PUBLICATIONS

The full list of publications can be found in PubMed, Google Scholar, ORCID, and   Research Gate.

1. Ogawa T, Ono K, Ryumon S, Kawai H, Sato K, Umemori K, Yoshida K, Obata K, Kunisada Y, Okui T, Okamoto K, Nagatsuka H, Momen-Heravi F, Ibaragi S. ATPase copper transporting beta contributes to cisplatin resistance as a regulatory factor of extracellular vesicles in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Gene Ther. 2025 Oct 17. doi: 10.1038/s41417-025-00975-9.
2. Spann MN, Hua M, Shimbo D, Begg M, Gartrell R, Momen-Heravi F; Irving Institute for Clinical Translational Research; Accordino M, Connolly E, Einstein A, Dimitropoulou K, Chang B, Vardarajan B. Keeping the network alive: The importance of professional social networks for long-term research career development. J Clin Transl Sci. 2025 Aug 15;9(1):e170.
3. Jain S, Bai X, Mallick S, Kinghorn B, May B, Yao AG, Allen-Gipson D, Zhang X, Henick BS, Momen-Heravi F, Carrot-Zhang J, Taylor AM. Amplification of MYC and Its Enhancer Correlates With Genetic Ancestry in Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma. JCO Precis Oncol. 2024 Oct; 8:e2400223.
4. Shimonosono M, Morimoto M, Hirose W, Tomita Y, Matsuura N, Flashner S, Ebadi MS, Okayasu EH, Lee CY, Britton WR, Martin C, Wuertz BR, Parikh AS, Sachdeva UM, Ondrey FG, Atigadda VR, Elmets CA, Abrams JA, Muir AB, Klein-Szanto AJ, Weinberg KI, Momen-Heravi F, Nakagawa H. Modeling Epithelial Homeostasis and Perturbation in Three-Dimensional Human Esophageal Organoids. Biomolecules. 2024 Sep 5;14(9):1126.
5. Viet CT, Asam KR, Yu G, Dyer EC, Kochanny S, Thomas CM, Callahan NF, Morlandt AB, Cheng AC, Patel AA, Roden DF, Young S, Melville J, Shum J, Walker PC, Nguyen KK, Kidd SN, Lee SC, Folk GS, Viet DT, Grandhi A, Deisch J, Ye Y, Momen-Heravi F, Pearson AT, Aouizerat BE. Artificial intelligence-based epigenomic, transcriptomic and histologic signatures of tobacco use in oral squamous cell carcinoma. NPJ Precis Oncol. 2024 Jun 8; 8(1):130.
6. Donelian A, Liu Z, Trager MH, Momen-Heravi F, Samie FH. Racial and ethnic disparities in basal cell carcinoma treated by Mohs micrographic surgery: the Columbia experience. Arch Dermatol Res. 2024, 11;316(5):151.
7. Dubey S, Chen Z, Jiang YJ, Talis A, Molotkov A, Ali A, Mintz A, Momen-Heravi F*. Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs)-based gene delivery platform for cell-specific CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. Theranostics. 2024 Apr 28;14(7):2777-2793. [*Corresponding author]
8. Nickerson JA, Momen-Heravi F*. Long non-coding RNAs: roles in cellular stress responses and epigenetic mechanisms regulating chromatin. Nucleus. 2024 Dec;15(1): 2350180. [*Co-corresponding author]
9. Chen F, Tang C, Yang F, Ekpenyong A, Qin R, Xie J, Momen-Heravi F, Saba NF, Teng Y. HSP90 inhibition suppresses tumor glycolytic flux to potentiate the therapeutic efficacy of radiotherapy for head and neck cancer. Sci Adv. 2024 Feb 23;10(8):eadk3663.
10. Welsh JA et al and MISEV Consortium. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles (MISEV2023): From basic to advanced approaches. J Extracell Vesicles. 2024 Feb; 13(2): e12404.
11. Wu YC, Kissner M, Momen-Heravi F*. A comprehensive multiparameter flow cytometry panel for immune profiling and functional studies of frozen tissue, bone marrow, and spleen. J Immunol Methods. 2023;515:113444. [*Corresponding author]
12. Mezghani N, Yao A, Vasilyeva D, Kaplan N, Shackelford A, Yoon A, Phillipone E, Dubey S, Schwartz GK, Taylor AM, Momen-Heravi F*. Molecular Subtypes of Head and Neck Cancer in Patients of African Ancestry. Clin Cancer Res. 2023;29(5):910-920. [*Corresponding author]
13. Parikh AS, Yu VX, Flashner S, Okolo OB, Lu C, Henick BS, Momen-Heravi F, Puram SV, Teknos T, Pan Q, Nakagawa H. Patient-derived three-dimensional culture techniques model tumor heterogeneity in head and neck cancer. Oral Oncol. 2023;138:106330.
14. Li J, Momen-Heravi F, Wu X, He K. Mechanism of METTL14 and m6A modification of lncRNA MALAT1 in the proliferation of oral squamous cell carcinoma cells. Oral Dis. 2023;29(5):2012-2026.
15. Flashner S, Martin C, Matsuura N, Shimonosono M, Tomita Y, Morimoto M, Okolo O, Yu VX, Parikh AS, Klein-Szanto AJP, Yan K, Gabre JT, Lu C, Momen-Heravi F, Rustgi AK, Nakagawa H. Modeling Oral-Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in 3D Organoids. J Vis Exp. 2022;190:10.3791/64676.
16. Tanagala KKK, Morin-Baxter J, Carvajal R, Cheema M, Dubey S, Nakagawa H, Yoon A, Cheng YL, Taylor A, Nickerson J, Mintz A, Momen-Heravi F*. SP140 inhibits STAT1 signaling, induces IFN-γ in tumor-associated macrophages, and is a predictive biomarker of immunotherapy response. J Immunother Cancer. 2022;10(12):e005088. [*Corresponding author]
17. Capaccione KM, Doubrovin M, Braumuller B, Leibowitz D, Bhatt N, Momen-Heravi F, Molotkov A, Kissner M, Goldner K, Soffing M, Ali A, Mintz A. Evaluating the Combined Anticancer Response of Checkpoint Inhibitor Immunotherapy and FAP-Targeted Molecular Radiotherapy in Murine Models of Melanoma and Lung Cancer. Cancers (Basel). 2022;14(19):4575.
18. Agrafioti P, Morin-Baxter J, Tanagala KKK, Dubey S, Sims P, Lalla E, Momen-Heravi F*. Decoding the role of macrophages in periodontitis and type 2 diabetes using single-cell RNA-sequencing. FASEB J. 2022;36(2):e22136. [*Corresponding author]
19. Shimonosono M, Tanaka K, Flashner S, Takada S, Matsuura N, Tomita Y, Sachdeva UM, Noguchi E, Sangwan V, Ferri L, Momen-Heravi F, Yoon AJ, Klein-Szanto AJ, Diehl JA, Nakagawa H. Alcohol Metabolism Enriches Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cancer Stem Cells That Survive Oxidative Stress via Autophagy. Biomolecules. 2021;11(10):1479.
20. Momen-Heravi F, Catalano D, Talis A, Szabo G, Bala S. Protective effect of LNA-anti-miR-132 therapy on liver fibrosis in mice. Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids. 2021;25:155-167.
21. Kim H, Momen-Heravi F, Chen S, Hoffmann P, Kebschull M, Papapanou PN. Differential DNA methylation and mRNA transcription in gingival tissues in periodontal health and disease. J Clin Periodontol. 2021 Sep;48(9):1152-1164.
22. Wu X, Cheng YL, Matthen M, Yoon A, Schwartz GK, Bala S, Taylor AM*, Momen-Heravi F*. Down-regulation of the tumor suppressor miR-34a contributes to head and neck cancer by up-regulating the MET oncogene and modulating tumor immune evasion. J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Feb 17;40(1):70. [*Co-corresponding authors]
23. Yoon AJ, Santella RM, Wang S, Kutler DI, Carvajal RD, Philipone E, Wang T, Peters SM, Stewart CR, Momen-Heravi F, Troob S, Levin M, Akhavan Aghdam Z, Shackelford AJ, Canterbury CR, Shimonosono M, Hernandez BY, McDowell BD, Nakagawa H. MicroRNA-Based Cancer Mortality Risk Scoring System and hTERT Expression in Early-Stage Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma . J Oncol. 2021 Jan 15;2021:8292453.
24. Momen-Heravi F, Friedman RA, Albeshri S, Sawle A, Kebschull M, Kuhn A, Papapanou PN. Cell Type-Specific Decomposition of Gingival Tissue Transcriptomes. J Dent Res. 2021;100(5):549-556.
25. Mathew M, Zade M, Mezghani N, Patel R, Wang Y, Momen-Heravi F*. Extracellular vesicles as biomarkers in cancer immunotherapy. Cancers. 2020; 12(10): 2825. [*Corresponding author]
26. Yoon AJ, Wang S, Kutler DI, Carvajal RD, Philipone E, Wang T, Peters SM, LaRocher D, Hernandez BY, McDowell BD, Stewart CR, Momen-Heravi F, Santella RM. MicroRNA-based risk scoring system to identify early-stage oral squamous cell carcinoma patients at high-risk for cancer-specific mortality. Head Neck. 2020;42(8):1699-1712.
27. Szabo S, Momen-Heravi F. Extracellular Vesicles and Exosomes. Chapter in: The Liver: Biology and Pathobiology, 6th edition, 2020: 1022-1027.
28. Almubarak A, Tanagala KKK, Papapanou PN, Lalla E, Momen-Heravi F*. Disruption of monocytes and macrophages in periodontal disease. Frontiers in Immunology. 2021;100(5):549-556. [*Corresponding author]
29. Brenner AW, Su GH, Momen-Heravi F*. Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles for Cancer Diagnosis and Functional Studies. Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1882:229-237. [*Corresponding author]
30. Momen-Heravi F*, Bala S*. Extracellular vesicles in oral squamous carcinoma carry oncogenic miRNA profile and reprogram monocytes via NF- κB pathway. Oncotarget. 2018; 5;9(78):34838-34854. [*Co-corresponding authors]
31. Momen-Heravi F*, Getting SJ, Moschos SA. Extracellular vesicles and their, nucleic acids for biomarker discovery. Pharmacol Ther. 2018;192:170-187. [*Corresponding author]
32. Momen-Heravi F*, Bala S. miRNA regulation of innate immunity. J Leukoc Biol. 2018 Apr 14. [*Corresponding authors]
33. Saha B, Momen-Heravi F, Furi I, Kodys K, Catalano D, Gangopadhyay A, Haraszti R, Satishchandran A, Iracheta-Vellve A, Adejumo A, Shaffer SA, Szabo G. Extracellular vesicles from mice with alcoholic liver disease carry a distinct protein cargo and induce macrophage activation through heat shock protein 90. Hepatology. 2018;67(5):1986-2000.
34. Momen-Heravi F*, Bala S*. Emerging role of non-coding RNA in oral cancer. Cell Signal. 2018;42:134-143. [*Co-corresponding authors]
35. Yang W, Liu L, Masugi Y, Qian ZR, Nishihara R, Keum N, Wu K, Smith-Warner S, Ma Y, Nowak JA, Momen-Heravi F, Zhang L, Bowden M, Morikawa T, Silva AD, Wang M, Chan AT, Fuchs CS, Meyerhardt JA, Ng K, Giovannucci E, Ogino S, Zhang X. Calcium intake and risk of colorectal cancer according to expression status of calcium-sensing receptor (CASR). Gut. 2018;67(8):1475-1483.
36. Momen-Heravi F, Masugi Y, Qian ZR, Nishihara R, Liu L, Smith-Warner SA, Keum N, Zhang L, Tchrakian N, Nowak JA, Yang W, Ma Y, Bowden M, da Silva A, Wang M, Fuchs CS, Meyerhardt JA, Ng K, Wu K, Giovannucci E, Ogino S, Zhang X. Tumor expression of calcium sensing receptor and colorectal cancer survival: Results from the nurses’ health study and health professionals follow-up study. Int J Cancer. 2017; 15;141(12):2471-2479.
37. Momen-Heravi F*. Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles by Ultracentrifugation. Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1660:25-32. [*Corresponding author]
38. Furi I, Momen-Heravi F, Szabo G. Extracellular vesicle isolation: present and future. Ann Transl Med. 2017;5(12):263.
39. Szabo G, Momen-Heravi F. Extracellular vesicles in liver disease and potential as biomarkers and therapeutic targets. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2017;14(8):455-466.
40. Momen-Heravi F, Babic A, Tworoger SS, Zhang L, Wu K, Smith-Warner SA, Ogino S, Chan AT, Meyerhardt J, Giovannucci E, Fuchs C, Cho E, Michaud DS, Stampfer MJ, Yu YH, Kim D, Zhang X. Periodontal disease, tooth loss and colorectal cancer risk: Results from the Nurses’ Health Study. Int J Cancer. 2017;140(3):646-652.
41. Saha B*, Momen-Heravi F*, Kodys K, Szabo G. MicroRNA Cargo of Extracellular Vesicles from Alcohol-exposed Monocytes Signals Naive Monocytes to Differentiate into M2 Macrophages. J Biol Chem. 2016 ;291(1):149-59. [*Equal contributions]
42. Momen-Heravi F, Bala S. The miRNA and Extracellular Vesicles in Alcoholic Liver Disease. Chapter in: Molecular Aspects of Alcohol and Nutrition, 2016: p275-286.
43. Momen-Heravi F, Saha B, Kodys K, Catalano D, Satishchandran A, Szabo G. Increased number of circulating exosomes and their microRNA cargos are potential novel biomarkers in alcoholic hepatitis. J Transl Med. 2015;12;13:261.
44. Bala S, Csak T, Momen-Heravi F, Lippai D, Kodys K, Catalano D, Satishchandran A, Ambros V, Szabo G. Biodistribution and function of extracellular miRNA-155 in mice. Sci Rep. 2015;5:10721.
45. Momen-Heravi F, Bala S, Kodys K, Szabo G. Exosomes derived from alcohol-treated hepatocytes horizontally transfer liver specific miRNA-122 and sensitize monocytes to LPS. Sci Rep. 2015;5:9991.
46. Monzavi A, Eshraghi S, Hashemian R, Momen-Heravi F*. In vitro and ex vivo antimicrobial efficacy of nano-MgO in the elimination of endodontic pathogens. Clin Oral Investig. 2015 Mar;19(2):349-56. [*Corresponding author]
47. Bukong TN*, Momen-Heravi F*, Kodys K, Bala S, Szabo G. Exosomes from hepatitis C infected patients transmit HCV infection and contain replication competent viral RNA in complex with Ago2-miR122-HSP90. PLoS Pathog. 2014 ;10(10):e1004424. [*Equal contributions]
48. Momen-Heravi F*, Trachtenberg AJ, Kuo WP, Cheng YS. Genomewide Study of Salivary MicroRNAs for Detection of Oral Cancer. J Dent Res. 2014;93(7 Suppl):86S-93S. [*Corresponding author]
49. Balaj L*, Momen-Heravi F*, Chen W, Sivaraman S, Zhang X, Ludwig N, Meese E, Wurdinger T, Noske D, Charest A, Hochberg FH, Vandertop P, Skog J, Kuo WP. Detection of human c-Myc and EGFR amplifications in circulating extracellular vesicles in mouse tumour models. J of Circulating Biomarkers. 2014; 3:6. [*Equal contributions]
50. Momen-Heravi F, Bala S, Bukong T, Szabo G. Exosome-mediated delivery of functionally active miRNA-155 inhibitor to macrophages. Nanomedicine. 2014;10(7):1517-27.
51. Jia S, Zocco D, Samuels ML, Chou MF, Chammas R, Skog J, Zarovni N, Momen-Heravi F, Kuo WP. Emerging technologies in extracellular vesicle-based molecular diagnostics. Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2014;14(3):307-21.
52. Momen-Heravi F, Balaj L, Alian S, Mantel PY, Halleck AE, Trachtenberg AJ, Soria CE, Oquin S, Bonebreak CM, Saracoglu E, Skog J, Kuo WP. Current methods for the isolation of extracellular vesicles. Biol Chem. 2013;394(10):1253-62.
53. Suntres ZE, Smith MG, Momen-Heravi F, Hu J, Zhang X, Wu Y, Zhu H, Wang J, Zhou J, Kuo WP. Therapeutic uses of exosomes. Exosomes Microvesicles. 2013;1:5.
54. Momen-Heravi F, Balaj L, Alian S, Tigges J, Toxavidis V, Ericsson M, Distel RJ, Ivanov AR, Skog J, Kuo WP. Alternative methods for characterization of extracellular vesicles. Front Physiol. 2012;7;3:354.
55. Momen-Heravi F, Balaj L, Alian S, Trachtenberg AJ, Hochberg FH, Skog J, Kuo WP. Impact of biofluid viscosity on size and sedimentation efficiency of the isolated microvesicles. Front Physiol. 2012;28;3:162.
56. Sandu N, Momen-Heravi F, Sadr-Eshkevari P, Schaller B. Molecular imaging for stem cell transplantation in neuroregenerative medicine. Neurodegener Dis. 2012;9(2):60-7.
57. Khalilzadeh O, Anvari M, Esteghamati A, Momen-Heravi F, Rashidi A, Amiri HM, Tahvildari M, Mahmoudi M, Amirzargar A. Genetic susceptibility to Graves’ ophthalmopathy: The role of polymorphisms in anti-inflammatory cytokine genes. Ophthalmic Genet. 2010;31(4):215-20.
58. Anvari M, Khalilzadeh O, Esteghamati A, Momen-Heravi F, Mahmoudi M, Esfahani SA, Rashidi A, Amirzargar A. Graves’ disease and gene polymorphism of TNF-α, IL-2, IL-6, IL-12, and IFN-γ. Endocrine. 2010;37(2):344-8.
59. Khalilzadeh O, Anvari M, Esteghamati A, Momen-Heravi F, Mahmoudi M, Rashidi A, Amiri HM, Ranjbar M, Tabataba-Vakili S, Amirzargar A. The interleukin-1 family gene polymorphisms and Graves’ disease. Ann Endocrinol (Paris). 2010;71(4):281-5.
60. Momen-Beitollahi J, Mansourian A, Momen-Heravi F, Amanlou M, Obradov S, Sahebjamee M. Assessment of salivary and serum antioxidant status in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis. Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal. 2010;15(4):e557-61.
61. Bayat M, Momen-Heravi F, Marjani M, Motahhary P. A comparison of bone reconstruction following application of bone matrix gelatin and autogenous bone grafts to alveolar defects: an animal study. J Craniomaxillofac Surg. 2010;38(4):288-92.
62. Khalilzadeh O, Anvari M, Momen-Heravi F, Esteghamati A, Rashidi A, Mahmoudi M, Nikbin B, Amirzargar A. Gene polymorphisms of interleukin-4, interleukin-10 and transforming growth factor-beta in Graves’ disease. Clin Exp Med. 2010;10(2):123-8