Bhama Ramkhelawon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Surgery and Cell Biology
New York University Langone Medical Center
New York, NY

Primary Research:

Mechanisms of Vascular remodeling in health and Disease

Laboratory Website: https://med.nyu.edu/ramkhelawonlab/ramkhelawon-lab

Members of the laboratory: 

2 postdocs, 1 graduate student, 1 lab manager, 1 lab technicial, Master students

Recent Publications:

• Platelet-Derived MRP-14 Induces Monocyte Activation in Patients With Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease.
  Dann R, Hadi T, Montenont E, Boytard L, Alebrahim D, Feinstein J, Allen N, Simon R, Barone K, Uryu K, Guo Y, Rockman C, Ramkhelawon B, Berger JS.
  J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018 Jan 2;71(1):53-65. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.10.072. PMID: 29301628PPARγ Interaction with UBR5/ATMIN Promotes DNA Repair to Maintain Endothelial Homeostasis.
• Netrins & Semaphorins: Novel regulators of the immune response. Feinstein J, Ramkhelawon B. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2017 Dec;1863(12):3183-3189. doi: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2017.09.010. Epub 2017 Sep 14. Review. PMID: 28918114
• Lung-derived HMGB1 is detrimental for vascular remodeling of metabolically imbalanced arterial macrophages. Boytard L, Hadi T, Silvestro M, Qu H, Kumpfbeck A, Sleiman R, Fils KH, Alebrahim D, Boccalatte F, Kugler M, Corsica A, Gelb BE, Jacobowitz G, Miller G, Bellini C, Oakes J, Silvestre JS, Zangi L, Ramkhelawon B. Nature Commun. 2020 Aug 27;11(1):4311. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18088-2.PMID: 32855420
• Macrophage-derived netrin-1 promotes abdominal aortic aneurysm formation by activating MMP3 in vascular smooth muscle cells. Hadi T, Boytard L, Silvestro M, Alebrahim D, Jacob S, Feinstein J, Barone K, Spiro W, Hutchison S, Simon R, Rateri D, Pinet F, Fenyo D, Adelman M, Moore KJ, Eltzschig HK, Daugherty A, Ramkhelawon B. Nature Commun. 2018 Nov 27;9(1):5022. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07495-1.PMID: 30479344
• Mapping Semaphorins and Netrins in the Pathogenesis of Human Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms. Alebrahim D, Nayak M, Ward A, Ursomanno P, Shams R, Corsica A, Sleiman R, Fils KH, Silvestro M, Boytard L, Hadi T, Gelb B, Ramkhelawon B.Int J Mol Sci. 2019 Apr 28;20(9):2100. doi: 10.3390/ijms20092100.PMID: 31035427