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  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Zvi Fuks is affiliated with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States and has conducted extensive research in the field of medicine, with 46 publications overall.

Their work spans various subfields including pulmonary and respiratory medicine, radiation, molecular biology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and oncology. The main topics covered throughout their research include:

  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
  • Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Effects of Radiation Exposure
  • Management of metastatic bone disease
  • Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling

Fuks has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Carlo Greco
  • Oriol Parés
  • N. Pimentel
  • Vasco Louro
  • Richard Kolesnick

Their research has been published primarily in these venues:

  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
  • Radiotherapy and Oncology
  • JAMA Oncology
  • JCI Insight
  • Cell Death Discovery

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Fuks include:

  • Phase 3 Multi-Center, Prospective, Randomized Trial Comparing Single-Dose 24 Gy Radiation Therapy to a 3-Fraction SBRT Regimen in the Treatment of Oligometastatic Cancer, 2021, International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
  • Safety and Efficacy of Virtual Prostatectomy With Single-Dose Radiotherapy in Patients With Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer, 2021, JAMA Oncology
  • Fusion of lysosomes to plasma membrane initiates radiation-induced apoptosis, 2020, The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Anti-ceramide single-chain variable fragment mitigates radiation GI syndrome mortality independent of DNA repair, 2021, JCI Insight
  • Target motion mitigation promotes high-precision treatment planning and delivery of extreme hypofractionated prostate cancer radiotherapy: Results from a phase II study, 2020, Radiotherapy and Oncology

Fuks received recognition as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Requirement for ceramide-initiated SAPK/JNK signalling in stress-induced apoptosis.

    Marcel Verheij;Marcel Verheij;Ron Bose;Xin Hua Lin;Bei Yao

  • Tumor Response to Radiotherapy Regulated by Endothelial Cell Apoptosis

    Monica Garcia-Barros;Francois Paris;Carlos Cordon-Cardo;David Lyden

  • Endothelial Apoptosis as the Primary Lesion Initiating Intestinal Radiation Damage in Mice

    François Paris;Zvi Fuks;Anthony Kang;Paola Capodieci

  • Ionizing radiation acts on cellular membranes to generate ceramide and initiate apoptosis.

    A. Haimovitz-Friedman;Chu-Cheng Kan;D. Ehleiter;R. S. Persaud

  • Towards multidimensional radiotherapy (MD-CRT): biological imaging and biological conformality.

    C.Clifton Ling;John Humm;Steven Larson;Howard Amols

  • Dose escalation with three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy affects the outcome in prostate cancer.

    Michael J. Zelefsky;Steven A. Leibel;Paul Gaudin;Gerald J. Kutcher

  • Ceramide synthase mediates daunorubicin-induced apoptosis: An alternative mechanism for generating death signals

    Ron Bose;Marcel Verheij;Adriana Haimovitz-Friedman;Kathleen Scotto

  • High-dose intensity modulated radiation therapy for prostate cancer: early toxicity and biochemical outcome in 772 patients

    Michael J Zelefsky;Zvi Fuks;Margie Hunt;Yoshiya Yamada

  • Acid Sphingomyelinase–Deficient Human Lymphoblasts and Mice Are Defective in Radiation-Induced Apoptosis

    Pino Santana;Louis A Peña;Adriana Haimovitz-Friedman;Seamus Martin

  • HIGH DOSE RADIATION DELIVERED BY INTENSITY MODULATED CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY IMPROVES THE OUTCOME OF LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER

    Michael J. Zelefsky;Zvi Fuks;Margie Hunt;Henry J. Lee

  • Deep inspiration breath-hold technique for lung tumors: the potential value of target immobilization and reduced lung density in dose escalation ☆

    Joseph Hanley;Marc M. Debois;Dennis Mah;Gikas S. Mageras

  • Non‐hodgkin's lymphomas iv. clinicopathologic correlation in 405 cases

    Stephen E. Jones;Zvi Fuks;Malcolm Bull;Marshall E. Kadin

  • Clinical experience with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in prostate cancer.

    Michael J Zelefsky;Zvi Fuks;Laura Happersett;Henry J Lee

  • Oocyte apoptosis is suppressed by disruption of the acid sphingomyelinase gene or by sphingosine-1-phosphate therapy.

    Yutaka Morita;Gloria I. Perez;Francois Paris;Silvia R. Miranda

  • Radiation and ceramide-induced apoptosis

    Richard Kolesnick;Zvi Fuks

  • The effect of local control on metastatic dissemination in carcinoma of the prostate: Long-term results in patients treated with 1251 implantation

    Zvi Fuks;Steven A. Leibel;Kent E. Wallner;Colin B. Begg

  • High-Dose, Single-Fraction Image-Guided Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy for Metastatic Spinal Lesions

    Yoshiya Yamada;Mark H. Bilsky;D. Michael Lovelock;Ennapadam S. Venkatraman

  • The deep inspiration breath-hold technique in the treatment of inoperable non–small-cell lung cancer

    Kenneth E Rosenzweig;Joseph Hanley;Dennis Mah;Gig Mageras

  • Engaging the vascular component of the tumor response

    Zvi Fuks;Richard Kolesnick

  • Induction of specific tissue transplantation tolerance using fractionated total lymphoid irradiation in adult mice: long-term survival of allogeneic bone marrow and skin grafts.

    Shimon Slavin;Samuel Strober;Zvi Fuks;Henry S. Kaplan

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Zelefsky
Michael J. Zelefsky Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Steven A. Leibel
Steven A. Leibel Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
C. Clifton Ling
C. Clifton Ling Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Richard Kolesnick
Richard Kolesnick Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Radhe Mohan
Radhe Mohan The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Israel Vlodavsky
Israel Vlodavsky Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Henry S. Kaplan
Henry S. Kaplan Stanford University
Louis B. Harrison
Louis B. Harrison Moffitt Cancer Center
Yoshiya Yamada
Yoshiya Yamada Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Carlos Cordon-Cardo
Carlos Cordon-Cardo Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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