Research Funding

  • December 5, 2012 - November 30, 2016 - Mechanism regulating ErbB signaling network in head and neck cancer, Principal Investigator. Sponsor: NIH/NIDCR, Sponsor Award ID: R01DE022565
  • April 1, 1995 - August 31, 2013 - Regulation of Survival in Head and Neck Cancer Progression, Principal Investigator. Sponsor: NIH/NIDCR, Sponsor Award ID: R56DE011436
  • August 5, 1999 - September 29, 2012 - Cancer Center Support Grant, Co-Investigator. Sponsor: NIH/NCI, Sponsor Award ID: P30CA082103
  • August 1, 2003 - May 31, 2009 - SKELETAL MUSCLE STEM CELLS FOR TISSUE REPAIR, Principal Investigator. Sponsor: NIH/NIDCR, Sponsor Award ID: R01DE015404

Education

University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1971, Biochemistry
Yale University School of Medicine, M.S., 1974, Pharmacology
Yale University School of Medicine, Ph.D., 1977, Pharmacology
University of California, Irvine, Postdoc., 1977-80, Cell Biology

Honors & Awards

  • 1983, 1988
    National Institutes of Health, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Pathology B Study Section
  • 1984
    International Institute for Microcirculation, Cambridge, England, Research Award
  • 1985
    Veterans1 Administration, Career Development Program, Reviewer
  • 1986
    National Cancer Institute, Cancer Therapeutics Review Committee, Consultant
  • 1987-1989
    National Cancer Institute of Canada, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Panel B
  • 1987-1996
    National Science Foundation, Research Grant Program, Reviewer
  • 1989
    National Institutes of Health, Pathobiochemistry Study Section, Ad Hoc Reviewer
  • 1990, 1994
    National Cancer Institute, Program Project, Ad Hoc Reviewer
  • 1990-1993
    Gordon Conference, Basement Membranes, Cell Contact and Adhesion, Invited Speaker
  • 1991, 1993
    American Cancer Institute, Advisory Committee on Cell and Developmental Biology
  • 1995, 1996, 1999
    Oral Biology and Medicine Study Section, Ad Hoc Reviewer
  • 1999, 2004
    NCI Workshop, Head and Neck Cancer
  • 2000
    NIDCR Review Panel, Genetic Basis of Oral Cancer
  • 2001, 2003
    NIDCR Special Review Panel on Oral Cancer
  • 2002, 2004
    NCI Head and Neck SPORE Panel Review
  • 2005, 2006
    NIH Tumor Microenvironment Study Section
  • 2006
    NIDCR Special Review Panel

Selected Publications

  1. Yang F, Xiao W, Liu Y, Liu R, Kramer R, Li X, Ajena Y, Baehr CM, Rojalin T, Zhang H, Lam KS One-bead one-compound combinatorial library derived targeting ligands for detection and treatment of oral squamous cancer.  View on PubMed
  2. Humtsoe JO, Pham E, Louie RJ, Chan DA, Kramer RH ErbB3 upregulation by the HNSCC 3D microenvironment modulates cell survival and growth.  View on PubMed
  3. Yang F, Liu R, Kramer R, Xiao W, Jordan R, Lam KS Discovery of specific ligands for oral squamous carcinoma to develop anti-cancer drug loaded precise targeting nanotherapeutics.  View on PubMed
  4. Humtsoe JO, Koya E, Pham E, Aramoto T, Zuo J, Ishikawa T, Kramer RH Transcriptional profiling identifies upregulated genes following induction of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in squamous carcinoma cells.  View on PubMed
  5. Zuo J, Ishikawa T, Boutros S, Xiao Z, Humtsoe JO, Kramer RH Bcl-2 overexpression induces a partial epithelial to mesenchymal transition and promotes squamous carcinoma cell invasion and metastasis.  View on PubMed
  6. Ishikawa T, Kramer RH Sdc1 negatively modulates carcinoma cell motility and invasion.  View on PubMed
  7. Humtsoe JO, Kramer RH Differential epidermal growth factor receptor signaling regulates anchorage-independent growth by modulation of the PI3K/AKT pathway.  View on PubMed
  8. Pawlikowski B, Lee L, Zuo J, Kramer RH Analysis of human muscle stem cells reveals a differentiation-resistant progenitor cell population expressing Pax7 capable of self-renewal.  View on PubMed
  9. Gorfu G, Virtanen I, Hukkanen M, Lehto VP, Rousselle P, Kenne E, Lindbom L, Kramer R, Tryggvason K, Patarroyo M Laminin isoforms of lymph nodes and predominant role of alpha5-laminin(s) in adhesion and migration of blood lymphocytes.  View on PubMed
  10. El-Sayed I, Huang X, Macheret F, Humstoe JO, Kramer R, El-Sayed M Effect of plasmonic gold nanoparticles on benign and malignant cellular autofluorescence: a novel probe for fluorescence based detection of cancer.  View on PubMed
  11. Onishi A, Chen Q, Humtsoe JO, Kramer RH STAT3 signaling is induced by intercellular adhesion in squamous cell carcinoma cells.  View on PubMed
  12. Jethanandani P, Kramer RH Alpha7 integrin expression is negatively regulated by deltaEF1 during skeletal myogenesis.  View on PubMed
  13. Kramer RH, Shen X, Zhou H Tumor cell invasion and survival in head and neck cancer.  View on PubMed
  14. Zhou H, Kramer RH Integrin engagement differentially modulates epithelial cell motility by RhoA/ROCK and PAK1.  View on PubMed
  15. Shen X, Kramer RH Adhesion-mediated squamous cell carcinoma survival through ligand-independent activation of epidermal growth factor receptor.  View on PubMed
  16. Chen Q, Lipkina G, Song Q, Kramer RH Promoter methylation regulates cadherin switching in squamous cell carcinoma.  View on PubMed
  17. Xiao J, Jethanandani P, Ziober BL, Kramer RH Regulation of alpha7 integrin expression during muscle differentiation.  View on PubMed
  18. Ferguson JW, Thoma BS, Mikesh MF, Kramer RH, Bennett KL, Purchio A, Bellard BJ, LeBaron RG The extracellular matrix protein betaIG-H3 is expressed at myotendinous junctions and supports muscle cell adhesion.  View on PubMed
  19. Yeh MG, Ziober BL, Liu B, Lipkina G, Vizirianakis IS, Kramer RH The beta1 cytoplasmic domain regulates the laminin-binding specificity of the alpha7X1 integrin.  View on PubMed
  20. Vizirianakis IS, Chen YQ, Kantak SS, Tsiftsoglou AS, Kramer RH Dominant-negative E-cadherin alters adhesion and reverses contact inhibition of growth in breast carcinoma cells.  View on PubMed

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