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Sem H. Phan is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and immunology and microbiology, with a significant focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, immunology, molecular biology, oncology, and genetics.

Their work addresses key topics such as interstitial lung diseases and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, immune cells in cancer, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, lymphoma diagnosis and treatment, gastrointestinal tumor research and treatment, Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer, and theology and canon law studies.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Tianju Liu, Andrew E. Rinke, Francina Gonzalez De Los Santos, Kevin R. Flaherty, and Chuling Fang.

Sem H. Phan has published in several scientific venues, including:

  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • The Journal of Pathology
  • Aging

Recent papers by Sem H. Phan include:

  • PS01.05 Surgical and Clinical Outcomes With Neoadjuvant Atezolizumab in Resectable Stage IB-IIIB NSCLC: LCMC3 Trial Primary Analysis, 2021, Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Noncanonical Wnt Signaling Promotes Myofibroblast Differentiation in Pulmonary Fibrosis, 2021, American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
  • B7H3-dependent myeloid-derived suppressor cell recruitment and activation in pulmonary fibrosis, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology
  • B7H3 expression and significance in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, 2021, The Journal of Pathology
  • The dual distinct role of telomerase in repression of senescence and myofibroblast differentiation, 2021, Aging

Best Publications

  • The Myofibroblast: One Function, Multiple Origins

    Boris Hinz;Sem H. Phan;Victor J. Thannickal;Andrea Galli

  • Recent developments in myofibroblast biology: paradigms for connective tissue remodeling.

    Boris Hinz;Sem H. Phan;Victor J. Thannickal;Marco Prunotto

  • Endothelial cell gene expression of a neutrophil chemotactic factor by TNF-alpha, LPS, and IL-1 beta.

    R. M. Strieter;S. L. Kunkel;H. J. Showell;D. G. Remick

  • Bone marrow–derived progenitor cells in pulmonary fibrosis

    Naozumi Hashimoto;Hong Jin;Tianju Liu;Stephen W. Chensue

  • Vitamin A antagonizes decreased cell growth and elevated collagen-degrading matrix metalloproteinases and stimulates collagen accumulation in naturally aged human skin.

    James Varani;Roscoe L. Warner;Mehrnaz Gharaee-Kermani;Sem H. Phan

  • Prostaglandins as endogenous mediators of interleukin 1 production

    S L Kunkel;S W Chensue;S H Phan

  • The Myofibroblast in Pulmonary Fibrosis

    Sem H. Phan

  • Myofibroblasts and their role in lung collagen gene expression during pulmonary fibrosis. A combined immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization study

    Kai Zhang;Mark D. Rekhter;David Gordon;Sem H. Phan

  • Costimulation of Fibroblast Collagen and Transforming Growth Factor β1 Gene Expression by Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 via Specific Receptors

    Mehrnaz Gharaee-Kermani;Elizabeth M. Denholm;Sem H. Phan

  • Endothelial–Mesenchymal Transition in Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis

    Naozumi Hashimoto;Sem H. Phan;Kazuyoshi Imaizumi;Masaki Matsuo

  • Alveolar macrophage-derived cytokines induce monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 expression from human pulmonary type II-like epithelial cells.

    T J Standiford;S L Kunkel;S H Phan;B J Rollins

  • Inhibition of Myofibroblast Apoptosis by Transforming Growth Factor β1

    Hong Yu Zhang;Sem H. Phan

  • Lung Cytokine Production in Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis

    Sem H. Phan;Steven L. Kunkel

  • Smad3 Mediates Transforming Growth Factor-β–Induced α-Smooth Muscle Actin Expression

    Biao Hu;Zhe Wu;Sem H. Phan

  • Monokine-induced neutrophil chemotactic factor gene expression in human fibroblasts.

    R M Strieter;S H Phan;H J Showell;D G Remick

  • Biology of Fibroblasts and Myofibroblasts

    Sem H. Phan

  • Monocyte chemotactic protein gene expression by cytokine-treated human fibroblasts and endothelial cells

    Robert M. Strieter;R. Wiggins;Sem H. Phan;B. L. Wharram

  • Lung fibroblast alpha-smooth muscle actin expression and contractile phenotype in bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis.

    Hong Yu Zhang;Mehrnaz Gharaee-Kermani;Kai Zhang;Soverin Karmiol

  • Dual Roles of IL-4 in Lung Injury and Fibrosis

    François Huaux;Tianju Liu;Bridget McGarry;Matt Ullenbruch

  • Nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy: a novel cutaneous fibrosing disorder in patients with renal failure

    Richard D Swartz;Leslie J Crofford;Sem H Phan;Robert W Ike

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven L. Kunkel
Steven L. Kunkel University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nicholas W. Lukacs
Nicholas W. Lukacs University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert M. Strieter
Robert M. Strieter University of Virginia
Peter A. Ward
Peter A. Ward University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
François Huaux
François Huaux Université Catholique de Louvain
Theodore J. Standiford
Theodore J. Standiford University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stephen W. Chensue
Stephen W. Chensue University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Cory M. Hogaboam
Cory M. Hogaboam Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Victor J. Thannickal
Victor J. Thannickal Tulane University
James Varani
James Varani University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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