George L Wright

Summary

Affiliation: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Serum protein profiles to identify head and neck cancer
    J Trad Wadsworth
    Departments of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia 23507, USA
    Clin Cancer Res 10:1625-32. 2004
  2. ncbi Computational protein biomarker prediction: a case study for prostate cancer
    Michael Wagner
    Cincinnati Children s Hospital Research Foundation and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    BMC Bioinformatics 5:26. 2004
  3. ncbi Identification of a superimmunoglobulin gene family member overexpressed in benign prostatic hyperplasia
    G L Wright
    Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia 23501, USA
    Prostate 42:230-8. 2000
  4. ncbi SELDI proteinchip MS: a platform for biomarker discovery and cancer diagnosis
    George L Wright
    Eastern Virginia Medical School, Sentara Cancer Institute, 700 West Olney Road, Norfolk, Virginia 23507, USA
    Expert Rev Mol Diagn 2:549-63. 2002
  5. ncbi Prostate tumor microenvironment alters immune cells and prevents long-term survival in an orthotopic mouse model following flt3-ligand/CD40-ligand immunotherapy
    Richard P Ciavarra
    Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology, Virginia Prostate Center, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia 23501, USA
    J Immunother 27:13-26. 2004
  6. ncbi Impact of the tumor microenvironment on host infiltrating cells and the efficacy of flt3-ligand combination immunotherapy evaluated in a treatment model of mouse prostate cancer
    Richard P Ciavarra
    Department of Microbiology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23501, USA
    Cancer Immunol Immunother 52:535-45. 2003
  7. ncbi Normal, benign, preneoplastic, and malignant prostate cells have distinct protein expression profiles resolved by surface enhanced laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry
    Lisa H Cazares
    Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology, Eastern Virginia Medical School and Sentara Cancer Institute, Norfolk, Virginia 23501, USA
    Clin Cancer Res 8:2541-52. 2002
  8. ncbi Protein profiling in urine for the diagnosis of bladder cancer
    Antonia Vlahou
    Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
    Clin Chem 50:1438-41. 2004
  9. ncbi SELDI-TOF serum profiling for prognostic and diagnostic classification of breast cancers
    Christine Laronga
    Department of Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia and the Virginia Prostate Center, Norfolk, VA, USA
    Dis Markers 19:229-38. 2003
  10. ncbi A novel approach toward development of a rapid blood test for breast cancer
    Antonia Vlahou
    Department of Microbiology, and Virginia Prostate Center, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23507, USA
    Clin Breast Cancer 4:203-9. 2003

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Publications20

  1. ncbi Serum protein profiles to identify head and neck cancer
    J Trad Wadsworth
    Departments of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia 23507, USA
    Clin Cancer Res 10:1625-32. 2004
    ..The purpose of this study was to determine whether a new proteomic technology could correctly identify protein expression profiles for cancer in patient serum samples...
  2. ncbi Computational protein biomarker prediction: a case study for prostate cancer
    Michael Wagner
    Cincinnati Children s Hospital Research Foundation and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
    BMC Bioinformatics 5:26. 2004
    ..Our overall goal is to implicate peaks that have a high likelihood of being biologically linked to a given disease state, and thus to narrow the search for biomarker candidates...
  3. ncbi Identification of a superimmunoglobulin gene family member overexpressed in benign prostatic hyperplasia
    G L Wright
    Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia 23501, USA
    Prostate 42:230-8. 2000
    ..Benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH), a nonmalignant disease with an increasing rate of occurrence associated with advancing age, requires auxiliary markers to help identify its presence and distinguish its progression from prostate cancer...
  4. ncbi SELDI proteinchip MS: a platform for biomarker discovery and cancer diagnosis
    George L Wright
    Eastern Virginia Medical School, Sentara Cancer Institute, 700 West Olney Road, Norfolk, Virginia 23507, USA
    Expert Rev Mol Diagn 2:549-63. 2002
    ..The SELDI ProteinChip Biomarker mass spectrometry system appears to have potential in this effort, both for biomarker discovery and as a potential clinical diagnostic assay platform...
  5. ncbi Prostate tumor microenvironment alters immune cells and prevents long-term survival in an orthotopic mouse model following flt3-ligand/CD40-ligand immunotherapy
    Richard P Ciavarra
    Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology, Virginia Prostate Center, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia 23501, USA
    J Immunother 27:13-26. 2004
    ..Overall, these data suggest that long-term cures of established MHC-negative tumors may not be achieved until therapeutic interventions are engineered to overcome this immunosuppressive microenvironment...
  6. ncbi Impact of the tumor microenvironment on host infiltrating cells and the efficacy of flt3-ligand combination immunotherapy evaluated in a treatment model of mouse prostate cancer
    Richard P Ciavarra
    Department of Microbiology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23501, USA
    Cancer Immunol Immunother 52:535-45. 2003
    ..These data also highlight the importance of utilizing treatment versus vaccination models in the evaluation of immunotherapeutic modalities...
  7. ncbi Normal, benign, preneoplastic, and malignant prostate cells have distinct protein expression profiles resolved by surface enhanced laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry
    Lisa H Cazares
    Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology, Eastern Virginia Medical School and Sentara Cancer Institute, Norfolk, Virginia 23501, USA
    Clin Cancer Res 8:2541-52. 2002
    ..Studies are under way to identify these protein/peptides, with the goal of developing a diagnostic test for the early detection of prostate cancer...
  8. ncbi Protein profiling in urine for the diagnosis of bladder cancer
    Antonia Vlahou
    Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
    Clin Chem 50:1438-41. 2004
  9. ncbi SELDI-TOF serum profiling for prognostic and diagnostic classification of breast cancers
    Christine Laronga
    Department of Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia and the Virginia Prostate Center, Norfolk, VA, USA
    Dis Markers 19:229-38. 2003
    ..These initial results indicate the utility of protein profiling approaches for developing new diagnostic and prognostic assays for breast cancers...
  10. ncbi A novel approach toward development of a rapid blood test for breast cancer
    Antonia Vlahou
    Department of Microbiology, and Virginia Prostate Center, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23507, USA
    Clin Breast Cancer 4:203-9. 2003
    ..The combination of SELDI ProteinChip mass spectrometry and a classification- and regression-tree algorithm has the potential to use serum protein expression profiles for detection and diagnosis of breast cancer...
  11. ncbi Identification of patients with head and neck cancer using serum protein profiles
    J Trad Wadsworth
    Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk 23507, USA
    Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 130:98-104. 2004
    ..New and more consistent biomarkers of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) are needed to improve early detection of disease and to monitor successful patient management...
  12. ncbi Application of a novel protein chip mass spectrometry technology for the identification of bladder cancer-associated biomarkers
    Antonia Vlahou
    Department of Microbiology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Virginia Prostate Center, Norfolk 23510, USA
    Adv Exp Med Biol 539:47-60. 2003
  13. ncbi Serum protein fingerprinting coupled with a pattern-matching algorithm distinguishes prostate cancer from benign prostate hyperplasia and healthy men
    Bao-Ling Adam
    Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia 23501, USA
    Cancer Res 62:3609-14. 2002
    ..This high-throughput proteomic classification system will provide a highly accurate and innovative approach for the early detection/diagnosis of PCA...
  14. ncbi Orthotopic treatment model of prostate cancer and metastasis in the immunocompetent mouse: efficacy of flt3 ligand immunotherapy
    Kenneth D Somers
    Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23507, USA
    Int J Cancer 107:773-80. 2003
    ..We demonstrate that flt3L treatment suppressed orthotopic prostate tumor growth and lymph node metastasis reinforcing a role for flt3L as an immunotherapeutic strategy for prostate cancer...
  15. ncbi A data-analytic strategy for protein biomarker discovery: profiling of high-dimensional proteomic data for cancer detection
    Yutaka Yasui
    Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
    Biostatistics 4:449-63. 2003
    ..We discuss practical issues associated with our proposed approach to the analysis of SELDI output and its application in cancer biomarker discovery...
  16. ncbi Prostein expression is highly restricted to normal and malignant prostate tissues
    Michael Kalos
    Corixa Corporation, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
    Prostate 60:246-56. 2004
    ..A murine monoclonal antibody was developed, characterized, and used to evaluate the expression of prostein protein in prostatic, other normal tissue and tumor samples...
  17. ncbi Pharmacoproteomic analysis of prechemotherapy and postchemotherapy plasma samples from patients receiving neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy for breast carcinoma
    Lajos Pusztai
    Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030 4009, USA
    Cancer 100:1814-22. 2004
    ..The authors also compared the plasma profiles of patients with cancer with the plasma profiles of healthy women to identify breast carcinoma-associated protein markers...
  18. ncbi Boosted decision tree analysis of surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization mass spectral serum profiles discriminates prostate cancer from noncancer patients
    Yinsheng Qu
    Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
    Clin Chem 48:1835-43. 2002
    ..CONCLUSIONS: The high sensitivity and specificity achieved in this study provides support of the potential for SELDI, coupled with a bioinformatics learning algorithm, to improve the early detection/diagnosis of PCA...
  19. ncbi Data reduction using a discrete wavelet transform in discriminant analysis of very high dimensionality data
    Yinsheng Qu
    Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N MP 702 Seattle, Washington, USA
    Biometrics 59:143-51. 2003
    ..The linear classifier with the 11 wavelet coefficients detected prostate cancer in a separate test set with a sensitivity of 97% and specificity of 100%...
  20. ncbi SELDI-TOF MS whole serum proteomic profiling with IMAC surface does not reliably detect prostate cancer
    Dale McLerran
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
    Clin Chem 54:53-60. 2008
    ..This report is the 2nd of 2 companion articles describing a validation study of a SELDI-TOF MS approach with IMAC surface sample processing to identify prostatic adenocarcinoma...