Varun Aggarwala

Employment

• Jio Institute Assistant Professor
  2023 - Present
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Postdoctoral Scholar
  2018 - 2023
• University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Scientist
  2016 - 2018

Education

• University of Pennsylvania PhD
  2011 - 2016
• University of Pennsylvania MSE
  2009 - 2010
• Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati BTech
  2004 - 2008

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (16)

• 15-strain live biotherapeutic product or same donor fecal microbiota transplant for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection: a randomized phase 1b trial
  Nature Medicine 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-026-04442-2
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• Author Correction: Gut microbiota strain richness is species specific and affects engraftment
  Nature 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08566-8
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• Gut microbiota strain richness is species specific and affects engraftment
  Nature 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08242-x
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• Author Correction: Precise quantification of bacterial strains after fecal microbiota transplantation delineates long-term engraftment and explains outcomes (Nature Microbiology, (2021), 6, 10, (1309-1318), 10.1038/s41564-021-00966-0)
  Nature Microbiology 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-022-01118-8
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• Gut microbiota bacterial strain richness is species specific and limits therapeutic engraftment
  bioRxiv 2022 DOI: 10.1101/2022.11.01.514782
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• Precise quantification of bacterial strains after fecal microbiota transplantation delineates long-term engraftment and explains outcomes
  Nature Microbiology 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-021-00966-0
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• Strain population structure varies widely across bacterial species and predicts strain colonization in unrelated individuals
  [] 2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.17.343640
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• Quantification of discrete gut bacterial strains following fecal transplantation for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection demonstrates long-term stable engraftment in non-relapsing recipients
  [] 2020 DOI: 10.1101/2020.09.10.292136
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• Defined microbiota transplant restores Th17/RORγt+ regulatory T cell balance in mice colonized with inflammatory bowel disease microbiotas
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1922189117
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• Fecal IgA Levels Are Determined by Strain-Level Differences in Bacteroides ovatus and Are Modifiable by Gut Microbiota Manipulation
  Cell Host and Microbe 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2020.01.016
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