Journal of Virology: Adaptation of an R5 Simian-Human Immunodeficiency Virus Encoding an HIV Clade A Envelope with or without Ablation of Adaptive Host Immunity: Differential Selection of Viral Mutants

April 17, 2019

Mingkui Zhou, Michael Humbert, Muhammad M. Mukhtar, Hanna B. Scinto, Hemant K. Vyas, Samir K. Lakhashe, Siddappa N. Byrareddy, Gregor Maurer, Swati Thorat, Joshua Owuor, Zhao Lai, Yidong Chen, Anthony Griffiths, Agnès-Laurence Chenine, Sanjeev Gumber, François Villinger, David Montefiori, Ruth M. Ruprecht ABSTRACT Simian-human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) infection in rhesus macaques (RMs) resembles human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in humans and serves as a tool to evaluate candidate AIDS vaccines. […]

UT Health SA Newsroom: Greehey cancer researcher receives UT System’s Rising STARs award

April 10, 2019

David Libich, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and structural biology in the Long School of Medicine and faculty member of UT Health’s Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, has received a Rising STARs Award from the UT System. The award for early-career investigators comes with a $250,000 grant. Dr. Libich, who began work here in 2017, […]

Nature: Study cancer survivors

April 9, 2019

More and more people are living for years after treatment. Researchers should look for ways to identify and ease long-term effects. When Gregory Aune was 16, he wasn’t particularly concerned about the lasting effects of the drugs and radiation that he was given to treat his lymphoma. “I saw kids around me die, so I […]

Nature Communications: MiR-584-5p potentiates vincristine and radiation response by inducing spindle defects and DNA damage in medulloblastoma

October 31, 2018

Nourhan Abdelfattah, Subapriya Rajamanickam, Subbarayalu Panneerdoss, Santosh Timilsina, Pooja Yadav, Benjamin C. Onyeagucha, Michael Garcia, Ratna Vadlamudi, Yidong Chen, Andrew Brenner, Peter Houghton & Manjeet K. Rao Abstract Despite improvements in overall survival, only a modest percentage of patients survive high-risk medulloblastoma. The devastating side effects of radiation and chemotherapy substantially reduce the quality of life for surviving patients. Here, using genomic screens, we identified miR-584-5p as a […]

Elife: tp53 deficiency causes a wide tumor spectrum and increases embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma metastasis in zebrafish

September 7, 2018

Myron S Ignatius # 1 2 3 4, Madeline N Hayes # 1 2 3, Finola E Moore 1 2 3, Qin Tang 1 2 3, Sara P Garcia 1, Patrick R Blackburn 5, Kunal Baxi 4, Long Wang 4, Alexander Jin 1, Ashwin Ramakrishnan 1, Sophia Reeder 1, Yidong Chen 4, Gunnlaugur Petur Nielsen 1 2, Eleanor Y Chen 6, Robert P Hasserjian 1 2, Franck Tirode 7, Stephen C Ekker 8, David M Langenau 1 2 3 Abstract The TP53 tumor-suppressor gene is mutated in >50% of human tumors and Li-Fraumeni patients with germline inactivation are predisposed to developing cancer. Here, we generated tp53 deleted […]

eLife: tp53 deficiency causes a wide tumor spectrum and increases embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma metastasis in zebrafish

September 7, 2018

Myron S Ignatius, Madeline N Hayes, Finola E Moore, Qin Tang, Sara P Garcia, Patrick R Blackburn, Kunal Baxi, Long Wang, Alexander Jin, Ashwin Ramakrishnan, Sophia Reeder, Yidong Chen, Gunnlaugur Petur Nielsen, Eleanor Y Chen, Robert P Hasserjian, Franck Tirode, Stephen C Ekker, David M Langenau  Abstract The TP53 tumor-suppressor gene is mutated in >50% of human tumors and Li-Fraumeni patients with germline inactivation are predisposed to developing cancer. Here, we generated tp53 deleted […]