Michael Shen

Selected Publications

Beltran H, Hruszkewycz A, Scher HI, Hildesheim J, Isaacs J, Yu EY, Kelly K, Lin D, Dicker A, Arnold J, Hecht T, Wicha M, Sears R, Rowley D, White R, Gulley JL, Lee J, Diaz Meco M, Small EJ, Shen M, Knudsen K, Goodrich DW, Lotan T, Zoubeidi A, Sawyers CL, Rudin CM, Loda M, Thompson T, Rubin MA, Tawab-Amiri A, Dahut W, Nelson PS. The Role of Lineage Plasticity in Prostate Cancer Therapy Resistance. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Dec 1;25(23):6916-6924. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-19-1423. 

Shen, M. M. (2019). A positive step toward understanding double-negative metastatic prostate cancer. Cancer Cell 36: 117-119. 

Chua, C. W., Epsi, N. J., Leung, E. Y., Xuan, S., Lei, M., Li, B. I., Bergren, S. K., Hibshoosh, H., Mitrofanova, A., and Shen, MM. (2018). Differential requirements of androgen receptor in luminal progenitors during prostate regeneration and tumor initiation. eLife 2018. January. 7: e28768.

Toivanen R, Shen MM. Prostate organogenesis: tissue induction, hormonal regulation and cell type specification. Development. 2017 Apr 15.

Chua CW, Shibata M, Lei M, Toivanen R, Barlow LJ, Bergren SK, Badani KK, McKiernan JM, Benson MC, Hibshoosh H, Shen MM. Single luminal epithelial progenitors can generate prostate organoids in culture. Nat Cell Biol. 2014 Oct;16(10):951-61, 1-4.

Chen JC, Alvarez MJ, Talos F, Dhruv H, Rieckhof GE, Iyer A, Diefes KL, Aldape K, Berens M, Shen MM, Califano A. Identification of causal genetic drivers of human disease through systems-level analysis of regulatory networks. Cell. 2014 Oct 9;159(2):402-14.

Wang ZA, Toivanen R, Bergren SK, Chambon P, Shen MM. Luminal cells are favored as the cell of origin for prostate cancer. Cell Rep. 2014 Sep 11;8(5):1339-46.

Aytes A, Mitrofanova A, Lefebvre C, Alvarez MJ, Castillo-Martin M, Zheng T, Eastham JA, Gopalan A, Pienta KJ, Shen MM, Califano A, Abate-Shen C. Cross-species regulatory network analysis identifies a synergistic interaction betweenFOXM1 and CENPF that drives prostate cancer malignancy. Cancer Cell. 2014 May 12;25(5):638-51.

Wang ZA, Mitrofanova A, Bergren SK, Abate-Shen C, Cardiff RD, Califano A, Shen MM. Lineage analysis of basal epithelial cells reveals their unexpected plasticity and supports acell-of-origin model for prostate cancer heterogeneity. Nat Cell Biol. 2013 Mar;15(3):274-83.

Shen MM, Abate-Shen C. Molecular genetics of prostate cancer: new prospects for old challenges. Genes Dev. 2010 Sep 15;24(18):1967-2000.

Wang X, Kruithof-de Julio M, Economides KD, Walker D, Yu H, Halili MV, Hu YP, Price SM, Abate-Shen C, Shen MM. A luminal epithelial stem cell that is a cell of origin for prostate cancer. Nature. 2009 Sep 24;461(7263):495-500.