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Overview

Marco Falasca is a researcher affiliated with Curtin University in Australia. Their work spans multiple disciplines with a primary focus on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Throughout their career, they have contributed extensively to research areas such as Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Pharmacology, and Immunology.

Their research encompasses several main topics including:

  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies

Marco Falasca has published papers in a variety of scientific journals, with a particular concentration in the following venues:

  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Cancers
  • Seminars in Cancer Biology
  • Advances in Biological Regulation
  • Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Some recent important publications include:

  • Large-Scale Plasma Analysis Revealed New Mechanisms and Molecules Associated with the Host Response to SARS-CoV-2 (2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • Circulating Exosomes Are Strongly Involved in SARS-CoV-2 Infection (2021, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences)
  • Dissecting lipid metabolism alterations in SARS-CoV-2 (2021, Progress in Lipid Research)
  • Role of lipid signalling in extracellular vesicles-mediated cell-to-cell communication (2023, Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews)
  • Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts: Epigenetic Regulation and Therapeutic Intervention in Breast Cancer (2020, Cancers)

Marco Falasca frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field. Notable co-authors include:

  • Ilaria Casari
  • Marcello Manfredi
  • Pratibha Malhotra
  • Dinesh Thapa
  • Leon N. Warne

Best Publications

  • Activation of phospholipase Cγ by PI 3‐kinase‐induced PH domain‐mediated membrane targeting

    M. Falasca;S.K. Logan;V.P. Lehto;G. Baccante

  • Specificity and Promiscuity in Phosphoinositide Binding by Pleckstrin Homology Domains

    Jennifer M. Kavran;Daryl E. Klein;Anthony Lee;Marco Falasca

  • Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: Current and Evolving Therapies.

    Aleksandra Adamska;Alice Domenichini;Marco Falasca

  • A Novel Positive Feedback Loop Mediated by the Docking Protein Gab1 and Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase in Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling

    Gerard A. Rodrigues;Marco Falasca;Zhongtao Zhang;Siew Hwa Ong

  • ABC Transporters in Cancer Stem Cells: Beyond Chemoresistance.

    Romana-Rea Begicevic;Marco Falasca

  • Pyk2 regulates multiple signaling events crucial for macrophage morphology and migration

    M. Okigaki;C. Davis;M. Falasca;M. Falasca;S. Harroch;S. Harroch

  • The putative cannabinoid receptor GPR55 defines a novel autocrine loop in cancer cell proliferation

    R Piñeiro;T Maffucci;M Falasca

  • Class II phosphoinositide 3-kinase defines a novel signaling pathway in cell migration

    Tania Maffucci;Frank T. Cooke;Fiona M. Foster;Colin J. Traer

  • Large-Scale Plasma Analysis Revealed New Mechanisms and Molecules Associated with the Host Response to SARS-CoV-2.

    Elettra Barberis;Sara Timo;Elia Amede;Virginia V. Vanella

  • Insulin induces phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate formation through TC10 activation.

    Tania Maffucci;Anna Brancaccio;Enza Piccolo;Robert C. Stein

  • The Role of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase C2α in Insulin Signaling

    Marco Falasca;William E. Hughes;Veronica Dominguez;Gianluca Sala

  • PI3K Class II α Controls Spatially Restricted Endosomal PtdIns3P and Rab11 Activation to Promote Primary Cilium Function

    Irene Franco;Federico Gulluni;Carlo C. Campa;Carlotta Costa

  • Regulatory recruitment of signalling molecules to the cell membrane by pleckstrinhomology domains

    Lemmon;M Falasca;J Schlessinger;K Ferguson

  • mTORC1 activity repression by late endosomal phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate

    Andrea L. Marat;Alexander Wallroth;Wen Ting Lo;Rainer Müller

  • Regulation and cellular functions of class II phosphoinositide 3-kinases.

    Marco Falasca;Tania Maffucci

  • Molecular and cellular mechanisms of chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer.

    Aleksandra Adamska;Omar Elaskalani;Aikaterini Emmanouilidi;Minkyoung Kim

  • Inhibition of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt pathway by inositol pentakisphosphate results in antiangiogenic and antitumor effects.

    Tania Maffucci;Enza Piccolo;Albana Cumashi;Manuela Iezzi

  • Phospholipase C;1 Is Required for Metastasis Development and Progression

    Gianluca Sala;Francesco Dituri;Claudio Raimondi;Sara Previdi

  • Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase mediates epidermal growth factor-induced activation of the c-Jun N-terminal kinase signaling pathway.

    Susan K. Logan;Marco Falasca;Patrick Hu;Joseph Schlessinger

  • Targeting PDK1 in cancer.

    C. Raimondi;Marco Falasca

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniela Corda
Daniela Corda National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Giuseppe Danilo Norata
Giuseppe Danilo Norata University of Milan
Emilio Hirsch
Emilio Hirsch University of Turin
Barry V. L. Potter
Barry V. L. Potter University of Oxford
Stefano Iacobelli
Stefano Iacobelli University of Chieti-Pescara
Joseph Schlessinger
Joseph Schlessinger Yale University
Sándor Damjanovich
Sándor Damjanovich University of Debrecen
Mark A. Lemmon
Mark A. Lemmon Yale University
Edel A. O'Toole
Edel A. O'Toole Queen Mary University of London
Michael C. Berndt
Michael C. Berndt Curtin University

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