Nyssa Rae Adams, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Email

nradams@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor: Internal Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Addresses

Ben Taub Hospital (Hospital): 1504 Taub Loop
Houston, TX, 77030
United States

Smith Clinic (Clinic): 2525A Holly Hall St.
Houston, TX, 77054
United States

Education

BS from Ohio University: 06/2011 - Athens, Ohio, United States; Biological Sciences

PhD from Baylor College of Medicine: 10/2017 - Houston, Texas, United States; Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine

MD from Baylor College of Medicine: 05/2019 - Houston, Texas, United States

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine: 06/2022 - Houston, Texas, United States; Internal Medicine

Certifications

Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine

Websites

VIICTR Publications List

Selected Publications

Adams, N. R., Vasquez, Y. M., Mo, Q., Gibbons, W., Kovanci, E., DeMayo, F. J. " WNK lysine deficient protein kinase 1 regulates human endometrial stromal cell decidualization, proliferation, and migration in part through mitogen-activated protein kinase 7 " Biol Reprod. 2017 Sep ; 97 (3) : 400-412.
Pubmed PMID: 29025069.
Bose, R. N., Moghaddas, S., Belkacemi, L., Tripathi, S., Adams, N. R., Majmudar, P., McCall, K., Dezvareh, H., Nislow, C. " Absence of activation of DNA repair genes and excellent efficacy of phosphaplatins against human ovarian cancers: Implications to treat resistant cancer " J Med Chem. 2015 Nov ; 58 (21) : 8387-8401.
Pubmed PMID: 26455832.
Maurmann, L., Belkacemi, L., Adams, N. R., Majmudar, P. M., Moghaddas, S., Bose, R. N. " A novel cisplatin mediated apoptosis pathway is associated with acid sphingomyelinase and FAS proapoptotic protein activation in ovarian cancer " Apoptosis. 2015 Jul ; 20 (7) : 960-974.
Pubmed PMID: 25846011.
Mathyk, B., Adams, N., Young, S. L. " Endometrial receptivity: Lessons from systems biology and candidate studies of endometriosis " Minerva Ginecol. 2017 Feb ; 69 (1) : 41-56.
Pubmed PMID: 27576850.
Adams, N. R., DeMayo, F. J. " The role of steroid hormone receptors in the establishment of pregnancy in rodents " Adv Anat Embryol Cell Biol. 2015 ; 216 : 27-49.
Pubmed PMID: 26450493.
Hewitt, S. C., Li, R., Adams, N., Winuthayanon, W., Hamilton, K. J., Donoghue, L. J., Lierz, S. L., Garcia, M., Lydon, J. P., DeMayo, F. J., Adelman, K., Korach, K.S... " Negative elongation factor is essential for endometrial function " FASEB J. 2019 Feb ; 33 (2) : 3010-23.
Pubmed PMID: 30332301.
Chi, R. A., Wang, T., Adams, N., Wu, S. P., Young, S. L., Spencer, T. E., DeMayo, F.. " Human Endometrial Transcriptome and Progesterone Receptor Cistrome Reveal Important Pathways and Epithelial Regulators " J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2020 Apr 1; 105 (4) : 1419-39.
Pubmed PMID: 31665330.