NEWARK-RBHS
Prospective Students

Multidisciplinary PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences

Bliss SA, Paul S, Pobiarzyn PW, Ayer S, Sinha G, Pant S, Hilton H, Sharma N, Cunha MF, Engelberth DJ, Greco SJ, Bryan M, Kucia MJ, Kakar SS, Ratajczak MZ, Rameshwar P. (2018) Evaluation of a developmental hierarchy for breast cancer cells to assess risk-based patient selection for targeted treatment. Scientific reports.  8(1):367.

McLane LE, Bourne JN, Evangelou AV, Khandker L, Macklin WB & Wood TL. (2017). Loss of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex1 in Adult Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells Enhances Axon Remyelination and Increases Myelin Thickness after a Focal Demyelination.  Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 7534-7546.

Carter K, Rameshwar P, Ratajczak MZ, Kakar SS. (2017) Verrucarin J inhibits ovarian cancer and targets cancer stem cells. Oncotarget. 8(54):92743-92756.

Gonzalez JP, Kyrychenko S, Kyrychenko V, Schneider JS, Granier CJ, Himelman E, et al. (2017). Small Fractions of Muscular Dystrophy Embryonic Stem Cells Yield Severe Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Defects in Adult Mouse Chimeras.  Stem Cells, 35, 597-610.

Walker ND, Mourad Y, Liu K, Buxhoeveden M, Schoenberg C, Eloy JD, Wilson DJ, Brown LG, Botea A, Chaudhry F, Greco SJ, Ponzio NM, Pyrsopoulos N, Koneru B, Gubenko Y, Rameshwar P. (2017) Steroid-Mediated Decrease in Blood Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Liver Transplant could Impact Long-Term Recovery. Stem cell reviews. 13(5):644-658.

Kakar SS, Parte S, Carter K, Joshua IG, Worth C, Rameshwar P, Ratajczak MZ. Withaferin A (WFA) inhibits tumor growth and metastasis by targeting ovarian cancer stem cells. Oncotarget. 2017; 8(43):74494-74505.

Baljinnyam E, Venkatesh S, Gordan R, Mareedu S, Zhang J, Xie LH, Azzam EI, Suzuki CK, Fraidenraich D. (2017) Effect of densely ionizing radiation on cardiomyocyte differentiation from human-induced pluripotent stem cells. Physiol Rep. 5(15). pii: e13308

Greco SJ, Yehia G, Potian JA, Molina CA, Rameshwar P. (2017) Constitutive Expression of  Inducible Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate Early Repressor (ICER) in Cycling Quiescent Hematopoietic Cells: Implications for Aging Hematopoietic Stem Cells. Stem cell reviews. 13(1):116-126.

Pico MJ, Hashemi S, Xu F, Nguyen KH, Donnelly R, Moran E, Flowers S. (2016) Glucocorticoid receptor-mediated cis-repression of osteogenic genes requires BRM-SWI/SNF. Bone Rep.  29;5:222-227.

Bliss SA, Sinha G, Sandiford OA, Williams LM, Engelberth DJ, Guiro K, Isenalumhe  LL, Greco SJ, Ayer S, Bryan M, Kumar R, Ponzio NM, Rameshwar P. (2016) Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Exosomes Stimulate Cycling Quiescence and Early Breast Cancer Dormancy in Bone Marrow. Cancer research. 76(19):5832-5844.

Walker ND, Patel J, Munoz JL, Hu M, Guiro K, Sinha G, Rameshwar P. (2016) The bone marrow niche in support of breast cancer dormancy. Cancer letters. 380(1):263-71.

Zhao Q, Chang C, Gonzalez JP, Alzahrani K, Button JL & Fraidenraich D. (2016). Combined Id1 and Id3 Deletion Leads to Severe Erythropoietic Disturbances.  PLoS ONE [Electronic Resource], 11, e0154480.

Fernandez-Moure JS, Corradetti B, Chan P, Van Eps JL, Janecek T, Rameshwar P, Weiner BK, Tasciotti E. (2015) Enhanced osteogenic potential of mesenchymal stem cells from cortical bone: a comparative analysis. Stem cell research & therapy. 6:203.

Nguyen KH, Xu F, Flowers S, Williams EA, Fritton JC, Moran E. (2015) SWI/SNF-Mediated Lineage Determination in Mesenchymal Stem Cells Confers Resistance to Osteoporosis.   Stem Cells. 33(10):3028-38.

Ziegler AN, Levison SW & Wood TL. (2015) Insulin and IGF receptor signalling in neural-stem-cell homeostasis.  Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 11, 161-70.

Sherman LS, Condé-Green A, Sandiford OA, Rameshwar P. (2015) A discussion on adult mesenchymal stem cells for drug delivery: pros and cons. Therapeutic delivery. 6(12):1335-46.

Bliss SA, Greco SJ, Rameshwar P. (2014) Hierarchy of breast cancer cells: key to reverse dormancy for therapeutic intervention. Stem cells translational medicine. 3(7):782-6.

Patel SA, Dave MA, Bliss SA, Giec-Ujda AB, Bryan M, Pliner LF, Rameshwar P. (2014) Treg/Th17 polarization by distinct subsets of breast cancer cells is dictated by the interaction with mesenchymal stem cells. Journal of cancer stem cell research. 2014(2).

Ziegler AN, Chidambaram S, Forbes BE, Wood TL & Levison SW. (2014) Insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II) and IGF-II analogs with enhanced insulin receptor-a binding affinity promote neural stem cell expansion.  Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289, 4626-33.

Flowers S, Patel PJ, Gleicher S, et al. (2014) p107-Dependent recruitment of SWI/SNF to the alkaline phosphatase promoter during osteoblast differentiation.   Bone. 69:47-54.

Aleynik A, Gernavage KM, Mourad YSh, Sherman LS, Liu K, Gubenko YA, Rameshwar P. (2014) Stem cell delivery of therapies for brain disorders. Clinical and translational medicine. 3:24.

Mariotti V, Greco SJ, Mohan RD, Nahas GR, Rameshwar P. (2014) Stem cell in alternative treatments for brain tumors: potential for gene delivery. Molecular and cellular  therapies. 2:24.

Bercury KK, Dai J, Sachs HH, Ahrendsen JT, Wood TL & Macklin WB. (2014) Conditional ablation of raptor or rictor has differential impact on oligodendrocyte differentiation and CNS myelination.  Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 4466-80.

Wahl SE, McLane LE, Bercury KK, Macklin WB & Wood TL. (2014) Mammalian target of rapamycin promotes oligodendrocyte differentiation, initiation and extent of CNS myelination.  Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 4453-65.

Marlow R, Honeth G, Lombardi S, Cariati M, Hessey S, Pipili A, Mariotti V, Buchupalli B, Foster K, Bonnet D, Grigoriadis A, Rameshwar P, Purushotham A, Tutt A, Dontu G. (2013) A novel model of dormancy for bone metastatic breast cancer cells. Cancer research. 73(23):6886-99.

Munoz JL, Bliss SA, Greco SJ, Ramkissoon SH, Ligon KL, Rameshwar P. (2013) Delivery of Functional Anti-miR-9 by Mesenchymal Stem Cell-derived Exosomes to Glioblastoma Multiforme Cells Conferred Chemosensitivity. Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids. 2:e126.

Desai MB, Gavrilova T, Liu J, Patel SA, Kartan S, Greco SJ, Capitle E, Rameshwar P. (2013) Pollen-induced antigen presentation by mesenchymal stem cells and T cells from allergic rhinitis. Clinical & translational immunology. 2(10):e7.

Morelli SS, Rameshwar P, Goldsmith LT. (2013) Experimental evidence for bone marrow as a source of nonhematopoietic endometrial stromal and epithelial compartment cells in a murine model. Biology of reproduction. 89(1):7.

Wood TL, Bercury KK, Cifelli SE, Mursch LE, Min J, Dai J, et al. (2013) mTOR: a link from the extracellular milieu to transcriptional regulation of oligodendrocyte development.  ASN Neuro, 5, e00108.

Hoover DJ, Zhu V, Chen R, Briley K Jr, Rameshwar P, Cohen S, Coffman FD. (2013) Expression of the chitinase family glycoprotein YKL-40 in undifferentiated, differentiated and trans-differentiated mesenchymal stem cells. PloS one. 8(5):e62491.

Bhartiya D, Boheler KR, Rameshwar P. (2013) Multipotent to pluripotent properties of adult stem cells. Stem cells international. 2013:813780.

Bibber B, Sinha G, Lobba AR, Greco SJ, Rameshwar P. (2013) A review of stem cell translation and potential confounds by cancer stem cells. Stem cells international. 2013:241048.

Flowers S, Xu F, Moran E. (2013) Cooperative activation of tissue-specific genes by pRB and E2F1.   Cancer Res. 73(7):2150-8.

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