Zissimos Mourelatos, MD
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP
Penn Medicine Provider
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
My education and training
- Medical School: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
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.
Qualifications and experience
- Pathology - Anatomic Pathology, 1999
- Pathology, Neuropathology
- Agence Nationale de la Recerche, France (ANR), International
- American Association for the Advancement in Science, National
- American Association of Neuropathologists, National
- Austrian Science Fund, Vienna, Austria, International
- Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, Germany, International
- European Research Council (ERC), International
- Hellenic Ministry of Education Research Council, Athens, Greece, International
- Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), International
- Israel Science Foundation, International
- Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development, The Netherlands, International
- NIH-CSR-Numerous study sections, National
- NSF, National
- Swedish Research Council, International
- Wellcome Trust, London, UK, International
- Penn Brain Tumor Center
- Recognized in Philadelphia magazine's Top Docs issue for 2025
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
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