Search Results - "Vajdi, Amir"
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MET-Induced CD73 Restrains STING-Mediated Immunogenicity of EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (02-11-2022)“…Immunotherapy has shown limited efficacy in patients with EGFR-mutated lung cancer. Efforts to enhance the immunogenicity of EGFR-mutated lung cancer have been…”
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Regulation of neuroendocrine plasticity by the RNA-binding protein ZFP36L1
Published in Nature communications (25-08-2022)“…Some small cell lung cancers (SCLCs) are highly sensitive to inhibitors of the histone demethylase LSD1. LSD1 inhibitors are thought to induce their…”
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Cancer-associated fibroblasts are the main contributors to epithelial-to-mesenchymal signatures in the tumor microenvironment
Published in Scientific reports (21-02-2023)“…Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is associated with tumor initiation, metastasis, and drug resistance. However, the mechanisms underlying these…”
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The Extracellular Milieu of Toxoplasma's Lytic Cycle Drives Lab Adaptation, Primarily by Transcriptional Reprogramming
Published in mSystems (07-12-2021)“…Evolve and resequencing (E&R) was applied to lab adaptation of Toxoplasma gondii for over 1,500 generations with the goal of mapping host-independent in vitro…”
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The germline factor DDX4 contributes to the chemoresistance of small cell lung cancer cells
Published in Communications biology (18-01-2023)“…Human cancers often re-express germline factors, yet their mechanistic role in oncogenesis and cancer progression remains unknown. Here we demonstrate that…”
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Patch-DCA: improved protein interface prediction by utilizing structural information and clustering DCA scores
Published in Bioinformatics (01-03-2020)“…Abstract Motivation Over the past decade, there have been impressive advances in determining the 3D structures of protein complexes. However, there are still…”
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Treatment-Induced Tumor Dormancy through YAP-Mediated Transcriptional Reprogramming of the Apoptotic Pathway
Published in Cancer cell (13-01-2020)“…Eradicating tumor dormancy that develops following epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) treatment of EGFR-mutant non-small…”
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Intrinsic Immunogenicity of Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Revealed by Its Cellular Plasticity
Published in Cancer discovery (01-08-2021)“…Small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) is highly mutated, yet durable response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) is rare. SCLC also exhibits cellular plasticity,…”
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Association of Tumor Mutational Burden and PD-L1 with the Efficacy of Pembrolizumab with or without Chemotherapy versus Chemotherapy in Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma
Published in Clinical cancer research (30-10-2024)“…The three-arm, phase III KEYNOTE-361 study did not meet its dual primary endpoints of progression-free survival (PFS) or overall survival (OS) with first-line…”
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Dynamic single-cell RNA sequencing identifies immunotherapy persister cells following PD-1 blockade
Published in The Journal of clinical investigation (19-01-2021)“…Resistance to oncogene-targeted therapies involves discrete drug-tolerant persister cells, originally discovered through in vitro assays. Whether a similar…”
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Plasticity in the Absence of NOTCH Uncovers a RUNX2-Dependent Pathway in Small Cell Lung Cancer
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (15-01-2022)“…Neuroendocrine to nonneuroendocrine plasticity supports small cell lung cancer (SCLC) tumorigenesis and promotes immunogenicity. Approximately 20% to 25% of…”
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Abstract 1012: Determinants of immune evasion in MET driven lung cancer
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (15-08-2020)“…Abstract PURPOSE: The 5' ectonucleotidase (NT5E) encodes for the CD73 membrane protein that converts the extracellular AMP into adenosine (Ado), an…”
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Exploratory biomarker analysis of the phase 3 KEYNOTE-604 study of pembrolizumab plus etoposide for extensive-stage SCLC
Published in Journal of clinical oncology (01-06-2023)“…8503 Background: In the phase 3 KEYNOTE-604 study of extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC; NCT03066778), first-line pembrolizumab (pembro) plus…”
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Association of TMB and PD-L1 with efficacy of first-line pembrolizumab (pembro) or pembro + chemotherapy (chemo) versus chemo in patients (pts) with advanced urothelial carcinoma (UC) from KEYNOTE-361
Published in Journal of clinical oncology (20-02-2022)“…Abstract only 540 Background: The 3-arm, open-label, phase 3 KEYNOTE-361 study (NCT02853305) evaluated first-line pembro ± chemo vs chemo in advanced UC…”
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Association between biomarkers and clinical outcomes of lenvatinib + pembrolizumab in advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC): Results from Study 111/KEYNOTE-146
Published in Journal of clinical oncology (20-02-2022)“…Abstract only 375 Background: In the Study 111/KEYNOTE-146 trial (NCT02501096; N=147), lenvatinib (lenva) + pembrolizumab (pembro) showed encouraging antitumor…”
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The Extracellular Milieu of Toxoplasma 's Lytic Cycle Drives Lab Adaptation, Primarily by Transcriptional Reprogramming
Published in mSystems (21-12-2021)“…Evolve and resequencing (E&R) was applied to lab adaptation of Toxoplasma gondii for over 1,500 generations with the goal of mapping host-independent virulence…”
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Effect of STK11 mutations on efficacy of PD-1 inhibition in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and dependence on KRAS mutation status
Published in Journal of clinical oncology (20-05-2020)“…Abstract only e15113 Background: STK11 mutations ( STK11m) have been associated with resistance to ICI in KRAS-mutant ( KRASm) NSCLC. Whether STK11m status…”
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Detecting chromosomal structural variation using jaccard distance and parallel architecture
Published in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (01-11-2017)“…Understanding the nature of many diseases, including cancer, requires locating somatically acquired rearrangements corresponding to large-scale chromosomal…”
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A new DP algorithm for comparing gene expression data using geometric similarity
Published in 2015 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (01-11-2015)“…Microarray gene expression data comes as a time series, where the expression level of a gene is recorded at specific time points. Comparing the time series…”
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A new DP algorithm for comparing gene expression data using geometric similarity
Published in 2015 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (01-11-2015)“…Microarray gene expression data comes as a time series, where the expression level of a gene is recorded at specific time points. Comparing the time series…”
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