Oncogenic Pathways

The major aim of the UCT Mainz program Oncogenic Pathways is to develop novel and rationale combination therapies in close collaborations with the core area Cancer Immunotherapy. Further, an IIT-concept to target DNA repair in KRASmut lung cancer patients is under evaluation.
- Research group Kühn - Emmy Noether group
- Research group Möhler
- Research group Rajalingam
- Research group Roos
- Research group Sasca - Emmy Noether group
- Research group Stauber
- Research group Strand
- Research group Straub
- Research group Tagscherer
- Research group Tomicic-Christmann
- Research group Wojnowski
- Research group Zahnreich
Most significant publications since 2019
Foersch, S., Glasner, C., Woerl, A.C., Eckstein, M., Wagner, D.C., Schulz, S., Kellers, F., Fernandez, A., Tserea, K., Kloth, M., Hartmann, A., Heintz, A., Weichert, W., Roth, W., Geppert, C., Kather, J.N., Jesinghaus, M. 2023. Multistain deep learning for prediction of prognosis and therapy response in colorectal cancer. Nat Med. 29(2), 430-439.
Gül, D., Krämer, O.H., Reinhardt, C. 2023. Starving out brain tumors: a reprogrammed lysine catabolism serves as a novel target for glioblastoma treatment. Signal Transduct Target Ther. 8(1), 401.
- Cortés-López, M., Schulz, L., Enculescu, M., Paret, C., Spiekermann, B., Quesnel-Vallières, M., Torres-Diz, M., Unic, S., Busch, A., Orekhova, A., Kuban, M., Mesitov, M., Mulorz, M.M., Shraim, R., Kielisch, F., Faber, J., Barash, Y., Thomas-Tikhonenko, A., Zarnack, K., Legewie, S., König, J. 2022. High-throughput mutagenesis identifies mutations and RNA-binding proteins controlling CD19 splicing and CART-19 therapy resistance. Nat Commun. 13(1), 5570.
Mooz, J., Riegel, K., Ps, H., Sadanandam, A., Marini, F., Klein, M., Werner, U., Roth, W., Wilken-Schmitz, A., Tegeder, I., Rajalingam, K. 2022. ARAF suppresses ERBB3 expression and metastasis in a subset of lung cancers. Sci Adv. 8(11), eabk1538.
Liebl, M.C., Moehlenbrink, J., Becker, H., Raddatz, G., Abdeen, S.K., Aqeilan, R.I., Lyko, F., Hofmann, T.G. 2021. DAZAP2 acts as specifier of the p53 response to DNA damage. Nucleic Acids Res. 49(5), 2759-2776.
Foersch, S., Eckstein, M., Wagner, D.C., Gach, F., Woerl, A.C., Geiger, J., Glasner, C., Schelbert, S., Schulz, S., Porubsky, S., Kreft, A., Hartmann, A., Agaimy, A., Roth, W. 2021. Deep learning for diagnosis and survival prediction in soft tissue sarcoma. Ann Oncol. 32(9), 1178-1187.
- Dzama, M.M., Steiner, M., Rausch, J., Sasca, D., Schönfeld, J., Kunz, K., Taubert, M.C., McGeehan, G.M., Chen, C.W., Mupo, A., Hähnel, P., Theobald, M., Kindler, T., Koche, R.P., Vassiliou, G.S., Armstrong, S.A., Kühn, M.W.M. 2020. Synergistic targeting of FLT3 mutations in AML via combined menin-MLL and FLT3 inhibition. Blood. 136(21), 2442-2456.
- Krishnan, A., Berthelet, J., Renaud, E., Rosigkeit, S., Distler, U., Stawiski, E., Wang, J., Modrusan, Z., Fiedler, M., Bienz, M., Tenzer, S., Schad, A., Roth, W., Thiede, B., Seshagiri, S., Musholt, T.J., Rajalingam, K. 2020. Proteogenomics analysis unveils a TFG-RET gene fusion and druggable targets in papillary thyroid carcinomas. Nat Commun. 11(1), 2056.
- Sasca, D., Szybinski, J., Schüler, A., Shah, V., Heidelberger, J., Haehnel, P.S., Dolnik, A., Kriege, O., Fehr, E.M., Gebhardt, W.H., Reid, G., Scholl, C., Theobald, M., Bullinger, L., Beli, P., Kindler, T. 2019. NCAM1 (CD56) promotes leukemogenesis and confers drug resistance in AML. Blood. 133(21):2305-2319.
- Gronke, K., Hernández, P.P., Zimmermann, J., Klose, C.S.N., Kofoed-Branzk, M., Guendel, F., Witkowski, M., Tizian, C., Amann, L., Schumacher, F., Glatt, H., Triantafyllopoulou, A., Diefenbach, A. 2019. Interleukin-22 protects intestinal stem cells against genotoxic stress. Nature. 566(7743):249-253.