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Shay Soker is affiliated with Wake Forest University in the United States and is active in research primarily within the fields of Medicine and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields, including Biomedical Engineering, Oncology, Surgery, Immunology, and Hepatology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas, with a focus on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research, Cancer Cells and Metastasis, Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Cancer Research and Treatments, Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment, and Liver physiology and pathology.

Shay Soker has contributed to numerous scientific publications, largely appearing in journals such as Cancer Research, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Scientific Reports, Annals of Surgical Oncology, and Biofabrication. The frequency of publications in these venues highlights consistent engagement with both clinical and engineering research communities.

Some of the recent significant papers authored by or involving Shay Soker include:

  • Drug compound screening in single and integrated multi-organoid body-on-a-chip systems, 2020, Biofabrication
  • Intrapleural nano-immunotherapy promotes innate and adaptive immune responses to enhance anti-PD-L1 therapy for malignant pleural effusion, 2021, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Organoid Platform in Preclinical Investigation of Personalized Immunotherapy Efficacy in Appendiceal Cancer: Feasibility Study, 2021, Clinical Cancer Research
  • Decellularized Skin Extracellular Matrix (dsECM) Improves the Physical and Biological Properties of Fibrinogen Hydrogel for Skin Bioprinting Applications, 2020, Nanomaterials
  • Cell Viability Assays in Three-Dimensional Hydrogels: A Comparative Study of Accuracy, 2021, Tissue Engineering Part C Methods

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shay Soker include Konstantinos I. Votanopoulos, Steven D. Forsythe, Anthony Atala, Richard A. Erali, and Cecilia R. Schaaf. The collaboration counts with these co-authors range from 12 to 22, indicating ongoing and active scientific partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Neuropilin-1 Is Expressed by Endothelial and Tumor Cells as an Isoform-Specific Receptor for Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor

    Shay Soker;Seiji Takashima;Hua Quan Miao;Gera Neufeld

  • Isolation of amniotic stem cell lines with potential for therapy

    Paolo De Coppi;Georg Bartsch;M Minhaj Siddiqui;Tao Xu

  • Functional small-diameter neovessels created using endothelial progenitor cells expanded ex vivo.

    Sunjay Kaushal;Gilad E. Amiel;Kristine J. Guleserian;Oz M. Shapira

  • The use of whole organ decellularization for the generation of a vascularized liver organoid

    Pedro M. Baptista;Mohummad M. Siddiqui;Genevieve Lozier;Sergio R. Rodriguez;Sergio R. Rodriguez

  • Regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor-dependent retinal neovascularization by insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor.

    Lois E. H. Smith;Wei Shen;Carole Perruzzi;Shay Soker

  • Neuropilin-1 mediates collapsin-1/semaphorin III inhibition of endothelial cell motility: functional competition of collapsin-1 and vascular endothelial growth factor-165.

    Hua-Quan Miao;Shay Soker;Leonard Feiner;José Luis Alonso

  • VEGF165 mediates formation of complexes containing VEGFR-2 and neuropilin-1 that enhance VEGF165-receptor binding.

    Shay Soker;Hua-Quan Miao;Masashi Nomi;Seiji Takashima

  • Bioprinted Amniotic Fluid-Derived Stem Cells Accelerate Healing of Large Skin Wounds

    Aleksander Skardal;David Mack;Edi Kapetanovic;Anthony Atala

  • The binding of vascular endothelial growth factor to its receptors is dependent on cell surface-associated heparin-like molecules.

    H Gitay-Goren;S Soker;I Vlodavsky;G Neufeld

  • Controlled fabrication of a biological vascular substitute.

    Joel Stitzel;Jie Liu;Jie Liu;Sang Jin Lee;Makoto Komura

  • Multi-tissue interactions in an integrated three-tissue organ-on-a-chip platform

    Aleksander Skardal;Aleksander Skardal;Sean V. Murphy;Mahesh Devarasetty;Mahesh Devarasetty;Ivy Mead

  • Antiangiogenic properties of gold nanoparticles.

    Priyabrata Mukherjee;Resham Bhattacharya;Ping Wang;Ling Wang

  • Principals of neovascularization for tissue engineering.

    Masashi Nomi;Anthony Atala;Paolo De Coppi;Shay Soker

  • Peripheral Blood T Lymphocytes and Lymphocytes Infiltrating Human Cancers Express Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor: A Potential Role for T Cells in Angiogenesis

    Michael R. Freeman;Francis X. Schneck;Michael L. Gagnon;Christopher Corless

  • Angiostatin induces endothelial cell apoptosis and activation of focal adhesion kinase independently of the integrin-binding motif RGD

    Lena Claesson-Welsh;Michael Welsh;Nobuyuki Ito;Bela Anand-Apte

  • A hydrogel bioink toolkit for mimicking native tissue biochemical and mechanical properties in bioprinted tissue constructs.

    Aleksander Skardal;Mahesh Devarasetty;Hyun Wook Kang;Ivy Mead

  • Characterization of novel vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptors on tumor cells that bind VEGF165 via its exon 7-encoded domain

    Shay Soker;Herman Fidder;Gera Neufeld;Michael Klagsbrun

  • Vascular endothelial growth factor effect on endothelial cell proliferation, migration, and platelet-activating factor synthesis is Flk-1-dependent.

    Pascal N. Bernatchez;Shay Soker;Martin G. Sirois

  • Neuropilin-1 expression by tumor cells promotes tumor angiogenesis and progression

    Hua‐Quan Miao;Percy Lee;Hank Lin;Shay Soker

  • Tissue specific regulation of VEGF expression during bone development requires Cbfa1/Runx2.

    Elazar Zelzer;Donald J. Glotzer;Christine Hartmann;David Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony Atala
Anthony Atala Wake Forest University
James J. Yoo
James J. Yoo Wake Forest University
Robert J. Stratta
Robert J. Stratta Wake Forest University
Michael Klagsbrun
Michael Klagsbrun Boston Children's Hospital
Sang Jin Lee
Sang Jin Lee Wake Forest University
Kathryn J. Wood
Kathryn J. Wood University of Oxford
Ge Wang
Ge Wang Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Joel D. Stitzel
Joel D. Stitzel Wake Forest University
Colin E. Bishop
Colin E. Bishop Wake Forest University
Michael R. Freeman
Michael R. Freeman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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