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  • 1999 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Lance A. Liotta is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as medicine. Over their career, they have focused on several subfields including molecular biology, cancer research, oncology, infectious diseases, and epidemiology.

The scientist's body of work includes research on topics such as extracellular vesicles in disease, cancer genomics and diagnostics, microRNA in disease regulation, gene regulatory network analysis, pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, molecular biology techniques and applications, and advanced proteomics techniques and applications.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with them include Alessandra Luchini, Virginia Espina, Fatah Kashanchi, Amanda Haymond, and Robyn P. Araujo.

Lance A. Liotta has published extensively in several scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cancer Research
  • Clinical Cancer Research
  • UNC Libraries

Some of the recent papers by this researcher include:

  • A Randomized Phase II Preoperative Study of Autophagy Inhibition with High-Dose Hydroxychloroquine and Gemcitabine/Nab-Paclitaxel in Pancreatic Cancer Patients (2020, Clinical Cancer Research)
  • Effects of HER Family-targeting Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors on Antibody-dependent Cell-mediated Cytotoxicity in HER2-expressing Breast Cancer (2020, Clinical Cancer Research)
  • Extracellular vesicles from HTLV-1 infected cells modulate target cells and viral spread (2021, Retrovirology)
  • AKT/mTOR signaling modulates resistance to endocrine therapy and CDK4/6 inhibition in metastatic breast cancers (2023, npj Precision Oncology)
  • Use of Stem Cell Extracellular Vesicles as a "Holistic" Approach to CNS Repair (2020, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology)

The researcher has been recognized by professional organizations, having been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), both in 1999.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Use of proteomic patterns in serum to identify ovarian cancer

    Emanuel F Petricoin;Ali M Ardekani;Ben A Hitt;Peter J Levine

  • Cancer metastasis and angiogenesis: an imbalance of positive and negative regulation.

    Lance A Liotta;Patricia S Steeg;William G Stetler-Stevenson

  • Transforming growth factor type beta: rapid induction of fibrosis and angiogenesis in vivo and stimulation of collagen formation in vitro.

    A B Roberts;M B Sporn;R K Assoian;J M Smith

  • Laser Capture Microdissection

    Michael R. Emmert-Buck;Robert F. Bonner;Paul D. Smith;Rodrigo F. Chuaqui

  • The microenvironment of the tumour-host interface

    Lance A. Liotta;Elise C. Kohn

  • Preinvasive and invasive ductal pancreatic cancer and its early detection in the mouse

    Sunil R. Hingorani;Emanuel F. Petricoin;Anirban Maitra;Vinodh Rajapakse

  • Metastatic potential correlates with enzymatic degradation of basement membrane collagen.

    L. A. Liotta;K. Tryggvason;S. Garbisa;Ian Hart

  • Positional Cloning of the Gene for Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia-Type 1

    Settara C. Chandrasekharappa;Siradanahalli C. Guru;Pachiappan Manickam;Shodimu Emmanuel Olufemi

  • Tumor Invasion and Metastases—Role of the Extracellular Matrix: Rhoads Memorial Award Lecture

    Lance A. Liotta

  • Evidence for a Novel Gene Associated With Low Tumor Metastatic Potential

    Patricia S. Steeg;Generoso Bevilacqua;Laszlo Kopper;Unnur P. Thorgeirsson

  • Tumor Cell Interactions with the Extracellular Matrix During Invasion and Metastasis

    William G. Stetler-Stevenson;Sadie Aznavoorian;Lance A. Liotta

  • Isolation and characterization of type IV procollagen, laminin, and heparan sulfate proteoglycan from the EHS sarcoma.

    Hynda K. Kleinman;Mary L. McGarvey;Lance A. Liotta;Pamela Gehron Robey

  • Tumor invasion and the extracellular matrix.

    Liotta La;Rao Cn;Barsky Sh

  • Tumor Invasion and Metastasis: An Imbalance of Positive and Negative Regulation

    Lance A. Liotta;William G. Stetler-Stevenson

  • Proteomic applications for the early detection of cancer.

    Julia D. Wulfkuhle;Lance A. Liotta;Emanuel F. Petricoin

  • Reverse phase protein microarrays which capture disease progression show activation of pro-survival pathways at the cancer invasion front

    Cloud P Paweletz;Cloud P Paweletz;Cloud P Paweletz;Lu Charboneau;Verena E Bichsel;Verena E Bichsel;Nicole L Simone

  • Laser Capture Microdissection: Molecular Analysis of Tissue

    Robert F. Bonner;Michael Emmert-Buck;Kristina Cole;Thomas Pohida

  • General mechanisms of metastasis

    Elisa C. Woodhouse;Rodrigo F. Chuaqui;Lance A. Liotta

  • Quantitative relationships of intravascular tumor cells, tumor vessels and pulmonary metastases following tumor implantation.

    Lance Allen Liotta;Jerome Kleinerman;Gerald M. Saidel

Frequent Co-Authors

Emanuel F. Petricoin
Emanuel F. Petricoin George Mason University
Virginia Espina
Virginia Espina George Mason University
Michael R. Emmert-Buck
Michael R. Emmert-Buck Avoneaux Medical Institute
William G. Stetler-Stevenson
William G. Stetler-Stevenson National Institutes of Health
Elise C. Kohn
Elise C. Kohn National Institutes of Health
Zhengping Zhuang
Zhengping Zhuang National Institutes of Health
Spiridione Garbisa
Spiridione Garbisa University of Padua
Cloud P. Paweletz
Cloud P. Paweletz Harvard University
Patricia S. Steeg
Patricia S. Steeg National Institutes of Health
Henry C. Krutzsch
Henry C. Krutzsch National Institutes of Health

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