Subra Kugathasan, MD
Enriched profileMarcus Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Emory University School of Medicine; Center Director of Children's Center for Immunity and Applied Genomics · Emory University School of Medicine
Subra Kugathasan is Marcus Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Emory University School of Medicine; Center Director of Children's Center for Immunity and Applied Genomics at Emory University School of Medicine. OpenAlex indexes 540 publications with 36,156 citations (h-index 80); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 6 registered studies with this person as an investigator. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 1% of Pediatric Gastroenterology profiles in the findmyKOL directory.
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Overview
Updated 18 Oct 2026
Subra Kugathasan, MD, is Marcus Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Emory University School of Medicine. The public record shows 540 publications with 36,156 citations (h-index 80), centered on Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology. It also documents an investigator role on 6 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 8 companies, 7 NIH-funded awards (2011–2026).
- Most recent indexed publication: 2026 · Journal of Crohn's & colitis
- Top research focus: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- 6 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Open Payments reporting from 8 companies
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across trials, industry payments and publicationsWorks with
trial sponsors and companies reporting paymentsScholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID; 26 in PubMed.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index (OpenAlex). i10-index 189.
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
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Updated 18 Oct 2026
Listed as an investigator on 6 registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:
- Clinical, Imaging, and Endoscopic Outcomes of Children Newly Diagnosed With Crohn's Disease
Sponsor: Connecticut Children's Medical Center
- Administration of Hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) to African Americans and Hispanics for the Treatment of Mild to Severe Ulcerative Colitis
Sponsor: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Industry payments
Updated 18 Oct 2026
8 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Celltrion USA Inc.Program year202519 payments$13,496openpaymentsdata.cms.gov ↗
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLCProgram year20253 payments
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Program year20252 payments
NIH funding
Updated 18 Oct 2026
7 NIH research awards on record, funded 2011–2026 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Clinical, Imaging, and Endoscopic Outcomes of Children Newly Diagnosed with Crohn's Disease
Connecticut Children'S Medical Center
FY2026$2,800,000U01DK134356 - Integrative and longitudinal multi-omic risk assessment in inflammatory bowel disease progression
Emory University
FY2026$557,918U01DK134191 - Research Training in Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Emory University
FY2026$123,255T32DK108735
Publications
Updated 18 Oct 2026
Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.
- Automated AI-based Mayo Endoscopic Scoring for ulcerative colitis across adult and pediatric cohorts from diverse populations.
Journal of Crohn's & colitis
Article2026 - Unique challenges faced by tweens and teens with inflammatory bowel disease: a global perspective.
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Review2026 - Timing is Everything: Lessons Learned for Building Microbiome-Based Models in Pediatric Crohn's Disease.
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Article2026 - Short Ileal Microvillus Length Phenotype Associates with Progression from Inflammatory to Complicated Disease Behavior in Pediatric Crohn's Disease.
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Article2026 - Identification of Crohn's disease subtypes in single-cell RNA sequencing signatures of treatment-naive samples across the pediatric gastrointestinal tract.
Journal of Crohn's & colitis
Article2026
Most-cited works
by citation count (OpenAlex)- 01Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel diseaseArticle4,712 citations2012
- 02The Treatment-Naive Microbiome in New-Onset Crohn’s DiseaseArticle3,218 citations2014
- 03Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility lociArticle2,518 citations2010
- 04A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomesArticle1,699 citations2023
- 05
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Education
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University of Colombo
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subspecialty Pediatric Gastroenterology
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Editorial & leadership roles
journal and society appointments- Co-chair for Pediatric Affairs
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America
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- Junior Physician Investigator Award
American Federation for Medical Research
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- Center for Gastroenterology
Endocrinology, & Nutrition Innovation (GENI) at Emory
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