J. Dexheimer;Mi-Ok Kim

  • Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate intestinal selection of commensal bacteria–specific CD4+ T cells

    Matthew R. Hepworth;Thomas C. Fung;Thomas C. Fung;Samuel H. Masur;Judith R. Kelsen

  • A randomized, double-blind trial of lactobacillus GG versus placebo in addition to standard maintenance therapy for children with Crohn's disease

    Athos Bousvaros;Stefano Guandalini;Robert N Baldassano;Christine Botelho

  • Loci on 20q13 and 21q22 are associated with pediatric-onset inflammatory bowel disease

    Subra Kugathasan;Robert N Baldassano;Jonathan P Bradfield;Patrick M A Sleiman

  • Diet in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

    Dale Lee;Lindsey Albenberg;Charlene Compher;Robert Baldassano

  • Extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease.

    D Urlep;P Mamula;R Baldassano

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne M. Griffiths
Anne M. Griffiths University of Toronto
Lee A. Denson
Lee A. Denson Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Subra Kugathasan
Subra Kugathasan Emory University
Jeffrey S. Hyams
Jeffrey S. Hyams University of Connecticut
David R. Mack
David R. Mack University of Ottawa
Marla Dubinsky
Marla Dubinsky Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ramnik J. Xavier
Ramnik J. Xavier Broad Institute
Bruce J. Aronow
Bruce J. Aronow Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Mary B. Leonard
Mary B. Leonard Stanford University
Kyle Bittinger
Kyle Bittinger Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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