Li Gao, M.D., Ph.D.

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  • Genetic Research Projects Director
  • Associate Professor of Medicine

Research Interests

Functional genomics, epigenetics and molecular genetics of complex human allergic and cardiopulmonary diseases, with a focus on translational studies applying fundamental genetic insight into the clinical setting. ...read more

Background

Li Gao, M.D., Ph.D. is currently Associate Professor of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. She joined the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology of the Department of Medicine in 2005 after completing the NIH-supported T32 postdoctoral fellowship training at Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University. She is a member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI), and the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). In addition she is an Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Allergy, Clinical and Molecular Allergy, Critical Care Medicine, BMC Medical Genetics, PLOS ONE and Genetics in Medicine. She is the recipient of the 2006 Interest Section Award of AAAAI; 2007 Award of the NIH Fifth Symposium on the Functional Genomics of Critical Illness and Injury; and 2010 Gilead Sciences Research Scholars Program in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.

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Titles

  • Genetic Research Projects Director
  • Associate Professor of Medicine

Departments / Divisions

Centers & Institutes

  • Asthma and Allergy Center

Education

Degrees

  • M.D.; Nanjing Medical University (China) (1990)
  • Ph.D.; Nanjing Medical University (China) (1995)

Additional Training

Postdoctoral fellow (NIH T32 institutional training grant), Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (2005)

Research & Publications

Research Summary

Research Focus

  1. Allergy & lung immunology
  2. Implementation of high-throughput technologies in the fields of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), massively parallel sequencing (WES & WGS), RNA expression profiling, epigenetic mapping and multi-omics in ongoing research of complex lung diseases including asthma, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as well as allergic skin diseases.
  3. Lung vascular and cell biology
  4. Biomarker studies and predictive modeling of disease outcomes in large patient cohorts 

Contact for Research Inquiries

Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center
5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle
Room 3B.65B
Baltimore, MD 21224 map
Phone: 410-550-2021
Fax: 410-550-2130

Activities & Honors

Honors

  • Interest Section Award, AAAAI, 2006
  • Award of the NIH Fifth Symposium on the Functional Genomics of Critical Illness and Injury, NIH, 2007
  • Gilead Sciences Research Scholars Program in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, 2010

Memberships

  • American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI)
  • American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG
  • American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Professional Activities

  • Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer, Allergy
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer, Clinical and Molecular Allergy
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer, Critical Care Medicine
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer, BMC Medical Genetics
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer, Genetics in Medicine
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