Penn Medicine Provider
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Zissimos Mourelatos, MD
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP

About me

  • Director, Neuropathology
  • Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

My areas of clinical expertise:

Neuropathology

Surgical Neuropathology (Brain tumors; Brain biopsies; Muscle biopsies; Nerve biopsies)

Medical Neuropathology

Received the Penn Medicine Award of Excellence, 2006

Education and training

  • Medical School: Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Mourelatos is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

Couthouis J, Hart MP, Erion R, King OD, Diaz Z, Nakaya T, Ibrahim F, Kim HJ, Mojsilovic-Petrovic J, Panossian S, Kim CE, Frackelton EC, Solski JA, Williams KL, Clay-Falcone D, Elman L, McCluskey L, Greene R, Hakonarson H, Kalb RG, Lee V-MY, Trojanowski JQ, Nicholson GA, Blair IP, Bonini NM, Van Deerlin VM, Mourelatos Z, Shorter J, Gitler AD Evaluating the role of the FUS/TLS-related gene EWSR1 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , Hum Molec Genet, 21(13): 2012,2899-911


Liu X, Jin D-Y, McManus MT, Mourelatos Z Precursor microRNA-programmed silencing complex assembly pathways in mammals , Mol Cell, 46(4): 2012,507-17


Vourekas A, Zheng Q, Alexiou P, Maragkakis M, Kirino Y, Gregory BD, Mourelatos Z Mili and Miwi target RNA repertoire reveals piRNA biogenesis and function of Miwi in spermiogenesis , Nat Struct Mol Biol, 19(8): 2012,773-81


Venneti S, Moss HE, Levin MH, Vagefi MR, Brozena CS, Pruitt AA, Mourelatos Z, Trojanowski JQ, Galetta SL, Balcer LJ Asymmetric bilateral demyelinating optic neuropathy from tacrolimus toxicity , J Neurol Sci, 301(1-2): 2011,112-5


Couthouis J, Hart MP, Shorter J, DeJesus-Hernandez M, Erion R, Oristano R, Liu AX, Ramos D, Jethava N, Hosangadi D, Epstein J, Chiang A, Diaz Z, Nakaya T, Ibrahim F, Kim HJ, Solski JA, Williams KL, Mojsilovic-Petrovic J, Ingre C, Boylan K, Graff-Radford NR, Dickson DW, Clay-Falcone D, Elman L, McCluskey L, Greene R, Kalb RG, Lee VM, Trojanowski JQ, Ludolph A, Robberecht W, Andersen PM, Nicholson GA, Blair IP, King OD, Bonini NM, Van Deerlin V, Rademakers R, Mourelatos Z, Gitler AD A yeast functional screen predicts new candidate ALS disease genes , Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 108(52): 2011,20881-90


Venneti S, Boateng LA, Friedman JR, Baldwin DA, Tobias JW, Judkins AR, Mourelatos Z, Priti L MiRNA-9 and MiRNA-200a distinguish hemangioblastomas from metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinomas in the CNS , Brain Pathol, 22(4): 2012,522-9


Kirino Y, Vourekas A, Khandros E, Mourelatos Z Immunoprecipitation of piRNPs and directional, next generation sequencing of piRNAs , Methods Mol Biol, 725: 2011,281-93


de Planell-Saguer M, Rodicio MC, Mourelatos Z Rapid in situ codetection of noncoding RNAs and proteins in cells and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sections without protease treatment , Nat Protoc, 5(6): 2010,1061-73


Kirino Y, Vourekas A, Kim N, de Lima Alves F, Rappsilber J, Klein PS, Jongens TA, Mourelatos Z Arginine methylation of vasa protein is conserved across phyla , J Biol Chem , 285(11): 2010,8148-54


Kirino A, Vourekas A, Sayed N, de Lima Alves F, Thomson T, Lasko P, Rappsilber J, Jongens TA, Mourelatos Z Arginine methylation of Aubergine mediates Tudor binding and germ plasm localization , RNA, 16(1): 2010,70-8


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