ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2021
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
John R. Lee, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Weill Cornell Medicine. He completed his medical school training at Weill Cornell Medicine and his combined internal medicine residency/nephrology fellowship at New York-Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center. Under the mentorship of Dr. Manikkam Suthanthiran and Dr. Eric Pamer, Dr. Lee established a research program focused on characterizing the relationship between the microbiota and complications in patients with kidney disease. He is an NIAID K23 career development award recipient and a recipient of the National Kidney Foundation Young Investigator Grant Program. He has identified gut microbiota profiles associated with urinary tract infections and post-transplant diarrhea in kidney transplant recipients and has reported on a relationship between the gut microbiota and metabolism of tacrolimus, a common immunosuppressive medication. He has extended his microbiota studies to include characterization of cell-free DNA in the urine of kidney transplant recipients and profiling peritoneal effluent cell-free DNA in patients on peritoneal dialysis.