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Sanjay Ram is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on immunology and microbiology, with notable contributions to related subfields such as microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, hematology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their research covers a range of topics including reproductive tract infections research, bacterial infections and vaccines, the complement system in diseases, syphilis diagnosis and treatment, blood groups and transfusion, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, and transgenic plants and applications.

Among recent notable publications are:

  • "The Modern Epidemic of Syphilis," 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Overcoming innate immune barriers that impede AAV gene therapy vectors," 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • "Mechanisms Driving Neutrophil-Induced T-cell Immunoparalysis in Ovarian Cancer," 2021, Cancer Immunology Research
  • "Complement interactions with the pathogenic Neisseriae: clinical features, deficiency states, and evasion mechanisms," 2020, FEBS Letters
  • "The "Black Fungus" in India: The Emerging Syndemic of COVID-19-Associated Mucormycosis," 2021, Annals of Internal Medicine

Sanjay Ram collaborates frequently with researchers such as Sunita Gulati, Jutamas Shaughnessy, Peter A. Rice, Bo Zheng, and Lisa A. Lewis. These partnerships have resulted in multiple joint publications.

Their work has been published repeatedly in several venues, including Frontiers in Immunology, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), mBio, and Blood.

Best Publications

  • The new multicomponent vaccine against meningococcal serogroup B, 4CMenB: immunological, functional and structural characterization of the antigens.

    Davide Serruto;Matthew J. Bottomley;Sanjay Ram;Marzia M. Giuliani

  • Infections of People with Complement Deficiencies and Patients Who Have Undergone Splenectomy

    Sanjay Ram;Lisa A. Lewis;Peter A. Rice

  • The Meningococcal Vaccine Candidate GNA1870 Binds the Complement Regulatory Protein Factor H and Enhances Serum Resistance

    Guillermo Madico;Jo Anne Welsch;Lisa A. Lewis;Anne McNaughton

  • Meningococcal disease and the complement system

    Lisa A Lewis;Sanjay Ram

  • Neisseria meningitidis GNA2132, a heparin-binding protein that induces protective immunity in humans

    Davide Serruto;Tiziana Spadafina;Laura Ciucchi;Lisa A. Lewis

  • Binding of Complement Factor H (fH) to Neisseria meningitidis Is Specific for Human fH and Inhibits Complement Activation by Rat and Rabbit Sera

    Dan M. Granoff;Jo Anne Welsch;Sanjay Ram

  • The Meningococcal Vaccine Candidate Neisserial Surface Protein A (NspA) Binds to Factor H and Enhances Meningococcal Resistance to Complement

    Lisa A. Lewis;Jutamas Ngampasutadol;Ruth Wallace;Jane E. A. Reid

  • The role of porins in neisserial pathogenesis and immunity.

    Paola Massari;Sanjay Ram;Heather Macleod;Lee M. Wetzler

  • Interactions between Neisseria meningitidis and the complement system

    Muriel C. Schneider;Rachel M. Exley;Sanjay Ram;Robert B. Sim

  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Drug Resistance, Mouse Models, and Vaccine Development.

    Peter A Rice;William M Shafer;Sanjay Ram;Ann E Jerse

  • Complement-dependent synergistic bactericidal activity of antibodies against factor H-binding protein, a sparsely distributed meningococcal vaccine antigen.

    Jo Anne Welsch;Sanjay Ram;Oliver Koeberling;Dan M Granoff

  • The contrasting mechanisms of serum resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and group B Neisseria meningitidis.

    S Ram;F.G Mackinnon;S Gulati;D.P McQuillen

  • Overcoming innate immune barriers that impede AAV gene therapy vectors.

    Manish Muhuri;Yukiko Maeda;Hong Ma;Sanjay Ram

  • Human Factor H Interacts Selectively with Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Results in Species-Specific Complement Evasion

    Jutamas Ngampasutadol;Sanjay Ram;Sunita Gulati;Sarika Agarwal

  • Phosphoethanolamine Substitution of Lipid A and Resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides and Complement-Mediated Killing by Normal Human Serum

    Lisa A. Lewis;Biswa Choudhury;Jacqueline T. Balthazar;Larry E. Martin;Larry E. Martin

  • Binding of the complement inhibitor C4bp to serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis

    Hanna Jarva;Sanjay Ram;Ulrich Vogel;Anna M. Blom

  • A Meningococcal Factor H Binding Protein Mutant That Eliminates Factor H Binding Enhances Protective Antibody Responses to Vaccination

    Peter T. Beernink;Jutamas Shaughnessy;Emily M. Braga;Qin Liu

  • The Lip Lipoprotein from Neisseria gonorrhoeae Stimulates Cytokine Release and NF-κB Activation in Epithelial Cells in a Toll-like Receptor 2-dependent Manner

    Philip L. Fisette;Sanjay Ram;Jorunn M. Andersen;Wen Guo

  • Mature neutrophils suppress T cell immunity in ovarian cancer microenvironment.

    Kelly L. Singel;Tiffany R. Emmons;Anm Nazmul H. Khan;Paul C. Mayor

  • Relative Contributions of Dectin-1 and Complement to Immune Responses to Particulate β-Glucans

    Haibin Huang;Gary R. Ostroff;Chrono K. Lee;Sarika Agarwal

  • Binding of vitronectin by the Moraxella catarrhalis UspA2 protein interferes with late stages of the complement cascade.

    Ahmed S. Attia;Sanjay Ram;Peter A. Rice;Eric J. Hansen

  • Binding of complement factor H to loop 5 of porin protein 1A: A molecular mechanism of serum resistance of non-sialylated Neisseria gonorrhoeae

    Sanjay Ram;Daniel P. McQuillen;Sunita Gulati;Christopher Elkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter A. Rice
Peter A. Rice University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Anna M. Blom
Anna M. Blom Lund University
Dan M. Granoff
Dan M. Granoff UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
George W. Reed
George W. Reed University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Ulrich Vogel
Ulrich Vogel University of Würzburg
Ajit Varki
Ajit Varki University of California, San Diego
William M. Shafer
William M. Shafer Emory University
Stuart M. Levitz
Stuart M. Levitz University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Matthias Mörgelin
Matthias Mörgelin Lund University
Lars Björck
Lars Björck Lund University

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