About Christian Kis
Christian Kis - Professional Summary: [ Not Updated Yet ]
* Vanderbilt University
Cancer Research
Nashville, Tennessee
Dept Surgical Oncology. Colon Cancer metastasis research.
Christian Kis - Professional Experience:
Specialties are qPCR, RNAi, mouse surgery, cloning, cell culture, retroviral and lentiviral work.
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Published work:
Gastroenterology. Nov 2009
An Experimentally Derived Metastasis Gene Expression Profile Predicts Recurrence and Death in Colon Cancer Patients
J. Joshua Smith, Natasha G. Deane, Fei Wu, Nipun B. Merchant, Bing Zhang, Aixiang Jiang, Pengcheng Lu, J. Chad Johnson, Carl Schmidt, Christina M. Edwards, Steven Eschrich, Christian Kis, Shawn Levy, M. Kay Washington, Martin J. Heslin, Robert J. Coffey, Timothy J. Yeatman, Yu Shyr, R. Daniel Beauchamp
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Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Volume 207, Issue 3, Supplement 1, September 2008
Identification of a genetic program for tumor suppression lost in Smad4 deficient colorectal cancers. J. Joshua Smith MD, Bonnie LaFleur PhD, Jinghuan Zi MS, Christian Kis BS, Shawn Levy PhD and R. Daniel Beauchamp MD, FACS
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Molecular Cancer Research. 2008 July; 6(7): 1124–1136.
Oncogenic Ras and Transforming Growth Factor-β Synergistically Regulate AU-Rich Element–Containing mRNAs during Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition
Cindy L. Kanies, J. Joshua Smith, Christian Kis, Carl Schmidt, Shawn Levy, Khalid S.A. Khabar, Jason Morrow, Natasha Deane, Dan A. Dixon, and R. Daniel Beauchamp
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Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Volume 205, Issue 3, Supplement 1, September 2007
Restoration of Smad4 expression in colon cancer cells enables autocrine bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) tumor suppressor function. J. Joshua Smith MD*, Sheng-Ru Shiou PhD, Punita Dhawan PhD, Christian Kis, Cindy Kanies, Bonnie LaFleur PhD, Mark de Caestecker MD, PhD and R. Daniel Beauchamp MD, FACS
Christian Kis - Education:
UTC 1989-1995
BS. Biology
BS Chemistry
Vanderbilt 1995-2002
PhD Program Molecular Biology
Christian Kis - Interests:
Tropical Plants
Gardening
Wine Making
Home brewing
Running
Exercise
Learning new stuff
Ballroom dancing
Gourmet Cooking


