Publications

Representative publications from the NYIT-CCR faculty:

Dr. Azhar Ilyas:

  • Sharma S, Zhuang R, Long M, Pavlovic M, Kang Y, Ilyas A, Asghar W. Circulating tumor cell isolation, culture, and downstream molecular analysis. Biotechnol Adv. 2018 Jul-Aug;36(4):1063-1078. doi: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2018.03.007. Epub 2018 Mar 17. PMID: 29559380; PMCID: PMC5971144.

  • Ali W, Ilyas A, Bui L, Sayles B, Hur Y, Kim YT, Iqbal SM. Differentiating Metastatic and Non-metastatic Tumor Cells from Their Translocation Profile through Solid-State Micropores. Langmuir. 2016 May 17;32(19):4924-34. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00016. Epub 2016 May 6. PMID: 27035212.

  • Ilyas A, Asghar W, Kim YT, Iqbal SM. Parallel recognition of cancer cells using an addressable array of solid-state micropores. Biosens Bioelectron. 2014 Dec 15;62:343-9. doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2014.06.048. Epub 2014 Jun 27. PMID: 25038540.

  • A. Ilyas, W. Asghar, S. Ahmed, Y. Lotan, J.-T. Hsieh, Y.-T. Kim and S. M. Iqbal, "Electrophysiological Analysis of Biopsy Samples using Elasticity as an Inherent Cell Marker for Cancer Detection," Analytical Methods, vol. 6, no. 18, pp. 7166-7174 (2014). DOI: 10.1039/C4AY00781F Cover Article 

 

Dr. Bryan Gibb

  • Redding S, Sternberg SH, Marshall M, Gibb B, Bhat P, Guegler CK, Wiedenheft B, Doudna JA, Greene EC. Surveillance and Processing of Foreign DNA by the Escherichia coli CRISPR-Cas System. Cell. 2015 Nov 5;163(4):854-65. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.003. PMID: 26522594; PMCID: PMC4636941.

  • Qi Z, Redding S, Lee JY, Gibb B, Kwon Y, Niu H, Gaines WA, Sung P, Greene EC. DNA sequence alignment by microhomology sampling during homologous recombination. Cell. 2015 Feb 26;160(5):856-869. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.01.029. Epub 2015 Feb 12. PMID: 25684365; PMCID: PMC4344887.

  • Gibb B, Ye LF, Kwon Y, Niu H, Sung P, Greene EC. Protein dynamics during presynaptic-complex assembly on individual single-stranded DNA molecules. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2014 Oct;21(10):893-900. doi: 10.1038/nsmb.2886. Epub 2014 Sep 7. PMID: 25195049; PMCID: PMC4190069. 

Dr. Claude E. Gagna

  • Lambert WC, Lambert MW, Ring CM, Gagna CE, Espinal-Mariotte JD, Schwartz RA. How sildenafil (Viagra® ) may cause melanoma: a histopathologic study providing a potential physiological/etiopathological mechanism. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2018 May;32(5):e202-e204. doi: 10.1111/jdv.14723. Epub 2017 Dec 19. PMID: 29194814.

  • John AM, Vanchinathan V, Singh P, Gagna CE, Lambert WC. A Wolf in Fox's Clothing: Aggressive Skin Cancers Posing as Less Aggressive Cancers. Skinmed. 2015 Dec 1;13(6):467-9. PMID: 26861524.

  • Mian K, Lambert MW, Kong J, Gagna CE, Wassef C, Sharma D, Bhate C, Donthireddy A, Lambert WC. Electroporation as a New Treatment Modality for Melanoma and Other Cancers: The "Guilty Bystander" Hypothesis. Skinmed. 2015 Dec 1;13(6):424-7. PMID: 26861517.

  • Rankin J, Gagna CE, Lambert MW, Lambert WC. Dendritic melanocytic pseudomelanomas. Skinmed. 2013 Jul-Aug;11(4):237-8. PMID: 24053009.

  • Lambert WC, Gagna CE, Lambert MW. Xeroderma pigmentosum: its overlap with trichothiodystrophy, Cockayne syndrome and other progeroid syndromes. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2008;637:128-37. doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-09599-8_14. PMID: 19181118.

 

Dr. Bhuma Krishnamachari

  • Krishnamachari B, Rehman M, Cohn JE, Chan V, Modi N, Leitner O, Tangney K, O'Connor A, Blazey W, Koehler S, Tegay D. Video Education on Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HBOC) for Physicians: an Interventional Study. J Cancer Educ. 2018 Dec;33(6):1213-1221. doi: 10.1007/s13187-017-1233-4. PMID: 28573517.

  • Cohn J, Blazey W, Tegay D, Harper B, Koehler S, Laurent B, Chan V, Jung MK, Krishnamachari B. Physician Risk Assessment Knowledge Regarding BRCA Genetics Testing. J Cancer Educ. 2015 Sep;30(3):573-9. doi: 10.1007/s13187-014-0724-9. PMID: 25234477.

  • Patel S, Lipka S, Shen H, Barnowsky A, Silpe J, Mosdale J, Pan Q, Fridlyand S, Bhavsar A, Abraham A, Viswanathan P, Mustacchia P, Krishnamachari B. The association of H. pylori and colorectal adenoma: does it exist in the US Hispanic population? J Gastrointest Oncol. 2014 Dec;5(6):463-8. doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2078-6891.2014.074. PMID: 25436126; PMCID: PMC4226815.

  • Krishnamachari B, Il'yasova D, Scheurer ME, Bondy ML, Wrensch M, Davis FG. A pooled multisite analysis of the effects of female reproductive hormones on glioma risk. Cancer Causes Control. 2014 Aug;25(8):1007-13. doi: 10.1007/s10552-014-0400-8. Epub 2014 Jun 3. PMID: 24890803; PMCID: PMC4288736.

 

Dr. Niharika Nath

  • Vannini F, Kashfi K, Nath N. The dual role of iNOS in cancer. Redox Biol. 2015 Dec;6:334-343. doi: 10.1016/j.redox.2015.08.009. Epub 2015 Aug 24. PMID: 26335399; PMCID: PMC4565017.

  • Kodela R, Nath N, Chattopadhyay M, Nesbitt DE, Velázquez-Martínez CA, Kashfi K. Hydrogen sulfide-releasing naproxen suppresses colon cancer cell growth and inhibits NF-κB signaling. Drug Des Devel Ther. 2015 Aug 24;9:4873-82. doi: 10.2147/DDDT.S91116. PMID: 26346117; PMCID: PMC4554424.

 

Dr. Eugen-Bogdan Petcu

  • Gaman AM, Uzoni A, Popa-Wagner A, Andrei A, Petcu EB. The Role of Oxidative Stress in Etiopathogenesis of Chemotherapy Induced Cognitive Impairment (CICI)-"Chemobrain". Aging Dis. 2016 May 27;7(3):307-17. doi: 10.14336/AD.2015.1022. PMID: 27330845; PMCID: PMC4898927.

  • Salajegheh A, Petcu EB, Smith RA, Lam AK. Follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma: a diagnostic challenge for clinicians and pathologists. Postgrad Med J. 2008 Feb;84(988):78-82. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.2007.064881. PMID: 18322127.

Dr. Maria Plummer

  •  MacKenzie D Jr, Watters AK, To JT, Young MW, Muratori J, Wilkoff MH, Abraham RG, Plummer MM, Zhang D. ALT Positivity in Human Cancers: Prevalence and Clinical Insights. Cancers (Basel). 2021 May 14;13(10):2384. doi: 10.3390/cancers13102384. PMID: 34069193.

Dr. Leonidas Salichos

  • Kumar S, Warrell J, Li S, McGillivray PD, Meyerson W, Salichos L, Harmanci A, Martinez-Fundichely A, Chan CWY, Nielsen MM, Lochovsky L, Zhang Y, Li X, Lou S, Pedersen JS, Herrmann C, Getz G, Khurana E, Gerstein MB. Passenger Mutations in More Than 2,500 Cancer Genomes: Overall Molecular Functional Impact and Consequences. Cell. 2020 Mar 5;180(5):915-927.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.032. Epub 2020 Feb 20. PMID: 32084333; PMCID: PMC7210002.

  • Salichos L, Meyerson W, Warrell J, Gerstein M. Estimating growth patterns and driver effects in tumor evolution from individual samples. Nat Commun. 2020 Feb 5;11(1):732. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14407-9. PMID: 32024824; PMCID: PMC7002450.

 

Dr. Dong Zhang

  • MacKenzie D Jr, Watters AK, To JT, Young MW, Muratori J, Wilkoff MH, Abraham RG, Plummer MM, Zhang D. ALT Positivity in Human Cancers: Prevalence and Clinical Insights. Cancers (Basel). 2021 May 14;13(10):2384. doi: 10.3390/cancers13102384. PMID: 34069193.

  • Seltzer ES, Watters AK, MacKenzie D Jr, Granat LM, Zhang D. Cannabidiol (CBD) as a Promising Anti-Cancer Drug. Cancers (Basel). 2020 Oct 30;12(11):3203. doi: 10.3390/cancers12113203. PMID: 33143283; PMCID: PMC7693730.

  • Watters AK, Seltzer ES, MacKenzie D Jr, Young M, Muratori J, Hussein R, Sodoma AM, To J, Singh M, Zhang D. The Effects of Genetic and Epigenetic Alterations of BARD1 on the Development of Non-Breast and Non-Gynecological Cancers. Genes (Basel). 2020 Jul 21;11(7):829. doi: 10.3390/genes11070829. PMID: 32708251; PMCID: PMC7396976.

  • Pan X, Drosopoulos WC, Sethi L, Madireddy A, Schildkraut CL, Zhang D. FANCM, BRCA1, and BLM cooperatively resolve the replication stress at the ALT telomeres. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Jul 18;114(29):E5940-E5949. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1708065114. Epub 2017 Jul 3. PMID: 28673972; PMCID: PMC5530707.

  • Tian F, Sharma S, Zou J, Lin SY, Wang B, Rezvani K, Wang H, Parvin JD, Ludwig T, Canman CE, Zhang D. BRCA1 promotes the ubiquitination of PCNA and recruitment of translesion polymerases in response to replication blockade. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Aug 13;110(33):13558-63. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1306534110. Epub 2013 Jul 30.

 

Dr. Haotian Zhao

  • Wildung M, Esser TU, Grausam KB, Wiedwald C, Volceanov-Hahn L, Riedel D, Beuermann S, Li L, Zylla J, Guenther AK, Wienken M, Ercetin E, Han Z, Bremmer F, Shomroni O, Andreas S, Zhao H, Lizé M. Transcription factor TAp73 and microRNA-449 complement each other to support multiciliogenesis. Cell Death Differ. 2019 Dec;26(12):2740-2757. doi: 10.1038/s41418-019-0332-7. Epub 2019 May 8. PMID: 31068677; PMCID: PMC7224178.

  • Grausam KB, Dooyema SDR, Bihannic L, Premathilake H, Morrissy AS, Forget A, Schaefer AM, Gundelach JH, Macura S, Maher DM, Wang X, Heglin AH, Ge X, Zeng E, Puget S, Chandrasekar I, Surendran K, Bram RJ, Schüller U, Talyor MD, Ayrault O, Zhao H. ATOH1 Promotes Leptomeningeal Dissemination and Metastasis of Sonic Hedgehog Subgroup Medulloblastomas. Cancer Res. 2017 Jul 15;77(14):3766-3777. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-16-1836. Epub 2017 May 10. PMID: 28490517; PMCID: PMC5512702.

  • Li L, Grausam KB, Wang J, Lun MP, Ohli J, Lidov HG, Calicchio ML, Zeng E, Salisbury JL, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Lehtinen MK, Schüller U, Zhao H. Sonic Hedgehog promotes proliferation of Notch-dependent monociliated choroid plexus tumour cells. Nat Cell Biol. 2016 Apr;18(4):418-30. doi: 10.1038/ncb3327. Epub 2016 Mar 21. PMID: 26999738; PMCID: PMC4814324.

  • Khan S, Ebeling MC, Chauhan N, Thompson PA, Gara RK, Ganju A, Yallapu MM, Behrman SW, Zhao H, Zafar N, Singh MM, Jaggi M, Chauhan SC. Ormeloxifene suppresses desmoplasia and enhances sensitivity of gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer. Cancer Res. 2015 Jun 1;75(11):2292-304. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-14-2397. Epub 2015 Apr 3. Erratum in: Cancer Res. 2018 May 1;78(9):2444. PMID: 25840985; PMCID: PMC4452412.