Hongji Zhang

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Title
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Department
Department of Surgery
Institution
University of Virginia

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Colorectal Cancer   Tumor Microenvironment   Chemotherapy  

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List of Publications (36)
In 2024
36

Yujia Xia, Yu Wang, Jiayi He, Han Wang, Zhiwei Hu, Hongji Zhang (co-corresponding),Hai Huang, Allan Tsung. Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Accelerate Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Fibrosis by Mediating Metabolic Reprogramming of Hepatic Stellate Cells. Hepatology. 2024 Jan 24.10.1097

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In 2023
35

Pengyan Fa, Benjamin G.Ke, Abigail Dupre, Allan Tsung, Hongji Zhang (corresponding). The implication of neutrophil extracellular traps in nonalcoholic fatty liver diseas. Front Immunol. 2023 Nov 2:14:1292679.

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34

Phosphorylation of IWS1 by AKT maintains liposarcoma tumor heterogeneity through preservation of cancer stem cell phenotypes and mesenchymal-epithelial plasticity. Oncogenesis. 2023 May 26;12(1):30

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In 2022
33

Ting Jiang, Hongji Zhang (co-first), Yiming Li, Preethi Jayakumar, Hong Liao, Hai Huang, Timothy Billiar, and Meihong Deng. Intraperitoneal injection of class A TLR9 agonist enhances anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in colorectal peritoneal metastases. JCI insight. 2022 Oct 24; 7(20):e160063.

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Yunwei Zhang, Xiaofei Zhang, Hongji Zhang (co-first), Peng Song, Wenming Pan, Peng Xu, Guoliang Wang, Ping Hu, Zixuan Wang, Kunpeng Huang, Xiaodong Zhang, Hui Wang, Jinxiang Zhang. Mesenchymal Stem Cells Derived Extracellular Vesicles Alleviate Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock Induced Hepatic Injury via IL-10/PTPN22-Mediated M2 Kupffer Cell Polarization. Front Immunol. 12 January 2022

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31

Cancers (Basel). 2022 Aug; 14(15): 3731.

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30

Xiang Cheng, Hongji Zhang, Ahmad Hamad, Hai Huang, Allan Tsung. Surgery-Mediated Tumor-Promoting Effects on the Immune Microenvironment. Semin Cancer Biol. 2022 Jan 20; S1044-579X(22)00012-8

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29

Keystone Symposia Conference: Innate Immune Memory: From evolutionary roots to human diseases (X3), Banff, 2022. Preoperative exercise therapy attenuates the progression of liver metastasis after surgical stress by inducing Kupffer cells-mediated anti-tumor trained immunity.

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In 2021
28

Hongji Zhang, Tianmeng Chen, Jinghua Ren, Yujia Xia, Amblessed Onuma, Yu Wang, Jiayi He, Junru Wu, Han Wang, Ahmad Hamad, Chengli Shen, Jinxiang Zhang, John M. Asara5, Gregory K. Behbehani, Haitao Wen, Meihong Deng, Allan Tsung, Hai Huang. Preoperative exercise therapy triggers anti-inflammatory trained immunity of Kupffer cells through metabolic reprogramming. Nat Metab. 2021 Jun; 3(6):843-858.

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27

Cancers. 2021, 13(21), 5333; 7. Hongji Zhang, Julie Goswami, Patrick Varley, Dirk J van der Windt, Jinghua Ren, Patricia Loughran, Hamza Yazdani, Matthew D Neal, Richard L Simmons, Jinxiang Zhang, Allan Tsung, Hai Huang. Hepatic Surgical Stress Promotes Systemic Immunothrombosis That Results in Distant Organ Injury. Front Immunol. 2020

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Han Wang, Hongji Zhang, Yu Wang, Zachary J Brown, Yujia Xia, Zheng Huang, Chengli Shen, Zhiwei Hu, Joal Beane, Ephraim A Ansa-Addo, Hai Huang, Dean Tian, Allan Tsung. Regulatory T-cell and neutrophil extracellular trap interaction contributes to carcinogenesis in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. J Hepatol. 2021

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25

Xiao-Fei Zhang, Ting Wang, Zi-Xuan Wang, Kun-Peng Huang, Yun-Wei Zhang, Guo-Liang Wang, Hong-Ji Zhang, Zi-Han Chen, Chang-Yan Wang, Jin-Xiang Zhang, Hui Wang. Hypoxic ucMSC-secreted exosomal miR-125b promotes endothelial cell survival and migration during wound healing by targeting TP53INP1. Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 2021 Jul 29; 26:347-359.

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24

Jinghua Ren, Jiayi He, Hongji Zhang, Yujia Xia, Zhiwei Hu, Patricia Loughran, Timothy Billiar, Hai Huang, Allan Tsung. Platelet TLR4-ERK5 axis facilitates NET-mediated capturing of circulating tumor cells and distant metastasis after surgical stress. Cancer Res. 2021 Mar 9; canres.3222.2020

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23

The 44th Shock Society Annual Conference on Shock, virtual, 2021. Preoperative exercise therapy triggers anti-inflammatory trained immunity of kupffer cells through metabolic reprogramming.

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In 2020
22

Amblessed E Onuma, Hongji Zhang, Lindsay Gil, Hai Huang, Allan Tsung. Surgical Stress Promotes Tumor Progression: A Focus on the Impact of the Immune Response. J Clin Med. 2020 Dec 18;9(12):4096

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Yujia Xia, Jiayi He, Hongji Zhang, Han Wang, George Tetz, Casey A Maguire, Yu Wang, Amblessed Onuma, Dmitry Genkin, Victor Tetz, Alexey Stepanov, Stanislav Terekhov, Valeria Ukrainskaya, Hai Huang, Allan Tsung. AAV-mediated gene transfer of DNase I in the liver of mice with colorectal cancer reduces liver metastasis and restores local innate and adaptive immune response. Mol Oncol. 2020 Aug 19; 14(11):2920- 2935.

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20

Hai Huang, Hongji Zhang, Amblessed E Onuma, Allan Tsung. Neutrophil Elastase and Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in the Tumor Microenvironment. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2020; 1263:1323.

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19

Amblessed E Onuma, Hongji Zhang, Hai Huang, Terence M Williams, Anne Noonan, Allan Tsung. Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Hepatocellular Cancer: Current Understanding on Mechanisms of Resistance and Biomarkers of Response to Treatment. Gene Expr. 2020 Jun 12; 20(1):53-65.

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18

AACR ANNUAL MEETING, virtual, 2020. Preoperative exercise attenuates the progression of liver metastases after surgical stress by altering the immune environment 6. International Congress of Immunology, Beijing, China, 2019. Preoperative exercise therapy protects hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury.

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17

Keystone Symposia Conference: New Insights into the Biology of Exercise, Keystone. CO, 2020

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16

Keystone Symposia Conference: Integrating Metabolism and Immunity", virtual, 2020 Neutrophil extracellular traps promote the trained immunity in hepatic macrophages during the development of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

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15

The 43h Shock Society Annual Conference on Shock, virtual, 2020. Preoperative exercise protects the liver from surgical stress by altering the immune environment.

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In 2019
14

Hamza O. Yazdani, Eva Roy, Alexander J. Comerci, Dirk J. van der Windt, Hongji Zhang, Hai Huang, Patricia Loughran, Sruti Shiva, David A. Geller, David L. Bartlett, Allan Tsung, Tai Sheng, Richard L. Simmons and Samer Tohme N eutrophil Extracellular Traps Drive Mitochondrial Homeostasis in Tumors to Augment Growth. Cancer Res. 2019 Nov 1; 79(21):5626-5639.

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13

Keystone Symposia Conference: Integrated Pathways of Disease in NASH and NAFLD (A4), Santa Fe, NM, 2019. The role of neutrophil extracellular traps in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis-associated hepatocellular carcinoma.

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12

IMMUNOLOGY 2019TM AAI Annual Meeting, San Diego CA, 2019. The role of neutrophil extracellular traps in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis-associated hepatocellular carcinoma.

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In 2018
11

Dirk J. van der Windt, Vikas Sud, Hongji Zhang, Patrick R. Varley, Julie Goswami, Hamza O. Yazdani, Samer Tohme, Patricia Loughran, Robert M. O'Doherty, Marta I. Minervini, Hai Huang, Richard L. Simmons, Allan Tsung. Neutrophil extracellular traps promote inflammation and development of hepatocellular carcinoma in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Hepatology. 2018 Oct; 68(4):1347-1360.

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10

Dirk J. van der Windt, Vikas Sud, Hongji Zhang, Allan Tsung, Hai Huang. The Effects of Physical Exercise on Fatty Liver Disease. Gene Expr. 2018 May; 18(2): 89-101.

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9

IMMUNOLOGY 2018TM AAI Annual Meeting, Austin TX, 2018. Preoperative exercise therapy protects the liver from ischemia-reperfusion injury.

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8

The 41th Shock Society Annual Conference on Shock, Scottsdale, AZ, 2018. Preoperative exercise therapy protects the liver from ischemia-reperfusion injury.

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Yu Wang, Hongji Zhang, Alessandro La Ferlita, Nipin Sp, Marina Goryunova, Patricia Sarchet, Zhiwei Hu, Michael Sorkin, Alex Kim, Hai Huang, Hua Zhu, Allan Tsung, Raphael E Pollock, Joal D Beane.

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Hongji Zhang, Yu Wang, Amblessed Onuma, Jiayi He, Han Wang, Yujia Xia, Rhea Lal, Xiang Cheng, Gyulnara Kasumova, Zhiwei H, Meihong Den, Joal D. Beane, Alex C. Kim, Hai Huang, Allan Tsung.

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5

Neutrophils Extracellular Traps Inhibition Improves PD-1 Blockade Immunotherapy in Colorectal Cancer.

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4

Wenming Pan, Lin Wang, Xiao-Fei Zhang, Hongji Zhang (co-first), Jinxiang Zhang, Guoliang Wang, Peng Xu, Yunwei Zhang, Ping Hu, Xiao-Dong Zhang, Run-Lei Du & Hui Wang. Hypoxia-induced microRNA-191 contributes to hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury through the ZONAB/Cyclin D1 axis. Cell Death Differ.

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3

Benjamin Ormseth, Amblessed Onuma, Hongji Zhang, Allan Tsung. The Hepatic Pre-Metastatic Niche.

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2

Complete List of Published Work in MyBibliography: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/hongji.zhang.1/bibliography/public/ PRESENTATIONS (National/International Meetings-First or Senior Author Only)

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Preoperative exercise protects the liver from surgical stress by altering the immune environment.

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