Rohit Vashisht, PhD

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    Stanford University, Palo Alto, CaliforniaData Scientist2019Biomedical Informatics; Immunity, Transplantation and Infection
    Stanford University, Palo Alto, CaliforniaPost-Doctoral Fellow2018Biomedical Informatics
    Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, New Delhi, IndiaPhD2015Data-Intensive Systems Level Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genome for Drug Discovery
    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IndiaResearch Fellow2010Systems Biology of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
    Acharya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, IndiaBachelor of Engineering in Biotechnology2007Biotechnology
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    U.S. Food & Drug Administration Office of Women's Health2021UCSF-Stanford CERSI Grant
    U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research2022UCSF-Stanford CERSI Grant
    U.S. Food & Drug Administration, CBER, Office of Biostatistics and Pharmacovigilance2022UCSF-Stanford CERSI Grant
    U.S. Food & Drug Administration Oncology Center of Excellence2024UCSF-Stanford CERSI Grant

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    Rohit Vashisht, PhD

    Rohit Vashisht is a clinical data scientist in the Butte lab affiliated with the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. His research focuses on generating meaningful real-world evidence using statistical and machine learning methods, as well as causal inference, to support medical- and policy-level decision-making. Rohit earned his Ph.D. in biomedical science from the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research in New Delhi, India, and his Bachelor of Engineering in Biotechnology from Acharya Institute of Technology in Bangalore, India. He completed his post-doctoral work at Stanford University.
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    1. Real-World Type 2 Diabetes Second-Line Treatment Allocation Among Patients. medRxiv. 2025 Mar 28. Davidson J, Vashisht R, Radtke K, Patel A, Koliwad SK, Butte AJ. PMID: 40196266; PMCID: PMC11974982.
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    2. Characterisation of digital therapeutic clinical trials: a systematic review with natural language processing. Lancet Digit Health. 2024 Mar; 6(3):e222-e229. Miao BY, Sushil M, Xu A, Wang M, Arneson D, Berkley E, Subash M, Vashisht R, Rudrapatna V, Butte AJ. PMID: 38395542; PMCID: PMC11074920.
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    3. Second-Line Pharmaceutical Treatments for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 10 02; 6(10):e2336613. Vashisht R, Patel A, Dahm L, Han C, Medders KE, Mowers R, Byington CL, Koliwad SK, Butte AJ. PMID: 37782497; PMCID: PMC10546239.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 3     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    4. Contextualising adverse events of special interest to characterise the baseline incidence rates in 24 million patients with COVID-19 across 26 databases: a multinational retrospective cohort study. EClinicalMedicine. 2023 Apr; 58:101932. Voss EA, Shoaibi A, Yin Hui Lai L, Blacketer C, Alshammari T, Makadia R, Haynes K, Sena AG, Rao G, van Sandijk S, Fraboulet C, Boyer L, Le Carrour T, Horban S, Morales DR, Martínez Roldán J, Ramírez-Anguita JM, Mayer MA, de Wilde M, John LH, Duarte-Salles T, Roel E, Pistillo A, Kolde R, Maljkovic F, Denaxas S, Papez V, Kahn MG, Natarajan K, Reich C, Secora A, Minty EP, Shah NH, Posada JD, Garcia Morales MT, Bosca D, Cadenas Juanino H, Diaz Holgado A, Pedrera Jiménez M, Serrano Balazote P, García Barrio N, Sen S, Üresin AY, Erdogan B, Belmans L, Byttebier G, Malbrain MLNG, Dedman DJ, Cuccu Z, Vashisht R, Butte AJ, Patel A, Dahm L, Han C, Bu F, Arshad F, Ostropolets A, Nyberg F, Hripcsak G, Suchard MA, Prieto-Alhambra D, Rijnbeek PR, Schuemie MJ, Ryan PB. PMID: 37034358; PMCID: PMC10072853.
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    5. Real-world utilization of SARS-CoV-2 serological testing in RNA positive patients across the United States. PLoS One. 2023; 18(2):e0281365. Rodriguez-Watson CV, Sheils NE, Louder AM, Eldridge EH, Lin ND, Pollock BD, Gatz JL, Grannis SJ, Vashisht R, Ghauri K, Valo G, Chakravarty AG, Lasky T, Jung M, Lovell SL, Major JM, Kabelac C, Knepper C, Leonard S, Embi PJ, Jenkinson WG, Klesh R, Garner OB, Patel A, Dahm L, Barin A, Cooper DM, Andriola T, Byington CL, Crews BO, Butte AJ, Allen J. PMID: 36763574; PMCID: PMC9916659.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions:    Fields:    Translation:HumansCellsPHPublic Health
    6. Real-world performance of SARS-Cov-2 serology tests in the United States, 2020. PLoS One. 2023; 18(2):e0279956. Rodriguez-Watson CV, Louder AM, Kabelac C, Frederick CM, Sheils NE, Eldridge EH, Lin ND, Pollock BD, Gatz JL, Grannis SJ, Vashisht R, Ghauri K, Knepper C, Leonard S, Embi PJ, Jenkinson G, Klesh R, Garner OB, Patel A, Dahm L, Barin A, Cooper DM, Andriola T, Byington CL, Crews BO, Butte AJ, Allen J. PMID: 36735683; PMCID: PMC9897562.
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    7. Toward a causal model of chronic back pain: Challenges and opportunities. Front Comput Neurosci. 2022; 16:1017412. Huie JR, Vashisht R, Galivanche A, Hadjadj C, Morshed S, Butte AJ, Ferguson AR, O'Neill C. PMID: 36714527; PMCID: PMC9874096.
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    8. From Genes to Geography, from Cells to Community, from Biomolecules to Behaviors: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health. Biomolecules. 2022 10 09; 12(10). Davidson J, Vashisht R, Butte AJ. PMID: 36291658; PMCID: PMC9599320.
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    9. Androgen-deprivation therapy and SARS-CoV-2 in men with prostate cancer: findings from the University of California Health System registry. Ann Oncol. 2021 05; 32(5):678-679. Kwon DH, Vashisht R, Borno HT, Aggarwal RR, Small EJ, Butte AJ, Huang FW. PMID: 33571636; PMCID: PMC7870099.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 10     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    10. Age- and Sex-Associated Variations in the Sensitivity of Serological Tests Among Individuals Infected With SARS-CoV-2. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 02 01; 4(2):e210337. Vashisht R, Patel A, Crews BO, Garner OB, Dahm L, Wilson C, Butte AJ. PMID: 33576815; PMCID: PMC7881354.
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    11. Identification of antiviral antihistamines for COVID-19 repurposing. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2021 01 29; 538:173-179. Reznikov LR, Norris MH, Vashisht R, Bluhm AP, Li D, Liao YJ, Brown A, Butte AJ, Ostrov DA. PMID: 33309272; PMCID: PMC7713548.
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    12. CovidCounties is an interactive real time tracker of the COVID19 pandemic at the level of US counties. Sci Data. 2020 11 16; 7(1):405. Arneson D, Elliott M, Mosenia A, Oskotsky B, Solodar S, Vashisht R, Zack T, Bleicher P, Butte AJ, Rudrapatna VA. PMID: 33199721; PMCID: PMC7669883.
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    13. Comparative safety and effectiveness of alendronate versus raloxifene in women with osteoporosis. Sci Rep. 2020 07 06; 10(1):11115. Kim Y, Tian Y, Yang J, Huser V, Jin P, Lambert CG, Park H, You SC, Park RW, Rijnbeek PR, Van Zandt M, Reich C, Vashisht R, Wu Y, Duke J, Hripcsak G, Madigan D, Shah NH, Ryan PB, Schuemie MJ, Suchard MA. PMID: 32632237; PMCID: PMC7338498.
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    14. Treatment Patterns for Chronic Comorbid Conditions in Patients With Cancer Using a Large-Scale Observational Data Network. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2020 03; 4:171-183. Chen R, Ryan P, Natarajan K, Falconer T, Crew KD, Reich CG, Vashisht R, Randhawa G, Shah NH, Hripcsak G. PMID: 32134687; PMCID: PMC7113074.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 11     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    15. Development and validation of a prognostic model predicting symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation in acute ischemic stroke at scale in the OHDSI network. PLoS One. 2020; 15(1):e0226718. Wang Q, Reps JM, Kostka KF, Ryan PB, Zou Y, Voss EA, Rijnbeek PR, Chen R, Rao GA, Morgan Stewart H, Williams AE, Williams RD, Van Zandt M, Falconer T, Fernandez-Chas M, Vashisht R, Pfohl SR, Shah NH, Kasthurirathne SN, You SC, Jiang Q, Reich C, Zhou Y. PMID: 31910437; PMCID: PMC6946584.
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    16. Host-response-based gene signatures for tuberculosis diagnosis: A systematic comparison of 16 signatures. PLoS Med. 2019 04; 16(4):e1002786. Warsinske H, Vashisht R, Khatri P. PMID: 31013272; PMCID: PMC6478271.
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    17. Association of Hemoglobin A1c Levels With Use of Sulfonylureas, Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 Inhibitors, and Thiazolidinediones in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Treated With Metformin: Analysis From the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics Initiative. JAMA Netw Open. 2018 08 03; 1(4):e181755. Vashisht R, Jung K, Schuler A, Banda JM, Park RW, Jin S, Li L, Dudley JT, Johnson KW, Shervey MM, Xu H, Wu Y, Natrajan K, Hripcsak G, Jin P, Van Zandt M, Reckard A, Reich CG, Weaver J, Schuemie MJ, Ryan PB, Callahan A, Shah NH. PMID: 30646124; PMCID: PMC6324274.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 30     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    18. Impact of integrated psycho-socio-economic support on treatment outcome in drug resistant tuberculosis - A retrospective cohort study. Indian J Tuberc. 2019 Jan; 66(1):105-110. Bhatt R, Chopra K, Vashisht R. PMID: 30797265.
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    19. Learning Effective Treatment Pathways for Type-2 Diabetes from a clinical data warehouse. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2016; 2016:2036-2042. Vashisht R, Jung K, Shah N. PMID: 28269963; PMCID: PMC5333256.
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    20. Metformin as a potential combination therapy with existing front-line antibiotics for Tuberculosis. J Transl Med. 2015 Mar 07; 13:83. Vashisht R, Brahmachari SK. PMID: 25880846; PMCID: PMC4359515.
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    21. Systems level mapping of metabolic complexity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis to identify high-value drug targets. J Transl Med. 2014 Oct 11; 12:263. Vashisht R, Bhat AG, Kushwaha S, Bhardwaj A, OSDD Consortium, Brahmachari SK. PMID: 25304862; PMCID: PMC4201925.
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    22. Social networks to biological networks: systems biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mol Biosyst. 2013 Jul; 9(7):1584-93. Vashisht R, Bhardwaj A, Brahmachari SK. PMID: 23629487.
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    23. Crowd sourcing a new paradigm for interactome driven drug target identification in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS One. 2012; 7(7):e39808. Vashisht R, Mondal AK, Jain A, Shah A, Vishnoi P, Priyadarshini P, Bhattacharyya K, Rohira H, Bhat AG, Passi A, Mukherjee K, Choudhary KS, Kumar V, Arora A, Munusamy P, Subramanian A, Venkatachalam A, Gayathri S, Raj S, Chitra V, Verma K, Zaheer S, Balaganesh J, Gurusamy M, Razeeth M, Raja I, Thandapani M, Mevada V, Soni R, Rana S, Ramanna GM, Raghavan S, Subramanya SN, Kholia T, Patel R, Bhavnani V, Chiranjeevi L, Sengupta S, Singh PK, Atray N, Gandhi S, Avasthi TS, Nisthar S, Anurag M, Sharma P, Hasija Y, Dash D, Sharma A, Scaria V, Thomas Z, OSDD Consortium, Chandra N, Brahmachari SK, Bhardwaj A. PMID: 22808064; PMCID: PMC3395720.
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    24. Modeling metabolic adjustment in Mycobacterium tuberculosis upon treatment with isoniazid. Syst Synth Biol. 2010 Dec; 4(4):299-309. Bhat AG, Vashisht R, Chandra N. PMID: 22132057; PMCID: PMC3065594.
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    25. Protein-protein interaction networks suggest different targets have different propensities for triggering drug resistance. Syst Synth Biol. 2010 Dec; 4(4):311-22. Padiadpu J, Vashisht R, Chandra N. PMID: 22132058; PMCID: PMC3065591.
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    26. Strategies for efficient disruption of metabolism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis from network analysis. Mol Biosyst. 2009 Dec; 5(12):1740-51. Raman K, Vashisht R, Chandra N. PMID: 19593474.
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