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Ben Wittner, PH.D.

TitleInstructor in Medicine
InstitutionMassachusetts General Hospital
DepartmentMedicine
AddressMassachusetts General Hospital
CPZN 4200, Simches Research Bldg
185 Cambridge St
Boston MA 02114
Phone617/643-3166

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  1. Desmet CJ, Gallenne T, Prieur A, Reyal F, Visser NL, Wittner BS, Smit MA, Geiger TR, Laoukili J, Iskit S, Rodenko B, Zwart W, Evers B, Horlings H, Ajouaou A, Zevenhoven J, van Vliet M, Ramaswamy S, Wessels LF, Peeper DS. Identification of a pharmacologically tractable Fra-1/ADORA2B axis promoting breast cancer metastasis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Mar 26; 110(13):5139-44.
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  2. Yu M, Bardia A, Wittner BS, Stott SL, Smas ME, Ting DT, Isakoff SJ, Ciciliano JC, Wells MN, Shah AM, Concannon KF, Donaldson MC, Sequist LV, Brachtel E, Sgroi D, Baselga J, Ramaswamy S, Toner M, Haber DA, Maheswaran S. Circulating breast tumor cells exhibit dynamic changes in epithelial and mesenchymal composition. Science. 2013 Feb 1; 339(6119):580-4.
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  3. Miyamoto DT, Lee RJ, Stott SL, Ting DT, Wittner BS, Ulman M, Smas ME, Lord JB, Brannigan BW, Trautwein J, Bander NH, Wu CL, Sequist LV, Smith MR, Ramaswamy S, Toner M, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. Androgen receptor signaling in circulating tumor cells as a marker of hormonally responsive prostate cancer. Cancer Discov. 2012 Nov; 2(11):995-1003.
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  4. Yu M, Ting DT, Stott SL, Wittner BS, Ozsolak F, Paul S, Ciciliano JC, Smas ME, Winokur D, Gilman AJ, Ulman MJ, Xega K, Contino G, Alagesan B, Brannigan BW, Milos PM, Ryan DP, Sequist LV, Bardeesy N, Ramaswamy S, Toner M, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. RNA sequencing of pancreatic circulating tumour cells implicates WNT signalling in metastasis. Nature. 2012 Jul 26; 487(7408):510-3.
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  5. Lee J, Hirsh AS, Wittner BS, Maeder ML, Singavarapu R, Lang M, Janarthanan S, McDermott U, Yajnik V, Ramaswamy S, Joung JK, Sgroi DC. Induction of stable drug resistance in human breast cancer cells using a combinatorial zinc finger transcription factor library. PLoS One. 2011; 6(7):e21112.
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  6. Dey-Guha I, Wolfer A, Yeh AC, G Albeck J, Darp R, Leon E, Wulfkuhle J, Petricoin EF, Wittner BS, Ramaswamy S. Asymmetric cancer cell division regulated by AKT. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Aug 2; 108(31):12845-50.
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  7. Ozsolak F, Ting DT, Wittner BS, Brannigan BW, Paul S, Bardeesy N, Ramaswamy S, Milos PM, Haber DA. Amplification-free digital gene expression profiling from minute cell quantities. Nat Methods. 2010 Aug; 7(8):619-21.
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  8. Sharma SV, Lee DY, Li B, Quinlan MP, Takahashi F, Maheswaran S, McDermott U, Azizian N, Zou L, Fischbach MA, Wong KK, Brandstetter K, Wittner B, Ramaswamy S, Classon M, Settleman J. A chromatin-mediated reversible drug-tolerant state in cancer cell subpopulations. Cell. 2010 Apr 2; 141(1):69-80.
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  9. Wolfer A, Wittner BS, Irimia D, Flavin RJ, Lupien M, Gunawardane RN, Meyer CA, Lightcap ES, Tamayo P, Mesirov JP, Liu XS, Shioda T, Toner M, Loda M, Brown M, Brugge JS, Ramaswamy S. MYC regulation of a "poor-prognosis" metastatic cancer cell state. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Feb 23; 107(8):3698-703.
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  10. Kim SY, Dunn IF, Firestein R, Gupta P, Wardwell L, Repich K, Schinzel AC, Wittner B, Silver SJ, Root DE, Boehm JS, Ramaswamy S, Lander ES, Hahn WC. CK1epsilon is required for breast cancers dependent on beta-catenin activity. PLoS One. 2010; 5(2):e8979.
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  11. Barbie DA, Tamayo P, Boehm JS, Kim SY, Moody SE, Dunn IF, Schinzel AC, Sandy P, Meylan E, Scholl C, Fröhling S, Chan EM, Sos ML, Michel K, Mermel C, Silver SJ, Weir BA, Reiling JH, Sheng Q, Gupta PB, Wadlow RC, Le H, Hoersch S, Wittner BS, Ramaswamy S, Livingston DM, Sabatini DM, Meyerson M, Thomas RK, Lander ES, Mesirov JP, Root DE, Gilliland DG, Jacks T, Hahn WC. Systematic RNA interference reveals that oncogenic KRAS-driven cancers require TBK1. Nature. 2009 Nov 5; 462(7269):108-12.
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  12. Wadlow RC, Wittner BS, Finley SA, Bergquist H, Upadhyay R, Finn S, Loda M, Mahmood U, Ramaswamy S. Systems-level modeling of cancer-fibroblast interaction. PLoS One. 2009; 4(9):e6888.
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  13. Coser KR, Wittner BS, Rosenthal NF, Collins SC, Melas A, Smith SL, Mahoney CJ, Shioda K, Isselbacher KJ, Ramaswamy S, Shioda T. Antiestrogen-resistant subclones of MCF-7 human breast cancer cells are derived from a common monoclonal drug-resistant progenitor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Aug 25; 106(34):14536-41.
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  14. Yu M, Smolen GA, Zhang J, Wittner B, Schott BJ, Brachtel E, Ramaswamy S, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. A developmentally regulated inducer of EMT, LBX1, contributes to breast cancer progression. Genes Dev. 2009 Aug 1; 23(15):1737-42.
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  15. Wittner BS, Sgroi DC, Ryan PD, Bruinsma TJ, Glas AM, Male A, Dahiya S, Habin K, Bernards R, Haber DA, Van't Veer LJ, Ramaswamy S. Analysis of the MammaPrint breast cancer assay in a predominantly postmenopausal cohort. Clin Cancer Res. 2008 May 15; 14(10):2988-93.
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  16. Hong F, Breitling R, McEntee CW, Wittner BS, Nemhauser JL, Chory J. RankProd: a bioconductor package for detecting differentially expressed genes in meta-analysis. Bioinformatics. 2006 Nov 15; 22(22):2825-7.
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  17. Gurvich N, Berman MG, Wittner BS, Gentleman RC, Klein PS, Green JB. Association of valproate-induced teratogenesis with histone deacetylase inhibition in vivo. FASEB J. 2005 Jul; 19(9):1166-8.
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