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4268
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Overview

Bruce R. Zetter is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine.

Their research primarily focuses on several interconnected topics and fields of study, including:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these broader fields, their work spans subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Immunology
  • Genetics

The main topics addressed in their scholarship include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • Vaccines and Immunoinformatics Approaches
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Bruce R. Zetter has published research frequently in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • PLoS ONE
  • Biomaterials
  • Scientific Reports

Among notable recent papers authored or co-authored are:

  • "Adjuvant-pulsed mRNA vaccine nanoparticle for immunoprophylactic and therapeutic tumor suppression in mice" (2020), Biomaterials
  • "Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein" (2021), PLoS ONE
  • "Risk of evolutionary escape from neutralizing antibodies targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein" (2020), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Controlling long-term SARS-CoV-2 infections can slow viral evolution and reduce the risk of treatment failure" (2021), Scientific Reports
  • "Inhibition of Wnt Signaling in Colon Cancer Cells via an Oral Drug that Facilitates TNIK Degradation" (2022), Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers including:

  • Michael S. Rogers
  • Debra Van Egeren
  • Madison Stoddard
  • Diane Joseph-McCarthy
  • Arijit Chakravarty

Best Publications

  • Identification and isolation of endothelial cells based on their increased uptake of acetylated-low density lipoprotein.

    J C Voyta;D P Via;C E Butterfield;B R Zetter

  • Angiogenesis and tumor metastasis.

    Bruce R. Zetter

  • Long-term culture of capillary endothelial cells

    Judah Folkman;Christian C. Haudenschild;Bruce R. Zetter

  • Tumor interactions with the vasculature: angiogenesis and tumor metastasis.

    Christine H. Blood;Bruce R. Zetter

  • MAST CELL HEPARIN STIMULATES MIGRATION OF CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIAL CELLS IN VITRO

    Richard G. Azizkhan;Jane Clifford Azizkhan;Bruce R. Zetter;Judah Folkman

  • Regulation of chemotaxis by the platelet-derived growth factor receptor-β

    Vikas Kundra;Jaime A. Escobedo;Andrius Kazlauskas;Ha Kun Kim

  • The Contribution of Angiogenesis to the Process of Metastasis.

    Diane R. Bielenberg;Bruce R. Zetter

  • The Cellular Basis of Site-Specific Tumor Metastasis

    Bruce R. Zetter

  • Factors involved in the modulation of cell proliferation in vivo and in vitro: the role of fibroblast and epidermal growth factors in the proliferative response of mammalian cells.

    D. Gospodarowicz;G. Greenburg;H. Bialecki;B. R. Zetter

  • Angiostatin induces endothelial cell apoptosis and activation of focal adhesion kinase independently of the integrin-binding motif RGD

    Lena Claesson-Welsh;Michael Welsh;Nobuyuki Ito;Bela Anand-Apte

  • Inhibition of cell motility by interferon.

    Danièle Brouty-Boyé;Bruce R. Zetter

  • Adhesion molecules in tumor metastasis

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  • In vitro and in vivo consequences of VLA-2 expression on rhabdomyosarcoma cells

    Bosco M.C. Chan;Nariaki Matsuura;Yoshikazu Takada;Bruce R. Zetter

  • Control of proliferation of human vascular endothelial cells. Characterization of the response of human umbilical vein endothelial cells to fibroblast growth factor, epidermal growth factor, and thrombin.

    D Gospodarowicz;KD Brown;CR Birdwell;BR Zetter

  • The c-kit receptor ligand functions as a mast cell chemoattractant.

    Cynthia J. Meininger;Hiroshi Yano;Robert Rottapel;Alan Bernstein

  • Inhibition of Angiogenesis by Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-3

    Bela Anand-Apte;Michael S. Pepper;Emile Voest;Roberta Montesano

  • Cancer biomarkers: knowing the present and predicting the future.

    Sabarni K Chatterjee;Bruce R Zetter

  • Differential Endothelial Migration and Proliferation to Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor

    Atsushi Yoshida;Bela Anand-apte;Bruce R. Zetter

  • Migration of capillary endothelial cells is stimulated by tumour-derived factors.

    Bruce R. Zetter

  • Vascular endothelial growth factor-induced migration of vascular smooth muscle cells in vitro.

    Cynthia L. Grosskreutz;Bela Anand-Apte;Bela Anand-Apte;Cécile Dupláa;Cécile Dupláa;Timothy P. Quinn

Frequent Co-Authors

Omid C. Farokhzad
Omid C. Farokhzad Harvard Medical School
Judah Folkman
Judah Folkman Boston Children's Hospital
Xiaoyang Xu
Xiaoyang Xu New Jersey Institute of Technology
Wei Tao
Wei Tao Harvard Medical School
Denis Gospodarowicz
Denis Gospodarowicz University of California, San Francisco
Morteza Mahmoudi
Morteza Mahmoudi Michigan State University
Lan Bo Chen
Lan Bo Chen Harvard University
Harold F. Dvorak
Harold F. Dvorak Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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