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Overview

Erwei Song is affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University in China and focuses on research within the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cancer Research, Immunology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Song's research addresses a range of topics with an emphasis on cancer-related molecular mechanisms, HER2/EGFR in cancer research, RNA modifications and cancer, breast cancer treatment studies, immunotherapy and immune responses, immune cells in cancer, and cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers.

Frequent publication venues for Song include:

  • Cancer Research
  • Annals of Oncology
  • Advanced Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Translational Breast Cancer Research

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Herui Yao
  • Qiang Liu
  • Jianing Chen
  • Phei Er Saw
  • Di Huang

Some of Song's recent published papers are:

  • "DNA of neutrophil extracellular traps promotes cancer metastasis via CCDC25" (2020, Nature)
  • "Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications" (2022, Trends in Immunology)
  • "Development and Validation of a Preoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Radiomics-Based Signature to Predict Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis and Disease-Free Survival in Patients With Early-Stage Breast Cancer" (2020, JAMA Network Open)
  • "Complement Signals Determine Opposite Effects of B Cells in Chemotherapy-Induced Immunity" (2020, Cell)
  • "Autophagy-associated circRNA circCDYL augments autophagy and promotes breast cancer progression" (2020, Molecular Cancer)

Best Publications

  • let-7 Regulates Self Renewal and Tumorigenicity of Breast Cancer Cells

    Fengyan Yu;Fengyan Yu;Herui Yao;Pengcheng Zhu;Xiaoqin Zhang

  • RNA interference targeting Fas protects mice from fulminant hepatitis

    Erwei Song;Sang-Kyung Lee;Jie Wang;Nedim Ince

  • Turning foes to friends: targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts

    Xueman Chen;Erwei Song

  • Antibody mediated in vivo delivery of small interfering RNAs via cell-surface receptors

    Erwei Song;Pengcheng Zhu;Sang Kyung Lee;Dipanjan Chowdhury

  • CD10 + GPR77 + Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Promote Cancer Formation and Chemoresistance by Sustaining Cancer Stemness

    Shicheng Su;Jianing Chen;Herui Yao;Jiang Liu

  • A Cytoplasmic NF-κB Interacting Long Noncoding RNA Blocks IκB Phosphorylation and Suppresses Breast Cancer Metastasis

    Bodu Liu;Lijuan Sun;Qiang Liu;Chang Gong

  • Microvesicles secreted by macrophages shuttle invasion-potentiating microRNAs into breast cancer cells.

    Mei Yang;Mei Yang;Jingqi Chen;Fang Su;Bin Yu

  • A Positive Feedback Loop between Mesenchymal-like Cancer Cells and Macrophages Is Essential to Breast Cancer Metastasis

    Shicheng Su;Qiang Liu;Jingqi Chen;Jianing Chen

  • CCL18 from Tumor-Associated Macrophages Promotes Breast Cancer Metastasis via PITPNM3

    Jingqi Chen;Jingqi Chen;Yandan Yao;Chang Gong;Fengyan Yu

  • DNA of neutrophil extracellular traps promotes cancer metastasis via CCDC25

    Linbin Yang;Qiang Liu;Xiaoqian Zhang;Xinwei Liu

  • Extracellular vesicle-packaged HIF-1α-stabilizing lncRNA from tumour-associated macrophages regulates aerobic glycolysis of breast cancer cells.

    Fei Chen;Jianing Chen;Linbin Yang;Jiang Liu

  • Influence of Alternatively and Classically Activated Macrophages on Fibrogenic Activities of Human Fibroblasts

    Erwei Song;Nengtai Ouyang;Markus Hörbelt;Balazs Antus

  • Simultaneous Delivery of siRNA and Paclitaxel via a “Two-in-One” Micelleplex Promotes Synergistic Tumor Suppression

    Tian-Meng Sun;Jin-Zhi Du;Yan-Dan Yao;Cheng-Qiong Mao

  • miR-200 Enhances Mouse Breast Cancer Cell Colonization to Form Distant Metastases

    Derek M. Dykxhoorn;Yichao Wu;Huangming Xie;Fengyan Yu;Fengyan Yu

  • Beclin 1 and autophagy are required for the tumorigenicity of breast cancer stem-like/progenitor cells

    C Gong;C Bauvy;C Bauvy;G Tonelli;G Tonelli;W Yue;W Yue

  • Up-regulation of miR-21 mediates resistance to trastuzumab therapy for breast cancer.

    Chang Gong;Yandan Yao;Ying Wang;Bodu Liu

  • Mir-30 reduction maintains self-renewal and inhibits apoptosis in breast tumor-initiating cells

    F Yu;H Deng;H Yao;Q Liu

  • NKILA lncRNA promotes tumor immune evasion by sensitizing T cells to activation-induced cell death

    Di Huang;Jianing Chen;Linbin Yang;Qian Ouyang

  • Sustained Small Interfering RNA-Mediated Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Inhibition in Primary Macrophages

    Erwei Song;Sang Kyung Lee;Derek M. Dykxhoorn;Carl Novina

  • MiR-200b and miR-15b regulate chemotherapy-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition in human tongue cancer cells by targeting BMI1

    L. Sun;Y. Yao;B. Liu;Z. Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

Judy Lieberman
Judy Lieberman Boston Children's Hospital
Mengfeng Li
Mengfeng Li Sun Yat-sen University
Jun Wang
Jun Wang South China University of Technology
Patrice Codogno
Patrice Codogno Université Paris Cité
H. Phillip Koeffler
H. Phillip Koeffler Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Jian-Dong Huang
Jian-Dong Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kun Ping Lu
Kun Ping Lu Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Shi-Mei Zhuang
Shi-Mei Zhuang Sun Yat-sen University
Gerburg M. Wulf
Gerburg M. Wulf Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Wei Xu
Wei Xu Shenzhen University

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