Publications

Predicting sepsis severity at first clinical presentation: the role of endotypes and mechanistic signatures.
Baghela, A., O.M. Pena, A.H. Lee, B. Baquir, R. Falsafi, A. An, S.W. Farmer, A. Hurlburt, A. Mondragon-Cardona, J.D. Rivera, A. Baker, U. Trahtemberg, M. Shojaei, C.E. Jimenez-Canizales, C.C. dos Santos, B. Tang, H.R. Bouma, G.V. Cohen Freue, and R.E.W. Hancock. 2022. eBiomedicine 75:103776.

Predicting severity in COVID-19 disease using sepsis blood gene expression signatures.
Baghela, A., A. An, P. Zhang, E. Acton, J. Gauthier, E. Brunet-Ratnasingham, T. Blimkie, G. Cohen Freue, D. Kaufmann, A.H.Y. Lee, R.C. Levesque, and R.E.W. Hancock. 2023. Sci. Reports 13:1247.

Severe COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 sepsis converge transcriptionally after a week in the ICU, indicating common disease mechanisms.
An, A.Y., A. Baghela, P. Zhang, R. Falsafi, A.H. Lee, U. Trahtemberg, A.J. Baker, C.C. dos Santos, and R.E.W. Hancock. 2023. Front. Immunol. 14:1167917.

Gene expression profiling in pediatric appendicitis.
Dhillon, B.K., S. Kortbeek, A. Baghela, M. Brindle, D.-A. Martin, C.N. Jenne, HJ. Vogel, A.H.Y. Lee, G.C. Thompson, and R.E.W. Hancock. 2024. JAMA Pediatrics 178:391-400.

Predictive gene expression signature diagnoses neonatal sepsis before clinical presentation.
An, A.Y., E. Acton, O.T. Idoko, C.P. Shannon, T.M. Blimkie, R. Falsafi, O. Wariri, A. Imam, T. Dibassey, T.B. Bennike., K.K. Smolen, J. Diray-Arce, R. Ben-Othman., S. Montante, A. Angelidou, O.A. Odumade, The EPIC consortium, D. Martino, S.J. Tebbutt, O. Levy, H. Steen, T.R. Kollmann, B. Kampmann, R.E.W. Hancock, and A.H. Lee. 2024. eBiomedicine 110:105411. 10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105411

Deciphering sepsis: transforming diagnosis and treatment through systems immunology.
Hancock, R.E.W., A. An, C.C. dos Santos, and A.H.Y. Lee. 2025. Frontiers Science. 2:1469417.

A machine learning and centrifugal microfluidics platform for bedside prediction of sepsis.
Malic, L., P.G.Y. Zhang, P. Plant, L. Clime, C. Nassif, D. da Fonte, E.E. Haney, B.-U. Moon, V. Sit, D. Brassard, M. Mounier, E. Churcher, J.T. Tsoporis, R. Falsafi, M. Bains, A. Baker, U. Trahtemberg, L. Lukic, J.C. Marshall, M. Geissler, R.E.W. Hancock, T. Veres, C.C. dos Santos. 2025. Nature Comm. 16 (1):4442.