Selected Publications

  • Ray A., Hu, K.H., Kersten K., Courau T., Kuhn N.F., Zaleta-Linares, I., Samad B., Combes A.J., Krummel M.F.: Targeting CD206+ macrophages disrupts the establishment of a key ant-tumor immune axis. J Exp Med (2025) 222 (1): e20240957. Article

  • Ray A., Bassette M., Hu, K.H., Samad B., Pass M., …, Krummel M.F.: Multimodal identification of rare potent effector CD8 T cells in solid tumors. (BioRxiv: 2023.09. 26.559470) PMID: 37808790. Link

  • You R, Artichoker J, Ray A, Velozo HG, Rock DA, Conner KP, Krummel MF: Visualizing Spatial and Stoichiometric Barriers to Bispecific T cell Engager Efficacy. Cancer Immunology Research, 10 (6): 698-712, 2022. Article

  • Kersten K, Hu KH, Combes AJ, Samad B, Harwin T, Ray A, … Krummel MF:   Spatiotemporal co-dependency between macrophages and exhausted CD8+ T cells in cancer. Cancer Cell, 40 (6): 624-638.e9, 2022. Article

  • Combes AJ*, Courau T*, Kuhn NF*, Hu KH*, Ray A*, Chen WS, … , Krummel MF: Global Absence and Targeting of Protective Immune States in Severe COVID-19. Nature 591 (7848):124-130, 2021.(* co-first authors) Article

  • Ray A*, Callaway MK*, Rodriguez-Merced NJ, Crampton AL, Carlson M, Emme KB, Ensminger EA, Schrope, JH, Rasmussen HR, Jiang H. Denardo DG, Wood DK, Provenzano PP: Stromal architecture directs early dissemination in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. JCI Insight, 7(3): e150330, 2022 (* co-first authors) Article

  • Ray A*, Provenzano PP*: Aligned forces: Origins and mechanisms of cancer dissemination guided by ECM architecture. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 72 (63-71), 2021. (* co-corresponding authors) Article

  • Ray A, Morford RK, Ghaderi N, Odde DJ, Provenzano PP: Dynamics of 3D carcinoma cell invasion into aligned collagen. Integrative Biology, 10(2): 100-112, 2018. Article

  • Ray A, Morford RK, Provenzano PP: Cancer stem cell migration in three-dimensional aligned collagen matrices. Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology, e57, 2018. Article

  • Ray A, Lee O, Win Z, Edwards RM, Alford PW, Kim DH, Provenzano PP: Anisotropic forces from spatially constrained focal adhesions mediate contact guidance directed cell migration. Nature Communications 8:14923, 2017. Article

  • Ray A, Slama ZM, Morford RK, Madden SA, Provenzano PP: Enhanced directional migration of   cancer stem cells in 3D aligned collagen matrices. Biophysical Journal, 112(5):1023-1036, 2017. Article