Juan Ramos, M.D., is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Hematology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and a practicing oncologist at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Ramos began his research career as an undergraduate at UCLA, studying cancer molecular biology and tumor suppressors in the laboratories of Richard Gaynor and Dennis Slamon. He continued his research while earning his medical degree from New Jersey Medical School–UMDNJ in 1999 and completed his residency and fellowship training at the University of Miami in 2005.
Dr. Ramos’s clinical and research focus is on virus-related malignancies, particularly HTLV-1–related adult T-cell leukemia-lymphoma and AIDS-associated cancers. He serves as principal or co-investigator on multiple peer-reviewed and NIH/NCI-funded projects and is the principal investigator of the NCI-sponsored AIDS Malignancy Consortium site in Miami. He has also led NCI-funded projects on HTLV-1 and the University of Miami–Argentina U54 consortium.
His research has been widely presented at national and international conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Ramos is also deeply committed to education, mentoring medical and undergraduate students, residents, and fellows in hematology-oncology training programs.
