Roopa Ramamoorthi brings a diverse scientific background in drug development, bacteriology, biotechnology, and engineering. Prior to joining UCSF, Roopa was Associate Director Partnering and Scientific Affairs at BIO Ventures for Global Health, where her focus was putting together collaborations between academic, non profit and pharmaceutical organizations to accelerate the development of drugs, vaccines and diagnostics for Neglected Tropical Diseases, TB and Malaria for the WIPO Re:Search Consortium. She worked for Bayer in California for more than five years as a scientist and senior scientist in development of antibody and other biological therapeutics and evaluating and bringing in platform technologies and has experience in science and technology consulting with Strategic Perspectives.
Roopa received her Ph.D. in biochemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Washington and at MIT. She is a registered patent agent and holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. Roopa grew up in India where she received her B.S. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai.
Small-molecule activation of the tumor suppressor kinase LKB1 via the pseudokinase STRAD.
Kretschmer LS, Mitchell DC, Liu J, Leak L, Turnham RE, Wang L, Wang Z, He C, Ding L, Adler M, Kellett T, Keith A, Hwang YC, Chan GKL, Gottschalk RLG, Li W, Chan LM, Ramamoorthi R, Lively S, Drakas RA, Ramani V, Qing T, Verba KA, Bivona T, Ostrem JML, Beresis RT, Gordan JD
Cell chemical biology, 2026
Resolving fibrosis by stimulating HSC-dependent extracellular matrix degradation.
Sharma S, Prathigudupu V, Cable C, Serrano LR, Nerella S, Chen A, Hassan G, Lakins J, Valenzuela CL, Tsukui T, Ramamoorthi R, Kim JJ, Willenbring H, Mattis AN, Volk RF, Zaro BW, Coon JJ, Beresis R, DeGrado WF, Weaver VM, Christenson SA, Jo H, Chen JY
Beresis R, Prathigudupu V, Cable C, Yu A, Adler M, Ramamoorthi R, Yeon SK, Gordan JD, Sharma S, DeGrado WF, Zaro B, Chen JY, Jo H
ACS omega, 2025
Fighting Plasmodium chloroquine resistance with acetylenic chloroquine analogues.
Cortopassi WA, Gunderson E, Annunciato Y, Silva AES, Dos Santos Ferreira A, Garcia Teles CB, Pimentel AS, Ramamoorthi R, Gazarini ML, Meneghetti MR, Guido RVC, Pereira DB, Jacobson MP, Krettli AU, Caroline C Aguiar A
International journal for parasitology. Drugs and drug resistance, 2022
Ramamoorthi R, Graef KM, Dent J
WIPO Re:Search: Accelerating anthelmintic development through cross-sector partnerships.
Ramamoorthi R, Graef KM, Dent J
International journal for parasitology. Drugs and drug resistance, 2014
WIPO re:search: catalyzing collaborations to accelerate product development for diseases of poverty.
Ramamoorthi R, Graef KM, Krattiger A, Dent JC
Chemical reviews, 2014
Dent J, Ramamoorthi R, Graef K, Nelson LM, Wichard JC
Parsons CJ, Bradford BU, Pan CQ, Cheung E, Schauer M, Knorr A, Krebs B, Kraft S, Zahn S, Brocks B, Feirt N, Mei B, Cho MS, Ramamoorthi R, Roldan G, Ng P, Lum P, Hirth-Dietrich C, Tomkinson A, Brenner DA
Sequence of the Corynebacterium glutamicum pyruvate carboxylase gene.
Koffas MA, Ramamoorthi R, Pine WA, Sinskey AJ, Stephanopoulos G
Characterization and nucleotide sequence of pqqE and pqqF in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1.
Springer AL, Ramamoorthi R, Lidstrom ME
Journal of bacteriology, 1996
Ramamoorthi R, Lidstrom ME
Journal of bacteriology, 1995
Morris CJ, Biville F, Turlin E, Lee E, Ellermann K, Fan WH, Ramamoorthi R, Springer AL, Lidstrom ME
Journal of bacteriology, 1994