Faculty

Shaon Sengupta, MBBS, MPH, FAAP

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology & Newborn Services)

Department: Pediatrics

Graduate Group Affiliations

Contact information

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Abramson Research Center
3615 Curie Blvd
Office: 1102C
Lab 1103
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 267-426-6628
Fax: 215-590-4267

Education:
MBBS
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India (Medicine and Surgery) , 2006.
MPH
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Epidemiology and Statistics), 2008.

Links
Twitter website

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Description of Clinical Expertise

Neonatology, ECMO, NRP

Description of Research Expertise

Circadian biology, Lung inflammation, Neonatal lung injury, Influenza, Lung regeneration, Lung organoids

Selected Publications

Choi YP, Paul O, Antonijo Mrčela, Ndungu A, Towers M, Garifallou J, Padmini MV, Parker R, Kambayashi TK, Planer J, Morrisey EE, Grant GR , Eisenlohr LC, Sengupta S.: The circadian clock in natural killer cells limits immune-mediated pathology and promotes lung repair during influenza infection. Under Review (Nature Comm) March 2026.

McEvoy CT, Idrose NS, Dharmage SC, Bui DS, Simpson SJ, Patchen B, Marshall NE, Kelly RS, Lynch SV, McDonald CM, Sood BG, Pratt C, Vitalis D, Lu Q, Carroll KN, Duijts L, Forno E, Venter C, Prakash YS, Miller AN, DeMeo DL, Subbarao P, Britt RD Jr, Sengupta S, McGrath-Morrow SA, Litonjua AA. : Maternal and Perinatal Nutritional Programming of Lung Health and Disease in Childhood and Early Adulthood: Research Gaps and Opportunities; NHLBI/NIH Workshop Report Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Accepted, in pre-publication stage (eds.). 2026.

Forrest KM, Towers ME, Paul O, Cho H, Padmini MV, Naik A, Lim HK, Issah Y, Tang SY, Deshmukh HS, Abt MC, Hudock KM, Eisenlohr LC, Grant GR, Brooks TG, Sengupta S.: Role of IL-10 signaling in the circadian control of host response to influenza infection. Mucosal Immunol. 20, Nov 2025.

Paul O, Brooks TG, Assi L, Shetty A, Towers M, Forrest KM, Cameron A, Sehgal A, Grant GR, Sengupta S.: Effect of external cues on clock-driven protection from Influenza A infection. JCI Page: In press, Nov 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1101/2025.03.03.641279.

Sengupta S*, Lee Y, Tao JQ, Akolia I, Louneva N, Forrest K, Paul O, Brooks TG, Grant GR, Sehgal A, Chatterjee S*: Circadian Control of Pulmonary Endothelial Signaling occurs via NADPH oxidase 2-NLRP3 pathway. J Biol Rhythms 40(6): doi: 10.1177, September 2025 Notes: epub ahead of print *- co-corresponding author.

Stevens J, Culberson E, Kinder J, Ramiriqui A, Gray J, Bonfield M, Shao TY, Al Gharaibeh F, Peterson L, Steinmeyer S, Eshleman EM, Negi S, Zacharias W, Pryhuber G, Paul O, Sengupta S, Alenghat T, Way SS, Deshmukh H.: Microbiota-derived inosine programs protective CD8+ T cell responses against influenza in newborns. Cell 188(16): 4239-4256, August 2025.

Sengupta S, Smith DF, Koritala BSC: Circadian Rhythms, Immune Regulation, and the Risk for Sepsis: Circadian Rhythms and Neonatal Care. Clin Perinatol 52(1): 185-197, March 2025.

Brooks TG, Lahens NF, Mrčela A, Yang J, Purohit S, Naik A, Ricciotti E, Sengupta S, Choi PS, Grant GR: Sources of non-uniform coverage in short-read RNA-Seq data. bioRxiv. In revision, 2026 at the journal RNA. Feb 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1101/2025.01.30.634337.

Musa AO, Faber SR, Forrest K, Smith KP, Sengupta S, López CB: Identification of distinct genotypes in circulating RSV A strains based on variants in the virus replication-associated genes. J Virol 98(8): e0099024, Aug 2024.

Brooks TG, Lahens NF, Mrčela A, Sarantopoulou D, Nayak S, Naik A, Sengupta S, Choi PS, Grant GR.: BEERS2: RNA-Seq simulation through high fidelity in silico modeling. Brief Bioinform 25(3), March 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1093/bib/bbae164.