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Kirk C. Hansen is affiliated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the United States. Their research spans across medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on molecular biology, surgery, genetics, physiology, and cancer research as main subfields of study.

The research topics covered by this scientist include trauma, hemostasis, coagulopathy, and resuscitation; erythrocyte function and pathophysiology; tissue engineering and regenerative medicine; trauma and emergency care studies; neonatal health and biochemistry; cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism; as well as RNA modifications and cancer.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
  • Blood
  • JCI Insight
  • Journal of Proteome Research

Coauthors who have collaborated frequently with Kirk C. Hansen are:

  • Angelo D'Alessandro
  • Monika Dzieciątkowska
  • Travis Nemkov
  • Anthony J. Saviola
  • Ernest E. Moore

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Kirk C. Hansen are:

  • "COVID-19 infection alters kynurenine and fatty acid metabolism, correlating with IL-6 levels and renal status," 2020, JCI Insight
  • "Evidence of Structural Protein Damage and Membrane Lipid Remodeling in Red Blood Cells from COVID-19 Patients," 2020, Journal of Proteome Research
  • "Tumour-associated macrophages drive stromal cell-dependent collagen crosslinking and stiffening to promote breast cancer aggression," 2020, Nature Materials
  • "Serum Proteomics in COVID-19 Patients: Altered Coagulation and Complement Status as a Function of IL-6 Level," 2020, Journal of Proteome Research
  • "Alterations in extracellular matrix composition during aging and photoaging of the skin," 2020, Matrix Biology Plus

Best Publications

  • CBP/p300-mediated acetylation of histone H3 on lysine 56.

    Chandrima Das;M. Scott Lucia;Kirk C. Hansen;Jessica K. Tyler

  • COVID-19 infection alters kynurenine and fatty acid metabolism, correlating with IL-6 levels and renal status.

    Tiffany Thomas;Davide Stefanoni;Julie A. Reisz;Travis Nemkov

  • 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a Jupiter family comet with a high D/H ratio

    K. Altwegg;H. Balsiger;A. Bar-Nun;Jean-Jacques Berthelier

  • Genotype tunes pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma tissue tension to induce matricellular fibrosis and tumor progression.

    Hanane Laklai;Yekaterina A Miroshnikova;Michael W Pickup;Eric A Collisson

  • TMP21 is a presenilin complex component that modulates gamma-secretase but not epsilon-secretase activity.

    Fusheng Chen;Hiroshi Hasegawa;Hiroshi Hasegawa;Gerold Schmitt-Ulms;Toshitaka Kawarai

  • Structural Insights into Histone Demethylation by JMJD2 Family Members

    Zhongzhou Chen;Jianye Zang;Johnathan Whetstine;Xia Hong

  • Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Protein Mixtures at Low Levels Using Cleavable 13C-Isotope-coded Affinity Tag and Multidimensional Chromatography

    Kirk C. Hansen;Gerold Schmitt-Ulms;Robert J. Chalkley;Jan Hirsch

  • An update on red blood cell storage lesions, as gleaned through biochemistry and omics technologies.

    Angelo D'Alessandro;Anastasios G. Kriebardis;Sara Rinalducci;Marianna H. Antonelou

  • Abundant molecular oxygen in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

    Andre Bieler;Kathrin Altwegg;Hans Balsiger;Akiva Bar-Nun

  • An unbiased cell morphology-based screen for new, biologically active small molecules.

    Masahiro Tanaka;Raynard Bateman;Daniel Rauh;Eugeni Vaisberg

  • Time variability and heterogeneity in the coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

    Myrtha Hässig;Myrtha Hässig;Kathrin Altwegg;Hans Balsiger;A. Bar-Nun

  • Autophagy regulates selective HMGB1 release in tumor cells that are destined to die

    Jacqueline Thorburn;Henrick Horita;Jasmina Redzic;Kirk Hansen

  • Evidence of Structural Protein Damage and Membrane Lipid Remodeling in Red Blood Cells from COVID-19 Patients.

    Tiffany Thomas;Davide Stefanoni;Monika Dzieciatkowska;Aaron Issaian

  • A TDO2-AhR signaling axis facilitates anoikis resistance and metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer.

    Nicholas C. D'Amato;Thomas J. Rogers;Michael A. Gordon;Lisa I. Greene

  • Th2 cytokines act on S100/A11 to downregulate keratinocyte differentiation.

    Michael D. Howell;Heather R. Fairchild;Byung Eui Kim;Lianghua Bin

  • Comprehensive analysis of a multidimensional liquid chromatography mass spectrometry dataset acquired on a quadrupole selecting, quadrupole collision cell, time-of-flight mass spectrometer: II. New developments in Protein Prospector allow for reliable and comprehensive automatic analysis of large datasets.

    Robert J. Chalkley;Peter R. Baker;Lan Huang;Kirk C. Hansen

  • Extracellular matrix in lung development, homeostasis and disease

    Yong Zhou;Jeffrey C. Horowitz;Alexandra Naba;Namasivayam Ambalavanan

  • A three-minute method for high-throughput quantitative metabolomics and quantitative tracing experiments of central carbon and nitrogen pathways

    Travis Nemkov;Kirk C. Hansen;Angelo D'Alessandro

  • Molecular Nitrogen in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Indicates a Low Formation Temperature

    Martin Rubin;Kathrin Altwegg;Hans Balsiger;A. Bar-Nun

  • High-Throughput Metabolomics: Isocratic and Gradient Mass Spectrometry-Based Methods.

    Travis Nemkov;Julie A. Reisz;Sarah Gehrke;Kirk C. Hansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Angelo D'Alessandro
Angelo D'Alessandro University of Colorado Denver
Tamas I. Gombosi
Tamas I. Gombosi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Travis Nemkov
Travis Nemkov University of Colorado Denver
Ernest E. Moore
Ernest E. Moore University of Colorado Denver
Christopher C. Silliman
Christopher C. Silliman University of Colorado Denver
Aaron J. Ridley
Aaron J. Ridley University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Pepper Schedin
Pepper Schedin Oregon Health & Science University
Yang Xia
Yang Xia The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
John Clarke
John Clarke University of California, Berkeley
William S. Kurth
William S. Kurth University of Iowa

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