Selected Publications

Sasca D, Yun H, Giotopoulos G, Szybinski J, Evan T, Wilson NK, Gerstung M, Gallipoli P, Green AR, Hills R, Russell N, Osborne CS, Papaemmanuil E, Göttgens B, Campbell P, Huntly BJP. Cohesin-dependent regulation of gene expression during differentiation is lost in Cohesin-mutated myeloid malignancies. Blood. 134 (24), 2195-2208 2019 Dec 12

Basheer F, Giotopoulos G, Meduri E, Yun H, Mazan M, Sasca D, Gallipoli P, Marando L, Gozdecka M, Asby R, Sheppard O, Dudek M, Bullinger L, Döhner H, Dillon R, Freeman S, Ottmann O, Burnett A, Russell N, Papaemmanuil E, Hills R, Campbell P, Vassiliou GS, Huntly BJP. Contrasting requirements during disease evolution identify EZH2 as a therapeutic target in AML. J Exp Med. 2019 Apr 1;216(4):966-981. doi: 10.1084/jem.20181276. Epub 2019 Mar 19.

Sasca D, Szybinski J, Schüler A, Shah V, Heidelberger J, Haehnel PS, Dolnik A, Kriege O, Fehr EM, Gebhardt WH, Reid G, Scholl C, Theobald M, Bullinger L, Beli P, Kindler T.  NCAM1 (CD56) promotes leukemogenesis and confers drug resistance in AML. Blood. 2019 May 23;133(21):2305-2319. doi: 10.1182/blood-2018-12-889725. Epub 2019 Feb 27.

Gallipoli P, Giotopoulos G, Tzelepis K, Costa ASH, Vohra S, Medina-Perez P, Basheer F, Marando L, Di Lisio L, Dias JML, Yun H, Sasca D, Horton SJ, Vassiliou G, Frezza C, Huntly BJP. Glutaminolysis is a metabolic dependency in FLT3ITD acute myeloid leukemia unmasked by FLT3 tyrosine kinase inhibition. Blood. 2018 Apr 12;131(15):1639-1653. doi: 10.1182/blood-2017-12-820035. Epub 2018 Feb 20.

Horton SJ, Giotopoulos G, Yun H, Vohra S, Sheppard O, Bashford-Rogers R, Rashid M, Clipson A, Chan WI, Sasca D, Yiangou L, Osaki H, Basheer F, Gallipoli P, Burrows N, Erdem A, Sybirna A, Foerster S, Zhao W, Sustic T, Petrunkina Harrison A, Laurenti E, Okosun J, Hodson D, Wright P, Smith KG, Maxwell P, Fitzgibbon J, Du MQ, Adams DJ, Huntly BJP. Early loss of Crebbp confers malignant stem cell properties on lymphoid progenitors. Nat Cell Biol. 2017 Sep;19(9):1093-1104. doi: 10.1038/ncb3597. Epub 2017 Aug 21.

Sasca D, Huntly BJP. Independence of epigenetic and genetic diversity in AML. Nature Medicine 22, 708–709 (2016) doi:10.1038/nm.4136 Epub 07 July 2016

Sasca D, Hähnel PS, Szybinski J, Khawaja K, Kriege O, Pante SV, Bullinger L, Strand S, Strand D, Theobald M, Kindler T. SIRT1 prevents genotoxic stress induced p53 activation in acute myeloid leukemia. Blood. 2014 Jul 3;124(1):121-33. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-11-538819. Epub 2014 May 22.