Dr. Maja Oktay, MD

• Cytopathology

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• A Einstein College M-yeshiva U, Cytopathology Yale New Haven Hosp, Anatomic And Clinical Pathology

  Residency Hospital

• Montefiore Medical Center - Moses Division

  Fellowship Hospital, 2002

• Mena invasive (MenaINV) and Mena11a isoforms play distinct roles in breast cancer cell cohesion and association with TMEM, 2011-04-12

• Racial disparity in distant recurrence-free survival in patients with localized breast cancer: A pooled analysis of National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project trials, 2022-05-17

• Validation of an Automated Quantitative Digital Pathology Approach for Scoring TMEM: A Prognostic Biomarker for Metastasis, 2020-03-31

• Targeting Tie2 in the Tumor Microenvironment: From Angiogenesis to Dissemination, 2021-11-16

• Racial disparity in tumor microenvironment and distant recurrence in residual breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, 2023-06-13

• Combining TMEM Doorway Score and MenaCalcScore Improves the Prediction of Distant Recurrence Risk in HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer Patients, 2022-04-26

• Neoadjuvant chemotherapy induces breast cancer metastasis through a TMEM-mediated mechanism, 2017-07-05

• The selective Tie2 inhibitor rebastinib blocks recruitment and function of Tie2Himacrophages in breast cancer and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, 2017-08-24

• Primary tumor associated macrophages activate programs of invasion and dormancy in disseminating tumor cells, 2022-02-02

• SUN-MKL1 Crosstalk Regulates Nuclear Deformation and Fast Motility of Breast Carcinoma Cells in Fibrillar ECM Microenvironment, 2021-06-19

• Chemotherapy-Induced Metastasis: Molecular Mechanisms, Clinical Manifestations, Therapeutic Interventions, 2019-08-20

• Time-lapsed, large-volume, high-resolution intravital imaging for tissue-wide analysis of single cell dynamics, 2017-09-01

• Stem Cell Determinant SOX9 Promotes Lineage Plasticity and Progression in Basal-like Breast Cancer, 2020-06-09

• Black Race and Distant Recurrence after Neoadjuvant or Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer, 2018-08-22

• Cooperative NF-?B and Notch1 signaling promotes macrophage-mediated MenaINV expression in breast cancer, 2023-04-06

• Hematogenous Dissemination of Breast Cancer Cells From Lymph Nodes Is Mediated by Tumor MicroEnvironment of Metastasis Doorways, 2020-10-26

• A Permanent Window for Investigating Cancer Metastasis to the Lung, 2021-07-01

• The Contribution of Race to Breast Tumor Microenvironment Composition and Disease Progression, 2020-06-30

• Chemotherapy-induced metastasis: Mechanisms and translational opportunities, 2018-01-06

• Tumor Microenvironment of Metastasis (TMEM) Doorways Are Restricted to the Blood Vessel Endothelium in Both Primary Breast Cancers and Their Lymph Node Metastases, 2019-10-08

• The Role of the Tumor Microenvironment in Tumor Cell Intravasation and Dissemination., 2020-07-02

• SWIP-a stabilized window for intravital imaging of the murine pancreas, 2022-06-15

• The emerging roles of macrophages in cancer metastasis and response to chemotherapy, 2019-02-05

• An EMT-Driven Alternative Splicing Program Occurs in Human Breast Cancer and Modulates Cellular Phenotype, 2011-08-18

• Cell-to-cell communication in cancer: workshop report, 2015-11-25

• Multiphoton intravital microscopy of rodents, 2022-11-10

• Assessing Tumor Microenvironment of Metastasis Doorway-Mediated Vascular Permeability Associated with Cancer Cell Dissemination using Intravital Imaging and Fixed Tissue Analysis, 2019-06-26

• Intravital Imaging Techniques for Biomedical and Clinical Research, 2019-12-30