Erdem Tabdanov, PhD, MSc - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile
Erdem Tabdanov, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Biological Systems
Scientific Program:Next-Generation Therapies
Recent Publications
2025
Paschall, L, Tsai, A, Tabdanov, E, Negrini, K, Izer, J, Dhawan, A & Szczesny, SE 2025, 'Allograft and autograft anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions exhibit a similar biological response to cyclic loading', Connective Tissue Research, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 37-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/03008207.2025.2456957
2024
Jaberi, A, Kedzierski, A, Kheirabadi, S, Tagay, Y, Ataie, Z, Zavari, S, Naghashnejad, M, Waldron, O, Adhikari, D, Lester, G, Gallagher, C, Borhan, A, Ravnic, D, Tabdanov, E & Sheikhi, A 2024, 'Engineering Microgel Packing to Tailor the Physical and Biological Properties of Gelatin Methacryloyl Granular Hydrogel Scaffolds', Advanced Healthcare Materials, vol. 13, no. 25, 2402489. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202402489
Zhovmer, AS, Manning, A, Smith, C, Nguyen, A, Prince, O, Sáez, PJ, Ma, X, Tsygankov, D, Cartagena-Rivera, AX, Singh, NA, Singh, RK & Tabdanov, ED 2024, 'Septins provide microenvironment sensing and cortical actomyosin partitioning in motile amoeboid T lymphocytes', Science Advances, vol. 10, no. 1, eadi1788. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi1788
2023
Chen, J, Vishweshwaraiah, YL, Mailman, RB, Tabdanov, ED & Dokholyan, NV 2023, 'A noncommutative combinatorial protein logic circuit controls cell orientation in nanoenvironments', Science Advances, vol. 9, no. 21, eadg1062. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg1062
Paschall, L, Carrozzi, S, Tabdanov, E, Dhawan, A & Szczesny, SE 2024, 'Cyclic loading induces anabolic gene expression in ACLs in a load-dependent and sex-specific manner', Journal of Orthopaedic Research, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 267-276. https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.25677
Tagay, Y, Kheirabadi, S, Ataie, Z, Singh, RK, Prince, O, Nguyen, A, Zhovmer, AS, Ma, X, Sheikhi, A, Tsygankov, D & Tabdanov, ED 2023, 'Dynein-Powered Cell Locomotion Guides Metastasis of Breast Cancer', Advanced Science, vol. 10, no. 31, 2302229. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202302229
Khazan, N, Quarato, ER, Singh, NA, Snyder, CWA, Moore, T, Miller, JP, Yasui, M, Teramoto, Y, Goto, T, Reshi, S, Hong, J, Zhang, N, Pandey, D, Srivastava, P, Morell, A, Kawano, H, Kawano, Y, Conley, T, Sahasrabudhe, DM, Yano, N, Miyamoto, H, Aljitawi, O, Liesveld, J, Becker, MW, Calvi, LM, Zhovmer, AS, Tabdanov, ED, Dokholyan, NV, Linehan, DC, Hansen, JN, Gerber, SA, Sharon, A, Khera, MK, Jurutka, PW, Rochel, N, Kim, KK, Rowswell-Turner, RB, Singh, RK & Moore, RG 2023, 'Vitamin D Receptor Antagonist MeTC7 Inhibits PD-L1', Cancers, vol. 15, no. 13, 3432. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15133432
2021
Tabdanov, ED, Rodríguez-Merced, NJ, Cartagena-Rivera, AX, Puram, VV, Callaway, MK, Ensminger, EA, Pomeroy, EJ, Yamamoto, K, Lahr, WS, Webber, BR, Moriarity, BS, Zhovmer, AS & Provenzano, PP 2021, 'Engineering T cells to enhance 3D migration through structurally and mechanically complex tumor microenvironments', Nature communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 2815. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22985-5
Khazan, N, Kim, KK, Hansen, JN, Singh, NA, Moore, T, Snyder, CWA, Pandita, R, Strawderman, M, Fujihara, M, Takamura, Y, Jian, Y, Battaglia, N, Yano, N, Teramoto, Y, Arnold, LA, Hopson, R, Kishor, K, Nayak, S, Ojha, D, Sharon, A, Ashton, JM, Wang, J, Milano, MT, Miyamoto, H, Linehan, DC, Gerber, SA, Kawar, N, Singh, AP, Tabdanov, ED, Dokholyan, NV, Kakuta, H, Jurutka, PW, Schor, NF, Rowswell-Turner, RB, Singh, RK & Moore, RG 2022, 'Identification of a Vitamin-D Receptor Antagonist, MeTC7, which Inhibits the Growth of Xenograft and Transgenic Tumors in Vivo', Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 6039-6055. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c01878
Zhovmer, AS, Manning, A, Smith, C, Hayes, JB, Burnette, DT, Wang, J, Cartagena-Rivera, AX, Dokholyan, NV, Singh, RK & Tabdanov, ED 2021, 'Mechanical Counterbalance of Kinesin and Dynein Motors in a Microtubular Network Regulates Cell Mechanics, 3D Architecture, and Mechanosensing', ACS nano, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 17528-17548. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c04435
Zhovmer, AS, Chandler, M, Manning, A, Afonin, KA & Tabdanov, ED 2021, 'Programmable DNA-augmented hydrogels for controlled activation of human lymphocytes', Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, vol. 37, 102442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nano.2021.102442
Vishweshwaraiah, YL, Chen, J, Chirasani, VR, Tabdanov, ED & Dokholyan, NV 2021, 'Two-input protein logic gate for computation in living cells', Nature communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 6615. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26937-x