Muntadher Jihad

This study shows that TGF-β-dependent myCAFs promote pancreatic cancer metastasis, while IL-1-dependent iCAFs do not, through distinct signaling mechanisms.

scFLAME is a generative model that unifies clustering, marker-gene identification, and hierarchical structure discovery in scRNA-seq data, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy and scalability.

This study compares fibroblast heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer and pancreatitis using organoid co-cultures and identifies distinct stromal reprogramming in each condition.

This paper shows that IL-1-activated cancer-associated fibroblasts (iCAFs) promote STAT1-driven transcriptional reprogramming in pancreatic tumour cells, leading to chemoresistance and identifying STAT1 as a therapeutic target.

This study uses cross-species graph-embedding to show that ageing affects PDAC stroma and therapy response, identifying IRAK4 as a therapeutic target in aged PDAC models.

This study shows that SMAD4 and KRAS mutations influence stromal composition and therapeutic response in pancreatic cancer models.