Top Publications 

The bolded names are from current and previous participants on the grant.

Xiaojun Ma, David Lembersky, Elena S Kim, Michael J Becich, Joseph R Testa, Tullia C Bruno, Hatice U Osmanbeyoglu. Spatial Landscape of Malignant Pleural and Peritoneal Mesothelioma Tumor Immune Microenvironments Cancer Research Communications (2024) 4 (8): 2133–2146. https://doi.org/10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-23-0524

Rumana Rashid, Susan Copelli, Jonathan C Silverstein, Michael J Becich. REDCap and the National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank—a scalable and sustainable model for rare disease biorepositories Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association( 2023) 30 (10), 1634-1644. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocad132

Chenyu Li, Rumana Rashid, Eugene M Sadhu, Sandro Santagata, Michael J Becich. Next Generation Biorepository Informatics: Supporting Genomics, Imaging, and Innovations in Spatial Biology. Clinical Research Informatics (2023) 69-90. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27173-1_5

Yuhe Gao, Jacek M Mazurek, Yaming Li, David Blackley, David N Weissman, Shirley V Burton, Waqas Amin, Douglas Landsittel, Michael J Becich, Ye Ye. Industry, occupation, and exposure history of mesothelioma patients in the US National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank, 2006–2022. Environmental Research (2023) Academic Press. 115085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.115085

Julie E Goodman, Michael J Becich, David M Bernstein, Bruce W Case, Jeffrey H Mandel, Andre E Nel, Robert Nolan, Nnaemeka U Odo, Steven R Smith, Emanuela Taioli, Graham Gibbs. Non-asbestiform elongate mineral particles and mesothelioma risk: Human and experimental evidence Environmental Research (2023) Academic Press 114578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.114578

Hatice Ulku Osmanbeyoglu, Drake Palmer, April Sagan, Eleonora Sementino, Michael J Becich, Joseph R Testa. Isolated BAP1 Genomic Alteration in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Predicts Distinct Immunogenicity with Implications for Immunotherapeutic Response Cancers (2022) 14(22) 5626. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14225626

Kristin J Cummings, Michael J Becich, David J Blackley, Dennis Deapen, Robert Harrison, Raffit Hassan, S Jane Henley, Mary Hesdorffer, D Kevin Horton, Jacek M Mazurek, Harvey I Pass, Emanuela Taioli, Xiao‐Cheng Wu, Marjorie G Zauderer, David N Weissman. Workshop summary: Potential usefulness and feasibility of a US national mesothelioma registry American Journal of Industrial Medicine (2020) 63(2): 105-114.

https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23062

Julija Hmeljak, Francisco Sanchez-Vega, Katherine A Hoadley, Juliann Shih, Chip Stewart, David Heiman, Patrick Tarpey, Ludmila Danilova, Esther Drill, Ewan A Gibb, Reanne Bowlby, Rupa Kanchi, Hatice U Osmanbeyoglu, Yoshitaka Sekido, Jumpei Takeshita, Yulia Newton, Kiley Graim, Manaswi Gupta, Carl M Gay, Lixia Diao, David L Gibbs, Vesteinn Thorsson, Lisa Iype, Havish Kantheti, David T Severson, Gloria Ravegnini, Patrice Desmeules, Achim A Jungbluth, William D Travis, Sanja Dacic, Lucian R Chirieac, Françoise Galateau-Sallé, Junya Fujimoto, Aliya N Husain, Henrique C Silveira, Valerie W Rusch, Robert C Rintoul, Harvey Pass, Hedy Kindler, Marjorie G Zauderer, David J Kwiatkowski, Raphael Bueno, Anne S Tsao, Jenette Creaney, Tara Lichtenberg, Kristen Leraas, Jay Bowen, Ina Felau, Jean Claude Zenklusen, Rehan Akbani, Andrew D Cherniack, Lauren A Byers, Michael S Noble, Jonathan A Fletcher, A Gordon Robertson, Ronglai Shen, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Bruce W Robinson, Peter Campbell, Marc Ladanyi. Integrative molecular characterization of malignant pleural mesothelioma Cancer Discovery (2018) 8(12) 1548-1565. https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-18-0804

Joseph R Testa, Mitchell Cheung, Jianming Pei, Jennifer E Below, Yinfei Tan, Eleonora Sementino, Nancy J Cox, A Umran Dogan, Harvey I Pass, Sandra Trusa, Mary Hesdorffer, Masaki Nasu, Amy Powers, Zeyana Rivera, Sabahattin Comertpay, Mika Tanji, Giovanni Gaudino, Haining Yang, Michele Carbone. Germline BAP1 mutations predispose to malignant mesothelioma Nature Genetics (2011) 43(10) 1022-1025. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.912

Sambit K Mohanty, Amita T Mistry, Waqas Amin, Anil V Parwani, Andrew K Pople, Linda Schmandt, Sharon B Winters, Erin Milliken, Paula Kim, Nancy B Whelan, Ghada Farhat, Jonathan Melamed, Emanuela Taioli, Rajiv Dhir, Harvey I Pass, Michael J Becich. The development and deployment of Common Data Elements for tissue banks for translational research in cancer – An emerging standard based approach for the Mesothelioma Virtual Tissue Bank. BMC Cancer (2008) 8(1) 91. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-8-91

Rajiv Dhir, Ashok A Patel, Sharon Winters, Michelle Bisceglia, Dennis Swanson, Roger Aamodt, Michael J Becich. A multidisciplinary approach to honest broker services for tissue banks and clinical data: a pragmatic and practical model. Cancer: Interdisciplinary nternational Journal of the American Cancer Society (2008) 113(7) 1705-1715. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.23768