Pinji Lei

Pinji Lei



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Lei PJ, Padera TP

Closing in on pacemaker cells.
Elife. 2025;14:ePub - PMID: 40693539 - PMCID: PMC12283070 - DOI: 10.7554/eLife.108102

Duda D, Liu X, Liu Z, Kobayashi T, Lei PJ, Shi Y, Yuan D, Wang J, Li M, Matsui A, Mafra K, Huang P, Kuang M, Bod L

Inhibiting B-cell-mediated Immunosuppression to Enhance the Immunotherapy Efficacy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
Res Sq. 2025;:ePub - PMID: 40321752 - PMCID: PMC12047993 - DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6355345/v1

Liu X, Liu Z, Kobayashi T, Lei PJ, Shi Y, Yuan D, Wang J, Li M, Matsui A, Mafra K, Huang P, Kuang M, Bod L, Duda DG

Inhibiting B-cell-mediated Immunosuppression to Enhance the Immunotherapy Efficacy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
bioRxiv. 2025;:ePub - PMID: 40093175 - PMCID: PMC11908210 - DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.04.641494

Menzel L, Zschummel M, O'Melia MJ, Zhou H, Lei PJ, Liu L, Sen DR, Munn LL, Padera TP

Lymph nodes link sex-biased immune aging to compromised antigen recognition.
bioRxiv. 2025;:ePub - PMID: 39990447 - PMCID: PMC11844512 - DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.11.637693

Ren J, Amoozgar Z, Uccello TP, Lei PJ, Zhao Y, Ho WW, Huang P, Kardian A, Mack SC, Duda DG, Xu L, Jain RK

Targeting EPHB2/ABL1 restores antitumor immunity in preclinical models of ependymoma.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025;122(4):e2319474122 - PMID: 39841145 - PMCID: PMC11789170 - DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2319474122

Lei PJ, Ruscic KJ, Roh K, Rajotte JJ, O'Melia MJ, Bouta EM, Marquez M, Pereira ER, Kumar AS, Razavi MS, Zhou H, Menzel L, Huang L, Kumra H, Duquette M, Huang P, Baish JW, Munn LL, Kurpios NA, Ubellacker JM, Padera TP

Aging-induced changes in lymphatic muscle cell transcriptomes are associated with reduced pumping of peripheral collecting lymphatic vessels in mice.
Dev Cell. 2024;60(7):1118-1133.e5 - PMID: 39731913 - PMCID: PMC11981864 - DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.12.010

Morita S, Lei PJ, Shigeta K, Ando T, Kobayashi T, Kikuchi H, Matsui A, Huang P, Pittet MJ, Duda DG

Combination CXCR4 and PD1 blockade enhances intratumoral dendritic cell activation and immune responses against hepatocellular carcinoma.
Cancer Immunol Res. 2024;13(2):162-170 - PMID: 39514263 - PMCID: PMC11788650 - DOI: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-24-0324

Sun Y, Yin Z, Li S, Wu L, Zhang Y, Zhao Y, Gomes Dos Santos IL, Subudhi S, Lei P, Muzikansky A, Yuan Z, Rueda BR, Jain RK, Xu L

Losartan rewires the tumor-immune microenvironment and suppresses IGF-1 to overcome resistance to chemo-immunotherapy in ovarian cancer.
Br J Cancer. 2024;131(10):1683-1693 - PMID: 39369055 - PMCID: PMC11554678 - DOI: 10.1038/s41416-024-02863-9

Lei PJ, Fraser C, Jones D, Ubellacker JM, Padera TP

Lymphatic system regulation of anti-cancer immunity and metastasis.
Front Immunol. 2024;15:1449291 - PMID: 39211044 - PMCID: PMC11357954 - DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1449291

Chen J, Amoozgar Z, Liu X, Aoki S, Liu Z, Shin SM, Matsui A, Hernandez A, Pu Z, Halvorsen S, Lei PJ, Datta M, Zhu L, Ruan Z, Shi L, Staiculescu D, Inoue K, Munn LL, Fukumura D, Huang P, Sassi S, Bardeesy N, Ho WJ, Jain RK, Duda DG

Reprogramming the Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Immune Microenvironment by Chemotherapy and CTLA-4 Blockade Enhances Anti-PD1 Therapy.
Cancer Immunol Res. 2024;12(4):400-412 - PMID: 38260999 - PMCID: PMC10985468 - DOI: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-23-0486

Jain R, Krishnan S, Lee S, Amoozgar Z, Subudhi S, Kumar A, Posada J, Lindeman N, Lei P, Duquette M, Roberge S, Huang P, Andersson P, Datta M, Munn L, Fukumura D

Wnt inhibition alleviates resistance to immune checkpoint blockade in glioblastoma.
Res Sq. 2023;:ePub - PMID: 38234841 - PMCID: PMC10793505 - DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3707472/v1

Lei PJ, Ruscic KJ, Roh K, Rajotte JJ, O'Melia MJ, Bouta EM, Marquez M, Pereira ER, Kumar AS, Arroyo-Ataz G, Razavi MS, Zhou H, Menzel L, Kumra H, Duquette M, Huang P, Baish JW, Munn LL, Ubellacker JM, Jones D, Padera TP

Lymphatic muscle cells are unique cells that undergo aging induced changes.
bioRxiv. 2023;:ePub - PMID: 38014141 - PMCID: PMC10680808 - DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.18.567621

Zhou H, Baish JW, O'Melia MJ, Darragh LB, Specht E, Czapla J, Lei PJ, Menzel L, Rajotte JJ, Nikmaneshi MR, Razavi MS, Heiden MGV, Ubellacker JM, Munn LL, Boland GM, Cohen S, Karam SD, Padera TP

Cancer immunotherapy responses persist after lymph node resection.
bioRxiv. 2023;:ePub - PMID: 37781599 - PMCID: PMC10541098 - DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.19.558262

Lei PJ, Pereira ER, Andersson P, Amoozgar Z, Van Wijnbergen JW, O'Melia MJ, Zhou H, Chatterjee S, Ho WW, Posada JM, Kumar AS, Morita S, Menzel L, Chung C, Ergin I, Jones D, Huang P, Beyaz S, Padera TP

Cancer cell plasticity and MHC-II-mediated immune tolerance promote breast cancer metastasis to lymph nodes.
J Exp Med. 2023;220(9):ePub - PMID: 37341991 - PMCID: PMC10286805 - DOI: 10.1084/jem.20221847

Jana S, Li W, Lei PJ, Wang Z, Huang P, Jones D

"Isolation and characterization of a novel hormone receptor positive mammary adenocarcinoma MCa-P1362 with stromal drivers of tumor growth, metastasis, and drug resistance".
bioRxiv. 2023;:ePub - PMID: 37333242 - PMCID: PMC10274631 - DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.02.543434

Chen J, Amoozgar Z, Liu X, Aoki S, Liu Z, Shin S, Matsui A, Pu Z, Lei PJ, Datta M, Zhu L, Ruan Z, Shi L, Staiculescu D, Inoue K, Munn LL, Fukumura D, Huang P, Bardeesy N, Ho WJ, Jain RK, Duda DG

Reprogramming Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Immune Microenvironment by Chemotherapy and CTLA-4 Blockade Enhances Anti-PD1 Therapy.
bioRxiv. 2023;:ePub - PMID: 36747853 - PMCID: PMC9901023 - DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.26.525680

Jones D, Wang Z, Chen I, Zhang S, Banerji R, Lei PJ, Zhou H, Xiao V, Kwong C, Van Wijnbergen JW, Pereira E, Vakoc B, Huang P, Nia H, Padera T

Solid stress impairs lymphocyte infiltration into lymph node metastases.
FASEB J. 2022;36 Suppl 1:ePub - PMID: 35557097 - DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2022.36.S1.R4616

Jones D, Wang Z, Chen IX, Zhang S, Banerji R, Lei PJ, Zhou H, Xiao V, Kwong C, van Wijnbergen JWM, Pereira ER, Vakoc BJ, Huang P, Nia HT, Padera TP

Solid stress impairs lymphocyte infiltration into lymph-node metastases.
Nat Biomed Eng. 2021;5(12):1426-1436 - PMID: 34282290 - PMCID: PMC8678215 - DOI: 10.1038/s41551-021-00766-1

Zhou H, Lei PJ, Padera TP

Progression of Metastasis through Lymphatic System.
Cells. 2021;10(3):ePub - PMID: 33808959 - PMCID: PMC7999434 - DOI: 10.3390/cells10030627