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JCO Precision Oncology: Disparate Rates of Germline Variants in Cancer Predisposition Genes in African American/Black Compared With Non-Hispanic White Individuals Between 2015 and 2022 (Tomlinson)

July 12, 2024

Rachel B. Wyatt Castillo, MS, CGC, Sarah M. Nielsen, MS, CGC, Elaine Chen, PhD, Brandie Heald, MS, CGC,, Rachel E. Ellsworth, PhD  Edward D. Esplin, MD, PhD, FACMG, and Gail E. Tomlinson, MD, PhD  Abstract Purpose African American/Black (AA/B) individu …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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eLife: SERBP1 interacts with PARP1 and is Present in PARylation-Dependent Protein Complexes Regulating Splicing, Cell Division, and Ribosome Biogenesis (Penalva, Libich, et al)

July 3, 2024

Kira Breunig Xiufen Lei Mauro Montalbano Gabriela D. A. Guardia Shiva Ostadrahimi Victoria Alers Adam Kosti Jennifer Chiou Nicole Klein Corina Vinarov Lily Wang Mujia Li Weidan Song W. Lee Kraus David S. Libich Stefano Tiziani Susan T. Weintraub Pedro …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Scientific Reports: STEAP2 promotes hepatocellular carcinoma progression via increased copper levels and stress-activated MAP kinase activity (Chen)

June 20, 2024

Carla Zeballos Torrez, Acarizia Easley, Hakim Bouamar, Guixi Zheng, Xiang Gu, Junhua Yang, Yu-Chiao Chiu, Yidong Chen, Glenn A. Halff, Francisco G. Cigarroa Lu-Zhe Sun Abstract Six Transmembrane Epithelial Antigen of Prostate 2 (STEAP2) belong to a fam …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Neoplasia: Aurkin-A, a TPX2-aurora a small molecule inhibitor, disrupts Alisertib-induced polyploidy in aggressive diffuse large B cell lymphoma. (Sung Lab)

June 18, 2024

Patrick J Conway 1, Bárbara De La Peña Avalos 2, Jonathan Dao 3, Sebastian Montagnino 4, Dmytro Kovalskyy 2, Eloise Dray 5, Daruka Mahadevan 6 Abstract Chemotherapy-induced polyploidy is a mechanism of inherited drug resistance resulting in an aggressi …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Yogesh Gupta, PhD, to Receive Grant from William and Ella Owens Medical Research Foundation to Study “Deciphering BAF Assembly for Pediatric Cancer Therapy”

June 17, 2024

Deciphering BAF Assembly for Pediatric Cancer Therapy Synopsis: The adenosine triphosphate (ATP) dependent multi-subunit assemblies such as (BRG1/BRM-associated factors) complexes utilize ATP hydrolysis energy to reorganize chromatin architecture and f …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Precision Oncology: Pharmacological inhibition of the LIF/LIFR autocrine loop reveals vulnerability of ovarian cancer cells to ferroptosis (Chen, Lai, Rao, et al)

June 17, 2024

      Behnam Ebrahimi, Suryavathi Viswanadhapalli, Uday P. Pratap, Gopalam Rahul, Xue Yang, Prabhakar Pitta Venkata, Viktor Drel, Bindu Santhamma, Swapna Konda, Xiaonan Li, Alondra Lee Rodriguez Sanchez, Hui Yan, Gangadhara R. Sareddy, Z …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Cell Death & Disease: Impact of the thyroid hormone T3 and its nuclear receptor TRα1 on colon cancer stem cell phenotypes and response to chemotherapies (Penalva)

May 2, 2024

Maria Virginia Giolito, Serguei Bodoirat, Theo La Rosa, Mathieu Reslinger, Gabriela D. A. Guardia, Jana Mourtada, Leo Claret, Alain Joung, Pedro A. F. Galante, Luiz O. F. Penalva & Michelina Plateroti Abstract Colorectal cancers (CRCs) are highly h …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Current Protocols: Approaches for Mapping and Analysis of R-loops (Bishop Lab)

April 29, 2024

Pramiti Mukhopadhyay, Henry Miller, Aiola Stoja, Alexander J. R. Bishop Abstract R-loops are nucleic acid structures composed of a DNA: RNA hybrid with a displaced non-template single-stranded DNA. Current approaches to identify and map R-loop formatio …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Patterns: Predicting drug response through tumor deconvolution by cancer cell lines (Chen Lab)

April 23, 2024

Yu-Ching Hsu 1 2 3 4, Yu-Chiao Chiu 5 6, Tzu-Pin Lu 3, Tzu-Hung Hsiao 7, Yidong Chen 4 8 9 Highlights •Scaden-CA is a deep-learning model for tumor deconvolution •Tumor deconvolution facilitates the use of a drug response prediction algorithm •The mode …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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Journal of the American Chemical Society: ights into Molecular Diversity within the FUS/EWS/TAF15 Protein Family: Unraveling Phase Separation of the N-Terminal Low-Complexity Domain from RNA-Binding Protein EWS (Libich Lab)

April 8, 2024

Abstract The FET protein family, comprising FUS, EWS, and TAF15, plays crucial roles in mRNA maturation, transcriptional regulation, and DNA damage response. Clinically, they are linked to Ewing family tumors and neurodegenerative diseases such as amyo …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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