Monthly HAAs
Honors, Awards + Achievements
Congratulations
Mingyi Xie, Ph.D.
Congratulations to Mingyi Xie, Ph.D., for being selected as a 2018 Thomas H. Maren Junior Investigator Awardee for his project “RNA metabolism mediated by the Integrator complex.” Only two faculty members are chosen for this UF Office of Research Affairs award per year. Xie is an assistant professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at UF.
Christian Jobin, Ph.D.
Congratulations to Christian Jobin, Ph.D., for his comments on the potential connection between certain types of gut bacteria and the growth of colon tumors and in a recent New York Times article. Jobin is a professor of medicine and holds appointments in the UF College of Medicine’s departments of medicine and anatomy and cell biology, as well as the UF College of Veterinary Medicine’s department of infectious diseases and immunology.
Certifications
Congratulations to UF Health Nurses who recently achieved certification (OCN Certified CY16 & 17)!
- Rolana Bright, Oncology Certified Nurse, FSC
- Susan Cahoon, Oncology Certified Nurse, Radiation Oncology
- Leslie Pettiford, Oncology Certified Nurse, Clinical Trials Office
- Priscilla Pettrey, Bone Marrow Transplant Certified Nurse, BMT
- Jonalyn Ova Raval, Bone Marrow Transplant Certified Nurse, BMT
- Kathleen Sullivan, Oncology Certified Nurse, Adult Infusion
- Nicole Santerfeit, Bone Marrow Transplant Certified Nurse, BMT Tx
Congratulations to all UFHCC Clinical Trials Office staff who recently achieved SOCRA or other Research Certifications!
CCRP
Timothy Guinn
Thea Nash
Ashley Bayne
Allison Allegra
ACRP-CP
Giselle Moore-Higgs
CCRC
Beate Oltman Greer
Recent Selected Publications
Mayo SJ, Kuruvilla J, Laister RC, Ayala AP, Alm M, Byker W, Kelly DL, Saligan L. Blood-based biomarkers of cancer-related cognitive impairment in non-central nervous system cancer: protocol for a scoping review. BMJ Open. 2018 Jan 27;8(1):e017578. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017578.
Cheng TD, Darke AK, Redman MW, Zirpoli GR, Davis W, Payne Ondracek R, Bshara W, Omilian AR, Kratzke R, Reid ME, Molina JR, Kolesar JM, Chen Y, MacRae RM, Moon J, Mack P, Gandara DR, Kelly K, Santella RM, Albain KS, Ambrosone CB. Smoking, Sex, and Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Steroid Hormone Receptors in Tumor Tissue (S0424). J Natl Cancer Inst. 2018 Jan 13. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djx260. [Epub ahead of print].
Buchbinder D, Kelly DL, Duarte RF, Auletta JJ, Bhatt N, Byrne M, DeFilipp Z, Gabriel M, Mahindra A, Norkin M, Schoemans H, Shah AJ, Ahmed I, Atsuta Y, Basak GW, Beattie S, Bhella S, Bredeson C, Bunin N, Dalal J, Daly A, Gajewski J, et al. Neurocognitive dysfunction in hematopoietic cell transplant recipients: expert review from the late effects and Quality of Life Working Committee of the CIBMTR and complications and Quality of Life Working Party of the EBMT. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2018 Jan 17. doi: 10.1038/s41409-017-0055-7. [Epub ahead of print] Review.
Hong CC, Sucheston-Campbell LE, Liu S, Hu Q, Yao S, Lunetta KL, Haddad SA, Ruiz-Narváez EA, Bensen JT, Cheng TD, Bandera EV, Rosenberg LA, Haiman CA, Lee KP, Evans SS, Abrams SI, Repasky EA, Olshan AF, Palmer JR, Ambrosone CB. Genetic variants in immune-related pathways and breast cancer risk in African American women in the AMBER consortium. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2018 Jan 16. pii: cebp.0434.2017. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-17-0434. [Epub ahead of print]
Mokhtech M, Rotondo RL, Bradley JA, Sandler ES, Nanda R, Logie N, Aldana PR, Morris CG, Indelicato DJ. Early outcomes and patterns of failure following proton therapy for nonmetastatic intracranial nongerminomatous germ cell tumors. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 Jan 30. doi: 10.1002/pbc.26997. [Epub ahead of print].
Alarcon PA, Matthay KK, London WB, Naranjo A, Tenney SC, Panzer JA, Hogarty MD, Park JR, Maris JM, Cohn SL. Intravenous immunoglobulin with prednisone and risk-adapted chemotherapy for children with opsoclonus myoclonus ataxia syndrome associated with neuroblastoma (ANBL00P3): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2018 Jan;2(1):25-34. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(17)30130-X. Epub 2017 Nov 3.
Zhao Y, Nagasaki Y, Paderu P, Sugrue MW, Leather HL, Wingard JR, Perlin DS. Applying host disease status biomarkers to therapeutic response monitoring in invasive aspergillosis patients. Med Mycol. 2018 Jan 22. doi: 10.1093/mmy/myx164. [Epub ahead of print].
Ho CK, Bryant CM, Mendenhall NP, Henderson RH, Mendenhall WM, Nichols RC, Morris CG, Kanmaniraja D, Hamlin DJ, Li Z, Hoppe BS. Long-term outcomes following proton therapy for prostate cancer in young men with a focus on sexual health. Acta Oncol. 2018 Jan 23:1-7. doi: 10.1080/0284186X.2018.1427886. [Epub ahead of print].
Li S, Bostick JW, Zhou L. Regulation of Innate Lymphoid Cells by Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor. Front Immunol. 2018 Jan 5;8:1909. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01909. eCollection 2017. Review.
Yang Y, Jobin C. Colorectal cancer: Hand-in-hand – colorectal cancer metastasizes with microorganisms. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 Jan 17. doi: 10.1038/nrgastro.2017.186. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available.
Lamba JK, Voigt AP, Chauhan L, Shin M, Aplenc R, Eidenschink Brodersen L, Gamis AS, Meshinchi S, Loken MR. CD33 splicing SNP regulates expression levels of CD33 in normal regenerating monocytes in AML patients. Leuk Lymphoma. 2018 Jan 10:1-4. doi: 10.1080/10428194.2017.1421756. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available.
Bride KL, Vincent TL, Im SY, Aplenc R, Barrett DM, Carroll WL, Carson R, Dai Y, Devidas M, Dunsmore KP, Fuller T, Glisovic-Aplenc T, Horton TM, Hunger SP, Loh ML, Maude SL, Raetz EA, Winter SS, Grupp SA, Hermiston ML, Wood BL, Teachey DT. Preclinical efficacy of daratumumab in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). Blood. 2018 Jan 5. pii: blood-2017-07-794214. doi: 10.1182/blood-2017-07-794214. [Epub ahead of print].
Rahman M, Kresak J, Yang C, Huang J, Hiser W, Kubilis P, Mitchell D. Analysis of immunobiologic markers in primary and recurrent glioblastoma. J Neurooncol. 2018 Jan 4. doi: 10.1007/s11060-017-2732-1. [Epub ahead of print].
Jobin C. Precision medicine using microbiota. Science. 2018 Jan 5;359(6371):32-34. doi: 10.1126/science.aar2946. No abstract available.
Qian M, Cao X, Devidas M, Yang W, Cheng C, Dai Y, Carroll A, Heerema NA, Zhang H, Moriyama T, Gastier-Foster JM, Xu H, Raetz E, Larsen E, Winick N, Bowman WP, Martin PL, Mardis ER, Fulton R, Zambetti G, Borowitz M, Wood B, et al. TP53 Germline Variations Influence the Predisposition and Prognosis of B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Children. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Feb 20;36(6):591-599. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2017.75.5215. Epub 2018 Jan 4.
Tsirulnikov K, Duarte S, Ray A, Datta N, Zarrinpar A, Hwang L, Faull K, Pushkin A, Kurtz I. Aminoacylase 3 Is a New Potential Marker and Therapeutic Target in Hepatocellular Carcinoma. J Cancer. 2018 Jan 1;9(1):1-12. doi: 10.7150/jca.21747. eCollection 2018.
Fantini D, Glaser AP, Rimar KJ, Wang Y, Schipma M, Varghese N, Rademaker A, Behdad A, Yellapa A, Yu Y, Sze CC, Wang L, Zhao Z, Crawford SE, Hu D, Licht JD, Collings CK, Bartom E, Theodorescu D, Shilatifard A, Meeks JJ. A Carcinogen-induced mouse model recapitulates the molecular alterations of human muscle invasive bladder cancer. Oncogene. 2018 Jan 25. doi: 10.1038/s41388-017-0099-6. [Epub ahead of print].
Chen Z, Lin S, Li JL, Ni W, Guo R, Lu J, Kaye FJ, Wu L.CRTC1-MAML2 fusion-induced lncRNA LINC00473 expression maintains the growth and survival of human mucoepidermoid carcinoma cells. Oncogene. 2018 Jan 22. doi: 10.1038/s41388-017-0104-0. [Epub ahead of print].
