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Nicholas Fredric Parrish

Medical Instructor in the Department of Surgery
Surgery, Abdominal Transplant Surgery

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Medical Instructor in the Department of Surgery · 2024 - Present Surgery, Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Surgery

Recent Publications


Pooled screening for endogenous HHV-6 in subjects with coronary artery disease.

Journal Article Virus Genes · April 2025 Endogenous human herpesvirus 6 (eHHV-6) is integrated into the genomes of approximately 1% of individuals and has been linked to angina pectoris which, like myocardial infarction (MI), generally denotes coronary artery disease. To investigate this associat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Blood DNA virome associates with autoimmune diseases and COVID-19.

Journal Article Nat Genet · January 2025 Aberrant immune responses to viral pathogens contribute to pathogenesis, but our understanding of pathological immune responses caused by viruses within the human virome, especially at a population scale, remains limited. We analyzed whole-genome sequencin ... Full text Link to item Cite

An atlas of transcribed enhancers across helper T cell diversity for decoding human diseases.

Journal Article Science · July 5, 2024 Transcribed enhancer maps can reveal nuclear interactions underpinning each cell type and connect specific cell types to diseases. Using a 5' single-cell RNA sequencing approach, we defined transcription start sites of enhancer RNAs and other classes of co ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


Integrated HHV-6B-associated systemic lupus erythematosus: assessment of immunopathological mechanism

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by HHV-6 Foundation · 2025 - 2026

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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine · 2015 M.D.
University of Pennsylvania · 2013 Ph.D.
Emory University · 2007 B.S.