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9454
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4172

Overview

David T. Ting is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research is situated mainly within the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to subfields including Oncology, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Immunology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's work encompasses several key topics such as Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Cancer Cells and Metastasis, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, RNA Modifications and Cancer, and Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies.

David T. Ting has published multiple recent research papers, notable examples include:

  • Deregulation of ribosomal protein expression and translation promotes breast cancer metastasis (2020), Science
  • Single-nucleus and spatial transcriptome profiling of pancreatic cancer identifies multicellular dynamics associated with neoadjuvant treatment (2022), Nature Genetics
  • SARS-CoV-2 can infect the placenta and is not associated with specific placental histopathology: a series of 19 placentas from COVID-19-positive mothers (2020), Modern Pathology
  • Temporal and spatial heterogeneity of host response to SARS-CoV-2 pulmonary infection (2020), Nature Communications
  • Radiation therapy enhances immunotherapy response in microsatellite stable colorectal and pancreatic adenocarcinoma in a phase II trial (2021), Nature Cancer

The frequent coauthors who have collaborated with David T. Ting include:

  • Linda T. Nieman
  • Theodore S. Hong
  • Vikram Deshpande
  • Jennifer Y. Wo
  • David P. Ryan

Throughout their career, David T. Ting has published extensively in several venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Clinical Cancer Research
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Nature Communications

David T. Ting's research outputs contribute broadly to understanding cancer biology and treatment approaches, including the application of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics techniques and investigating immunotherapy responses in cancer care.

Best Publications

  • Circulating Breast Tumor Cells Exhibit Dynamic Changes in Epithelial and Mesenchymal Composition

    Min Yu;Aditya Bardia;Ben S. Wittner;Shannon L. Stott

  • Circulating Tumor Cell Clusters Are Oligoclonal Precursors of Breast Cancer Metastasis

    Nicola Aceto;Aditya Bardia;David T. Miyamoto;Maria C. Donaldson

  • Inertial Focusing for Tumor Antigen–Dependent and –Independent Sorting of Rare Circulating Tumor Cells

    Emre Ozkumur;Ajay M. Shah;Jordan C. Ciciliano;Benjamin L. Emmink

  • Ex vivo culture of circulating breast tumor cells for individualized testing of drug susceptibility

    Min Yu;Min Yu;Aditya Bardia;Nicola Aceto;Francesca Bersani

  • Radiological and surgical implications of neoadjuvant treatment with FOLFIRINOX for locally advanced and borderline resectable pancreatic cancer.

    Cristina R. Ferrone;Giovanni Marchegiani;Theodore S. Hong;David P. Ryan

  • A microfluidic device for label-free, physical capture of circulating tumor cell clusters

    A Fatih Sarioglu;Nicola Aceto;Nikola Kojic;Maria C Donaldson

  • RNA-Seq of single prostate CTCs implicates noncanonical Wnt signaling in antiandrogen resistance

    David T. Miyamoto;Yu Zheng;Ben S. Wittner;Richard J. Lee

  • Aberrant overexpression of satellite repeats in pancreatic and other epithelial cancers.

    David T. Ting;Doron Lipson;Suchismita Paul;Brian W. Brannigan

  • RNA sequencing of pancreatic circulating tumour cells implicates WNT signalling in metastasis

    Min Yu;David Tsai Ting;Shannon Stott;Ben Wittner

  • Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Identifies Extracellular Matrix Gene Expression by Pancreatic Circulating Tumor Cells

    David T. Ting;Ben S. Wittner;Matteo Ligorio;Matteo Ligorio;Nicole Vincent Jordan

  • Poly(lactic acid)-poly(ethylene glycol) nanoparticles as new carriers for the delivery of plasmid DNA

    C Perez;A Sanchez;D Putnam;D Ting

  • Stromal Microenvironment Shapes the Intratumoral Architecture of Pancreatic Cancer

    Matteo Ligorio;Srinjoy Sil;Jose Malagon-Lopez;Linda T. Nieman

  • EWS-FLI1 Utilizes Divergent Chromatin Remodeling Mechanisms to Directly Activate or Repress Enhancer Elements in Ewing Sarcoma

    Nicolò Riggi;Nicolò Riggi;Birgit Knoechel;Shawn M. Gillespie;Shawn M. Gillespie;Shawn M. Gillespie;Esther Rheinbay;Esther Rheinbay

  • Liquid versus tissue biopsy for detecting acquired resistance and tumor heterogeneity in gastrointestinal cancers.

    Aparna R Parikh;Ignaty Leshchiner;Liudmila Elagina;Lipika Goyal

  • HER2 expression identifies dynamic functional states within circulating breast cancer cells

    Nicole Vincent Jordan;Aditya Bardia;Ben S. Wittner;Cyril Benes

  • Androgen Receptor Signaling in Circulating Tumor Cells as a Marker of Hormonally Responsive Prostate Cancer

    David T. Miyamoto;Richard J. Lee;Shannon L. Stott;David T. Ting

  • Molecularly engineered poly(ortho ester) microspheres for enhanced delivery of DNA vaccines.

    Chun Wang;Qing Ge;David Ting;David Ting;David Nguyen;David Nguyen

  • TAS-120 Overcomes Resistance to ATP-Competitive FGFR Inhibitors in Patients with FGFR2 Fusion–Positive Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

    Lipika Goyal;Lei Shi;Leah Y Liu;Ferran Fece de la Cruz

  • Deregulation of ribosomal protein expression and translation promotes breast cancer metastasis

    Richard Y. Ebright;Sooncheol Lee;Ben S. Wittner;Kira L. Niederhoffer

  • Engineered nanointerfaces for microfluidic isolation and molecular profiling of tumor-specific extracellular vesicles.

    Eduardo Reátegui;Kristan E. van der Vos;Kristan E. van der Vos;Charles P. Lai;Charles P. Lai;Mahnaz Zeinali

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel A. Haber
Daniel A. Haber Harvard University
Shyamala Maheswaran
Shyamala Maheswaran Harvard University
Vikram Deshpande
Vikram Deshpande Harvard University
Mehmet Toner
Mehmet Toner Harvard University
Cristina R. Ferrone
Cristina R. Ferrone Harvard University
David P. Ryan
David P. Ryan Harvard University
Sridhar Ramaswamy
Sridhar Ramaswamy Harvard University
Miguel Rivera
Miguel Rivera Harvard University
Andrew X. Zhu
Andrew X. Zhu Harvard University

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