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The Impact of Aging on Prostate Cancer with Age-Related Disruption of Th17/Treg Axis
Project Summary/Abstract: Prostate cancer (PCa) is particularly important in elderly men because of the high incidence and prevalence of disease and mortality in this group of pati...
Impact of Circulating Myeloid Cell Clusters on Anti-Tumor Immunity
Durable outcomes in subsets of solid cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) or adoptive cell transfer (ACT) immunotherapy has driven interest in gaining a...
The Role of the Microbiome and Notch Signaling in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
PROJECT SUMMARY The incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) has risen 10-fold over the past half century and continues to have a dismal prognosis. Known modifiable risk factor...
Modeling myelodysplasia
PROJECT SUMMARY Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) are a cancer of the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) on the rise in the aging population and cancer survivors. The only curative treatm...
Eradication of Escaped Variant Tumor Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy
Project Summary Recently, we discovered that adoptive transfer of CD39KO tumor-specific (mixed CD4+ and CD8+) T cells, resulted in long-term survival of mice bearing large establis...
Stromal senescence in lethal prostate cancer: a novel target for prognosis and therapy
Our overarching hypothesis is that senescent stromal fibroblasts, especially if they elicit an inflammatory response, promote progression to lethal disease in men with prostate can...
Therapeutic Targeting Mitochondrial C1 Metabolism
ABSTRACT Metabolic reprogramming is an important hallmark of cancer. Of the altered metabolic pathways associated with malignancy, one-carbon (C1) metabolism is particularly notabl...
Chemotherapy-driven evolution of the vascular secretome and its role in therapeutic resistance
PROJECT SUMMARY Our continued inability to develop selective therapies that prevent the emergence of disseminated breast tumor cells into lethal metastases necessitates new approac...
The Role of the Microbiome and Notch Signaling in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
PROJECT SUMMARY The incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) has risen 10-fold over the past half century and continues to have a dismal prognosis. Known modifiable risk factor...
Impact of the microbiome on chemotherapeutic outcomes
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents are a key component of cancer therapy, but they have unpredictable treatment responses and considerable treatment-related...
Engineering Brain Cancer in a Dish: Hydrogel-based 3D in vitro Models for Pediatric Brain Tumor
Diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG) are a highly aggressive pediatric brain tumor of the ventral pons (brain stem), with a five-year survival rate of less than 1% and a median...
Chemotherapy-induced vascular cognitive impairment: role of endothelial senescence
Project Summary Many long-term survivors of cancer experience progressive chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment (CICI, commonly referred to as "chemobrain"). Importan...
ERβ repurposes EZH2 to suppress oncogenic NFκB signaling in TNBC
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women. Triple Negative Bre...
Probing cytosolic nucleic acid sensing pathways in cancer
ABSTRACT The ability of mammalian cells to elicit inflammation is central to many processes including embryogenesis, wound healing, tissue regeneration, and cancer metastasis. A ma...
Discovery of myeloid immune features predictive of response to cancer immunotherapy in prostate cancer
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Cancer immunotherapy has been a revolutionary antitumor treatment and is approved to treat a plethora of cancer types. However, in solid tumors the respons...
Linear energy transfer (LET) dependencies for understanding pancreatic tumor control and relevant molecular endpoints in support of RBE-based heavy-ion radiotherapy
This proposal brings together a unique interdisciplinary team with complementary expertise in high-LET radiobiology, pancreatic cancer research, and high-LET physics. It leverages...
Tissue Damage-Driven Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is responsible for ~10% of total cancer mortality worldwide. SCC prognosis is context-dependent and does not seem to be determined by driver gene soma...
A Randomized Controlled Trial: Genetic Counseling Patient Preference Intervention via Electronic Health Record Portal vs. Conventional Genetic Counseling for Women at Elevated Risk for Breast Cancer
PROJECT SUMMARY Women at elevated risk for breast cancer should complete genetic counseling and may require more frequent screening or additional tests (e.g. breast magnetic resona...
A deubiquitination module controls Treg adaptation to tumor microenvironment
Project Summary: One of the recent advances in cancer treatment is the development of immunotherapy largely through targeting the checkpoint receptors. However, attempts at immunot...
The novel role of microtubule regulators in the DNA damage response
DNA damage, particularly DNA double strand break (DSB), has detrimental effects on cell survival and genomic stability. In response to DNA damage, the cell activates several evolut...