Aaron Bodansky, MD
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Our goal is to translate these discoveries into antigen-defined diagnostics, biomarkers of disease and response, and more precise, mechanism-directed therapies.

• High risk of hypoxemic COVID-19 pneumonia in myasthenia gravis patients with type I IFN autoantibodies.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2026 Gervais A, Marchal A, Maillard A, Le Voyer T, Rosain J, Philipot Q, Bizien L, Peel J, Cederholm A, Migaud M, Pons S, Saker K, Laforet P, Aubart M, Gitiaux C, Biggs C, Leon Lopez R, Souvannanorath S, …
• Development of a Diagnostic Autoantibody Assay to a Consensus Motif for the Risk Prediction of Epstein-Barr Virus-Related Multiple Sclerosis.
  Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation 2026 McCutcheon KM, Bodansky A, Ngo TT, Caspar C, Quintana S, Asaki J, Zhou J, Caillier SJ, Sharathchandra A, Waldrop G, Dandekar R, Zorn K, Tubati A, Gupta S, Sabatino JJ, Cuneo R, Oksenberg J, Wallin MT,…
• Immune profiling links autoimmune hepatitis to human herpesvirus 6 and relaxin receptor antigens.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 2026 Klepper A, Asaki J, Caspar CM, Kung AF, Vazquez SE, Bodansky A, Mitchell A, Mann SA, Zorn K, Avila-Vargas I, Kari S, Tekeste M, Castro J, Lee B, Duarte M, Khalili M, Yang M, Wolters P, Price J, Perito…
• Structure-guided design of a targeted autoantibody degrader for neurologic disease.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2026 Zimanyi M, Dayao M, Asencor AI, Kondapavulur S, Asaki J, McCutcheon K, Dabaco C, Bodansky A, Craik CS, Pleasure SJ, DeRisi JL, Cheng Y, Wilson MR, Pluvinage JV
• BCMA-directed mRNA CAR-T cell therapy for myasthenia gravis: exploratory biomarker analysis of a placebo-controlled phase 2b trial.
  Nature medicine 2026 Fedak RR, Ruggerie RN, Shan Y, Curvino EJ, de Sousa JF, Daniel S, Ngo-Casi M, Kamboh H, Vu T, Durmus H, Mozaffar T, Howard JF, English EP, Benson A, Duvernay MT, Singer MS, Kalayoglu MV, Brunn C, …
• Recurrent severe viral infection in a child with inherited complete TBK1 deficiency.
  Journal of human immunity 2025 Kilic SS, Zhao S, Liu Z, Karali Y, Yalcin K, Bodansky A, Chakravarty D, Wilson M, Casanova JL, Zhang SY
• Microvascular preservation and cardiomyocyte hyperplasia underlie adaptive right ventricle development in congenital heart disease-pulmonary arterial hypertension.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2025 Smith MA, Guardado ES, Boehme J, Datar SA, Maltepe E, Swami N, Raff GW, Bodansky A, Chelladurai P, Moreno J, Prince AR, Powers N, Huang GN, de Jesus Perez V, Fineman JR
• The Golgi complex governs natural killer cell lytic granule positioning to promote directionality in cytotoxicity.
  Cell reports 2025 Pedroza LA, van den Haak F, Frumovitz A, Hernandez E, Hegewisch-Solloa E, Orange TK, Sheehan KB, Prockop S, Bodansky A, Chinn IK, Lupski JR, Posey JE, Mace EM, Li Y, Orange JS
• Novel autoantibody targets identified in patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) by PhIP-Seq reveals pathogenic insights.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2024 Klepper A, Asaki J, Kung AF, Vazquez SE, Bodansky A, Mitchell A, Mann SA, Zorn K, Avila-Vargas I, Kari S, Tekeste M, Castro J, Lee B, Duarte M, Khalili M, Yang M, Wolters P, Price J, Perito E, Feng S,…
• Partial Lipodystrophy Affecting the Extremities in a Young Woman With Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome 1.
  JCEM case reports 2024 Agarwal S, Bodansky A, Xing C, Anderson MS, Garg A
• Molecular mimicry in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.
  Nature 2024 Bodansky A, Mettelman RC, Sabatino JJ, Vazquez SE, Chou J, Novak T, Moffitt KL, Miller HS, Kung AF, Rackaityte E, Zamecnik CR, Rajan JV, Kortbawi H, Mandel-Brehm C, Mitchell A, Wang CY, Saxena A, Zorn…
• SARS-CoV-2 brainstem encephalitis in human inherited DBR1 deficiency.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 2024 Chan YH, Lundberg V, Le Pen J, Yuan J, Lee D, Pinci F, Volpi S, Nakajima K, Bondet V, Åkesson S, Khobrekar NV, Bodansky A, Du L, Melander T, Mariaggi AA, Seeleuthner Y, Saleh TS, Chakravarty D, Marits…
• Transcobalamin receptor antibodies in autoimmune vitamin B12 central deficiency.
  Science translational medicine 2024 Pluvinage JV, Ngo T, Fouassier C, McDonagh M, Holmes BB, Bartley CM, Kondapavulur S, Hurabielle C, Bodansky A, Pai V, Hinman S, Aslanpour A, Alvarenga BD, Zorn KC, Zamecnik C, McCann A, Asencor AI, …
• Unveiling the proteome-wide autoreactome enables enhanced evaluation of emerging CAR T cell therapies in autoimmunity.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 2024 Bodansky A, Yu DJ, Rallistan A, Kalaycioglu M, Boonyaratanakornkit J, Green DJ, Gauthier J, Turtle CJ, Zorn K, O'Donovan B, Mandel-Brehm C, Asaki J, Kortbawi H, Kung AF, Rackaityte E, Wang CY, Saxena …
• Neutralizing IFN-γ autoantibodies are rare and pathogenic in HLA-DRB1*15:02 or 16:02 individuals.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 2024 Peel JN, Yang R, Le Voyer T, Gervais A, Rosain J, Bastard P, Behere A, Cederholm A, Bodansky A, Seeleuthner Y, Conil C, Ding JY, Lei WT, Bizien L, Soudee C, Migaud M, Ogishi M, Yatim A, Lee D, Bohlen …
• Unveiling the autoreactome: Proteome-wide immunological fingerprints reveal the promise of plasma cell depleting therapy.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023 Bodansky A, Yu DJ, Rallistan A, Kalaycioglu M, Boonyaratanakornkit J, Green DJ, Gauthier J, Turtle CJ, Zorn K, O'Donovan B, Mandel-Brehm C, Asaki J, Kortbawi H, Kung AF, Rackaityte E, Wang CY, Saxena …
• The breadth of the neutralizing antibody response to original SARS-CoV-2 infection is linked to the presence of Long COVID symptoms.
  Journal of medical virology 2023 Buck AM, Deitchman AN, Takahashi S, Lu S, Goldberg SA, Bodansky A, Kung A, Hoh R, Williams MC, Kerbleski M, Maison DP, Deveau TM, Munter SE, Lombardo J, Wrin T, Petropoulos CJ, Durstenfeld MS, Hsue PY…
• Autoantigen profiling reveals a shared post-COVID signature in fully recovered and long COVID patients.
  JCI insight 2023 Bodansky A, Wang CY, Saxena A, Mitchell A, Kung AF, Takahashi S, Anglin K, Huang B, Hoh R, Lu S, Goldberg SA, Romero J, Tran B, Kirtikar R, Grebe H, So M, Greenhouse B, Durstenfeld MS, Hsue PY, …
• Autoantigen profiling reveals a shared post-COVID signature in fully recovered and Long COVID patients.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023 Bodansky A, Wang CY, Saxena A, Mitchell A, Takahashi S, Anglin K, Huang B, Hoh R, Lu S, Goldberg SA, Romero J, Tran B, Kirtikar R, Grebe H, So M, Greenhouse B, Durstenfeld MS, Hsue PY, Hellmuth J, …
• NFKB2 haploinsufficiency identified via screening for IFN-α2 autoantibodies in children and adolescents hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2-related complications.
  The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2022 Bodansky A, Vazquez SE, Chou J, Novak T, Al-Musa A, Young C, Newhams M, Kucukak S, Zambrano LD, Mitchell A, Wang CY, Moffitt K, Halasa NB, Loftis LL, Schwartz SP, Walker TC, Mack EH, Fitzgerald JC, …
• Autoantibody discovery across monogenic, acquired, and COVID-19-associated autoimmunity with scalable PhIP-seq.
  eLife 2022 Vazquez SE, Mann SA, Bodansky A, Kung AF, Quandt Z, Ferré EMN, Landegren N, Eriksson D, Bastard P, Zhang SY, Liu J, Mitchell A, Proekt I, Yu D, Mandel-Brehm C, Wang CY, Miao B, Sowa G, Zorn K, Chan AY…
• Autoantibody discovery across monogenic, acquired, and COVID19-associated autoimmunity with scalable PhIP-Seq.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2022 Vazquez SE, Mann SA, Bodansky A, Kung AF, Quandt Z, Ferré EMN, Landegren N, Eriksson D, Bastard P, Zhang SY, Liu J, Mitchell A, Mandel-Brehm C, Miao B, Sowa G, Zorn K, Chan AY, Shimizu C, Tremoulet A,…
• Genetic Deficiency of Interferon-γ Reveals Interferon-γ-Independent Manifestations of Murine Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis.
  Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) 2019 Burn TN, Weaver L, Rood JE, Chu N, Bodansky A, Kreiger PA, Behrens EM
• Targeted Repair of CYBB in X-CGD iPSCs Requires Retention of Intronic Sequences for Expression and Functional Correction.
  Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy 2017 Sweeney CL, Zou J, Choi U, Merling RK, Liu A, Bodansky A, Burkett S, Kim JW, De Ravin SS, Malech HL
• An AAVS1-targeted minigene platform for correction of iPSCs from all five types of chronic granulomatous disease.
  Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy 2014 Merling RK, Sweeney CL, Chu J, Bodansky A, Choi U, Priel DL, Kuhns DB, Wang H, Vasilevsky S, De Ravin SS, Winkler T, Dunbar CE, Zou J, Zarember KA, Gallin JI, Holland SM, Malech HL
• CD40 agonist antibody mediated improvement of chronic Cryptosporidium infection in patients with X-linked hyper IgM syndrome.
  Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) 2012 Fan X, Upadhyaya B, Wu L, Koh C, Santín-Durán M, Pittaluga S, Uzel G, Kleiner D, Williams E, Ma CA, Bodansky A, Oliveira JB, Edmonds P, Hornung R, Wong DW, Fayer R, Fleisher T, Heller T, Prussin C, …
• TDP-43 and ubiquitinated cytoplasmic aggregates in sporadic ALS are low frequency and widely distributed in the lower motor neuron columns independent of disease spread.
  Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis : official publication of the World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Motor Neuron Diseases 2010 Bodansky A, Kim JM, Tempest L, Velagapudi A, Libby R, Ravits J
• AMMONIUM CHLORIDE DECALCIFICATION, AS MODIFIED BY CALCIUM INTAKE: THE RELATION BETWEEN GENERALIZED OSTEOPOROSIS AND OSTITIS FIBROSA.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 1932 Jaffe HL, Bodansky A, Chandler JP
• THE EFFECTS OF PARATHORMONE AND AMMONIUM CHLORIDE ON THE BONES OF RABBITS.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 1932 Jaffe HL, Bodansky A, Blair JE
• THE INFLUENCE OF AGE AND OF DURATION OF TREATMENT ON THE PRODUCTION AND REPAIR OF BONE LESIONS IN EXPERIMENTAL HYPERPARATHYROIDISM.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 1932 Jaffe HL, Bodansky A, Blair JE
• PARATHORMONE DOSAGE AND SERUM CALCIUM AND PHOSPHORUS IN EXPERIMENTAL CHRONIC HYPERPARATHYROIDISM LEADING TO OSTITIS FIBROSA.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 1931 Bodansky A, Jaffe HL
• EXPERIMENTAL FIBROUS OSTEODYSTROPHY (OSTITIS FIBROSA) IN HYPERPARATHYROID DOGS.
  The Journal of experimental medicine 1930 Jaffe HL, Bodansky A