Craig Meyers, MS, PhD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile
Craig Meyers, MS, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Department of Cell and Biological Systems
Distinguished Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Distinguished Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Scientific Program:Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
Recent Publications
2026
Avila Tejeda, J, Chatterjee, S & Meyers, C 2026, 'In Vitro Model Characterizing Carcinogenic Progression of HPV-Positive Oropharyngeal Cancer', Cancers, vol. 18, no. 4, 683. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers18040683
2025
Alam, S, Avila, J, Barrett, W & Meyers, C 2025, 'Comparing In Vitro Virucidal Efficacy of Commercially Available Mouthwashes Against Native High-Risk Human Papillomavirus Types 16 and 18', Microorganisms, vol. 13, no. 4, 734. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms13040734
El-Bayoumy, K, Christensen, N, Broach, J, Meyers, C, Stairs, D, Machtay, M, Hu, J, Bitzer, ZT, Schell, TD, Chen, K-M, Sun, Y-W, Desai, D, Walter, V & Zhu, J 2025, 'Current challenges and potential opportunities for interception and prevention of head and neck cancer', Carcinogenesis, vol. 46, no. 2, bgaf025. https://doi.org/10.1093/carcin/bgaf025
Izaguirre, G, Zirou, N & Meyers, C 2025, 'Dysregulation of FURIN and Other Proprotein Convertase Genes in the Progression from HPV Infection to Cancer', International journal of molecular sciences, vol. 26, no. 2, 461. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms26020461
Chan, K, Tseng, C, Milarachi, E, Goldrich, D, Schneper, L, Sheldon, K, Aliaga, C, Alam, S, Chatterjee, S, El-Bayoumy, K, Meyers, C, Goldenberg, D & Broach, JR 2025, 'Genome Instability Precedes Viral Integration in Human Papillomavirus–Transformed Tonsillar Keratinocytes', Molecular Cancer Research, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 119-127. https://doi.org/10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-24-0604
Bridy, PV, Cruz, JC, Covington, JL, Islam, TI, Hadley, CE, Tran, K, Fry, R, Sheffield, BA, Serrano, M, Buck, GA, Zhao, J, Tossas, KY, Meyers, C, Morgan, IM, James, CD & Jefferson, KK 2025, 'Human papillomavirus 16 mitigates Sneathia vaginalis-induced damage to cervical keratinocytes', mSphere, vol. 10, no. 7. https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00152-25
2024
Izaguirre, G, Phan, LMU, Asif, S, Alam, S, Meyers, C & Rong, L 2024, 'Diversity in Proprotein Convertase Reactivity among Human Papillomavirus Types', Viruses, vol. 16, no. 1, 39. https://doi.org/10.3390/v16010039
2023
Hayman, IR, Temple, RM, Burgess, CK, Ferguson, M, Liao, J, Meyers, C & Sample, CE 2023, 'New insight into Epstein-Barr virus infection using models of stratified epithelium', PLoS pathogens, vol. 19, no. 1, e1011040. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1011040
Walston, JJ, Hayman, IR, Gore, M, Ferguson, M, Temple, RM, Liao, J, Alam, S, Meyers, C, Tugizov, SM, Hutt-Fletcher, L & Sample, CE 2023, 'The Epstein-Barr Virus Glycoprotein BDLF2 Is Essential for Efficient Viral Spread in Stratified Epithelium', Journal of virology, vol. 97, no. 2. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01528-22
2022
Tucker, J, Milici, J, Alam, S, Ferster, APOC, Goldenberg, D, Meyers, C & Goyal, N 2022, 'Assessing nonsexual transmission of the human papillomavirus (HPV): Do our current cleaning methods work?', Journal of Medical Virology, vol. 94, no. 8, pp. 3956-3961. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.27769
Robins, LI, Clark, A, Gafken, PR, Alam, S, Milici, J, Hassan, R, Wang, CY, Williams, J & Meyers, C 2022, 'Hypochlorous acid as a disinfectant for high-risk HPV: Insight into the mechanism of action', Journal of Medical Virology, vol. 94, no. 7, pp. 3386-3393. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.27716