Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Contact InformationThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Abramson Research Center - Room 716-A
3615 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Education
B.Eng. (Engineering), Anna University, 2005
MS (Biomedical Engineering), Louisiana Tech University, 2007
PhD (Biomedical Engineering), Drexel University, 2021
Specialty Certification
Postgraduate Training
Awards and Honors
Best Poster Award, Research Poster Day 2015, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA., 2015
2nd Prize, Abstract competition, Cancer Genomics Consortium meeting 2017, Denver, CO, 2017
“Emerging Innovator in Collaborative Research”, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA., 2020
Memberships and Professional Organizations
American Society of Human Genetics, 2020 - Present
Web Links
Selected Publications
Placental Malperfusion Is Associated With Adverse Outcomes in Congenital Heart Disease and With Genetic Variants in Placental Developmental Pathways
Rebecca Josowitz, MD, PHD, Stacy Woyciechowski, MS, Tanaya Jadhav, MS, Tejas Jammihal, MS, Rebecca L. Linn, MD, Jack Rychik, MD, J. William Gaynor, MD, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, PHD*, Nancy B. Spinner, PHD*, JACC 86(19): , 2025
Mastering genetics for your clinic: A step-by-step guide.
Schindewolf E, Kilich G, Westerfer D, Vandergrift D, Rajagopalan R, Sullivan KE., J Allergy Clin Immunol., 2025, PMID:40789456
An Unusual Cause of Hexokinase 1 Deficiency-Case Report.
Kilich G, Maurer K, Jadhav T, Jammihal T, Zhang Z, Hartung H, Izumi K, Hassey K, Raper A, Schindewolf E, Conlin L, Ganetzky R, Li M, Glader B, Rajagopalan R, Sullivan KE., EJHaem, 2025
Advancing mitochondrial DNA analysis: Utility of PacBio long-read sequencing technology in accurate and precise variant detection
Jadhav T, Aruta M, Conlin LK, Rajagopalan R, Wang J, American Society of Human Genetics Meeting 2024, 2024
Diagnosing the Undiagnosed: Lessons from a large heterogeneous cohort of patients with Cornelia deLange and related diagnoses
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Tejas Jammihal, Tanaya Jadhav, Maninder Kaur, Justin Blair, Sarah Raible, Laura K. Conlin, Ian D. Krantz, American Society of Human Genetics Meeting 2024, 2024
Development, Implementation, and Preliminary Results of Rapid Targeted Genomic Analysis in the Newborn Period
Bedoukian, EC, Reichert S, Conlin L, Dechene E, Dulik M, Heck A, Hershey J; Marchese M, McManus M, Mulchandani S, Rajagopalan R, Reynoso S, Francis J, Wild T, Wood KH, Krantz ID, Spinner NB., American College of Medical Genetics Meeting 2024, 2024
Kagami Ogata syndrome: a small deletion refines critical hierarchy for imprinting
Gonench Kilich, Kelly Hassey, Edward M Behrens, Marni Falk, Adeline Vanderver, Daniel J Rader, Patrick J Cahill, Anna Raper, Zhe Zhang, Dawn Westerfer, Tanaya Jadhav, Laura Conlin, Kosuke Izumi, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Kathleen E Sullivan, NPJ Genom Med. 9(5): , 2024, PMID:38212313
Functional characterization of 2,832 JAG1 variants supports reclassification for Alagille syndrome and improves guidance for clinical variant interpretation
Gilbert MA, Keefer-Jacques E, Jadhav T, Antfolk D, Ming Q, Valente N, Shaw GT, Sottolano CJ, Matwijec G, Luca VC, Loomes KM, Rajagopalan R, Hayeck TJ, Spinner NB, American Journal of Human Genetics 111(8): , 2024, PMID:39043182
Comprehensive Gene Panel Testing for Hearing Loss in Children: Understanding Factors Influencing Diagnostic Yield
Nobuko Yamamoto, Jorune Balciuniene, Tiffiney Hartman, Maria Alejandra Diaz-Miranda, Emma Bedoukian, Batsal Devkota, Audrey Lawrence, Netta Golenberg, Maha Patel, Archana Tare, Robert Chen, Emma Schindler, Jiwon Choi, Maninder Kaur, Sarah Charles, Jiani Chen, Elizabeth A Fanning, Elizabeth Dechene, Kajia Cao, Murrell R Jill, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Yavuz Bayram, Matthew C Dulik, John Germiller, Laura K Conlin, Ian D Krantz, Minjie Luo, The Journal of Pediatrics 262(): , 2023, PMID:37473993
Maximizing the Detection of Copy Number Variants in the Highly Homologous Deafness-Infertility Syndrome Locus in Standard-of-care Testing
Minjie Luo, Laura K Conlin, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Clinical Chemistry 69(6): , 2023, PMID:37170750


