Interactions between the hemostatic system and innate immunity effecting tumor progression; Langerhans' cell hystiocytosis

MD: Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, 1993. 

Residency: Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1997. 

Fellowship: Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2000.

Subspecialty: Pediatric Hematology / Oncology.

Horowitz NA, Blevins EA, Miller WM, Perry AR, Talmage KE, Mullins ES, Flick MJ, Queiroz KC, Shi K, Spek CA, Conway EM, Monia BP, Weiler H, Degen JL, Palumbo JS. Thrombomodulin is a determinant of metastasis through a mechanism linked to the thrombin binding domain but not the lectin-like domain. Blood. 2011 Jul 25.

Flick MJ, Chauhan AK, Frederick M, Talmage KE, Kombrinck KW, Miller W, Mullins ES, Palumbo JS, Zheng X, Esmon NL, Esmon CT, Thornton S, Becker A, Pelc LA, Di Cera E, Wagner DD, Degen JL. The development of inflammatory joint disease is attenuated in mice expressing the anticoagulant prothrombin mutant W215A/E217A. Blood. 2011 Jun 9;117(23):6326-37.

Akunuru S, Palumbo J, Zhai QJ, Zheng Y. Rac1 targeting suppresses human non-small cell lung adenocarcinoma cancer stem cell activity. PLoS One. 2011 Feb 9;6(2):e16951.

Palumbo JS, Degen JL. Mechanisms coupling the hemostatic system to colitis-associated cancer. Thromb Res. 2010 Apr;125 Suppl 2:S39-43. Review.

Steinbrecher KA, Horowitz NA, Blevins EA, Barney KA, Shaw MA, Harmel-Laws E, Finkelman FD, Flick MJ, Pinkerton MD, Talmage KE, Kombrinck KW, Witte DP, Palumbo JS. Colitis-associated cancer is dependent on the interplay between the hemostatic and inflammatory systems and supported by integrin alpha(M)beta(2) engagement of fibrinogen.Cancer Res. 2010 Apr 1;70(7):2634-43.

Palumbo JS. Mechanisms linking tumor cell-associated procoagulant function to tumor dissemination.Semin Thromb Hemost. 2008 Mar;34(2):154-60. Review.

Palumbo JS, Barney KA, Blevins EA, Shaw MA, Mishra A, Flick MJ, Kombrinck KW, Talmage KE, Souri M, Ichinose A, Degen JL. Factor XIII transglutaminase supports hematogenous tumor cell metastasis through a mechanism dependent on natural killer cell function.J Thromb Haemost. 2008 May;6(5):812-9.

Palumbo JS, Degen JL. Mechanisms linking tumor cell-associated procoagulant function to tumor metastasis.Thromb Res. 2007;120 Suppl 2:S22-8.

Flick MJ, LaJeunesse CM, Talmage KE, Witte DP, Palumbo JS, Pinkerton MD, Thornton S, Degen JL. Fibrin(ogen) exacerbates inflammatory joint disease through a mechanism linked to the integrin alphaMbeta2 binding motif.J Clin Invest. 2007 Nov;117(11):3224-35.

Palumbo JS, Talmage KE, Massari JV, La Jeunesse CM, Flick MJ, Kombrinck KW, Hu Z, Barney KA, Degen JL. Tumor cell-associated tissue factor and circulating hemostatic factors cooperate to increase metastatic potential through natural killer cell-dependent and-independent mechanisms.Blood. 2007 Jul 1;110(1):133-41.