Faculty Publications Aug. 21-27
A Comprehensive Digest of Research Publications From Cedars-Sinai Investigators and a Sampling of Recent Media Coverage Featuring Faculty
This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published Aug. 21-27. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.
Cedars-Sinai in the News
Alzheimer’s Disease: Treatments, Medications and More | U.S. News & World Report
Zaldy Tan, MD, MPH
Space X Launch Includes Groundbreaking Medical Study | Good Day Seattle
Arun Sharma, PhD
Probiotic Supplements Won’t Help Certain Types of People. Are You One of Them? | National Geographic
Suzanne Devkota, PhD
‘Forever Chemicals’ Curb Bariatric Surgery Success in Teens | Medscape
Kulmeet K. Sandhu, MD
UC Davis Medical Center Becomes Pathogen Treatment Center to Treat Dangerous Viruses | The Sacramento Bee
Jonathan Grein, MD
ER Doctors Say We Need to Pay More Attention to Heat | Los Angeles Times
Sam Torbati, MD
What an Aging Population Means for Cardiology’s Future | Becker’s ASC Review
Ilan Kedan, MD
Faculty Publications
Anesthesiology
Efficacy of Nei-Guan (P6) Acupoint Stimulation in Reducing Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting. Lazo, Ofelia Loani Elvir, Alicia Romero- Navarro, Paul F. White, Vincent Lee, Sana Zubair, Hillenn Cruz Eng, and Roya Yumul. Journal of Surgery and Research 8 (3): 342–57.
Biomedical Sciences
Clinician Needs and Requirements for a Decision Aid Navigator: Qualitative Study. Morse, Brad, Carrie Reale, An T. Nguyen, Erin Latella, Hannah Bauguess, Shilo Anders, Pamela Roberts, Spencer L. SooHoo, Robert El-Kareh, Andrey Soares, and Lisa Schilling. JMIR Human Factors 12 (August): e69756.
Human iPSC-Derived Mononuclear Phagocytes Improve Cognition and Neural Health Across Multiple Mouse Models of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease. Moser, V. Alexandra, Luz Jovita Dimas-Harms, Rachel M. Lipman, Jake Inzalaco, Shaughn Bell, Michelle Alcantara, Erikha Valenzuela, George Lawless, Simion Kreimer, Sarah J. Parker, Helen S. Goodridge, and Clive N. Svendsen. Advanced Science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), August, e17848.
Cardiac Surgery
Ischemic Injury Drives Nascent Tumor Growth Via Accelerated Hematopoietic Aging. Newman, Alexandra A. C., José Gabriel Barcia Durán, Richard Von Itter, Jessie M. Dalman, Brian Lim, Morgane Gourvest, Tarik Zahr, Kristin M. Wang, Tracy Zhang, Noah Albarracin, Whitney G. Rubin, Fazli K. Bozal, Kory J. Lavine, Chiara Giannarelli, Michael Gildea, Coen van Solingen, and Kathryn J. Moore. JACC. CardioOncology 7 (5): 559–77.
Ventricular Arrhythmias in Patients Undergoing Degenerative Mitral Repair: Prevalence and Impact on Survival. Sharew, Betemariam, Joanna Chikwe, Aminah Sallam, Allen A. Razavi, Derrick Tam, Amy S. Nowacki, Natalia Egorova, Dominic Emerson, Michael E. Bowdish, and Eugene Blackstone. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, August, S0022-5223(25)00671-3.
Cardiology
ScarNet: A Novel Foundation Model for Automated Myocardial Scar Quantification From Late Gadolinium-Enhancement Images. Tavakoli, Neda, Amir Ali Rahsepar, Brandon C. Benefield, Daming Shen, Santiago López-Tapia, Florian Schiffers, Jeffrey J. Goldberger, Christine M. Albert, Edwin Wu, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Daniel C. Lee, and Daniel Kim. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, August, 101945.
Contemporary Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Heart Transplantation: JACC: Heart Failure Position Statement. Mehta, Aditya, Ersilia M. DeFilippis, Josef Stehlik, Annette M. Jackson, Jon A. Kobashigawa, and Palak Shah. JACC. Heart Failure 13 (10): 102614.
Aggregated Postpartum Cerebral Autoregulatory Curves in Normotensive Individuals, Preeclampsia With Severe Features, and Superimposed Preeclampsia With Severe Features. Woolcock Martinez, Helen, Maria I. Katsidoniotaki, Leonidas Taliadouros, Noora Haghighi, Anne-Sophie van Wingerden, Aymen Awad Alian, Whitney A. Booker, Natalie A. Bello, Randolph S. Marshall, Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Nils H. Petersen, and Eliza C. Miller. Physiological Measurement, August.
Computational Biomedicine
Single-Cell Proteomics Using Mass Spectrometry. Momenzadeh, Amanda, and Jesse G. Meyer. Cell Genomics, August, 100973.
Multi-Scale and Multi-Context Interpretable Mapping of Cell States Across Heterogeneous Spatial Samples. Martin, Patrick C. N., Wenqi Wang, Hyobin Kim, Henrietta Holze, Paul B. Fisher, Arturo P. Saavedra, Robert A. Winn, Esha Madan, Rajan Gogna, and Kyoung Jae Won. Nature Communications 16 (1): 7814.
Ensuring Inclusive Governance for Trustworthy and Responsible AI Network. Bright, Tiffani J., and Keith C. Norris. JAMA, August.
Medicine
Differential Tropisms of Old and New World Hantaviruses Influence Virulence and Developing Host-Directed Antiviral Candidates. Jeyachandran, Arjit Vijey, Joseph Ignatius Irudayam, Swati Dubey, Nikhil Chakravarty, Maria Daskou, Anne Zaiss, Gustavo Garcia, Bindu Konda, Aayushi Shah, Aditi Venkatraman, Baolong Su, Cheng Wang, Qi Cui, Kevin J. Williams, Sonal Srikanth, Ashok Kumar, Yanhong Shi, Arjun Deb, Robert Damoiseaux, Barry R. Stripp, Arunachalam Ramaiah, and Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami. PLoS Pathogens 21 (8): e1013401.
Interventions to Optimize Medication Management in Patients With Language and Health Literacy Barriers: A Scoping Review. Bhagat, Meera, Cindy Puga, and Michelle S. Keller. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy: RSAP, August, S1551-7411(25)00441-3.
Risk Factors and Microbial Shifts in Surgical Site Infections Following Mohs Surgery With Second Intention Healing: A Prospective Study. Conde, Geena, Amanda Rosenthal, Margit Juhasz, and Nima M. Gharavi. Dermatologic Surgery, August.
Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis: Safety and Effectiveness of Combining Biologics and Small Molecules in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Anderson, Scott R., Ali Osman, Mohammad Zamani, Quazim Alayo, Andres J. Yarur, Deborah Thomas, Suzannah Bergstein, Elizabeth Spencer, Bruce E. Sands, Jean-Francois Rahier, Jean-Frederic Colombel, and Parakkal Deepak. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, August, izaf188.
A Capsular Polysaccharide From a Healthy Human Microbiota Member Activates a Lag-3-NK Cell Axis to Restrain Colon Cancer and Augment Immunotherapy. Weis, Allison M., Kaylyn M. Bauer, William W. Tang, Emmanuel Stephen-Victor, Rickesha Bell, D. Garrett Brown, H. Atakan Ekiz, Van Tran, Kendra A. Klag, Eric A. Swanson, Logan Barrios, Morgan Harwood, Jennifer H. Hill, Kyla S. Ost, Biljana Gigic, Martin Schneider, Jennifer Ose, Sheetal Hardikar, Adetunji T. Toriola, David Shibata, Christopher I. Li, Jane C. Figueiredo, Doratha A. Byrd, Erin M. Siegel, Kathleen Arnolds, Catherine Lozupone, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Ryan M. O’Connell, W. Zac Stephens, and June L. Round. Cell Reports 44 (9): 116172.
ASHP Statement on Artificial Intelligence in Pharmacy. Bastow, Samantha, Craig Greszler, Elizabeth Hartell, Asha Kalichira, Shawn Mathew, Derek Rhodes, Sonya Zhan, and Scott V. Anderson. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy: AJHP, August, zxaf107.
Building an Interdisciplinary Workforce in Geroscience: Aligning Perspectives and Educational Goals. Al-Naggar, Iman M., Crystal G. Quinn, Sara C. LaHue, Sarah R. Ocañas, Matthew Yousefzadeh, Chester Kozikowski, Heather McAbee-Sevick, Kenneth G. Campellone, Sean Curran, Jamie N. Justice, Miranda E. Orr, Christine Thatcher, Sara Espinoza, John C. Newman, Robert J. Pignolo, and George A. Kuchel. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 80 (9): glaf090.
The Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Outcomes of Brexucabtagene Autoleucel in Adults With Relapsed/Refractory B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. O’Connor, Timothy E., Chenyu Lin, Gregory W. Roloff, Amy Zhang, Katharine Miller, Ibrahim Aldoss, Noam E. Kopmar, Simone E. Dekker, Vishal K. Gupta, Nikeshan Jeyakumar, Ibrahim N. Muhsen, Yannis Valtis, Bhagirathbhai Dholaria, et al. Bone Marrow Transplantation, August.
KDM4 Orchestrates Epigenomic Remodeling of Senescent Cells and Potentiates the Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype. Zhang, Boyi, Qilai Long, Shanshan Wu, Qixia Xu, Shuling Song, Liu Han, Min Qian, Xiaohui Ren, Hanxin Liu, Jing Jiang, Jianming Guo, Xiaoling Zhang, Xing Chang, Qiang Fu, Eric W.-F. Lam, Judith Campisi, James L. Kirkland, and Yu Sun. Aging Cell, August, e70194.
Endoscopic Management of Esophageal Perforations: A Multi-Center Study. Aburumman, Razan, Farah Abdul Razzak, Anthony Kerbage, Vitor Brunaldi, Rudy Mrad, Karim Al Annan, and Barham Abu Dayyeh. Surgical Endoscopy, August.
The Importance of Recognition and Management of Oral Lichen Planus: Navigating Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Cancer Risk, and Advances in Management. Akbari, Elahe, Joel B. Epstein, and Firoozeh Samim. Head & Neck, August.
Neuropeptide Precursor VGF Promotes Neuroendocrine Differentiation and Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Activation in Small Cell Lung Cancer. Ding, Wen, Jianzheng Zhu, Jianshan Mo, Shumin Ouyang, Guopin Liu, Yingxue Su, Danyuan Sun, Jiangling Ye, Yanle Wu, Jiayu Yan, Menghan Xue, Peibin Yue, Jin-Jian Lu, Libin Wang, Yandong Wang, and Xiaolei Zhang. Cancer Research, August.
Neurosurgery
Late to Extubate? Risk Factors and Associations for Delayed Extubation After Adult Cervical Deformity Corrective Surgery. Das, Ankita, Oluwatobi Onafowokan, Jenny De Jong, Max Fisher, M. Burhan Janjua, Renaud Lafage, Bassel Diebo, Alan Daniels, Themistocles Protopsaltis, Darryl Lau, Justin Smith, David Okonkwo, Justin Scheer, Anthony Mikula, Richard Hostin, Praveen Mummaneni, Sang Lee, Thomas Buell, Munish Gupta, Eric Klineberg, Han Jo Kim, Dean Chou, Christopher Ames, Christopher Shaffrey, D. Kojo Hamilton, Virginie Lafage, Shay Bess, and Peter G. Passias. Spine, August.
Reoperation Rate Following Single-Level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion With Standalone Cage Versus Anterior Plating in a Large Matched Cohort. Gausper, Adeesya, Andrew M. Miller, Vivien Chan, Suhas K. Etigunta, Andy M. Liu, David Skaggs, Tiffany Perry, Corey Walker, and Alexander Tuchman. Clinical Spine Surgery, August.
Big Data in Neurosurgery: A Guideline on Data Structures, Machine Learning Models, and Ethical Considerations. Singh, Rohin, George Kassis, Omar Sbaih, Herman Li, Shane Shahrestani, Michael T. Lawton, Oren Gottfried, Mohamad Bydon, and Jonathan J. Stone. Operative Neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.), August.
OBGYN
Twenty-Two Years of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Fellowship Graduates in the United States and Canada: Geographic Distribution, Accessibility, and Practice Patterns. Humphries, Leigh A., Christopher X. Hong, Annie Apple, Peter R. Movilla, Kelly N. Wright, Arnold P. Advincula, Stephanie N. Morris, and Jeffrey J. Woo. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, August, S1553-4650(25)00307-3.
Orthopaedics
Lowest Instrumented Vertebra in Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Is Not Correlated With PROMIS Scores. Sborov, Katherine D., De An Zhang, Robert H. Cho, Cynthia V. Nguyen, Selina C. Poon, and Shriners Spine Study Group. Clinical Spine Surgery, August.
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Macula Densa Cell Angiogenic Mechanisms and Their Therapeutic Potential in Kidney Disease. Gyarmati, Georgina, Dorinne Desposito, Anne Riquier-Brison, Alejandra Becerra Calderon, Greta Trogen, Audrey Izuhara, Michifumi Yamashita, and János Peti-Peterdi. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 13: 1606230.
Pulmonary Immunohistochemical Markers May Be Positive in Gastric Adenocarcinomas Associated With Autoimmune Metaplastic Atrophic Gastritis. Toussieng, Trevor, Michael Kozak, Miguel Burch, Alexandra Gangi, Jun Gong, Maha Guindi, Keith K Lai, Danielle A Hutchings, Brent K Larson, and Kevin M Waters. Histopathology 2025.
Surgery
B7-H3 and CSPG4-Targeted CAR T Cells as Potent Effectors in Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer. Cattaneo, Giulia, Marco Ventin, Shahrzad Arya, Cedric Bailey, Venkata Rao Vantaku, Jingyu Jia, Maoyang Qi, Luke Maggs, Xinhui Wang, Sareh Parangi, Soldano Ferrone, and Cristina R. Ferrone. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research: CR 44 (1): 248.
Development of a 24-h Preservation Protocol of Forearm Vascularized Composite Allotransplants in Nonhuman Primates Using Subnormothermic Machine Perfusion. Oubari, Haïzam, Loïc Van Dieren, Yanis Berkane, Lucile Cabanel, Mark A. Randolph, Curtis L. Cetrulo, Alexandre G. Lellouch, and Korkut Uygun. Transplantation Direct 11 (9): e1849.
Urology
Hematuria Cancer Risk Score in Combination With Oncuria-Detect for Patients Undergoing Evaluation for Hematuria. Heard, John R., Ian Pagano, Charles Rosser, and Wei Shen Tan. Urology, August, S0090-4295(25)00797-6.
Development and Validation of a Natural Language Processing System to Assess Quality of Physician Communication in Prostate Cancer Consultations. Zheng, Renning, Nadine A. Friedrich, Michael Luu, Rebecca Gale, Dmitry Khodyakov, Stephen J. Freedland, Brennan Spiegel, and Timothy J. Daskivich. Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, August.
Investigating Cytotoxic and Inflammatory Human IL-7 Receptor Low Effector Memory CD8+ T Cells in Lupus. Lee, Sang Jin, Min Sun Shin, Yeon-Joo Lee, Lais Osmani, Won Jae Seong, Helen Cai, Jennefer Par-Young, Jong Gyun Ahn, Hong-Jai Park, Minhyung Kim, Serhan Unlu, Hyoungsu Kim, Man Hoon Han, Xuemei Dong, Sungyong You, Eun Bong Lee, and Insoo Kang. EBioMedicine 119 (August): 105898.
Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University is advancing groundbreaking research and educating future leaders in medicine, biomedical sciences and allied health sciences. Learn more about the university.