Doctoral Degree
Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson (2017)
Master's Degree
M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University (2019)
Research Interests
Breast Cancer; Population Science; Clinical Trials; Chemoprevention; Recurrence
Primary Preceptor/Branch
Brandy Heckman-Stoddard, Ph.D., M.P.H., Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP)
Secondary Preceptor/Branch
Serban Negoita, M.D., Dr.P.H., Data Quality, Analysis, and Interpretation Branch (DQAIB), Surveillance Research Program (SRP), Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences (DCCPS)
Publications
Negoita S, Ramirez-Pena E. Prevention of Late Recurrence: An Increasingly Important Target for Breast Cancer Research and Control. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2022 Mar 8;114(3):340-341. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djab203. PMID: 34747495.
Arnold JM, Gu F, Ambati CR, Rasaily U, Ramirez-Pena E, Joseph R, Manikkam M, Martin RS, Charles C, Pan Y, Chatterjee SS, Den Hollander P, Zhang W, Nagi C, Sikora AG, Rowley D, Putluri N, Zhang XH, Karanam B, Mani SA, Sreekumar A. Correction: UDP-glucose 6-dehydrogenase regulates hyaluronic acid production and promotes breast cancer progression. Oncogene. 2020 Apr;39(15):3226-3228. doi: 10.1038/s41388-020-1252-1. PMID: 32214199.
Arnold JM, Gu F, Ambati CR, Rasaily U, Ramirez-Pena E, Joseph R, Manikkam M, San Martin R, Charles C, Pan Y, Chatterjee SS, Den Hollander P, Zhang W, Nagi C, Sikora AG, Rowley D, Putluri N, Zhang XH, Karanam B, Mani SA, Sreekumar A. UDP-glucose 6-dehydrogenase regulates hyaluronic acid production and promotes breast cancer progression. Oncogene. 2020 Apr;39(15):3089-3101. doi: 10.1038/s41388-019-0885-4. Epub 2019 Jul 15. PMID: 31308490.
Ramirez-Peña E, Arnold J, Shivakumar V, Joseph R, Vidhya Vijay G, den Hollander P, Bhangre N, Allegakoen P, Prasad R, Conley Z, Matés JM, Márquez J, Chang JT, Vasaikar S, Soundararajan R, Sreekumar A, Mani SA. The Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition Promotes Glutamine Independence by Suppressing GLS2 Expression. Cancers (Basel). 2019 Oct 22;11(10):1610. doi: 10.3390/cancers11101610. PMID: 31652551.
Vijay GV, Zhao N, Den Hollander P, Toneff MJ, Joseph R, Pietila M, Taube JH, Sarkar TR, Ramirez-Pena E, Werden SJ, Shariati M, Gao R, Sobieski M, Stephan CC, Sphyris N, Miura N, Davies P, Chang JT, Soundararajan R, Rosen JM, Mani SA. GSK3β regulates epithelial-mesenchymal transition and cancer stem cell properties in triple-negative breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res. 2019 Mar 7;21(1):37. doi: 10.1186/s13058-019-1125-0. PMID: 30845991.
Jia D, Jolly MK, Tripathi SC, Den Hollander P, Huang B, Lu M, Celiktas M, Ramirez-Peña E, Ben-Jacob E, Onuchic JN, Hanash SM, Mani SA, Levine H. Distinguishing mechanisms underlying EMT tristability. Cancer Converg. 2017;1(1):2. doi: 10.1186/s41236-017-0005-8. Epub 2017 Nov 1. PMID: 29623961.
Bhowmik SK, Ramirez-Peña E, Arnold JM, Putluri V, Sphyris N, Michailidis G, Putluri N, Ambs S, Sreekumar A, Mani SA. EMT-induced metabolite signature identifies poor clinical outcome. Oncotarget. 2015 Dec 15;6(40):42651-60. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.4765. PMID: 26315396.