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Christopher Simpkins

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  • Simpkins C, Toska E., 2025, Sparking malignancy: nicotine as a driver of stemness and metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer, J Pathol., doi: 10.1002/path.6475. PMID: 40923665  PubMed
  • Olsen SN, Anderson B, Hatton C, Chu Z, Simpkins C, Wen Y, Bourgeois W, Haarer EL, Brown M, Jeselsohn R, Welm AL, Toska E, Armstrong SA., 2025, Combined inhibition of KAT6A/B and Menin reverses estrogen receptor-driven gene expression programs in breast cancer, Cell Rep Med., 6(7):102192. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2025.102192. PMCID: PMC12281420  PubMed
  • Blawski R, Vokshi BH, Guo X, Kittane S, Sallaku M, Chen W, Gjyzari M, Cheung T, Zhang Y, Simpkins C, Zhou W, Kulick A, Zhao P, Wei M, Shivashankar P, Prioleau T, Razavi P, Koche R, Rebecca VW, de Stanchina E, Castel P, Chan HM, Scaltriti M, Cocco E, Ji H, Luo M, Toska E., 2024, Methylation of the chromatin modifier KMT2D by SMYD2 contributes to therapeutic response in hormone-dependent breast cancer, Cell Rep., 43(5):114174. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114174. PMID: 38700982  PubMed