2026

Terada Y, Takahashi T, Pasque MK, Kulkarni HS, Vazquez-Guillamet R, Byers DE, Witt CA, Nava RG, Kozower BD, Meyers BF, Patterson GA, Kreisel D, Puri V, Hachem RR. Impact of Era on Acute Cellular Rejection After Lung Transplantation.Transpl Int2025;38:14534doi: 10.3389/ti.2025.14534. eCollection 2025. PubMed PMID: 40862278; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12375509.

Costa Monteiro AC, Pickering H, Sarma A, Taylor CS, Jenkins MM, Hsu FM, Nadel B, 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, Higuita NIA, 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, Bosinger S, Eckalbar W, Maecker H, Rahman A, Guan L, Peters B, Kleinstein SH, Augustine AD, Diray-Arce J, Becker PM, Rouphael N, IMPACC Network, CAFPINT Site investigators of the PALISI Network, Agus M, Kulkarni H, Schaenmann JM, Salehi-Rad R, Matthay MA, Reed EF, Sapru A. Circulating endothelial signatures correlate with worse outcomes in COVID-19, respiratory failure and ARDS. Crit Care2025 Oct 14;29(1):432doi: 10.1186/s13054-025-05596-0. PubMed PMID: 41088445; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12522733.

Inman K, Chernus J, Lee M, Alder JK, Shah FA, Mayr FB, Dempsey T, Nouraie SM, Dela Cruz C, Ferreira VP, Kulkarni HS, Meyer NJ, Strollo PJ, Feingold E, Bain W. Genetic Variation in the Alternative Complement Pathway Contributes to Individual Susceptibility to Bacteremia and Sepsis. Crit Care Explor2025 Nov 1;7(11):e1339doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000001339. eCollection 2025 Nov 1. PubMed PMID: 41165296; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12574529.

Sanchez JM, Kulkarni HSThink Locally, Act Globally: Resolving the Peripheral Immune Milieu in Bacterial Pneumonia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med2025 Dec;211(12):2242-2244doi: 10.1164/rccm.202508-1838ED. PubMed PMID: 41052465; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12700229.

Kulkarni HS, Tague LK, Calabrese DR, Liao F, Liu Z, Garnica L, Shankar NR, Wu X, Kulkarni DH, Thapa A, Zhou D, Tao Y, Davis VE, Bernardt CT, Byers DE, Chen C, Huang HJ, Witt CA, Hachem RR, Kreisel D, Atkinson JP, Greenland JR, Gelman AE. Impaired complement regulation drives chronic lung allograft dysfunction after lung transplantation. J Clin Invest2026 Jan 2;136(1)doi: 10.1172/JCI188891. eCollection 2026 Jan 2. PubMed PMID: 41217841; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12721912.

Yang B, Kulkarni HSTaming the Immaturity of Neutrophils Driving Injury in Lung Transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant2026 Apr;45(4):690-692doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2025.12.008. Epub 2025 Dec 20. PubMed PMID: 41429412; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13289729.

Greenland JR, Perch M, Halloran K, Levine DJ, Morrell ED, Reed A, Shaver CM, Singer JP, Sweet SC, Vos R, Aryal S, Avdimiretz N, Burrows F, Calabrese D, Calabrese F, Campos S, Combs M, de Perrot M, Dellgren G, Diamond JM, Egan T, Ging P, Glidden DV, Goddard M, Jyothula S, Keller M, Kulkarni H, Kwakkel-van Erp JM, Lama V, Marczin N, Martinu T, Neely ML, Palmer SM, Patterson CM, Pavlisko EN, Pham C, Sanchez M, Schultz HHL, Schwerk N, Shah U, Shashaty M, Singer L, Smith P, Snyder LD, Solomon M, Verleden S, Verplancke V, Zeevi A, Todd JL. Considerations for Endpoints in Lung Transplant Clinical Trials: Perspective on the ISHLT Consensus Statement. J Heart Lung Transplant2026 Feb;45(2):168-171doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2025.09.016. PubMed PMID: 41548963.

2023

Moore BB, Ballinger MN, Bauer NN, Blackwell TS, Borok Z, Budinger GRS, Camoretti-Mercado B, Erzurum SC, Himes BE, Keshamouni VG, Kulkarni HS, Mallampalli RK, Mariani TJ, Martinez FJ, McCombs JE, Newcomb DC, Johnston RA, O’Reilly MA, Prakash YS, Ridge KM, Sime PJ, Sperling AI, Violette S, Wilkes DS, Königshoff M. Building Career Paths for Ph.D., Basic and Translational Scientists in Clinical Departments in the United States: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2023 Aug;20(8):1077-1087. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202304-305ST. PMID: 37526479; PMCID: PMC10405615.

Annane D, Pittock SJ, Kulkarni HS, Pickering BW, Khoshnevis MR, Siegel JL, Powell CA, Castro P, Fujii T, Dunn D, Smith K, Mitter S, Kazani S, Kulasekararaj A. Intravenous ravulizumab in mechanically ventilated patients hospitalised with severe COVID-19: a phase 3, multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial. Lancet Respir Med. 2023 Mar 20:S2213-2600(23)00082-6.

Sahu SK, Ozanturk AN, Kulkarni DH, Ma L, Barve RA, Dannull L, Lu A, Starick M, McPhatter J, Garnica L, Sanfillipo-Burchman M, Kunen J, Wu X, Gelman AE, Brody SL, Atkinson JP, Kulkarni HS. Lung epithelial cell-derived C3 protects against pneumonia-induced lung injury. Sci Immunol. 2023 Feb 3;8(80):eabp9547.

2022

Kulkarni HS, Lee JS, Bastarache JA, Kuebler WM, Downey GP, Albaiceta GM, Altemeier WA, Artigas A, Bates JHT, Calfee CS, Dela Cruz CS, Dickson RP, Englert JA, Everitt JI, Fessler MB, Gelman AE, Gowdy KM, Groshong SD, Herold S, Homer RJ, Horowitz JC, Hsia CCW, Kurahashi K, Laubach VE, Looney MR, Lucas R, Mangalmurti NS, Manicone AM, Martin TR, Matalon S, Matthay MA, McAuley DF, McGrath-Morrow SA, Mizgerd JP, Montgomery SA, Moore BB, Noël A, Perlman CE, Reilly JP, Schmidt EP, Skerrett SJ, Suber TL, Summers C, Suratt BT, Takata M, Tuder R, Uhlig S, Witzenrath M, Zemans RL, Matute-Bello G. Update on the Features and Measurements of Experimental Acute Lung Injury in Animals: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2022 Feb;66(2):e1-e14.

2021

Sahu SK, Kulkarni DH, Ozanturk AN, Ma L, Kulkarni HS. Emerging roles of the complement system in host-pathogen interactions. Trends Microbiol 2022; 30(4): 390-402.

Ma L, Sahu SK, Cano M, Kuppuswamy V, Bajwa J, McPhatter J, Pine A, Meizlish ML, Goshua G, Chang CH, Zhang H, Price C, Bahel P, Rinder H, Lei T, Day A, Reynolds D, Wu X, Schriefer R, Rauseo AM, Goss CW, O’Halloran JA, Presti RM, Kim AH, Gelman AE, Dela Cruz CS, Lee AI, Mudd PA, Chun HJ, Atkinson JP, Kulkarni HS. Increased complement activation is a distinctive feature of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection. Sci Immunol. 2021 May 13;6(59):eabh2259.

Scozzi D, Cano M, Ma L, Zhou D, Zhu JH, O’Halloran JA, Goss C, Rauseo AM, Liu Z, Sahu SK, Peritore V, Rocco M, Ricci A, Amodeo R, Aimati L, Ibrahim M, Hachem R, Kreisel D, Mudd PA, Kulkarni HS*, Gelman AE* (co-corresponding author). Circulating mitochondrial DNA is an early indicator of severe illness and mortality from COVID-19. JCI Insight. 2021 Feb 22;6(4):e143299.

2020

Kulkarni HS, Ramphal K, Ma L, Brown M, Oyster M, Speckhart KN, Takahashi T, Byers DE, Porteous MK, Kalman L, Hachem RR, Rushefski M, McPhatter J, Cano M, Kreisel D, Scavuzzo M, Mittler B, Cantu E 3rd, Pilely K, Garred P, Christie JD, Atkinson JP, Gelman AE, Diamond JM. Local complement activation is associated with primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation. JCI Insight. 2020 Sep 3;5(17):e138358.

Frye CC, Bery AI, Kreisel D, Kulkarni HS. Sterile inflammation in thoracic transplantation. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2021 Jan;78(2):581-601.

ain W, Li H, van der Geest R, Moore SR, Olonisakin TF, Ahn B, Papke E, Moghbeli K, DeSensi R, Rapport S, Saul M, Hulver M, Xiong Z, Mallampalli RK, Ray P, Morris A, Ma L, Doi Y, Zhang Y, Kitsios GD, Kulkarni HS, McVerry BJ, Ferreira VP, Nouraie M, Lee JS. Increased Alternative Complement Pathway Function and Improved Survival during Critical Illness. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020 Jul 15;202(2):230-240.

Kulkarni HS, Scozzi D, Gelman AE. Recent advances into the role of pattern recognition receptors in transplantation. Cell Immunol 2020; 351:104088.

2019

Kulkarni HS, Tsui K, Sunder S, Ganninger A, Tague LK, Witt CA, Byers DE,Trulock EP, Nava R, Puri V, Kreisel D, Mohanakumar T, Gelman AE, Hachem RR. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and acute rejection independently increase the risk of donor-specific antibodies after lung transplantation. Am J Transplant 2020 Apr;20(4):1028-1038.

Elvington M, Liszewski MK, Liszewski AR, Kulkarni HS, Hachem RR, Mohanakumar T, Kim AHJ, Atkinson JP. Development and Optimization of an ELISA to Quantitate C3(H2O) as a Marker of Human Disease. Front Immunol. 2019 Apr 4;10:703.

Kulkarni HS, Elvington ML, Perng YC, Liszewski MK, Byers DE, Farkouh C, Yusen RD, Lenschow DJ, Brody SL, Atkinson JP. Intracellular C3 Protects Human Airway Epithelial Cells from Stress-associated Cell Death. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2019 Feb;60(2):144-157.

2018

Kulkarni HS, Liszewski MK, Brody SL, Atkinson JP, The complement system in the airway epithelium – an overlooked host defense mechanism and therapeutic target? J Allergy Clin Immunol 2018: 141: 1582-6.

2017

Elvington ME, Liszewski MK, Bertram PL, Kulkarni HS,Atkinson JP, A C3(H2O) recycling pathway of the intracellular complement system. J Clin Invest 2017: 127: 970-81.

Liszewski MK, Elvington ME, Kulkarni HS, Atkinson JP, Complement’s hidden arsenal: new insights and novel functions inside the cell. Mol Immunol 2017: 84: 2-9.

2015

Kulkarni HS,Bemiss BC, Hachem RR, Antibody-mediated rejection in lung transplantation. Curr Transpl Rep 2015: 2: 316-23.

2012

Kasi PM, Tawbi HA, Oddis CV, Kulkarni HS, Serious adverse events associated with the use of rituximab: a critical care perspective. Critical Care 2012: 31: 16: 231.