Vonn Walter, PhD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile
Vonn Walter, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Precision Medicine
Penn State Center for Research on Tobacco and Health
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Precision Medicine
Penn State Center for Research on Tobacco and Health
Scientific Program:Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
Recent Publications
2025
Lawrence, SS, Yamashita, H, Shuman, L, Raman, JD, Joshi, M, Yochum, GS, Wu, XR, Al-Ahmadie, HA, Warrick, JI, Walter, V & DeGraff, DJ 2025, 'Interferon-γ/Janus Kinase 1/STAT1 Signaling Represses Forkhead Box A1 and Drives a Basal Transcriptional State in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer', American Journal of Pathology, vol. 195, no. 5, pp. 1013-1030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2025.01.013
2024
Baggett, KH, Manghi, T, Walter, V, Thomas, NJ, Freeman, MA & Krawiec, C 2024, 'Acute kidney injury in hospitalized children with proteinuria: A multicenter retrospective analysis', PloS one, vol. 19, no. 3 March, e0298463. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298463
Darok, M, Daly, A, Walter, V & Krawiec, C 2024, 'Association of medical comorbidities in obese subjects diagnosed with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia', SAGE Open Medicine, vol. 12. https://doi.org/10.1177/20503121241247471
Amakye, D, Bundschuh, M, Walter, V, Headlee, B, Razjouyan, H & Coates, M 2024, 'Clinical characterization of the silent chronic pancreatitis patient: a single-center retrospective cohort study', Annals of Gastroenterology, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 618-622. https://doi.org/10.20524/aog.2024.0908
Javed, Z, Shin, DH, Pan, W, White, SR, Elhaw, AT, Kim, YS, Kamlapurkar, S, Cheng, YY, Benson, JC, Abdelnaby, AE, Phaeton, R, Wang, HG, Yang, S, Sullivan, MLG, St.Croix, CM, Watkins, SC, Mullett, SJ, Gelhaus, SL, Lee, N, Coffman, LG, Aird, K, Trebak, M, Mythreye, K, Walter, V & Hempel, N 2024, 'Drp1 splice variants regulate ovarian cancer mitochondrial dynamics and tumor progression', EMBO Reports, vol. 25, no. 10, pp. 4281-4310. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-024-00232-4
Coates, MD, Walter, V, Stuart, A, Small, J, Dalessio, S, Carkaci-Salli, N, Ouyang, A, Clarke, K, Tinsley, A, Williams, ED, Janicki, P, Ruiz-Velasco, V & Vrana, KE 2024, 'Impact of SCN10A Polymorphism on Abdominal Pain Perception and Visceral Hypoalgesia in Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis', Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. e00778. https://doi.org/10.14309/ctg.0000000000000778
Demirsoy, S, Tran, H, Liu, J, Li, Y, Yang, S, Aregawi, D, Glantz, MJ, Jacob, NK, Walter, V, Schell, TD & Olmez, I 2024, 'Targeting Tyro3, Axl, and MerTK Receptor Tyrosine Kinases Significantly Sensitizes Triple-Negative Breast Cancer to CDK4/6 Inhibition', Cancers, vol. 16, no. 12, 2253. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16122253
2023
Zubrzycka, I, Bogale, K, Stuart, A, Cesaire, M, Walter, V, Dalessio, S, Tinsley, A, Williams, E, Clarke, K & Coates, MD 2023, 'Abdominal pain is associated with an increased risk of future healthcare resource utilization in inflammatory bowel disease', International Journal of Colorectal Disease, vol. 38, no. 1, 213. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00384-023-04510-w
Joshi, M, Tuanquin, L, Zhu, J, Walter, V, Schell, T, Kaag, M, Kilari, D, Liao, J, Holder, SL, Emamekhoo, H, Sankin, A, Merrill, S, Zheng, H, Warrick, J, Hauke, R, Gartrel, B, Stein, M, Drabick, J, Degraff, DJ & Zakharia, Y 2023, 'Concurrent durvalumab and radiation therapy (DUART) followed by adjuvant durvalumab in patients with localized urothelial cancer of bladder: Results from phase II study, BTCRC-GU15-023', Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, vol. 11, no. 2, e006551. https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2022-006551
Hudock, NL, Mani, K, Khunsriraksakul, C, Walter, V, Nekhlyudov, L, Wang, M, Lehrer, EJ, Hudock, MR, Liu, DJ, Spratt, DE & Zaorsky, N 2023, 'Future trends in incidence and long-term survival of metastatic cancer in the United States', Communications Medicine, vol. 3, no. 1, 76. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-023-00304-x
Singh, V, Walter, V, Elcheva, I, Imamura Kawasawa, Y & Spiegelman, VS 2023, 'Global role of IGF2BP1 in controlling the expression of Wnt/β-catenin-regulated genes in colorectal cancer cells', Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, vol. 11, 1236356. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2023.1236356
Brendle, SA, Li, JJ, Walter, V, Schell, T, Kozak, M, Balogh, KK, Lu, S, Christensen, ND, Zhu, Y, El-Bayoumy, K & Hu, J 2023, 'Immune Responses in Oral Papillomavirus Clearance in the MmuPV1 Mouse Model', Pathogens, vol. 12, no. 12, 1452. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12121452
Coates, MD, Dalessio, S, Walter, V, Stuart, A, Tinsley, A, Williams, ED & Clarke, K 2023, 'Lifestyle Factors Associated with Abdominal Pain in Quiescent Inflammatory Bowel Disease', Digestive Diseases and Sciences, vol. 68, no. 11, pp. 4156-4165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-023-08075-0
Coates, MD, Dalessio, S, Stuart, A, Walter, V, Tinsley, A, Clarke, K & Williams, ED 2023, 'Lifestyle Factors and Silent Inflammatory Bowel Disease', Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 153-160. https://doi.org/10.1159/000534413
Dum, R, Walter, V, Thomas, NJ & Krawiec, C 2023, 'Odds of Cardiometabolic Diseases and Medications in Children With Cerebral Palsy', Journal of Child Neurology, vol. 38, no. 3-4, pp. 239-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/08830738231167534
Emrich, SM, Yoast, RE, Zhang, X, Fike, AJ, Wang, YH, Bricker, KN, Tao, AY, Xin, P, Walter, V, Johnson, MT, Pathak, T, Straub, AC, Feske, S, Rahman, ZSM & Trebak, M 2023, 'Orai3 and Orai1 mediate CRAC channel function and metabolic reprogramming in B cells', eLife, vol. 12. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84708
Bogale, K, Zubrzycka, I, Stuart, A, Cesaire, M, Walter, V, Tinsley, A, Williams, E, Clarke, K & Coates, MD 2023, 'Polysubstance use in inflammatory bowel disease is associated with increased risk of emergency department visits: a longitudinal study', Annals of Gastroenterology, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 630-636. https://doi.org/10.20524/aog.2023.0835
Sinha, I, Fogle, RL, Gulfidan, G, Stanley, AE, Walter, V, Hollenbeak, CS, Arga, KY & Sinha, R 2023, 'Potential Early Markers for Breast Cancer: A Proteomic Approach Comparing Saliva and Serum Samples in a Pilot Study', International journal of molecular sciences, vol. 24, no. 4, 4164. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24044164
Pandya Shesh, B, Walter, V, Palsa, K, Slagle-Webb, B, Neely, E, Schell, T & Connor, JR 2023, 'Sexually dimorphic effect of H-ferritin genetic manipulation on survival and tumor microenvironment in a mouse model of glioblastoma', Journal of neuro-oncology, vol. 164, no. 3, pp. 569-586. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-023-04415-2
Shuman, L, Pham, J, Wildermuth, T, Wu, XR, Walter, V, Warrick, JI & DeGraff, DJ 2023, 'Urothelium-Specific Expression of Mutationally Activated Pik3ca Initiates Early Lesions of Noninvasive Bladder Cancer', American Journal of Pathology, vol. 193, no. 12, pp. 2133-2143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2023.07.001
2022
Warrick, JI, Knowles, MA, Hurst, CD, Shuman, L, Raman, JD, Walter, V, Putt, J, Dyrskjøt, L, Groeneveld, C, Castro, MAA, Robertson, AG & DeGraff, DJ 2022, 'A transcriptional network of cell cycle dysregulation in noninvasive papillary urothelial carcinoma', Scientific reports, vol. 12, no. 1, 16538. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20927-9
Warrick, JI, Hu, W, Yamashita, H, Walter, V, Shuman, L, Craig, JM, Gellert, LL, Castro, MAA, Robertson, AG, Kuo, F, Ostrovnaya, I, Sarungbam, J, Chen, YB, Gopalan, A, Sirintrapun, SJ, Fine, SW, Tickoo, SK, Kim, K, Thomas, J, Karan, N, Gao, SP, Clinton, TN, Lenis, AT, Chan, TA, Chen, Z, Rao, M, Hollman, TJ, Li, Y, Socci, ND, Chavan, S, Viale, A, Mohibullah, N, Bochner, BH, Pietzak, EJ, Teo, MY, Iyer, G, Rosenberg, JE, Bajorin, DF, Kaag, M, Merrill, SB, Joshi, M, Adam, R, Taylor, JA, Clark, PE, Raman, JD, Reuter, VE, Chen, Y, Funt, SA, Solit, DB, DeGraff, DJ & Al-Ahmadie, HA 2022, 'Author Correction: FOXA1 repression drives lineage plasticity and immune heterogeneity in bladder cancers with squamous differentiation (Nature Communications, (2022), 13, 1, (6575), 10.1038/s41467-022-34251-3)', Nature communications, vol. 13, no. 1, 7920. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35644-0
Hoskins, M, Sefick, S, Zurca, AD, Walter, V, Thomas, NJ & Krawiec, C 2022, 'Current utilization of interosseous access in pediatrics: a population-based analysis using an EHR database, TriNetX', International Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 15, no. 1, 65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12245-022-00467-9
Hu, J, Brendle, SA, Li, JJ, Walter, V, Cladel, NM, Cooper, T, Shearer, DA, Balogh, KK & Christensen, ND 2022, 'Depo Medroxyprogesterone (DMPA) Promotes Papillomavirus Infections but Does Not Accelerate Disease Progression in the Anogenital Tract of a Mouse Model', Viruses, vol. 14, no. 5, 980. https://doi.org/10.3390/v14050980
Walter, V, Choi, HY, Zhao, X, Gao, Y, Holt, J & Hayes, DN 2022, 'DiNAMIC.Duo: detecting somatic DNA copy number differences without a normal reference', Bioinformatics, vol. 38, no. 18, pp. 4415-4417. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac542
Krawiec, C, Williams, D, Walter, V & Thomas, NJ 2022, 'Evaluation of reported medical services provided to pediatric viral bronchiolitis diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic', Respiratory Medicine and Research, vol. 81, 100909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resmer.2022.100909
Warrick, JI, Hu, W, Yamashita, H, Walter, V, Shuman, L, Craig, JM, Gellert, LL, Castro, MAA, Robertson, AG, Kuo, F, Ostrovnaya, I, Sarungbam, J, Chen, YB, Gopalan, A, Sirintrapun, SJ, Fine, SW, Tickoo, SK, Kim, K, Thomas, J, Karan, N, Gao, SP, Clinton, TN, Lenis, AT, Chan, TA, Chen, Z, Rao, M, Hollman, TJ, Li, Y, Socci, ND, Chavan, S, Viale, A, Mohibullah, N, Bochner, BH, Pietzak, EJ, Teo, MY, Iyer, G, Rosenberg, JE, Bajorin, DF, Kaag, M, Merrill, SB, Joshi, M, Adam, R, Taylor, JA, Clark, PE, Raman, JD, Reuter, VE, Chen, Y, Funt, SA, Solit, DB, DeGraff, DJ & Al-Ahmadie, HA 2022, 'FOXA1 repression drives lineage plasticity and immune heterogeneity in bladder cancers with squamous differentiation', Nature communications, vol. 13, no. 1, 6575. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34251-3
Roberts, CM, Williams, D, Ceneviva, GD, Walter, V, Thomas, NJ & Krawiec, C 2022, 'Frequency and Results of Pregnancy Screening in Critically Ill Adolescents in Multiple Health Care Organizations', Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 552-558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.05.008
Cadet, K, Ceneviva, GD, Walter, V, Thomas, NJ & Krawiec, C 2023, 'Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Diagnostic Frequency of Febrile Seizures: An Electronic Health Record Database Observational Study', Neurohospitalist, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 46-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/19418744221123208
Brendle, SA, Li, J, Cladel, NM, Balogh, KK, Booth, J, Shearer, DA, Walter, V, Lu, S, Christensen, ND, Covington, D, DeBroff, J, Milici, J, Zhu, Y, Viscidi, R & Hu, J 2022, 'Passive Immunization with a Single Monoclonal Neutralizing Antibody Protects against Cutaneous and Mucosal Mouse Papillomavirus Infections', Journal of virology, vol. 96, no. 16. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00703-22
Johnson, MT, Xin, P, Cory Benson, J, Pathak, T, Walter, V, Emrich, SM, Yoast, RE, Zhang, X, Cao, G, Panettieri, RA & Trebak, M 2022, 'STIM1 is a core trigger of airway smooth muscle remodeling and hyperresponsiveness in asthma', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 119, no. 1, e2114557118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2114557118
Choe, AI, Woodard, S, Thompson, BM, Walter, V, Fotos, JS & Kasales, CJ 2022, 'Spaced Education: Randomized Trial Comparing Learning Efficiency of the Adaptive Versus Nonadaptive Spaced Education Systems Among Radiology Residents', Journal of the American College of Radiology, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 706-710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacr.2022.03.010
Coates, MD, Dalessio, S, Walter, V, Stuart, A, Bernasko, N, Tinsley, A, Razeghi, S, Williams, ED, Clarke, K & Vrana, K 2022, 'Symptoms and Extraintestinal Manifestations in Active Cannabis Users with Inflammatory Bowel Disease', Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 445-450. https://doi.org/10.1089/can.2020.0155
Bogale, K, Maheshwari, P, Kang, M, Gorrepati, VS, Dalessio, S, Walter, V, Stuart, A, Koltun, W, Bernasko, N, Tinsley, A, Williams, ED, Clarke, K & Coates, MD 2022, 'Symptoms associated with healthcare resource utilization in the setting of inflammatory bowel disease', Scientific reports, vol. 12, no. 1, 10577. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14838-y
Johnson, MT, Benson, JC, Pathak, T, Xin, P, McKernan, AS, Emrich, SM, Yoast, RE, Walter, V, Straub, AC & Trebak, M 2022, 'The airway smooth muscle sodium/calcium exchanger NCLX is critical for airway remodeling and hyperresponsiveness in asthma', Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 298, no. 8, 102259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102259
2021
Stoltzfus, KC, Shen, B, Tchelebi, L, Trifiletti, DM, Gusani, NJ, Walter, V, Wang, M & Zaorsky, NG 2021, 'Authors’ Reply: To the Letter to the Editor by Kessel et al', JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. XLIII-XLIV. https://doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2021.7068
for the Efraim investigators and the Nine-I study group 2021, 'Bacteremia in critically ill immunocompromised patients with acute hypoxic respiratory failure: A post-hoc analysis of a prospective multicenter multinational cohort', Journal of Critical Care, vol. 64, pp. 114-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc.2021.03.014
Sinha, I, Modesto, J, Krebs, NM, Stanley, AE, Walter, VA, Richie, JP, Muscat, JE & Sinha, R 2021, 'Changes in salivary proteome before and after cigarette smoking in smokers compared to sham smoking in nonsmokers: A pilot study', Tobacco Induced Diseases, vol. 19, 138336. https://doi.org/10.18332/TID/138336
Damrauer, JS, Smith, MA, Walter, V, Thennavan, A, Mose, LE, Selitsky, SR & Hoadley, KA 2021, 'Genomic characterization of rare molecular subclasses of hepatocellular carcinoma', Communications Biology, vol. 4, no. 1, 1150. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02674-1
Schlueter, D, Kovaleski, C, Walter, V, Thomas, NJ & Krawiec, C 2021, 'Impact of body mass index and initial respiratory support on pediatric subjects in acute respiratory failure', Respiratory care, vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 1425-1432. https://doi.org/10.4187/respcare.08735
Stoltzfus, KC, Shen, B, Tchelebi, L, Trifiletti, DM, Gusani, NJ, Walter, V, Wang, M & Zaorsky, NG 2021, 'Impact of facility surgical volume on survival in patients with cancer', JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 495-503. https://doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2020.7644
Tchelebi, LT, Shen, B, Wang, M, Gusani, NJ, Walter, V, Abrams, R, Verma, V & Zaorsky, NG 2021, 'Impact of radiation therapy facility volume on survival in patients with cancer', Cancer, vol. 127, no. 21, pp. 4081-4090. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.33777
Holt, J, Walter, V, Yin, X, Marron, D, Wilkerson, MD, Choi, HY, Zhao, X, Jo, H, Hayes, DN & Ko, YH 2021, 'Integrative analysis of miRNAs identifies clinically relevant epithelial and stromal subtypes of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma', Clinical Cancer Research, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 831-842. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-0557
Bogale, K, Vrana, K, Konsavage, WR, Walter, V, Stuart, A, Dalessio, S, Koltun, W, Bernasko, N, Tinsley, A, Williams, E, Clarke, K & Coates, MD 2021, 'Polysubstance use in inflammatory bowel disease', Journal of Digestive Diseases, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 706-713. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-2980.13064
Choe, AI, Ismail, R, Mack, J, Walter, V, Yang, AL & Dodge, DG 2022, 'Review of Variables Associated With Positive Surgical Margins Using Scout Reflector Localizations for Breast Conservation Therapy', Clinical Breast Cancer, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. e232-e238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clbc.2021.07.003
Lehrer, EJ, Stoltzfus, KC, Jones, BM, Gusani, NJ, Walter, V, Wang, M, Trifiletti, DM, Siva, S, Louie, AV & Zaorsky, NG 2021, 'Trends in Diagnosis and Treatment of Metastatic Cancer in the United States', American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 572-579. https://doi.org/10.1097/COC.0000000000000866