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Overview

Adi F. Gazdar was affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields related to medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on oncology and pulmonary medicine.

Their main fields of study included:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, their research further specialized in the following subfields:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Oncology
  • Epidemiology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Cancer Research

Gazdar's work covered several prominent topics in biomedical research, with an emphasis on cancer and lung diseases. Key topics included:

  • Lung Cancer Research Studies
  • Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cancer therapeutics and mechanisms
  • Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research

Their notable recent papers featured investigations into lung cancer heterogeneity, immune gene repression, and metabolic pathways in cancer cells. Examples of published works are:

  • A biobank of small cell lung cancer CDX models elucidates inter- and intratumoral phenotypic heterogeneity, 2020, Nature Cancer
  • Cell-autonomous immune gene expression is repressed in pulmonary neuroendocrine cells and small cell lung cancer, 2021, Communications Biology
  • SRGN-Triggered Aggressive and Immunosuppressive Phenotype in a Subset of TTF-1-Negative Lung Adenocarcinomas, 2021, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • MAX Functions as a Tumor Suppressor and Rewires Metabolism in Small Cell Lung Cancer, 2020, Cancer Cell
  • Guanosine triphosphate links MYC-dependent metabolic and ribosome programs in small-cell lung cancer, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Gazdar collaborated frequently with several scientists, including:

  • Luc Girard
  • John D. Minna
  • Ling Cai
  • Junya Fujimoto
  • Fang Huang

Their research was published in a variety of scientific journals, with recurrent contributions to:

  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Nature Cancer
  • Communications Biology

Best Publications

  • Detection and isolation of type C retrovirus particles from fresh and cultured lymphocytes of a patient with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma

    Bernard J. Poiesz;Francis W. Ruscetti;Adi F. Gazdar;Paul A. Bunn

  • International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer/American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society International Multidisciplinary Classification of Lung Adenocarcinoma

    William D Travis;Elisabeth Brambilla;Masayuki Noguchi;Andrew G Nicholson

  • Evaluation of a tetrazolium-based semiautomated colorimetric assay: assessment of chemosensitivity testing.

    James Carmichael;William G. DeGraff;Adi F. Gazdar;John D. Minna

  • Consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers

    Tobias Sjoblom;Sian Jones;D. Williams Parsons;Laura D. Wood

  • High frequency of mutations of the PIK3CA gene in human cancers

    Yardena Samuels;Zhenghe Wang;Alberto Bardelli;Natalie Silliman

  • A collection of breast cancer cell lines for the study of functionally distinct cancer subtypes

    Richard M. Neve;Richard M. Neve;Koei Chin;Jane Fridlyand;Jennifer Yeh

  • Clinical and biological features associated with epidermal growth factor receptor gene mutations in lung cancers

    Hisayuki Shigematsu;Hisayuki Shigematsu;Li Lin;Takao Takahashi;Masaharu Nomura

  • MET amplification occurs with or without T790M mutations in EGFR mutant lung tumors with acquired resistance to gefitinib or erlotinib

    James Bean;Cameron Brennan;Jin-Yuan Shih;Gregory Riely

  • Lung cancer in never smokers — a different disease

    Sophie Sun;Joan H. Schiller;Adi F. Gazdar

  • Expression of Multidrug Resistance Gene in Human Cancers

    Lori J. Goldstein;Hanan Galski;Antonio Fojo;Mark Willingham

  • p53: a frequent target for genetic abnormalities in lung cancer

    Takashi Takahashi;Marion M. Nau;Itsuo Chiba;Michael J. Birrer

  • Characterizing the cancer genome in lung adenocarcinoma

    Barbara A. Weir;Barbara A. Weir;Michele S. Woo;Gad Getz;Sven Perner;Sven Perner

  • A small-cell lung cancer genome with complex signatures of tobacco exposure

    Erin D. Pleasance;Philip J. Stephens;Sarah O’Meara;Sarah O’Meara;David J. McBride

  • Activating and resistance mutations of EGFR in non-small-cell lung cancer: role in clinical response to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

    Adi F Gazdar

  • High-throughput oncogene mutation profiling in human cancer

    Roman K. Thomas;Alissa C. Baker;Ralph M. DeBiasi;Ralph M. DeBiasi;Wendy Winckler;Wendy Winckler

  • Amplification and expression of the c- myc oncogene in human lung cancer cell lines

    Cameron D. Little;Marion M. Nau;Desmond N. Carney;Adi F. Gazdar

  • Abnormalities in Structure and Expression of the Human Retinoblastoma Gene in SCLC

    J. W. Harbour;Shinn Liang Lai;Jacqueline Whang-Peng;Adi F. Gazdar

  • Establishment and Identification of Small Cell Lung Cancer Cell Lines Having Classic and Variant Features

    Desmond N. Carney;Adi F. Gazdar;Gerold Bepler;John G. Guccion

  • Comprehensive genomic analysis identifies SOX2 as a frequently amplified gene in small-cell lung cancer

    Charles M Rudin;Steffen Durinck;Eric W Stawiski;John T Poirier

  • Quantitative analysis of MDR1 (multidrug resistance) gene expression in human tumors by polymerase chain reaction.

    K. E. Noonan;C. Beck;T. A. Holzmayer;J. E. Chin

Frequent Co-Authors

John D. Minna
John D. Minna The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Ignacio I. Wistuba
Ignacio I. Wistuba The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Luc Girard
Luc Girard The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Shinichi Toyooka
Shinichi Toyooka Okayama University
Stephen Lam
Stephen Lam University of British Columbia
Wan L. Lam
Wan L. Lam BC Cancer Research Centre
Yang Xie
Yang Xie The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Carmen Behrens
Carmen Behrens The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Bruce E. Johnson
Bruce E. Johnson Harvard University
Daniel C. Ihde
Daniel C. Ihde National Institutes of Health

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