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Michael P. LaQuaglia is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with notable contributions to neurology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, molecular biology, and cancer research as subfields.

The primary topics addressed in LaQuaglia's work include:

  • Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments
  • Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Protein Degradation and Inhibitors

The scientist has published extensively across several peer-reviewed venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
  • Pediatric Blood & Cancer
  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael P. LaQuaglia include:

  • Extracellular Vesicle and Particle Biomarkers Define Multiple Human Cancers, 2020, published in Cell
  • Clinical sequencing of soft tissue and bone sarcomas delineates diverse genomic landscapes and potential therapeutic targets, 2022, published in Nature Communications
  • Treatment of Pediatric Adrenocortical Carcinoma With Surgery, Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection, and Chemotherapy: The Children's Oncology Group ARAR0332 Protocol, 2021, published in Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • B7H3-Directed Intraperitoneal Radioimmunotherapy With Radioiodinated Omburtamab for Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor and Other Peritoneal Tumors: Results of a Phase I Study, 2020, published in Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • A Human Organoid Model of Aggressive Hepatoblastoma for Disease Modeling and Drug Testing, 2020, published in Cancers

Frequent collaborators in LaQuaglia's research include:

  • Shakeel Modak
  • Todd E. Heaton
  • Neerav Shukla
  • Nai-Kong V. Cheung
  • Suzanne L. Wolden

Best Publications

  • Identification of ALK as a major familial neuroblastoma predisposition gene

    Yaël P. Mossé;Marci Laudenslager;Luca Longo;Kristina A. Cole

  • Extracellular Vesicle and Particle Biomarkers Define Multiple Human Cancers

    Ayuko Hoshino;Ayuko Hoshino;Han Sang Kim;Han Sang Kim;Linda Bojmar;Linda Bojmar;Linda Bojmar;Kofi Ennu Gyan

  • Wild-type p53 protein undergoes cytoplasmic sequestration in undifferentiated neuroblastomas but not in differentiated tumors

    Ute M. Moll;Michael Laquaglia;Jean Benard;Guy Riou

  • TREATMENT OF ACUTE RENAL ALLOGRAFT REJECTION WITH OKT3 MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY

    A. Cosimi;Robert Burton;Robert Colvin;Gideon Goldstein

  • Detection of a Recurrent DNAJB1-PRKACA Chimeric Transcript in Fibrolamellar Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    Joshua N. Honeyman;Joshua N. Honeyman;Elana P. Simon;Nicolas Robine;Rachel Chiaroni-Clarke

  • Clinical, pathologic, and molecular spectrum of tumors associated with t(11;22)(p13;q12): desmoplastic small round-cell tumor and its variants.

    W L Gerald;M Ladanyi;E de Alava;M Cuatrecasas

  • Osteogenic sarcoma with clinically detectable metastasis at initial presentation.

    P. A. Meyers;G. Heller;J. H. Healey;A. Huvos

  • Desmoplastic small round-cell tumor: prolonged progression-free survival with aggressive multimodality therapy.

    B. H. Kushner;M. P. Laquaglia;N. Wollner;P. A. Meyers

  • Molecular Subtypes of KIT/PDGFRA Wild-Type Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors: A Report From the National Institutes of Health Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Clinic.

    Sosipatros A. Boikos;Alberto S. Pappo;J. Keith Killian;Michael P. LaQuaglia

  • Results of multimodal treatment for desmoplastic small round cell tumors.

    Dave R. Lal;Wendy T. Su;Suzanne L. Wolden;Kenneth C. Loh

  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumors in children and young adults: a clinicopathologic, molecular, and genomic study of 15 cases and review of the literature.

    Sonam Prakash;Lisa Sarran;Nicholas Socci;Ronald P DeMatteo

  • A Functional Screen Identifies miR-34a as a Candidate Neuroblastoma Tumor Suppressor Gene

    Kristina A. Cole;Edward F. Attiyeh;Yael P. Mosse;Michael J. Laquaglia

  • Molecular Characterization of Pediatric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors

    Narasimhan P. Agaram;Michael P. Laquaglia;Berrin Ustun;Tianhua Guo

  • Purged versus non-purged peripheral blood stem-cell transplantation for high-risk neuroblastoma (COG A3973): a randomised phase 3 trial

    Susan G Kreissman;Robert C Seeger;Katherine K Matthay;Wendy B London;Wendy B London

  • Differentiated thyroid cancer: determinants of disease progression in patients <21 years of age at diagnosis: a report from the Surgical Discipline Committee of the Children's Cancer Group.

    Kurt D. Newman;Thomas Black;Glenn Heller;Richard G. Azizkhan

  • RNAi screen of the protein kinome identifies checkpoint kinase 1 (CHK1) as a therapeutic target in neuroblastoma

    Kristina A. Cole;Jonathan Huggins;Michael Laquaglia;Chase E. Hulderman

  • Recurrent NCOA2 gene rearrangements in congenital/infantile spindle cell rhabdomyosarcoma.

    Juan Miguel Mosquera;Andrea Sboner;Lei Zhang;Naoki Kitabayashi

  • Malignant pancreatic tumors in childhood and adolescence: The Memorial Sloan-Kettering experience, 1967 to present

    V. Nicholas A. Shorter;Richard D. Glick;David S. Klimstra;Murray F. Brennan

  • A Molecular Study of Pediatric Spindle and Sclerosing Rhabdomyosarcoma: Identification of Novel and Recurrent VGLL2-related Fusions in Infantile Cases.

    Rita Alaggio;Lei Zhang;Yun-Shao Sung;Shih-Chiang Huang

  • Very-high-dose short-term chemotherapy for poor-risk peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumors, including Ewing's sarcoma, in children and young adults.

    B H Kushner;P A Meyers;W L Gerald;J H Healey

Frequent Co-Authors

Nai-Kong V. Cheung
Nai-Kong V. Cheung Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Suzanne L. Wolden
Suzanne L. Wolden Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Paul A. Meyers
Paul A. Meyers Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
William L. Gerald
William L. Gerald Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
John H. Healey
John H. Healey Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Glenn Heller
Glenn Heller Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Sanford M. Simon
Sanford M. Simon Rockefeller University
Cristina R. Antonescu
Cristina R. Antonescu Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Marc Ladanyi
Marc Ladanyi Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Andrew G. Huvos
Andrew G. Huvos Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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