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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Serpil C. Erzurum is affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine in the United States. Their research focuses primarily within the field of Medicine, with a particular concentration on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Immunology.

They have contributed extensively to topics such as:

  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
  • Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Their notable recent publications include:

  • COVID-19-related Genes in Sputum Cells in Asthma. Relationship to Demographic Features and Corticosteroids (2020), American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • New insights into genetic susceptibility of COVID-19: an ACE2 and TMPRSS2 polymorphism analysis (2020), BMC Medicine
  • A network medicine approach to investigation and population-based validation of disease manifestations and drug repurposing for COVID-19 (2020), PLoS Biology
  • A comprehensive SARS-CoV-2-human protein-protein interactome reveals COVID-19 pathobiology and potential host therapeutic targets (2022), Nature Biotechnology
  • Metabolism in Pulmonary Hypertension (2021), Annual Review of Physiology

Frequently collaborating with several researchers, their most common coauthors include:

  • Mario Castro
  • Bruce D. Levy
  • John V. Fahy
  • Nizar N. Jarjour
  • Elliot Israel

They publish regularly in a variety of scientific venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • CHEST Journal

Serpil C. Erzurum has been recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine since 2017 and has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2006. Additionally, they hold membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defense

    Esra Birben;Umit Murat Sahiner;Cansin Sackesen;Serpil C. Erzurum

  • An official ATS clinical practice guideline: interpretation of exhaled nitric oxide levels (FENO) for clinical applications.

    Raed A. Dweik;Peter B. Boggs;Serpil C. Erzurum;Charles G. Irvin

  • Identification of Asthma Phenotypes Using Cluster Analysis in the Severe Asthma Research Program

    Wendy C. Moore;Deborah A. Meyers;Sally E. Wenzel;W. Gerald Teague

  • Characterization of the severe asthma phenotype by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Severe Asthma Research Program

    Wendy C. Moore;Eugene R. Bleecker;Douglas Curran-Everett;Serpil C. Erzurum

  • Effectiveness and safety of bronchial thermoplasty in the treatment of severe asthma: A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled clinical trial

    Mario Castro;Adalberto S. Rubin;Michel Laviolette;Jussara Fiterman

  • Detection of lung cancer by sensor array analyses of exhaled breath.

    Roberto F. Machado;Daniel Laskowski;Olivia Deffenderfer;Timothy Burch

  • Continuous nitric oxide synthesis by inducible nitric oxide synthase in normal human airway epithelium in vivo

    F. H. Guo;H. R. De Raeve;T. W. Rice;D. J. Stuehr

  • Relevant issues in the pathology and pathobiology of pulmonary hypertension

    Rubin M Tuder;Stephen L Archer;Peter Dorfmüller;Serpil C Erzurum

  • Mucus plugs in patients with asthma linked to eosinophilia and airflow obstruction

    Eleanor M. Dunican;Brett M. Elicker;David S. Gierada;Scott K. Nagle

  • Plasma interleukin-6 concentrations, metabolic dysfunction, and asthma severity: a cross-sectional analysis of two cohorts

    Michael C Peters;Kelly Wong McGrath;Gregory A Hawkins;Annette T Hastie

  • Obesity and asthma, an association modified by age of asthma onset

    Fernando Holguin;Eugene R. Bleecker;William W. Busse;William J. Calhoun

  • Asthma outcomes: Biomarkers

    Stanley J. Szefler;Sally Wenzel;Robert Brown;Serpil C. Erzurum

  • COVID-19-related Genes in Sputum Cells in Asthma. Relationship to Demographic Features and Corticosteroids.

    Michael C. Peters;Satria Sajuthi;Peter Deford;Stephanie Christenson

  • Oxidative and nitrosative events in asthma.

    Athena A Andreadis;Stanley L Hazen;Suzy A.A Comhair;Serpil C Erzurum

  • Increased arginase II and decreased NO synthesis in endothelial cells of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

    Weiling Xu;F. Takao Kaneko;Shuo Zheng;Suzy A. A. Comhair

  • Inflammatory and Comorbid Features of Patients with Severe Asthma and Frequent Exacerbations

    Loren C. Denlinger;Brenda R. Phillips;Sima Ramratnam;Kristie Ross

  • Hyperproliferative apoptosis-resistant endothelial cells in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

    Fares A. Masri;Weiling Xu;Suzy A. A. Comhair;Kewal Asosingh

  • Higher blood flow and circulating NO products offset high-altitude hypoxia among Tibetans

    S. C. Erzurum;S. Ghosh;A. J. Janocha;W. Xu

  • Alterations of cellular bioenergetics in pulmonary artery endothelial cells

    Weiling Xu;Thomas Koeck;Abigail R. Lara;Donald Neumann

  • Antioxidant responses to oxidant-mediated lung diseases

    Suzy A. A. Comhair;Serpil C. Erzurum

Frequent Co-Authors

Sally E. Wenzel
Sally E. Wenzel University of Pittsburgh
Eugene R. Bleecker
Eugene R. Bleecker University of Arizona
Mario Castro
Mario Castro Washington University in St. Louis
Elliot Israel
Elliot Israel Brigham and Women's Hospital
Nizar N. Jarjour
Nizar N. Jarjour University of Wisconsin–Madison
Wendy C. Moore
Wendy C. Moore Wake Forest University
Benjamin Gaston
Benjamin Gaston Indiana University
William W. Busse
William W. Busse University of Wisconsin–Madison
John V. Fahy
John V. Fahy University of California, San Francisco
Bruce D. Levy
Bruce D. Levy Brigham and Women's Hospital

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