Department faculty have been awarded five grants. In addition, our researchers’ work has generated nearly three dozen manuscript publications.
New grants:
PI: Peter C. Iwen
Funder: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Title: The Transmission and Evolution of AMR in the Environment
Amount: $19,687 (direct)
PI: Scott A. Koepsell
Funder: Instrumentation Laboratory
Title: Diagnostic Clinical Comparison of HemosIL CL aPL IgC on the ACL TOP 970
Amount: $29,000 (direct)
PI: Jennifer Lundberg
Funder: Alpfa Medical
Title: Preclinical testing of Pulse Field Ablation (PFA) for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Amount: $195,440 (direct)
PI: Joshua L. Santarpia
Funder: Poppy Health, Inc.
Title: BREATHE Program
Amount: $920,974 (direct)
PI: Joshua L. Santarpia
Funder: Blueprint Biosecurity
Title: Exposure of Human Aerosols to far-UVA Light for pathogen Elimination (EXHALE) program
Amount: $454,864 (direct)
New publications (October 2025-current):
Mechanistic Insights Driving Translational Progress in Pancreatic Cancer.
Strickland LN, Klute KA, Bailey-Lundberg JM. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2025 Nov 19:101685. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2025.101685. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41271102 Free article. No abstract available.
CREB Fuels Tumorigenesis in Alcoholic Pancreatitis.
Sardarni UK, Bailey-Lundberg JM. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2025 Oct 18:101660. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2025.101660. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41115525
Species-specific discrimination of bacterial biofilms using a ratiometric fluorescence sensor array and machine learning.
Gupta R, Laliwala A, Muldiiarova E, Bayles KW, Svechkarev D, Sadykov MR, Mohs AM. Sens Diagn. 2025 Nov 11. doi: 10.1039/d5sd00152h. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41321335 Free PMC article.
Staphylococcus aureus encodes four differentially regulated pyruvate transporters.
Endres JL, Sarmiento C, Xiao W, Sadykov MR, Bayles KW, Lehman MK. J Bacteriol. 2025 Nov 20;207(11):e0016325. doi: 10.1128/jb.00163-25. Epub 2025 Oct 10. PMID: 41071087
Improved Preprocedure Hematocrit in Chronic RBC Exchange Patients Following Splenectomy: A Case Report.
Chandrasekar AP, Koepsell SA, Williams SM, Bobr A. Case Rep Hematol. 2025 Oct 8;2025:9580128. doi: 10.1155/crh/9580128. eCollection 2025. PMID: 41103817
Functional genomics and tumor microenvironment analysis reveal prognostic biological subtypes in Mantle cell lymphoma.
Sharma S, Ali R, Bouska A, Jochum D, Kesireddy M, Mahov S, Lownik J, Zhang W, Lone W, Soma MA, Gamboa A, Devarakonda V, El-Gamal D, Fariha A, Mansoor A, Stewart D, Martin P, Link BK, Advani RH, Barr PM, Goy AH, Mehta A, Kamdar M, Stephens DM, Bachanova V, Smith L, Morin R, Pararajalingam P, Lunning MA, Fu K, Weisenburger D, Chan WC, Khoury J, Greiner TC, Vose JM, Merchant A, Bi C, Iqbal J; North American Mantle Cell Lymphoma Project (NAMCLP). Nat Commun. 2025 Nov 5;16(1):9762. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-64666-7. PMID: 41193463 Free PMC article.
Cooperative role of distinctive TP53 and PTEN combined loss in the peripheral T cell lymphoma-GATA3 molecular subgroup.
Lone WG, Yu J, Liu X, Dylan T Jochum, Bouska A, Shetty K, Herek T, Sharma S, Bi C, Shah R, Nasser ZW, Amador C, Arif A, Mir AR, Li Y, Heavican-Foral TB, Robinson J, Hyde RK, Sakata-Yanagimoto M, Rachagani S, McKeithan TW, Scott DW, Staudt LM, Inghirami G, Feldman A, Greiner T, Vose JM, Rimsza L, Khoury J, Chan WC, Iqbal J; Lymphoma/Leukemia Molecular Profiling Project (LLMPP). Sci Adv. 2025 Oct 17;11(42):eadx6877. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adx6877. Epub 2025 Oct 17. PMID: 41105775
Retrospective West Nile Virus Lineage 3 Surveillance in Culex Mosquitoes: Nebraska, USA 2012-2024.
Freed S Jr, Chandler S, Davis E, Herzog KS, Pella Z, Burkhalter K, McCutchen EL, Bartling AM, Broadhurst MJ, Hughes HR, Brault AC, Iwen PC, Connelly R, Hamik J, Fauver J. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2025 Oct 23:tpmd250383. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.25-0383. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41130196
Editorial: Vaccines and therapeutics utilizing new adjuvants and potential inhibitors to target emerging infectious diseases.
Kim J, Jobe O, Broadhurst MJ. Front Immunol. 2025 Nov 11;16:1716739. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1716739. eCollection 2025. PMID: 41306960 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
Quantifying the Public Health Impact of Lyme Disease in Minnesota: A Simulation Analysis of Reported and Unreported Cases.
Angell KE, Broadhurst MJ, Dong JJ, Michaud TL, Degarege A, Cortinas R, Brett-Major DM. J Health Econ Outcomes Res. 2025 Nov 20;12(2):221-228. doi: 10.36469/001c.146618. eCollection 2025. PMID: 41278304 Free PMC article.
Sensitivity analysis of limit of detection estimation using probit regression.
Angell KE, George DS, Broadhurst MJ, Brett-Major DM. Am J Clin Pathol. 2025 Nov 15:aqaf123. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqaf123. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41240387
Informatics Perspectives on the National Cancer Policy Forum Workshop “Enabling 21st Century Applications for Cancer Surveillance Through Enhanced Registries and Beyond”.
Yu PP, Campbell WS, Durbin EB, Shulman LN, Warner JL. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2025 Nov;9:e2500098. doi: 10.1200/CCI-25-00098. Epub 2025 Nov 19. PMID: 41259733
Lymphomas with IGH::PAX5 rearrangement: a case series and literature review.
Sabri A, Tang Z, Cushman-Vokoun A, Tadros S, Cannatella JJ, Althof P, Khoury JD, Ronaghy A. Pathology. 2025 Oct 10:S0031-3025(25)00291-0. doi: 10.1016/j.pathol.2025.08.005. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41224634
Gallium Hematoporphyrin inhibits Mycobacteroides abscessus in vitro, including biofilm formation and stability.
Choi SR, Britigan BE, Narayanasamy P. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2025 Nov 5;131:130466. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2025.130466. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41202900
Mode of action analysis for induction of mouse lung tumors by permethrin: Involvement of CYP2F2 enzyme and human relevancy.
Hasegawa D, Kawamoto K, Ogata K, Fukunaga S, Cohen SM, Asano H. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol. 2026 Jan;164:105958. doi: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2025.105958. Epub 2025 Oct 4. PMID: 41052749 Free article.
Comprehensive review of ensulizole toxicology data and human exposure assessment for personal care products.
Norman KG, Kaufman LE, Griem P, Loretz L, Kowcz A, Cohen SM, Scialli AR, Boobis AR, Jacobson-Kram D, Schoeny R, Rosol TJ, Williams GM, Kaminski NE, Guengerich FP, Nash JF. Crit Rev Toxicol. 2025;55(7):716-734. doi: 10.1080/10408444.2025.2541392. Epub 2025 Sep 15. PMID: 40952777
Targeting FOXM1 reshapes antitumor immunity to attenuate small cell lung cancer progression.
Khan MA, Khan P, Fatima M, Rehman AU, Anwar L, Alsafwani ZW, Ahmad A, Abbas Zaidi MA, Cox JL, Zahid A, Mohiuddin S, Kim SH, Santamaria-Barria JA, Lakshmanan I, Katzenellenbogen BS, Katzenellenbogen JA, Ganti AK, Batra SK, Nasser MW. Cancer Lett. 2025 Nov 21;638:218160. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2025.218160. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41276109
ArgT functions as an arginine transporter in Staphylococcus aureus.
Schulze GF, Reslane I, Razvi F, Handke LD, Lehman MK, Fey PD. J Bacteriol. 2025 Nov 28:e0036225. doi: 10.1128/jb.00362-25. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41312975 Free article.
Growth and acetate metabolism of Staphylococcus aureus in defined medium.
Razvi F, Burke TL, Shinde D, Ahn J, Thomas VC, Sadykov M, Fey PD. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2025 Nov 19;91(11):e0155425. doi: 10.1128/aem.01554-25. Epub 2025 Oct 16. PMID: 41099525
Self-collection for primary HPV screening using dry swabs: a review of clinical performance, laboratory considerations, and patient preferences.
Howard MF, Fyffe-Freil RC, Pierre CC, Maku HO, Di Costanzo S, Lorey TS, Greene DN. J Clin Microbiol. 2025 Oct 21:e0076724. doi: 10.1128/jcm.00767-24. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41117608
NOTCH1 mutation status as a prognostic biomarker in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Al Kuwari H, Al Khinji A, Al-Hamed D, Al Hor A, Malouche D, Iqbal J. BMC Cancer. 2025 Nov 25;25(1):1820. doi: 10.1186/s12885-025-15233-2. PMID: 41291497
RanBALL: An Ensemble Machine Learning Framework for Accurate Subtype Identification of Pediatric B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
Li L, Xiao H, Wu X, Tang Z, Khoury JD, Wang J, Wan S. Adv Intell Syst. 2025 Oct 30:10.1002/aisy.202500965. doi: 10.1002/aisy.202500965. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41246237
WHO classification of skin tumours: key updates in the fifth edition.
Goldman-Lévy G, Barnhill R, Bastian BC, Kempf W, Elder D, Gerami P, Grayson W, Kazakov D, Massi D, Messina J, de la Fouchardière A, Lazar AJ, Brenn T, Rous B, Field A, Gill A, Hodge JC, Khoury JD, Leite K, Sayed S, Tan PH, Elenitsas R, Calonje E, Duncan LM, Zhiyong L, Moch H, Singh R, Wijesinghe H, Cree I, Lokuhetty D. Histopathology. 2025 Nov 20. doi: 10.1111/his.15562. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41263762
CBFB::MYH11 Fusion Located on a Supernumerary Ring Chromosome 16 in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Diagnostic Challenges and Prognostic Implications.
Xia C, Acquazzino M, Althof PA, Nelson M, Harris RA, Spaulding JR, Khoury JD, Tang Z. Genes (Basel). 2025 Oct 29;16(11):1283. doi: 10.3390/genes16111283. PMID: 41300735
Examining Differences by Sex in Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans Patients: An Analysis of 7,839 Cases From the 2000 to 2020 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database.
Taylor MA, Ituarte BE, Thomas SI, Fernandez JM, Lauer SR, Wysong A. Dermatol Surg. 2024 Nov 1;50(11):1071-1073. doi: 10.1097/DSS.0000000000004254. Epub 2024 Jun 6. PMID: 38843458
ECD co-operates with ERBB2 to promote tumorigenesis through upregulation of unfolded protein response and glycolysis.
Kennedy BB, Raza M, Mirza S, Rajan AR, Oruji F, Storck MM, Lele SM, Reznicek TE, Li L, Rowley MJ, Wan S, Mohapatra BC, Band H, Band V. Cancer Lett. 2025 Nov 1;632:217959. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2025.217959. Epub 2025 Jul 28. PMID: 40738412
CEST MRI detects antiretroviral drug toxicities in the developing mouse brain.
Summerlin M, Uberti MG, Shinde D, Foster EG, Sillman B, Kumar M, Yao B, Peng D, Edagwa BJ, Gendelman HE, Liu Y, Bade AN. Front Pharmacol. 2025 Oct 29;16:1681094. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1681094. eCollection 2025. PMID: 41235110
The CXCR1 as a putative marker for cancer stem cell-like phenotypes in chemotherapy-resistant pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Molczyk C, Sturgeon R, Thomas E, Singh RK. Am J Cancer Res. 2025 Oct 15;15(10):4320-4329. doi: 10.62347/YLHF5834. eCollection 2025. PMID: 41244122 Free PMC article.
Neutrophil Dynamics Contribute to Disease Progression and Poor Survival in Pancreatic Cancer.
Sturgeon R, Goel P, Molczyk C, Bhola R, Grandgenett PM, Hollingsworth MA, Singh RK. Cancers (Basel). 2025 Nov 1;17(21):3541. doi: 10.3390/cancers17213541. PMID: 41228334
IL-15 Promotes Inflammatory Th17 Cells in the Intestine.
Hou G, Lee A, Golob JL, Grasberger H, Berinstein E, Swanson BJ, Bishu SR, Zataari ME, Khaykin V, Berinstein JA, Fry C, Nemzek J, Kamada N, Kao J, Bishu S. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2025 Nov 5:izaf222. doi: 10.1093/ibd/izaf222. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41206681
Reactive Oxygen Species-Responsive Polymeric Chloroquine Nanogel for Targeted Oral Therapy of Ulcerative Colitis.
Kumari N, Panja S, Kumar B, Ahmad R, Kollala SS, Siddhanta K, Islam F, Joshi V, Talmon GA, Murry DJ, Singh AB, Oupický D. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2025 Sep 10;17(36):50443-50463. doi: 10.1021/acsami.5c12328. Epub 2025 Sep 2. PMID: 40891278
A S180F substitution in D-alanine aminotransferase confers resistance to β-chloro-D-alanine in Staphylococcus aureus.
Roy R, Jayasinghe YP, Panda S, Zeden MS, Thomas VC, Ronning DR, O’Gara JP. J Biol Chem. 2025 Nov 11:110931. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2025.110931. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41232672
APD6: the antimicrobial peptide database is expanded to promote research and development by deploying an unprecedented information pipeline.
Wang G, Schmidt C, Li X, Wang Z. Nucleic Acids Res. 2025 Sep 10:gkaf860. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf860. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40927993
Improving Outcomes in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy: Evolution of ASTCT Practice Guidelines and FACT Inspections.
Carpenter PA, Warkentin PI. Transplant Cell Ther. 2025 Nov;31(11):843-848. doi: 10.1016/j.jtct.2025.10.008. PMID: 41176371