Sami J Barmada, MD, PhD

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Angela Dobson Welch and Lyndon Welch Research Professor
Associate Professor of Neurology
Medical School
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Sami J Barmada, MD, PhD
portrait of Sami Jihad Barmada
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      Taubman Institute
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      Caswell Diabetes Institute

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    • Journal Article
      Associations of Plasma GDF15, CRP, and IL-6 With Cognitive Trajectories in Patients With Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration
      Chen C, Saloner R, Paolillo EW, Cadwallader CJ, VandeBunte AM, Lario Lago A, Rademakers R, Ramos EM, Considine CM, Weintraub S, Bayram E, Pantelyat A, Sullivan AC, Staffaroni AM, Kornak J, Tipton PW, Barmada S, Gendron T, Lapid MI, Kremers WK, Masdeu JC, Appleby BS, Bozoki AC, Clark DG, Darby RR, Dickerson BC, Domoto-Reilly K, Galasko D, Ghoshal N, Graff-Radford NR, Grant IM, Hales CM, Honig LS, Hsiung G-YR, Huey ED, Irwin DJ, Knopman DS, Kwan JY, Léger GC, Litvan I, Mackenzie IR, Mendez MF, Onyike CU, Pascual B, Roberson ED, Snyder A, Tartaglia MC, Wint D, Forsberg LK, Heuer HW, Boeve BF, Rosen HJ, Rojas JC, Boxer AL, Casaletto KB, Abdullah M, Apostolova L, Botha H, Brushaber D, Day GS, Dickson D, Dwosh E, Faber K, Fields JA, Fong JC, Foroud T, Gavrilova R, Geschwind DH, Goldman J, Graff-Radford J, Jones DT, Kantarci K, Kolander T, Lee S, Ljubenkov P, Lucente D, Massimo L, McGinnis S, McMillan CT, Mester C, Miyagawa T, Molden J, Paulson H, Petrucelli L, Ramanan V, Rankin KP, Rascovsky K, Rhoads KW, Savica R, Seeley W, Syrjanen J, Taylor J, Vandebergh M, Wong B, Yokoyama J. Neurology Open Access, 2026 Aug 31; 2 (3): DOI:10.1212/wn9.0000000000000142
    • Journal Article
      Correction: CTE-type tau filaments in Alzheimer's disease with co-morbid LATE-NC.
      Rana JK, Pinarbasi ES, Fernandez MG, Navratna V, Conway KS, Lieberman AP, Barmada SJ, Mosalaganti S. Acta Neuropathol, 2026 Aug 20; 152 (1): DOI:10.1007/s00401-026-03069-4
      PMID: 42622684
    • Journal Article
      CTE-type tau filaments in Alzheimer's disease with co-morbid LATE-NC.
      Rana JK, Pinarbasi ES, Fernandez MG, Navratna V, Conway KS, Lieberman AP, Barmada SJ, Mosalaganti S. Acta Neuropathol, 2026 Jul 7; 152 (1): DOI:10.1007/s00401-026-03052-z
      PMID: PMC13337903
    • Journal Article
      Isoform-specific steric zippers drive aberrant assembly and mislocalization of shortened TDP-43.
      Copley KE, Dykstra MM, Miller MR, Linsenmeier M, Lai L, Wang Y, Chang Y-W, Barmada SJ, Shorter J. Sci Adv, 2026 Jun 26; 12 (26): eady0256 DOI:10.1126/sciadv.ady0256
      PMID: PMC13292936
    • Journal Article
      ADAR2-Mediated RNA Editing Promotes TDP-43 Nuclear Export and Alters RNA Binding.
      Moore S, Julian DL, Alsop E, Gittings LM, Lorenzini I, McMillan M, Macklin-Isquierdo S, Lehmkuhl E, Kalab P, de Paula Moreira D, Hayes L, Donnelly C, Barmada SJ, Zarnescu DC, Van Keuren-Jensen K, Sattler R. bioRxiv, 2026 Jun 25; DOI:10.64898/2026.06.22.730622
      PMID: PMC13321060
    • Proceeding / Abstract / Poster
      CTE-Type Tau Filaments in LATE-NC
      Pinarbasi E, Rana J, Fernandez M, Navratna V, Conway K, Lieberman A, Nelson P, Barmada S, Mosalaganti S. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, 2026 Jun 3; 85 (6): 561 - 694. DOI:10.1093/jnen/nlag044
    • Preprint
      Neurodegeneration risk variants promote lysosomal TMEM106B fibril accumulation.
      Replogle JM, Marks JD, Fernandez MG, Yuan H, Yu D, Winters E, Jawahar VM, Deshmukh R, Sutanto R, Kowal I, Frankenfield A, Shi R, Carlomagno Y, Jansen-West K, Todd TW, Kopach A, Sandra Ndayambaje I, Qi YA, Shantaraman A, Pozo-Cabanell I, Sheth U, Yue M, Duong D, Ferguson SM, Bennett DA, Damme M, Boeve BF, Day GS, Kellman B, Skarnes WC, Petersen RC, Josephs KA, Graff-Radford NR, McDonough JA, Prudencio M, Barmada SJ, Zhang Y, Hao L, DeTure M, Rawlinson B, Engelberg-Cook E, Casey MC, Perez N, Dickson DW, Wingo A, Liu Y, Seyfried NT, Wingo TS, Mosalaganti S, Petrucelli L, Ward ME. 2026 Mar 28; DOI:10.64898/2026.03.26.714634
      PMID: 41929000
    • Journal Article
      Inhibiting Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 Suppresses TDP-43-Mediated Neurotoxicity in a Caspase-Dependent Manner.
      White MA, Crowley L, Massenzio F, Li X, Niblock M, Milani S, Coleman MP, Barmada SJ, Sreedharan J. Mol Neurobiol, 2026 Jan 17; 63 (1): 370 DOI:10.1007/s12035-026-05675-5
      PMID: PMC12812098

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