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12937
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908

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Stephen F. Konieczny is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with specific attention to oncology, molecular biology, immunology, biomedical engineering, and cancer research.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics within oncology and tumor biology. Notable papers include:

  • Targeting Plk1 Sensitizes Pancreatic Cancer to Immune Checkpoint Therapy, 2022, Cancer Research
  • A Biomimetic Tumor Model of Heterogeneous Invasion in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, 2020, Small
  • Subtype-specific characterization of breast cancer invasion using a microfluidic tumor platform, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Thrombin-PAR1 signaling in pancreatic cancer promotes an immunosuppressive microenvironment, 2020, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
  • An engineered pancreatic cancer model with intra-tumoral heterogeneity of driver mutations, 2020, Lab on a Chip

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Stephen F. Konieczny include:

  • Yi Yang
  • Bumsoo Han
  • Hye-ran Moon
  • Bennett D. Elzey
  • Sagar M. Utturkar

Key publication venues for their work include:

  • Lab on a Chip
  • Cancer Research
  • Small
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Main fields of study are:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields of study encompass:

  • Oncology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Immunology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Cancer Research

The primary topics of their research include:

  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation
  • Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms

Stephen F. Konieczny was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Identification of MRF4: a new member of the muscle regulatory factor gene family.

    Simon Rhodes;S. F. Konieczny

  • 5-Azacytidine induction of stable mesodermal stem cell lineages from 10T1/2 cells: evidence for regulatory genes controlling determination.

    Stephen F. Konieczny;Charles P. Emerson

  • Spontaneous induction of murine pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (mPanIN) by acinar cell targeting of oncogenic Kras in adult mice

    Nils Habbe;Guanglu Shi;Robert A. Meguid;Volker Fendrich;Volker Fendrich

  • Expression of the muscle regulatory factor MRF4 during somite and skeletal myofiber development

    Timothy J. Hinterberger;David A. Sassoon;David A. Sassoon;Simon J. Rhodes;Stephen F. Konieczny

  • Muscle LIM protein promotes myogenesis by enhancing the activity of MyoD.

    Yanfeng Kong;Matthew J. Flick;Arthur J. Kudla;Stephen F. Konieczny

  • Transcription factor families: muscling in on the myogenic program.

    David C. Ludolph;Stephen F. Konieczny

  • The bHLH transcription factor Mist1 is required to maintain exocrine pancreas cell organization and acinar cell identity.

    Christopher L. Pin;J. Michael Rukstalis;Charis Johnson;Stephen F. Konieczny

  • Myogenic lineage determination and differentiation: Evidence for a regulatory gene pathway

    Deborah F. Pinney;Sonia H. Pearson-White;Stephen F. Konieczny;Keith E. Latham

  • Fibroblast growth factor and transforming growth factor beta repress transcription of the myogenic regulatory gene MyoD1.

    T. B. Vaidya;Simon Rhodes;E. J. Taparowsky;S. F. Konieczny

  • Mist1 Expressing Gastric Stem Cells Maintain the Normal and Neoplastic Gastric Epithelium and Are Supported by a Perivascular Stem Cell Niche

    Yoku Hayakawa;Hiroshi Ariyama;Jitka Stancikova;Kosuke Sakitani

  • Mature Chief Cells Are Cryptic Progenitors for Metaplasia in the Stomach

    Ki Taek Nam;Hyuk–Joon Lee;Hyuk–Joon Lee;Josane F. Sousa;Victoria G. Weis

  • Differential expression of muscle regulatory factor genes in normal and denervated adult rat hindlimb muscles

    Sherry L. Voytik;Maryjo Przyborski;Stephen F. Badylak;Stephen F. Konieczny

  • Abrogating cholesterol esterification suppresses growth and metastasis of pancreatic cancer

    J. Li;D. Gu;S. S.Y. Lee;B. Song

  • Acinar cells contribute to the molecular heterogeneity of pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia

    Liqin Zhu;Guanglu Shi;C. Max. Schmidt;Ralph H. Hruban

  • MYOGENIN AND MEF2 FUNCTION SYNERGISTICALLY TO ACTIVATE THE MRF4 PROMOTER DURING MYOGENESIS

    P S Naidu;D C Ludolph;R Q To;T J Hinterberger

  • Muscle-specific expression of the troponin I gene requires interactions between helix-loop-helix muscle regulatory factors and ubiquitous transcription factors.

    H Lin;K E Yutzey;S F Konieczny

  • Salivary Gland Homeostasis Is Maintained through Acinar Cell Self-Duplication

    Marit H. Aure;Stephen F. Konieczny;Catherine E. Ovitt

  • The maturation of mucus-secreting gastric epithelial progenitors into digestive-enzyme secreting zymogenic cells requires Mist1

    Victoria G. Ramsey;Jason M. Doherty;Christopher C. Chen;Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck

  • Differential trans activation associated with the muscle regulatory factors MyoD1, myogenin, and MRF4.

    Katherine E. Yutzey;Simon Rhodes;Stephen F. Konieczny

  • Mist1 Expressing Gastric Stem Cells Maintain the Normal and Neoplastic Gastric Epithelium and Are Supported by a Perivascular Stem Cell Niche

    Yoku Hayakawa;Hiroshi Ariyama;Jitka Stancikova;Kosuke Sakitani

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth J. Taparowsky
Elizabeth J. Taparowsky Purdue University West Lafayette
Timothy L. Ratliff
Timothy L. Ratliff Purdue University West Lafayette
Jason C. Mills
Jason C. Mills Baylor College of Medicine
Nihal Ahmad
Nihal Ahmad University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ralph H. Hruban
Ralph H. Hruban Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Charles P. Emerson
Charles P. Emerson University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Gustavo Leone
Gustavo Leone Medical University of South Carolina
Katherine E. Yutzey
Katherine E. Yutzey Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
James R. Goldenring
James R. Goldenring Vanderbilt University
Michael C. Ostrowski
Michael C. Ostrowski Medical University of South Carolina

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