Ben G. Wen, Ph.D.

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2002 University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 
Area:
Immunology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology
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Stephen M Hedrick grad student 2002 UCSD
 (Studies on the molecular mechanisms of thymocyte negative selection and the role of murine DRAK2 in T cell activation.)
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Velcicky J, Mathison CJN, Nikulin V, et al. (2019) Discovery of Orally Active Hydroxyethylamine Based SPPL2a Inhibitors. Acs Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 10: 887-892
Velcicky J, Bodendorf U, Rigollier P, et al. (2018) Discovery of the First Potent, Selective, and Orally Bioavailable Signal Peptide Peptidase-Like 2a (SPPL2a) Inhibitor Displaying Pronounced Immunomodulatory Effects In Vivo. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Miller AT, Dahlberg C, Sandberg ML, et al. (2015) Inhibition of the Inositol Kinase Itpkb Augments Calcium Signaling in Lymphocytes and Reveals a Novel Strategy to Treat Autoimmune Disease. Plos One. 10: e0131071
Hannedouche S, Zhang J, Yi T, et al. (2011) Oxysterols direct immune cell migration via EBI2. Nature. 475: 524-7
McGargill MA, Choy C, Wen BG, et al. (2008) Drak2 regulates the survival of activated T cells and is required for organ-specific autoimmune disease. Journal of Immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 181: 7593-605
Friedrich ML, Wen BG, Bain G, et al. (2005) DRAK2, a lymphoid-enriched DAP kinase, regulates the TCR activation threshold during thymocyte selection. International Immunology. 17: 1379-90
McGargill MA, Wen BG, Walsh CM, et al. (2004) A deficiency in Drak2 results in a T cell hypersensitivity and an unexpected resistance to autoimmunity. Immunity. 21: 781-91
Wen BG, Pletcher MT, Warashina M, et al. (2004) Inositol (1,4,5) trisphosphate 3 kinase B controls positive selection of T cells and modulates Erk activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 101: 5604-9
Walsh CM, Wen BG, Chinnaiyan AM, et al. (1998) A role for FADD in T cell activation and development Immunity. 8: 439-449
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