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Xiang H.-F. Zhang

Texas Medical Center ·
Area of research
Oncology · Immunology
Research interest
Research interests include Cancer Cells and Metastasis, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Bone health and treatments, and Immune cells in cancer.
h-index
57
citations
19,923
works
333
NIH funding
primary concept
Biology
email

Recent publications

Invasion and metastasis in cancer: molecular insights and therapeutic targets
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy 2025cited by 183position: middledoi
Integrative spatial omics reveals distinct tumor-promoting multicellular niches and immunosuppressive mechanisms in Black American and White American patients with TNBC
Nature Communications 2025cited by 11position: middledoi
Clinical and molecular features of acquired resistance to immunotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer
Cancer Cell 2024cited by 172position: middledoi
The bone microenvironment invigorates metastatic seeds for further dissemination
Cell 2021cited by 238position: lastdoi
Spliceosome-targeted therapies trigger an antiviral immune response in triple-negative breast cancer
Cell 2021cited by 211position: middledoi
Evolving cancer–niche interactions and therapeutic targets during bone metastasis
Nature reviews. Cancer 2021cited by 134position: lastdoi
The bone microenvironment increases phenotypic plasticity of ER+ breast cancer cells
Developmental Cell 2021cited by 115position: lastdoi
Lung mesenchymal cells elicit lipid storage in neutrophils that fuel breast cancer lung metastasis
Nature Immunology 2020cited by 240position: middledoi
Tumor-Associated Neutrophils and Macrophages—Heterogenous but Not Chaotic
Frontiers in Immunology 2020cited by 138position: lastdoi
Resistance to natural killer cell immunosurveillance confers a selective advantage to polyclonal metastasis
Nature Cancer 2020cited by 127position: lastdoi
Metastasis Organotropism: Redefining the Congenial Soil
Developmental Cell 2019cited by 365position: lastdoi
Immuno-subtyping of breast cancer reveals distinct myeloid cell profiles and immunotherapy resistance mechanisms
Nature Cell Biology 2019cited by 337position: lastdoi
Bone Metastasis: Find Your Niche and Fit in
Trends in cancer 2019cited by 107position: lastdoi
Metabolic enzyme PFKFB4 activates transcriptional coactivator SRC-3 to drive breast cancer
Nature 2018cited by 260position: middledoi
Perspective on Circulating Tumor Cell Clusters: Why It Takes a Village to Metastasize
Cancer Research 2018cited by 220position: middledoi
The Osteogenic Niche Is a Calcium Reservoir of Bone Micrometastases and Confers Unexpected Therapeutic Vulnerability
Cancer Cell 2018cited by 145position: lastdoi
HER2/EGFR–AKT Signaling Switches TGFβ from Inhibiting Cell Proliferation to Promoting Cell Migration in Breast Cancer
Cancer Research 2018cited by 100position: middledoi
Targeting Brain-Adaptive Cancer Stem Cells Prohibits Brain Metastatic Colonization of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Cancer Research 2018cited by 88position: middledoi
Mutual regulation of tumour vessel normalization and immunostimulatory reprogramming
Nature 2017cited by 840position: lastdoi
Oncogenic mTOR signalling recruits myeloid-derived suppressor cells to promote tumour initiation
Nature Cell Biology 2016cited by 214position: lastdoi
The spliceosome is a therapeutic vulnerability in MYC-driven cancer
Nature 2015cited by 521position: middledoi
The Osteogenic Niche Promotes Early-Stage Bone Colonization of Disseminated Breast Cancer Cells
Cancer Cell 2015cited by 381position: lastdoi
14-3-3ζ Turns TGF-β’s Function from Tumor Suppressor to Metastasis Promoter in Breast Cancer by Contextual Changes of Smad Partners from p53 to Gli2
Cancer Cell 2015cited by 182position: middledoi
Serpins Promote Cancer Cell Survival and Vascular Co-Option in Brain Metastasis
Cell 2014cited by 879position: middledoi
Selection of Bone Metastasis Seeds by Mesenchymal Signals in the Primary Tumor Stroma
Cell 2013cited by 418position: firstdoi
Dependency of Colorectal Cancer on a TGF-β-Driven Program in Stromal Cells for Metastasis Initiation
Cancer Cell 2012cited by 1,068position: middledoi

Grants

Collaborative Research: III: Small: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Explainable and Explanation-Assisted Graph Learning
NSF2529284$167,0002025–2028PIRePORTER
CAREER: Multiscale Reduced Order Modeling and Design to Elucidate the Microstructure-Property-Performance Relationship of Hybrid Composite Materials
NSF2341000$599,9602024–2029PIRePORTER
CRII:SCH:Self-Supervised Contrastive Representation Learning for Medical Time Series
NSF2245894$195,4642023–2026PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: An Integrated Multiscale Reduced-Order Modeling and Experimental Framework for Lithium-ion Batteries under Mechanical Abuse Conditions
NSF2114822$342,7002021–2025PIRePORTER
MRI: Acquisition of a Low-Vibration, Cryogen-Free Cryostat Microscope System
NSF1725335$232,2782017–2019PIRePORTER
EAGER: Advancing High-Efficiency Nanoscale Antiferromagnetic Spintronics with Two-Dimensional Half Metals
NSF1753380$100,0002017–2020PIRePORTER
CAREER: Novel Approaches for Mining Large and Complex Networks
NSF1707548$499,2102016–2023PIRePORTER
CAREER: Novel Approaches for Mining Large and Complex Networks
NSF1552915$203,7602016–2016PIRePORTER
III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Toward Robust and Scalable Discovering of Significant Associations in Massive Genetic Data
NSF1664629$122,6622016–2018PIRePORTER
INSPIRE Track 1: Exploring New Route of Optically Mediated Self-Assembly: Final Material Properties Determine Its Structures
NSF1344290$800,0002013–2017PIRePORTER
III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Toward Robust and Scalable Discovering of Significant Associations in Massive Genetic Data
NSF1162374$499,5912012–2017PIRePORTER
III: Small: Mining Local Correlations in Extremely High-Dimensional Data: Models, Algorithms, and Applications
NSF1218036$471,1872012–2016PIRePORTER
Materials World Network: Classical and Quantum Optical Metamaterials by Combining Top-down and Bottom-up Fabrication Techniques
NSF1210170$450,0002012–2017PIRePORTER
NSEC: Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing (SINAM)
NSF0751621$18,019,2522008–2016PIRePORTER
Development of Novel 3D Nano Lithography: Fundamental Investigations and Applications
NSF0455698$203,3672004–2007PIRePORTER
SST/Collaborative Research: Self-Supporting Wireless Sensor Networks for In-Process and In-Service Integrity Monitoring Using High Energy-Harvesting Nonlinear Modeling Principles
NSF0427679$186,2122004–2008PIRePORTER
NSEC: Center for Scalable and Integrated Nano Manufacturing (SINAM)
NSF0327077$17,438,8042003–2010PIRePORTER
MRI: 3D Nano Manufacturing of Novel Photonic Structures
NSF0216423$359,9572002–2003PIRePORTER
Development of Novel 3D Nano Lithography: Fundamental Investigations and Applications
NSF0218273$249,9532002–2005PIRePORTER
CAREER: Non-Integrated Circuits Micro-Manufacturing: Integrated Research and Education
NSF0196395$182,5182000–2003PIRePORTER
CAREER: Non-Integrated Circuits Micro-Manufacturing: Integrated Research and Education
NSF9703426$255,0001997–2001PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Hai Wang · University of South China6 papers (2015–2020)Weijie Zhang · Fuwai Yunnan Cardiovascular Hospital5 papers (2018–2021)Hin-Ching Lo · Baylor College of Medicine5 papers (2017–2021)Stephen T.C. Wong · Baylor College of Medicine4 papers (2015–2021)Igor Bado · Tisch Hospital4 papers (2018–2021)Jeffrey M. Rosen · Baylor College of Medicine3 papers (2015–2020)Lin Tian · National Clinical Research3 papers (2015–2018)Hong Zhao · McGill University3 papers (2015–2018)Joan Massagué · Duke Medical Center3 papers (2012–2014)Edi Brogi · Kettering University2 papers (2013–2014)Ling Wu · North Carolina Central University2 papers (2020–2021)Zhan Xu · Université du Québec à Montréal2 papers (2020–2021)Jun Liu · Chongqing Medical University2 papers (2018–2020)Zhen Zhao · Tang Du Hospital2 papers (2015–2018)Aaron M. Muscarella · University of California San Diego2 papers (2015–2020)Nagireddy Putluri · Baylor College of Medicine2 papers (2017–2018)Ik Sun Kim · LG (United States)2 papers (2017–2020)Yang Gao · Baylor College of Medicine2 papers (2019–2021)Thomas F. Westbrook · Baylor Genetics2 papers (2015–2018)Thomas Welte · Houston Methodist2 papers (2015–2017)