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Usman Tahir, M.D.

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Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at the City College of New YorkBSBiomedical Education
Stony Brook School of MedicineMDMedicine
Harvard Medical School MBIBiomedical Informatics

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Director, Center for Cardiovascular Genetics
Co-Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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  1. K08 HL161445-01A1 (Usman A. Tahir) Aug 1, 2022 - Jul 31, 2027
    NIH/NHLBI
  2. John S. LaDue Memorial Fellowship in Cardiology (Usman A. Tahir) Jul 1, 2020 - Jun 30, 2022
    Harvard Medical School
  3. F32HL150992 (TAHIR, USMAN A.) May 31, 2020
    NIH
    Metabolomic Profiles and the Risk of Incident Heart Failure
    Role: Principal Investigator

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  1. Tahir UA. Pathways to Precision Medicine in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Opportunities and Challenges in Plasma Proteomics. Circ Heart Fail. 2025 Jan; 18(1):e012593. PMID: 39697179.
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    Fields: CarCardiologyVasVascular Diseases
  2. Divakaran S, Randhawa V, Tahir UA, Robertson M, Waheed AA, Perillo A, Barrett L, Blankstein R, Feinberg MW, Di Carli MF, Lakdawala NK. FDG PET/CT imaging and circulating biomarkers of inflammation in desmoplakin cardiomyopathy. ESC Heart Fail. 2024 Dec 04. PMID: 39631426.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 6
    Fields: CarCardiology
  3. Tahir UA, Kolm P, Kwong RY, Desai MY, Dolman SF, Deng S, Appelbaum E, Desvigne-Nickens P, DiMarco JP, Tiwari G, Friedrich MG, Zelaya-Portillo JH, Jerosch-Herold M, Kim DY, Maron MS, Piechnik SK, Schulz-Menger J, Watkins H, Weintraub WS, Neubauer S, Kramer CM, Jarolim P, Gerszten RE, Ho CY, HCMR Investigators. Protein Biomarkers of Adverse Clinical Features and Events in Sarcomeric Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Circ Heart Fail. 2024 Dec; 17(12):e011707. PMID: 39498543; PMCID: PMC11652235.
    Citations: 1 Article has an altmetric score of 8
    Fields: CarCardiologyVasVascular DiseasesTranslation:HumansCells
  4. Yu Z, Vromman A, Nguyen NQH, Schuermans A, Rentz T, Vellarikkal SK, Uddin MM, Niroula A, Griffin G, Honigberg MC, Lin AE, Gibson CJ, Katz DH, Tahir U, Fang S, Haidermota S, Ganesh S, Antoine T, Weinstock J, Austin TR, Ramachandran VS, Peloso GM, Hornsby W, Ganz P, Manson JE, Haring B, Kooperberg CL, Reiner AP, Bis JC, Psaty BM, Min YI, Correa A, Lange LA, Post WS, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Wilson JG, Ebert BL, Yu B, Ballantyne CM, Coresh J, Sankaran VG, Bick AG, Jaiswal S, Gerszten RE, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine, Libby P, Gupta RM, Natarajan P. Human Plasma Proteomic Profile of Clonal Hematopoiesis. bioRxiv. 2024 Oct 31. PMID: 39554199; PMCID: PMC11565774.
    Citations: 1 Article has an altmetric score of 13
  5. Ha ET, Haessler J, Taylor KD, Tuftin B, Briggs M, Parikh MA, Peterson SJ, Gerszten RE, Wilson JG, Kelsey K, Tahir UA, Seeman T, Rich SS, Carson AP, Post WS, Kooperberg C, Rotter JI, Raffield LM, Auer P, Reiner AP. The Relationship of Duffy Gene Polymorphism with High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein, Mortality, and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Black Individuals. Genes (Basel). 2024 Oct 27; 15(11). PMID: 39596582; PMCID: PMC11594091.
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    Fields: GenGeneticsTranslation:Humans
  6. Tahir UA, Barber JL, Cruz DE, Kars ME, Deng S, Tuftin B, Gillman MG, Benson MD, Robbins JM, Chen ZZ, Rao P, Katz DH, Farrell L, Sofer T, Hall ME, Ekunwe L, Tracy RP, Durda P, Taylor KD, Liu Y, Johnson WC, Guo X, Chen YI, Manichaikul AW, Jain D, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine Consortium, Wang TJ, Reiner AP, Natarajan P, Itan Y, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Wilson JG, Raffield LM, Gerszten RE. Proteogenomic analysis integrated with electronic health records data reveals disease-associated variants in Black Americans. J Clin Invest. 2024 Sep 24; 134(21). PMID: 39316441; PMCID: PMC11527441.
    Citations: 1 Article has an altmetric score of 10
    Fields: MedMedicine (General)Translation:Humans
  7. Dooley SW, Tahir UA, Cluett JL. Navigating Hypertension in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy: A Cardiovascular Conundrum. Hypertension. 2024 Oct; 81(10):2007-2011. PMID: 39292797.
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    Fields: VasVascular DiseasesTranslation:Humans
  8. Rao P, Keyes MJ, Mi MY, Barber JL, Tahir UA, Deng S, Clish CB, Shen D, Farrell LA, Wilson JG, Gao Y, Yimer WK, Ekunwe L, Hall ME, Muntner PM, Guo X, Taylor KD, Tracy RP, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Xanthakis V, Vasan RS, Bouchard C, Sarzynski MA, Gerszten RE, Robbins JM. Plasma Proteomics of Exercise Blood Pressure and Incident Hypertension. JAMA Cardiol. 2024 Aug 01; 9(8):713-722. PMID: 38865108; PMCID: PMC11170454.
    Citations: 1 Article has an altmetric score of 31
    Fields: CarCardiologyTranslation:Humans
  9. Serpa F, Finn CM, Tahir UA. Navigating the penetrance and phenotypic spectrum of inherited cardiomyopathies. Heart Fail Rev. 2024 Sep; 29(5):873-881. PMID: 38898187.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 10
    Fields: CarCardiologyTranslation:Humans
  10. Tsai YT, Hrytsenko Y, Elgart M, Tahir UA, Chen ZZ, Wilson JG, Gerszten RE, Sofer T. A parametric bootstrap approach for computing confidence intervals for genetic correlations with application to genetically determined protein-protein networks. HGG Adv. 2024 Jul 18; 5(3):100304. PMID: 38720460; PMCID: PMC11140211.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 2
    Fields: GenGeneticsTranslation:Humans
  11. Xiao S, Li VL, Lyu X, Chen X, Wei W, Abbasi F, Knowles JW, Tung AS, Deng S, Tiwari G, Shi X, Zheng S, Farrell L, Chen ZZ, Taylor KD, Guo X, Goodarzi MO, Wood AC, Chen YI, Lange LA, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Clish CB, Tahir UA, Gerszten RE, Benson MD, Long JZ. Lac-Phe mediates the effects of metformin on food intake and body weight. Nat Metab. 2024 Apr; 6(4):659-669. PMID: 38499766; PMCID: PMC11062621.
    Citations: 11 Article has an altmetric score of 199
    Fields: MetMetabolismTranslation:HumansAnimals
  12. Fuller H, Zhu Y, Nicholas J, Chatelaine HA, Drzymalla EM, Sarvestani AK, Julián-Serrano S, Tahir UA, Sinnott-Armstrong N, Raffield LM, Rahnavard A, Hua X, Shutta KH, Darst BF. Author Correction: Metabolomic epidemiology offers insights into disease aetiology. Nat Metab. 2024 Jan; 6(1):187. PMID: 38191668.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 1
    Fields: MetMetabolism
  13. Xiao S, Li VL, Lyu X, Chen X, Wei W, Abbasi F, Knowles JW, Deng S, Tiwari G, Shi X, Zheng S, Farrell L, Chen ZZ, Taylor KD, Guo X, Goodarzi MO, Wood AC, Ida Chen YD, Lange LA, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Clish CB, Tahir UA, Gerszten RE, Benson MD, Long JZ. Lac-Phe mediates the anti-obesity effect of metformin. bioRxiv. 2023 Nov 04. PMID: 37961394; PMCID: PMC10635077.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 14
  14. Tsai YT, Hrytsenko Y, Elgart M, Tahir U, Chen ZZ, Wilson JG, Gerszten R, Sofer T. A parametric bootstrap approach for computing confidence intervals for genetic correlations with application to genetically-determined protein-protein networks. medRxiv. 2023 Oct 25. PMID: 37961678; PMCID: PMC10635196.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 1
  15. Fuller H, Zhu Y, Nicholas J, Chatelaine HA, Drzymalla EM, Sarvestani AK, Julián-Serrano S, Tahir UA, Sinnott-Armstrong N, Raffield LM, Rahnavard A, Hua X, Shutta KH, Darst BF. Metabolomic epidemiology offers insights into disease aetiology. Nat Metab. 2023 Oct; 5(10):1656-1672. PMID: 37872285; PMCID: PMC11164316.
    Citations: 8 Article has an altmetric score of 24
    Fields: MetMetabolism
  16. Feofanova EV, Brown MR, Alkis T, Manuel AM, Li X, Tahir UA, Li Z, Mendez KM, Kelly RS, Qi Q, Chen H, Larson MG, Lemaitre RN, Morrison AC, Grieser C, Wong KE, Gerszten RE, Zhao Z, Lasky-Su J, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed), Yu B. Author Correction: Whole-Genome Sequencing Analysis of Human Metabolome in Multi-Ethnic Populations. Nat Commun. 2023 Oct 19; 14(1):6611. PMID: 37857625; PMCID: PMC10587143.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 1
    Fields: BioBiologySciScience
  17. Aggarwal R, Ruff CT, Virdone S, Perreault S, Kakkar AK, Palazzolo MG, Dorais M, Kayani G, Singer DE, Secemsky E, Piccini J, Tahir UA, Shen C, Yeh RW. Development and Validation of the DOAC Score: A Novel Bleeding Risk Prediction Tool for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation on Direct-Acting Oral Anticoagulants. Circulation. 2023 09 19; 148(12):936-946. PMID: 37621213; PMCID: PMC10529708.
    Citations: 13 Article has an altmetric score of 129
    Fields: CarCardiologyVasVascular DiseasesTranslation:Humans
  18. Benson MD, Eisman AS, Tahir UA, Katz DH, Deng S, Ngo D, Robbins JM, Hofmann A, Shi X, Zheng S, Keyes M, Yu Z, Gao Y, Farrell L, Shen D, Chen ZZ, Cruz DE, Sims M, Correa A, Tracy RP, Durda P, Taylor KD, Liu Y, Johnson WC, Guo X, Yao J, Chen YI, Manichaikul AW, Jain D, Yang Q, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, Bouchard C, Sarzynski MA, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Wang TJ, Wilson JG, Clish CB, Sarkar IN, Natarajan P, Gerszten RE. Protein-metabolite association studies identify novel proteomic determinants of metabolite levels in human plasma. Cell Metab. 2023 09 05; 35(9):1646-1660.e3. PMID: 37582364; PMCID: PMC11118091.
    Citations: 4 Article has an altmetric score of 45
    Fields: CelCell BiologyMetMetabolismTranslation:HumansAnimalsCells
  19. Ha ET, Taylor KD, Raffield LM, Briggs M, Yee A, Elemento O, Parikh M, Peterson SJ, Frishman W, Gerszten RE, Wilson JG, Kelsey K, Tahir UA, Reiner A, Auer P, Seeman T, Rich SS, Carson AP, Post WS, Rotter JI, Aronow WS. The Relationship of Duffy Gene Polymorphism, High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein, and Long-term Outcomes. medRxiv. 2023 Aug 08. PMID: 37609271; PMCID: PMC10441500.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 1
  20. Cai Y, Franceschini N, Surapaneni A, Garrett ME, Tahir UA, Hsu L, Telen MJ, Yu B, Tang H, Li Y, Liu S, Gerszten RE, Coresh J, Manson JE, Wojcik GL, Kooperberg C, Auer PL, Foster MW, Grams ME, Ashley-Koch AE, Raffield LM, Reiner AP. Differences in the Circulating Proteome in Individuals with versus without Sickle Cell Trait. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2023 11 01; 18(11):1416-1425. PMID: 37533140; PMCID: PMC10637465.
    Citations: 4 Article has an altmetric score of 3
    Fields: NepNephrologyTranslation:Humans
  21. Finn CM, Serpa F, Tahir UA. Taking the pulse: Preimplantation genetic testing for inherited cardiac conditions. Genet Med Open. 2023; 1(1):100827. PMID: 39669249; PMCID: PMC11613555.
    Citations: Article has an altmetric score of 7
  22. Tahir UA, Gerszten RE. Molecular Biomarkers for Cardiometabolic Disease: Risk Assessment in Young Individuals. Circ Res. 2023 06 09; 132(12):1663-1673. PMID: 37289904; PMCID: PMC10320574.
    Citations: 3 Article has an altmetric score of 28
    Fields: CarCardiologyVasVascular DiseasesTranslation:Humans
  23. Feofanova EV, Brown MR, Alkis T, Manuel AM, Li X, Tahir UA, Li Z, Mendez KM, Kelly RS, Qi Q, Chen H, Larson MG, Lemaitre RN, Morrison AC, Grieser C, Wong KE, Gerszten RE, Zhao Z, Lasky-Su J, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed), Yu B. Whole-Genome Sequencing Analysis of Human Metabolome in Multi-Ethnic Populations. Nat Commun. 2023 05 30; 14(1):3111. PMID: 37253714; PMCID: PMC10229598.
    Citations: 4 Article has an altmetric score of 30
    Fields: BioBiologySciScienceTranslation:Humans
  24. Tanzo JT, Li VL, Wiggenhorn AL, Moya-Garzon MD, Wei W, Lyu X, Dong W, Tahir UA, Chen ZZ, Cruz DE, Deng S, Shi X, Zheng S, Guo Y, Sims M, Abu-Remaileh M, Wilson JG, Gerszten RE, Long JZ, Benson MD. CYP4F2 is a human-specific determinant of circulating N-acyl amino acid levels. J Biol Chem. 2023 06; 299(6):104764. PMID: 37121548; PMCID: PMC10318452.
    Citations: 1 Article has an altmetric score of 14
    Fields: BioBiochemistryTranslation:Humans
  25. Robbins JM, Rao P, Deng S, Keyes MJ, Tahir UA, Katz DH, Beltran PMJ, Marchildon F, Barber JL, Peterson B, Gao Y, Correa A, Wilson JG, Smith JG, Cohen P, Ross R, Bouchard C, Sarzynski MA, Gerszten RE. Plasma proteomic changes in response to exercise training are associated with cardiorespiratory fitness adaptations. JCI Insight. 2023 04 10; 8(7). PMID: 37036009; PMCID: PMC10132160.
    Citations: 11 Article has an altmetric score of 14
    Fields: MedMedicine (General)Translation:Humans
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