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Barbara A. Foster

Barbara A.
Foster
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
barbara.foster@roswellpark.org

My focus of research is understanding prostate cancer initiation and progression to provide improved diagnosis, prevention and treatment.  Understanding how the normal and malignant stem cell niche is controlled will provide new therapeutic opportunities for cancer.

Select Publications: 

Chung I, Han G, Seshadri M, Gillard BM, Yu WD, Foster BA, Trump DL, Johnson CS. Role of vitamin D receptor in the antiproliferative effects of calcitriol in tumor-derived endothelial cells and tumor angiogenesis in vivo. Cancer Res. 2009 Feb 1;69(3):967-75.

Camoriano M, Kinney SR, Moser MT, Foster BA, Mohler JL, Trump DL, Karpf AR, Smiraglia DJ. Phenotype-specific CpG island methylation events in a murine model of prostate cancer. Cancer Res. 2008 Jun 1;68(11):4173-82.

Akakura S, Huang C, Nelson PJ, Foster B, Gelman IH. Loss of the SSeCKS/Gravin/AKAP12 gene results in prostatic hyperplasia. Cancer Res. 2008 Jul 1;68(13):5096-103.

Gao P, Sun X, Chen X, Wang Y, Foster BA, Subjeck J, Fisher PB, Wang XY. Secretable chaperone Grp170 enhances therapeutic activity of a novel tumor suppressor, mda-7/IL-24. Cancer Res. 2008 May 15;68(10):3890-8.

Morey Kinney SR, Smiraglia DJ, James SR, Moser MT, Foster BA, Karpf AR. Stage-specific alterations of DNA methyltransferase expression, DNA hypermethylation, and DNA hypomethylation during prostate cancer progression in the transgenic adenocarcinoma of mouse prostate model. Mol Cancer Res. 2008 Aug;6(8):1365-74.

Kaplan-Lefko PJ, Sutherland BW, Evangelou AI, Hadsell DL, Barrios RJ, Foster BA, Demayo F, Greenberg NM. Enforced epithelial expression of IGF-1 causes hyperplastic prostate growth while negative selection is requisite for spontaneous metastogenesis. Oncogene. 2008 May 1;27(20):2868-76.

Lotan TL, Lyon M, Huo D, Taxy JB, Brendler C, Foster BA, Stadler W, Rinker-Schaeffer CW. Up-regulation of MKK4, MKK6 and MKK7 during prostate cancer progression: an important role for SAPK signalling in prostatic neoplasia. J Pathol. 2007 Aug;212(4):386-94.

Alagbala AA, Moser MT, Johnson CS, Trump DL, Foster BA. Characterization of Vitamin D insensitive prostate cancer cells. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2007 Mar;103(3-5):712-6.

Liu S, Foster BA, Chen T, Zheng G, Chen A. Modifying dendritic cells via protein transfer for antitumor therapeutics. Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Jan 1;13(1):283-91.

Morgenbesser SD, McLaren RP, Richards B, Zhang M, Akmaev VR, Winter SF, Mineva ND, Kaplan-Lefko PJ, Foster BA, Cook BP, Dufault MR, Cao X, Wang CJ, Teicher BA, Klinger KW, Greenberg NM, Madden SL. Identification of genes potentially involved in the acquisition of androgen-independent and metastatic tumor growth in an autochthonous genetically engineered mouse prostate cancer model. Prostate. 2007 Jan 1;67(1):83-106.

Alagbala AA, Johnson CS, Trump DL, Posner GH, Foster BA. Antitumor effects of two less-calcemic vitamin D analogs (Paricalcitol and QW-1624F2-2) in squamous cell carcinoma cells. Oncology. 2006;70(6):483-92.

Azrak RG, Frank CL, Ling X, Slocum HK, Li F, Foster BA, Rustum YM. The mechanism of methylselenocysteine and docetaxel synergistic activity in prostate cancer cells. Mol Cancer Ther. 2006 Oct;5(10):2540-8.