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Kenneth J. Pienta is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong emphasis on cancer-related studies.

The main fields of study associated with their work include Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their subfields cover Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their research encompasses several key topics:

  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications
  • Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease

Kenneth J. Pienta has published extensively, with works appearing frequently in notable venues such as Cancer Research, The Prostate, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Medical Oncology.

Some recent papers include:

  • Outcomes of Observation vs Stereotactic Ablative Radiation for Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer, 2020, JAMA Oncology
  • Updating the Definition of Cancer, 2023, Molecular Cancer Research
  • A Phase 2/3 Prospective Multicenter Study of the Diagnostic Accuracy of Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen PET/CT with 18F-DCFPyL in Prostate Cancer Patients (OSPREY), 2021, The Journal of Urology
  • Comprehensive evaluation of methods for small extracellular vesicles separation from human plasma, urine and cell culture medium, 2020, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles
  • Long-Term Outcomes and Genetic Predictors of Response to Metastasis-Directed Therapy Versus Observation in Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer: Analysis of STOMP and ORIOLE Trials, 2022, Journal of Clinical Oncology

Kenneth J. Pienta collaborates frequently with a group of scholars including Sarah R. Amend, Steven P. Rowe, Michael A. Gorin, Daniel Y. Song, and Phuoc T. Tran, with collaboration counts ranging from around 30 to over 120 joint works.

Best Publications

  • Recurrent Fusion of TMPRSS2 and ETS Transcription Factor Genes in Prostate Cancer

    S.A. Tomlins;D.R. Rhodes;S. Perner;S.M. Dhanasekaran

  • Integrative clinical genomics of advanced prostate cancer

    Dan Robinson;Eliezer M. Van Allen;Eliezer M. Van Allen;Yi Mi Wu;Nikolaus Schultz

  • The polycomb group protein EZH2 is involved in progression of prostate cancer

    Sooryanarayana Varambally;Saravana M. Dhanasekaran;Ming Zhou;Terrence R. Barrette

  • The mutational landscape of lethal castration-resistant prostate cancer

    Catherine S. Grasso;Yi Mi Wu;Dan R. Robinson;Xuhong Cao

  • Circulating Tumor Cells Predict Survival Benefit from Treatment in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

    Johann S. de Bono;Howard I. Scher;R. Bruce Montgomery;Christopher Parker

  • Delineation of prognostic biomarkers in prostate cancer

    Saravana M. Dhanasekaran;Terrence R. Barrette;Debashis Ghosh;Rajal Shah

  • Use of the Stromal Cell-derived Factor-1/CXCR4 Pathway in Prostate Cancer Metastasis to Bone

    Russell S. Taichman;Carlton Cooper;Evan T. Keller;Kenneth J. Pienta

  • Activating ESR1 mutations in hormone-resistant metastatic breast cancer

    Dan R. Robinson;Yi Mi Wu;Pankaj Vats;Fengyun Su

  • Integrative molecular concept modeling of prostate cancer progression

    Scott A Tomlins;Rohit Mehra;Daniel R Rhodes;Xuhong Cao

  • Distinct classes of chromosomal rearrangements create oncogenic ETS gene fusions in prostate cancer

    Scott A. Tomlins;Bharathi Laxman;Saravana M. Dhanasekaran;Beth E. Helgeson

  • Targeting the tumour stroma to improve cancer therapy

    Kenneth C. Valkenburg;Amber E. de Groot;Kenneth J. Pienta

  • Molecular Characterization of Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer and Identification of New Drug Targets

    Himisha Beltran;David S. Rickman;Kyung Park;Sung Suk Chae

  • Integrative genomic and proteomic analysis of prostate cancer reveals signatures of metastatic progression.

    Sooryanarayana Varambally;Jianjun Yu;Bharathi Laxman;Daniel R. Rhodes

  • Outcomes of Observation vs Stereotactic Ablative Radiation for Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer: The ORIOLE Phase 2 Randomized Clinical Trial

    Ryan Phillips;William Yue Shi;Matthew Deek;Noura Radwan

  • CXCL12 / CXCR4 / CXCR7 chemokine axis and cancer progression.

    Xueqing Sun;Guangcun Cheng;Mingang Hao;Jianghua Zheng

  • α-Methylacyl Coenzyme A Racemase as a Tissue Biomarker for Prostate Cancer

    Mark A. Rubin;Ming Zhou;Saravana M. Dhanasekaran;Sooryanarayana Varambally

  • Temporal activation of p53 by a specific MDM2 inhibitor is selectively toxic to tumors and leads to complete tumor growth inhibition

    Sanjeev Shangary;Dongguang Qin;Donna McEachern;Meilan Liu

  • Identification of recurrent NAB2-STAT6 gene fusions in solitary fibrous tumor by integrative sequencing

    Dan R. Robinson;Yi Mi Wu;Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram;Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram;Xuhong Cao

  • Measuring quality of life in men with prostate cancer using the functional assessment of cancer therapy-prostate instrument

    Peg Esper;Fei Mo;Fei Mo;Fei Mo;Gerald Chodak;Gerald Chodak;Gerald Chodak;Michael Sinner;Michael Sinner;Michael Sinner

  • A Hierarchical Network of Transcription Factors Governs Androgen Receptor-Dependent Prostate Cancer Growth

    Qianben Wang;Wei Li;X. Shirley Liu;Jason S. Carroll

Frequent Co-Authors

Arul M. Chinnaiyan
Arul M. Chinnaiyan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Martin G. Pomper
Martin G. Pomper Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Russell S. Taichman
Russell S. Taichman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mark A. Rubin
Mark A. Rubin University of Bern
Phuoc T. Tran
Phuoc T. Tran Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Rohit Mehra
Rohit Mehra University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Scott A. Tomlins
Scott A. Tomlins University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Emmanuel S. Antonarakis
Emmanuel S. Antonarakis University of Minnesota
Xuhong Cao
Xuhong Cao University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Yusuke Shiozawa
Yusuke Shiozawa Wake Forest University

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