Catherine Omosule, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Immunology
Contact
- Email: omosule@wustl.edu
Titles
Associate Medical Director, Pediatric Laboratory Services at St. Louis Children’s Hospital (SLCH)
Education
BSc (Summa cum Laude), Biology: University of Missouri Columbia, MO (2015)
PhD, Biochemistry: University of Missouri Columbia, MO (2021)
Fellowship, Clinical Chemistry: Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, MO (2023)
Boards
2023 DABCC: Diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Chemistry (DABCC)
NRCC: National Registry of Clinical Chemists
Recognition
Wellcome Trust Early Career Award (2024-2029), Wellcome Trust Foundation
Richard Marshall Education Award. Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM, formerly AACC) Midwest Section (2023)
Honorable Mention; 2023 Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM, formerly AACC) Student Poster Competition: “LC/MS-MS quantification of myo-inositol: a novel biomarker for kidney disease”, (2023)
Winner, Clinical Pathology Lightning Talks, 2023 Trainee Research Day Symposium, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis (2023)
Clinical Pathology Trainee of the Month, Washington University Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis (2022)
Richard Marshall Education Award. AACC Midwest local section, (2022)
Fellow Educator of the year, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Pathology & Immunology (2021-2022)
Wayne L. Ryan Fellowship, Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (2020-2021)
Professor Gridley Mckim-Smith Health Fellowship Award, Foundation for Women’s Wellness (2018)
Mathematics in Life Sciences Full-Ride Scholarship, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (2011-2015)
Research Interests
- Kidney biomarkers
- Maternal health and child health
- Accessibility to healthcare testing
Affiliations
University of Ghana Medical Centre
Selected Publications
Martey M, Seidu PD, Kyei GB, Omosule CL. Impact of creatinine-eGFR equations on chronic kidney disease stratification in a Ghanaian Tertiary Care Setting. eJIFCC.
Richard-Greenblatt M, Omosule CL, Owusu Agyare B, Das S, Devine C, Mokomane M, Scott S, Vongsouvath M. The Impact of Climate Change on Laboratory Medicine: A Global Health Perspective. Clin Chem. 2025 Apr 3;71(4):438-444. doi: 10.1093/clinchem/hvaf012.
Fabian J, Vetter B, Bramham K, Luyckx VA, Omosule, CL (2025). Point-of-care serum creatinine testing – why, when, where? NDT, 40(5):839-841
Omosule CL, Blair CJ, Herries E, Zaydman MA, Farnsworth CW, Ladenson J, Dietzen DJ, Gaut, JP. Clinical Utility of LC-MS/MS for Blood Myo-Inositol in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease. Clin Chem. 2024 Sep 3;70(9):1172-1181.
Omosule CL. Prognostication of Preeclampsia. Clin Chem. 2023 Nov 2;69(11):1324-1325.
Omosule CL, Dietzen D, Roper SM. Reexamining the minimum sweat rate requirement for sweat chloride testing. J Appl Lab Med. 2023 Nov 2;8(6):1084-1091.
Spies NC, Hubler Z, Roper SM, Omosule CL, Senter-Zapata M, Roemmich BL, Brown HM, Gimple R, Farnsworth CW. Gpt-4 underperforms experts in detecting IV fluid contamination. J Appl Lab Med. 2023 Nov 2;8(6):1092-1100.
Omosule CL, Roper SM, Farnsworth CW. Frequency of fentanyl analogs and metabolites detection by LC-MS/MS in clinical specimens. J Appl Lab Med. 2023 Mar 6;8(2):428-430. doi: 10.1093/jalm/jfac121. PMID: 36533488.
Omosule CL, Hock KG, Ballman C, Scalpati A, Gronowski AM, Bryant A, Farnsworth CW. Method Comparison and Workflow Differences using the same free light chain assay on 2 analyzer platforms. J Appl Lab Med. PMID: 37186660.
Omosule CL, Joseph D, Weiler B, Gremminger VL, Silvey S, Lafaver BN, Jeong Y, Kleiner S, Phillips CL. Whole body metabolism and the musculoskeletal impacts of targeting activin A and myostatin in severe Osteogenesis Imperfecta. JBMR Plus. 2023 May 7;7(7):e10753.
Tawiah K, Jackson L, Omosule CL, Shahideh B, Scott MG, Murtagh G, Farnsworth CW. Serial Cardiac Biomarkers for Risk Stratification of patients with COVID19. American Journal of Cardiology. Clin Biochem; S0009-9120(22)00142-4.
Omosule CL, Holmes, V, Jasek C, Roper SM. Pediatric Ionized Calcium Reference Intervals from Archived Radiometer Data. Clinical Biochemistry. Clin Biochem; 104:13-18.
Omosule CL, Joseph D, Weiler B, Gremminger VL, Silvey S, Jeong Y, Rafique A, et al. Combinatorial Inhibition of Myostatin and Activin A improves Femoral Bone Properties in the G610C mouse model of Osteogenesis Imperfecta. J Bone Miner Res. 2022;37(5)938-953.
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