Bojana Rakic

PhD, FCCMG

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Biochemical Geneticist, Newborn Screening and Biochemical Genetics Labs, Department of Pathology & Lab Medicine, BC Children’s Hospital
Director, Biochemical Genetics Laboratory, BC Children's Hospital and BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre
CCMG Training Program Director, UBC Biochemical (Laboratory) Genetics Post-graduate Fellowship Program

My research focusses on developing new diagnostic tools for investigating inborn errors of metabolism using clinical applications of mass spectrometry, investigating pathophysiology of metabolic diseases and studying immunometabolism in patients with inborn errors of metabolism.

Academic Affiliations

  • Clinical Professor, , Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Research Theme: Childhood Diseases
  • Research Group(s): Rare Diseases

Contact Information

Location

4500 Oak St, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6H 3N1

MBOAT7 encephalopathy: Characterizing the neurology and epileptology

Epilepsia

De la Rosa, S.O. and Rizzo, V. and Jauss, R.-T. and Bartolomaeus, T. and Escolar, M. and Bernard, G. and Gavrilova, R. and Ahrens-Nicklas, R. and Lemire, G. and Boycott, K.M. and Mercimek-Andrews, S. and Prontera, P. and Costa, C. and Rakic, B. and Boerkoel, C.F. and Huynh, S. and Huh, L. and Sherr, E. and Argilli, E. and Ortigoza-Escobar, J.D. and Casas-Alba, D. and Nunes, T. and Koolen, D.A. and Platzer, K. and Khinchi, M.S. and Gardella, E. and Fenger, C.D. and M?ller, R.S. and Bayat, A.

DOI: 10.1111/epi.18376

Inhibition of xanthine oxidoreductase with febuxostat, but not allopurinol, prevents inflammasome assembly and IL-1 release

Life Science Alliance

Monteiro, L.B. and Archambault, A.-S. and Starchuk, L.F. and Alcazar, A. and Oh, J.H. and Dubland, J.A. and Raki?, B. and Patterson, A.E. and Verchere, C.B. and Geltink, R.I.K.

DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202403191

Macrocytosis in Mitochondrial DNA Deletion Syndromes

Acta Haematologica

Almarzooqi, F. and Vallance, H. and Mezei, M. and Lehman, A. and Horvath, G. and Rakic, B. and Zypchen, L. and Mattman, A.

DOI: 10.1159/000529311

A simple method modification to increase separation of 2- and 3-hydroxyglutaric acid by GC"MS for clinical urine organic acids analysis

Clinical Biochemistry

Dubland, J.A. and Sinclair, G. and Vallance, H. and Raki?, B.

DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2022.04.016

Diagnostic yield from routine metabolic screening tests in evaluation of global developmental delay and intellectual disability

Paediatrics and Child Health (Canada)

Vallance, H. and Sinclair, G. and Rakic, B. and Stockler-Ipsiroglu, S.

DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxaa112

Molecular diagnosis of pompe disease in the genomic era: Correlation with acid alpha-glucosidase activity in dried blood spots

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Thuriot, F. and Gravel, E. and Hodson, K. and Ganopolsky, J. and Rakic, B. and Waters, P.J. and Gravel, S. and Lvesque, S.

DOI: 10.3390/jcm10173868

Analysis of 2-methylcitric acid, methylmalonic acid, and total homocysteine in dried blood spots by LC-MS/MS for application in the newborn screening laboratory: A dual derivatization approach

Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Advances in the Clinical Lab

Dubland, J.A. and Raki?, B. and Vallance, H. and Sinclair, G.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jmsacl.2021.03.001

Congenital lactic acidosis, cerebral cysts and pulmonary hypertension in an infant with FOXRED1 related complex I deficiency

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports

Apatean, D. and Rakic, B. and Brunel-Guitton, C. and Hendson, G. and Bai, R. and Sargent, M.A. and Lavoie, P.M. and Patel, M. and Stockler-Ipsiroglu, S.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgmr.2018.12.006

Congenital lactic acidosis, cerebral cysts and pulmonary hypertension in an infant with FOXRED1 related complex 1 deficiency

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports

Apatean, D. and Rakic, B. and Brunel-Guitton, C. and Hendson, G. and Bai, R. and Sargent, M.A. and Lavoie, P.M. and Patel, M. and Stockler-Ipsiroglu, S.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgmr.2019.100472

Gene Expression Profiling of Endoplasmatic Reticulum Stress in Hepatitis C Virus-Containing Cells Treated with an Inhibitor of Protein Disulfide Isomerases

ACS Omega

zcelik, D. and Seto, A. and Rakic, B. and Farzam, A. and Supek, F. and Pezacki, J.P.

DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b02676

Sialic acid catabolism by N-acetylneuraminate pyruvate lyase is essential for muscle function

JCI insight

Wen, X.-Y. and Tarailo-Graovac, M. and Brand-Arzamendi, K. and Willems, A. and Rakic, B. and Huijben, K. and Da Silva, A. and Pan, X. and El-Rass, S. and Ng, R. and Selby, K. and Philip, A.M. and Yun, J. and Ye, X.C. and Ross, C.J. and Lehman, A.M. and Zijlstra, F. and Abu Bakar, N. and Drgemller, B. and Moreland, J. and Wasserman, W.W. and Vallance, H. and van Scherpenzeel, M. and Karbassi, F. and Hoskings, M. and Engelke, U. and de Brouwer, A. and Wevers, R.A. and Pshezhetsky, A.V. and van Karnebeek, C.D. and Lefeber, D.J.

DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.122373

Consensus recommendations for the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of inherited methylation disorders

Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

Bari?, I. and Staufner, C. and Augoustides-Savvopoulou, P. and Chien, Y.-H. and Dobbelaere, D. and Grnert, S.C. and Opladen, T. and Petkovi? Ramad?a, D. and Raki?, B. and Wedell, A. and Blom, H.J.

DOI: 10.1007/s10545-016-9972-7

Exome sequencing and the management of neurometabolic disorders

New England Journal of Medicine

Tarailo-Graovac, M. and Shyr, C. and Ross, C.J. and Horvath, G.A. and Salvarinova, R. and Ye, X.C. and Zhang, L.-H. and Bhavsar, A.P. and Lee, J.J.Y. and Drgemller, B.I. and Abdelsayed, M. and Alfadhel, M. and Armstrong, L. and Baumgartner, M.R. and Burda, P. and Connolly, M.B. and Cameron, J. and Demos, M. and Dewan, T. and Dionne, J. and Evans, A.M. and Friedman, J.M. and Garber, I. and Lewis, S. and Ling, J. and Mandal, R. and Mattman, A. and McKinnon, M. and Michoulas, A. and Metzger, D. and Ogunbayo, O.A. and Rakic, B. and Rozmus, J. and Ruben, P. and Sayson, B. and Santra, S. and Schultz, K.R. and Selby, K. and Shekel, P. and Sirrs, S. and Skrypnyk, C. and Superti-Furga, A. and Turvey, S.E. and Van Allen, M.I. and Wishart, D. and Wu, J. and Wu, J. and Zafeiriou, D. and Kluijtmans, L. and Wevers, R.A. and Eydoux, P. and Lehman, A.M. and Vallance, H. and Stockler-Ipsiroglu, S. and Sinclair, G. and Wasserman, W.W. and Van Karnebeek, C.D.

DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1515792

Structure-based mutagenic analysis of mechanism and substrate specificity in mammalian glycosyltransferases: Porcine ST3Gal-I

Glycobiology

Raki?, B. and Rao, F.V. and Freimann, K. and Wakarchuk, W. and Strynadka, N.C.J. and Withers, S.G.

DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwt001

Structure and mechanism of the lipooligosaccharide sialyltransferase from Neisseria meningitidis

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Lin, L.Y.-C. and Rakic, B. and Chiu, C.P.C. and Lameignere, E. and Wakarchuk, W.W. and Withers, S.G. and Strynadka, N.C.J.

DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.249920

Structural insight into mammalian sialyltransferases.

Nature structural & molecular biology

DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1685 PubMed: 19820709

11 / 2009

Structural and kinetic characterizations of the polysialic acid O-acetyltransferase OatWY from Neisseria meningitidis

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Lee, H.J. and Rakic, B. and Gilbert, M. and Wakarchuk, W.W. and Withers, S.G. and Strynadka, N.C.J.

DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M109.006049

Recent developments in Glycoside Synthesis with Glycosynthases and Thioglycoligases

Australian Journal of Chemistry

Raki?, B. and Withers, S.G.

DOI: 10.1071/CH09059

Benzofuran-derived cyclic -amino acid scaffold for building a diverse set of flavonoid-like probes and the discovery of a cell motility inhibitor

Organic Letters

Nandy, J.P. and Rakic, B. and Sarma, B.V.N.B. and Babu, N. and Lefrance, M. and Enright, G.D. and Leek, D.M. and Daniel, K. and Sabourin, L.A. and Arya, P.

DOI: 10.1021/ol800050g

Synthesis and bioorthogonal coupling chemistry of a novel cyclopentenone-containing unnatural tyrosine analogue

Bioorganic Chemistry

Lorello, G.R. and Legault, M.C.B. and Raki?, B. and Bisgaard, K. and Pezacki, J.P.

DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2007.12.006

A Small-Molecule Probe for Hepatitis C Virus Replication that Blocks Protein Folding

Chemistry and Biology

Rakic, B. and Clarke, J. and Tremblay, T.-L. and Taylor, J. and Schreiber, K. and Nelson, K.M. and Abrams, S.R. and Pezacki, J.P.

DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2006.08.010

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor a antagonism inhibits hepatitis C virus replication

Chemistry and Biology

Rakic, B. and Sagan, S.M. and Noestheden, M. and Blanger, S. and Nan, X. and Evans, C.L. and Xie, X.S. and Pezacki, J.P.

DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2005.10.006

Bleomycin is a potent small-molecule inhibitor of hepatitis C virus replication

ChemBioChem

Raki?, B. and Brlotte, M. and Rouleau, Y. and Blanger, S. and Pezacki, J.P.

DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200600180

Synthesis of (-)-cytoxazone and (+)-epi-cytoxazone: The chiral pool approach

Synthetic Communications

Tokic-Vujosevic, Z. and Petrovic, G. and Rakic, B. and Matovic, R. and Saicic, R.N.

DOI: 10.1081/SCC-200048953

Synthesis of (2)-Cytoxazone and (1)-epi-Cytoxazone: the chiral pool approach

Synthetic Communications

Synthesis of (2)-Cytoxazone and (1)-epi-Cytoxazone: the chiral pool approach. Tokic-Vujosevic Z, Petrovic G, Rakic B, Matovic R, Saicic RN. Synthetic Communications 35: 445-458, 2005. (CA)

Exploring new chemical space by stereocontrolled diversity-oriented synthesis

Chemistry and Biology

Arya, P. and Joseph, R. and Gan, Z. and Rakic, B.

DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2005.01.011
Grants

Clinical Research Development Award (CRSU), 2019. “Next generation urine metabolic profiling for the diagnosis and monitoring of Inborn Errors of Metabolism.” (PI) - Bojana Rakic, PhD FCCMG. CO-PIs - Graham Sinclair, PhD FCCMG, Joshua Dubland, PhD, Ramona Salvarinova-Zivkovic, MD MHSc FRCPC FCCMG PhD

Childhood Diseases Team Grant, 2018. “T-cell function, susceptibility to infection, and a fatty acid oxidation variant common to coastal BC First Nations.” (PI) - Bojana Rakic, PhD FCCMG. CO-PI - Graham Sinclair, PhD FCCMG

Rare Diseases - Models and Mechanisms Network. N-Acetylneuraminate pyruvate lyase (NPL) deficiency Functional validation in mouse, $20,000. Coinvestigators - Dr. Clara van Karnebeek and Dr. Alexey Pshezhetsky

Rare Disease Foundation and BC Children’s Hospital Foundation (BCCHF). GBA2 validation, $3500. Coinvestigator - Dr. Gabriella Horvath

Honours & Awards

2009-2012 - NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship

2005 - Pfizer Award for Outstanding Achievement, Bio-Organic Gordon Research Conference

2014 - Linda Stevens Memorial Fund Garrod Conference Travel Award 2014

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