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The BRHS serves all Rutgers Cancer Institute research programs. From 2018 to 2022, BRHS has supported approximately 165 original research cancer-relevant publications. The top 25 publications (IF>10) for that period are shown below.

Severson EA, Riedlinger GM, Connelly CF, Vergilio JA, Goldfinger M, Ramkissoon S, Frampton GM, Ross JS, Fratella-Calabrese A, Gay L, Ali S, Miller V, Elvin J, Hadigol M, Hirshfield KM, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, Ganesan S, Khiabanian H. Detection of clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential in clinical sequencing of solid tumor specimens. Blood. 2018;131(22):2501-5. doi: 10.1182/blood-2018-03-840629. PubMed PMID: 29678827; PMCID: PMC5981171.

Zhang H, Su X, Burley SK, Zheng XFS. mTOR regulates aerobic glycolysis through NEAT1 and nuclear paraspeckle-mediated mechanism in hepatocellular carcinoma. Theranostics. 2022;12(7):3518-33. doi: 10.7150/thno.72581. PubMed PMID: 35547764; PMCID: PMC9065186.

Paratala BS, Chung JH, Williams CB, Yilmazel B, Petrosky W, Williams K, Schrock AB, Gay LM, Lee E, Dolfi SC, Pham K, Lin S, Yao M, Kulkarni A, DiClemente F, Liu C, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, Ganesan S, Ross JS, Ali SM, Leyland-Jones B, Hirshfield KM. RET rearrangements are actionable alterations in breast cancer. Nat Commun. 2018;9(1):4821. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07341-4. PubMed PMID: 30446652; PMCID: PMC6240119.

Foo TK, Vincelli G, Huselid E, Her J, Zheng H, Simhadri S, Wang M, Huo Y, Li T, Yu X, Li H, Zhao W, Bunting SF, Xia B. ATR/ATM-Mediated Phosphorylation of BRCA1 T1394 Promotes Homologous Recombinational Repair and G(2)-M Checkpoint Maintenance. Cancer Res. 2021;81(18):4676-84. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-20-2723. PubMed PMID: 34301763; PMCID: PMC8448966.

Liu J, Zhang C, Wu H, Sun XX, Li Y, Huang S, Yue X, Lu SE, Shen Z, Su X, White E, Haffty BG, Hu W, Feng Z. Parkin ubiquitinates phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase to suppress serine synthesis and tumor progression. J Clin Invest. 2020;130(6):3253-69. doi: 10.1172/JCI132876. PubMed PMID: 32478681; PMCID: PMC7260041.

Kwon M, Rubio G, Nolan N, Auteri P, Volmar JA, Adem A, Javidian P, Zhou Z, Verzi MP, Pine SR, Libutti SK. FILIP1L Loss Is a Driver of Aggressive Mucinous Colorectal Adenocarcinoma and Mediates Cytokinesis Defects through PFDN1. Cancer Res. 2021;81(21):5523-39. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-21-0897. PubMed PMID: 34417201; PMCID: PMC8563430.

Stein MN, Malhotra J, Tarapore RS, Malhotra U, Silk AW, Chan N, Rodriguez L, Aisner J, Aiken RD, Mayer T, Haffty BG, Newman JH, Aspromonte SM, Bommareddy PK, Estupinian R, Chesson CB, Sadimin ET, Li S, Medina DJ, Saunders T, Frankel M, Kareddula A, Damare S, Wesolowsky E, Gabel C, El-Deiry WS, Prabhu VV, Allen JE, Stogniew M, Oster W, et al. Safety and enhanced immunostimulatory activity of the DRD2 antagonist ONC201 in advanced solid tumor patients with weekly oral administration. J Immunother Cancer. 2019;7(1):136. doi: 10.1186/s40425-019-0599-8. PubMed PMID: 31118108; PMCID: PMC6532211.

Mahdi AH, Huo Y, Tan Y, Simhadri S, Vincelli G, Gao J, Ganesan S, Xia B. Evidence of Intertissue Differences in the DNA Damage Response and the Pro-oncogenic Role of NF-kappaB in Mice with Disengaged BRCA1-PALB2 Interaction. Cancer Res. 2018;78(14):3969-81. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-0388. PubMed PMID: 29739757; PMCID: PMC6050088.

Tsang CK, Chen M, Cheng X, Qi Y, Chen Y, Das I, Li X, Vallat B, Fu LW, Qian CN, Wang HY, White E, Burley SK, Zheng XFS. SOD1 Phosphorylation by mTORC1 Couples Nutrient Sensing and Redox Regulation. Mol Cell. 2018;70(3):502-15 e8. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.03.029. PubMed PMID: 29727620; PMCID: PMC6108545.

Perekatt AO, Shah PP, Cheung S, Jariwala N, Wu A, Gandhi V, Kumar N, Feng Q, Patel N, Chen L, Joshi S, Zhou A, Taketo MM, Xing J, White E, Gao N, Gatza ML, Verzi MP. SMAD4 Suppresses WNT-Driven Dedifferentiation and Oncogenesis in the Differentiated Gut Epithelium. Cancer Res. 2018;78(17):4878-90. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-0043. PubMed PMID: 29986996; PMCID: PMC6125228.

Bhatt V, Khayati K, Hu ZS, Lee A, Kamran W, Su X, Guo JY. Autophagy modulates lipid metabolism to maintain metabolic flexibility for Lkb1-deficient Kras-driven lung tumorigenesis. Genes Dev. 2019;33(3-4):150-65. doi: 10.1101/gad.320481.118. PubMed PMID: 30692209; PMCID: PMC6362813.

Kim YC, Byun S, Seok S, Guo G, Xu HE, Kemper B, Kemper JK. Small Heterodimer Partner and Fibroblast Growth Factor 19 Inhibit Expression of NPC1L1 in Mouse Intestine and Cholesterol Absorption. Gastroenterology. 2019;156(4):1052-65. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2018.11.061. PubMed PMID: 30521806; PMCID: PMC6409196.

Riedlinger G, Hadigol M, Khiabanian H, Ganesan S. Association of JAK2-V617F Mutations Detected by Solid Tumor Sequencing With Coexistent Myeloproliferative Neoplasms. JAMA Oncol. 2019;5(2):265-7. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.6286. PubMed PMID: 30605212; PMCID: PMC6439565.

Chen L, Toke NH, Luo S, Vasoya RP, Fullem RL, Parthasarathy A, Perekatt AO, Verzi MP. A reinforcing HNF4-SMAD4 feed-forward module stabilizes enterocyte identity. Nat Genet. 2019;51(5):777-85. doi: 10.1038/s41588-019-0384-0. PubMed PMID: 30988513; PMCID: PMC6650150.

Panda A, Mehnert JM, Hirshfield KM, Riedlinger G, Damare S, Saunders T, Kane M, Sokol L, Stein MN, Poplin E, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, Silk AW, Aisner J, Chan N, Malhotra J, Frankel M, Kaufman HL, Ali S, Ross JS, White EP, Bhanot G, Ganesan S. Immune Activation and Benefit From Avelumab in EBV-Positive Gastric Cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2018;110(3):316-20. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djx213. PubMed PMID: 29155997; PMCID: PMC6658862.

Newman JH, Chesson CB, Herzog NL, Bommareddy PK, Aspromonte SM, Pepe R, Estupinian R, Aboelatta MM, Buddhadev S, Tarabichi S, Lee M, Li S, Medina DJ, Giurini EF, Gupta KH, Guevara-Aleman G, Rossi M, Nowicki C, Abed A, Goldufsky JW, Broucek JR, Redondo RE, Rotter D, Jhawar SR, Wang SJ, Kohlhapp FJ, Kaufman HL, Thomas PG, Gupta V, Kuzel TM, et al. Intratumoral injection of the seasonal flu shot converts immunologically cold tumors to hot and serves as an immunotherapy for cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;117(2):1119-28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1904022116. PubMed PMID: 31888983; PMCID: PMC6969546.

Jabbour SK, Berman AT, Decker RH, Lin Y, Feigenberg SJ, Gettinger SN, Aggarwal C, Langer CJ, Simone CB, 2nd, Bradley JD, Aisner J, Malhotra J. Phase 1 Trial of Pembrolizumab Administered Concurrently With Chemoradiotherapy for Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2020;6(6):848-55. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.6731. PubMed PMID: 32077891; PMCID: PMC7042914.

Dudek AZ, Liu LC, Gupta S, Logan TF, Singer EA, Joshi M, Zakharia YN, Lang JM, Schwarz JK, Al-Janadi A, Alva AS. Phase Ib/II Clinical Trial of Pembrolizumab With Bevacizumab for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: BTCRC-GU14-003. J Clin Oncol. 2020;38(11):1138-45. doi: 10.1200/JCO.19.02394. PubMed PMID: 32097091; PMCID: PMC7145584.

Yang Y, Karsli-Uzunbas G, Poillet-Perez L, Sawant A, Hu ZS, Zhao Y, Moore D, Hu W, White E. Autophagy promotes mammalian survival by suppressing oxidative stress and p53. Genes Dev. 2020;34(9-10):688-700. doi: 10.1101/gad.335570.119. PubMed PMID: 32193353; PMCID: PMC7197357.

Wong C, Tang LH, Davidson C, Vosburgh E, Chen W, Foran DJ, Notterman DA, Levine AJ, Xu EY. Two well-differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor mouse models. Cell Death Differ. 2020;27(1):269-83. doi: 10.1038/s41418-019-0355-0. PubMed PMID: 31160716; PMCID: PMC7206057.

Yang Y, White E. Autophagy suppresses TRP53/p53 and oxidative stress to enable mammalian survival. Autophagy. 2020;16(7):1355-7. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2020.1765522. PubMed PMID: 32370647; PMCID: PMC7469664.

Ghergurovich JM, Esposito M, Chen Z, Wang JZ, Bhatt V, Lan T, White E, Kang Y, Guo JY, Rabinowitz JD. Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Is Not Essential for K-Ras-Driven Tumor Growth or Metastasis. Cancer Res. 2020;80(18):3820-9. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-2486. PubMed PMID: 32661137; PMCID: PMC7501231.

Pamarthy S, Sabaawy HE. Patient derived organoids in prostate cancer: improving therapeutic efficacy in precision medicine. Mol Cancer. 2021;20(1):125. doi: 10.1186/s12943-021-01426-3. PubMed PMID: 34587953; PMCID: PMC8480086.

Zhang S, Zhou YF, Cao J, Burley SK, Wang HY, Zheng XFS. mTORC1 Promotes ARID1A Degradation and Oncogenic Chromatin Remodeling in Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Cancer Res. 2021;81(22):5652-65. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-21-0206. PubMed PMID: 34429326; PMCID: PMC8595749.

Zingg D, Bhin J, Yemelyanenko J, Kas SM, Rolfs F, Lutz C, Lee JK, Klarenbeek S, Silverman IM, Annunziato S, Chan CS, Piersma SR, Eijkman T, Badoux M, Gogola E, Siteur B, Sprengers J, de Klein B, de Goeij-de Haas RR, Riedlinger GM, Ke H, Madison R, Drenth AP, van der Burg E, Schut E, Henneman L, van Miltenburg MH, Proost N, Zhen H, Wientjens E, et al. Truncated FGFR2 is a clinically actionable oncogene in multiple cancers. Nature. 2022;608(7923):609-17. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05066-5. PubMed PMID: 35948633; PMCID: PMC9436779.