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Overview

Lee Ratner is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing extensively on Oncology and Immunology as key subfields. Additional areas of study include Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Cancer Research.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics within their domains, including:

  • T-cell and Retrovirus Studies
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Viral-associated cancers and disorders
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Lee Ratner has published research papers in several notable venues, with frequent contributions to Kazan medical journal, Clinical Cancer Research, Blood, PLoS Pathogens, and Cancer Research.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Defactinib, Pembrolizumab, and Gemcitabine in Patients with Advanced Treatment Refractory Pancreatic Cancer: A Phase I Dose Escalation and Expansion Study (2022, Clinical Cancer Research)
  • Genetic subgroups inform on pathobiology in adult and pediatric Burkitt lymphoma (2022, Blood)
  • Impact of Myc in HIV-associated non-Hodgkin lymphomas treated with EPOCH and outcomes with vorinostat (AMC-075 trial) (2020, Blood)
  • Brentuximab vedotin with AVD for stage II-IV HIV-related Hodgkin lymphoma (AMC 085): phase 2 results from an open-label, single arm, multicentre phase 1/2 trial (2023, The Lancet Haematology)
  • Heparanase Blockade as a Novel Dual-Targeting Therapy for COVID-19 (2022, Journal of Virology)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Daniel A. Rauch
  • Ancy Joseph
  • Richard F. Ambinder
  • John C. S. Harding
  • David H. Henry

Best Publications

  • Complete nucleotide sequence of the AIDS virus, HTLV-III

    Lee Ratner;William Haseltine;Roberto Patarca;Kenneth J. Livak

  • The Vpr protein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 influences nuclear localization of viral nucleic acids in nondividing host cells

    Nina K. Heinzinger;Michael I. Bukrinsky;Sheryl A. Haggerty;Anna M. Ragland

  • Myristoylation-dependent replication and assembly of human immunodeficiency virus 1

    Martin Bryant;Lee Ratner

  • Sensitivity of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 to the Fusion Inhibitor T-20 Is Modulated by Coreceptor Specificity Defined by the V3 Loop of gp120

    Cynthia A. Derdeyn;Julie M. Decker;Jeffrey N. Sfakianos;Xiaoyun Wu

  • Definition, Prognostic Factors, Treatment, and Response Criteria of Adult T-Cell Leukemia-Lymphoma: A Proposal From an International Consensus Meeting

    Kunihiro Tsukasaki;Olivier Hermine;Ali Bazarbachi;Lee Ratner

  • Multidrug resistance transporters and modulation.

    Benjamin Tan;David Piwnica-Worms;Lee Ratner

  • The sor gene of HIV-1 is required for efficient virus transmission in vitro.

    Amanda G. Fisher;Barbara Ensoli;Lucinda Ivanoff;Mark Chamberlain

  • Viral protein R regulates nuclear import of the HIV‐1 pre‐integration complex

    Serguei Popov;Michael Rexach;Gabriele Zybarth;Norbert Reiling

  • Complete nucleotide sequences of functional clones of the AIDS virus

    Lee Ratner;Amanda Fisher;Linda L. Jagodzinski;Hiroaki Mitsuya

  • Development of leukemia in mice transgenic for the tax gene of human T-cell leukemia virus type I

    William J. Grossman;Jason T. Kimata;Fen Hwa Wong;Mary Zutter

  • A molecular clone of HTLV-III with biological activity.

    Amanda G. Fisher;Enrico Collalti;Lee Ratner;Robert C. Gallo

  • Molecular Biology of Human T-Lymphotropic Retroviruses

    Flossie Wong-Staal;Lee Ratner;George Shaw;Beatrice Hahn

  • Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 viral protein R localization in infected cells and virions.

    Yuh-Ling Lu;P. Spearman;L. Ratner

  • Identification of a determinant within the human immunodeficiency virus 1 surface envelope glycoprotein critical for productive infection of primary monocytes.

    Peter Westervelt;Howard E. Gendelman;Lee Ratner

  • Bioluminescence imaging of myeloperoxidase activity in vivo.

    Shimon Gross;Seth T Gammon;Britney L Moss;Daniel Rauch

  • Macrophage tropism determinants of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in vivo.

    Peter Westervelt;D. B. Trowbridge;L. G. Epstein;B. M. Blumberg

  • Killing HIV-infected cells by transduction with an HIV protease-activated caspase-3 protein

    Adita M. Vocero-Akbani;Nancy Vander Heyden;Natalie A. Lissy;Lee Ratner

  • Identification of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Gag protein domains essential to membrane binding and particle assembly.

    P Spearman;J J Wang;N Vander Heyden;L Ratner

  • Relationship of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 sequence heterogeneity to stage of disease.

    Terry McNearney;Zuzana Hornickova;Richard Markham;Anahid Birdwell

  • Chemotherapy for Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Associated Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in Combination With Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

    Lee Ratner;Jeannette Lee;Shenghui Tang;David Redden

  • Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 negative factor is a transcriptional silencer

    Thomas M. J. Niederman;Benjamin J. Thielan;Lee Ratner

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Dale Lairmore
Michael Dale Lairmore University of California, Davis
Jeannette Y. Lee
Jeannette Y. Lee University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Richard F. Ambinder
Richard F. Ambinder Johns Hopkins University
Ronald T. Mitsuyasu
Ronald T. Mitsuyasu University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph A. Sparano
Joseph A. Sparano Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Robert C. Gallo
Robert C. Gallo University of South Florida
Ethel Cesarman
Ethel Cesarman Cornell University
George M. Shaw
George M. Shaw University of Pennsylvania
Peter Westervelt
Peter Westervelt Brown University
Beatrice H. Hahn
Beatrice H. Hahn University of Pennsylvania

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