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Jackek Michael Kwiecien

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Associate Professor (Part-Time)Pathology & Molecular MedicineMcMaster University

Research

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87 publications.

01

uPAR is highly expressed in recurrent glioblastoma and represents a candidate CAR T cell target

Maich WT, Shaikh MV, Puri A, Rossotti MA, Grewal S, Khanna A, Anand A, Mikolajewicz N, Seyfrid MP, McKenna DA

Science Translational Medicine20264 citations
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aea8381
02

Targeted Radionuclide Therapy Using a Lutetium-177 Labeled Human Anti-CD133 Antibody

Wyszatko K, Janzen N, Law N, Ventura M, Komal T, Savage N, Venugopal C, Kwiecien JM, Singh SK, Sadeghi S

Molecular Imaging and Biology20254 citations
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-025-02013-4
03

Targeting axonal guidance dependencies in glioblastoma with ROBO1 CAR T cells

Chokshi CR, Shaikh MV, Brakel B, Rossotti MA, Tieu D, Maich W, Anand A, Chafe SC, Zhai K, Suk Y

Nature Medicine202445 citations
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03138-9
04

Intratumoral Delivery of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells Targeting CD133 Effectively Treats Brain Metastases.

Kieliszek AM, Mobilio D, Upreti D, Bloemberg D, Escudero L, Kwiecien JM, Alizada Z, Zhai K, Ang P, Chafe SC

Clinical Cancer Research202426 citations
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-23-1735
05

Photoacoustic imaging of a cyanine dye targeting bacterial infection

Swann R, Hernández-Valdés D, Silva LR, Marfatia YM, El-Zaria ME, Genady AR, Kwiecien JM, Valliant JF, Sadeghi S

Scientific Reports20246 citations
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-69148-2
06

Combination of an ACLY inhibitor with a GLP-1R agonist exerts additive benefits on nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and hepatic fibrosis in mice

Desjardins EM, Wu J, Lavoie DCT, Ahmadi E, Townsend LK, Morrow MR, Wang D, Tsakiridis EE, Batchuluun B, Fayyazi R

Cell Reports Medicine202339 citations
DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101193
07

Functional dissection and assembly of a small, newly evolved, W chromosome-specific genomic region of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis

Cauret CMS, Jordan DC, Kukoly LM, Burton SR, Anele EU, Kwiecien JM, Gansauge M-T, Senthillmohan S, Greenbaum E, Meyer M

PLoS Genetics202311 citationsOpen Access
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010990PMID: W4387330788
08

Development of a new surgical technique to infuse kynurenic acid to optic nerves in chickens for studying loss of myelination

Gurdita A, Kwiecien JM, Choh V

Trials in Vaccinology20231 citations
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14361
09

Inhibition of ATP-citrate lyase improves NASH, liver fibrosis, and dyslipidemia

Morrow MR, Batchuluun B, Wu J, Ahmadi E, Leroux JM, Mohammadi-Shemirani P, Desjardins EM, Wang Z, Tsakiridis EE, Lavoie DCT

Cell Metabolism2022200 citations
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2022.05.004
10

Barriers to axonal regeneration after spinal cord injury: a current perspective

Kwiecien JM

Neural Regeneration Research20229 citationsFirst author
DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.314299

Frequent collaborators

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Jackek Michael KwiecienSheila SinghJonathan BramsonRonen AvramAlexander Keith BallBenicio FreyBryan LeeGregory SteinbergGuillaume PareJames BainJianhan WuJohn Algernon Hassell
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Sheila Singh

Surgery

8 shared papers, latest 2026

Ronen Avram

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Jonathan Bramson

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3 shared papers, latest 2020

Jianhan Wu

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2 shared papers, latest 2023

Parvez Vora

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2 shared papers, latest 2024

Guillaume Pare

Pathology & Molecular Medicine

2 shared papers, latest 2023

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