Pepper Center Publications

• Brain functional-structural gradient coupling reflects development, behavior and genetic influences.Gao S, Gu Z, Ding S, Wang G, Zhang Z, Zhao H, Zhao Y. Nat Commun. 2026 Apr 9; 2026 Apr 9. PMID: 41957369.
• spRefine denoises and imputes spatial transcriptomic data with a reference-free framework powered by genomic language model.Liu T, Huang T, Jin W, Chu T, Ying R, Zhao H. Genome Res. 2026 Apr 7; 2026 Apr 7. PMID: 41633767.
• Understanding the Role of Communication in Deprescribing Behavior Change.Fried TR, Gnjidic D, Goyal P, Green AR, Hilmer SN, Ko S, Mecca M, Reyes CE, Schoenborn NL, Singh R, Street R, Turner J, Wahler RG Jr, Wang J. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 Apr 5; 2026 Apr 5. PMID: 41937458.
• Disparities for Asian American Medical Students in Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies.Yang DH, Nguyen M, Zhang L, Hu JR, Kwon SC, Yi SS, Ðoàn LN, Henderson D, Hajduk AM, Chaudhry SI, Li BUK, Boatright D. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Apr 1; 2026 Apr 1. PMID: 41941185.
• Empiric azithromycin alters the upper respiratory microbiome and resistome without anti-inflammatory benefit in COVID-19.Glascock A, Maguire C, Phan HV, Lydon EC, Schaenman J, Calfee CS, Melamed E, Greenland J, Corry DB, Kheradmand F, Baden LR, Sekaly R, McComsey GA, Haddad EK, Cairns CB, Geng LN, Pulendran B, Fernandez-Sesma A, Simon V, Metcalf JP, Agudelo Higuita NI, Messer WB, Davis MM, Nadeau KC, Kraft M, Bime C, Erle DJ, Atkinson MA, Brakenridge SC, Ehrlich LIR, Montgomery RR, Shaw AC, Hough CL, Hafler DA, Augustine AD, Becker PM, Peters B, Ozonoff A, Hoch A, Kim-Schulze S, Krammer F, Bosinger S, Eckalbar W, Altman MC, Wilson M, Guan L, Maecker H, Steen H, Diray-Arce J, Rouphael N, Kleinstein SH, Jayavelu ND, Reed EF, Levy O, Chu VT, Langelier CR. Nat Microbiol. 2026 Apr; 2026 Mar 16. PMID: 41840216.
• High-Risk Medication Prescriptions Among Older Adults Discharged from the Emergency Department.Iscoe MS, Sangal RB, Hwang U, Fried TR, Meeker D, Conner TM, Gettel CJ, Follman S, Wright DS, Venkatesh AK. JAMA Intern Med. 2026 Apr 1. PMID: 41661555.
• A comprehensive benchmarking study on computational tools for cross-omics label transfer from single-cell RNA to ATAC data.Wang Y, Zhao H. G3 (Bethesda). 2026 Apr 1. PMID: 41655240.
• Adapting patient priorities care for older adults with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: A qualitative inquiry.Garg T, Negron-Candelario S, Miller H, Demirsoy S, West K, Calo W, Tinetti M, Van Scoy LJ. Urol Oncol. 2026 Apr; 2026 Feb 6. PMID: 41653710.
• Incorporating patient priorities care curriculum for older adults with multiple chronic conditions into nurse practitioner education.Hladek MD, Douglass B, Nettles B, Fingerhood M, Ling C, D'Aoust R, Tinetti ME. Geriatr Nurs. 2026 Apr; 2026 Jan 22. PMID: 41576859.
• Healing at Home: Receipt of Home Health Care and Patient-Centered Outcomes Among Older Adults After Acute Myocardial Infarction.Hajduk AM, Falvey JR, Shang J, Kern LM, Sterling M, Tsang S, Herrin J, Chaudhry SI. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2026 Apr; 2026 Feb 21. PMID: 41494639.
• Evaluating the Utilities of Foundation Models in Single-Cell Data Analysis.Liu T, Li K, Wang Y, Li H, Zhao H. Adv Sci (Weinh). 2026 Mar 23; 2026 Mar 23. PMID: 41869863.
• Science for vaccine policy: Lack of transparency, misinformation, and poor decision processes at the December 2025 ACIP meeting.Loehr J, Moser CA, Asturias EJ, Shaw AC, Goddard K, Chen LH, Chu HY, Kamboj M, Hawkinson D, Maldonado YA, Talbot HK, Brewer NT. Vaccine. 2026 Mar 19; 2026 Feb 19. PMID: 41719792.
• Sociodemographic Status and Interest in Public Health Work Post-Medical Training in First-Year Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.Aviles A, Buono FD, Cunningham SD, Brown S, Boatright D, Chaudhry SI, O'Connell M, Nguyen M, Venkataraman S, Mohammad A, Hajduk AM. Am J Prev Med. 2026 Mar 12; 2026 Mar 12. PMID: 41831701.
• Days at Home After Serious Health Events Among Community-Living Older Persons.Gill TM, Leo-Summers L, Gahbauer EA, Becher RD, Ferrante LE, Han L. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 Mar 10; 2026 Mar 10. PMID: 41807297.
• Days Alive and at Home After Critical Illness Hospitalization Among Older Adults and Its Association With Delivery of In-Hospital Rehabilitation.Kim S, Murphy TE, O'Leary JR Jr, Leo-Summers L, Falvey JR, Gill TM, Krumholz HM, Ferrante LE, Jain S. Crit Care Med. 2026 Mar 10; 2026 Mar 10. PMID: 41805229.
• Benchmarking weighted estimates of social determinants of Health in the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS).Gill TM, Leo-Summers L, Liang J, Becher RD, Kind AJH, Zang EX. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2026 Mar 10. PMID: 41692958.
• Leveraging pleiotropy to improve genetic risk prediction across diseases.Hu J, Zhou G, Zhao H, DeWan AT. Genet Med. 2026 Mar 5; 2026 Mar 5. PMID: 41800596.
• Obtaining population-based estimates for survey data using Bayesian hierarchical models with poststratification.Zhang Y, Gill TM, Bandeen-Roche K, Becher RD, Davis-Plourde K, Zang EX. Am J Epidemiol. 2026 Mar 5. PMID: 40977048.
• Diverse Medical School Class and Learner Satisfaction.Nguyen M, Chaudhry SI, Ogedegbe G, Henderson D, Boatright D. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Mar 2; 2026 Mar 2. PMID: 41805959.
• Cardiac Rehabilitation Utilization Among Veterans: A Sex-Based Analysis.Varghese MS, Han L, Gandhi PU, Skanderson M, Wu WC, Drwal KR, Burg MM, Kazi DS, Gaffey AE, Levy DR, Feder S, Bean Mayberry BA, Farmer MM, Mattocks KM, Brandt CA, Bastian LA, Akgün KM. JACC Adv. 2026 Mar; 2026 Feb 18. PMID: 41713154.
• Uncovering treatment effect heterogeneity in pragmatic gerontology trials.Li C, Allore H, Harhay MO, Li F, Tong G. Exp Gerontol. 2026 Mar; 2026 Jan 31. PMID: 41628841.
• Impact of the 2015 Dutch Long-Term Care Reform on Nursing Home Use and Access for People With Dementia.Wammes JD, Wouterse B, Murphy TE, MacNeil Vroomen JL. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 Mar; 2026 Jan 22. PMID: 41568552.
• Biological insights into schizophrenia from ancestrally diverse populations.Bigdeli TB, Chatzinakos C, Bendl J, Barr PB, Venkatesh S, Gorman BR, Clarence T, Genovese G, Iyegbe CO, Peterson RE, Kolokotronis SO, Burstein D, Meyers JL, Li Y, Natarajan S, Francis MO, Rajeevan N, Cheung KH, DeLisi LE, Kosten TR, Zhao H, Achtyes E, Buckley PF, Malaspina D, Lehrer D, Rapaport MH, Braff DL, Pato MT, Fanous AH, Pato CN, Huang GD, Muralidhar S, Gaziano JM, Pyarajan S, Girdhar K, Lee D, Hoffman GE, Aslan M, Fullard JF, Voloudakis G, Harvey PD, Roussos P. Nature. 2026 Mar; 2026 Jan 21. PMID: 41565822.
• A Learning Community to Advance Age-Friendly Patient Priorities Care Nationally in the Program of All Inclusive Care of the Elderly.Davenport CE, Hernandez-Bigos K, Esterson J, Schreiber R, Baskins JP, Chang A, Phifer ML, Tinetti ME. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 Mar; 2026 Jan 13. PMID: 41531125.
• Unravelling the Immunological Enigma of Sickle Cell Disease: Current Understanding and Future Directions.Jamwal S, Calhoun C, Mohanty S, Montgomery RR, Krishnamurti L, Shaw AC, Yildirim I. Immunology. 2026 Mar; 2025 Dec 12. PMID: 41387179.
• Identifying Implementation Needs and Developing Strategies to Optimize Integration of Patient Priorities Care in Primary Care: A Qualitative Formative Evaluation of Two Study Sites.Arney J, Banks J, Mecca MC, Catic A, Wydermyer S, Shanahan ML, Zenoni M, Kiefer L, Dindo L, Fried T, Naik AD. J Gen Intern Med. 2026 Mar; 2025 Oct 13. PMID: 41083892.
• Performance of an Electroencephalography-Measuring Headband or Actigraphy Compared with Polysomnography in Older Adults with Sleep Disturbances.Miner B, Chen A, Pan Y, Cho G, Talarczyk J, Burzynski C, Polisetty L, Doyle M, Iannone L, Mejnartowicz S, Breier RA, Gill TM, Yaggi HK, Knauert M. Sleep. 2026 Feb 27; 2026 Feb 27. PMID: 41757511.
• Rare variant analyses provide insights into the genetic architecture of endometriosis.Gui Y, Xie Y, Tong X, Zhao H. Hum Genomics. 2026 Feb 24; 2026 Feb 24. PMID: 41736152.
• Author Correction: Machine learning models predict long COVID outcomes based on baseline clinical and immunologic factors.Doni Jayavelu N, Samaha H, Wimalasena ST, Hoch A, Gygi JP, Gabernet G, Ozonoff A, Liu S, Milliren CE, Levy O, Baden LR, Melamed E, Ehrlich LIR, McComsey GA, Sekaly RP, Cairns CB, Haddad EK, Schaenman J, Shaw AC, Hafler DA, Montgomery RR, Corry DB, Kheradmand F, Atkinson MA, Brakenridge SC, Agudelo Higuit NI, Metcalf JP, Hough CL, Messer WB, Pulendran B, Nadeau KC, Davis MM, Geng LN, Fernandez Sesma A, Simon V, Krammer F, Kraft M, Bime C, Calfee CS, Erle DJ, Langelier CR, Guan L, Maecker HT, Peters B, Kleinstein SH, Reed EF, Augustine AD, Diray-Arce J, Becker PM, Rouphael N, Altman MC. Commun Med (Lond). 2026 Feb 23; 2026 Feb 23. PMID: 41730996.
• Minority Tax in Emergency Medicine Resident Physicians.Owda D, Beckford T, Morah JC, Rock RM, Hajduk A, Ordoñez E, Chaudhry SI. AEM Educ Train. 2026 Feb; 2026 Feb 20. PMID: 41737963.
• Neighborhood Disadvantage and Recruitment and Retention of Participants in STRIDE, a Multi-Center Clinical Trial of Community-Living Older Persons.Gill TM, Madore D, Araujo KL, Skokos EA, Bhasin S, Reuben DB, Greene EJ. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 Feb 20; 2026 Feb 20. PMID: 41720496.
• Embeddings from language models are good learners for single-cell data analysis.Liu T, Chen T, Zheng W, Luo X, Chen Y, Zhao H. Patterns (N Y). 2026 Feb 13; 2026 Jan 30. PMID: 41726097.
• Bridging unpaired single-cell multimodal data for integrative analyses with SuperMap.Deng C, Ma X, Lu H, Zhao H, Ming J, Wang T. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026 Feb 10; 2026 Feb 6. PMID: 41650244.
• Leveraging multi-modal foundation models for analysing spatial multi-omic and histopathology data.Liu T, Huang T, Ding T, Wu H, Humphrey P, Perincheri S, Schalper K, Ying R, Xu H, Zou J, Mahmood F, Zhao H. Nat Biomed Eng. 2026 Feb 5; 2026 Feb 5. PMID: 41644824.
• TCPGdb: A Comprehensive T-cell Perturbation Genomics Database for the Identification of Critical T-cell Regulators.Dong C, Zhang F, Tang K, Verma N, Zhu X, Feng D, Cai J, Zhao H, Chen S. Cancer Immunol Res. 2026 Feb 3. PMID: 41270225.
• Meaningful Interactional Diversity, Professional Development, and Service Intent in White Medical Students.Venkataraman S, Nguyen M, Hajduk AM, Ayedun A, Roberts W, Shanab B, Aviles A, Doan NY, O'Connell M, Shin SM, Ogedegbe G, Henderson D, Saha S, Herrin J, Fancher T, Chaudhry SI, Boatright D. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Feb 2; 2026 Feb 2. PMID: 41719038.
• Marriage, Dependent Care, and Burnout Among Medical Students.Nguyen M, Chaudhry SI, Hajduk AM, Fancher TL, Venkataraman S, Boatright D. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Feb 2; 2026 Feb 2. PMID: 41697703.
• A SAS macro for multilevel Cosinor analysis.Doyle MM, Murphy TE, Miner B, Knauert MP. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2026 Feb 1; 2025 Nov 14. PMID: 41297072.
• The Erosion of a Pillar of Public Health: ACIP's Role and the Future of U.S. Vaccine Policy Post-June 2025.Asturias EJ, Schechter R, Talbot HK, Boom J, Brooks OT, Chen LH, Chu HY, Cineas S, Hawkinson DJ, Kamboj M, Loehr J, Lyons KL, Maldonado YA, Moser CA, Roberts MW, Shaw AC, Wiley Z, Zucker JR, Brewer NT. Clin Infect Dis. 2026 Jan 29; 2026 Jan 29. PMID: 41607311.
• A Retrospective National Cohort Study of Trends in Mechanical Ventilation Among Veterans Living With Dementia, 2010-2019.Vick JB, Olsen MK, Cummin G, Berkowitz TSZ, Ma JE, Shepherd-Banigan M, Kaufman BG, Stanwyck C, Wolff JL, Boyd CM, Cohen AB, Fried TR, Nothelle SK. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 Jan 28; 2026 Jan 28. PMID: 41604222.
• Joint modeling of effect sizes for two correlated traits: Characterizing trait properties to enhance polygenic risk prediction.Zhang C, Zhou G, Chen T, Zhao H. PLoS Genet. 2026 Jan; 2026 Jan 26. PMID: 41587179.
• Association of Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Income With Sustained and Cultivated Interest in Internal Medicine.Shanab BM, Nguyen HP, Venkataraman S, Boatright D, Chaudhry SI, Roberts W, Nguyen M. J Gen Intern Med. 2026 Jan 26; 2026 Jan 26. PMID: 41586870.
• Central amygdala single-nucleus atlas reveals chromatin and gene transcription dynamics in human alcohol use disorder.Lee CY, Hwang A, McRiley D, Lee J, Thibodeau G, Duman C, Zhang X, Skarica M, Coudriet J, Xu S, Terwilliger R, Sliby AN, Wang J, Nguyen T, Liu Y, Li H, Dai Y, Duan Z, Lei Y, Lin Y, Glausier JR, Lewis DA, Gelernter J, Holtzheimer PE, Xu K, Zhou H, Zhao H, Thompson SL, Krystal JH, Che A, Taylor JR, Zhang J, Girgenti MJ. Nat Commun. 2026 Jan 19; 2026 Jan 19. PMID: 41554730.
• Evaluating administrative compliance as a predictor of nursing home postdisaster outcomes in the USA.Festa N, Throgmorton KF, Phadke MA, O'Leary JR, Davis-Plourde K, Zang E, Chen K, Kelly J, Dosa DM, Hajduk AM, Cohen AB, Gill TM. BMJ Public Health. 2026; 2026 Jan 16. PMID: 41561558.
• VISTA uncovers missing gene expression and spatial-induced information for spatial transcriptomic data analysis.Liu T, Lin Y, Luo X, Sun Y, Zhao H. Commun Biol. 2026 Jan 8; 2026 Jan 8. PMID: 41507434.
• UBD: incorporating uncertainty in cell type proportion estimates from bulk samples to infer cell-type-specific profiles.Cheng Y, Lin C, Li H, Xu K, Zhao H. Brief Bioinform. 2026 Jan 7. PMID: 41520227.
• A novel two-sample Mendelian randomization framework integrating common and rare variants: application to assess the effect of HDL-C on preeclampsia risk.Zhang Y, Li M, Haas DM, Bairey Merz CN, Workalemahu T, Ryckman K, Catov JM, Levine LD, Freedman A, Saade GR, Hu J, Zhao H, Li X, Liu N, Yan Q. Brief Bioinform. 2026 Jan 7. PMID: 41499219.
• PRIME: a database for 16S rRNA microbiome data with phenotypic reference and comprehensive metadata.Zhang Z, Zhao H, Wang T. Nucleic Acids Res. 2026 Jan 6. PMID: 41171140.
• Machine learning models predict long COVID outcomes based on baseline clinical and immunologic factors.Doni Jayavelu N, Samaha H, Wimalasena ST, Hoch A, Gygi JP, Gabernet G, Ozonoff A, Liu S, Milliren CE, Levy O, Baden LR, Melamed E, Ehrlich LIR, McComsey GA, Sekaly RP, Cairns CB, Haddad EK, Schaenman J, Shaw AC, Hafler DA, Montgomery RR, Corry DB, Kheradmand F, Atkinson MA, Brakenridge SC, Agudelo Higuit NI, Metcalf JP, Hough CL, Messer WB, Pulendran B, Nadeau KC, Davis MM, Geng LN, Fernandez Sesma A, Simon V, Krammer F, Kraft M, Bime C, Calfee CS, Erle DJ, Langelier CR, Guan L, Maecker HT, Peters B, Kleinstein SH, Reed EF, Augustine AD, Diray-Arce J, Becker PM, Rouphael N, Altman MC. Commun Med (Lond). 2026 Jan 3; 2026 Jan 3. PMID: 41484172.
• Response to Freedman and Schrack: drawing inferences about Medicare mortality from the National Health and Aging Trends Study.Gill TM, Liang J, Davis-Plourde K. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2026 Jan 2. PMID: 41482503.
• Longitudinal Associations Between Physical Activity Behavior and Structural Brain MRI Features After Stroke: A Sub-Study From the Nor-COAST Project.Luzum G, Aamodt EB, Allore H, Alnæs D, Beyer MK, de Lange AG, Saltvedt I, Schellhorn T, Westlye LT, Askim T, Håberg AK. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2026 Jan; 2026 Jan 9. PMID: 41510743.
• Federal inspection timing, not compliance, associated with nursing home post-disaster outcomes.Festa N, Alexovitz K, Phadke M, O'Leary J, Davis-Plourde K, Zang E, Chen K, Kelly J, Dosa DM, Cohen A, Gill TM. Health Aff Sch. 2026 Jan; 2025 Dec 19. PMID: 41509063.
• Associations between Social Determinants of Health and Posthospitalization Rehabilitation among Critically Ill Older Adults.Jain S, Murphy TE, Falvey JR, Leo-Summers L, Zang E, Gill TM, Krumholz HM, Ferrante LE. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2026 Jan 1. PMID: 41025933.
• Losses to Follow-Up in a Nationally Representative Study of Community-Living Older Americans: Two Approaches to Censoring and Implications for Mortality Outcomes.Gill TM, Liang J, Becher RD, Davis-Plourde K. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 Jan; 2025 Sep 10. PMID: 40928486.
• The Importance of Geriatric Emergency Department Assessments: Recognizing Patient Risks and Value of Data in Research-A Reply.Hwang U, Cohen I, Carpenter C, Han L, Hung W. Acad Emerg Med. 2026 Jan; 2025 Aug 28. PMID: 40875581.
• Frailty and functional decline after elective endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in octogenarians.Li J, Slade MD, Gill TM, Bader J, Guzman RJ, Tonnessen BH, Kuwayama DP, Dardik A, Cardella JA, Ochoa Chaar CI. J Vasc Surg. 2026 Jan; 2025 Aug 18. PMID: 40835162.
• Polygenic Resistance to Blood Pressure Treatment and Stroke Risk: Insights from the All of Us Research Program.Huo S, Rivier CA, Clocchiatti-Tuozzo S, Renedo D, Petersen N, de Havenon A, Meeker D, Zhao H, Ohno-Machado L, Sheth KN, Falcone GJ. Ann Neurol. 2026 Jan; 2025 Aug 19. PMID: 40827941.
• The Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research Standardization Study (GEARSS): An Observational Study of Older Emergency Department Patients.Hwang U, Sifnugel N, Cohen I, Han L, Araujo K, Bianco LM, Brandt CA, Capelli S, Carpenter CR, Cruz DS, Dresden SM, Fishman IL, Gipson K, Hastings SN, Hung WW, Kang R, Lockhart M, Meeker D, Ohuabunwa U, Ottilie-Kovelman S, Partridge C, Platts-Mills TF, Sandoval J, Taylor Z, Tomasino DF, Vaughan CP. Acad Emerg Med. 2026 Jan; 2025 Jul 12. PMID: 40650481.
• Alignment of the ACGME milestones for internal medicine and family medicine residents with a curriculum in priorities-aligned decision-making.Ouellet JA, Sanders N, Ben R, Brown MM, Soares S, Tinetti ME, Farrell TW. Acad Med. 2025 Dec 31; 2025 Dec 31. PMID: 41746802.
• Development and Feasibility of PATH: Preparation for Appropriate Transitions From Home.Fried TR, Bouranis N, Cohen AB. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 Dec 31; 2025 Dec 31. PMID: 41472534.
• Bayesian subtyping for multi-state brain functional connectome with application on preadolescent brain cognition.Chen T, Zhao H, Tan C, Constable T, Yip S, Zhao Y. Biostatistics. 2025 Dec 31. PMID: 39656842.
• PERADIGM: Phenotype embedding similarity-based rare disease gene mapping.Zheng W, Xie Y, Gu J, Li H, Somlo S, Besse W, Zhao H. PLoS Genet. 2025 Dec; 2025 Dec 18. PMID: 41411243.
• Glis3 Is a Modifier of Cyst Progression in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.Wei Z, Gu J, Tian X, Zhang C, Zhao H, Somlo S. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2025 Dec 16; 2025 Dec 16. PMID: 41563804.
• Improving polygenic risk prediction performance by integrating electronic health records through phenotype embedding.Xu L, Zheng W, Hu J, Lin Y, Zhao J, Wang G, Liu T, Zhao H. Am J Hum Genet. 2025 Dec 4. PMID: 41349513.
• A perspective on developing foundation models for analyzing spatial transcriptomic data.Liu T, Hao M, Liu X, Zhao H. Quant Biol. 2025 Dec; 2025 Jun 13. PMID: 41674716.
• Taking to Bed at the End of Life-A Population-Based Perspective.Gill TM. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Dec 1; 2025 Dec 1. PMID: 41632133.
• Combined and synergistic effects of heat and fine particulate matter on hospitalization among patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.Spoto F, Zanobetti A, Delaney SW, Gill TM, Bell ML, Dominici F, Braun D, Mork D. Environ Epidemiol. 2025 Dec; 2025 Nov 21. PMID: 41293543.
• Evaluating COVID-19 severity prediction and immune dynamics with NULISAseq: Insights from the IMPACC study.Abe K, Holmes TH, Nguyen TT, Kim-Schulze S, Levy O, Baden LR, Melamed E, Ehrlich LIR, McComsey GA, Sekaly RP, Cairns CB, Haddad EK, Shaw AC, Hafler DA, Montgomery RR, Corry DB, Kheradmand F, Atkinson MA, Brakenridge SC, Agudelo Higuita NI, Metcalf JP, Hough CL, Messer WB, Pulendran B, Nadeau KC, Davis MM, Fernandez-Sesma A, Simon V, Kraft M, Bime C, Calfee CS, Erle DJ, Schaenman J, Reed EF, Ozonoff A, Peters B, Kleinstein SH, Augustine AD, Diray-Arce J, Becker PM, Rouphael N, Maecker HT. J Immunol. 2025 Dec 1. PMID: 41166719.
• Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Care: JAMA Internal Medicine Call for Papers.Gross CP, Richman IB, Stall NM, Kneifati-Hayek JZ, Allore HG, Rittenberg E, Katz MH, Grady D, Durant RW, Anderson TS, Tripodis Y, Wang TY, Corbie G, Mody L, Perlis RH, Ganguli I, Inouye SK. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 Dec 1. PMID: 41082189.
• Comparing Disaster-Related Surge Staffing Practices Across Rural and Non-Rural Nursing Homes.Festa N, Alexovitz K, Davis-Plourde K, Marottoli R, Cohen AB, Dosa D, Fulmer T, Gill TM. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 Dec; 2025 Sep 12. PMID: 40938301.
• The cutaneous response to a mosquito bite is influenced by the diurnal rhythm.Raduwan H, Park J, Marín-López A, Skadow MH, Chen TY, Flavell RA, Shaw AC, Montgomery RR, Fikrig E. iScience. 2025 Nov 21; 2025 Sep 30. PMID: 41146707.
• Science for vaccine policy: Independent review of the September 2025 ACIP processes, deliberations and votes.Asturias EJ, Chen LH, Shaw AC, Moser CA, Maldonado YA, Zucker JR, Chu HY, Talbot HK, Cineas S, Lyons K, Schechter R, Kamboj M, Wiley Z, Brewer NT. Vaccine. 2025 Nov 20; 2025 Oct 23. PMID: 41135287.
• Improving newborn screening accuracy through genome sequencing, targeted metabolomics, and machine learning.Xie Y, Peng G, Tikhonova I, Enns G, Zhao H, Cowan T, Scharfe C. BMC Med Genomics. 2025 Nov 19; 2025 Nov 19. PMID: 41257776.
• A unified framework for identification of cell-type-specific spatially variable genes in spatial transcriptomic studies.Wang Z, Zeng Y, Tan Z, Chen Y, Huang X, Zhao H, Lin Z, Yang C. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Nov 18; 2025 Nov 12. PMID: 41223223.
• Recessive genomic and phenotypic variation in consanguineous families with cerebral palsy.Bisarad P, Wang YC, Skidmore PT, Galaz-Montoya CI, Lewis SA, Alhaddad B, Kong N, Julian D, Magee H, Kruer TN, Xie Y, Zheng W, Li B, Rajabpour FV, Liu J, Revanur A, Bakur K, Firouzabadi SG, Sharbatkhori S, Tafakhori A, Taghiabadi E, Nezaminargabad E, Vosoogh S, Jamshidi J, Arefnia S, Hosseini SA, Khajehmirzaei A, Jamali F, Ahmadifard A, Khodadadi H, Daneshmand P, Bohlega S, Maddirevula S, Nadeef SS, Hashem MO, Salih MA, Mohmed IN, Sticht H, Morias SP, Damásio J, Santos M, Loureiro JL, Rodrigues R, Stevanin G, Benkirane M, Dauriat B, Head N, Baptista J, Shahhosseini S, Mohammad F, Zhao H, Padilla-Lopez S, Alkuraya F, Bakhtiari S, Kruer MC, Jin SC, Darvish H. medRxiv. 2025 Nov 6; 2025 Nov 6. PMID: 41282771.
• Mapping DNA Methylation Signatures to Identify Epigenetic Variation Across Subcortical Regions of the Human Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Brain.Li H, Liu Y, Shi Y, Wang J, Nguyen TP, Xie Y, Zheng W, Cheng Y, Cruz DA, Modliszewski JL, Terwilliger R, Sliby AN, Martínez-Magaña JJ, Montalvo-Ortiz JL, Roache JD, Averill LA, Young-McCaughan S, Shiroma PR, Huber BR, Lewis DA, Glausier J, Holtzheimer P, Friedman MJ, Zhang J, Peterson AL, Abdallah CG, Valizadeh A, Zhang X, Xu K, Krystal JH, Duman RS, Zhao H, Corcoran DL, Williamson DE, Girgenti MJ. Biol Psychiatry. 2025 Nov 3; 2025 Nov 3. PMID: 41192574.
• A multiomics recovery factor predicts long COVID in the IMPACC study.Gabernet G, Maciuch J, Gygi JP, Moore JF, Hoch A, Syphurs C, Chu T, Doni Jayavelu N, Corry DB, Kheradmand F, Baden LR, Sekaly RP, McComsey GA, Haddad EK, Cairns CB, Rouphael N, Fernandez-Sesma A, Simon V, Metcalf JP, Agudelo Higuita NI, Hough CL, Messer WB, Davis MM, Nadeau KC, Pulendran B, Kraft M, Bime C, Reed EF, Schaenman J, Erle DJ, Calfee CS, Atkinson MA, Brakenridge SC, Melamed E, Shaw AC, Hafler DA, Augustine AD, Becker PM, Ozonoff A, Bosinger SE, Eckalbar W, Maecker HT, Kim-Schulze S, Steen H, Krammer F, Westendorf K, Peters B, Fourati S, Altman MC, Levy O, Smolen KK, Montgomery RR, Diray-Arce J, Kleinstein SH, Guan L, Ehrlich LI. J Clin Invest. 2025 Nov 3; 2025 Sep 9. PMID: 40924481.
• Aligning Surgical Decisions With Older Adults' Outcome Goals.Naik AD, Schwarze ML, Banks J, Soni S, Arain SA, Goyal P, Matlock DD, Lampert R, Tinetti ME. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 Nov; 2025 Jul 24. PMID: 41288195.
• Spatial dynamics of brain development and neuroinflammation.Zhang D, Rubio Rodríguez-Kirby LA, Lin Y, Wang W, Song M, Wang L, Wang L, Kanatani S, Jimenez-Beristain T, Dang Y, Zhong M, Kukanja P, Bao S, Wang S, Chen XL, Gao F, Wang D, Xu H, Ma C, Lou X, Liu Y, Chen J, Sestan N, Uhlén P, Kriegstein A, Zhao H, Castelo-Branco G, Fan R. Nature. 2025 Nov; 2025 Nov 5. PMID: 41193846.
• Evaluating the Applicability of Federal Regulatory Metrics for Nursing Home Fire Safety and Emergency Preparedness.Festa N, Alexovitz K, Throgmorton KF, Davis-Plourde K, Dosa DM, Gill TM. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2025 Nov; 2025 Sep 11. PMID: 40882948.
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