Education

Ph.D. in Pathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, 2015

Current position

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

Publications

1. Elsarraj, H. S., Hong, Y., Valdez, K. E., Michaels, W., Hook, M., Smith, W. P., Chien, J., Herschkowitz, J. I., Troester, M. A., Beck, M., Inciardi, M., Gatewood, J., May, L., Cusick, T., McGinness, M., Ricci, L., Fan, F., Tawfik, O., Marks, J. R., Knapp, J. R., Yeh, H. W., Thomas, P., Carrasco, D. R., Fields, T. A., Godwin, A. K. and Behbod, F. (2015). Expression profiling of in vivo ductal carcinoma in situ progression models identified B cell lymphoma-9 as a molecular driver of breast cancer invasion. Breast Cancer Res 17: 128.
   
2. Elsarraj, H. S., Hong, Y., Valdez, K., Carletti, M., Salah, S. M., Raimo, M., Taverna, D., Prochasson, P., Bharadwaj, U., Tweardy, D. J., Christenson, L. K. and Behbod, F. (2013). A novel role of microRNA146b in promoting mammary alveolar progenitor cell maintenance. J Cell Sci 126(Pt 11): 2446-2458.
   
3. Valdez, K., Elsarraj, H., Stecklein, S. and Behbod F. (2013). Targeting breast cancer stem cells. In: Zänker, K. S. (ed). Role of Cancer Stem Cells in Cancer Biology and Therapy. CRC Press, 257-282.
   
4. Stecklein, S., Elsarraj, H. S., Valdez, K., Paul, A. and Behbod, F. (2013). Modeling and Analysis of Breast Cancer. In: Malek, A. (ed). Experimental Metastasis: Modeling and Analysis. Springer Netherlands, 27-56.
   
5. Elsarraj, H. S., Stecklein, S. R., Valdez, K. and Behbod, F. (2012). Emerging functions of microRNA-146a/b in development and breast cancer: microRNA-146a/b in development and breast cancer. J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasia 17(1): 79-87.