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Michael Dasilva

Broad Institute

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:human· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Small molecule intervention of actin-binding protein profilin1 reduces tumor angiogenesis in renal cell carcinoma

David M. Gau, Pooja Chawla, Kexin Xu, Niharika Welling, Jacob Antonello, Caroline Consoli, Monica H. Wei, Sara Zdancewicz, Michael DaSilva, Chris Varghese, Paul G. Francoeur, Haibin Shi, Xucai Chen, Anurag N. Paranjape, Flordeliza S. Villanueva, , Partha Sarathi Roy

This study shows that a small molecule Pfn1 inhibitor reduces tumor angiogenesis in renal cell carcinoma by targeting endothelial cell Pfn1.

Journal of Biological Chemistry · Dec 11, 2025Peer-reviewedCell Biology

Characterization and remediation of sample index swaps by non-redundant dual indexing on massively parallel sequencing platforms

Maura Costello, Mark Fleharty, Justin Abreu, Yossi Farjoun, Steven Ferriera, Laurie Holmes, Brian R. Granger, Lisa Green, Tom Howd, Tamara Mason, Gina Vicente, Michael Dasilva, Wendy Brodeur, Timothy DeSmet, Sheila Dodge, , Stacey Gabriel

The paper characterizes index swapping on Illumina sequencers and proposes dual indexing to mitigate its effects, showing varying swap rates across methods and sequencers.

BMC Genomics · May 8, 2018Peer-reviewedGenomics