Mariarita Santi, M.D., Ph.D.

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Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Contact information
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
324 South 34th Street
Room 5NW26
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-3184
Fax: 215- 590-1736
Education:
B.S.
Classic Lyceum Reggio Emilia, Italy, 1974.
M.D.
Modena University Medical School, Modena, Italy, 1982.
Ph.D. (Pharmacology)
Modena University , 1988.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

Pediatric and Adult Brain Tumors, Pediatric and Adult Muscle Disease, Tumor Banks

Selected Publications

Brandi M. Golden, Scott K. Tucker, Marco Carpenter, Mariarita Santi, Angela N. Viaene, William H. Peranteau, Scott P. Bartlett1, MD; Jesse A. Taylor and Eric C. Liao: Integration of clinical, radiographic, histologic and molecular findings to diagnose craniofacial fibrous dysplasia. Journal of craniofacial surgery April 2025.

Rivers Fragneau, Sylvie Fraitag, Paul G. Kemps, Zofia Hélias-Rodzewicz, Somak Roy, Benjamin Bonsang, Allison L. Bartlett, Subhra Dhar, Martin Jankofsky, Jozef Zlocha, Karel Svojgr, Lenka Krsková, Andrica C.H. de Vries, Robert M. Verdijk, Jan A.M. van Laar, Roos J. Leguit Philippe Drabent, Eric D. Carlsen, Jonhan Ho, Arivarasan D. Karunamurthy, Mariarita Santi, Florian Babor, Robert Lorsbach, Astrid G.S. van Halteren, Sebastien Héritier, Eli L. Diamond, Benjamin H. Durham, Ashish R. Kumar, A. Bhattacharya, Julien Haroche, Jean Donadieu, Arndt Borkhardt, Jennifer L. Picarsic, Jean-François Emile,: NTRK1-rearranged histiocytosis: clinicopathologic and molecular features Blood Advances March 2025.

Zhuangzhuang Geng; Eric Wafula; Ryan J. Corbett; Yuanchao Zhang; Run Jin; Krutika S. Gaonkar; Sangeeta Shukla; Komal S. Rathi; Dave Hill; Aditya Lahiri; Daniel P. Miller; Alex Sickler; Kelsey Keith; Christopher Blackden; Antonia Chroni; Miguel A. Brown; Adam A. Kraya; Brian R. Rood; Adam C. Resnick; Nicholas Van Kuren; John M. Maris; Alvin Farrel; Mateusz P. Koptyra; Gerri R. Trooskin; Noel Coleman; Yuankun Zhu; Stephanie Stefankiewicz; Zied Abdullaev; Asif Chinwalla; Mariarita Santi; Ammar S. Naqvi; Jennifer L. Mason; Carl J. Koschmann; Xiaoyan Huang; Sharon J. Diskin; Kenneth Aldape; Bailey K. Farrow; Weiping Ma; Bo Zhang; Brian M. Ennis; Sarah Tasian; Saksham Phul; Matthew R. Leuder; Chuwei Zhong; Joseph M. Dybas; Pei Wang; Deanne Taylor; Jo Lynne Rokita: The Open Pediatric Cancer Project. GigaScience GIGA-D-25-86 SUBMITTED March 2025.

Adrian B. Levine, Julie Bennett, Prabhumallikarjun Pati, Ian Burns, Robert Siddaway, Cyril Li, Joseline Haizel-Cobbina, Mansuba Rana, Richard Yuditskiy, Andrew Son1, Yoshiko Nakano, Palak Patel, I-Chen Ho, Craig Erker, Chantel Cacciotti, Mariarita Santi, Ernest J Nelson, Sylvia Cheng, Christopher Dunham, Bev Wilson, Karina Black, Frank van Landeghem, Ana S Guerreiro Stuecklin, Annette Weiser, Valerie Larouche, Panagiota Giannakouros, Adriana Fonseca, Lane Williamson, Hazel Ware, Igor L Fernandes, Ashley S Plant-Fox, et all. Corresponding authors: Michael Dewan, Uri Tabori and Cynthia Hawkins : Disseminated pediatric low-grade glioma and hydrocephalus: a multinational consortium analysis of incidence and mortality Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 2025.

Cynthia Hawkins, Adrian Levine, Julie Bennett, Prabhumallikarjun Patil, Ian Burns, Robert Siddaway, Cyril Li, Joseline Haizel-Cobbina, Mansuba Rana, Richard Yuditskiy, Andrew Son, Yoshiko Nakano, Palak Patel, I-chen Ho, Michelle Ku, Liana Nobre, Alexander Lyons, José Velázquez Vega, Matthew Schniederjan, Craig Erker, Chantel Cacciotti, Mariarita Santi-vicini, Ernest Nelson, Sylvia Cheng, Chris Dunham, Beverly Wilson, Karina Black, Frank van Landeghem, David Eisenstat, Ana Guerreiro Stücklin, Annette Weiser, Valérie Larouche, Panagiota Giannakouros, Adriana Fonseca, Lane Williamson, Igor Fernandes, Ashley Plant-Fox, Adam Fleming, Shawde Campbell, Naureen Mushtaq, Khurram Minhas, Syed Bukhari, Richard Graham, Scott Raskin, Filip Jadrijevic-Cvilje, Louise Ludlow, Mary MacNeil, Jean Mulcahy Levy, Samantha DeMarsh, Kohei Fukuoka, Kai Yamasaki, Tomonari Suzuki, Fumiharu Ohka, Atsufumi Kawamura, Yoshiki Arakawa, Fumiyuki Yamasaki, Jordan Hansford, Amanda Luck, MacLean Nasrallah, Takashi Ishihara, Helen Toledano, Roaya Masoud, Alvaro Lassaletta, Luis Blasco-Santana, John-Paul Kilday, Alisa Talianski, Caroline Davies, James Johnston, Andrew Hale, Peter Dirks, James Rutka, Michael Dewan, and Uri Tabori.: Integrated clinical and molecular landscape of disseminated pediatric low-grade glioma. Nature Cancer SUBMITTED 2025.

Kai Tan, Jonathan Sussman, Derek Oldridge, Wenbao Yu, Chia-hui Chen, Abigail Zellmer, Jiazhen Rong, Arianne Parvaresh-Rizi, Anusha Thadi, Jason Xu, Shovik Bandyopadhyay, Yusha Sun, David Wu, Stephanie Brosius, Kyung Jin Ahn, Amy Baxter, Mateusz Koptyra, Rami Vanguri, Stephanie McGrory, Phillip Storm, Nduka Amankulor, Mariarita Santi, Angela Viaene, Nancy Zhang, Thomas De Raedt, Kristina Cole, Austin Yang, Joseph Tumulty, Barbara Xiong, Una Barkardottir, and Isabella Seka.: "A longitudinal single-cell and spatial multiomic atlas of pediatric high-grade glioma" Nature Cancer SUBMITTED 2025.

Jonathan H. Sussman, Derek A. Oldridge, Wenbao Yu, Chia-Hui Chen, Jiazhen Rong, Abigail Zellmer, Arianne Parvaresh-Rizi, Anusha Thadi, Jason Xu, Shovik Bandyopadhyay, Yusha Sun, David Wu, C. Emerson Hunter, Stephanie Brosius, Kyung Jin Ahn, Amy Baxter, Rami S. Vanguri, Stephanie McGrory, Nduka M. Amankulor, Mariarita Santi, Angela Viaene, Nancy Zhang, Thomas De Raedt, Kristina Cole, Kai Tan: A longitudinal single-cell and spatial multiomic atlas of pediatric high-grade glioma" Nature Genetics November 2024.

Jonathan H. Sussman, Derek A. Oldridge4,# Wenbao Yu2,#, Chia-Hui Chen2, Jiazhen Rong3,5, Abigail Zellmer4, Arianne Parvaresh-Rizi3, Anusha Thadi2, Jason Xu1,2,3, Shovik Bandyopadhyay1,2,6, Yusha Sun1,6, David Wu1,2,3, C. Emerson Hunter1,2, Stephanie Brosius2, Kyung Jin Ahn3, Amy Baxter4, Rami S. Vanguri4, Stephanie McGrory3, Nduka M. Amankulor8, Mariarita Santi, Angela Viaene, Nancy Zhang, Thomas De Raedt, Kristina Cole, Kai Tan: A longitudinal single-cell and spatial multiomic atlas of pediatric high-grade glioma. bioRXiv March 2024.

Viaene AN, Nelson EJ, Santi M.: Perinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury: What's behind the "ribbon effect"? J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 82: 865-875, Sep 2023.

Cole KA, Ijaz H, Surrey LF, Santi M, Liu X, Minard CG, Maris JM, Voss S, Reid JM, Fox E, Weigel BJ.: Pediatric phase 2 trial of a WEE1 inhibitor, adavosertib (AZD1775), and irinotecan for relapsed neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma, and rhabdomyosarcoma. Cancer 129: 2245-2255, Jul 2023.

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