Penn Medicine Provider
Infectious Diseases
Rahul M. Kohli, MD, PhD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up

About me

  • Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
  • Associate Professor of Medicine in Biochemistry and Biophysics

Education and training

  • Medical School: Harvard Medical School
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Hospital

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Kohli is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Schutsky EK, DeNizio JE, Hu P, Liu MY, Nabel CS, Fabyanic EB, Hwang Y, Bushman FD, Wu H, Kohli RM Nondestructive, base-resolution sequencing of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine using a DNA deaminase , Nature Biotech, 36: 2018,1083–1090


DeNizio JE, Liu MY, Leddin EM, Cisneros GA, Kohli RM Selectivity and Promiscuity in TET-Mediated Oxidation of 5-Methylcytosine in DNA and RNA , Biochemistry, 58: 2019,411-421


Samuels AN, Roggiani M, Zhu J, Goulian M, Kohli RM The SOS Response Mediates Sustained Colonization of the Mammalian Gut , Infect Immun, 87: 2019,pii: e00711-18


Ghanty U, DeNizio JE, Liu MY, Kohli RM Exploiting Substrate Promiscuity to Develop Activity-Based Probes for TET Family Enzymes , J Am Chem Soc, 140(50): 2018,17329-17332


Selwood T, Larsen BJ, Mo CY, Culyba MJ, Hostetler ZM, Kohli RM, Reitz AB, Baugh SDP. Advancement of the 5-Amino-1-(Carbamoylmethyl)-1H-1,2,3-Triazole-4-Carboxamide Scaffold to Disarm the Bacterial SOS Response. , Front Microbiol, 9: 2018,2961


Hrit J, Goodrich L, Li C, Wang BA, Nie J, Cui X, Martin EA, Simental E, Fernandez J, Liu MY, Nery JR, Castanon R, Kohli RM, Tretyakova N, He C, Ecker JR, Goll M, Panning B OGT binds a conserved C-terminal domain of TET1 to regulate TET1 activity and function in development , Elife, 7: 2018,pii: e34870


Hostetler ZM, Ferrie JJ, Bornstein MR, Sungwienwong I, Petersson EJ, Kohli RM Systematic Evaluation of Soluble Protein Expression Using a Fluorescent Unnatural Amino Acid Reveals No Reliable Predictors of Tolerability , ACS Chem Bio, 13(10): 2018,2855-2861


Sungwienwong I, Ferrie JJ, Jun JV, Liu C, Barrett TM, Hostetler ZM, Ieda N, Hendricks A, Muthusamy AK, Kohli RM, Chenoweth DM, Petersson GA, Petersson EJ Improving the fluorescent probe acridonylalanine through a combination of theory and experiment , J Phys Org Chen: 2018,DOI: 10.1002/poc.3813


Fraietta JA, Nobles CL, Sammons MA, Lundh S, Carty SA, Reich TJ, Cogdill AP, Morrissette JJD, DeNizio JE, Reddy S, Hwang Y, Gohil M, Kulikovskaya I, Nazimuddin F, Gupta M, Chen F, Everett JK, Alexander KA, Lin-Shiao E, Gee MH, Liu X, Young RM, Ambrose D, Wang Y, Xu J, Jordan MS, Marcucci KT, Levine BL, Garcia KC, Zhao Y, Kalos M, Porter DL, Kohli RM, Lacey SF, Berger SL, Bushman FD, June CH, Melenhorst JJ Disruption of TET2 Promotes the Therapeutic Efficacy of CD19-targeted T cells , Nature, 558(7709): 2018,307-312


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