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Samudra Dissanayake

B.S., Zoology (1994)

University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

dissanay@umbc.edu

Program

  Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology

Mentor

  Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg

Research

 


Publications

 
Dissanayake SK, Thompson JA, Bosch JJ, Clements VK, Chen PW, Ksander BR, Ostrand-Rosenberg S.
  Activation of tumor-specific CD4(+) T lymphocytes by major histocompatibility complex class II tumor cell vaccines: a novel cell-based immunotherapy. Cancer Res. 2004 64:1867-1874. [PubMed listing][PDF].
Ostrand-Rosenberg S, Clements V, Dissanayake SK, Gilbert M, Pulaski B, Qi L
  Immunologic targets for the gene therapy of cancer, in: Gene Therapy of Cancer, 2nd edition (Lattime and Gerson, eds.), Academic Press, pp. 127-142 2002.
Ostrand-Rosenberg S, Clements VK, Terabe M, Park JM, Berzofsky JA, Dissanayake SK
  Resistance to metastatic disease in STAT6-deficient mice requires hemopoietic and nonhemopoietic cells and is IFN-gamma dependent. J Immunol. 2002 169:5796-804. [PubMed listing] [PDF file]

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