Ismael Al-Ramahi

Ismael Al-Ramahi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

(832) 824-8122

Email

ismael.alramahi@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor: Molecular and Human Genetics
Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute
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Houston, TX, US

Addresses

Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Office): 1250 Moursund St.
Room: Suite-N1025.20
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 824-8122

Education

BS from Univerisdad Autonoma: 06/2001 - Madrid, Spain

PhD from Universidad Autonoma: 11/2007 - Madrid, Spain

Postdoctoral Fellowship at ��Ƶ of Medicine: Houston, United States

Websites

Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases

The Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases (CAND) integrates cross-disciplinary clinical, research, and educational programs to advance precision diagnosis and personalized therapies for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurodegenerative conditions.

Selected Publications

George A Edwards 3rd, Caleb A Wood, Yang He, Quynh Nguyen, Peter J Kim, Ruben Gomez-Gutierrez, Kyung-Won Park, Yong Xu, Cody Zurhellen, Ismael Al-Ramahi, Joanna L Jankowsky. " " Acta Neuropathol.. 2024 Mar 25; 147 (61)
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T. Bourquard, K. Lee, Ismael Al-Ramahi (Co-First), M. Pham, D. Shapiro, Y. Lagisetty, S. Soleimani, S. Mota, K. Wilhelm, M. Samieinasab, Y. W. Kim, E. Huh, J. Asmussen, P. Katsonis, J. Botas, O. Lichtarge. " " Nat Commun.. 2023 May 13; 14 (2765)
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Al-Ramahi I, Lu B, Di Paola S, Pang K, de Haro M, Peluso I, Gallego-Flores T, Malik NT, Erikson K, Bleiberg BA, Avalos M, Fan G, Rivers LE, Laitman AM, Diaz-García JR, Hild M, Palacino J, Liu Z, Medina DL, Botas J.. " " Cell Syst.. 2018 Jul ;
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Young Won Kim, Ismael Al-Ramahi (Co-First), Amanda Koire, Stephen J Wilson, Daniel M Konecki, Samantha Mota, Shirin Soleimani, Juan Botas, Olivier Lichtarge. " " Alzheimers Dement.. 2020 Dec 7; 17 (5)
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Al-Ramahi I, Giridharan SSP, Chen YC, Patnaik S, Safren N, Hasegawa J, de Haro M, Wagner Gee AK, Titus SA, Jeong H, Clarke J, Krainc D, Zheng W, Irvine RF, Barmada S, Ferrer M, Southall N, Weisman LS, Botas J, Marugan JJ.. " " Elife. 2017 Dec ;
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select Stephens MC, Li J, Mair M, Moore J, Zhu K, Tarkunde A, Amoh B, Perez AM, Bhakare A, Guo F, Shulman JM, Al-Ramahi I, Botas J. " " Am J Hum Genet. 2025 May 1; 112 (5) : 1081-1096.
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Spargo TP, Sands CF, Juan IR,..., Hollis B, Cuddapah VA, Zoghbi HY, Shulman JM, Petrovski S, Al-Ramahi I, Tachmazidou I, Dhindsa RS. " " Cell Rep. 2025 Mar 25; 44 (3)
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Moore J, Wu T, Dhindsa J, El Fadel O, Le A, Perez A, Amoh B, Tarkunde A, Zhu KF, Avalos M, Dammer EB, Duong DM, Seyfried NT, Shulman JM, Al-Ramahi I, Botas J. " " NPJ Parkinsons Dis. 2025 Mar 11; 11 (46)
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Wu T, Deger JM, Ye H, Guo C, Dhindsa J, Pekarek BT, Al-Ouran R, Liu Z, Al-Ramahi Ismael, Botas J, Shulman JM.. " " Elife. 2023 May 23; 12
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Yu M, Ye H, De-Paula RB, Mangleburg CG, Wu T, Lee TV, Li Y, Duong D, Phillips B, Cruchaga C, Allen GI, Seyfried NT, Al-Ramahi Ismael, Botas J, Shulman JM.. " " PLoS Genet.. 2023 May 18; 19 (5)
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R. Benyair, S. S. P. Giridharan, P. Rivero-Ríos, J. Hasegawa, E. Bristow, Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen, M. D. Shmueli, V. Fishbain-Yoskovitz, Y. Merbl, L. M. Sharkey, H. L. Paulson, P. I. Hanson, S. Patnaik, Ismael Al-Ramahi, J. Botas, J. Marugan, L. S. Weisman. " " Autophagy Rep.. 2023 Apr 13; 2(1) (2166722)
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Jiyoen Kim, Maria de Haro, Ismael Al-Ramahi, Lorena Laura Garaicoechea, Hyun-Hwan Jeong, Jun Young Sonn, Bakhos Tadros, Zhandong Liu, Juan Botas, Huda Yahya Zoghbi. " " Neuron. 2023 Mar 15; 111 (6) : 824-838.
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Y. Lagisetty, T. Bourquard, Ismael Al-Ramahi, C. G.Mangleburg, S. Mota, S. Soleimani, J. M. Shulman, J. Botas, K. Lee, O. Lichtarge. " " Cell Genom.. 2022 Sep 14; 2(9) (100162)
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J. Li, B. K. Amoh, E. McCormick, A. Tarkunde, K. F. Zhu, A. Perez, M. Mair, J. Moore, J. M Shulman, Ismael Al-Ramahi, J. Botas. " " Hum Mol Genet .. 2023 Jan 27; 32 (4) : 685–695.
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Won-Seok Lee, Ismael Al-Ramahi, Hyun-Hwan Jeong, Youjin Jang, Tao Lin, Carolyn J. Adamski, Laura A. Lavery, Smruti Rath, Ronald Richman, Vitaliy V. Bondar, Elizabeth Alcala, Jean-Pierre Revelli, Harry T. Orr, Zhandong Liu, Juan Botas, and Huda Y. Zoghbi. " " J Clin Invest .. 2022 May 2; 132 (9)
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Todd M Greco, Christopher Secker, Eduardo Silva Ramos, Joel D Federspiel, Jeh-Ping Liu, Alma M Perez, Ismael Al-Ramahi, Jeffrey P Cantle, Jeffrey B Carroll, Juan Botas, Scott O Zeitlin, Erich E Wanker, Ileana M Cristea. " " Cell Syst.. 2022 Apr 20; 13 (4) : 304-320.
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Xiaodan Zhang, Xue Wen, Ismael Al-Ramahi, Juan Botas, Boxun Lu, Yuhua Fu. " " Neurosci Bull.. 2022 Jan ; 38 (1) : 99-103.
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Onur TS, Laitman A, Zhao H, Keyho R, Kim H, Wang J, Mair M, Wang H, Li L, Perez A, de Haro M, Wan YW, Allen G, Lu B, Al-Ramahi I, Liu Z, Botas J.. " " Elife.. 2021 Apr 19;
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Suart CE, Perez AM, Al-Ramahi I, Maiuri T, Botas J, Truant R.. " " Hum Mol Genet.. 2021 May 17; 30 (8) : 706-715.
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Lee WS, Lavery L, Rousseaux MWC, Rutledge EB, Jang Y, Wan YW, Wu SR, Kim W, Al-Ramahi I, Rath S, Adamski CJ, Bondar VV, Tewari A, Soleimani S, Mota S, Yalamanchili HK, Orr HT, Liu Z, Botas J, Zoghbi HY.. " " EMBO J .. 2021 Apr 1; 40 (7)
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Huichalaf CH, Al-Ramahi I, Park KW, Grunke SD, Lu N, de Haro M, El-Zein K, Gallego-Flores T, Perez AM, Jung SY, Botas J, Zoghbi HY, Jankowsky JL.. " " Hum Mol Genet .. 2019 Jun 15; 28 (12) : 2014-2029.
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Maxime W.C. Rousseaux, Gabriel E. Vázquez-Vélez, Ismael Al-Ramahi, Hyun-Hwan Jeong, Aleksandar Bajic, Jean-Pierre Revelli, Hui Ye, Emily T. Phan, Jennifer M. Deger, Alma M. Perez, Ji-Yoen Kim, Laura A. Lavery, Qikia Xu, Mamie Z. Li, et. al.. " " Journal of Neuroscience. 2018 Sep ;
Lasagna-Reeves CA, de Haro M, Hao S, Park J, Rousseaux MW, Al-Ramahi I, Jafar-Nejad P, Vilanova-Velez L, See L, De Maio A, Nitschke L, Wu Z, Troncoso JC, Westbrook TF, Tang J, Botas J, Zoghbi HY.. " " Neuron. 2016 Oct ;
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Rousseaux MW, de Haro M, Lasagna-Reeves CA, De Maio A, Park J, Jafar-Nejad P, Al-Ramahi I, Sharma A, See L, Lu N, Vilanova-Velez L, Klisch TJ, Westbrook TF, Troncoso JC, Botas J, Zoghbi HY.. " " Elife. 2016 Oct ;
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Soriano S, Calap-Quintana P, Llorens JV, Al-Ramahi I, Gutiérrez L, Martínez-Sebastián MJ, Botas J, Moltó MD.. " " PLoS One.. 2016 Jul ;
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Langfelder P, Cantle JP, Chatzopoulou D, Wang N, Gao F, Al-Ramahi I, Lu XH, Ramos EM, El-Zein K, Zhao Y, Deverasetty S, Tebbe A, Schaab C, Lavery DJ, Howland D, Kwak S, Botas J, Aaronson JS, Rosinski J, Coppola G, Horvath S, Yang XW.. " " Nat Neurosci.. 2016 Apr ;
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El-Daher MT, Hangen E, Bruyère J, Poizat G, Al-Ramahi I, Pardo R, Bourg N, Souquere S, Mayet C, Pierron G, Lévêque-Fort S, Botas J, Humbert S, Saudou F.. " " Embo J. 2015 Jul ;
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Calap-Quintana P, Soriano S, Llorens JV, Al-Ramahi I, Botas J, Moltó MD, Martínez-Sebastián MJ.. " " PLoS One.. 2015 Jul ;
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Yao Y, Cui X, Al-Ramahi I, Sun X, Li B, Hou J, Difiglia M, Palacino J, Wu ZY, Ma L, Botas J, Lu B.. " " Elife.. 2015 Mar ;
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Lu XH, Mattis VB, Wang N, Al-Ramahi I, van den Berg N, Fratantoni SA, Waldvogel H, Greiner E, Osmand A, Elzein K, Xiao J, Dijkstra S, de Pril R, Vinters HV, Faull R, Signer E, Kwak S, Marugan JJ, Botas J, Fischer DF, Svendsen CN, Munoz-Sanjuan I, Yang XW.. " " Sci Transl Med.. 2014 Dec ;
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Park J, Al-Ramahi I, Tan Q, Mollema N, Diaz-Garcia JR, Gallego-Flores T, Lu HC, Lagalwar S, Duvick L, Kang H, Lee Y, Jafar-Nejad P, Sayegh LS, Richman R, Liu X, Gao Y, Shaw CA, Arthur JS, Orr HT, Westbrook TF, Botas J, Zoghbi HY.. " " Nature.. 2013 Jun ;
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de Haro M, Al-Ramahi I, Jones KR, Holth JK, Timchenko LT, Botas J.. " " PLoS Genet.. 2013 Apr ;
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Lu B, Al-Ramahi I, Valencia A, Wang Q, Berenshteyn F, Yang H, Gallego-Flores T, Ichcho S, Lacoste A, Hild M, Difiglia M, Botas J, Palacino J.. " " Nat Neurosci.. 2013 May ;
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Miller JP, Yates BE, Al-Ramahi I, Berman AE, Sanhueza M, Kim E, de Haro M, DeGiacomo F, Torcassi C, Holcomb J, Gafni J, Mooney SD, Botas J, Ellerby LM, Hughes RE.. " " PLoS Genet.. 2012 Nov ;
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Shirasaki DI, Greiner ER, Al-Ramahi I, Gray M, Boontheung P, Geschwind DH, Botas J, Coppola G, Horvath S, Loo JA, Yang XW.. " " Neuron.. 2012 Jul ;
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Zhang N, Li B, Al-Ramahi I, Cong X, Held JM, Kim E, Botas J, Gibson BW, Ellerby LM.. " " J Biol Chem.. 2012 Jun ;
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Miller JP, Holcomb J, Al-Ramahi I, de Haro M, Gafni J, Zhang N, Kim E, Sanhueza M, Torcassi C, Kwak S, Botas J, Hughes RE, Ellerby LM.. " " Neuron.. 2010 Jul ;
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de Haro M, Al-Ramahi I, Benito-Sipos J, López-Arias B, Dorado B, Veenstra JA, Herrero P.. " " Cell Tissue Res.. 2010 Feb ;
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Al-Ramahi I, Pérez AM, Lim J, Zhang M, Sorensen R, de Haro M, Branco J, Pulst SM, Zoghbi HY, Botas J.. " " PLoS Genet.. 2007 Dec ;
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Branco J, Al-Ramahi I, Ukani L, Pérez AM, Fernandez-Funez P, Rincón-Limas D, Botas J.. " " Hum Mol Genet.. 2008 Feb ;
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Al-Ramahi I, Lam YC, Chen HK, de Gouyon B, Zhang M, Pérez AM, Branco J, de Haro M, Patterson C, Zoghbi HY, Botas J.. " " J Biol Chem.. 2006 Sep ;
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de Haro M, Al-Ramahi I, De Gouyon B, Ukani L, Rosa A, Faustino NA, Ashizawa T, Cooper TA, Botas J.. " " Hum Mol Genet.. 2006 Jul ;
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Funding

Decoding the impact of sex differences on Alzheimer's disease risk #R01AG074009: $6,009,110.00 (06/30/2021 - 07/01/2026); Grant funding from NIH-NIA; Alzheimer's disease affects approximately twice as many females compared to males. The reasons for this difference are largely unexplored. We combine computational approaches applied to whole exome/genome sequencing of patients and controls with in vivo (Drosophila, cells, mice) approaches to identify genes that carry differential risk of causing Alzheimer's disease in females and in males.

2016-2019 Behavioral and cell-based complementary screens to identify druggable targets modulating tau protein levels #5R21NS096395: Grant funding from NIH-NIA

2015 - Pioneer SCA Translational Research Award: Grant funding from National Ataxia Foundation

2011 - Brain Disorders and Development Training Grant: NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award

2009 - John J. Wasmuth Postdoctoral Fellowship: Hereditary Disease Foundation

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