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Overview

Andrew D. Wells is affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the United States. Their research spans the primary fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a focus on specialized subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Cancer Research, and Oncology.

Their work covers a range of topics related to genomics, immunology, and cancer, specifically:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research

Andrew D. Wells has contributed to numerous publications over the years. Among their recent papers are:

  • "Diversity and Emerging Roles of Enhancer RNA in Regulation of Gene Expression and Cell Fate," 2020, published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • "A multiancestry genome-wide association study of unexplained chronic ALT elevation as a proxy for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with histological and radiological validation," 2022, published in Nature Genetics
  • "Genome-wide association study implicates novel loci and reveals candidate effector genes for longitudinal pediatric bone accrual," 2021, published in Genome Biology
  • "The Identity of Human Tissue-Emigrant CD8+ T Cells," 2020, published in Cell
  • "Mapping effector genes at lupus GWAS loci using promoter Capture-C in follicular helper T cells," 2020, published in Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Andrew D. Wells include:

  • Struan F.A. Grant
  • James A. Pippin
  • Alessandra Chesi
  • Matthew C. Pahl
  • Chun Su

The scientist's work has been published recurrently in several venues, highlighting a pattern of scholarly activity in notable journals such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Genome Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics

Best Publications

  • Drug repurposing: progress, challenges and recommendations

    Sudeep Pushpakom;Francesco Iorio;Patrick A Eyers;K Jane Escott

  • Deacetylase inhibition promotes the generation and function of regulatory T cells

    Ran Tao;Edwin F de Zoeten;Engin Özkaynak;Chunxia Chen

  • Blocking both signal 1 and signal 2 of T-cell activation prevents apoptosis of alloreactive T cells and induction of peripheral allograft tolerance

    Yongsheng Li;Xian Chang Li;Xin Xiao Zheng;Andrew D. Wells

  • Following the fate of individual T cells throughout activation and clonal expansion. Signals from T cell receptor and CD28 differentially regulate the induction and duration of a proliferative response.

    Andrew D. Wells;Hrefna Gudmundsdottir;Laurence A. Turka

  • Requirement for T-cell apoptosis in the induction of peripheral transplantation tolerance.

    Andrew D. Wells;Xian Chang Li;Yongsheng Li;Matthew C. Walsh

  • Distinct Regulation of Th17 and Th1 Cell Differentiation by Glutaminase-Dependent Metabolism.

    Marc O. Johnson;Marc O. Johnson;Melissa M. Wolf;Matthew Z. Madden;Gabriela Andrejeva

  • Quantifying the frequency of alloreactive T cells in vivo: new answers to an old question.

    Elliot J. Suchin;Peter B. Langmuir;Ed Palmer;Mohamed H. Sayegh

  • Foxp3 and Toll-like receptor signaling balance Treg cell anabolic metabolism for suppression

    Valerie A Gerriets;Rigel J Kishton;Marc O Johnson;Marc O Johnson;Sivan Cohen

  • Recruitment of Foxp3+ T regulatory cells mediating allograft tolerance depends on the CCR4 chemokine receptor

    Iris Lee;Liqing Wang;Andrew D. Wells;Martin E. Dorf

  • Dynamics and Requirements of T Cell Clonal Expansion In Vivo at the Single-Cell Level: Effector Function Is Linked to Proliferative Capacity

    Hrefna Gudmundsdottir;Andrew D. Wells;Laurence A. Turka

  • The complement inhibitory protein DAF (CD55) suppresses T cell immunity in vivo.

    Jianuo Liu;Takashi Miwa;Brendan Hilliard;Youhai Chen

  • Transcriptional regulation by Foxp3 is associated with direct promoter occupancy and modulation of histone acetylation.

    Chunxia Chen;Emily A. Rowell;Rajan M. Thomas;Wayne W. Hancock

  • Notch Signaling Augments T Cell Responsiveness by Enhancing CD25 Expression

    Scott H. Adler;Elise Chiffoleau;Lanwei Xu;Nicole M. Dalton

  • Diversity and Emerging Roles of Enhancer RNA in Regulation of Gene Expression and Cell Fate

    Preston R. Arnold;Andrew D. Wells;Xian C. Li

  • Epigenetic Remodeling of the IL-2 and IFN-γ Loci in Memory CD8 T Cells Is Influenced by CD4 T Cells

    John K. Northrop;Rajan M. Thomas;Andrew D. Wells;Andrew D. Wells;Hao Shen

  • Signaling through CD28 and CTLA-4 controls two distinct forms of T cell anergy.

    Andrew D. Wells;Matthew C. Walsh;Jeffrey A. Bluestone;Laurence A. Turka

  • T cell death and transplantation tolerance.

    Xian Chang Li;Terry B. Strom;Laurence A. Turka;Andrew D. Wells

  • Heat shock proteins, tumor immunogenicity and antigen presentation: an integrated view.

    Andrew D. Wells;Miroslav Malkovsky

  • New Insights into the Molecular Basis of T Cell Anergy: Anergy Factors, Avoidance Sensors, and Epigenetic Imprinting

    Andrew D. Wells

  • Signals from CD28 induce stable epigenetic modification of the IL-2 promoter.

    Rajan M. Thomas;Ling Gao;Andrew D. Wells;Andrew D. Wells

Frequent Co-Authors

Struan F.A. Grant
Struan F.A. Grant University of Pennsylvania
Laurence A. Turka
Laurence A. Turka Harvard University
Wayne W. Hancock
Wayne W. Hancock University of Pennsylvania
Xian Chang Li
Xian Chang Li Cornell University
Kurt D. Hankenson
Kurt D. Hankenson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mohamed H. Sayegh
Mohamed H. Sayegh American University of Beirut
Benjamin F. Voight
Benjamin F. Voight University of Pennsylvania
Christopher D. Brown
Christopher D. Brown University of Pennsylvania
E. John Wherry
E. John Wherry University of Pennsylvania
Terry B. Strom
Terry B. Strom Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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