Kris Cameron Wood | Scholars@Duke

Kris Cameron Wood
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology

Our laboratory uses genomic and pharmacological approaches to understand how tumor dependencies are shaped by cell intrinsic factors, environmental factors, and drug treatments during the dynamic process of tumor evolution. To learn more, please visit our laboratory website: https://sites.duke.edu/woodlab/ .

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Basic Science Departments 2020
Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Cell Biology, Basic Science Departments 2022
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute, Duke Cancer Institute, Institutes and Centers 2012
Core Faculty in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Initiatives 2018

Contact Information

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007
- B.S., University of Kentucky 2002
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Basic Science Departments 2012 - 2020
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2016 - 2019
Recognition
In the News
- JUN 7, 2022 Pratt
  
  Locking Leukemia's Cellular Escape Hatch
- MAR 31, 2022 Duke Health News
  
  Cancer Repair Mechanism Could Be Potential Drug Target
- SEP 16, 2019 Pratt School of Engineering
  
  Cancer Therapy Using Genetic Targeting and Gel Delivery Shows Promise
- OCT 3, 2018 Duke Med Alumni News
  
  From Innovation to Impact
- APR 9, 2018
  
  Faculty Startup Sold to Belgian Pharma for $30 Million
- OCT 25, 2017 Duke Cancer Institute
  
  Why Do Perfectly Good Cancer Treatments Suddenly Stop Working?
- NOV 18, 2015 Duke Research Blog
  
  The Challenges of Combating Cancer Drug Resistance
- JAN 4, 2015 Duke Today
  
  Researchers Map Paths to Cancer Drug Resistance
Research
Selected Grants
- Harnessing treatment-induced tumor evolution and collateral sensitivities using a human rectal cancer co-clinical platform awarded by National Institutes of Health 2022 - 2027
- Medical Scientist Training Program awarded by National Institutes of Health 2022 - 2027
- University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering awarded by National Institutes of Health 1994 - 2027
- Otolaryngology Surgeon- Scientist career Path (OSSP) program awarded by National Institutes of Health 2022 - 2027
- Wnt signaling in obesity-associated colorectal cancer awarded by National Institutes of Health 2022 - 2027
- Mechanism-based targeting of unique survival signaling in residual tumors awarded by National Institutes of Health 2022 - 2027
- Lineage-specific signaling and targeting of PI3K gamma in myeloid malignancies awarded by National Institutes of Health 2022 - 2027
- Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program awarded by National Institutes of Health 2021 - 2026
- Duke Center for Advancement of Child Health (CAtCH). awarded by National Institutes of Health 2021 - 2026
- Dissecting the evolutionary landscape of treatment resistance in rectal cancer using patient-derived models. awarded by American Gastroenterological Association 2022 - 2025
- Genetic and Genomics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2025
- Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2025
- Investigating the Impact of ABL Kinase Signaling on Epigenetic Reprogramming in Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer awarded by National Institutes of Health 2022 - 2025
- NGF recruits nerve fibers to reprogram an immunosuppressive microenvironment in melanoma awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2025
- Synthetic lethality by targeting the core senescent mechanism in lung cancer. awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2025
- Institutional Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) awarded by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 2018 - 2025
- ABL-regulated transcriptional and epigenetic networks promote outgrowth of breast cancer metastases revealing novel therapeutic targets awarded by Department of Defense 2022 - 2024
- The mechanical role of the glycocalyx in cancer cell adhesion awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2024
- Evaluation of voltage-gated calcium ion channels as a therapeutic target in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma awarded by National Institutes of Health 2022 - 2024
- Uncovering actionable signaling pathways required for solid tumor brain metastasis awarded by National Institutes of Health 2019 - 2024
- Exploitation of XLF signaling and the DNA Damage Response as a novel therapeutic strategy in cholangiocarcinoma awarded by American College of Surgeons 2021 - 2023
- Exploiting targeted therapy-induced ATM dependence in residual lung tumors awarded by Department of Defense 2021 - 2023
- Improving Therapeutic Efficacy and Durability in FGFR2 Fusion Positive Cholangiocarcinoma awarded by The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation 2022 - 2023
- HOXB13 as a therapeutic target in prostate cancer awarded by Prostate Cancer Foundation 2020 - 2023
- Defining the Mechanistic Determinants of Response to Selective Electron Transport Chain Inhibition in Cancer awarded by National Institutes of Health 2021 - 2023
- Identification and Characterization of Novel Cis-Regulatory Elements Controlling PTEN Expression awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2022
- Targeting tumor-specific apoptosis regulation in advanced ER+ breast cancer awarded by Department of Defense 2019 - 2022
- Selectively targeting apoptosis in PIK3CA mutant colorectal cancers awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2022
- Medical Scientist Training Program awarded by National Institutes of Health 1997 - 2022
- Computational Structure-Based Protein Design Non-competing Renewal (Yr. 12) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2008 - 2022
- Determining the Sub-Cellular Organelles that Link Lipid Signaling and Epigenetics awarded by National Institutes of Health 2019 - 2021
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program awarded by National Institutes of Health 2005 - 2021
- Mechanisms of immune checkpoint resistance mediated by LKB1 tumor suppressor in lung cancer awarded by Department of Defense 2019 - 2021
- Strategies to overcome immunotherapy resistance in LKB1 and KEAP/NRF2 mutated NSCLC: modulating ferroptosis to restore immune sensitivity awarded by Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer 2020 - 2021
- Decoding human genetic variation by functional dissection of beta2-adrenergic receptor signaling awarded by American Heart Association 2019 - 2021
- Codon bias imposes a targetable limitation on KRAS-driven therapeutic resistance awarded by National Institutes of Health 2017 - 2021
- Precision targeting of altered mitochondrial states in ovarian cancer awarded by Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, Inc. 2015 - 2021
- Identification and validation of the PAX3-FOXO1 protein interactome awarded by St. Baldrick's Foundation 2018 - 2020
- Targeting the Hippo pathway in Ras-driven rhabdomyosarcoma awarded by V Foundation for Cancer Research 2016 - 2020
- High-throughput screening of arrayed single cells for automated analysis of phenotypic heterogeneity awarded by Celldom 2018 - 2020
- Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health 1979 - 2020
- Organization and Function of Cellular Structure awarded by National Institutes of Health 1975 - 2020
- Pharmacological Sciences Training Program awarded by National Institutes of Health 1975 - 2020
- Evaluating small molecules that potentiate anti-tumor immunity awarded by Tavros Therapeutics 2020
- Topological Methods for Morphology: Classifying Shape and Function via Dictionary Learning awarded by Columbia University 2016 - 2020
- Single cell functional dissection of tumor microenviornment-driven drug resistance awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2020
- Pharmacology Industry Internships for Ph.D. Students awarded by American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 2017 - 2019
- Targeting differential apoptosis regulation in triple negative breast cancer awarded by Department of Defense 2016 - 2019
- Identification of synthetic lethal interactors in pancreatic cancer awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2015 - 2019
- Exploring BCL-XL addiction in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2019
- RalA signal transduction awarded by National Institutes of Health 2002 - 2019
- Copy Number Alterations in Low Mutation Cancer awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2019
- Exploiting collateral sensitivity to target kinase inhibitor-resistant lung cancers awarded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund 2017 - 2018
- Unmasking targetable dependencies in cancer with intrinsic or acquired resistance to anti-cancer therapies awarded by National Institutes of Health 2017 - 2018
- Integration of signaling and metabolic pathways in the regulation of EMT awarded by US-Israel Binational Science Foundation 2016 - 2018
- Profiling Gene Interactions in the Human Kinome awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2018
- Targeting undruggable oncogenes through the epigenome awarded by Element Genomics, Inc. 2017 - 2018
- Designing durable apoptosis-targeting therapies for acute myeloid leukemia awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2018
- Mapping the landscape of drug sensitizers in human cancers awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2017
- Genomic and Computational Approaches for Development of Novel Anticancer Therapies awarded by Schlumberger Foundation 2015 - 2017
- Systematic design of CDK4/6 inhibitor-based combination therapies awarded by G1 Therapeutics Inc. 2015 - 2016
- A Platform for Real-time Drug Profiling of Patient-Derived Melanomas awarded by National Institutes of Health 2014 - 2016
- Cancer Biology Training Grant awarded by National Cancer Institute 1993 - 2016
- Systematic dissection of the breast cancer microenvironment using the MicroSCALE Toolkit awarded by V Foundation for Cancer Research 2013 - 2015
External Relationships
- Apple Tree Life Sciences
- Celldom, Inc.
- Decrypt Bio
- Guidepoint Global
- Simple Therapeutics
- Tavros Therapeutics
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Mayro, Benjamin, Jacob P. Hoj, Christian G. Cerda-Smith, Haley M. Hutchinson, Michael W. Caminear, Hannah L. Thrash, Peter S. Winter, et al. “ABL kinases regulate the stabilization of HIF-1α and MYC through CPSF1.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 120, no. 16 (April 18, 2023): e2210418120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2210418120.
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  - Killarney, Shane T., Rachel Washart, Ryan S. Soderquist, Jacob P. Hoj, Jamie Lebhar, Kevin H. Lin, and Kris C. Wood. “Executioner caspases restrict mitochondrial RNA-driven Type I IFN induction during chemotherapy-induced apoptosis.” Nat Commun 14, no. 1 (March 14, 2023): 1399. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37146-z.
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  - Sarosiek, K. A., and K. C. Wood. “Endogenous and imposed determinants of apoptotic vulnerabilities in cancer.” Trends in Cancer 9, no. 2 (February 1, 2023): 96–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trecan.2022.10.004.
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  - Bassil, Christopher F., Gray R. Anderson, Benjamin Mayro, Kayleigh N. Askin, Peter S. Winter, Samuel Gruber, Tierney M. Hall, et al. “MCB-613 exploits a collateral sensitivity in drug resistant EGFR -mutant non-small cell lung cancer through covalent inhibition of KEAP1.” Biorxiv, January 19, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.17.524094.
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  - Goodwin, Craig M., Andrew M. Waters, Jennifer E. Klomp, Sehrish Javaid, Kirsten L. Bryant, Clint A. Stalnecker, Kristina Drizyte-Miller, et al. “Combination Therapies with CDK4/6 Inhibitors to Treat KRAS-Mutant Pancreatic Cancer.” Cancer Research 83, no. 1 (January 2023): 141–57. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-22-0391.
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  - Wood, Kris C., and J Silvio Gutkind. “Challenges and Emerging Opportunities for Targeting mTOR in Cancer.” Cancer Research 82, no. 21 (November 2022): 3884–87. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-22-0602.
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  - Lidsky, Michael E., Zechen Wang, Min Lu, Annie Liu, S David Hsu, Shannon J. McCall, Zhecheng Sheng, et al. “Leveraging patient derived models of FGFR2 fusion positive intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma to identify synergistic therapies.” Npj Precis Oncol 6, no. 1 (October 23, 2022): 75. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41698-022-00320-5.
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  - Kishton, Rigel J., Shashank J. Patel, Amy E. Decker, Suman K. Vodnala, Maggie Cam, Tori N. Yamamoto, Yogin Patel, et al. “Cancer genes disfavoring T cell immunity identified via integrated systems approach.” Cell Rep 40, no. 5 (August 2, 2022): 111153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111153.
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  - Lin, Kevin H., Justine C. Rutter, Abigail Xie, Shane T. Killarney, Camille Vaganay, Chaima Benaksas, Frank Ling, et al. “P2RY2-AKT activation is a therapeutically actionable consequence of XPO1 inhibition in acute myeloid leukemia.” Nat Cancer 3, no. 7 (July 2022): 837–51. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43018-022-00394-x.
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  - Zhong, Zheng, Nathan Harmston, Kris C. Wood, Babita Madan, and David M. Virshup. “A p300/GATA6 axis determines differentiation and Wnt dependency in pancreatic cancer models.” J Clin Invest 132, no. 12 (June 15, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI156305.
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  - Wood, Kris C. “Drivers of intrinsic resistance.” Nat Chem Biol 18, no. 6 (June 2022): 579–81. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-022-00980-1.
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  - Javaid, Sehrish, Antje Schaefer, Craig M. Goodwin, Victoria V. Nguyen, Frances L. Massey, Mariaelena Pierobon, Da’Jhnae Gambrell-Sanders, et al. “Concurrent Inhibition of ERK and Farnesyltransferase Suppresses the Growth of HRAS Mutant Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.” Mol Cancer Ther 21, no. 5 (May 4, 2022): 762–74. https://doi.org/10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-21-0142.
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  - Ali, Moiez, Min Lu, Hazel Xiaohui Ang, Ryan S. Soderquist, Christine E. Eyler, Haley M. Hutchinson, Carolyn Glass, et al. “Small-molecule targeted therapies induce dependence on DNA double-strand break repair in residual tumor cells.” Sci Transl Med 14, no. 638 (March 30, 2022): eabc7480. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.abc7480.
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  - Ahmad, Syed, Kris C. Wood, and John E. Scott. “A high throughput proliferation and cytotoxicity assay for co-cultured isogenic cell lines.” Methodsx 9 (2022): 101927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2022.101927.
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  - Luttman, Jillian Hattaway, Jacob P. Hoj, Kevin H. Lin, Jiaxing Lin, Jing Jin Gu, Clay Rouse, Amanda G. Nichols, Nancie J. MacIver, Kris C. Wood, and Ann Marie Pendergast. “ABL allosteric inhibitors synergize with statins to enhance apoptosis of metastatic lung cancer cells.” Cell Reports 37, no. 4 (October 2021): 109880. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109880.
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  - Joh, Daniel Y., Jacob T. Heggestad, Shengwei Zhang, Gray R. Anderson, Jayanta Bhattacharyya, Suzanne E. Wardell, Simone A. Wall, et al. “Author Correction: Cellphone enabled point-of-care assessment of breast tumor cytology and molecular HER2 expression from fine-needle aspirates.” Npj Breast Cancer 7, no. 1 (September 17, 2021): 126. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41523-021-00335-4.
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  - Yellen, Benjamin B., Jon S. Zawistowski, Eric A. Czech, Caleb I. Sanford, Elliott D. SoRelle, Micah A. Luftig, Zachary G. Forbes, Kris C. Wood, and Jeff Hammerbacher. “Massively parallel quantification of phenotypic heterogeneity in single-cell drug responses.” Sci Adv 7, no. 38 (September 17, 2021): eabf9840. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf9840.
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  - Joh, Daniel Y., Jacob T. Heggestad, Shengwei Zhang, Gray R. Anderson, Jayanta Bhattacharyya, Suzanne E. Wardell, Simone A. Wall, et al. “Cellphone enabled point-of-care assessment of breast tumor cytology and molecular HER2 expression from fine-needle aspirates.” Npj Breast Cancer 7, no. 1 (July 2, 2021): 85. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41523-021-00290-0.
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  - Su, Angela, Frank Ling, Camille Vaganay, Gaetano Sodaro, Chaïma Benaksas, Reinaldo Dal Bello, Antoine Forget, et al. “The Folate Cycle Enzyme MTHFR Is a Critical Regulator of Cell Response to MYC-Targeting Therapies.” Cancer Discov 10, no. 12 (December 2020): 1894–1911. https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-19-0970.
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  - Ozkan-Dagliyan, Irem, J Nathaniel Diehl, Samuel D. George, Antje Schaefer, Bjoern Papke, Kathleen Klotz-Noack, Andrew M. Waters, et al. “Low-Dose Vertical Inhibition of the RAF-MEK-ERK Cascade Causes Apoptotic Death of KRAS Mutant Cancers.” Cell Rep 31, no. 11 (June 16, 2020): 107764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107764.
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  - Lin, Kevin H., Justine C. Rutter, Abigail Xie, Bryann Pardieu, Emily T. Winn, Reinaldo Dal Bello, Antoine Forget, et al. “Using antagonistic pleiotropy to design a chemotherapy-induced evolutionary trap to target drug resistance in cancer.” Nature Genetics 52, no. 4 (April 2020): 408–17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-020-0590-9.
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  - Wood, Kris C. “Overcoming MCL-1-driven adaptive resistance to targeted therapies.” Nat Commun 11, no. 1 (January 27, 2020): 531. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14392-z.
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  - Liberti, Maria V., Annamarie E. Allen, Vijyendra Ramesh, Ziwei Dai, Katherine R. Singleton, Zufeng Guo, Jun O. Liu, Kris C. Wood, and Jason W. Locasale. “Evolved resistance to partial GAPDH inhibition results in loss of the Warburg effect and in a different state of glycolysis.” J Biol Chem 295, no. 1 (January 3, 2020): 111–24. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA119.010903.
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  - Zhong, Zheng, Sugunavathi Sepramaniam, Xin Hui Chew, Kris Wood, May Ann Lee, Babita Madan, and David M. Virshup. “PORCN inhibition synergizes with PI3K/mTOR inhibition in Wnt-addicted cancers.” Oncogene 38, no. 40 (October 2019): 6662–77. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41388-019-0908-1.
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  - Manzari, Mandana T., Gray R. Anderson, Kevin H. Lin, Ryan S. Soderquist, Merve Çakir, Mitchell Zhang, Chandler E. Moore, et al. “Genomically informed small-molecule drugs overcome resistance to a sustained-release formulation of an engineered death receptor agonist in patient-derived tumor models.” Sci Adv 5, no. 9 (September 2019): eaaw9162. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw9162.
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  - Cakir, Merve, Sayan Mukherjee, and Kris C. Wood. “Label propagation defines signaling networks associated with recurrently mutated cancer genes.” Sci Rep 9, no. 1 (June 28, 2019): 9401. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45603-3.
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  - Lin, Kevin H., Abigail Xie, Justine C. Rutter, Yeong-Ran Ahn, Julia M. Lloyd-Cowden, Amanda G. Nichols, Ryan S. Soderquist, et al. “Systematic Dissection of the Metabolic-Apoptotic Interface in AML Reveals Heme Biosynthesis to Be a Regulator of Drug Sensitivity.” Cell Metab 29, no. 5 (May 7, 2019): 1217-1231.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2019.01.011.
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  - Armstrong, Andrew J., Santosh Gupta, Patrick Healy, Gabor Kemeny, Beth Leith, Michael R. Zalutsky, Charles Spritzer, et al. “Pharmacodynamic study of radium-223 in men with bone metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer.” Plos One 14, no. 5 (2019): e0216934. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216934.
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  - Ding, Yi, Chang Gong, De Huang, Rui Chen, Pinpin Sui, Kevin H. Lin, Gehao Liang, et al. “Synthetic lethality between HER2 and transaldolase in intrinsically resistant HER2-positive breast cancers.” Nat Commun 9, no. 1 (October 15, 2018): 4274. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06651-x.
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  - Soderquist, Ryan S., Lorin Crawford, Esther Liu, Min Lu, Anika Agarwal, Gray R. Anderson, Kevin H. Lin, Peter S. Winter, Merve Cakir, and Kris C. Wood. “Systematic mapping of BCL-2 gene dependencies in cancer reveals molecular determinants of BH3 mimetic sensitivity.” Nat Commun 9, no. 1 (August 29, 2018): 3513. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05815-z.
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  - Ohiri, Korine A., Sean T. Kelly, Jeffrey D. Motschman, Kevin H. Lin, Kris C. Wood, and Benjamin B. Yellen. “An acoustofluidic trap and transfer approach for organizing a high density single cell array.” Lab Chip 18, no. 14 (July 10, 2018): 2124–33. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8lc00196k.
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  - Winter, Peter S., and Kris C. Wood. “Mapping Effector-Phenotype Landscapes in KRAS-Driven Cancers.” Trends Cancer 4, no. 5 (May 2018): 333–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trecan.2018.02.004.
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  - Anderson, Gray R., Suzanne E. Wardell, Merve Cakir, Catherine Yip, Yeong-Ran Ahn, Moiez Ali, Alexander P. Yllanes, Christina A. Chao, Donald P. McDonnell, and Kris C. Wood. “Dysregulation of mitochondrial dynamics proteins are a targetable feature of human tumors.” Nat Commun 9, no. 1 (April 26, 2018): 1677. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04033-x.
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  - Crawford, Lorin, Kris C. Wood, Xiang Zhou, and Sayan Mukherjee. “Bayesian Approximate Kernel Regression with Variable Selection.” J Am Stat Assoc 113, no. 524 (2018): 1710–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2017.1361830.
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  - Singleton, Katherine R., Lorin Crawford, Elizabeth Tsui, Haley E. Manchester, Ophelia Maertens, Xiaojing Liu, Maria V. Liberti, et al. “Melanoma Therapeutic Strategies that Select against Resistance by Exploiting MYC-Driven Evolutionary Convergence.” Cell Rep 21, no. 10 (December 5, 2017): 2796–2812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.11.022.
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  - Anderson, Grace R., Peter S. Winter, Kevin H. Lin, Daniel P. Nussbaum, Merve Cakir, Elizabeth M. Stein, Ryan S. Soderquist, et al. “A Landscape of Therapeutic Cooperativity in KRAS Mutant Cancers Reveals Principles for Controlling Tumor Evolution.” Cell Rep 20, no. 4 (July 25, 2017): 999–1015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.07.006.
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  - Ali, Moiez, Erin Kaltenbrun, Gray R. Anderson, Sarah Jo Stephens, Sabrina Arena, Alberto Bardelli, Christopher M. Counter, and Kris C. Wood. “Codon bias imposes a targetable limitation on KRAS-driven therapeutic resistance.” Nat Commun 8 (June 8, 2017): 15617. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15617.
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  - Price, Alexander M., Joanne Dai, Quentin Bazot, Luv Patel, Pavel A. Nikitin, Reza Djavadian, Peter S. Winter, et al. “Epstein-Barr virus ensures B cell survival by uniquely modulating apoptosis at early and late times after infection.” Elife 6 (April 20, 2017). https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.22509.
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  - Wood, Kris C. “Suppressing oncogenic transcription with a little healthy competition.” Sci Transl Med 9, no. 374 (January 25, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aal5000.
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  - Anderson, Gray R., Suzanne E. Wardell, Merve Cakir, Lorin Crawford, Jim C. Leeds, Daniel P. Nussbaum, Pallavi S. Shankar, et al. “PIK3CA mutations enable targeting of a breast tumor dependency through mTOR-mediated MCL-1 translation.” Sci Transl Med 8, no. 369 (December 14, 2016): 369ra175. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aae0348.
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  - Wood, Kris C. “An EXITS strategy for decreasing cancer risk in women.” Sci Transl Med 8, no. 368 (December 7, 2016): 368ec197. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aal2806.
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  - Wood, K. C. “Hacking T cells with synthetic circuits to program antitumor responses.” Science Translational Medicine 8, no. 362 (October 26, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aai9170.
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  - Wood, K. C. “Two faces of circulating breast cancer cells.” Science Translational Medicine 8, no. 356 (September 14, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aah7023.
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  - Wood, K. C. “Mapping a path for precision cancer therapies.” Science Translational Medicine 8, no. 348 (July 20, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aah4512.
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  - Singleton, Katherine R., and Kris C. Wood. “Narrowing the focus: a toolkit to systematically connect oncogenic signaling pathways with cancer phenotypes.” Genes Cancer 7, no. 7–8 (July 2016): 218–28. https://doi.org/10.18632/genesandcancer.112.
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  - Wood, K. C. “Targeting the cancer cells that just won't go away.” Science Translational Medicine 8, no. 344 (June 22, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aag2112.
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  - Lin, Kevin H., Peter S. Winter, Abigail Xie, Cullen Roth, Colin A. Martz, Elizabeth M. Stein, Gray R. Anderson, Jennifer P. Tingley, and Kris C. Wood. “Targeting MCL-1/BCL-XL Forestalls the Acquisition of Resistance to ABT-199 in Acute Myeloid Leukemia.” Sci Rep 6 (June 10, 2016): 27696. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep27696.
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  - Cribb, Jeremy A., Lukas D. Osborne, Kellie Beicker, Matthew Psioda, Jian Chen, E Timothy O’Brien, Russell M. Taylor Ii, et al. “An Automated High-throughput Array Microscope for Cancer Cell Mechanics.” Sci Rep 6 (June 6, 2016): 27371. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep27371.
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  - Wood, K. C. “Collaborating tumor cells overcome multitargeted antiangiogenic therapies.” Science Translational Medicine 8, no. 338 (May 11, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf9190.
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  - Park, Sunghee, Ching-Yi Chang, Rachid Safi, Xiaojing Liu, Robert Baldi, Jeff S. Jasper, Grace R. Anderson, et al. “ERRα-Regulated Lactate Metabolism Contributes to Resistance to Targeted Therapies in Breast Cancer.” Cell Rep 15, no. 2 (April 12, 2016): 323–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2016.03.026.
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  - Wood, K. C. “Intercepting reversible drug tolerance to improve targeted therapy.” Science Translational Medicine 8, no. 332 (March 30, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf6467.
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  - Son, Sungmin, Mark M. Stevens, Hui Xiao Chao, Carson Thoreen, Aaron M. Hosios, Lawrence D. Schweitzer, Yaochung Weng, et al. “Cooperative nutrient accumulation sustains growth of mammalian cells.” Sci Rep 5 (December 1, 2015): 17401. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep17401.
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  - Wood, Kris C. “Mapping the Pathways of Resistance to Targeted Therapies.” Cancer Res 75, no. 20 (October 15, 2015): 4247–51. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-15-1248.
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  - Misale, Sandra, Ivana Bozic, Jingshan Tong, Ashley Peraza-Penton, Alice Lallo, Federica Baldi, Kevin H. Lin, et al. “Vertical suppression of the EGFR pathway prevents onset of resistance in colorectal cancers.” Nat Commun 6 (September 22, 2015): 8305. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9305.
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  - Gerriets, Valerie A., Rigel J. Kishton, Amanda G. Nichols, Andrew N. Macintyre, Makoto Inoue, Olga Ilkayeva, Peter S. Winter, et al. “Metabolic programming and PDHK1 control CD4+ T cell subsets and inflammation.” J Clin Invest 125, no. 1 (January 2015): 194–207. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI76012.
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  - Winter, Peter S., Kristopher A. Sarosiek, Kevin H. Lin, Manja Meggendorfer, Susanne Schnittger, Anthony Letai, and Kris C. Wood. “RAS signaling promotes resistance to JAK inhibitors by suppressing BAD-mediated apoptosis.” Sci Signal 7, no. 357 (December 23, 2014): ra122. https://doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.2005301.
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  - Martz, Colin A., Kathleen A. Ottina, Katherine R. Singleton, Jeff S. Jasper, Suzanne E. Wardell, Ashley Peraza-Penton, Gray R. Anderson, et al. “Systematic identification of signaling pathways with potential to confer anticancer drug resistance.” Sci Signal 7, no. 357 (December 23, 2014): ra121. https://doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.aaa1877.
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  - Wood, K. C., and A. M. VanHook. “Science signaling podcast: 23 December 2014.” Science Signaling 7, no. 357 (December 23, 2014). https://doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.aaa4213.
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  - Wood, Kevin B., Kris C. Wood, Satoshi Nishida, and Philippe Cluzel. “Uncovering scaling laws to infer multidrug response of resistant microbes and cancer cells.” Cell Rep 6, no. 6 (March 27, 2014): 1073–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2014.02.007.
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  - Wood, Kris C., David J. Konieczkowski, Cory M. Johannessen, Jesse S. Boehm, Pablo Tamayo, Olga B. Botvinnik, Jill P. Mesirov, et al. “MicroSCALE screening reveals genetic modifiers of therapeutic response in melanoma.” Sci Signal 5, no. 224 (May 15, 2012): rs4. https://doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.2002612.
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  - Wood, Kris C., and David M. Sabatini. “Growth signaling at the nexus of stem cell life and death.” Cell Stem Cell 5, no. 3 (September 4, 2009): 232–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2009.08.008.
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  - Wood, Kris C., Nicole S. Zacharia, Daniel J. Schmidt, Stefani N. Wrightman, Brian J. Andaya, and Paula T. Hammond. “Electroactive controlled release thin films.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105, no. 7 (February 19, 2008): 2280–85. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0706994105.
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  - Wood, Kris C., Samira M. Azarin, Wadih Arap, Renata Pasqualini, Robert Langer, and Paula T. Hammond. “Tumor-targeted gene delivery using molecularly engineered hybrid polymers functionalized with a tumor-homing peptide.” Bioconjug Chem 19, no. 2 (February 2008): 403–5. https://doi.org/10.1021/bc700408r.
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  - Wood, K. C., H. F. Chuang, R. D. Batten, D. M. Lynn, and P. T. Hammond. “Controlling interlayer diffusion to achieve sustained, multiagent delivery from layer-by-layer thin films.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103, no. 27 (July 4, 2006): 10207–12. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0602884103.
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  - Wood, Kris C., Steven R. Little, Robert Langer, and Paula T. Hammond. “A family of hierarchically self-assembling linear-dendritic hybrid polymers for highly efficient targeted gene delivery.” Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 44, no. 41 (October 21, 2005): 6704–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200502152.
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  - Wood, K. C., J. Q. Boedicker, D. M. Lynn, and P. T. Hammond. “Tunable drug release from hydrolytically degradable layer-by-layer thin films.” Langmuir 21, no. 4 (February 15, 2005): 1603–9. https://doi.org/10.1021/la0476480.
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  - Meyer, D. E., K. Wood, L. G. Bachas, and D. Bhattacharyya. “Degradation of chlorinated organics by membrane-immobilized nanosized metals.” Environmental Progress 23, no. 3 (October 1, 2004): 232–42. https://doi.org/10.1002/ep.10031.
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  - Garcia, Natalia, Vanessa Del Pozo, Marielle E. Yohe, Craig M. Goodwin, Terry J. Shackleford, Long Wang, Kunal Baxi, et al. “Vertical Inhibition of the RAF-MEK-ERK Cascade Induces Myogenic Differentiation, Apoptosis, and Tumor Regression in H/NRAS^Q61X Mutant Rhabdomyosarcoma.” In Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 21:170–83, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1158/1535-7163.mct-21-0194.
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  - Paradis, Justine S., Monica Acosta, Nadia Arang, Robert Saddawi-Konefka, Ayush Kishore, Takahito Sugase, Xiaodong Feng, et al. “Abstract 6406: FAK and MEK co-targeting: A new multimodal precision therapy for GNAQ-driven uveal melanoma.” In Cancer Research, 80:6406–6406. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), 2020. https://doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2020-6406.
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  - Wood, K. C. “Druggable Vulnerabilities in Therapy-Resistant Lung Cancers.” In Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 15:S6–S6. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2020.
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  - Vaseva, Angelina V., Abhik Bandyopadhyay, Vanessa Del Pozo, Craig M. Goodwin, Prson Gautam, Krister Wennerberg, Kris C. Wood, Yidong Chen, Channing J. Der, and Peter J. Houghton. “Parallel targeting of RAF/MEK/ERK pathway in RAS-mutant embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma.” In Cancer Research, 80:72–72, 2020.
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  - Vaseva, Angelina V., Abhik Bandyopadhyay, Vanessa Del Pozzo, Craig M. Goodwin, Prson Gautam, Krister Wennerberg, Kris C. Wood, Channing J. Der, and Peter J. Houghton. “Parallel targeting of RAF/MEK/ERK pathway in RAS-mutant embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma.” In Molecular Cancer Research, 18:59–60, 2020.
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  - Pardee, Timothy S., Kris C. Wood, Kevin H. Lin, Justine Rutter, Mariaelena Pierobon, Emanuel Petricoin, Susan Lyerly, et al. “Selinexor in Combination with Induction and Consolidation Therapy in Older Adults with AML Is Highly Active.” In Blood, 134:1388–1388. American Society of Hematology, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2019-129413.
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  - Su, Angela, Frank Ling, Camille Vaganay, Bryann Pardieu, Lina Benajiba, Gaetano Sodaro, Justine Pasanisi, et al. “The Folate Cycle Enzyme MTHFR Is a Critical Regulator of Cell Response to MYC-Targeting Therapies.” In Blood, 134:877–877. American Society of Hematology, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2019-131255.
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  - Goodwin, Craig M., Sehrish Javaid, Andrew M. Waters, Bjoern Papke, Runying Yang, Mariaelena Pierobon, Daniel M. Freed, et al. “Abstract LB-287: Combination therapies with CDK4/6 inhibitors to treat KRAS-mutant pancreatic cancer.” In Cancer Research, Vol. 79. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), 2019. https://doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2019-lb-287.
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  - Wood, Kris C. “Abstract PR18: Leveraging synthetic lethality to target convergent therapeutic resistance.” In Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 16:PR18–PR18. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), 2017. https://doi.org/10.1158/1538-8514.synthleth-pr18.
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  - Wood, Kris C. “Leveraging Synthetic Lethality to Target Convergent Therapeutic Resistance.” In Faseb Journal, Vol. 31. FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL, 2017.
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