Research Funding

  • April 1, 1997 - December 31, 2009 - Regulatory function of fyn in oral SCC invasion , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01DE011930
  • September 15, 2000 - June 30, 2007 - ORAL MELANOMA: ALPHA V BETA 3 EXPRESSION AND METASTASIS , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01DE012856
  • September 1, 1999 - August 31, 2004 - MATRIX REMODELING IN ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: K02DE000440
  • January 1, 1900 - January 31, 2004 - MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF INVASION IN ORAL CANCER , Co-Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: P50DE011912
  • April 1, 1997 - June 2, 2003 - REGULATED EXPRESSION OF TENASCIN AND AVB6 IN ORAL CANCER , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R29DE011930
  • July 1, 1988 - June 30, 1994 - LYMPHATIC METASTASIS OF MELANOMA TUMOR CELLS , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: K15DE000242

Education

California State University, Los Angeles, B.S., 1984, Biology
University of California, San Francisco, D.D.S., 1988, Dentistry
University of California, San Francisco, Ph.D., 1994, Oral Biology

Honors & Awards

  • 1988-93
    Individual Dentist Scientist Award, NIH-NIDR 1K15DE00242
  • 1995-96
    Junior Faculty Development Award (Academic Senate)
  • 2001
    Dean's Creativity Award (School of Dentistry)

Selected Publications

  1. Ryan VH, Lawton S, Reyes JF, Hawrot J, Frankenfield AM, Seddighi S, Ramos DM, Epstein J, Faghri F, Johnson NL, Zou J, Kampmann M, Replogle J, Qi YA, Yuan H, Johnson K, Maric D, Hao L, Nalls MA, Ward ME Maintenance of neuronal TDP-43 expression requires axonal lysosome transport.  View on PubMed
  2. Thayer JA, Petersen JD, Huang X, Hawrot J, Ramos DM, Sekine S, Li Y, Ward ME, Narendra DP Novel reporter of the PINK1-Parkin mitophagy pathway identifies its damage sensor in the import gate.  View on PubMed
  3. Álvarez Jerez P, Wild Crea P, Ramos DM, Gustavsson EK, Radefeldt M, Damianov A, Makarious MB, Ojo OO, Billingsley KJ, Malik L, Daida K, Bromberek S, Hu F, Schneider Z, Surapaneni AL, Stadler J, Rizig M, Morris HR, Pantazis CB, Leonard HL, Screven L, Qi YA, Nalls MA, Bandres-Ciga S, Hardy J, Houlden H, Eng C, Burchard EG, Kachuri L, Lin CH, Black DL, Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2), Singleton AB, Fischer S, Bauer P, Reed X, Ryten M, Beetz C, Ward M, Okubadejo NU, Blauwendraat C African ancestry neurodegeneration risk variant disrupts an intronic branchpoint in GBA1.  View on PubMed
  4. Ryan VH, Lawton S, Reyes JF, Hawrot J, Frankenfield AM, Seddighi S, Ramos DM, Faghri F, Johnson NL, Zou J, Kampmann M, Replogle J, Yuan H, Johnson KR, Maric D, Hao L, Nalls MA, Ward ME. Maintenance of neuronal TDP-43 expression requires axonal lysosome transport. bioRxiv. 2024 Oct 01.  View on PubMed
  5. Snyder A, Ryan VH, Hawrot J, Lawton S, Ramos DM, Qi YA, Johnson KR, Reed X, Johnson NL, Kollasch AW, Duffy MF, VandeVrede L, Cochran JN, Miller BL, Toro C, Bielekova B, Marks DS, Yokoyama JS, Kwan JY, Cookson MR, Ward ME. An ANXA11 P93S variant dysregulates TDP-43 and causes corticobasal syndrome. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 08; 20(8):5220-5235.  View on PubMed
  6. Jerez PÁ, Wild Crea PA, Ramos DM, Gustavsson EK, Radefeldt M, Makarious MB, Ojo OO, Billingsley KJ, Malik L, Daida K, Bromberek S, Hu C, Schneider Z, Surapaneni AL, Stadler J, Rizig M, Morris HR, Pantazis CB, Leonard HL, Screven L, Qi YA, Nalls MA, Bandres-Ciga S, Hardy J, Houlden H, Eng C, Burchard EG, Kachuri L, Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2), Singleton AB, Fischer S, Bauer P, Reed X, Ryten M, Beetz C, Ward M, Okubadejo NU, Blauwendraat C African ancestry neurodegeneration risk variant disrupts an intronic branchpoint in GBA1.  View on PubMed
  7. Seddighi S, Qi YA, Brown AL, Wilkins OG, Bereda C, Belair C, Zhang YJ, Prudencio M, Keuss MJ, Khandeshi A, Pickles S, Kargbo-Hill SE, Hawrot J, Ramos DM, Yuan H, Roberts J, Sacramento EK, Shah SI, Nalls MA, Colón-Mercado JM, Reyes JF, Ryan VH, Nelson MP, Cook CN, Li Z, Screven L, Kwan JY, Mehta PR, Zanovello M, Hallegger M, Shantaraman A, Ping L, Koike Y, Oskarsson B, Staff NP, Duong DM, Ahmed A, Secrier M, Ule J, Jacobson S, Reich DS, Rohrer JD, Malaspina A, Dickson DW, Glass JD, Ori A, Seyfried NT, Maragkakis M, Petrucelli L, Fratta P, Ward ME. Mis-spliced transcripts generate de novo proteins in TDP-43-related ALS/FTD. Sci Transl Med. 2024 02 14; 16(734):eadg7162.  View on PubMed
  8. Snyder A, Ryan VH, Hawrot J, Lawton S, Ramos DM, Qi YA, Johnson K, Reed X, Johnson NL, Kollasch AW, Duffy M, VandeVrede L, Cochran JN, Miller BL, Toro C, Bielekova B, Yokoyama JS, Marks DS, Kwan JY, Cookson MR, Ward ME. An ANXA11 P93S variant dysregulates TDP-43 and causes corticobasal syndrome. Res Sq. 2023 Oct 19.  View on PubMed
  9. Dadu A, Satone VK, Kaur R, Koretsky MJ, Iwaki H, Qi YA, Ramos DM, Avants B, Hesterman J, Gunn R, Cookson MR, Ward ME, Singleton AB, Campbell RH, Nalls MA, Faghri F. Application of Aligned-UMAP to longitudinal biomedical studies. Patterns (N Y). 2023 Jun 09; 4(6):100741.  View on PubMed
  10. Seddighi S, Qi YA, Brown AL, Wilkins OG, Bereda C, Belair C, Zhang Y, Prudencio M, Keuss MJ, Khandeshi A, Pickles S, Hill SE, Hawrot J, Ramos DM, Yuan H, Roberts J, Kelmer Sacramento E, Shah SI, Nalls MA, Colon-Mercado J, Reyes JF, Ryan VH, Nelson MP, Cook C, Li Z, Screven L, Kwan JY, Shantaraman A, Ping L, Koike Y, Oskarsson B, Staff N, Duong DM, Ahmed A, Secrier M, Ule J, Jacobson S, Rohrer J, Malaspina A, Glass JD, Ori A, Seyfried NT, Maragkakis M, Petrucelli L, Fratta P, Ward ME. Mis-spliced transcripts generate de novo proteins in TDP-43-related ALS/FTD. bioRxiv. 2023 Jan 23.  View on PubMed
  11. Replogle JM, Bonnar JL, Pogson AN, Liem CR, Maier NK, Ding Y, Russell BJ, Wang X, Leng K, Guna A, Norman TM, Pak RA, Ramos DM, Ward ME, Gilbert LA, Kampmann M, Weissman JS, Jost M. Maximizing CRISPRi efficacy and accessibility with dual-sgRNA libraries and optimal effectors. Elife. 2022 12 28; 11.  View on PubMed
  12. Pantazis CB, Yang A, Lara E, McDonough JA, Blauwendraat C, Peng L, Oguro H, Kanaujiya J, Zou J, Sebesta D, Pratt G, Cross E, Blockwick J, Buxton P, Kinner-Bibeau L, Medura C, Tompkins C, Hughes S, Santiana M, Faghri F, Nalls MA, Vitale D, Ballard S, Qi YA, Ramos DM, Anderson KM, Stadler J, Narayan P, Papademetriou J, Reilly L, Nelson MP, Aggarwal S, Rosen LU, Kirwan P, Pisupati V, Coon SL, Scholz SW, Priebe T, Öttl M, Dong J, Meijer M, Janssen LJM, Lourenco VS, van der Kant R, Crusius D, Paquet D, Raulin AC, Bu G, Held A, Wainger BJ, Gabriele RMC, Casey JM, Wray S, Abu-Bonsrah D, Parish CL, Beccari MS, Cleveland DW, Li E, Rose IVL, Kampmann M, Calatayud Aristoy C, Verstreken P, Heinrich L, Chen MY, Schüle B, Dou D, Holzbaur ELF, Zanellati MC, Basundra R, Deshmukh M, Cohen S, Khanna R, Raman M, Nevin ZS, Matia M, Van Lent J, Timmerman V, Conklin BR, Johnson Chase K, Zhang K, Funes S, Bosco DA, Erlebach L, Welzer M, Kronenberg-Versteeg D, Lyu G, Arenas E, Coccia E, Sarrafha L, Ahfeldt T, Marioni JC, Skarnes WC, Cookson MR, Ward ME, Merkle FT. A reference human induced pluripotent stem cell line for large-scale collaborative studies. Cell Stem Cell. 2022 12 01; 29(12):1685-1702.e22.  View on PubMed
  13. Ramos DM, Skarnes WC, Singleton AB, Cookson MR, Ward ME. Tackling neurodegenerative diseases with genomic engineering: A new stem cell initiative from the NIH. Neuron. 2021 04 07; 109(7):1080-1083.  View on PubMed
  14. Villa A, Sankar V, Shazib MA, Ramos D, Veluppillai P, Wu A, Shiboski C. Patient and providers' satisfaction with tele(oral)medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Oral Dis. 2022 04; 28 Suppl 1:929-932.  View on PubMed
  15. Calvo JM, Stewart R, Ramos D. Focal Epithelial Hyperplasia in a Child with Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathy type IV: A Rare Co-Occurrence. J Dent Child (Chic). 2019 Sep 15; 86(3):154-157.  View on PubMed
  16. Lee C, Ramos DM. αvβ6-Fyn Kinase Promotes Epithelial Phenotype in SYF Cells. Anticancer Res. 2018 01; 38(1):165-168.  View on PubMed
  17. Lee C, Siu A, Ramos DM. Multicellular Spheroids as a Model for Hypoxia-induced EMT. Anticancer Res. 2016 12; 36(12):6259-6263.  View on PubMed
  18. Lee C, Ramos DM. Regulation of Multicellular Spheroids by MAPK and FYN Kinase. Anticancer Res. 2016 Aug; 36(8):3833-8.  View on PubMed
  19. Siu A, Landon K, Ramos DM. Differential diagnosis and management of oral ulcers. Semin Cutan Med Surg. 2015 Dec; 34(4):171-7.  View on PubMed
  20. Chou A, Schulman JM, Gross AJ, Jordan RC, Ramos DM. Gingival pustules and sterile diffuse sclerosing osteomyelitis as a feature of synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, osteitis (SAPHO) syndrome. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol. 2016 May; 121(5):e116-22.  View on PubMed

Go to UCSF Profiles, powered by CTSI