Sesh Sundararaman, MD,PhD
Clinical Associate of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases)
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Colket Translational Research Building, Room 10100
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Colket Translational Research Building, Room 10100
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BA (Biology and Chemistry)
Williams College, 2008.
PhD (Cell and Molecular Biology)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , 2015.
MD
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , 2017.
Permanent linkBA (Biology and Chemistry)
Williams College, 2008.
PhD (Cell and Molecular Biology)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , 2015.
MD
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , 2017.
Selected Publications
Sundararaman SA, Miller JJ, Daley EC, O’Brien KA, Kasak P, Daniels AM, Edwards RL, Heidel KM, Bague DA, Wilson MA, Koepler AJ, Kourtoglou EC,White AD, August SA, Apple GA, Rouamba RW, Durand AJ, Esteb JJ, Muller FL, Johnson RJ, Hoops GC, Dowd CS, John AO.: Prodrug activation in malaria parasites mediated by an imported erythrocyte esterase, acylpeptide hydrolase (APEH). PNAS.org 10: 122, March 2025.Sundararaman SA: Post-Artesunate Delayed Hemolysis in Pediatric Patients in the United States. ASTMH 2024 Annual Meeting November 2024.
Sundararaman SA: Post-Artesunate Delayed Hemolysis in Pediatric Patients in the United States. ASTMH 2024 Annual Meeting November 2024.
Pilling OA, Sundararaman SA, Brisson D, Beiting DP : Turning the needle into the haystack: Culture-independent amplification of complex microbial genomes directly from their native environment. PLoS Pathog 20(9), September 2024.
Sundararaman SA, Hanze Villavicencio KL, Roper B, Wang Z, Davis AKF, Mayhew JA, Wang ML, Tang NL, Soma VL, Shust GF, Feeney ME, Trehan I, Weatherhead JE, John CC, Gerber JS, John AO. : Post-Artesunate Delayed Hemolysis in Pediatric Malaria Patients in the United States. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc 10: 533-536, August 2024.
Sundararaman SA, Kasak P, Daniels A, John AO, : Leveraging the Plasmodium falciparum esterase repertoire to design parasite-specific prodrugs. St. Jude-PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Conference March 2024.
Liu W, Li Y, Shaw KS, Learn GH, Plenderleith LJ, Malenke JA, Sundararaman SA, Ramirez MA, Crystal PA, Smith AG, Bibollet-Ruche F, Ayouba A, Locatelli S, Esteban A, Mouacha F, Guichet E, Butel C, Ahuka-Mundeke S, Inogwabini BI, Ndjango JB, Speede S, Sanz CM, Morgan DB, Gonder MK, Kranzusch PJ, Walsh PD, Georgiev AV, Muller MN, Piel AK, Stewart FA, Wilson ML, Pusey AE, Cui L, Wang Z, Färnert A, Sutherland CJ, Nolder D, Hart JA, Hart TB, Bertolani P, Gillis A, LeBreton M, Tafon B, Kiyang J, Djoko CF, Schneider BS, Wolfe ND, Mpoudi-Ngole E, Delaporte E, Carter R, Culleton RL, Shaw GM, Rayner JC, Peeters M, Hahn BH, Sharp PM : African origin of the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax. Nat Commun February 2024.
Sundararaman SA, John AO: Adenosine sulfamates: Next generation of antimalarials. Cell Host & Microbe Committee Report 2022.
Sundararaman SA, John AO: Prevention of malaria in pregnancy: The threat of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance. Front In Pediatr 2022.
Plenderleith LJ, Liu W, MacLean OA, Li Y, Loy DE, Sundararaman SA, Bibbolet-Ruche F, Learn GH, Hahn BH, Sharp PM. : Adaptive Evolution of RH5 in Ape Plasmodium species of the Laverania Subgenus. ASM Journals 9(1), January 2018