
Vice Dean for Basic Science
Professor in Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Member of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
About the Lab
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Research
What kind of research do you do and why is it important?
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Lab Members
Since the PI's image will always be on the left of the page, this section should list staff, post docs, and students. We can either create profiles or pull them from where they already exist on the site.
Publications
Highlight of select publications
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Galluzzi, Lorenzo, Ilio Vitale, Stuart A. Aaronson, John M. Abrams, Dieter Adam, Patrizia Agostinis, Emad S. Alnemri, et al. “Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018.” Cell Death Differ 25, no. 3 (March 2018): 486–541. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41418-017-0012-4.
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Srinivasan, Sharan R., Laura C. Cesa, Xiaokai Li, Olivier Julien, Min Zhuang, Hao Shao, Jooho Chung, et al. “Heat Shock Protein 70 (Hsp70) Suppresses RIP1-Dependent Apoptotic and Necroptotic Cascades.” Mol Cancer Res 16, no. 1 (January 2018): 58–68. https://doi.org/10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-17-0408.
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Toubai, Tomomi, Corinne Rossi, Katherine Oravecz-Wilson, Chen Liu, Cynthia Zajac, Shin-Rong Julia Wu, Yaping Sun, et al. “IAPs protect host target tissues from graft-versus-host disease in mice.” Blood Adv 1, no. 19 (August 22, 2017): 1517–32. https://doi.org/10.1182/bloodadvances.2017004242.
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Ashley, Shanna L., Thomas H. Sisson, Amanda K. Wheaton, Kevin K. Kim, Carol A. Wilke, Iyabode O. Ajayi, Natalya Subbotina, et al. “Targeting Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins Protects from Bleomycin-Induced Lung Fibrosis.” Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 54, no. 4 (April 2016): 482–92. https://doi.org/10.1165/rcmb.2015-0148OC.
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Kocab, Andrew J., and Colin S. Duckett. “Inhibitor of apoptosis proteins as intracellular signaling intermediates.” FEBS J 283, no. 2 (January 2016): 221–31. https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.13554.
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Kocab, A. J., A. Veloso, M. T. Paulsen, M. Ljungman, and C. S. Duckett. “Effects of physiological and synthetic IAP antagonism on c-IAP-dependent signaling.” Oncogene 34, no. 43 (October 2015): 5472–81. https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2015.3.
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Kenneth, Niall S., George E. Hucks, Andrew J. Kocab, Annie L. McCollom, and Colin S. Duckett. “Copper is a potent inhibitor of both the canonical and non-canonical NFκB pathways.” Cell Cycle 13, no. 6 (2014): 1006–14. https://doi.org/10.4161/cc.27922.
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