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Calvin J. Kuo is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cancer Research, Immunology, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers significant topics including Cancer Cells and Metastasis, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, 3D Printing in Biomedical Research, Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer, Renal and related cancers, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, and Cancer-related gene regulation.

Recent publications by Calvin J. Kuo include:

  • Progenitor identification and SARS-CoV-2 infection in human distal lung organoids, 2020, Nature
  • Organoid Models of Tumor Immunology, 2020, Trends in Immunology
  • CRISPR screens in cancer spheroids identify 3D growth-specific vulnerabilities, 2020, Nature
  • Modeling human adaptive immune responses with tonsil organoids, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • An expanded universe of cancer targets, 2021, Cell

Frequent collaborators in their research include Yuan-Hung Lo, Christina Curtis, Kasper Karlsson, Vincent van Unen, and Andrea Califano.

Calvin J. Kuo publishes regularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancer Research, Nature, Nature Communications, and UNC Libraries.

Best Publications

  • Increased Wnt Signaling During Aging Alters Muscle Stem Cell Fate and Increases Fibrosis

    Andrew S. Brack;Michael J. Conboy;Sudeep Roy;Mark Lee

  • A novel chemokine receptor for SDF-1 and I-TAC involved in cell survival, cell adhesion, and tumor development

    Jennifer M. Burns;Bretton C. Summers;Yu Wang;Anita Melikian

  • Rapamycin-FKBP specifically blocks growth-dependent activation of and signaling by the 70 kd S6 protein kinases.

    Jongkyeong Chung;Calvin J. Kuo;Gerald R. Crabtree;John Blenis

  • Organoid Modeling of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment.

    James T. Neal;Xingnan Li;Junjie Zhu;Valeria Giangarra

  • VEGF is necessary for exercise‐induced adult hippocampal neurogenesis

    Klaus Fabel;Konstanze Fabel;Betty Tam;Daniela Kaufer

  • Through-skull fluorescence imaging of the brain in a new near-infrared window

    Guosong Hong;Shuo Diao;Junlei Chang;Alexander L. Antaris

  • The intestinal stem cell markers Bmi1 and Lgr5 identify two functionally distinct populations

    Kelley S. Yan;Luis A. Chia;Xingnan Li;Akifumi Ootani

  • Sustained in vitro intestinal epithelial culture within a Wnt-dependent stem cell niche.

    Akifumi Ootani;Xingnan Li;Eugenio Sangiorgi;Quoc T Ho

  • VEGF-dependent plasticity of fenestrated capillaries in the normal adult microvasculature

    Tomomi Kamba;Betty Y. Y. Tam;Hiroya Hashizume;Amy Haskell

  • Augmented Wnt Signaling in a Mammalian Model of Accelerated Aging

    Hongjun Liu;Maria M Fergusson;Rogerio M. Castilho;Jie Liu

  • β-Catenin-Driven Cancers Require a YAP1 Transcriptional Complex for Survival and Tumorigenesis

    Joseph Rosenbluh;Deepak Nijhawan;Deepak Nijhawan;Deepak Nijhawan;Andrew G. Cox;Andrew G. Cox;Xingnan Li

  • Identification and Specification of the Mouse Skeletal Stem Cell

    Charles K. F. Chan;Eun Young Seo;James Y. Chen;David Lo

  • Wnt/β-catenin signaling is required for CNS, but not non-CNS, angiogenesis

    Richard Daneman;Dritan Agalliu;Lu Zhou;Frank Kuhnert

  • Essential requirement for Wnt signaling in proliferation of adult small intestine and colon revealed by adenoviral expression of Dickkopf-1

    Frank Kuhnert;Corrine R. Davis;Hsiao-Ting Wang;Pauline Chu

  • Rapamycin selectively inhibits interleukin-2 activation of p70 S6 kinase

    Calvin J. Kuo;Jongkyeong Chung;Jongkyeong Chung;David F. Fiorentino;W. Michael Flanagan

  • Essential requirement for caspase-8/FLICE in the initiation of the Fas-induced apoptotic cascade

    Peter Juo;Calvin J. Kuo;Junying Yuan;John Blenis

  • Apc Tumor Suppressor Gene Is the “Zonation-Keeper” of Mouse Liver

    Samira Benhamouche;Thomas Decaens;Cécile Godard;Régine Chambrey

  • Restriction of intestinal stem cell expansion and the regenerative response by YAP

    Evan R. Barry;Teppei Morikawa;Brian L. Butler;Brian L. Butler;Kriti Shrestha

  • A transcriptional hierarchy involved in mammalian cell-type specification.

    Calvin J. Kuo;Pamela B. Conley;Lei Chen;Frances M. Sladek

  • Cellular changes in normal blood capillaries undergoing regression after inhibition of VEGF signaling

    Fabienne Baffert;Tom Le;Barbara Sennino;Gavin Thurston

Frequent Co-Authors

William C. Hahn
William C. Hahn Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Francisca Vazquez
Francisca Vazquez Broad Institute
Mark M. Davis
Mark M. Davis Stanford University
Gerald R. Crabtree
Gerald R. Crabtree Stanford University
Christina Curtis
Christina Curtis Stanford University
Jesse S. Boehm
Jesse S. Boehm Broad Institute
Richard C. Mulligan
Richard C. Mulligan Harvard University
K. Christopher Garcia
K. Christopher Garcia Stanford University
Sarah C. Heilshorn
Sarah C. Heilshorn Stanford University
David E. Root
David E. Root Broad Institute

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