Ashwin Kumar

Ashwin Kumar

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Nia HT, Datta M, Kumar AS, Siri S, Ferraro GB, Chatterjee S, McHugh JM, Ng PR, West TR, Rapalino O, Choi BD, Nahed BV, Munn LL, Jain RK

Solid stress estimations via intraoperative 3D navigation in patients with brain tumors.
Clin Cancer Res. 2025;31(16):3571-3580 - PMID: 40495423 - PMCID: PMC12351280 - DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-24-4159

Harkos C, Hadjigeorgiou AG, Voutouri C, Kumar AS, Stylianopoulos T, Jain RK

Using mathematical modelling and AI to improve delivery and efficacy of therapies in cancer.
Nat Rev Cancer. 2025;25(5):324-340 - PMID: 39972158 - DOI: 10.1038/s41568-025-00796-w

Lei PJ, Ruscic KJ, Roh K, Rajotte JJ, O'Melia MJ, Bouta EM, Marquez M, Pereira ER, Kumar AS, Razavi MS, Zhou H, Menzel L, Huang L, Kumra H, Duquette M, Huang P, Baish JW, Munn LL, Kurpios NA, Ubellacker JM, Padera TP

Aging-induced changes in lymphatic muscle cell transcriptomes are associated with reduced pumping of peripheral collecting lymphatic vessels in mice.
Dev Cell. 2024;60(7):1118-1133.e5 - PMID: 39731913 - PMCID: PMC11981864 - DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.12.010

Nia HT, Datta M, Kumar AS, Siri S, Ferraro GB, Chatterjee S, McHugh JM, Ng PR, West TR, Rapalino O, Choi BD, Nahed BV, Munn LL, Jain RK

Solid stress estimations via intraoperative 3D navigation in patients with brain tumors.
medRxiv. 2024;:ePub - PMID: 39677483 - PMCID: PMC11643154 - DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.28.24318104

Pal R, Krishnamoorthy M, Matsui A, Kang H, Morita S, Taniguchi H, Kobayashi T, Morita A, Choi HS, Duda DG, Kumar ATN

Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Enables In vivo Quantification of PD-L1 Expression and Inter-tumoral Heterogeneity.
Cancer Res. 2024;85(3):618-632 - PMID: 39514403 - PMCID: PMC11967911 - DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-0880

Abbott KL, Subudhi S, Ferreira R, Gültekin Y, Steinbuch SC, Munim MB, Honeder SE, Kumar AS, Ramesh DL, Wu M, Hansen JA, Sivanand S, Riedmayr LM, Duquette M, Ali A, Henning N, Shevzov-Zebrun A, Gourgue F, Barbeau AM, Waite M, Kunchok T, Ferraro GB, Do BT, Spanoudaki V, Sánchez-Rivera FJ, Jin X, Church GM, Jain RK, Vander Heiden MG

Site of breast cancer metastasis is independent of single nutrient levels.
bioRxiv. 2024;:ePub - PMID: 39484531 - PMCID: PMC11527034 - DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.24.616714

Datta M, Via LE, Dartois V, Weiner DM, Zimmerman M, Kaya F, Walker AM, Fleegle JD, Raplee ID, McNinch C, Zarodniuk M, Kamoun WS, Yue C, Kumar AS, Subudhi S, Xu L, Barry CE, Jain RK

Normalizing granuloma vasculature and matrix improves drug delivery and reduces bacterial burden in tuberculosis-infected rabbits.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024;121(14):e2321336121 - PMID: 38530888 - PMCID: PMC10998582 - DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2321336121

Gomes-Santos IL, Kumar AS, Hausmann F, Meyer MN, Shiferaw SZ, Amoozgar Z, Jain RK, Fukumura D

Exercise intensity governs tumor control in mice with breast cancer.
Front Immunol. 2024;15:1339232 - PMID: 38495879 - PMCID: PMC10940460 - DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1339232

Jain R, Krishnan S, Lee S, Amoozgar Z, Subudhi S, Kumar A, Posada J, Lindeman N, Lei P, Duquette M, Roberge S, Huang P, Andersson P, Datta M, Munn L, Fukumura D

Wnt inhibition alleviates resistance to immune checkpoint blockade in glioblastoma.
Res Sq. 2023;:ePub - PMID: 38234841 - PMCID: PMC10793505 - DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3707472/v1

Lei PJ, Ruscic KJ, Roh K, Rajotte JJ, O'Melia MJ, Bouta EM, Marquez M, Pereira ER, Kumar AS, Arroyo-Ataz G, Razavi MS, Zhou H, Menzel L, Kumra H, Duquette M, Huang P, Baish JW, Munn LL, Ubellacker JM, Jones D, Padera TP

Lymphatic muscle cells are unique cells that undergo aging induced changes.
bioRxiv. 2023;:ePub - PMID: 38014141 - PMCID: PMC10680808 - DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.18.567621

Pal R, K M, Matsui A, Kang H, Morita S, Taniguchi H, Kobayashi T, Morita A, Choi HS, Duda DG, Kumar ATN

In vivo quantification of programmed death-ligand-1 expression heterogeneity in tumors using fluorescence lifetime imaging.
Res Sq. 2023;:ePub - PMID: 37961361 - PMCID: PMC10635296 - DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3222037/v1

Lei PJ, Pereira ER, Andersson P, Amoozgar Z, Van Wijnbergen JW, O'Melia MJ, Zhou H, Chatterjee S, Ho WW, Posada JM, Kumar AS, Morita S, Menzel L, Chung C, Ergin I, Jones D, Huang P, Beyaz S, Padera TP

Cancer cell plasticity and MHC-II-mediated immune tolerance promote breast cancer metastasis to lymph nodes.
J Exp Med. 2023;220(9):ePub - PMID: 37341991 - PMCID: PMC10286805 - DOI: 10.1084/jem.20221847

Boucher Y, Posada JM, Subudhi S, Kumar AS, Rosario SR, Gu L, Kumra H, Mino-Kenudson M, Talele NP, Duda DG, Fukumura D, Wo JY, Clark JW, Ryan DP, Fernandez-Del Castillo C, Hong TS, Pittet MJ, Jain RK

Addition of losartan to FOLFIRINOX and chemoradiation reduces immunosuppression-associated genes, Tregs and FOXP3+ cancer cells in locally advanced pancreatic cancer.
Clin Cancer Res. 2023;29(8):1605-1619 - PMID: 36749873 - PMCID: PMC10106451 - DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-22-1630

Datta M, Chatterjee S, Perez EM, Gritsch S, Roberge S, Duquette M, Chen IX, Naxerova K, Kumar AS, Ghosh M, Emblem KE, Ng MR, Ho WW, Kumar P, Krishnan S, Dong X, Speranza MC, Neagu MR, Iorgulescu JB, Huang RY, Youssef G, Reardon DA, Sharpe AH, Freeman GJ, Suvà ML, Xu L, Jain RK

Losartan controls immune checkpoint blocker-induced edema and improves survival in glioblastoma mouse models.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023;120(6):e2219199120 - PMID: 36724255 - PMCID: PMC9963691 - DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2219199120

Agrud A, Subburaju S, Goel P, Ren J, Kumar AS, Caldarone BJ, Dai W, Chavez J, Fukumura D, Jain RK, Kloner RA, Vasudevan A

Gabrb3 endothelial cell-specific knockout mice display abnormal blood flow, hypertension, and behavioral dysfunction.
Sci Rep. 2022;12(1):4922 - PMID: 35318369 - PMCID: PMC8941104 - DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08806-9

Ho WW, Gomes-Santos IL, Aoki S, Datta M, Kawaguchi K, Talele NP, Roberge S, Ren J, Liu H, Chen IX, Andersson P, Chatterjee S, Kumar AS, Amoozgar Z, Zhang Q, Huang P, Ng MR, Chauhan VP, Xu L, Duda DG, Clark JW, Pittet MJ, Fukumura D, Jain RK

Dendritic cell paucity in mismatch repair-proficient colorectal cancer liver metastases limits immune checkpoint blockade efficacy.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021;118(45):ePub - PMID: 34725151 - PMCID: PMC8609309 - DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2105323118

Boucher Y, Kumar AS, Posada JM, Gjini E, Pfaff K, Lipschitz M, Lako A, Duda DG, Rodig SJ, Hodi FS, Jain RK

Bevacizumab improves tumor infiltration of mature dendritic cells and effector T-cells in triple-negative breast cancer patients
NPJ Precis Oncol. 2021;5(1):62 - PMID: 34188163 - PMCID: PMC8242049 - DOI: 10.1038/s41698-021-00197-w

Gomes-Santos IL, Amoozgar Z, Kumar AS, Ho WW, Roh K, Talele NP, Curtis H, Kawaguchi K, Jain RK, Fukumura D

Exercise training improves tumor control by increasing CD8+ T-cell infiltration via CXCR3 signaling and sensitizes breast cancer to immune checkpoint blockade.
Cancer Immunol Res. 2021;9(7):765-778 - PMID: 33839688 - PMCID: PMC8295193 - DOI: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-20-0499

Subburaju S, Kaye S, Choi YK, Baruah J, Datta D, Ren J, Kumar AS, Szabo G, Fukumura D, Jain RK, Elkhal A, Vasudevan A

NAD+-mediated rescue of prenatal forebrain angiogenesis restores postnatal behavior.
Sci Adv. 2020;6(41):ePub - PMID: 33036972 - PMCID: PMC7546698 - DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb9766

Zhao Y, Cao J, Melamed A, Worley M, Gockley A, Jones D, Nia HT, Zhang Y, Stylianopoulos T, Kumar AS, Mpekris F, Datta M, Sun Y, Wu L, Gao X, Yeku O, Del Carmen MG, Spriggs DR, Jain RK, Xu L

Losartan treatment enhances chemotherapy efficacy and reduces ascites in ovarian cancer models by normalizing the tumor stroma.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019;116(6):2210-2219 - PMID: 30659155 - PMCID: PMC6369817 - DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1818357116