Natasha Spottiswoode, MD, PhD

resident physician
Medicine
+1 415 353-7900

Infectious disease physician-scientist with a focused on unbiased diagnostics and developing treatments for uncommon infections.

Publications: 

Challenges and advances in the medical treatment of granulomatous amebic encephalitis.

Therapeutic advances in infectious disease

Spottiswoode N, Haston JC, Hanners NW, Gruenberg K, Kim A, DeRisi JL, Wilson MR

In host evolution of beta lactam resistance during active treatment for Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia.

Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

Spottiswoode N, Hao S, Sanchez-Guerrero E, Detweiler AM, Mekonen H, Neff N, Macmillan H, Schwartz BS, Engel J, DeRisi JL, Miller SA, Langelier CR

Clinical and biological heterogeneity of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults following SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case series.

Frontiers in medicine

Barth KE, Spottiswoode N, Hurabielle C, Subbaraj L, COMET Consortium, Calfee CS, Matthay MA, French S, Connolly A, Hewitt SM, Vannella KM, Barnett C, Langelier CR, Patterson S

Successful Treatment of Balamuthia mandrillaris Granulomatous Amebic Encephalitis with Nitroxoline.

Emerging infectious diseases

Spottiswoode N, Pet D, Kim A, Gruenberg K, Shah M, Ramachandran A, Laurie MT, Zia M, Fouassier C, Boutros CL, Lu R, Zhang Y, Servellita V, Bollen A, Chiu CY, Wilson MR, Valdivia L, DeRisi JL

Maribavir for Cytomegalovirus Treatment in the Real World-Not a Silver Bullet.

Open forum infectious diseases

Fung M, DeVoe C, Spottiswoode N, Doernberg SB

Prevalence of type-1 interferon autoantibodies in adults with non-COVID-19 acute respiratory failure.

Respiratory research

Ghale R, Spottiswoode N, Anderson MS, Mitchell A, Wang G, Calfee CS, DeRisi JL, Langelier CR

Upper airway gene expression shows a more robust adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in children.

Nature communications

Mick E, Tsitsiklis A, Spottiswoode N, Caldera S, Serpa PH, Detweiler AM, Neff N, Pisco AO, Li LM, Retallack H, Ratnasiri K, Williamson KM, Soesanto V, Simões EAF, Smith C, Abuogi L, Kistler A, Wagner BD, DeRisi JL, Ambroggio L, Mourani PM, Langelier CR

Impact of e-cigarette aerosol on primary human alveolar epithelial type 2 cells.

American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology

Wick KD, Fang X, Maishan M, Matsumoto S, Spottiswoode N, Sarma A, Simoneau C, Khakoo M, Langelier C, Calfee CS, Gotts JE, Matthay MA

Pneumonia surveillance with culture-independent metatranscriptomics in HIV-positive adults in Uganda: a cross-sectional study.

The Lancet. Microbe

Spottiswoode N, Bloomstein JD, Caldera S, Sessolo A, McCauley K, Byanyima P, Zawedde J, Kalantar K, Kaswabuli S, Rutishauser RL, Lieng MK, Davis JL, Moore J, Jan A, Iwai S, Shenoy M, Sanyu I, DeRisi JL, Lynch SV, Worodria W, Huang L, Langelier CR

Tracheal aspirate RNA sequencing identifies distinct immunological features of COVID-19 ARDS.

Nature communications

Sarma A, Christenson SA, Byrne A, Mick E, Pisco AO, DeVoe C, Deiss T, Ghale R, Zha BS, Tsitsiklis A, Jauregui A, Moazed F, Detweiler AM, Spottiswoode N, Sinha P, Neff N, Tan M, Serpa PH, Willmore A, Ansel KM, Wilson JG, Leligdowicz A, Siegel ER, Sirota M, DeRisi JL, Matthay MA, COMET Consortium , Hendrickson CM, Kangelaris KN, Krummel MF, Woodruff PG, Erle DJ, Calfee CS, Langelier CR

Upper airway gene expression reveals a more robust innate and adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in children compared with older adults.

Research square

Mick E, Tsitsiklis A, Spottiswoode N, Caldera S, Serpa P, Detweiler A, Neff N, Pisco AO, Li L, Retallack H, Ratnasiri K, Williamson K, Soesanto V, Simões E, Kistler A, Wagner B, DeRisi J, Ambroggio L, Mourani P, Langelier C

COVID-19 ARDS is characterized by a dysregulated host response that differs from cytokine storm and is modified by dexamethasone.

Research square

Sarma A, Christenson S, Mick E, Deiss T, DeVoe C, Pisco A, Ghale R, Jauregui A, Byrne A, Moazed F, Spottiswoode N, Sinha P, Zha B, Neff N, Tan M, Serpa PH, Ansel KM, Wilson J, Leligdowicz A, Seigel E, Sirota M, DeRisi J, Matthay M, Consortium C, Hendrickson C, Kangelaris K, Krummel M, Woodruff P, Erle D, Calfee C, Langelier C

Upper airway gene expression reveals suppressed immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 compared with other respiratory viruses.

Nature communications

Mick E, Kamm J, Pisco AO, Ratnasiri K, Babik JM, Castañeda G, DeRisi JL, Detweiler AM, Hao SL, Kangelaris KN, Kumar GR, Li LM, Mann SA, Neff N, Prasad PA, Serpa PH, Shah SJ, Spottiswoode N, Tan M, Calfee CS, Christenson SA, Kistler A, Langelier C

Clinical features, diagnostics, and outcomes of patients presenting with acute respiratory illness: A retrospective cohort study of patients with and without COVID-19.

EClinicalMedicine

Shah SJ, Barish PN, Prasad PA, Kistler A, Neff N, Kamm J, Li LM, Chiu CY, Babik JM, Fang MC, Kangelaris KN, Langelier C, Abe-Jones Y, Alipanah N, Alvarez FN, Botvinnik OB, Castaneda G

Upper airway gene expression differentiates COVID-19 from other acute respiratory illnesses and reveals suppression of innate immune responses by SARS-CoV-2.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Mick E, Kamm J, Pisco AO, Ratnasiri K, Babik JM, Calfee CS, Castaneda G, DeRisi JL, Detweiler AM, Hao S, Kangelaris KN, Kumar GR, Li LM, Mann SA, Neff N, Prasad PA, Serpa PH, Shah SJ, Spottiswoode N, Tan M, Christenson SA, Kistler A, Langelier C

Clinical features, diagnostics, and outcomes of patients presenting with acute respiratory illness: a comparison of patients with and without COVID-19.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Shah SJ, Barish PN, Prasad PA, Kistler AL, Neff N, Kamm J, Li LM, Chiu CY, Babick JM, Fang MC, Abe-Jones Y, Alipanah N, Alvarez FN, Botvinnik OB, Davis JM, Castenada GD, Consortium C, Dadasovich RM, Deng X, DeRisi JL, Detweiler AM, Federman S, Haliburton JR, Hao SL, Kerkhoff AD, Kumar R, Malcolm K, Mann SA, Martinez SP, Marya R, Mick E, Mwakibete LL, Najafi N, Peluso MJ, Phelps MS, Pisco AO, Ratnasiri K, Rubio LA, Sellas AB, Sherwood KD, Sheu J, Spottiswoode N, Tan M, Yu G, Kangelaris KN, Langelier C

Inhibition of Resistance-Refractory P. falciparum Kinase PKG Delivers Prophylactic, Blood Stage, and Transmission-Blocking Antiplasmodial Activity.

Cell chemical biology

Vanaerschot M, Murithi JM, Pasaje CFA, Ghidelli-Disse S, Dwomoh L, Bird M, Spottiswoode N, Mittal N, Arendse LB, Owen ES, Wicht KJ, Siciliano G, Bösche M, Yeo T, Kumar TRS, Mok S, Carpenter EF, Giddins MJ, Sanz O, Ottilie S, Alano P, Chibale K, Llinás M, Uhlemann AC, Delves M, Tobin AB, Doerig C, Winzeler EA, Lee MCS, Niles JC, Fidock DA

ANALYSIS OF PLASMODIUM LINEAGES IDENTIFIED IN CAPTIVE PENGUINS (SPHENISCIFORMES SPP.), EIDERS (SOMATERIA SPP.), AND INCA TERNS (LAROSTERNA INCA) IN A NORTH AMERICAN ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION.

Journal of zoo and wildlife medicine : official publication of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians

Spottiswoode N, Bartlett SL, Conley KJ, Seimon TA, Griffin DO, Sykes JM

Role of Activins in Hepcidin Regulation during Malaria.

Infection and immunity

Spottiswoode N, Armitage AE, Williams AR, Fyfe AJ, Biswas S, Hodgson SH, Llewellyn D, Choudhary P, Draper SJ, Duffy PE, Drakesmith H

Cord Blood Hepcidin: Cross-Sectional Correlates and Associations with Anemia, Malaria, and Mortality in a Tanzanian Birth Cohort Study.

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene

Brickley EB, Spottiswoode N, Kabyemela E, Morrison R, Kurtis JD, Wood AM, Drakesmith H, Fried M, Duffy PE

Profiling the Essential Nature of Lipid Metabolism in Asexual Blood and Gametocyte Stages of Plasmodium falciparum.

Cell host & microbe

Gulati S, Ekland EH, Ruggles KV, Chan RB, Jayabalasingham B, Zhou B, Mantel PY, Lee MC, Spottiswoode N, Coburn-Flynn O, Hjelmqvist D, Worgall TS, Marti M, Di Paolo G, Fidock DA

Genome sequencing of chimpanzee malaria parasites reveals possible pathways of adaptation to human hosts.

Nature communications

Otto TD, Rayner JC, Böhme U, Pain A, Spottiswoode N, Sanders M, Quail M, Ollomo B, Renaud F, Thomas AW, Prugnolle F, Conway DJ, Newbold C, Berriman M

Iron, anemia and hepcidin in malaria.

Frontiers in pharmacology

Spottiswoode N, Duffy PE, Drakesmith H

Implications of malaria on iron deficiency control strategies.

Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)

Spottiswoode N, Fried M, Drakesmith H, Duffy PE

Hepcidin regulation by innate immune and infectious stimuli.

Blood

Armitage AE, Eddowes LA, Gileadi U, Cole S, Spottiswoode N, Selvakumar TA, Ho LP, Townsend AR, Drakesmith H

Custom People Group: 
UCSF Microbiome Researchers