Francois Vaillant

Mammary tumour cells remodel the bone marrow vascular microenvironment to support metastasis

Raymond KH Yip, Joel S Rimes, Bianca D Capaldo, Francois Vaillant, Kellie A Mouchemore, Bhupinder Pal, Yunshun Chen, Elliot Surgenor, Andrew J Murphy, Robin L Anderson, Gordon K Smyth, Geoffrey J Lindeman, Edwin D Hawkins, Jane E Visvader

Journal article  |  2021  |  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

Bone marrow is a preferred metastatic site for multiple solid tumours and is associated with poor prognosis and significant morbid..

Single cell transcriptome atlas of mouse mammary epithelial cells across development

Bhupinder Pal, Yunshun Chen, Michael JG Milevskiy, Francois Vaillant, Lexie Prokopuk, Caleb A Dawson, Bianca D Capaldo, Xiaoyu Song, Felicity Jackling, Paul Timpson, Geoffrey J Lindeman, Gordon K Smyth, Jane E Visvader

Journal article  |  2021  |  BREAST CANCER RESEARCH

BACKGROUND: Heterogeneity within the mouse mammary epithelium and potential lineage relationships have been recently explored by s..

A single-cell RNA expression atlas of normal, preneoplastic and tumorigenic states in the human breast

Bhupinder Pal, Yunshun Chen, Francois Vaillant, Bianca D Capaldo, Rachel Joyce, Xiaoyu Song, Vanessa L Bryant, Jocelyn S Penington, Leon Di Stefano, Nina Tubau Ribera, Stephen Wilcox, Gregory B Mann, Anthony T Papenfuss, Geoffrey J Lindeman, Gordon K Smyth, Jane E Visvader

Journal article  |  2021  |  EMBO JOURNAL

To examine global changes in breast heterogeneity across different states, we determined the single-cell transcriptomes of > 340,0..

Preclinical small molecule WEHI-7326 overcomes drug resistance and elicits response in patient-derived xenograft models of human treatment-refractory tumors

Christoph Grohmann, Francesca Walker, Mark Devlin, Meng-Xiao Luo, Anderly C Chueh, Judy Doherty, Francois Vaillant, Gwo-Yaw Ho, Matthew J Wakefield, Clare E Weeden, Alvin Kamili, Jayne Murray, Sela T Po'uha, Janet Weinstock, Serena R Kane, Maree C Faux, Esmee Broekhuizen, Ye Zheng, Kristy Shield-Artin, Nadia J Kershaw, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  CELL DEATH & DISEASE

Targeting cell division by chemotherapy is a highly effective strategy to treat a wide range of cancers. However, there are limita..

Dual Targeting of CDK4/6 and BCL2 Pathways Augments Tumor Response in Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer

James R Whittle, Francois Vaillant, Elliot Surgenor, Antonia N Policheni, Goknur Giner, Bianca D Capaldo, Huei-Rong Chen, He K Liu, Johanna F Dekkers, Norman Sachs, Hans Clevers, Andrew Fellowes, Thomas Green, Huiling Xu, Stephen B Fox, Marco J Herold, Gordon K Smyth, Daniel HD Gray, Jane E Visvader, Geoffrey J Lindeman

Journal article  |  2020  |  CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH

PURPOSE: Although cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and 6 (CDK4/6) inhibitors significantly extend tumor response in patients with metasta..

Tissue-resident ductal macrophages survey the mammary epithelium and facilitate tissue remodelling

Caleb A Dawson, Bhupinder Pal, Francois Vaillant, Luke C Gandolfo, Zhaoyuan Liu, Camille Bleriot, Florent Ginhoux, Gordon K Smyth, Geoffrey J Lindeman, Scott N Mueller, Anne C Rios, Jane E Visvader

Journal article  |  2020  |  NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Macrophages are diverse immune cells that reside in all tissues. Although macrophages have been implicated in mammary-gland functi..

Modeling Breast Cancer Using CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Engineering of Human Breast Organoids

Johanna F Dekkers, James R Whittle, Francois Vaillant, Huei-Rong Chen, Caleb Dawson, Kevin Liu, Maarten H Geurts, Marco J Herold, Hans Clevers, Geoffrey J Lindeman, Jane E Visvader

Journal article  |  2020  |  JNCI-JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE

Breast cancer is characterized by histological and functional heterogeneity, posing a clinical challenge for patient treatment. Em..

Targeting triple-negative breast cancers with the Smac-mimetic birinapant

Najoua Lalaoui, Delphine Merino, Goknur Giner, Francois Vaillant, Diep Chau, Lin Liu, Tobias Kratina, Bhupinder Pal, James R Whittle, Nima Etemadi, Jean Berthelet, Julius Grasel, Cathrine Hall, Matthew E Ritchie, Matthias Ernst, Gordon K Smyth, David L Vaux, Jane E Visvader, Geoffrey J Lindeman, John Silke

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cell Death and Differentiation

Smac mimetics target inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) proteins, thereby suppressing their function to facilitate tumor cell death. Her..

Intraclonal Plasticity in Mammary Tumors Revealed through Large-Scale Single-Cell Resolution 3D Imaging (vol 35, pg 618, 2019)

Anne C Rios, Bianca D Capaldo, Francois Vaillant, Bhupinder Pal, Ravian van Ineveld, Caleb A Dawson, Yunshun Chen, Emma Nolan, Nai Yang Fu, Felicity C Jackling, Sapna Devi, David Clouston, Lachlan Whitehead, Gordon K Smyth, Scott N Mueller, Geoffrey J Lindeman, Jane E Visvader

Journal article  |  2019  |  CANCER CELL

(Cancer Cell 35, 618–632.e1–e6; April 15, 2019) In the STAR Methods section of the originally published version of this article, t..

Intraclonal Plasticity in Mammary Tumors Revealed through Large-Scale Single-Cell Resolution 3D Imaging

Anne C Rios, Bianca D Capaldo, Francois Vaillant, Bhupinder Pal, Ravian van Ineveld, Caleb A Dawson, Yunshun Chen, Emma Nolan, Nai Yang Fu, Felicity C Jackling, Sapna Devi, David Clouston, Lachlan Whitehead, Gordon K Smyth, Scott N Mueller, Geoffrey J Lindeman, Jane E Visvader, Jamie R Flynn, William M Palmer, Antony P Martin, et al.

Journal article  |  2019  |  CANCER CELL

Breast tumors are inherently heterogeneous, but the evolving cellular organization through neoplastic progression is poorly unders..