Recent Faculty Publications

We share our research studies with physicians and scientists worldwide through publications in leading academic journals. View a listing of our faculty’s most recent publications.

Lalarukh Aftab, MD

Ayesha Arshad, M.D.

Yongho Bae, PhD

Frank Chen

Christopher Cohan, PhD

Scott Doyle, PhD

Ying Huang, MD, PhD

Tracey Ignatowski, PhD

Stuart Inglis, PhD

Thaer Khoury, MD

John Kolega, Ph.D.

Rafal Kozielski, MD

Lin Liu, MD, PhD

Mihai Merzianu, MD

  • Bolookat ER, Rich LJ, Vincent-Chong VK, DeJohn CR, Merzianu M, Hershberger PA, Singh AK, Seshadri M. (2023) Noninvasive Monitoring of Radiation-Induced Salivary Gland Vascular Injury. Journal of dental research (Apr), 102(4): 412-421. doi:10.1177/00220345221138533
  • Lennerz JK, Pantanowitz L, Amin MB, Eltoum IE, Hameed MR, Kalof AN, Khanafshar E, Kunju LP, Lazenby AJ, Montone KT, Otis CN, Reid MD, Staats PN, Whitney-Miller CL, Abendroth CS, Aron M, Birdsong GG, Bleiweiss IJ, Bronner MP, Chapman J, Cipriani NA, de la Roza G, Esposito MJ, Fadare O, Ferrer K, Fletcher CD, Frishberg DP, Garcia FU, Geldenhuys L, Gill RM, Gui D, Halat S, Hameed O, Hornick JL, Huber AR, Jain D, Jhala N, Jorda M, Jorns JM, Kaplan J, Khalifa MA, Khan A, Kim GE, Lee EY, LiVolsi VA, Longacre T, Magi-Galluzzi C, McCall SJ, McPhaul L, Mehta V, Merzianu M, Miller SB, Molberg KH, Moreira AL, Naini BV, Nosé V, O'Toole K, Picken M, Prieto VG, Pullman JM, Quick CM, Reynolds JP, Rosenberg AE, Schnitt SJ, Schwartz MR, Sekosan M, Smith MT, Sohani A, Stowman A, Vanguri VK, Wang B, Watts JC, Wei S, Whitney K, Younes M, Zee S, Bracamonte ER. (2022) Letter to the Editor. Ensuring remote diagnostics for pathologists: an open letter to the US Congress. Nature medicine (Dec), 28(12): 2453-2455.
  • Surendran S, Aboelkheir U, Tu AA, Magner WJ, Sigurdson SL, Merzianu M, Hicks WL, Suresh A, Kirkwood KL, Kuriakose MA. (2022) T-Cell Infiltration and Immune Checkpoint Expression Increase in Oral Cavity Premalignant and Malignant Disorders. Biomedicines (Jul), 10(8). doi:10.3390/biomedicines10081840

Wilfrido Mojica, MD

Ted Ondracek, MD, MSE

Olga Pletnikova, M.D.

  • Nguyen L, Ajredini R, Guo S, Romano LEL, Tomas RF, Bell LR, Ranum PT, Zu T, Bañez Coronel M, Kelley CP, Redding-Ochoa J, Nizamis E, Melloni A, Connors TR, Gaona A, Thangaraju K, Pletnikova O, Clark HB, Davidson BL, Yachnis AT, Golde TE, Lou X, Wang ET, Renton AE, Goate A, Valdmanis PN, Prokop S, Troncoso JC, Hyman BT, Ranum LPW. (2025) CASP8 intronic expansion identified by poly-glycine-arginine pathology increases Alzheimer's disease risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (Feb), 122(7): e2416885122.
  • Chia R, Ray A, Shah Z, Ding J, Ruffo P, Fujita M, Menon V, Saez-Atienzar S, Reho P, Kaivola K, Walton RL, Reynolds RH, Karra R, Sait S, Akcimen F, Diez-Fairen M, Alvarez I, Fanciulli A, Stefanova N, Seppi K, Duerr S, Leys F, Krismer F, Sidoroff V, Zimprich A, Pirker W, Rascol O, Foubert-Samier A, Meissner WG, Tison F, Pavy-Le Traon A, Pellecchia MT, Barone P, Russillo MC, Marín-Lahoz J, Kulisevsky J, Torres S, Mir P, Periñán MT, Proukakis C, Chelban V, Wu L, Goh YY, Parkkinen L, Hu MT, Kobylecki C, Saxon JA, Rollinson S, Garland E, Biaggioni I, Litvan I, Rubio I, Alcalay RN, Kwei KT, Lubbe SJ, Mao Q, Flanagan ME, Castellani RJ, Khurana V, Ndayisaba A, Calvo A, Mora G, Canosa A, Floris G, Bohannan RC, Moore A, Norcliffe-Kaufmann L, Palma JA, Kaufmann H, Kim C, Iba M, Masliah E, Dawson TM, Rosenthal LS, Pantelyat A, Albert MS, Pletnikova O, Troncoso JC, Infante J, Lage C, Sánchez-Juan P, Serrano GE, Beach TG, Pastor P, Morris HR, Albani D, Clarimon J, Wenning GK, Hardy JA, Ryten M, Topol E, Torkamani A, Chiò A, Bennett DA, De Jager PL, Low PA, Singer W, Cheshire WP, Wszolek ZK, Dickson DW, Traynor BJ, Gibbs JR, Dalgard CL, Ross OA, Houlden H, Scholz SW. (2024) Genome sequence analyses identify novel risk loci for multiple system atrophy. Neuron (Apr).
  • Scholz SW, Moroz BE, Saez-Atienzar S, Chia R, Cahoon EK, Dalgard CL, , , Freedman DM, Pfeiffer RM. (2024) Association of cardiovascular disease management drugs with Lewy body dementia: a case-control study. Brain communications (Jan), 6(1): fcad346. doi:10.1093/braincomms/fcad346

Yousef Soofi, MD

John Tomaszewski, MD, MASCP

Vincent Tutino, Ph.D

Yasmin Yusuf, MD