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Ken Yamada PhD

TitleAssistant Professor
InstitutionUMass Chan Medical School
DepartmentRNA Therapeutics Institute
AddressUMass Chan Medical School
368 Plantation Street
Worcester MA 01605
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    InstitutionT.H. Chan School of Medicine
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    Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, , JapanBS
    Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, , JapanMS
    Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, , JapanPHD

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    1. Weiss A, Gilbert JW, Rivera Flores IV, Belgrad J, Ferguson C, Dogan EO, Wightman N, Mocarski K, Echeverria D, Harkins AL, Summers A, Bramoto B, McHugh N, Furgal R, Yamada N, Cooper D, Monopoli K, Godinho BMDC, Hassler MR, Yamada K, Greer P, Henninger N, Brown RH, Khvorova A. RNAi-mediated silencing of SOD1 profoundly extends survival and functional outcomes in ALS mice. Mol Ther. 2025 May 09. PMID: 40349108.
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    2. Miller R, Paquette J, Barker A, Sapp E, McHugh N, Bramato B, Yamada N, Alterman J, Echeveria D, Yamada K, Watts J, Anaclet C, DiFiglia M, Khvorova A, Aronin N. Preventing acute neurotoxicity of CNS therapeutic oligonucleotides with the addition of Ca2+ and Mg2+ in the formulation. Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 2024 Dec 10; 35(4):102359. PMID: 39554992.
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    3. Yamada K, Hariharan VN, Caiazzi J, Miller R, Ferguson CM, Sapp E, Fakih HH, Tang Q, Yamada N, Furgal RC, Paquette JD, Biscans A, Bramato BM, McHugh N, Summers A, Lochmann C, Godinho BMDC, Hildebrand S, Jackson SO, Echeverria D, Hassler MR, Alterman JF, DiFiglia M, Aronin N, Khvorova A. Enhancing siRNA efficacy in vivo with extended nucleic acid backbones. Nat Biotechnol. 2024 Aug 01. PMID: 39090305.
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    4. Gilbert JW, Kennedy Z, Godinho BMDC, Summers A, Weiss A, Echeverria D, Bramato B, McHugh N, Cooper D, Yamada K, Hassler M, Tran H, Gao FB, Brown RH, Khvorova A. Identification of selective and non-selective C9ORF72 targeting in?vivo active siRNAs. Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 2024 Sep 10; 35(3):102291. PMID: 39233852.
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    5. Allen S, O'Reilly D, Miller R, Sapp E, Summers A, Paquette J, Echeverria Moreno D, Bramato B, McHugh N, Yamada K, Aronin N, DiFiglia M, Khvorova A. mRNA Nuclear Clustering Leads to a Difference in Mutant Huntingtin mRNA and Protein Silencing by siRNAs In Vivo. Nucleic Acid Ther. 2024 08; 34(4):164-172. PMID: 39023561.
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    6. Weiss A, Gilbert JW, Flores IVR, Belgrad J, Ferguson C, Dogan EO, Wightman N, Mocarski K, Echeverria D, Summers A, Bramato B, McHugh N, Furgal R, Yamada N, Cooper D, Monopoli K, Godinho BMDC, Hassler MR, Yamada K, Greer P, Henninger N, Brown RH, Khvorova A. RNAi-mediated silencing of SOD1 profoundly extends survival and functional outcomes in ALS mice. bioRxiv. 2024 Jun 25. PMID: 38979291.
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    7. Belgrad J, Tang Q, Hildebrand S, Summers A, Sapp E, Echeverria D, O'Reilly D, Luu E, Bramato B, Allen S, Cooper D, Alterman J, Yamada K, Aronin N, DiFiglia M, Khvorova A. A programmable dual-targeting siRNA scaffold supports potent two-gene modulation in the central nervous system. Nucleic Acids Res. 2024 Jun 24; 52(11):6099-6113. PMID: 38726879.
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    8. Miller R, Paquette J, Barker A, Sapp E, McHugh N, Bramato B, Yamada N, Alterman J, Echeveria D, Yamada K, Watts J, Anaclet C, DiFiglia M, Khvorova A, Aronin N. Preventing acute neurotoxicity of CNS therapeutic oligonucleotides with the addition of Ca2+ and Mg2+ in the formulation. bioRxiv. 2024 Jun 08. PMID: 38895198.
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    9. Hariharan VN, Nakamura T, Shin M, Tang Q, Sontakke V, Caiazzi J, Hildebrand S, Khvorova A, Yamada K. Phosphatidylcholine head group chemistry alters the extrahepatic accumulation of lipid-conjugated siRNA. Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 2024 Jun 11; 35(2):102230. PMID: 38938759.
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    10. Belgrad J, Tang Q, Hildebrand S, Summers A, Sapp E, Echeverria D, O'Reilly D, Luu E, Bramato B, Allen S, Cooper D, Alterman J, Yamada K, Aronin N, DiFiglia M, Khvorova A. A programmable dual-targeting di-valent siRNA scaffold supports potent multi-gene modulation in the central nervous system. bioRxiv. 2023 Dec 19. PMID: 38187561.
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    11. Hariharan VN, Caiazzi J, Miller R, Ferguson C, Sapp E, Fakih H, Tang Q, Yamada N, Furgal R, Paquette J, Bramato B, McHugh N, Summers A, Lochmann C, Godinho B, Hildebrand S, Echeverria D, Hassler M, Alterman J, DiFiglia M, Aronin N, Khvorova A, Yamada K. Extended Nucleic Acid (exNA): A Novel, Biologically Compatible Backbone that Significantly Enhances Oligonucleotide Efficacy in vivo. Res Sq. 2023 Jun 01. PMID: 37398145.
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    12. Yamada K, Hariharan VN, Caiazzi J, Miller R, Furguson C, Sapp E, Fakih H, Tan Q, Yamada N, Furgal RC, Paquette J, Bramato B, McHugh N, Summers A, Lochmann C, Godinho BMDC, Hildebrand S, Echeverria D, Hassler MR, Alterman JF, DiFiglia M, Aronin N, Khvorova A. Extended Nucleic Acid (exNA): A Novel, Biologically Compatible Backbone that Significantly Enhances Oligonucleotide Efficacy in vivo. bioRxiv. 2023 May 26. PMID: 37292886.
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    13. Hildebrand SR, Hedger AK, Yamada K, Watts JK, Khvorova A. Formamide significantly enhances the efficiency of chemical adenylation of RNA sequencing ligation adaptors. RNA. 2023 07; 29(7):1077-1083. PMID: 37059467.
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    14. Hariharan VN, Shin M, Chang CW, O'Reilly D, Biscans A, Yamada K, Guo Z, Somasundaran M, Tang Q, Monopoli K, Krishnamurthy PM, Devi G, McHugh N, Cooper DA, Echeverria D, Cruz J, Chan IL, Liu P, Lim SY, McConnell J, Singh SP, Hildebrand S, Sousa J, Davis SM, Kennedy Z, Ferguson C, Godinho BMDC, Thillier Y, Caiazzi J, Ly S, Muhuri M, Kelly K, Humphries F, Cousineau A, Parsi KM, Li Q, Wang Y, Maehr R, Gao G, Korkin D, McDougall WM, Finberg RW, Fitzgerald KA, Wang JP, Watts JK, Khvorova A. Divalent siRNAs are bioavailable in the lung and efficiently block SARS-CoV-2 infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 03 14; 120(11):e2219523120. PMID: 36893269.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    15. Conroy F, Miller R, Alterman JF, Hassler MR, Echeverria D, Godinho BMDC, Knox EG, Sapp E, Sousa J, Yamada K, Mahmood F, Boudi A, Kegel-Gleason K, DiFiglia M, Aronin N, Khvorova A, Pfister EL. Chemical engineering of therapeutic siRNAs for allele-specific gene silencing in Huntington's disease models. Nat Commun. 2022 10 03; 13(1):5802. PMID: 36192390.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    16. Butterfield JSS, Yamada K, Bertolini TB, Syed F, Kumar SRP, Li X, Arisa S, Pi?eros AR, Tapia A, Rogers CA, Li N, Rana J, Biswas M, Terhorst C, Kaufman RJ, de Jong YP, Herzog RW. IL-15 blockade and rapamycin rescue multifactorial loss of factor VIII from AAV-transduced hepatocytes in hemophilia A mice. Mol Ther. 2022 12 07; 30(12):3552-3569. PMID: 35821634.
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    17. Yamada K, Hildebrand S, Davis SM, Miller R, Conroy F, Sapp E, Caiazzi J, Alterman JF, Roux L, Echeverria D, Hassler MR, Pfister EL, DiFiglia M, Aronin N, Khvorova A. Structurally constrained phosphonate internucleotide linkage impacts oligonucleotide-enzyme interaction, and modulates siRNA activity and allele specificity. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 12 02; 49(21):12069-12088. PMID: 34850120.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    18. Yamada K, Herzog RW. When Immune Suppression Goes Wrong. Mol Ther. 2020 06 03; 28(6):1381-1382. PMID: 32416057.
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