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Overview

Michael Simons is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their academic work spans primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these broad fields, their research focuses on several subfields including Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Immunology, Clinical Psychology, and Surgery.

The topics central to Simons' work include Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer, Congenital Heart Defects Research, Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases, Cell Adhesion Molecules Research, Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and TGF-β Signaling in Diseases.

Simons has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearance in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Circulation Research, Nature Cardiovascular Research, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Among recent research papers, noteworthy contributions include:

  • The quiescent endothelium: signalling pathways regulating organ-specific endothelial normalcy (2021), Nature Reviews Cardiology
  • Smooth Muscle Cell Reprogramming in Aortic Aneurysms (2020), Cell Stem Cell
  • Role of Venous Endothelial Cells in Developmental and Pathologic Angiogenesis (2021), Circulation
  • Endothelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition, Vascular Inflammation, and Atherosclerosis (2020), Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Identification of driver genes for critical forms of COVID-19 in a deeply phenotyped young patient cohort (2021), Science Translational Medicine

Simons collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Lingfeng Qin, Martin A. Schwartz, Xiaolong Zhu, Thomas W. Chittenden, and Yanying Xu.

Best Publications

  • Mosaic organization of DNA nucleotides

    C.-K. Peng;C.-K. Peng;C.-K. Peng;S. V. Buldyrev;S. V. Buldyrev;S. V. Buldyrev;S. Havlin;S. Havlin;S. Havlin;M. Simons;M. Simons;M. Simons

  • Long-range correlations in nucleotide sequences

    C.-K. Peng;S. V. Buldyrev;A. L. Goldberger;S. Havlin;S. Havlin

  • Mechanisms and regulation of endothelial VEGF receptor signalling

    Michael Simons;Emma Gordon;Lena Claesson-Welsh

  • Antisense c- myb oligonucleotides inhibit intimal arterial smooth muscle cell accumulation in vivo

    Michael Simons;Michael Simons;Elazer R. Edelman;Jean-Luc DeKeyser;Robert Langer

  • Heterozygous Deficiency of PHD2 Restores Tumor Oxygenation and Inhibits Metastasis via Endothelial Normalization

    Massimiliano Mazzone;Massimiliano Mazzone;Daniela Dettori;Daniela Dettori;Daniela Dettori;Rodrigo Leite de Oliveira;Rodrigo Leite de Oliveira;Sonja Loges;Sonja Loges

  • Pharmacological Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease With Recombinant Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial

    Michael Simons;Brian H. Annex;Roger J. Laham;Neal Kleiman

  • Long-range correlation properties of coding and noncoding DNA sequences: GenBank analysis.

    S. V. Buldyrev;A. L. Goldberger;S. Havlin;R. N. Mantegna

  • Clinical Trials in Coronary Angiogenesis: Issues, Problems, Consensus An Expert Panel Summary

    M. Simons;R. O. Bonow;N. A. Chronos;D. J. Cohen

  • Loss of SR-BI expression leads to the early onset of occlusive atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, spontaneous myocardial infarctions, severe cardiac dysfunction, and premature death in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice.

    Anne Braun;Bernardo L. Trigatti;Mark J. Post;Kaori Sato

  • Endothelial cell metabolism in normal and diseased vasculature

    Guy Eelen;Pauline de Zeeuw;Michael Simons;Peter Carmeliet

  • Local Perivascular Delivery of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor in Patients Undergoing Coronary Bypass Surgery: Results of a Phase I Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

    Roger J. Laham;Frank W. Sellke;Elazer R. Edelman;Justin D. Pearlman

  • Divergent angiocrine signals from vascular niche balance liver regeneration and fibrosis

    Bi-Sen Ding;Zhongwei Cao;Raphael Lis;Daniel J. Nolan

  • Anti-angiogenic cues from vascular basement membrane collagen.

    Pablo C. Colorado;Adriana Torre;George Kamphaus;Yohei Maeshima

  • Role of Angiogenesis in Cardiovascular Disease A Critical Appraisal

    Rohit Khurana;Michael Simons;John F. Martin;Ian C. Zachary

  • Angiogenesis Where Do We Stand Now

    Michael Simons

  • Syndecans New Kids on the Signaling Block

    Eugene Tkachenko;John M. Rhodes;Michael Simons

  • PR39, a peptide regulator of angiogenesis

    J Li;M Post;R Volk;Y Gao

  • Endothelial-Derived Angiocrine Signals Induce and Sustain Regenerative Lung Alveolarization

    Bi-Sen Ding;Daniel J. Nolan;Peipei Guo;Alexander O. Babazadeh

  • Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition drives atherosclerosis progression

    Pei Yu Chen;Lingfeng Qin;Nicolas Baeyens;Guangxin Li

  • VEGF, flk-1, and flt-1 expression in a rat myocardial infarction model of angiogenesis

    J. Li;L. F. Brown;M. G. Hibberd;J. D. Grossman

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank W. Sellke
Frank W. Sellke Brown University
Shlomo Havlin
Shlomo Havlin Bar-Ilan University
Ary L. Goldberger
Ary L. Goldberger Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sergey V. Buldyrev
Sergey V. Buldyrev Yeshiva University
Anne Eichmann
Anne Eichmann Yale University
Robert D. Rosenberg
Robert D. Rosenberg Technical University of Munich
Martin A. Schwartz
Martin A. Schwartz Yale University
H. E. Stanley
H. E. Stanley Boston University
Rosario N. Mantegna
Rosario N. Mantegna University of Palermo

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