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Luc Girard is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work spans several main and subfields, including:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Oncology
  • Immunology
  • Epidemiology
  • Cancer Research

Key research topics covered by Luc Girard involve:

  • Lung Cancer Research Studies
  • Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Luc Girard include:

  • A biobank of small cell lung cancer CDX models elucidates inter- and intratumoral phenotypic heterogeneity, 2020, Nature Cancer
  • SCLC-CellMiner: A Resource for Small Cell Lung Cancer Cell Line Genomics and Pharmacology Based on Genomic Signatures, 2020, Cell Reports
  • The hexosamine biosynthesis pathway is a targetable liability in KRAS/LKB1 mutant lung cancer, 2020, Nature Metabolism
  • Cell-autonomous immune gene expression is repressed in pulmonary neuroendocrine cells and small cell lung cancer, 2021, Communications Biology
  • AXL targeting restores PD-1 blockade sensitivity of STK11/LKB1 mutant NSCLC through expansion of TCF1+ CD8 T cells, 2022, Cell Reports Medicine

Luc Girard has collaborated frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • John D. Minna
  • Ling Cai
  • Ignacio I. Wistuba
  • Rolf A. Brekken
  • Kenneth E. Huffman

The scientist's work has appeared regularly in specific publication venues, including:

  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation

Best Publications

  • An Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition Gene Signature Predicts Resistance to EGFR and PI3K Inhibitors and Identifies Axl as a Therapeutic Target for Overcoming EGFR Inhibitor Resistance

    Lauren Averett Byers;Lixia Diao;Jing Wang;Pierre Saintigny

  • High-throughput oncogene mutation profiling in human cancer

    Roman K. Thomas;Alissa C. Baker;Ralph M. DeBiasi;Ralph M. DeBiasi;Wendy Winckler;Wendy Winckler

  • Molecular Profiling of Breast Cancer Cell Lines Defines Relevant Tumor Models and Provides a Resource for Cancer Gene Discovery

    Jessica Kao;Keyan Salari;Melanie Bocanegra;Yoon-La Choi;Yoon-La Choi

  • Co-occurring Genomic Alterations Define Major Subsets of KRAS-Mutant Lung Adenocarcinoma with Distinct Biology, Immune Profiles, and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities

    Ferdinandos Skoulidis;Lauren A. Byers;Lixia Diao;Vassiliki A. Papadimitrakopoulou

  • An Integrated View of Copy Number and Allelic Alterations in the Cancer Genome Using Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Arrays

    Xiaojun Zhao;Cheng Li;J. Guillermo Paez;Koei Chin

  • Immortalization of Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells in the Absence of Viral Oncoproteins

    Ruben D. Ramirez;Shelley Sheridan;Luc Girard;Mitsuo Sato

  • PTEN Loss Contributes to Erlotinib Resistance in EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer by Activation of Akt and EGFR

    Martin L. Sos;Mirjam Koker;Barbara A. Weir;Stefanie Heynck

  • Activating Mutations of the Noonan Syndrome-Associated SHP2/PTPN11 Gene in Human Solid Tumors and Adult Acute Myelogenous Leukemia

    Mohamed Bentires-Alj;J. Guillermo Paez;Frank S. David;Heike Keilhack

  • Synthetic lethal screen identification of chemosensitizer loci in cancer cells

    Angelique W. Whitehurst;Brian O. Bodemann;Jessica Cardenas;Deborah Ferguson

  • High Resolution Chromosome 3p Allelotyping of Human Lung Cancer and Preneoplastic/Preinvasive Bronchial Epithelium Reveals Multiple, Discontinuous Sites of 3p Allele Loss and Three Regions of Frequent Breakpoints

    Ignacio I. Wistuba;Carmen Behrens;Arvind K. Virmani;Gina Mele

  • Restoring E-cadherin expression increases sensitivity to epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors in lung cancer cell lines.

    Samir E. Witta;Robert M. Gemmill;Fred R. Hirsch;Christopher D. Coldren

  • Distinct epidermal growth factor receptor and KRAS mutation patterns in non-small cell lung cancer patients with different tobacco exposure and clinicopathologic features.

    Issan Yee San Tam;Lap Ping Chung;Wai Sing Suen;Elaine Wang

  • Proteomic Profiling Identifies Dysregulated Pathways in Small Cell Lung Cancer and Novel Therapeutic Targets Including PARP1

    Lauren Averett Byers;Jing Wang;Monique B. Nilsson;Junya Fujimoto

  • Genome-scale analysis of DNA methylation in lung adenocarcinoma and integration with mRNA expression

    Suhaida A. Selamat;Brian S. Chung;Luc Girard;Wei Zhang

  • Targeting ADAM-mediated ligand cleavage to inhibit HER3 and EGFR pathways in non-small cell lung cancer

    Bin Bing S Zhou;Michael Peyton;Biao He;Changnian Liu

  • Genome-wide allelotyping of lung cancer identifies new regions of allelic loss, differences between small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer, and loci clustering.

    Luc Girard;Sabine Zöchbauer-Müller;Arvind K. Virmani;Adi F. Gazdar

  • ASCL1 and NEUROD1 Reveal Heterogeneity in Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Tumors and Regulate Distinct Genetic Programs.

    Mark D. Borromeo;Trisha K. Savage;Rahul K. Kollipara;Min He

  • Multiple Oncogenic Changes (K-RASV12, p53 Knockdown, Mutant EGFRs, p16 Bypass, Telomerase) Are Not Sufficient to Confer a Full Malignant Phenotype on Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells

    Mitsuo Sato;Melville B. Vaughan;Luc Girard;Michael Peyton

  • An NQO1- and PARP-1-mediated cell death pathway induced in non-small-cell lung cancer cells by β-lapachone

    Erik A. Bey;Melissa S. Bentle;Kathryn E. Reinicke;Ying Dong

  • Homozygous Deletions and Chromosome Amplifications in Human Lung Carcinomas Revealed by Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Array Analysis

    Xiaojun Zhao;Barbara A. Weir;Thomas Louis LaFramboise;Ming Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

John D. Minna
John D. Minna The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Adi F. Gazdar
Adi F. Gazdar The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Ignacio I. Wistuba
Ignacio I. Wistuba The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
John V. Heymach
John V. Heymach The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Yang Xie
Yang Xie The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Carmen Behrens
Carmen Behrens The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Kevin R. Coombes
Kevin R. Coombes The Ohio State University
Jing Wang
Jing Wang The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Lixia Diao
Lixia Diao The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jerry W. Shay
Jerry W. Shay The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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