Ben Singer, MD, PhD
He/Him
Associate Professor
Medicine
Benjamin Singer is a pulmonary and critical care physician whose practice focuses on chronic critical illness and the care of patients requiring mechanical ventilation at home. His research laboratory focuses on vulnerability to long term organ dysfunction, and especially brain dysfunction, in sepsis survivors. In collaboration with the laboratory of Katsuo Kurabayashi, he also works on developing rapid, sensitive digital assays for protein biomarkers for preclinical and clinical applications.
Projects:
Development of near-to-patient protein biomarker assays for immunophenotyping in critical illness
University Affiliation(s)
Weill
Research Area(s)
Critical Care | Disease Modeling | Infectious Diseases
Publications
- Epigenetic Immune Reprogramming In Murine Sepsis Survival Enhances Lipopolysaccharide-induced Lung Injury
- Transcriptomic Profiles of Sepsis in the Human Brain
- Synergistic Behavioral and Neuroinflammatory Effects of Amyloid Neuropathology and Sepsis Survival in a Murine Model of Alzheimer's Disease
Grants
- Funded by: SINGER, Ben
- Multi-PI on: Steatohepatitis in obese pneumo-sepsis survivors: The spark that lights the flame
- Principal investigator of: Sepsis-induced epigenomic reprogramming of human neurons, microglia and astrocytes