Min Soon Cho, Ph.D.
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine - Research, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
2011 | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA, PHD, Genes and Development |
Postgraduate Training
2011-2016 | Research Fellowship, Cancer Biology and Hematology, UT-MDACC, Houston, TX |
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Noh K, Mangala LS, Han HD, Zhang N, Pradeep S, Wu SY, Ma S, Mora E, Rupaimoole R, Jiang D, Wen Y, Shahzad MMK, Lyons Y, Cho M, Hu W, Nagaraja AS, Haemmerle M, Mak CSL, Chen X, Gharpure KM, Deng H, Xiong W, Kingsley CV, Liu J, Jennings N, Birrer MJ, Bouchard RR, Lopez-Berestein G, Coleman RL, An Z, Sood AK. Differential Effects of EGFL6 on Tumor versus Wound Angiogenesis. Cell Rep 21(10):2785-2795, 2017. PMID: 29212026.
- Dalton HJ, Pradeep S, McGuire M, Hailemichael Y, Ma S, Lyons Y, Armaiz-Pena GN, Previs RA, Hansen JM, Rupaimoole R, Gonzalez-Villasana V, Cho MS, Wu SY, Mangala LS, Jennings NB, Hu W, Langley R, Mu H, Andreeff M, Bar-Eli M, Overwijk W, Ram P, Lopez-Berestein G, Coleman RL, Sood AK. Macrophages Facilitate Resistance to Anti-VEGF Therapy by Altered VEGFR Expression. Clin Cancer Res 23(22):7034-7046, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28855350.
- Hu Q, Hisamatsu T, Haemmerle M, Cho MS, Pradeep S, Rupaimoole R, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Wong STC, Sood AK, Afshar-Kharghan V. Role of Platelet-Derived Tgfβ1 in the Progression of Ovarian Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 23(18):5611-5621, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28611202.
- Cho MS, Noh K, Haemmerle M, Li D, Park H, Hu Q, Hisamatsu T, Mitamura T, Mak SLC, Kunapuli S, Ma Q, Sood AK, Afshar-Kharghan V. Role of ADP receptors on platelets in the growth of ovarian cancer. Blood 130(10):1235-1242, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28679740.
- Haemmerle M, Taylor ML, Gutschner T, Pradeep S, Cho MS, Sheng J, Lyons YM, Nagaraja AS, Dood RL, Wen Y, Mangala LS, Hansen JM, Rupaimoole R, Gharpure KM, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Yim SY, Lee JS, Ivan C, Hu W, Lopez-Berestein G, Wong ST, Karlan BY, Levine DA, Liu J, Afshar-Kharghan V, Sood AK. Platelets reduce anoikis and promote metastasis by activating YAP1 signaling. Nat Commun 8(1):310, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28827520.
- Hu Q, Cho MS, Thiagarajan P, Aung FM, Sood AK, Afshar-Kharghan V. A small amount of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX2) is constitutively expressed in platelets. Platelets 28(1):99-102, 2017. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27534811.
- Hu Q, Wang M, Cho MS, Wang C, Nick AM, Thiagarajan P, Aung FM, Han X, Sood AK, Afshar-Kharghan V. Lipid profile of platelets and platelet-derived microparticles in ovarian cancer. BBA Clin 6:76-81, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27453821.
- Haemmerle M, Bottsford-Miller J, Pradeep S, Taylor ML, Choi HJ, Hansen JM, Dalton HJ, Stone RL, Cho MS, Nick AM, Nagaraja AS, Gutschner T, Gharpure KM, Mangala LS, Rupaimoole R, Han HD, Zand B, Armaiz-Pena GN, Wu SY, Pecot CV, Burns AR, Lopez-Berestein G, Afshar-Kharghan V, Sood AK. FAK regulates platelet extravasation and tumor growth after antiangiogenic therapy withdrawal. J Clin Invest 126(5):1885-96, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27064283.
- Cho MS, Rupaimoole R, Choi HJ, Noh K, Chen J, Hu Q, Sood AK, Afshar-Kharghan V. Complement Component 3 Is Regulated by TWIST1 and Mediates Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition. J Immunol 196(3):1412-8, 2016. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26718342.
- Pradeep S, Huang J, Mora EM, Nick AM, Cho MS, Wu SY, Noh K, Pecot CV, Rupaimoole R, Stein MA, Brock S, Wen Y, Xiong C, Gharpure K, Hansen JM, Nagaraja AS, Previs RA, Vivas-Mejia P, Han HD, Hu W, Mangala LS, Zand B, Stagg LJ, Ladbury JE, Ozpolat B, Alpay SN, Nishimura M, Stone RL, Matsuo K, Armaiz-Peña GN, Dalton HJ, Danes C, Goodman B, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Kruger C, Schneider A, Haghpeykar S, Jaladurgam P, Hung MC, Coleman RL, Liu J, Li C, Urbauer D, Lopez-Berestein G, Jackson DB, Sood AK. Erythropoietin Stimulates Tumor Growth via EphB4. Cancer Cell 28(5):610-622, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26481148.
- Miyake T, Pradeep S, Wu SY, Rupaimoole R, Zand B, Wen Y, Gharpure KM, Nagaraja AS, Hu W, Cho MS, Dalton HJ, Previs RA, Taylor ML, Hisamatsu T, Kang Y, Liu T, Shacham S, McCauley D, Hawke DH, Wiktorowicz JE, Coleman RL, Sood AK. XPO1/CRM1 Inhibition Causes Antitumor Effects by Mitochondrial Accumulation of eIF5A. Clin Cancer Res 21(14):3286-97, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25878333.
- Choi HJ, Armaiz Pena GN, Pradeep S, Cho MS, Coleman RL, Sood AK. Anti-vascular therapies in ovarian cancer: moving beyond anti-VEGF approaches. Cancer Metastasis Rev 34(1):19-40, 2015. PMID: 25544368.
- Bottsford-Miller J, Choi HJ, Dalton HJ, Stone RL, Cho MS, Haemmerle M, Nick AM, Pradeep S, Zand B, Previs RA, Pecot CV, Crane EK, Hu W, Lutgendorf SK, Afshar-Kharghan V, Sood AK. Differential platelet levels affect response to taxane-based therapy in ovarian cancer. Clin Cancer Res 21(3):602-10, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25473001.
- Pradeep S, Kim SW, Wu SY, Nishimura M, Chaluvally-Raghavan P, Miyake T, Pecot CV, Kim SJ, Choi HJ, Bischoff FZ, Mayer JA, Huang L, Nick AM, Hall CS, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Zand B, Dalton HJ, Arumugam T, Lee HJ, Han HD, Cho MS, Rupaimoole R, Mangala LS, Sehgal V, Oh SC, Liu J, Lee JS, Coleman RL, Ram P, Lopez-Berestein G, Fidler IJ, Sood AK. Hematogenous metastasis of ovarian cancer: rethinking mode of spread. Cancer Cell 26(1):77-91, 2014. PMID: 25026212.
- Cho MS, Vasquez HG, Rupaimoole R, Pradeep S, Wu S, Zand B, Han HD, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Bottsford-Miller J, Huang J, Miyake T, Choi HJ, Dalton HJ, Ivan C, Baggerly K, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK, Afshar-Kharghan V. Autocrine effects of tumor-derived complement. Cell Rep 6(6):1085-1095, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24613353.
- Chakravarti D, Su X, Cho MS, Bui NH, Coarfa C, Venkatanarayan A, Benham AL, Flores González RE, Alana J, Xiao W, Leung ML, Vin H, Chan IL, Aquino A, Müller N, Wang H, Cooney AJ, Parker-Thornburg J, Tsai KY, Gunaratne PH, Flores ER. Induced multipotency in adult keratinocytes through down-regulation of ?Np63 or DGCR8. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111(5):E572-81, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24449888.
- Cho MS, Bottsford-Miller J, Vasquez HG, Stone R, Zand B, Kroll MH, Sood AK, Afshar-Kharghan V. Platelets increase the proliferation of ovarian cancer cells. Blood 120(24):4869-72, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22966171.
- Su X, Chakravarti D, Cho MS, Liu L, Gi YJ, Lin YL, Leung ML, El-Naggar A, Creighton CJ, Suraokar MB, Wistuba I, Flores ER. TAp63 suppresses metastasis through coordinate regulation of Dicer and miRNAs. Nature 467(7318):986-90, 2010. PMID: 20962848.
- Cho MS, Chan IL, Flores ER. ?Np63 transcriptionally regulates brachyury, a gene with diverse roles in limb development, tumorigenesis and metastasis. Cell Cycle 9(12):2434-41, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20519941.
- Su X, Cho MS, Gi YJ, Ayanga BA, Sherr CJ, Flores ER. Rescue of key features of the p63-null epithelial phenotype by inactivation of Ink4a and Arf. EMBO J 28(13):1904-15, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19494829.
- Su X, Paris M, Gi YJ, Tsai KY, Cho MS, Lin YL, Biernaskie JA, Sinha S, Prives C, Pevny LH, Miller FD, Flores ER. TAp63 prevents premature aging by promoting adult stem cell maintenance. Cell Stem Cell 5(1):64-75, 2009. PMID: 19570515.
- Traverso EE, Cho MS, Wu CF, Sater AK, Larabell CA, Kloc M, Etkin LD. Disruption of the dynamic sub-cellular localization of the Xenopus tumorhead protein causes embryonic lethality at the early gastrula transition. Differentiation 75(10):947-56, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17459085.
- Traverso EE, Cho MS, Wu CF, Etkin LD. Identification of TH-B, a new oligomeric variant of the Xenopus morphogenetic factor, tumorhead. Int J Dev Biol 50(4):423-7, 2006. PMID: 16525938.
- Kim UK, Cho MS, Chae JJ, Kim SH, Hong SS, Lee SH, Namkoong Y, Lee CC. Allelic frequencies of six (CA)n microsatellite markers of the dystrophin gene in the Korean population. Hum Hered 49(4):205-7, 1999. PMID: 10436382.
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CV information above last modified September 21, 2023