Geetha Bhagavatula, MD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

Publications

  • Callahan RC, Curry JC, Bhagavatula G, Staley AW, Schaefer RE, Minhajuddin F, Zhou L, Neuhart RM, Atif SM, Orlicky DJ, Cartwright IM, Gerich ME, Steiner CA, Theiss AL, Hall CH, Colgan SP, Onyiah JC. Epithelial HO-1 regulates iron availability and promotes colonic tumorigenesis in a context-dependent manner. JCI Insight. 2025 Dec 17. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 41410530
  • Bhagavatula G, Schaepe C, Colgan S. Measuring Intestinal Barrier Permeability by Detecting Flux of Fluorescent Tracers Across Human Colonoid Monolayers. J Vis Exp. 2025 Oct 17;(224). PubMed PMID: 41182999
  • Bhagavatula G, Worledge CS, Schaepe C, Murphy EM, Neuhart RM, Lee JS, Cartwright I, Colgan SP, Hall CHT. Phosphocreatine Rescues Intestinal Epithelial Metabolic Dysfunction Related to Creatine Kinase Loss and Is Protective in Murine Colitis. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2025;19(11):101557. PubMed PMID: 40562094
  • Dowdell AS, Roer R, Bhagavatula G, Cartwright IM, Cohen RH, Countess JA, Koch SD, Lee JS, Steiner CA, Thompson NT, Villamaria ZF, Welch NM, Worledge CS, Zhou L, Colgan SP. Regulation of Epithelial HIF by Probiotic Escherichia coli. bioRxiv. 2025 May 15. PubMed PMID: 40463037
  • Bhagavatula G, Cartwright IM. Hope for the gut: new evidence suggests Western diet damage can be undone. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2025 May 1;328(5):G479-G481. PubMed PMID: 40139253
  • Callahan RC, Bhagavatula G, Curry J, Staley AW, Schaefer REM, Minhajuddin F, Zhou L, Neuhart R, Atif SM, Orlicky DJ, Cartwright IM, Gerich M, Theiss AL, Hall CHT, Colgan SP, Onyiah JC. Epithelial heme oxygenase-1 enhances colonic tumorigenesis by inhibiting ferroptosis. bioRxiv. 2024 Mar 8. PubMed PMID: 38496569
  • Worledge CS, Kostelecky RE, Zhou L, Bhagavatula G, Colgan SP, Lee JS. Allopurinol Disrupts Purine Metabolism to Increase Damage in Experimental Colitis. Cells. 2024 Feb 21;13(5). PubMed PMID: 38474337
  • Hall CHT, Lanis JM, Dowdell AS, Murphy EM, Bhagavatula G, Neuhart RM, Vijaya Sai KY, Colgan SP. Fundamental role for the creatine kinase pathway in protection from murine colitis. Mucosal Immunol. 2023 Dec;16(6):817-825. PubMed PMID: 37716510
  • Colgan SP, Wang RX, Hall CHT, Bhagavatula G, Lee JS. Revisiting the "starved gut" hypothesis in inflammatory bowel disease. Immunometabolism (Cobham). 2023 Jan;5(1):e0016. PubMed PMID: 36644501
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Practice Locations

Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 East 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-777-1234

School of Medicine

CU Anschutz

Fitzsimons Building

13001 East 17th Place

Campus Box C290

Aurora, CO 80045


303.724.5375