Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Pediatrics
Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Austin, Texas United States
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine
- 06/2020 - Houston, Texas United States
- Pediatric Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis
- Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine
- 06/2019 - Houston, Texas United States
- Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
- Residency at Baylor College of Medicine
- 06/2015 - Houston, Texas United States
- Pediatrics
- MD from University of Pécs Medical School
- 07/2008 - Pécs, Hungary
Certifications
- Board Certification in Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology
- #ABPN ID: 204795
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Professional Interests
- Pediatric Neuroimmunology
- Global Health
Selected Publications
- Balasa A, Gathungu G, Kisfali P, Smith EO, Cho JH, Melegh B, Kellermayer R. "Assessment of DNA methylation at the interferon regulatory factor 5 (IRF5) promoter region in inflammatory bowel diseases." Int J Colorectal Dis.. 2010 May;25(5):553-6. Pubmed PMID: 20043149
- Crossland RF, Balasa A, Ramakrishnan R, Mahadevan SK, Fiorotto ML, Van den Veyver IB1. "Chronic Maternal Low-Protein Diet in Mice Affects Anxiety, Night-Time Energy Expenditure and Sleep Patterns, but Not Circadian Rhythm in Male Offspring.." PLoS One. 2017 Jan 18;12(1) Pubmed PMID: 28099477
- Balasa A, Sanchez-Valle A, Sadikovic B, Sangi-Haghpeykar H, Bravo J, Chen L, Liu W, Wen S, Fiorotto ML, Veyver IB. "Chronic maternal protein deprivation in mice is associated with overexpression of the cohesin-mediator complex in liver of their offspring." J Nutr.. 2011 Dec;141(12):2106-12. Pubmed PMID: 22013202
- Kellermayer R, Dowd SE, Harris RA, Balasa A, Schaible TD, Wolcott RD, Tatevian N, Szigeti R, Li Z, Versalovic J, Smith CW. "Colonic mucosal DNA methylation, immune response, and microbiome patterns in Toll-like receptor 2-knockout mice." FASEB J.. 2011 May;25(5):1449-60. Pubmed PMID: 21228220
- Liu W, Shaver TM, Balasa A, Ljungberg MC, Wang X, Wen S, Nguyen H, Van den Veyver IB. "Deletion of Porcn in mice leads to multiple developmental defects and models human focal dermal hypoplasia (Goltz syndrome)." PLoS One.. 2012;7(3) Pubmed PMID: 22412863
- Kellermayer R, Balasa A, Zhang W, Lee S, Mirza S, Chakravarty A, Szigeti R, Laritsky E, Tatevian N, Smith CW, Shen L, Waterland RA. "Epigenetic maturation in colonic mucosa continues beyond infancy in mice." Hum Mol Genet.. 2010 Jun;19(11):2168-76. Pubmed PMID: 20197410
- Mahadevan S, Wen S, Balasa A, Fruhman G, Mateus J, Wagner A, Al-Hussaini T, Van den Veyver IB. "No evidence for mutations in NLRP7 and KHDC3L in women with androgenetic hydatidiform moles." Prenat Diagn.. 2013 Dec;33(13):1242-7. Pubmed PMID: 24105752
- Nagy T, Balasa A, Frank D, Rab A, Rideg O, Kotek G, Magyarlaki T, Bogner P, Kovács GL, Miseta A. "O-GlcNAc modification of proteins affects volume regulation in Jurkat cells." Eur Biophys J.. 2010 Jul;39(8):1207-17. Pubmed PMID: 20043149
- Stowe RC, Jimenez-Gomez A, Balasa A, Clark GD. "Cockayne Syndrome Complicated by Moyamoya Vasculopathy and Stroke.." Pediatric Neurology. 2018 May 18; Pubmed PMID: 30089552
- Andres Jimenez-Gomez, Robert C. Stowe, Alfred Balasa, Jonathan Castillo, Timothy E. Lotze. "Global Health Education in Child Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Training Programs in the United States: A National Survey.." J Child Neurololgy. 2019 Jul; Pubmed PMID: 30966859
- Jimenez-Gomez A, Niu S, Andujar-Perez F, McQuade EA, Balasa A, Huss D, Coorg R, Quach M, Vinson S, Risen S, Holder JL Jr. "2. Phenotypic characterization of individuals with SYNGAP1 pathogenic variants reveals a potential correlation between posterior dominant rhythm and developmental progression.." J Neurodev Disor.. 2019 Aug 8;11(1) Pubmed PMID: 31395010
- Wong BKY, Murry JB, Ramakrishnan R, He F, Balasa A, Stinnett GR, Pedersen SE, Pautler RG, Van den Veyver IB. "Maternal stress in Shank3ex4-9 mice increases pup-directed care and alters brain white matter in male offspring.." PLoS One. 2019 Nov 8;14(11) Pubmed PMID: 31703095
Memberships
- Child Neurology Society
- Member (09/2015)
- American Academy of Neurology
- Junior Member (01/2016)
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- (06/2013)
- Gold Humanism Honor Society
- (03/2014)
Funding
- Gilead Global Scholarship Baylor Global Initiatives
- Global Health Texas Children’s Hospital
- Travel Grant Doximity
- Education Grant ACTRIMS
Languages
Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian
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