Aparna Sundaram, MD

Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion, University of California, San Francisco
Fellowship, 2012 - Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of California, San Francisco
Internship/Residency, 2009 - Internal Medicine, Northwestern University
M.D., 2006 - Medicine, Northwestern University
B.S., 2003 - Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
Websites
Publications

  1. Bai AS, Sørensen GL, Sundaram AB, Chang W, Tuder RM, Graham BB, Lee MH. The emerging role of integrin signaling in pulmonary vascular disease. American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology 2026. PMID: 41849225


  2. Beresis R, Sundaram A, Jo H, Adler M, Wang Z, McIntosh J, Yeon SK, Huang Q, Ngo G, Sheppard D, DeGrado WF. Structure-Based Discovery of Potent and Selective Small-Molecule a5ß1 Integrin Inhibitors for Asthma Therapy. ACS omega 2025. PMID: 41427225


  3. Ngo U, Shi Y, Woodruff P, Shokat K, DeGrado W, Jo H, Sheppard D, Sundaram AB. IL-13 and IL-17A activate ß1 integrin through an NF-kB/Rho kinase/PIP5K1? pathway to enhance force transmission in airway smooth muscle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2024. PMID: 39136993


  4. Liu S, Ngo U, Tang XZ, Ren X, Qiu W, Huang X, DeGrado W, Allen CD, Jo H, Sheppard D, Sundaram AB. Integrin α2β1 regulates collagen I tethering to modulate hyperresponsiveness in reactive airway disease models. The Journal of clinical investigation 2021. PMID: 33956668


  5. Sundaram A, Chen C, Isik Reed N, Liu S, Ki Yeon S, McIntosh J, Tang YZ, Yang H, Adler M, Beresis R, Seiple IB, Sheppard D, DeGrado WF, Jo H. Dual antagonists of a5ß1/ avß1 integrin for airway hyperresponsiveness. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 2020. PMID: 33007395


  6. Lazar AM, Irannejad R, Baldwin TA, Sundaram AB, Gutkind JS, Inoue A, Dessauer CW, Von Zastrow M. G protein-regulated endocytic trafficking of adenylyl cyclase type 9. eLife 2020. PMID: 32515353


  7. Del Cid JS, Isik Reed N, Molnar K, Liu S, Dang B, Jensen SA, DeGrado W, Handford PA, Sheppard D, Sundaram AB. A disease associated mutation in fibrillin-1 differentially regulates integrin mediated cell adhesion. The Journal of biological chemistry 2019. PMID: 31640988


  8. Bulek K, Chen X, Parron V, Sundaram A, Herjan T, Ouyang S, Liu C, Majors A, Zepp J, Gao J, Dongre A, Bodaszewska-Lubas M, Echard A, Aronica M, Carman J, Garantziotis S, Sheppard D, Li X. IL-17A Recruits Rab35 to IL-17R to Mediate PKCa-Dependent Stress Fiber Formation and Airway Smooth Muscle Contractility. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2019. PMID: 30683702


  9. Sundaram A, Chen C, Khalifeh-Soltani A, Atakilit A, Ren X, Qiu W, Jo H, DeGrado W, Huang X, Sheppard D. Targeting integrin a5ß1 ameliorates severe airway hyperresponsiveness in experimental asthma. Volume 127 of Issue 1. The Journal of clinical investigation 2016. PMID: 27918306


  10. Tsvetanova NG, Trester-Zedlitz M, Newton BW, Riordan DP, Sundaram AB, Johnson JR, Krogan NJ, von Zastrow M. G Protein-Coupled Receptor Endocytosis Confers Uniformity in Responses to Chemically Distinct Ligands. Molecular pharmacology 2016. PMID: 27879340


  11. Bhattacharya M, Sundaram A, Kudo M, Farmer J, Ganesan P, Khalifeh-Soltani A, Arjomandi M, Atabai K, Huang X, Sheppard D. IQGAP1-dependent scaffold suppresses RhoA and inhibits airway smooth muscle contraction. Volume 124 of Issue 11. The Journal of clinical investigation 2014. PMID: 25271629


  12. Katsumoto TR, Kudo M, Chen C, Sundaram A, Callahan EC, Zhu JW, Lin J, Rosen CE, Manz BN, Lee JW, Matthay MA, Huang X, Sheppard D, Weiss A. The phosphatase CD148 promotes airway hyperresponsiveness through SRC family kinases. Volume 123 of Issue 5. The Journal of clinical investigation 2013. PMID: 23543053


  13. Sugimoto K, Kudo M, Sundaram A, Ren X, Huang K, Bernstein X, Wang Y, Raymond WW, Erle DJ, Abrink M, Caughey GH, Huang X, Sheppard D. The avß6 integrin modulates airway hyperresponsiveness in mice by regulating intraepithelial mast cells. Volume 122 of Issue 2. The Journal of clinical investigation 2012. PMID: 22232213