Selected Publications

1. Sznurkowska MK, Castro-Giner F., Krol I., Zhang Y., Ozimski L.L., Irene D’Anna, Ring A., Schwab F.D., Zhang Y., Zhou J., Saini M., Strittmatter K., Budinjas S., Vujanovic M., Kontarakis Z., Pontecorvi G., Albrecht F., Mertz K.D., Auray G., Giachino C., Taylor V., Gvozdenovic A., Kovacs, W.J., Malanchi I., Frauchiger-Heuer H., Wicki A., Vetter M., and Aceto N. (2024)‘Charting the liver and lung metastatic niche in breast cancer’, https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.04.616491

2. Newcomer K, Bifolco A, Reeves S, Pontecorvi G, Asawa S, Sznurkowska MK, Nüesch M, Ozimski LL, Bolm L, Sieren MM, Müller L, Chi Z, Gasper W, Wachsmann MB, Moore W, Zheng X, Fokkema A, Ring A, Nguyen-Sträuli BD, Budinjas S, Ten Winkel M, Färber B, Zaki A, Fatimah N, Crecca E, Karalis JD, Chandra R, Prince H, Goff KL, Choi SH, Abousaab C, Zhang S, Cole S, Naumann K, Keck T, Polanco PM, Gvozdenovic A, Krol I, Castro-Giner F, Arteaga C, Zeh HJ, Kloeckner R, Ghersi D, Aceto N, and Ligorio M. (2025). Macrovascular tumor infiltration and circulating tumor cell cluster dynamics in patients with cancer approaching the end of life. Nat Med. Published October 16, 2025. doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03966-3. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03966-3  

3. Cangkrama M, Liu H, Wu X, Yates J, Whipman J, Gäbelein CG, Matsushita M, Ferrarese L, Sander S, Castro-Giner F, Asawa S, Sznurkowska MK, Kopf M, Dengjel J, Boeva V, Aceto N, Vorholt JA, Werner S (2025). MIRO2-mediated mitochondrial transfer from cancer cells induces cancer-associated fibroblast differentiation. Nat Cancer 6, 1714–1733. doi: 10.1038/s43018-025-01038-6. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-025-01038-6 

4. Sznurkowska MK and Aceto N. (2022). The gate to metastasis: key players in cancer cell intravasation. FEBS J 289, 4336–4354. doi: 10.1111/febs.16046. https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/febs.16046  

5. Mohammadi Ghahhari N, Sznurkowska MK, Hulo N, Bernasconi L, Aceto N, and Picard D. (2022). Cooperative interaction between ERα and the EMT-inducer ZEB1 reprograms breast cancer cells for bone metastasis. Nat Commun13, 2104. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29723-5. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29723-5  

6. Campbell NR, Rao A, Hunter MV, Sznurkowska MK, Briker L, Zhang M, Baron M, Heilmann S, Deforet M, Kenny C, Ferretti LP, Huang TH, Perlee S, Garg M, Nsengimana J, Saini M, Montal E, Tagore M, Newton-Bishop J, Middleton MR, Corrie P, Adams DJ, Rabbie R, Aceto N, Levesque MP, Cornell RA, Yanai I, Xavier JB, and White RM. (2021). Cooperation between melanoma cell states promotes metastasis through heterotypic cluster formation. Dev Cell 56, 2808–2825. e10. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.08.018. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1534580721006778?via%3Dihub   

7. Revenco T, Nicodème A, Pastushenko I, Sznurkowska MK, Latil M, Sotiropoulou PA, Dubois C, Moers V, Lemaire S, de Maertelaer V, and Blanpain C. (2019). Context Dependency of Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition for Metastasis. Cell Rep 29, 1458–1468.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.09.081. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124719312859?via%3Dihub   

8. Sznurkowska MK, Hannezo E, Azzarelli R, Rulands S, Nestorowa S, Hindley CJ, Nichols J, Göttgens B, Huch M, Philpott A, and Simons BD. (2018). Defining Lineage Potential and Fate Behavior of Precursors during Pancreas Development. Dev Cell 46, 360–375.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.06.028. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1534580718305537?via%3Dihub   

9. Rulands S, Lescroart F, Chabab S, Hindley CJ, Prior N, Sznurkowska MK, Huch M, Philpott A, Blanpain C, and Simons BD. (2018). Universality of clone dynamics during tissue development. Nat Phys 14, 469–474. doi: 10.1038/s41567-018-0055-6. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0055-6 

10. Sznurkowska MK, Hannezo E, Azzarelli R, Chatzeli L, Ikeda T, Yoshida S, Philpott A, and Simons BD. (2020). Tracing the cellular basis of islet specification in mouse pancreas. Nat Commun 11, 5037. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18837-3. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18837-3 

11. Azzarelli R, Hurley C, Sznurkowska MK, Rulands S, Hardwick L, Gamper I, Ali F, McCracken L, Hindley C, McDuff F, Nestorowa S, Kemp R, Jones K, Göttgens B, Huch M, Evan G, Simons BD, Winton D, and Philpott A. (2017). Multi-site Neurogenin3 Phosphorylation Controls Pancreatic Endocrine Differentiation. Dev Cell 41, 274–286.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.04.004. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-025-01038-6

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