I am an academic physician scientist with expertise in translational microbiome research studies. I am currently funded by a K23 career development award from the NIH / NIAID (2016), an R21 exploratory/development award from the NIH / NIAID (2017), and an NKF Young Investigator Resarch Grant from the National Kidney Foundation (2017). My laboratory's current focus is establishing the relationship between the microbiome and complications in patients with kidney disease as well as kidney transplant recipients. I have pioneered work in establishing the relationship between the gut microbiota and post-transplant diarrhea as well as the relationship between the gut microbiota and urinary tract infections (Lee et al., Transplantation 96(8): 732-738, 2013). I have also investigated the relationship between the gut microbiota and tacrolimus dosing requirements (Lee et al., PLOS ONE 10(3):e0122399, 2015). I have expanded my research profile to include investigations of the urine microbiota in kidney transplant recipients and the peritoneal fluid microbiota in patients on peritoneal dialysis.
I am also a transplant nephrologist and an Assistant Attending at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center since 2013.
Iman Khan, Sylvia Wu, Anika Hudson, Clayton Hughes, Gabriel Stryjniak, Lars F Westblade, Michael J Satlin, Nicholas Tedrow, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Colleen Kraft, Darsha...> ;Kidney360. 2023 Oct 1
Joseph R Leventhal, John Galvin, Michael G Ison, Chris Yuhsuen Feng, Ruchuang Ding, John R Lee, Carol Li, James M Mathew, Lorenzo Gallon, Meg Gibson, Dianne Belshe, Da...> ;Transplantation. 2023 Oct 1
Kristin Meliambro, Yanfeng Yang, Marina de Cos, Estefania Rodriguez Ballestas, Caroline Malkin, Jonathan Haydak, John R Lee, Fadi Salem, Laura H Mariani, Ronald E Gord...> ;JCI Insight. 2023 Apr 10
Joshua B Simpson, Josh J Sekela, Amanda L Graboski, Valentina B Borlandelli, Marissa M Bivins, Natalie K Barker, Alicia A Sorgen, Angie L Mordant, Rebecca L Johnson, A...> ;Gut Microbes. 2022 Aug 12
Hemant Suryawanshi, Hua Yang, Michelle Lubetzky, Pavel Morozov, Mila Lagman, Gaurav Thareja, Alicia Alonso, Carol Li, Catherine Snopkowski, Aziz Belkadi, Franco B Muel...> ;Plos One. 2022 Jan 1
Susana Martinez Díaz, Hudson Pierce, John Richard Lee, Andrew Abram, Naeem Bhojani, Dean Elterman, Kevin Zorn, Bilal Chughtai, Asfaw, T.> ;Urologia Internationalis. 2022 Jan 1
Adrienne Chang, Omary Mzava, Joan Sesing Lenz, Alexandre Pellan Cheng, Philip Burnham, S. Timothy Motley, Crissa Bennett, John T. Connelly, Darshana Dadhania, Manikkam...> ;Clinical Chemistry. 2021 Oct 26
Danny Luan, Darshana Dadhania, R. Ding, Thangamani Muthukumar, Michelle Lubetzky, John R. Lee, Vijay K. Sharma, Phyllis August, Franco B. Mueller, Joseph E. Schwartz, ...> ;Transplantation. 2021 Aug 1
Thangamani Muthukumar, Kemal M. Akat, Hua Yang, Joseph E. Schwartz, Heejung Bang, Iddo Z. Ben-Dov, John R. Lee, David Ikle, Anthony J. Demetris, Thomas Tuschl, Manikka...> ;Transplantation. 2021 May 11
Aziz Belkadi, Gaurav Thareja, Darshana Dadhania, John R. Lee, Thangamani Muthukumar, Catherine Snopkowski, Anna Halama, Sara Abdelkader, Silvana A Abdulla, Yasmin A. M...> ;Plos One. 2021 Apr 15
Rebecca Craig-Schapiro, Thalia Salinas, Michelle Lubetzky, Brittany T. Abel, Samuel Sultan, John R. Lee, Sandip Kapur, Meredith J. Aull, Darshana Dadhania> ;American Journal of Transplantation. 2021 Apr 1
Jeffrey Kubiak, Emily Davidson, Rosemary Soave, Rosy Priya Kodiyanplakkal, Amy Robertson, Koen van Besien, Tsiporah B. Shore, John R. Lee, Lars F. Westblade, Michael J...> ;Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. 2021 Feb 18
John R. Lee, Jeffrey Silberzweig, Oleh Akchurin, Mary E. Choi, Vesh Srivatana, Jonathan Lin, Frank Liu, Line Malha, Michelle Lubetzky, Darshana Dadhania, Divya Shankar...> ;Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2021 Feb 8
Essa Abuhelaiqa, C. Snopkowski, Steve Salvatore, John R. Lee, Thangamani Muthukumar, Jun Lee, Choli Hartono, R. Ding, Surya V. Seshan, Manikkam Suthanthiran, Darshana ...> ;Clinical Transplantation. 2021 Feb 1
Emmanuel Edusei, Lisa Zhang, Shady Albakry, Michael J. Satlin, Lars F. Westblade, Line Malha, Christina Sze, Michelle Lubetzky, Darshana Dadhania, John R. Lee> ;Gut Microbes. 2020 Aug 30
Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis and Diarrhea in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Eric Pamer, Manikkam Suthanthiran, Ying Taur, Michael J Satlin, Darshana Dadhania, John Richard Lee, Carl Crawford, Michelle Lubetzky, American journal of transplantation
Kidney Allograft Failure in the Steroid‐Free Immunosuppression Era: A Matched Case‐Control Study
Joseph E Schwartz, Jun B Lee, Choli Hartono, John R Lee, Darshana M Dadhania, Sandip Kapur, Meredith J Aull, Surya V Seshan, Manikkam Suthanthiran, Mohamad M Alkadi, A..., Clinical Transplantation
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)Fellowship, Nephrology, 2009 - 2013
Weill Cornell MedicineClass of 2007
Harvard UniversityA.B., Biochemical Sciences, Magna Cum Laude, 1999 - 2003
NY State Medical License 2009 - 2026
NJ State Medical License 2022 - 2025
New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York, New York
NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew York, New York
