About

Audreesh Banerjee, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. He specializes in Pulmonary Medicine, with clinical expertise in asthma and COPD. Dr. Banerjee serves as the Clinical Director for Asthma and is a Clinical Co-Director for COPD within the Department of Medicine's Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine. He is also the Asthma Program Leader in the same division. His research focuses on airway smooth muscle biology, airway function modulation, and the mechanisms underlying asthma and COPD. Dr. Banerjee has contributed to understanding the role of vitamin D in airway smooth muscle function and has investigated various molecular pathways involved in airway constriction and inflammation.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Internal medicine
• Endocrinology
• Biology
• Immunology

Selected publications

• Guideline adherence to aeroallergen-focused activities in adult asthma care: Insights from an online survey

  Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2025-10-10

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• Silencing Ubiquitin-Specific Peptidase 10 Alleviates Persistent Corneal Epithelial Defect in Mice

  American Journal Of Pathology · 2025-11-06

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  cells). Correspondingly, RNA sequencing of the regenerated corneal epithelium revealed that USP10 knockdown altered gene expression and pathways controlling tissue repair. Specifically, cell proliferation pathways were enhanced, whereas extracellular matrix, integrin, and immune cell signatures that lead to scar formation were reduced. The results demonstrate that a one-time application of in vivo sdRNA targeting USP10 is a novel method to prevent epithelial wound re-opening and subsequent scarring and inflammation and may be useful to promote regenerative healing in other tissues.

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• Clinic navigation and home visits to improve asthma care in low income adults with poorly controlled asthma: Before and during the pandemic

  Contemporary Clinical Trials · 2022-05-26 · 10 citations

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• Contributors

  Elsevier eBooks · 2014-01-01

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• Acute Respiratory Failure Due to Asthma

  Elsevier eBooks · 2014-01-01

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• Vitamin D modulates airway smooth muscle function in COPD

  Current Opinion in Pharmacology · 2012-02-25 · 43 citations

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• Vitamin D Modulates Airway Smooth Muscle Function

  Humana Press eBooks · 2012-01-01 · 6 citations

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  Asthma is a disease that manifests as variable airflow obstruction, bronchial hyperresponsiveness, and airway inflammation, and that evokes symptoms of wheezing, dyspnea on exertion, cough, and mucus production. Airway smooth muscle (ASM cells) plays a central role in the asthma diathesis and is implicated in all aspects of asthma pathogenesis. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with asthma and studies suggest a role for vitamin D as a treatment for asthma. In this chapter, we review the effects of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D on ASM cells function, including agonist-induced shortening, secretion of inflammatory mediators, and myocyte hypertrophy and hyperplasia.

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• Airway Smooth Muscle in Asthma

  Clinics in Chest Medicine · 2012-07-11 · 70 citations

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• p38 MAPK inhibitors, IKK2 inhibitors, and TNFα inhibitors in COPD

  Current Opinion in Pharmacology · 2012-02-24 · 61 citations

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• Inhibition Of Chemokine Secretion From Stimulated Airway Smooth Muscle (asm) By Glucocorticoids And Vitamin D Requires Vitamin D Receptor (vdr) Activation

  Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2011-02-01

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant F32HL096286

  NIH · $47k · 2010

• NIH Grant K08HL097032

  NIH · $527k · 2015

Frequent coauthors

• Reynold A. Panettieri

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  12 shared

• Gautam Damera

  Teva Pharmaceuticals (United States)

  7 shared

• Omar Tliba

  Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

  7 shared

• Patrick Berger

  Inserm

  5 shared

• Chinmay M. Trivedi

  University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

  3 shared

• RA Panettieri

  3 shared

• Cynthia Koziol‐White

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  2 shared

• Stefan Keslacy

  California State University Los Angeles

  2 shared