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79
Citations
40661
World Ranking
1023
National Ranking
539

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Ben Z. Stanger is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Oncology, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Immunology, and Surgery.

The scientist's work covers research topics including:

  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial-mesenchymal transition," 2020, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • "Extracellular Vesicle and Particle Biomarkers Define Multiple Human Cancers," 2020, Cell
  • "Senescence-Induced Vascular Remodeling Creates Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Pancreas Cancer," 2020, Cell
  • "Single-cell lineage tracing of metastatic cancer reveals selection of hybrid EMT states," 2021, Cancer Cell
  • "Tumor restriction by type I collagen opposes tumor-promoting effects of cancer-associated fibroblasts," 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Jinyang Li
  • Robert J. Norgard
  • Robert H. Vonderheide
  • Jason R. Pitarresi
  • Samantha B. Kemp

Key venues for their publications are:

  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Discovery
  • Nature Communications
  • Cell

Ben Z. Stanger holds membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Pancreatic cancer exosomes initiate pre-metastatic niche formation in the liver

    Bruno Costa-Silva;Nicole M. Aiello;Allyson J. Ocean;Swarnima Singh

  • EMT and Dissemination Precede Pancreatic Tumor Formation

    Andrew D. Rhim;Emily T. Mirek;Nicole M. Aiello;Anirban Maitra

  • Stromal elements act to restrain, rather than support, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

    Andrew D. Rhim;Andrew D. Rhim;Paul E. Oberstein;Dafydd H. Thomas;Emily T. Mirek

  • Fas(CD95)/FasL interactions required for programmed cell death after T-cell activation

    Shyr-Te Ju;D. J. Panka;Haili Cui;R. Ettinger

  • Genetics and biology of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

    Haoqiang Ying;Prasenjit Dey;Wantong Yao;Alec C. Kimmelman

  • Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial–mesenchymal transition

    Jing Yang;Parker Antin;Geert Berx;Cédric Blanpain

  • The Death Domain Kinase RIP Mediates the TNF-Induced NF-κB Signal

    Michelle A Kelliher;Stefan Grimm;Yasumasa Ishida;Frank Kuo

  • RIP : a novel protein containing a death domain that interacts with Fas/APO-1 (CD95) in yeast and causes cell death

    Ben Z. Stanger;Ben Z. Stanger;Philip Leder;Philip Leder;Tae Ho Lee;Emily Kim

  • Extracellular Vesicle and Particle Biomarkers Define Multiple Human Cancers

    Ayuko Hoshino;Ayuko Hoshino;Han Sang Kim;Han Sang Kim;Linda Bojmar;Linda Bojmar;Linda Bojmar;Kofi Ennu Gyan

  • Notch signaling controls multiple steps of pancreatic differentiation

    L. Charles Murtaugh;Ben Z. Stanger;Kristen M. Kwan;Douglas A. Melton

  • Hippo Pathway Activity Influences Liver Cell Fate

    Dean Yimlamai;Constantina Christodoulou;Constantina Christodoulou;Giorgio Giorgio G Galli;Giorgio Giorgio G Galli;Kilangsungla Yanger

  • Tumor Cell-Intrinsic Factors Underlie Heterogeneity of Immune Cell Infiltration and Response to Immunotherapy

    Jinyang Li;Katelyn T. Byrne;Fangxue Yan;Taiji Yamazoe

  • Akt-Dependent Metabolic Reprogramming Regulates Tumor Cell Histone Acetylation

    Joyce V. Lee;Alessandro Carrer;Supriya Shah;Nathaniel W. Snyder

  • EMT Subtype Influences Epithelial Plasticity and Mode of Cell Migration

    Nicole M. Aiello;Ravikanth Maddipati;Robert J. Norgard;David Balli

  • Protection against Fas-dependent Th1-mediated apoptosis by antigen receptor engagement in B cells.

    Thomas L. Rothstein;Julia K. M. Wang;David J. Panka;Linda C. Foote

  • Notch signaling controls liver development by regulating biliary differentiation

    Yiwei Zong;Archana Panikkar;Jie Xu;Aline Antoniou

  • IL-4 induces allergic-like inflammatory disease and alters T cell development in transgenic mice.

    Robert I. Tepper;Douglas A. Levinson;Ben Z. Stanger;Juanita Campos-Torres

  • Robust cellular reprogramming occurs spontaneously during liver regeneration

    Kilangsungla Yanger;Yiwei Zong;Lara R. Maggs;Suzanne N. Shapira

  • Organ size is limited by the number of embryonic progenitor cells in the pancreas but not the liver

    Ben Z. Stanger;Ben Z. Stanger;Ben Z. Stanger;Akemi J. Tanaka;Douglas A. Melton

  • Pdx1 maintains β-cell identity and function by repressing an α-cell program

    Tao Gao;Brian McKenna;Changhong Li;Maximilian Reichert

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert H. Vonderheide
Robert H. Vonderheide University of Pennsylvania
Anil K. Rustgi
Anil K. Rustgi Columbia University
Scott W. Lowe
Scott W. Lowe Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Douglas A. Melton
Douglas A. Melton Harvard University
Benjamin A. Garcia
Benjamin A. Garcia Washington University in St. Louis
Yuval Dor
Yuval Dor Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shoukat Dedhar
Shoukat Dedhar University of British Columbia
Philip Leder
Philip Leder Harvard University
David Issadore
David Issadore University of Pennsylvania

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