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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Tung-Tien Sun was affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their academic work predominantly focused on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these fields, they contributed extensively to subfields such as molecular biology, oncology, immunology, cancer research, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's research covered several main topics, including probiotics and fermented foods, cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism, wound healing and treatments, immune cell function and interaction, gut microbiota and health, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, and applications involving Ginkgo biloba and cashew.

Among their recent published papers were:

  • "Dominant role of CDKN2B/p15INK4B of 9p21.3 tumor suppressor hub in inhibition of cell-cycle and glycolysis" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "PKM2 Is Essential for Bladder Cancer Growth and Maintenance" (2021, Cancer Research)
  • "Teicoplanin-Decorated Reduced Graphene Oxide Incorporated Silk Protein Hybrid Hydrogel for Accelerating Infectious Diabetic Wound Healing and Preventing Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis" (2024, Advanced Healthcare Materials)
  • "Optimal timing of anti-PD-1 antibody combined with chemotherapy administration in patients with NSCLC" (2024, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer)
  • "CircNF1 modulates the progression and immune evasion of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma through dual regulation of PD-L1" (2025, Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters)

Frequent collaborators included Xue-Ru Wu, Mengru Liu, Zhenquan Yang, Victoria M. Martin, and Yong Xia. The most common publication venues where Tung-Tien Sun's work appeared were Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, Food Bioscience, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PubMed, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Tung-Tien Sun was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1992.

Best Publications

  • Label-retaining cells reside in the bulge area of pilosebaceous unit: Implications for follicular stem cells, hair cycle, and skin carcinogenesis

    George Cotsarelis;Tung Tien Sun;Robert M. Lavker

  • Differentiation-related expression of a major 64K corneal keratin in vivo and in culture suggests limbal location of corneal epithelial stem cells.

    Alexander Schermer;Sharon Galvin;Tung-Tien Sun

  • Existence of slow-cycling limbal epithelial basal cells that can be preferentially stimulated to proliferate: implications on epithelial stem cells.

    George Cotsarelis;Shih Zen Cheng;Gang Dong;Tung Tien Sun

  • Involvement of follicular stem cells in forming not only the follicle but also the epidermis.

    Gina Taylor;Michael S. Lehrer;Pamela J. Jensen;Tung Tien Sun

  • Classification of human epithelia and their neoplasms using monoclonal antibodies to keratins: strategies, applications, and limitations.

    D. Cooper;A. Schermer;Tung-Tien Sun

  • Immunolocalization of keratin polypeptides in human epidermis using monoclonal antibodies.

    Janet Woodcock-Mitchell;Riva Eichner;William G. Nelson;Tung Tien Sun;Tung Tien Sun

  • Correlation of specific keratins with different types of epithelial differentiation: Monoclonal antibody studies

    Scheffer C.G. Tseng;Mikko J. Jarvinen;William G. Nelson;Jing Wei Huang

  • Keratin cytoskeletons in epithelial cells of internal organs.

    Tung-Tien Sun;Chiaho Shih;Howard Green

  • Keratin filaments of cultured human epidermal cells. Formation of intermolecular disulfide bonds during terminal differentiation.

    T T Sun;H Green

  • Strategies of epithelial repair: modulation of stem cell and transit amplifying cell proliferation.

    Michael S. Lehrer;Tung Tien Sun;Robert M. Lavker

  • Differentiation of the epidermal keratinocyte in cell culture: Formation of the cornified envelope

    Tung-Tien Sun;Howard Green

  • Classification of epidermal keratins according to their immunoreactivity, isoelectric point, and mode of expression

    R. Eichner;P. Bonitz;Tung-Tien Sun

  • Keratin classes: molecular markers for different types of epithelial differentiation.

    Tung-Tien Sun;Tung-Tien Sun;Riva Eichner;Riva Eichner;William G. Nelson;William G. Nelson;C.G. Scheffer Tseng;C.G. Scheffer Tseng

  • Epidermal stem cells: Properties, markers, and location

    Robert M. Lavker;Tung Tien Sun

  • Acidic and basic hair/nail ("hard") keratins: their colocalization in upper cortical and cuticle cells of the human hair follicle and their relationship to "soft" keratins.

    M H Lynch;W M O'Guin;C Hardy;L Mak

  • Uroplakin Ia is the urothelial receptor for uropathogenic Escherichia coli: evidence from in vitro FimH binding.

    Ge Zhou;Wen-Jun Mo;Peter Sebbel;Guangwei Min

  • Heterogeneity in epidermal basal keratinocytes: morphological and functional correlations

    Robert M. Lavker;Tung Tien Sun

  • The 50- and 58-kdalton keratin classes as molecular markers for stratified squamous epithelia: cell culture studies.

    W G Nelson;T T Sun

  • Immunofluorescent staining of keratin fibers in cultured cells

    Tung-Tien Sun;Howard Green

  • Corneal epithelial stem cells at the limbus: looking at some old problems from a new angle.

    Robert M. Lavker;Scheffer C.G. Tseng;Tung Tien Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Lavker
Robert M. Lavker Northwestern University
Gert Kreibich
Gert Kreibich New York University
Herbert Lepor
Herbert Lepor New York University
George Cotsarelis
George Cotsarelis University of Pennsylvania
Angel Pellicer
Angel Pellicer New York University
Ueli Aebi
Ueli Aebi University of Basel
Rob DeSalle
Rob DeSalle American Museum of Natural History
William G. Nelson
William G. Nelson Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Bechara Kachar
Bechara Kachar National Institutes of Health
Robert R. Traut
Robert R. Traut University of California, Davis

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