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Stephen L. Lessnick is affiliated with Nationwide Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology and medicine, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans subfields such as molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, cancer research, pathology and forensic medicine, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including sarcoma diagnosis and treatment, genomics and chromatin dynamics, protein degradation and inhibitors, RNA research and splicing, cancer genomics and diagnostics, epigenetics and DNA methylation, and lymphoma diagnosis and treatment.

Among their frequent publication venues are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancer Research, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of Visualized Experiments, and Molecular Cancer Research.

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Cenny Taslim
  • Emily R. Theisen
  • Julia Selich-Anderson
  • Jesse C. Crow
  • Iftekhar A. Showpnil

Notable recent publications by Stephen L. Lessnick include:

  • "Randomized Phase III Trial of Ganitumab With Interval-Compressed Chemotherapy for Patients With Newly Diagnosed Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group" (2023, Journal of Clinical Oncology)
  • "EWS/FLI mediated reprogramming of 3D chromatin promotes an altered transcriptional state in Ewing sarcoma" (2022, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • "An international working group consensus report for the prioritization of molecular biomarkers for Ewing sarcoma" (2022, npj Precision Oncology)
  • "Identifying States of Collateral Sensitivity during the Evolution of Therapeutic Resistance in Ewing's Sarcoma" (2020, iScience)
  • "The ETS transcription factor ETV6 constrains the transcriptional activity of EWS-FLI to promote Ewing sarcoma" (2023, Nature Cell Biology)

Best Publications

  • RAS–RAF–MEK-dependent oxidative cell death involving voltage-dependent anion channels

    Nicholas Yagoda;Moritz von Rechenberg;Elma Zaganjor;Andras J. Bauer

  • Identification of genotype-selective antitumor agents using synthetic lethal chemical screening in engineered human tumor cells

    Sonam Dolma;Stephen L Lessnick;Stephen L Lessnick;William C Hahn;William C Hahn;Brent R Stockwell

  • A second Ewing's sarcoma translocation, t(21;22), fuses the EWS gene to another ETS–family transcription factor, ERG

    Poul H.B. Sorensen;Stephen L. Lessnick;Dolores Lopez-Terrada;Xian F. Liu

  • Ewing sarcoma 11;22 translocation produces a chimeric transcription factor that requires the DNA-binding domain encoded by FLI1 for transformation.

    William A. May;Mikhail L. Gishizky;Mikhail L. Gishizky;Stephen L. Lessnick;Lynn B. Lunsford

  • The PHD Finger of the Chromatin-Associated Protein ING2 Functions as a Nuclear Phosphoinositide Receptor

    Or Gozani;Philip Karuman;David R. Jones;Dmitri Ivanov

  • The Ewing's sarcoma EWS/FLI-1 fusion gene encodes a more potent transcriptional activator and is a more powerful transforming gene than FLI-1.

    William A. May;Stephen L. Lessnick;Benjamin S. Braun;Michael Klemsz

  • Comparison of MAPIE versus MAP in patients with a poor response to preoperative chemotherapy for newly diagnosed high-grade osteosarcoma (EURAMOS-1): an open-label, international, randomised controlled trial

    Neyssa M Marina;Sigbjørn Smeland;Stefan S Bielack;Mark Bernstein

  • Survival and prognosis with osteosarcoma: outcomes in more than 2000 patients in the EURAMOS-1 (European and American Osteosarcoma Study) cohort

    Sigbjørn Smeland;Stefan S. Bielack;Jeremy Whelan;Mark Bernstein

  • Expression profiling of EWS/FLI identifies NKX2.2 as a critical target gene in Ewing's sarcoma

    Richard Smith;Leah A. Owen;Deborah J. Trem;Jenny S. Wong

  • β-Catenin–induced melanoma growth requires the downstream target Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor

    Hans R. Widlund;Martin A. Horstmann;E. Roydon Price;Junqing Cui

  • Microsatellites as EWS/FLI response elements in Ewing's sarcoma

    Kunal Gangwal;Savita Sankar;Savita Sankar;Peter C. Hollenhorst;Michelle Kinsey;Michelle Kinsey

  • The Ewing's sarcoma oncoprotein EWS/FLI induces a p53-dependent growth arrest in primary human fibroblasts

    Stephen L Lessnick;Caroline S Dacwag;Todd R Golub;Todd R Golub;Todd R Golub

  • A Conditional Mouse Model of Synovial Sarcoma: Insights into a Myogenic Origin

    Malay Haldar;Jeffrey D. Hancock;Cheryl M. Coffin;Stephen L. Lessnick

  • EWS–FLI1 increases transcription to cause R-loops and block BRCA1 repair in Ewing sarcoma

    Aparna Gorthi;July Carolina Romero;Eva Loranc;Lin Cao

  • Promiscuous partnerships in Ewing's sarcoma.

    Savita Sankar;Stephen L. Lessnick;Stephen L. Lessnick

  • Multiple domains mediate transformation by the Ewing's sarcoma EWS/FLI-1 fusion gene.

    Stephen L. Lessnick;Benjamin S. Braun;Christopher T. Denny;William A. May

  • Identification of target genes for the Ewing's sarcoma EWS/FLI fusion protein by representational difference analysis.

    B S Braun;R Frieden;S L Lessnick;W A May

  • Children's Oncology Group's 2013 blueprint for research: Bone tumors

    Richard Gorlick;Richard Gorlick;Katherine Janeway;Stephen Lessnick;R. Lor Randall

  • NR0B1 Is Required for the Oncogenic Phenotype Mediated by EWS/FLI in Ewing's Sarcoma

    Michelle Kinsey;Richard Smith;Stephen L. Lessnick

  • Recent advances in the molecular pathogenesis of Ewing's sarcoma.

    Elizabeth C. Toomey;Joshua D. Schiffman;Joshua D. Schiffman;Stephen L. Lessnick;Stephen L. Lessnick

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Krailo
Mark Krailo University of Southern California
Richard Gorlick
Richard Gorlick The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Mary C. Beckerle
Mary C. Beckerle University of Utah
Holcombe E. Grier
Holcombe E. Grier Harvard University
Todd R. Golub
Todd R. Golub Harvard University
Lisa A. Cannon-Albright
Lisa A. Cannon-Albright University of Utah
Mitchell S. Cairo
Mitchell S. Cairo New York Medical College
Heinrich Kovar
Heinrich Kovar St Anna Children's Hospital
Lynn B. Jorde
Lynn B. Jorde University of Utah
Olivier Delattre
Olivier Delattre PSL University

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