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Anthony Francois

Stanford Medicine

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:organoid / primary culture· 1 Approach:wet-lab / biochemical assay· 1

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Organoid modeling of tumor-associated macrophages reveals phagocytosis checkpoint blockade-induced conversion to an immunosuppressive SPP1+ phenotype

Michitaka Nakano, Lyong Heo, Yu-Ping Yang, Lorena P. Munoz, Yihua Liu, Lei Zhao, Juhyung Park, Eirini Tsekitsidou, Anthony Francois, Jie Liu, Aaron C. Trotman-Grant, Maria Fernanda Henao Echeverri, Cara Coleen Rada, Edward Tran, Arya Khokhar, , Calvin Jay Kuo

The paper uses patient-derived organoids to study TAM responses to CD47 checkpoint blockade, revealing a conversion to an immunosuppressive SPP1+ phenotype in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

bioRxiv · May 9, 2026 · PreprintCancer Biology