Regulation of Phagocyte Physiology During Cancer Cell Clearance


Cancer Research Institute - Mark Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2018)

Justin Perry, PhD, University of Virginia

Justin Perry, PhD

Dr. Perry is probing how dead cancer cells are cleared from the body, and the impact of this clean-up process on cancer therapy and the immune response.

PUBLISHED RESEARCH

Morioka S, Perry JSA, Raymond MH, Medina CB, Zhu Y, Zhao L, Serbulea V, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Leitinger N, Kucenas S, Rathmell JC, Makowski L, Ravichandran KS. Efferocytosis induces a novel SLC program to promote glucose uptake and lactate release. Nature. 2018.

Shivange G, Urbanek K, Przanowski P, Perry JSA, Jones J, Haggart R, Kostka C, Patki T, Stelow E, Petrova Y, Llaneza D, Mayo M, Ravichandran KS, Landen CN, Bhatnagar S, Tushir-Singh J. A Single-Agent Dual-Specificity Targeting of FOLR1 and DR5 as an Effective Strategy for Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Cell. 2018.

Arandjelovic S, Perry JSA, Lucas CD, Penberthy KK, Kim TH, Zhou M, Rosen DA, Chuang TY, Bettina AM, Shankman LS, Cohen AH, Gaultier A, Conrads TP, Kim M, Elliott MR, Ravichandran KS. A noncanonical role for the engulfment gene ELMO1 in neutrophils that promotes inflammatory arthritis. Nat Immunol. 2019.

Perry JSA, Morioka S, Medina CB, Iker Etchegaray J, Barron B, Raymond MH, Lucas CD, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Delpire E, Ravichandran KS. Interpreting an apoptotic corpse as anti-inflammatory involves a chloride sensing pathway. Nat Cell Biol. 2019.

Yao M, Ventura PB, Jiang Y, Rodriguez FJ, Wang L, Perry JSA, Yang Y, Wahl K, Crittenden RB, Bennett ML, Qi L, Gong CC, Li XN, Barres BA, Bender TP, Ravichandran KS, Janes KA, Eberhart CG, Zong H. Astrocytic trans-Differentiation Completes a Multicellular Paracrine Feedback Loop Required for Medulloblastoma Tumor Growth. Cell. 2020.

Medina CB, Mehrotra P, Arandjelovic S, Perry JSA, Guo Y, Morioka S, Barron B, Walk SF, Ghesquière B, Krupnick AS, Lorenz U, Ravichandran KS. Metabolites released from apoptotic cells act as tissue messengers. Nature. 2020.

Arandjelovic S, Perry JSA, Zhou M, Ceroi A, Smirnov I, Walk SF, Shankman LS, Cambré I, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Elewaut D, Conrads TP, Ravichandran KS. ELMO1 signaling is a promoter of osteoclast function and bone loss. Nat Commun. 2021.

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