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62
Citations
12840
World Ranking
10863
National Ranking
4709

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William T. Beck is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research encompasses several important areas within biomedical science, focusing primarily on cellular and molecular mechanisms related to disease and therapy.

Their work spans subfields including molecular biology, epidemiology, immunology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging. The main topics that characterize their research include:

  • Cell death mechanisms and regulation
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

William T. Beck has contributed to scholarly literature with papers published in journals such as Cancer Science, Cancers, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Cancer Research. Selected recent papers include:

  • Impact of Complex Apoptotic Signaling Pathways on Cancer Cell Sensitivity to Therapy, 2024, Cancers
  • Issue Information, 2020, Cancer Science
  • Issue Information, 2020, Cancer Science
  • Preparing for the End Game, 2022, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Abstract 3647: Validation of a computational reasoning model for precision oncology with large-scale patient-derived xenograft data, 2025, Cancer Research

The scientist has frequently collaborated with others in the field; notable co-authors include:

  • Kohei Miyazono
  • Hiroyuki Mano
  • Takashi Sügimura
  • Hitoshi Nakagama
  • Tomoki Naoe

William T. Beck received recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Altered Surface Membrane Glycoproteins in Vinca Alkaloid-resistant Human Leukemic Lymphoblasts

    William T. Beck;Thomas J. Mueller;Lee R. Tanzer

  • Modulators and substrates of P-glycoprotein and cytochrome P4503A coordinately up-regulate these proteins in human colon carcinoma cells.

    E G Schuetz;W T Beck;J D Schuetz

  • Physical-chemical properties shared by compounds that modulate multidrug resistance in human leukemic cells.

    J. M. Zamora;H. L. Pearce;William T. Beck

  • Methods to Detect P-Glycoprotein-associated Multidrug Resistance in Patients' Tumors: Consensus Recommendations

    William T. Beck;Thomas M. Grogan;Cheryl L. Willman;Carlos Cordon-Cardo

  • The cell biology of multiple drug resistance.

    William T. Beck

  • Quantitation of doxorubicin uptake, efflux, and modulation of multidrug resistance (MDR) in MDR human cancer cells.

    Fei Shen;Shaoyou Chu;Aimee K. Bence;Barbara Bailey

  • Essential features of the P-glycoprotein pharmacophore as defined by a series of reserpine analogs that modulate multidrug resistance

    H. L. Pearce;Ahmad R. Safa;N. J. Bach;M. A. Winter

  • Atypical multiple drug resistance in a human leukemic cell line selected for resistance to teniposide (VM-26).

    Mary K. Danks;Jack C. Yalowich;William T. Beck

  • Altered catalytic activity of and DNA cleavage by DNA topoisomerase II from human leukemic cells selected for resistance to VM-26.

    Danks Mk;Schmidt Ca;Cirtain Mc;Suttle Dp

  • Identification of a Novel Estrogen Response Element in the Breast Cancer Resistance Protein (ABCG2) Gene

    Pui Lai Rachel Ee;Sitharthan Kamalakaran;Debra Tonetti;Xiaolong He

  • Pharmacological, molecular, and cytogenetic analysis of "atypical" multidrug-resistant human leukemic cells.

    William T. Beck;M. C. Cirtain;M. K. Danks;R. L. Felsted

  • Antitopoisomerase drug action and resistance

    John L. Nitiss;William T. Beck;William T. Beck

  • A role for Ubc9 in tumorigenesis

    Yin Yuan Mo;Yanni Yu;Elena Theodosiou;P. L Rachel Ee

  • Expression of a mutant DNA topoisomerase II in CCRF-CEM human leukemic cells selected for resistance to teniposide.

    B Y Bugg;M K Danks;W T Beck;D P Suttle

  • Characterization of multidrug resistance by fluorescent dyes.

    David Kessel;William T. Beck;Debra Kukuruga;Veronique Schulz

  • Isolation of genetic suppressor elements, inducing resistance to topoisomerase II-interactive cytotoxic drugs, from human topoisomerase II cDNA.

    A. V. Gudkov;C. R. Zelnick;A. R. Kazarov;Rama Thimmapaya

  • Preclinical Evaluation of Illudins as Anticancer Agents

    Michael J. Kelner;Trevor C. McMorris;William T. Beck;John M. Zamora

  • Rapid exchange of mammalian topoisomerase IIα at kinetochores and chromosome arms in mitosis

    Penny A. Tavormina;Marie George Côme;Joanna R. Hudson;Yin Yuan Mo

  • Transcriptional suppression of multidrug resistance-associated protein (MRP) gene expression by wild-type p53.

    Qingjian Wang;William T. Beck

  • Knockdown of polypyrimidine tract-binding protein suppresses ovarian tumor cell growth and invasiveness in vitro.

    X He;M Pool;K M Darcy;S B Lim

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary K. Danks
Mary K. Danks St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Yin-Yuan Mo
Yin-Yuan Mo University of Mississippi Medical Center
Susana C. Raimondi
Susana C. Raimondi St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
William S. Dalton
William S. Dalton University of South Florida
Lijun Rong
Lijun Rong University of Illinois at Chicago
Martha R. Stampfer
Martha R. Stampfer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Igor B. Roninson
Igor B. Roninson University of South Carolina
Peter J. Houghton
Peter J. Houghton The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Thomas M. Grogan
Thomas M. Grogan Roche (Switzerland)
Clinton F. Stewart
Clinton F. Stewart St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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