06/26/2025 The lab published a review in Ageing Research Reviews. Good Job Waseem and Azait!! Waseem M, Imtiaz A, Alexander A, Graham L, Contreras-Galindo R. Crosstalk Between Oxidative Stress, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Chromosome Instability, and the Activation of the cGAS-STING/IFN Pathway in Systemic Sclerosis. Ageing Res Rev. 2025 Jun 23:102812. doi: 10.1016/j.arr.2025.102812. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40562314. You can access the paper here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1lKMG5aZoHnqDq
05/03/2024 The lab published a paper in PNAS in collaboration with Davide Zella and Robert Gallo. Benedetti F, Silvestri G, Denaro F, Finesso G, Contreras-Galindo R, Munawwar A, Williams S, Davis H, Bryant J, Wang Y, Radaelli E, Rathinam CV, Gallo RC, Zella D. Mycoplasma DnaK expression increases cancer development in vivo upon DNA damage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Mar 5;121(10):e2320859121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2320859121. You can access the paper here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38412130/
1/9/2024 The National Scleroderma foundation awarded the Contreras Lab an established investigator Award to study the role of centromere defects and cGAS-STING activation in Scleroderma
12/13/2023 The Contreras Lab receives an R21 from the NIH National Cancer Institute to continue studying the role of centromere defects in Chromosome Instability and the pathogenesis of Ovarian Cancer
