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Overview

Alan Wells is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research contributions predominantly focus on the field of Medicine, with an emphasis on Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Epidemiology, Immunology, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers various main topics including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • AI in cancer detection

Wells has published extensively in several frequent venues, contributing multiple papers to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Medical Virology
  • Journal of Clinical Virology Plus
  • PLoS ONE
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Among the recent papers associated with Wells are:

  • Differential Antibody Response to mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Healthy Subjects, 2021, Microbiology Spectrum
  • SARS-CoV-2 growth, furin-cleavage-site adaptation and neutralization using serum from acutely infected hospitalized COVID-19 patients, 2020, Journal of General Virology
  • Suboptimal Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 Messenger RNA Vaccines in Patients With Hematologic Malignancies: A Need for Vigilance in the Postmasking Era, 2021, Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Suboptimal response to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in hematologic malignancies patients, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Prospective Evaluation of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccine Responses Across a Broad Spectrum of Immunocompromising Conditions: the COVID-19 Vaccination in the Immunocompromised Study (COVICS), 2022, Clinical Infectious Diseases

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wells include:

  • Melissa McCullough
  • Tung Gia Phan
  • Ghady Haidar
  • Amanda M. Clark
  • Kevin Collins

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Migration of tumor cells in 3D matrices is governed by matrix stiffness along with cell-matrix adhesion and proteolysis.

    Muhammad H. Zaman;Linda M. Trapani;Alisha L. Sieminski;Drew MacKellar

  • Cell adhesion and motility depend on nanoscale RGD clustering.

    G. Maheshwari;G. Brown;D.A. Lauffenburger;A. Wells

  • Localized biphasic changes in phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate at sites of phagocytosis

    Roberto J. Botelho;Mary Teruel;Renee Dierckman;Richard Anderson

  • Ligand-induced transformation by a noninternalizing epidermal growth factor receptor

    A Wells;JB Welsh;CS Lazar;HS Wiley

  • Breast carcinoma cells re-express E-cadherin during mesenchymal to epithelial reverting transition

    Yvonne L Chao;Christopher R Shepard;Alan Wells

  • Cutting to the chase: calpain proteases in cell motility

    Angela Glading;Douglas A. Lauffenburger;Alan Wells

  • Epidermal growth factor receptor-mediated cell motility: phospholipase C activity is required, but mitogen-activated protein kinase activity is not sufficient for induced cell movement.

    P Chen;H Xie;M C Sekar;K Gupta

  • Tumor invasion: role of growth factor-induced cell motility.

    Alan Wells

  • E-cadherin as an indicator of mesenchymal to epithelial reverting transitions during the metastatic seeding of disseminated carcinomas.

    Alan Wells;Clayton Yates;Christopher R. Shepard

  • Mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) as a mechanism for metastatic colonisation in breast cancer

    N. P. A. Devika Gunasinghe;N. P. A. Devika Gunasinghe;Alan Wells;Erik W. Thompson;Honor J. Hugo

  • Epidermal Growth Factor Activates m-Calpain (Calpain II), at Least in Part, by Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase-Mediated Phosphorylation

    A. Glading;R. J. Bodnar;I. J. Reynolds;H. Shiraha

  • Epidermal growth factor receptor activation of calpain is required for fibroblast motility and occurs via an ERK/MAP kinase signaling pathway.

    Angela Glading;Angela Glading;Philip Chang;Philip Chang;Douglas A. Lauffenburger;Alan Wells;Alan Wells

  • Epidermal growth factor as a candidate for ex vivo expansion of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells.

    Kenichi Tamama;Vivian H. Fan;Vivian H. Fan;Linda G. Griffith;Harry C. Blair

  • Epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like repeats of human tenascin-C as ligands for EGF receptor.

    C. Scott Swindle;Kien T. Tran;Terry D. Johnson;Pallab Banerjee

  • Growth factor regulation of proliferation and survival of multipotential stromal cells

    Melanie Rodrigues;Linda G Griffith;Alan Wells

  • Tethered epidermal growth factor provides a survival advantage to mesenchymal stem cells.

    Vivian H Fan;Kenichi Tamama;Ada Au;Romie Littrell

  • EGF receptor regulation of cell motility: EGF induces disassembly of focal adhesions independently of the motility-associated PLCgamma signaling pathway

    Heng Xie;Manuel A. Pallero;Kiran Gupta;Philip Chang

  • Epidermal growth factor and membrane trafficking. EGF receptor activation of endocytosis requires Rab5a.

    M. Alejandro Barbieri;Richard L. Roberts;Aysel Gumusboga;Hilary Highfield

  • Cell movement elicited by epidermal growth factor receptor requires kinase and autophosphorylation but is separable from mitogenesis

    Philip Chen;Kiran Gupta;Alan Wells

Frequent Co-Authors

Donna B. Stolz
Donna B. Stolz University of Pittsburgh
Harry C. Blair
Harry C. Blair University of Pittsburgh
Raman Venkataramanan
Raman Venkataramanan University of Pittsburgh
George Klein
George Klein Karolinska Institute
Jennifer R. Grandis
Jennifer R. Grandis University of California, San Francisco
Jian-Hua Luo
Jian-Hua Luo University of Pittsburgh

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