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Christopher V.E. Wright

Christopher V.E. Wright

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
101
Citations
38218
World Ranking
510
National Ranking
284

Medicine

D-Index
102
Citations
38421
World Ranking
7664
National Ranking
3989

Overview

Christopher V.E. Wright is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions also in Surgery, Genetics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Oncology.

The scientist's main research topics cover pancreatic function and diabetes, diabetes and associated disorders, neonatal respiratory health, congenital diaphragmatic hernia studies, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, congenital heart defects research, and medical imaging and pathology studies.

Christopher V.E. Wright has been published in various venues, including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Developmental Cell, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Cell Biology, and Nature Communications. The most frequent venues of publication are bioRxiv with three papers, Developmental Cell with two, and Zenodo also with two.

  • CRISPR screening uncovers a central requirement for HHEX in pancreatic lineage commitment and plasticity restriction, 2022, Nature Cell Biology
  • Myt Transcription Factors Prevent Stress-Response Gene Overactivation to Enable Postnatal Pancreatic β Cell Proliferation, Function, and Survival, 2020, Developmental Cell
  • Coregulator Sin3a Promotes Postnatal Murine β-Cell Fitness by Regulating Genes in Ca2+ Homeostasis, Cell Survival, Vesicle Biosynthesis, Glucose Metabolism, and Stress Response, 2020, Diabetes
  • Bronchopulmonary dysplasia with pulmonary hypertension associates with semaphorin signaling loss and functionally decreased FOXF1 expression, 2025, Nature Communications
  • Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia with Pulmonary Hypertension Associates with Loss of Semaphorin Signaling and Functional Decrease in FOXF1 Expression, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their frequent coauthors include Guoqiang Gu, Nicholas M. Negretti, Christopher S. Jetter, David B. Frank, and Jonathan A. Kropski, each of whom has collaborated on multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Preinvasive and invasive ductal pancreatic cancer and its early detection in the mouse

    Sunil R. Hingorani;Emanuel F. Petricoin;Anirban Maitra;Vinodh Rajapakse

  • PDX-1 is required for pancreatic outgrowth and differentiation of the rostral duodenum

    Martin F. Offield;Tom L. Jetton;Patricia A. Labosky;Michael Ray

  • Bmp4 is required for the generation of primordial germ cells in the mouse embryo.

    K. A. Lawson;N. R. Dunn;B. A. J. Roelen;L. M. Zeinstra

  • The role of the transcriptional regulator Ptf1a in converting intestinal to pancreatic progenitors

    Yoshiya Kawaguchi;Bonnie Cooper;Maureen Gannon;Michael Ray

  • Highly parallel direct RNA sequencing on an array of nanopores.

    Garalde Dr;Snell Ea;Jachimowicz D;Sipos B

  • Expression of murine STF-1, a putative insulin gene transcription factor, in beta cells of pancreas, duodenal epithelium and pancreatic exocrine and endocrine progenitors during ontogeny

    Y. Guz;M. R. Montminy;R. Stein;J. Leonard

  • Regulation of insulin action and pancreatic beta-cell function by mutated alleles of the gene encoding forkhead transcription factor Foxo1.

    Jun Nakae;William H. Biggs;Tadahiro Kitamura;Webster K. Cavenee

  • Pancreas organogenesis: from bud to plexus to gland.

    Fong Cheng Pan;Chris Wright

  • Identification of Sox9-Dependent Acinar-to-Ductal Reprogramming as the Principal Mechanism for Initiation of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

    Janel L. Kopp;Guido von Figura;Erin Mayes;Fen-Fen Liu

  • The forkhead transcription factor Foxo1 links insulin signaling to Pdx1 regulation of pancreatic β cell growth

    Tadahiro Kitamura;Jun Nakae;Yukari Kitamura;Yoshiaki Kido

  • DVR-4 (bone morphogenetic protein-4) as a posterior-ventralizing factor in Xenopus mesoderm induction

    C. M. Jones;K. M. Lyons;P. M. Lapan;C. V. E. Wright

  • Conserved left–right asymmetry of nodal expression and alterations in murine situs inversus

    Linda A. Lowe;Dorothy M. Supp;Karuna Sampath;Takahiko Yokoyama

  • Ptf1a, a bHLH transcriptional gene, defines GABAergic neuronal fates in cerebellum.

    Mikio Hoshino;Shoko Nakamura;Kiyoshi Mori;Kiyoshi Mori;Takeshi Kawauchi

  • Induction of the zebrafish ventral brain and floorplate requires cyclops/nodal signalling

    Karuna Sampath;Karuna Sampath;Amy L. Rubinstein;Abby M. S. Cheng;Jennifer O. Liang

  • Nodal-related signals induce axial mesoderm and dorsalize mesoderm during gastrulation

    C. M. Jones;M. R. Kuehn;B. L. M. Hogan;J. C. Smith

  • Reduction in pancreatic transcription factor PDX-1 impairs glucose-stimulated insulin secretion.

    Marcela Brissova;Masakazu Shiota;Wendell E. Nicholson;Maureen Gannon

  • Organizer-specific homeobox genes in Xenopus laevis embryos.

    B. Blumberg;C. V. E. Wright;E. M. De Robertis;K. W. Y. Cho

  • Aggressive pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in mice caused by pancreas-specific blockade of transforming growth factor-β signaling in cooperation with active Kras expression

    Hideaki Ijichi;Anna Chytil;Agnieszka E. Gorska;Mary E. Aakre

  • Pancreatic epithelial plasticity mediated by acinar cell transdifferentiation and generation of nestin-positive intermediates

    Anna L. Means;Ingrid M. Meszoely;Kazufumi Suzuki;Yoshiharu Miyamoto

  • Mox-1 and Mox-2 define a novel homeobox gene subfamily and are differentially expressed during early mesodermal patterning in mouse embryos.

    A. F. Candia;Jinxin Hu;J. Crosby;P. A. Lalley

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Magnuson
Mark A. Magnuson Vanderbilt University
Roland Stein
Roland Stein Vanderbilt University
Raymond J. MacDonald
Raymond J. MacDonald The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
E. M. De Robertis
E. M. De Robertis University of California, Los Angeles
Brigid L.M. Hogan
Brigid L.M. Hogan Duke University
Ken W.Y. Cho
Ken W.Y. Cho University of California, Irvine
Alvin C. Powers
Alvin C. Powers Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Guillermo Oliver
Guillermo Oliver Northwestern University
Robert J. Coffey
Robert J. Coffey Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Howard C. Crawford
Howard C. Crawford University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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