Charles Demurjian

Understanding the spectrum of complex metastatic processes is important to the development of a comprehensive and cohesive understanding of cancer metastasis. The Metastasis Research Network (MetNet) supports collaborative, multidisciplinary projects that focus on several themes of the metastatic process and use integrative systems-level approaches.

MetNet is advancing the understanding of metastasis as a non-linear, dynamic, and emergent process, as well as revealing mechanistic insights of early ...

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This project houses all the publicly available datasets generated by the Hi-IMPAcTB consortium over the course of its 7+ years.

What is Hi-IMPAcTB?

Hi-IMPAcTB is an ambitious endeavor bringing together a team of international, interdisciplinary researchers to improve our understanding of host-pathogen interactions in the context of tuberculosis (TB). Funded by a multi-center contract from the NIH, the long-term goal of the consortium is to enable principled vaccine design by improving ...

The MIT Superfund Research Program was created in 2017 to be responsive to communities who live near Superfund Sites. In particular, the MIT team leverages scientific research, community engagement, and educational experiences to support people who are concerned about hazardous chemicals in their environment.

Carcinogenic contaminants threaten the health of people living in the Mystic River Watershed (near the Olin, Industriplex, and Wells G&H Superfund sites) and members of Native American ...

Endometriosis research done by the Griffith lab (MIT) and the Goods lab (Dartmouth)

ABSTRACT – OVERALL The primary focus of the MIT/DFCI Center for Systems Biology of Glioblastoma is to understand the intersections between neurons, immune cells, and tumor cells in this deadly tumor. The lack of response to immunotherapy strategies despite prominent infiltrates of immune cells in many GBM highlights the immuno- suppressive nature of the GBM microenvironment and the importance of more clearly understanding the dynamic interactions at the tumor/immune interface. Similarly, interactions ...

Shoulders Lab Collagen Publications

Abiola F. Ogunsola, Rocky Lai, Kelly Cavallo, Gillian L. Beamer, and Samuel M. Behar

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Abstract: Vaccine development for tuberculosis is a global priority. Our studies using Collaborative Cross (CC) mice show that genetic diversity influences the efficacy of BCG, the most widely used TB vaccine. BCG vaccination of CC042 mice reduces their lung bacillary burden and increases their survival following low-dose aerosol Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection ...

Mohau S. Makatsa, Emma Bishop, Allison N. Bucsan, Matthew Sutton, Chelsea Lehman, Molly Robertson, Krystle K.Q. Yu, Joshua M. Peters, Bryan D. Bryson, Mario Roederer, Robert A. Seder, Patricia A. Darrah, Chetan Seshadri

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mucimm.2025.10.011

Abstract: Intravenous (IV) vaccination with Bacillus Calmette–Guerin (BCG) mediates sterilizing immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in rhesus macaques but the cellular mechanisms ...

Nina Gubina, Lindsay B. Volk, Anna Dormitzer, Emily Michelsen, Lee J. Pribyl, Joshua J. Corrigan, Esha Dalvie, Amanda L. Armijo, Nicolette A. Bugher, Kayla Shonvisky, Monét Norales, Desiree L. Plata, Bevin P. Engelward, Robert G. Croy, John M. Essigmann, Bogdan I. Fedeles

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Abstract: N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) is an animal and probable human carcinogen. Here DNA adduct and high-resolution mutational spectra were correlated following administration of ...

This study investigates how Fc-engineered antibodies affect Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) growth through antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). We engineered 16 Fc variants with two distinct Fab regions (710 and 712), both targeting antigen85B (Ag85B), creating 32 total antibody variants. These variants were comprehensively profiled across five antibody effector functions: antibody-dependent neutrophil phagocytosis (ADNP), antibody-dependent monocyte phagocytosis (ADMP), antibody-dependent ...

Andrew W Simonson, Michael C Chao, Luke E Hood, Rachel A Donlan, Forrest Hopkins, Michael R Chase, Andrew J Vickers, Alanna Callendrello, Edwin Klein, H Jacob Borish, Marshall Malin, Pauline Maiello, Charles A Scanga, Philana Ling Lin, Sarah M Fortune, JoAnne L Flynn

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.08.663727

Immunological memory elicited either through previous or ongoing M. tuberculosis (Mtb) infection provides a critical mechanism by which hosts protect ...

DOI: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679856v1

Marie Floryan, Elena Cambria, Adriana Blazeski, Mark F. Coughlin, Zhengpeng Wan, Giovanni Offeddu, Vinayak Vinayak, Aayush Kant, Vivek Shenoy, Roger D. Kamm

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Abstract: The incorporation of a functional perfusable microvascular network (MVN) is a common requirement for most organ on-chip-models. Long-term perfusion of MVNs is often required for the maturation of organ phenotypes and disease pathologies and to model the transport of cells and drugs entering ...

_Andrew W. Simonson, Joseph J. Zeppa, Allison N. Bucsan, Michael C. Chao, Supriya Pokkali, Forrest Hopkins, Michael R. Chase, Andrew J. Vickers, Matthew S. Sutton, Caylin G. Winchell, Amy J. Myers, Cassaundra L. Ameel, Ryan Kelly, Ben Krouse, Luke E. Hood, Jiaxiang Li, Chelsea C. Lehman, Megha Kamath, Jaime Tomko, Mark A. Rodgers, Rachel Donlan, Harris Chishti, H. Jacob Borish, Edwin Klein, Charles A. Scanga, Sarah Fortune, Philana Ling Lin, Pauline Maiello, Mario Roederer, Patricia A. Darrah, ...

Ze Gong, Koen van den Dries, Rodrigo A. Migueles-Ramírez, Paul W. Wiseman, Alessandra Cambi & Vivek B. Shenoy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38598-z

Abstract: Immune cells, such as macrophages and dendritic cells, can utilize podosomes, mechanosensitive actin-rich protrusions, to generate forces, migrate, and patrol for foreign antigens. Individual podosomes probe their microenvironment through periodic protrusion and retraction cycles (height ...

Kathryn M. Yammine, Sophia Mirda Abularach, Michael Xiong, Seo-yeon Kim, Agata A. Bikovtseva, Vincent L. Butty, Richard P. Schiavoni, John F. Bateman, Shireen R. Lamandé, and Matthew D. Shoulders

A dbGaP Submission is underway and metadata will be updated at the completion of submission. The remaining of the data and metadata are available here.

DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.07.622468.

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Objectives Mutations in the procollagen-II gene (COL2A1) ...

The data / metadata will be available ** online** at the time of paper acceptance. If you would like access prior to acceptance, please reach out to Lindsay Volk: (lvolk@mit.edu)

Oleksandr Chepizhkoa, Josep-Maria Armengol-Colladob, Stephanie Alexander, Esther Wagenae, Bettina Weigelin, Luca Giomi, Peter Friedl, Stefano Zapperi,Caterina A. M. La Porta

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2414009121

Abstract: Cancer metastasis involves the collective migration of cancer cells in confined space, a problem that has been widely investigated in vitro. Here, we quantify the flow patterns of cancer cell as they invade tissue space and deform ...

Luay M Almassalha 1 2, Marcelo Carignano 2 3, Emily Pujadas Liwag 2 4, Wing Shun Li 2 3 5, Ruyi Gong 2 3, Nicolas Acosta 2 3, Cody L Dunton 2 3, Paola Carrillo Gonzalez 2 3, Lucas M Carter 2 4, Rivaan Kakkaramadam 2 4, Martin Kröger 6, Kyle L MacQuarrie 7 8, Jane Frederick 2 3, I Chae Ye 2 3, Patrick Su 2 3, Tiffany Kuo 2 4, Karla I Medina 2 4, Josh A Pritchard 2 3, Andrew Skol 7, Rikkert Nap 2 3, Masato Kanemaki 9 10 11, Vinayak Dravid 5 12 13 14 15, Igal Szleifer 2 3 12, Vadim Backman 2 3 ...

Patricia S. Grace, Joshua M. Peters, Jaimie Sixsmith, Richard Lu, Corinne Luedeman, Brooke A. Fenderson, Andrew Vickers, Matthew D. Slein, Edward B. Irvine, Tanya McKitrick, Mo-Hui Wei, Richard D. Cummings, Aaron Wallace, Lisa A. Cavacini, Alok Choudhary, Megan K. Proulx, Christopher Sundling, Gunilla Källenius, Rajko Reljic, Joel D. Ernst, Arturo Casadevall, Camille Locht, Abraham Pinter, Christopher M. Sasseti, Bryan D. Bryson, Sarah M. Fortune, Galit Alter

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Joshua M. Peters, Hannah P. Gideon, Travis K. Hughes, Cal Gunnarson, Pauline Maiello, Douaa Mugahid, Sarah K. Nyquist, Joshua D. Bromley, Paul C. Blainey, Beth F. Junecko, Molly L. Nelson, Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Philana Ling Lin, JoAnne L. Flynn, Alex K. Shalek, Sarah M. Fortune, Joshua T. Mattila, Bryan D. Bryson

DOI: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.24.595747v1.full

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Owen Leddy, Yufei Cui, Ryuhjin Ahn, Lauren Stopfer, Elizabeth Choe, Do Hun Kim, Malte Roerden, Stefani Spranger, Bryan D. Bryson & Forest M. White

DOI: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-024-01076-x#Sec43

Abstract: Vaccines and immunotherapies that target peptide–major histocompatibility complexes (peptide–MHCs) have the potential to address multiple unmet medical needs in cancer and infectious disease. Designing vaccines and immunotherapies to target ...

*Tigist Y Tamir 1,2,3,6, Shreya Chaudhary 1,6, Annie X Li 1,6, Sonia E Trojan 1,4,6 3 , Cameron T Flower 1,2,5,6, Paula Vo 7 , Yufei Cui 1,3,6, Jeffrey C Davis1,4,6, Rachit S Mukkamala 1,3,6 4 , Francesca N Venditti 1,6, Alissandra L Hillis 8 , Alex Toker 8 , Matthew G Vander Heiden 1,2,4,6,7 5 , Jessica B Spinelli 9 , Norman J Kennedy 9 , Roger J Davis 9 , and *Forest M White 1,2,3,5,6

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DOI: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.28.609894v1.full

Abstract: Coordination of adaptive ...

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