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Samuel M. Wu is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine, with a particular focus on molecular biology, surgery, epidemiology, oncology, and immunology. Wu's work frequently addresses significant biomedical topics including monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, respiratory viral infections, immunotherapy and immune responses, cancer and associated metabolic processes, RNA modifications in cancer, pneumonia and respiratory infections, as well as tracheal and airway disorders.

Wu has contributed to numerous papers, including recent publications such as:

  • Intranasal parainfluenza virus type 5 (PIV5)-vectored RSV vaccine is safe and immunogenic in healthy adults in a phase 1 clinical study (2023) published in Science Advances
  • Tumor-wide RNA splicing aberrations generate immunogenic public neoantigens (2023) published in Research Square
  • Safety and immunogenicity of intranasal parainfluenza virus type 5 (PIV5)-vectored COVID-19 vaccine in adults and teens in an open-label phase 1 trial (2025) published in Science Advances
  • Perioperative Management of Calciphylaxis: Literature Review and Treatment Recommendations (2022) published in Orthopedic Reviews
  • Abstract 4250: Tumor-wide RNA splicing aberrations generate immunogenic public neoantigens across cancers (2025) published in Cancer Research

Samuel M. Wu often collaborates with a group of co-authors, frequently working with:

  • Nicholas Stevers
  • Darwin Kwok
  • Chibo Hong
  • J Costello
  • Hideho Okada

Wu's publications appear prominently in selected venues, with multiple works featured in:

  • Neuro-Oncology
  • Science Advances
  • Research Square
  • Orthopedic Reviews
  • Cancer Research

Their research intersects the fields of Medicine broadly and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology more specifically. Within these disciplines, molecular biology is a core subfield, with significant contributions also in surgery, epidemiology, oncology, and immunology.

Best Publications

  • mTORC1-independent TFEB activation via Akt inhibition promotes cellular clearance in neurodegenerative storage diseases

    Michela Palmieri;Rituraj Pal;Hemanth R. Nelvagal;Parisa Lotfi

  • Light-Evoked Excitatory and Inhibitory Synaptic Inputs to ON and OFF α Ganglion Cells in the Mouse Retina

    Ji-Jie Pang;Fan Gao;Samuel M. Wu

  • Correction: Corrigendum: mTORC1-independent TFEB activation via Akt inhibition promotes cellular clearance in neurodegenerative storage diseases

    Michela Palmieri;Rituraj Pal;Hemanth R. Nelvagal;Parisa Lotfi

  • SCA7 knockin mice model human SCA7 and reveal gradual accumulation of mutant ataxin-7 in neurons and abnormalities in short-term plasticity.

    Seung Yun Yoo;Mark E. Pennesi;Edwin J. Weeber;Bisong Xu

  • Functional architecture of synapses in the inner retina: segregation of visual signals by stratification of bipolar cell axon terminals.

    Samuel M. Wu;Fan Gao;Bruce R. Maple

  • Localization and modulatory actions of zinc in vertebrate retina

    Samuel M. Wu;Qiao Xiaoxi;Jeffrey L. Noebels;Xiong Li Yang

  • Signal clipping by the rod output synapse.

    David Attwell;Salvador Borges;Samuel M. Wu;Martin Wilson

  • Input-output relations of the feedback synapse between horizontal cells and cones in the tiger salamander retina.

    S. M. Wu

  • BETA2/NeuroD1 Null Mice: A New Model for Transcription Factor-Dependent Photoreceptor Degeneration

    Mark E. Pennesi;Jang Hyeon Cho;Zhuo Yang;Schonmei H. Wu

  • Amino acid neurotransmitters in the retina: a functional overview

    Samuel M Wu;Bruce R Maple

  • A quantitative analysis of interactions between photoreceptors in the salamander (Ambystoma) retina.

    D Attwell;M Wilson;S M Wu

  • Melatonin enhances horizontal cell sensitivity in salamander retina.

    Allan F. Wiechmann;Xiong Li Yang;Samuel M. Wu;Joe G. Hollyfield

  • Phenotypic characterization of Bbs4 null mice reveals age-dependent penetrance and variable expressivity

    Erica R. Eichers;Muhammad M. Abd-El-Barr;Richard Paylor;Richard Alan Lewis

  • Elevated intraocular pressure causes inner retinal dysfunction before cell loss in a mouse model of experimental glaucoma.

    Benjamin J. Frankfort;A. Kareem Khan;Dennis Y. Tse;Inyoung Chung;Inyoung Chung

  • Feedforward lateral inhibition in retinal bipolar cells: input-output relation of the horizontal cell-depolarizing bipolar cell synapse.

    Xiong-Li Yang;Samuel M. Wu

  • Direct rod input to cone BCs and direct cone input to rod BCs challenge the traditional view of mammalian BC circuitry

    Ji-Jie Pang;Fan Gao;Janis Lem;Debra E. Bramblett

  • Feedback connections and operation of the outer plexiform layer of the retina

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  • Genetic dissection of rod and cone pathways in the dark-adapted mouse retina.

    Muhammad Mostafa Abd-El-Barr;Mark E Pennesi;Shannon M Saszik;Andrew J Barrow

  • The retinoid cycle and retina disease.

    Wolfgang Baehr;Samuel M Wu;Alan C Bird;Krzysztof Palczewski

  • Effects of gamma-aminobutyric acid on cones and bipolar cells of the tiger salamander retina.

    Samuel M. Wu

  • Neural interactions mediating the detection of motion in the retina of the tiger salamander.

    Frank Werblin;Greg Maguire;Peter Lukasiewicz;Scott Eliasof

Frequent Co-Authors

Rui Chen
Rui Chen Capital Medical University
Ronald Roepman
Ronald Roepman Radboud University
Frank S. Werblin
Frank S. Werblin University of California, Berkeley
Huda Y. Zoghbi
Huda Y. Zoghbi Baylor College of Medicine
Richard A. Lewis
Richard A. Lewis Baylor College of Medicine
David Attwell
David Attwell University College London

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