Karthik Ramasamy
Professor of Haematology/ Director of Oxford Translational Myeloma Centre
IMPROVING OUTCOMES FOR PATIENTS WITH PLASMA CELL DYSCRASIAS
Karthik Ramasamy is a Consultant Haematologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and Professor of Haematology, NDORMS, University of Oxford, UK. Prof Ramasamy is the Director of the Oxford Translational Myeloma Centre.
Prof Ramasamy leads Cancer and Haematology Research at Oxford University Hospitals. Prof Ramasamy serves on the International Myeloma Society Educational committee and is an active member of UK Myeloma Research Alliance.
Karthik is an ambassador and previous Director of Myeloma UK, a patient charity exclusively dealing with myeloma advocacy and research. Karthik completed his haematology training at King College Hospitals, London. Following this, he completed three years as a clinical research fellow working on bone marrow microenvironment in myeloma at King’s College London. Prof Ramasamy is a Chief Investigator of myeloma studies and his academic research interests are precursor disease states ( MGUS and Smouldering myeloma), personalised care of myeloma patients and myeloma drug resistance mechanisms. Karthik has published over 150 papers and authored textbooks/ chapters on myeloma.
Recent publications
Development and Validation of the Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease Symptom Burden Scale (ISBUS): Protocol for an International Multistage Mixed Methods Study.
Journal article
Powell PA. et al, (2026), JMIR Res Protoc, 15
SECURE study: baseline findings from a UK prospective cohort of incidentally detected MGUS.
Journal article
Knight E. et al, (2026), Blood Cancer J, 16
Understanding and addressing resistance to IMiDs immunomodulatory compounds in multiple myeloma.
Journal article
Fuentes-Lacouture M-C. et al, (2026), FEBS J
The challenge of defining and understanding monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance.
Journal article
Haslam A. et al, (2026), Br J Haematol
Early plasma proteomic alterations precede amyloidosis diagnosis, reflecting cardiac and immune dysregulation
Preprint
Hasheminasab SA. et al, (2026)