UMBC An Honors University in Maryland
UMBC Biological Sciences
Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg
Contact Information
Office: BS 221
Phone: 410-455-2237
Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg
Professor of Biological Sciences; Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Chair of Biochemistry
Postdoctoral, Johns Hopkins University, 1977; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1975
Selected publications

Thompson JA, Srivastava MK, Bosch JJ, Clements VK, Ksander BR, Ostrand-Rosenberg S.  2008. The absence of invariant chain in MHC II cancer vaccines enhances the activation of tumor-reactive type 1 CD4(+) T lymphocytes.  Cancer Immunol. Immunother. 57:389-398.  E-pub ahead of print.
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Bunt SK, Yang L, Sinha P, Clements VK, Leips J, Ostrand-Rosenberg S.  2007.  Reduced inflammation in the tumor microenvironment delays the accumulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells and limits tumor progression.  Cancer Res. 67:10019-10026.
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Sinha P, Clements VK, Fulton AM, Ostrand-Rosenberg S.  2007. Prostaglandin E2 promotes tumor progression by inducing myeloid-derived suppressor cells.  Cancer Res. 67:4507-4513.

Bunt SK, Hanson EM, Sinha P, Srivastava MK, Clements VK, and Ostrand-Rosenberg S. Tumor associated myeloid-derived suppressor cells. In:  Cancer Immunotherapy: Immune Suppression and Tumor Growth. (Eds:  George Prendergast and Elizabeth Jaffee.  Chapter 17, p. 309.  Elsevier Inc. June 2007.

Sinha P, Clements VK, Bunt SK, Albelda SM, Ostrand-Rosenberg S. 2007.  Cross-talk between myeloid-derived suppressor cells and macrophages subverts tumor immunity toward a type 2 response.  J. Immunol. 179:977-983.
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Bosch JJ, Thompson JA, Srivastava MK, Iheagwara UK, Murray TG, Lotem M, Ksander BR, Ostrand-Rosenberg S.  2007.   MHC class II-transduced tumor cells originating in the immune-privileged eye prime and boost CD4(+) T lymphocytes that cross-react with primary and metastatic uveal melanoma cells.  Cancer Res. 67:4499-4506.
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Dolan BP, Gibbs KD Jr., and Ostrand-Rosenberg, Suzanne.  2006. Dendritic cells cross-dressed with peptide MHC class I complexes prime CD8+ T cells.  J. Immunol. 177:6018-6024
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Bunt SK, Sinha P Clements VK, Leips J and Ostrand-Rosenberg S.  2006.  Inflammation induces myeloid-derived suppressor cells that facilitate tumor progression.  J. Immunol. 176:284-290.
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Thompson JA, Dissanayake SK, Ksander BR, Knutson KL, Disis ML and Ostrand-Rosenberg S.  2006.  Tumor cells transduced with the MHC class II Transactivator and CD80 activate tumor-specific CD4+ T cells whether or not they are silenced for invariant chain.  Cancer Res. 66:1147-1154.
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Dolan BP, Gibbs KD Jr., and Ostrand-Rosenberg, Suzanne.  2006. Tumor-specific CD4+ T cells are activated by "cross-dressed" dendritic cells presenting peptide-MHC class II complexes acquired from cell-based cancer vaccines.  J. Immunol. 176:1447-1455.
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