Davis, Melissa Boneta

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African American Prostate Cancer Displays Quantitatively Distinct Vitamin D Receptor Cistrome-transcriptome Relationships Regulated by BAZ1A. Cancer research communications. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Immune Profile of Exosomes in African American Breast Cancer Patients Is Mediated by Kaiso/THBS1/CD47 Signaling. Cancers. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 314
Survival Outcomes in Women with Unilateral, Triple-Negative, Breast Cancer Correlated with Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy. Annals of surgical oncology. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 1
MicroRNAs within the Basal-like signature of Quadruple Negative Breast Cancer impact overall survival in African Americans. Scientific reports. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
African Ancestry-Associated Gene Expression Profiles in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Underlie Altered Tumor Biology and Clinical Outcome in Women of African Descent. Cancer discovery. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 7
The METTL3 RNA Methyltransferase Regulates Transcriptional Networks in Prostate Cancer. Cancers. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 90
Whole-exome Sequencing of Nigerian Prostate Tumors from the Prostate Cancer Transatlantic Consortium (CaPTC) Reveals DNA Repair Genes Associated with African Ancestry. Cancer research communications. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Unmet Needs in Oncology Clinical Research and Treatment in Africa: Focus on Ghana. The oncologist. 2022 Review GET IT
Protein expression of the gp78 E3 ligase predicts poor breast cancer outcome based on race. JCI insight. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 4
Enhancing the Trajectories of Cancer Health Disparities Research: Improving Clinical Applications of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility. Cancer discovery. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
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Impact of the COVID-19 breast cancer screening hiatus on clinical stage and racial disparities in New York City. American journal of surgery. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 3
Postmastectomy Breast Reconstruction Patterns at an Urban Academic Hospital and the Impact of Surgeon Gender. Annals of surgical oncology. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 115
Cancer healthcare disparities among African Americans in the United States. Journal of the National Medical Association. 2022 Review GET IT
Times cited: 7
Increased inflammatory low-density neutrophils in severe obesity and effect of bariatric surgery: Results from case-control and prospective cohort studies. EBioMedicine. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 4
Benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in node-negative T1a versus T1b and T1c triple-negative breast cancer. Breast cancer research and treatment. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 1
Understanding how genetic ancestry may influence cancer development. Trends in cancer. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
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Are we there yet? A machine learning architecture to predict organotropic metastases. BMC medical genomics. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Screening mammography mitigates breast cancer disparities through early detection of triple negative breast cancer. Clinical imaging. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 4
Breast Cancer Disparities Through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Current breast cancer reports. 2021 Review GET IT
Times cited: 1357
Cancer microenvironment and genomics: evolution in process. Clinical & experimental metastasis. 2021 Review GET IT
Times cited: 5
Breast cancer disparities in outcomes; unmasking biological determinants associated with racial and genetic diversity. Clinical & experimental metastasis. 2021 Review GET IT
Times cited: 6
Investigation of triple-negative breast cancer risk alleles in an International African-enriched cohort. Scientific reports. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
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Social and Clinical Determinants of COVID-19 Outcomes: Modeling Real-World Data from a Pandemic Epicenter. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences. 2021 Article GET IT
Genomics and Cancer Disparities: The Justice and Power of Inclusion. Cancer discovery. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 10
Outcome of African-American compared to White-American patients with early-stage breast cancer, stratified by phenotype. The breast journal. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 6
Women in cancer research and oncology. Cancer cell. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 1
Diversity, Race, and Health. Med (New York, N.Y.). 2021 Editorial Article GET IT
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Cancer stem cells: Culprits in endocrine resistance and racial disparities in breast cancer outcomes. Cancer letters. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 4
Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. British journal of cancer. 2020 Review GET IT
Times cited: 283
Breast and prostate cancers harbor common somatic copy number alterations that consistently differ by race and are associated with survival. BMC medical genomics. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 8
A novel prognostic two-gene signature for triple negative breast cancer. Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 19
Identification of Distinct Heterogenic Subtypes and Molecular Signatures Associated with African Ancestry in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Using Quantified Genetic Ancestry Models in Admixed Race Populations. Cancers. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 265
Evaluation of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Early Detection via Mammography Screening and Outcomes in African American and White American Patients. JAMA surgery. 2020 Letter GET IT
Times cited: 13
Brief report: Global health initiatives and breast oncology capacity-building in Africa. American journal of surgery. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
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Racial Differences in the Association Between Luminal Master Regulator Gene Expression Levels and Breast Cancer Survival. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 16
Hereditary Susceptibility for Triple Negative Breast Cancer Associated With Western Sub-Saharan African Ancestry: Results From an International Surgical Breast Cancer Collaborative. Annals of surgery. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 30
Tumor antigen-independent and cell size variation-inclusive enrichment of viable circulating tumor cells. Lab on a chip. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 33
Distribution and Short-term Prognostic Value of the 21-gene recurrence score in African American compared to White American breast cancer patients. The breast journal. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 1
Atypical Chemokine Receptor 1 (DARC/ACKR1) in Breast Tumors Is Associated with Survival, Circulating Chemokines, Tumor-Infiltrating Immune Cells, and African Ancestry. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 27
African Clinicians' Prioritization of Needs in International Breast Cancer Partnerships. JAMA surgery. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 2
Quadruple Negative Breast Cancers (QNBC) Demonstrate Subtype Consistency among Primary and Recurrent or Metastatic Breast Cancer. Translational oncology. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 15
Androgen Receptor and ALDH1 Expression Among Internationally Diverse Patient Populations. Journal of global oncology. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 8
AhR ligand aminoflavone suppresses α6-integrin-Src-Akt signaling to attenuate tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer cells. Journal of cellular physiology. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 24
AR negative triple negative or "quadruple negative" breast cancers in African American women have an enriched basal and immune signature. PloS one. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 37
Transcriptional repressor Kaiso promotes epithelial to mesenchymal transition and metastasis in prostate cancer through direct regulation of miR-200c. Cancer letters. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 19
Utilization of the 21-Gene Recurrence Score in a Diverse Breast Cancer Patient Population: Development of a Clinicopathologic Model to Predict High-Risk Scores and Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy. Annals of surgical oncology. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 8
Breast Cancer Disparities: How Can We Leverage Genomics to Improve Outcomes?. Surgical oncology clinics of North America. 2018 Review GET IT
Times cited: 16
Label-free ferrohydrodynamic cell separation of circulating tumor cells. Lab on a chip. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 52
Antiproliferative Activity of Crocin Involves Targeting of Microtubules in Breast Cancer Cells. Scientific reports. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 53
African Americans with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma exhibit gender differences in Kaiso expression. Cancer letters. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 18
Kaiso, a transcriptional repressor, promotes cell migration and invasion of prostate cancer cells through regulation of miR-31 expression. Oncotarget. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 38
Assessing Heavy Metal and PCB Exposure from Tap Water by Measuring Levels in Plasma from Sporadic Breast Cancer Patients, a Pilot Study. International journal of environmental research and public health. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 10
Distinct Transcript Isoforms of the Atypical Chemokine Receptor 1 (ACKR1)/Duffy Antigen Receptor for Chemokines (DARC) Gene Are Expressed in Lymphoblasts and Altered Isoform Levels Are Associated with Genetic Ancestry and the Duffy-Null Allele. PloS one. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 16
MicroRNA profiling of novel African American and Caucasian Prostate Cancer cell lines reveals a reciprocal regulatory relationship of miR-152 and DNA methyltranferase 1. Oncotarget. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 51
Expression and sub-cellular localization of an epigenetic regulator, co-activator arginine methyltransferase 1 (CARM1), is associated with specific breast cancer subtypes and ethnicity. Molecular cancer. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 18
Genomic analysis of the ecdysone steroid signal at metamorphosis onset using ecdysoneless and EcRnullDrosophila melanogaster mutants. Genes & genomics. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 379
Identification of common and cell type specific LXXLL motif EcR cofactors using a bioinformatics refined candidate RNAi screen in Drosophila melanogaster cell lines. BMC developmental biology. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 5
The characterization of cell line crl-2335 as a Basal-like breast carcinoma model. Breast cancer : basic and clinical research. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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A cis-regulatory map of the Drosophila genome. Nature. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 388
Microarray comparison of prostate tumor gene expression in African-American and Caucasian American males: a pilot project study. Infectious agents and cancer. 2009 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 390
Phenotypic analysis of EcR-A mutants suggests that EcR isoforms have unique functions during Drosophila development. Developmental biology. 2005 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 85
Recent advances in Drosophila genomics. Genome biology. 2004 Conference Paper GET IT
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Creation of EcR isoform-specific mutations in Drosophila melanogaster via local P element transposition, imprecise P element excision, and male recombination. Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
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The DARC side of Breast Cancer Disparities - African Ancestry and Cancer- Related Immune Response awarded by National Cancer Institute Principal Investigator 2021 - 2026
Geo-Spatial to Tumor-Spatial Influences of Ancestry and Race in Breast Cancer Disparities awarded by Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Inc. Principal Investigator 2022 - 2023

Clinical and Translational Science Center - UL1 awarded by National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Co-Investigator 2022 - 2027
Therapeutic targeting of breast cancer and host immune responses at inflection points in the disease trajectory awarded by United States Department of Defense Co-Investigator 2021 - 2025
Novel Complex Structural Variants And Epigenetic Alterations Link The Genomes Of Prostate Cancer In African Americans With Outcome Disparity. awarded by United States Department of Defense Co-Investigator 2021 - 2023
Unraveling the landscape of homologous recombination deficiency in patients with breast and prostate cancer across the African diaspora in NYC awarded by National Human Genome Research Institute Co-Investigator 2020 - 2023
Converting HR+ Breast Cancer Into an Individualized Vaccine awarded by United States Department of Defense Co-Investigator 2019 - 2023

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Background

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Ph.D., University of Georgia 2003
B.S., Albany State University 1996

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Melissa Boneta Davis

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VIVO Weill Cornell Medical College

Melissa Boneta Davis Adjunct Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Research in Surgery

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