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Overview

Daniel E. Johnson is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields within medicine and molecular biology, with a focus on oncology and cancer research.

The primary fields of study for Daniel E. Johnson include Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad fields, their work is particularly concentrated in the subfields of Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology, Otorhinolaryngology, and Cancer Research.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas linked to cancer biology and treatment, including:

  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer
  • Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry
  • Cancer-related gene regulation
  • Protein Degradation and Inhibitors
  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques

Daniel E. Johnson has published extensively in frequent venues such as:

  • Cancer Research
  • Clinical Cancer Research
  • Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
  • PLoS ONE
  • Medical Physics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Daniel E. Johnson include:

  • Jennifer R. Grandis
  • Yan Zeng
  • Neil E. Bhola
  • Hao Gao
  • Liam C. Woerner

Among the recent papers credited to Daniel E. Johnson are:

  • Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, 2020, Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Other recent notable papers in related fields, though not authored by Johnson directly, include:

  • Targeting the JAK/STAT pathway in solid tumors, 2020, Journal of Cancer Metastasis and Treatment
  • A protein network map of head and neck cancer reveals PIK3CA mutant drug sensitivity, 2021, Science
  • Treatment of Fanconi Anemia-Associated Head and Neck Cancer: Opportunities to Improve Outcomes, 2021, Clinical Cancer Research
  • CYLD Alterations in the Tumorigenesis and Progression of Human Papillomavirus-Associated Head and Neck Cancers, 2020, Molecular Cancer Research

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

    Daniel E. Johnson;Barbara Burtness;C. René Leemans;Vivian Wai Yan Lui

  • Targeting the IL-6/JAK/STAT3 signalling axis in cancer.

    Daniel E. Johnson;Rachel A. O'Keefe;Jennifer R. Grandis

  • Structural and Functional Diversity in the FGf Receptor Multigene Family

    Daniel E. Johnson;Lewis T. Williams

  • Signalling by Receptor Tyrosine Kinases

    Wendy J. Fantl;Daniel E. Johnson;Lewis T. Williams

  • Expression and structure of the human NGF receptor

    Dan Johnson;Anthony Lanahan;C.Randy Buck;Amita Sehgal

  • Purification and complementary DNA cloning of a receptor for basic fibroblast growth factor

    Pauline L. Lee;Daniel E. Johnson;Lawrence S. Cousens;Victor A. Fried

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Constitutive activation of Stat3 signaling abrogates apoptosis in squamous cell carcinogenesis in vivo.

    Jennifer Rubin Grandis;Stephanie D. Drenning;Qing Zeng;Simon C. Watkins

  • The human fibroblast growth factor receptor genes: a common structural arrangement underlies the mechanisms for generating receptor forms that differ in their third immunoglobulin domain.

    D E Johnson;J Lu;H Chen;S Werner

  • Isolation of an additional member of the fibroblast growth factor receptor family, FGFR-3.

    Kathleen Keegan;Daniel E. Johnson;Lewis T. Williams;Michael J. Hayman

  • Diverse forms of a receptor for acidic and basic fibroblast growth factors.

    D E Johnson;P L Lee;J Lu;L T Williams

  • Targeted inhibition of Stat3 with a decoy oligonucleotide abrogates head and neck cancer cell growth.

    Paul L. Leong;Genevieve A. Andrews;Daniel E. Johnson;Kevin F. Dyer

  • Differential splicing in the extracellular region of fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 generates receptor variants with different ligand-binding specificities.

    S. Werner;D.-S. R. Duan;C. De Vries;K. G. Peters

  • Sulforaphane Causes Autophagy to Inhibit Release of Cytochrome c and Apoptosis in Human Prostate Cancer Cells

    Anna Herman-Antosiewicz;Daniel E. Johnson;Shivendra V. Singh

  • Noncaspase proteases in apoptosis

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  • Observation of structure in the J/ψ-pair mass spectrum

    Roel Aaij;Diego Torres Machado;Matthew John Bradley;Gregory Ciezarek

  • First-in-Human Trial of a STAT3 Decoy Oligonucleotide in Head and Neck Tumors: Implications for Cancer Therapy

    Malabika Sen;Sufi M. Thomas;Seungwon Kim;Joanne I. Yeh

  • Diallyl trisulfide-induced apoptosis in human prostate cancer cells involves c-Jun N-terminal kinase and extracellular-signal regulated kinase-mediated phosphorylation of Bcl-2.

    Dong Xiao;Sunga Choi;Daniel E Johnson;Victor G Vogel

Frequent Co-Authors

Marina Artuso
Marina Artuso Syracuse University

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