
Gabriel Lopez-Berestein, M.D.
Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Division of Cancer Medicine
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Professor of Medicine, Cancer Biology, and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
John Q. Gaines Foundation Professorship for Cancer Research, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Department of Integrative Biology & Pharmacology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX
Adjunct Professor, Department of Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX
Professor of NanoMedicine and Biomedical Engineering, UTHealth, Houston, TX
Adjunct Professor of Surgery, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, PR
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
1976 | Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, ESP, MD, Immunology |
1970 | Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR, USA, BS, Pre Med |
Experience & Service
Academic Appointments
Faculty, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, 2004 - Present
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 1981 - 1984
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Shah MY, Ferrajoli A, Sood AK, Lopez-Berestein G, Calin GA. microRNA Therapeutics in Cancer - An Emerging Concept. EBioMedicine 12:34-42, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27720213.
- Miranda F, Mannion D, Liu S, Zheng Y, Mangala LS, Redondo C, Herrero-Gonzalez S, Xu R, Taylor C, Chedom DF, Karaminejadranjbar M, Albukhari A, Jiang D, Pradeep S, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Salah E, Abdul Azeez KR, Elkins JM, Campo L, Myers KA, Klotz D, Bivona S, Dhar S, Bast RC, Saya H, Choi HG, Gray NS, Fischer R, Kessler BM, Yau C, Sood AK, Motohara T, Knapp S, Ahmed AA. Salt-Inducible Kinase 2 Couples Ovarian Cancer Cell Metabolism with Survival at the Adipocyte-Rich Metastatic Niche. Cancer Cell 30(2):273-89, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27478041.
- Napoli M, Venkatanarayan A, Raulji P, Meyers BA, Norton W, Mangala LS, Sood AK, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Vin H, Duvic M, Tetzlaff MB, Curry JL, Rook AH, Abbas HA, Coarfa C, Gunaratne PH, Tsai KY, Flores ER. Np63/DGCR8-Dependent MicroRNAs Mediate Therapeutic Efficacy of HDAC Inhibitors in Cancer. Cancer Cell 29(6):874-88, 2016. PMID: 27300436.
- Chaluvally-Raghavan P, Jeong KJ, Pradeep S, Silva AM, Yu S, Liu W, Moss T, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Zhang D, Ram P, Liu J, Lu Y, Lopez-Berestein G, Calin GA, Sood AK, Mills GB. Direct Upregulation of STAT3 by MicroRNA-551b-3p Deregulates Growth and Metastasis of Ovarian Cancer. Cell Rep 15(7):1493-504, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27160903.
- 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):1885-1896, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27064283.
- Han HD, Cho YJ, Cho SK, Byeon Y, Jeon HN, Kim HS, Kim BG, Bae DS, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK, Shin BC, Park YM, Lee JW. Linalool-Incorporated Nanoparticles as a Novel Anticancer Agent for Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma. Mol Cancer Ther 15(4):618-27, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26861249.
- Rupaimoole R, Calin GA, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK. miRNA Deregulation in Cancer Cells and the Tumor Microenvironment. Cancer Discov 6(3):235-46, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26865249.
- Seviour EG, Sehgal V, Lu Y, Luo Z, Moss T, Zhang F, Hill SM, Liu W, Maiti SN, Cooper L, Azencot R, Lopez-Berestein G, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Roopaimoole R, Pecot CV, Sood AK, Mukherjee S, Gray JW, Mills GB, Ram PT. Functional proteomics identifies miRNAs to target a p27/Myc/phospho-Rb signature in breast and ovarian cancer. Oncogene 35(6):801, 2016. PMID: 26865225.
- Redis RS, Vela LE, Lu W, Ferreira de Oliveira J, Ivan C, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Adamoski D, Pasculli B, Taguchi A, Chen Y, Fernandez AF, Valledor L, Van Roosbroeck K, Chang S, Shah M, Kinnebrew G, Han L, Atlasi Y, Cheung LH, Huang GY, Monroig P, Ramirez MS, Catela Ivkovic T, Van L, Ling H, Gafà R, Kapitanovic S, Lanza G, Bankson JA, Huang P, Lai SY, Bast RC, Rosenblum MG, Radovich M, Ivan M, Bartholomeusz G, Liang H, Fraga MF, Widger WR, Hanash S, Berindan-Neagoe I, Lopez-Berestein G, Ambrosio AL, Gomes Dias SM, Calin GA. Allele-Specific Reprogramming of Cancer Metabolism by the Long Non-coding RNA CCAT2. Mol Cell 61(4):520-34, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26853146.
- Zhang X, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK, Calin GA. Profiling Long Noncoding RNA Expression Using Custom-Designed Microarray. Methods Mol Biol 1402:33-41, 2016. PMID: 26721482.
- Hatakeyama H, Wu SY, Mangala LS, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK. Assessment of In Vivo siRNA Delivery in Cancer Mouse Models. Methods Mol Biol 1402:189-97, 2016. PMID: 26721492.
- Zand B, Previs RA, Zacharias NM, Rupaimoole R, Mitamura T, Nagaraja AS, Guindani M, Dalton HJ, Yang L, Baddour J, Achreja A, Hu W, Pecot CV, Ivan C, Wu SY, McCullough CR, Gharpure KM, Shoshan E, Pradeep S, Mangala LS, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Wang Y, Nick AM, Davies MA, Armaiz-Pena G, Liu J, Lutgendorf SK, Baggerly KA, Eli MB, Lopez-Berestein G, Nagrath D, Bhattacharya PK, Sood AK. Role of Increased n-acetylaspartate Levels in Cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 108(6), 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26819345.
- Wu SY, Rupaimoole R, Shen F, Pradeep S, Pecot CV, Ivan C, Nagaraja AS, Gharpure KM, Pham E, Hatakeyama H, McGuire MH, Haemmerle M, Vidal-Anaya V, Olsen C, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Filant J, Ehsanipour EA, Herbrich SM, Maiti SN, Huang L, Kim JH, Zhang X, Han HD, Armaiz-Pena GN, Seviour EG, Tucker S, Zhang M, Yang D, Cooper LJ, Ali-Fehmi R, Bar-Eli M, Lee JS, Ram PT, Baggerly KA, Lopez-Berestein G, Hung MC, Sood AK. A miR-192-EGR1-HOXB9 regulatory network controls the angiogenic switch in cancer. Nat Commun 7(15):11169, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27041221.
- Lopez-Berestein, G. , Seglen, P. O. & 234 others Klionsky, D. J., Abeliovich, H., Agostinis, P., Agrawal, D. K., Aliev, G., Askew, D. S., Baba, M., Baehrecke, E. H., Bahr, B. A., Ballabio, A., Bamber, B. A., Bassham, D. C., Bergamini, E., Bi, X., Biard-Piechaczyk, M., Blum, J. S., Bredesen, D. E., Brodsky, J. L., Brumell, J. H., Brunk, U. T., Bursch, W., Camougrand, N., Cebollero, E., Cecconi, F., Chen, Y., Chin, L. S., Choi, A., Chu, C. T., Chung, J., Clarke, P. G. H., Clark, R. S. B., Clarke, S. G., Clavé, C., Cleveland, J. L., Codogno, P., Colombo, M. I., Cotomontes, A., Cregg, J. M., Cuervo, A. M., Debnath, J., Demarchi, F., Dennis, P. B., Dennis, P. A., Deretic, V., Devenish, R. J., Di Sano, F., Dice, J. F., DiFiglia, M., Dinesh-Kumar, S., Distelhorst, C. W., Djavaheri-Mergny, M., Dorsey, F. C., Dröge, W., Dron, M., Dunn, W. A., Duszenko, M., Eissa, N. T., Elazar, Z., Esclatine, A., Eskelinen, E. L., Fésüs, L., Finley, K. D., Fuentes, J. M., Fueyo, J., Fujisaki, K., Galliot, B., Gao, F. B., Gewirtz, D. A., Gibson, S. B., Gohla, A., Goldberg, A. L., Gonzalez, R., González-Estévez, C., Gorski, S., Gottlieb, R. A., Häussinger, D., He, Y. W., Heidenreich, K., Hill, J. A., Høyer-Hansen, M., Hu, X., Huang, W. P., Iwasaki, A., Jäättelä, M., Jackson, W. T., Jiang, X., Jin, S., Johansen, T., Jung, J. U., Kadowaki, M., Kang, C., Kelekar, A., Kessel, D. H., Kiel, J. A. K. W., Hong, P. K., Kimchi, A., Kinsella, T. J., Kiselyov, K., Kitamoto, K., Knecht, E., Komatsu, M., Kominami, E., Kondo, S., Kovács, A. L., Kroemer, G., Kuan, C. Y., Kumar, R., Kundu, M., Landry, J., Laporte, M., Le, W., Lei, H. Y., Lenardo, M. J., Levine, B., Lieberman, A., Lim, K. L., Lin, F. C., Liou, W., Liu, L. F., López-Otín, C., Lu, B., Macleod, K. F., Malorni, W., Martinet, W., Matsuoka, K., Mautner, J., Meijer, A. J., Meléndez, A., Michels, P., Miotto, G., Mistiaen, W. P., Mizushima, N., Mograbi, B., Monastyrska, I., Moore, M. N., Moreira, P. I., Moriyasu, Y., Motyl, T., Münz, C., Murphy, L. O.,. Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356. Autophagy 12(2):443, 2016.
- Rupaimoole R, Lee J, Haemmerle M, Ling H, Previs RA, Pradeep S, Wu SY, Ivan C, Ferracin M, Dennison JB, Millward NM, Nagaraja AS, Gharpure KM, McGuire M, Sam N, Armaiz-Pena GN, Sadaoui NC, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Calin GA, Drapkin RI, Kovacs J, Mills GB, Zhang W, Lopez-Berestein G, Bhattacharya PK, Sood AK. Long Noncoding RNA Ceruloplasmin Promotes Cancer Growth by Altering Glycolysis. Cell Rep 13(11):2395-402, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26686630.
- Gaur S, Wen Y, Song JH, Parikh NU, Mangala LS, Blessing AM, Ivan C, Wu SY, Varkaris A, Shi Y, Lopez-Berestein G, Frigo DE, Sood AK, Gallick GE. Chitosan nanoparticle-mediated delivery of miRNA-34a decreases prostate tumor growth in the bone and its expression induces non-canonical autophagy. Oncotarget 6(30):29161-77, 2015. PMID: 26313360.
- Gharpure KM, Wu SY, Li C, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK. Nanotechnology: Future of Oncotherapy. Clin Cancer Res 21(14):3121-30, 2015. PMID: 26180057.
- Liu G, Yang D, Rupaimoole R, Pecot CV, Sun Y, Mangala LS, Li X, Ji P, Cogdell D, Hu L, Wang Y, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Shmulevich I, De Cecco L, Chen K, Mezzanzanica D, Xue F, Sood AK, Zhang W. Augmentation of response to chemotherapy by microRNA-506 through regulation of RAD51 in serous ovarian cancers. J Natl Cancer Inst 107(7), 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25995442.
- Ozcan G, Ozpolat B, Coleman RL, Sood AK, Lopez-Berestein G. Preclinical and clinical development of siRNA-based therapeutics. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 87:108-19, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25666164.
- Aslan B, Monroig P, Hsu MC, Pena GA, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Gonzalez-Villasana V, Rupaimoole R, Nagaraja AS, Mangala S, Han HD, Yuca E, Wu SY, Ivan C, Moss TJ, Ram PT, Wang H, Gol-Chambers A, Ozkayar O, Kanlikilicer P, Fuentes-Mattei E, Kahraman N, Pradeep S, Ozpolat B, Tucker S, Hung MC, Baggerly K, Bartholomeusz G, Calin G, Sood AK, Lopez-Berestein G. The ZNF304-integrin axis protects against anoikis in cancer. Nat Commun 6:7351, 2015. PMID: 26081979.
- Jin Y, Wang L, Qu S, Sheng X, Kristian A, Mælandsmo GM, Pällmann N, Yuca E, Tekedereli I, Gorgulu K, Alpay N, Sood A, Lopez-Berestein G, Fazli L, Rennie P, Risberg B, Wæhre H, Danielsen HE, Ozpolat B, Saatcioglu F. STAMP2 increases oxidative stress and is critical for prostate cancer. EMBO Mol Med 7(3):315-31, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25680860.
- Armaiz-Pena GN, Gonzalez-Villasana V, Nagaraja AS, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Sadaoui NC, Stone RL, Matsuo K, Dalton HJ, Previs RA, Jennings NB, Dorniak P, Hansen JM, Arevalo JM, Cole SW, Lutgendorf SK, Sood AK, Lopez-Berestein G. Adrenergic regulation of monocyte chemotactic protein 1 leads to enhanced macrophage recruitment and ovarian carcinoma growth. Oncotarget 6(6):4266-73, 2015. PMID: 25738355.
- Sun Y, Hu L, Zheng H, Bagnoli M, Guo Y, Rupaimoole R, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Ji P, Chen K, Sood AK, Mezzanzanica D, Liu J, Sun B, Zhang W. MiR-506 inhibits multiple targets in the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition network and is associated with good prognosis in epithelial ovarian cancer. J Pathol 235(1):25-36, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25230372.
- Zhang S, Lu Z, Mao W, Ahmed AA, Yang H, Zhou J, Jennings N, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Miranda R, Qiao W, Baladandayuthapani V, Li Z, Sood AK, Liu J, Le XF, Bast RC. CDK5 Regulates Paclitaxel Sensitivity in Ovarian Cancer Cells by Modulating AKT Activation, p21Cip1- and p27Kip1-Mediated G1 Cell Cycle Arrest and Apoptosis. PLoS One 10(7):e0131833, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26146988.
- Shields BB, Pecot CV, Gao H, McMillan E, Potts M, Nagel C, Purinton S, Wang Y, Ivan C, Kim HS, Borkowski RJ, Khan S, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Lea J, Gazdar A, Baggerly KA, Sood AK, White MA. A genome-scale screen reveals context-dependent ovarian cancer sensitivity to miRNA overexpression. Mol Syst Biol 11(12):842, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26655797.
- Zhaorigetu S, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Sood AK, Lopez-Berestein G, Walton BL. Delivery of negatively charged liposomes into the atherosclerotic plaque of apolipoprotein E-deficient mouse aortic tissue. J Liposome Res 24(3):182-90, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24443972.
- Gharpure KM, Chu KS, Bowerman CJ, Miyake T, Pradeep S, Mangala SL, Han HD, Rupaimoole R, Armaiz-Pena GN, Rahhal TB, Wu SY, Luft JC, Napier ME, Lopez-Berestein G, DeSimone JM, Sood AK. Metronomic docetaxel in PRINT(R) nanoparticles and EZH2 silencing have synergistic antitumor effect in ovarian cancer. Mol Cancer Ther 13(7):1750-7, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24755199.
- Stone RL, Baggerly KA, Armaiz-Pena GN, Kang Y, Sanguino AM, Thanapprapasr D, Dalton HJ, Bottsford-Miller J, Zand B, Akbani R, Diao L, Nick AM, DeGeest K, Lopez-Berestein G, Coleman RL, Lutgendorf S, Sood AK. Focal adhesion kinase: An alternative focus for anti-angiogenesis therapy in ovarian cancer. Cancer Biol Ther 15(7):919-29, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24755674.
- Bradley A, Zheng H, Ziebarth A, Sakati W, Branham-O'Connor M, Blumer JB, Liu Y, Kistner-Griffin E, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK, Landen CN, Eblen ST. EDD enhances cell survival and cisplatin resistance and is a therapeutic target for epithelial ovarian cancer. Carcinogenesis 35(5):1100-9, 2014. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24379240.
- Wen Y, Zand B, Ozpolat B, Szczepanski MJ, Lu C, Yuca E, Carroll AR, Alpay N, Bartholomeusz C, Tekedereli I, Kang Y, Rupaimoole R, Pecot CV, Dalton HJ, Hernandez A, Lokshin A, Lutgendorf SK, Liu J, Hittelman WN, Chen WY, Lopez-Berestein G, Szajnik M, Ueno NT, Coleman RL, Sood AK. Antagonism of tumoral prolactin receptor promotes autophagy-related cell death. Cell Rep 7(2):488-500, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24703838.
- Dalton HJ, Armaiz-Pena GN, Gonzalez-Villasana V, Lopez-Berestein G, Bar-Eli M, Sood AK. Monocyte Subpopulations in Angiogenesis. Cancer Res 5(5):1287-93, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24556724.
- 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):1085-95, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24613353.
- Jain P, Kantarjian H, Estey E, Pierce S, Cortes J, Lopez-Berestein G, Ravandi F. Single-Agent Liposomal All-Trans-Retinoic Acid as Initial Therapy for Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia: 13-Year Follow-Up Data. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk 14(1):e47-9, 2014. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24128595.
- Ozpolat B, Sood AK, Lopez-Berestein G. Liposomal siRNA nanocarriers for cancer therapy. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 66C:110-116, 2014. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24384374.
- Gaur P, Sceusi EL, Samuel S, Xia L, Fan F, Zhou Y, Lu J, Tozzi F, Lopez-Berestein G, Vivas-Mejia P, Rashid A, Fleming JB, Abdalla EK, Curley SA, Vauthey JN, Sood AK, Yao JC, Ellis LM. Identification of Cancer Stem Cells in Human Gastrointestinal Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumors. Gastroenterology 141(5), 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21806944.
- Nagaraja AS, Dorniak PL, Sadaoui NC, Kang Y, Lin T, Armaiz-Pena G, Wu SY, Rupaimoole R, Allen JK, Gharpure KM, Pradeep S, Zand B, Previs RA, Hansen JM, Ivan C, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Yang P, Lopez-Berestein G, Lutgendorf SK, Cole SW, Sood AK. Sustained adrenergic signaling leads to increased metastasis in ovarian cancer via increased PGE2 synthesis. Oncogene 35(18). e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26257064.
- Timsah Z, Ahmed Z, Ivan C, Berrout J, Gagea M, Zhou Y, Pena GN, Hu X, Vallien C, Kingsley CV, Lu Y, Hancock JF, Liu J, Gladden AB, Mills GB, Lopez-Berestein G, Hung MC, Sood AK, Bogdanov M, Ladbury JE. Grb2 depletion under non-stimulated conditions inhibits PTEN, promotes Akt-induced tumor formation and contributes to poor prognosis in ovarian cancer. Oncogene 35(17). e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26212011.
- Park YY, Sohn BH, Johnson RL, Kang MH, Kim SB, Shim JJ, Mangala LS, Kim JH, Yoo JE, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Pradeep S, Hwang JE, Jang HJ, Lee HS, Rupaimoole R, Lopez-Berestein G, Jeong W, Park IS, Park YN, Sood AK, Mills GB, Lee JS. YAP1 and TAZ Activates mTORC1 Pathway by Regulating Amino Acid Transporters in hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatology 159(72). e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26389641.
- Liu Y, Zhang X, Han C, Wan G, Huang X, Ivan C, Jiang D, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Rao PH, Maru DM, Pahl A, He X, Sood AK, Ellis LM, Anderl J, Lu X. TP53 loss creates therapeutic vulnerability in colorectal cancer. Nature 520(7549). e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25901683.
- Seviour EG, Sehgal V, Lu Y, Luo Z, Moss T, Zhang F, Hill SM, Liu W, Maiti SN, Cooper L, Azencot R, Lopez-Berestein G, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Roopaimoole R, Pecot C, Sood AK, Mukherjee S, Gray JW, Mills GB, Ram PT. Functional proteomics identifies miRNAs to target a p27/Myc/phospho-Rb signature in breast and ovarian cancer. Oncogene 35(6). e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25639871.
- Kanlikilicer P, Rashed MH, Bayraktar R, Mitra R, Ivan C, Aslan B, Zhang X, Filant J, Silva AM, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Bayraktar E, Pichler M, Ozpolat B, Calin GA, Sood AK, Lopez-Berestein G. Ubiquitous Release of Exosomal Tumor Suppressor miR-6126 from Ovarian Cancer Cells. Cancer Res. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27742688.
- Seviour EG, Sehgal V, Mishra D, Rupaimoole R, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Lee JS, Sood AK, Kim MP, Mills GB, Ram PT. Targeting KRas-dependent tumour growth, circulating tumour cells and metastasis in vivo by clinically significant miR-193a-3p. Oncogene. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27669434.
- Harjes U, Bridges E, Gharpure KM, Roxanis I, Sheldon H, Miranda F, Mangala LS, Pradeep S, Lopez-Berestein G, Ahmed A, Fielding B, Sood AK, Harris AL. Antiangiogenic and tumour inhibitory effects of downregulating tumour endothelial FABP4. Oncogene. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27568980.
- Rytelewski M, Maleki Vareki S, Mangala LS, Romanow L, Jiang D, Pradeep S, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Figueredo R, Ferguson PJ, Vincent M, Sood AK, Koropatnick JD. Reciprocal positive selection for weakness - preventing olaparib resistance by inhibiting BRCA2. Oncotarget 7(15). e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26959114.
- Dwivedi SK, Mustafi SB, Mangala LS, Jiang D, Pradeep S, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Ling H, Ivan C, Mukherjee P, Calin GA, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK, Bhattacharya R. Therapeutic evaluation of microRNA-15a and microRNA-16 in ovarian cancer. Oncotarget 7(12). e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26918603.
- Rupaimoole R, Ivan C, Yang D, Gharpure KM, Wu SY, Pecot CV, Previs RA, Nagaraja AS, Armaiz-Pena GN, McGuire M, Pradeep S, Mangala LS, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Huang L, Bar-Eli M, Zhang W, Lopez-Berestein G, Calin GA, Sood AK. Hypoxia-upregulated microRNA-630 targets Dicer, leading to increased tumor progression. Oncogene 35(33). e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26725326.
- Jung KH, Zhang J, Zhou C, Shen H, Gagea M, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK, Beretta L. Differentiation therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: Multifaceted effects of miR-148a on tumor growth and phenotype and liver fibrosis. Hepatology 63(3). e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26599259.
- Kang Y, Nagaraja AS, Armaiz-Pena GN, Dorniak PL, Hu W, Rupaimoole R, Liu T, Gharpure KM, Previs RA, Hansen JM, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Ivan C, Ram PT, Sehgal V, Lopez-Berestein G, Lutgendorf SK, Cole SW, Sood AK. Adrenergic stimulation of DUSP1 impairs chemotherapy response in ovarian cancer. Clin Cancer Res 22(7). e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26581245.
- 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). e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26481148.
Book Chapters
- Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Chavez-Reyes A, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK. Advanced Delivery and Therapeutic Applications of RNAi. In: RNAi in Cancer Therapy. John Wiley & Sons. Inc.
- Tekedereli I, Lopez-Berestein G, Ozpolat B. Induction of Autophagic Cell Death by Targeting Bcl-2 as A Novel Theraputic Strategy in Breast Cancer. In: Breast Cancer. Open Access.
- Ozpolat B, Akar U, Dalby K, Lopez-Berestein G. Induction of Autophagic Cell Death by Polyphenolic Compounds in Cancer: A Novel Strategy to Treat Cancer. In: Cell Death Mechanisms in Cancer. Springer.
Grant & Contract Support
Title: | Targeting Kras in Pancreatic Cancer |
Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
Role: | Co-Principal Investigator |
Title: | Targeted therapeutics for ovarian cancer and its microenvironment - treatment and theoretical modeling |
Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
Role: | Principal Investigator |
Title: | MD Anderson SPORE for Uterine Cancer | EPHA2 Targeting in Uterine Carcinoma |
Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
Role: | Co-Investigator |
Title: | EphA2 Gene Targeting using Neutral Liposomal Small Interfering RNA Delivery |
Funding Source: | Gateway For Cancer Research |
Role: | Co-Investigator |
Title: | miR-155 targeted therapeutics for precision medicine in lung cancer |
Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
Role: | Co-Investigator |