Sridhar Rao, MD, PhD

Publications

• Systematic benchmarking of CUT&Tag improves the reliability and reproducibility of chromatin analysis.

  (Murray JD, Ray A, Kasomva K, Steen E, Stelloh C, Pulakanti K, Doerfler PA, De Sarkar N, Qiu Q, Liu Y, Geurts AM, Cowley AW Jr, Meyer AE, Liang M, Rao S.) Cell Rep Methods. 2026 Aug 17;6(8):101499 PMID: 42285100 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105042289508 06/13/2026

• A cross-organ single-cell analysis of hypertension.

  (Qiu Q, Liu Y, Xue H, Pandey R, Liu J, He L, Liu P, Therani B, Kumar V, Huang J, Sadri S, Guenther M, Usa K, Grzybowski M, Vanden Avond MA, Greene AS, Cowley AW Jr, Rao S, Geurts AM, Liang M.) Science. 2026 Aug 13;393(6812):eaea6187 PMID: 42594205 08/13/2026

• Cohesin haploinsufficiency and inv(16) cooperate to reinforce Fli1 gene transcriptional programs during acute myeloid leukemia initiation and maintenance.

  (Meyer AE, Heimbruch KE, Pulakanti K, Stelloh C, Cruz-Rodriguez N, Murray J, Wang D, Latzko L, Vosberg S, Greif PA, Castilla LH, Pulikkan JA, Malarkannan S, Rao S.) Leukemia. 2026 Jul 27 PMID: 42509256 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105046488504 07/28/2026

• The effect of cohesin mutations on HLA-class II expression in the myeloid leukemia of Down syndrome.

  (Boucher AC, Rosikiewicz W, Cotton A, Broadhurst AL, Ling T, Vadlamudi R, Bremm M, Schmell AL, Konada L, Niederkorn M, Murray JD, Li Y, Narina S, Inglott S, Roy A, Ancliff P, Tirtakusuma R, Ma J, Walsh MP, Klco JM, Thomas PG, Wang Y, Tsirigos A, Cheng Y, Xu B, Ma X, Meshinchi S, Wagenblast E, Pruett-Miller SM, Rao S, Wu G, Olufadi Y, Kang G, Tothova Z, Taub JW, Ge Y, Vyas P, Klusmann JH, Crispino JD.) Leukemia. 2026 Jul 21 PMID: 42481796 07/22/2026

• MYB builds leukemic enhancers.

  (Rao S.) Blood. 2026 Jun 11;147(24):2851-2852 PMID: 42275125 PMCID: PMC13277650 06/11/2026

• Balancing inflammatory signaling in hematopoiesis: roles of MIRC11 and miR-146a.

  (Boucher AC, Payne TJ, Pulakanti K, Rao S, Dahl R.) Front Immunol. 2026;17:1828453 PMID: 42488682 PMCID: PMC13388049 07/23/2026

• Molecular and immunological determinants of long-term survival in multiple myeloma.

  (Kasomva K, Yadav K, Janz S, Dhakal B, Rao S.) Blood Adv. 2025 Oct 28;9(20):5134-5147 PMID: 40674709 PMCID: PMC12550235 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105022754796 07/17/2025

• Mindfulness vs. sleep education during autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation for multiple myeloma: Feasibility of a randomized controlled pilot study.

  (Henley EC, Liphart HA, Morris KJ, Awoyinka I, Irwin MR, Costanzo ES, Winston D, D'Souza A, Stolley M, Dhakal B, Mohan M, Pasquini MC, Cole SW, Doerwald ES, Bendis PC, Rentscher KE, Rumble ME, Szabo A, Rao S, Knight JM.) Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2025 Oct;47:101540 PMID: 40893725 PMCID: PMC12397865 09/02/2025

• Chromatin interaction maps of human arterioles reveal mechanisms for the genetic regulation of blood pressure.

  (Liu Y, Pandey R, Qiu Q, Liu P, Xue H, Wang J, Therani B, Ying R, Usa K, Grzybowski M, Yang C, Mishra MK, Greene AS, Cowley AW Jr, Rao S, Geurts AM, Widlansky ME, Liang M.) Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 17;16(1):6577 PMID: 40675959 PMCID: PMC12271514 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105011067559 07/18/2025

• Physiological role and mechanisms of action for a long noncoding haplotype region.

  (Xue H, Mishra MK, Liu Y, Liu P, Grzybowski M, Pandey R, Usa K, Vanden Avond MA, Bala N, Alli AA, Cowley AW Jr, Qiu Q, Greene AS, Rao S, O'Meara CC, Geurts AM, Liang M.) Cell Rep. 2025 Jun 24;44(6):115805 PMID: 40493452 PMCID: PMC12263090 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105007437771 06/10/2025

• Chromatin State Maps of Blood Pressure-Relevant Renal Segments Reveal Potential Regulatory Role for SNPs.

  (Ray A, Yang C, Stelloh C, Tutaj M, Liu P, Liu Y, Qiu Q, Auer PL, Lin CW, Widlansky ME, Geurts AM, Cowley AW Jr, Liang M, Kwitek AE, Greene AS, Rao S.) Hypertension. 2025 Mar;82(3):476-488 PMID: 39723540 PMCID: PMC12236357 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85213707759 12/26/2024

• An EMT-like signature as a potential driver of myeloid sarcoma.

  (Zorn KE, Alvarez-Argote J, Meyer AE, Cunningham A, Hintzke M, Giever E, Stelloh C, Atallah E, Vassiliou GS, Rao S.) Blood Neoplasia. 2024 Sep;1(3) PMID: 40060005 PMCID: PMC11887653 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105013233207 03/10/2025