Selected publications

  1. Kjølle S, Presti M, de Pina Roque J, Bisgaard LH, Ramos DB, Zornhagen KW, Yde CW, Schmidt AY, Verdys P, Højgaard M, Lassen U, Svane IM, Rohrberg KS, Donia M, Erler JT. Immune Cell Modulation of Patient-Matched Organoid Drug Response in Precision Cancer Medicine Platform. Cells. 2026;15(3):259.
  2. Leitão-Castro J, Lopresti AM, Zornhagen KW, Albrechtsen R, Camacho-Roda J, Ravn MB, Martinez AG, Perez LA, Santoni-Rugiu E, Højgaard M, Rohrberg KS, Lassen U, Erler JT. Histological fidelity and microenvironmental kinome signatures of metastatic patient-derived organoids. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2026;14:1735980.
  3. Oria VO, Castro JL, de Pina Roque J, Martinez AG, Jørgensen FI, Lukassen MV, Rib L, Høg MKG, Mygind KJ, Erler JT. Crosstalk between tumor endothelial cells and cancer cells is important for metastasis initiation. Cell Commun Signal. 2025;23(1):443.
  4. Xia T, Zornhagen KW, Miinalainen I, Abramovitz L, Madsen CD, Nicolau M, Mayorca-Guiliani AE, Erez N, Erler JT. Loss of nidogen-1 causes lung basement membrane defects and increased metastasis. Front Immunol. 2025;16:1598547.
  5. Stagaard R, Jensen A, Schauer T, Bay ML, Tavanez ARA, Wielsøe S, Peletier M, Strøbech JE, Oria VO, Zornhagen KW, Albrechtsen R, Christensen JF, Erler JT. Exercise boost after surgery improves survival in model of metastatic breast cancer. Front Immunol. 2025;16:1533798.
  6. Emerson MJ, Willacy O, Madsen CD, Reuten R, Brøchner CB, Lund TK, Dahl AB, Jensen THL, Erler JT, Mayorca-Guilliani AE. Machine learning identifies remodeling patterns in human lung extracellular matrix. Acta Biomater. 2025;195:94–103.
  7. Perryman L, Høye AM, Cox TR, Baker AM, Strøbech J, Leonte L, Singh LB, Popov S, Lorentzen LG, Reuten R, Poulsen HS, Davies MJ, Jones C, Erler JT. Cleavage of the vascular matrix attracts glioblastoma cells to infiltrate the brain parenchyma. bioRxiv. 2024.
  8. Rafaeva M, Jensen ARD, Horton ER, Zornhagen KW, Strøbech JE, Fleischhauer L, Mayorca-Guiliani AE, Nielsen SR, Grønseth DS, Kuś F, Schoof EM, Arnes L, Koch M, Clausen-Schaumann H, Izzi V, Reuten R, Erler JT. Fibroblast-derived matrix models desmoplastic properties and forms a prognostic signature in cancer progression. Front Immunol. 2023;14:1154528.
  9. Strøbech JE, Giuriatti P, Stagaard R, De Sepulveda P, Nielsen SR, Erler JT. FES null mice demonstrate a reduction in neutrophil dependent pancreatic cancer metastatic burden. Front Oncol. 2023;13:1096499.
  10. Rafaeva M, Horton ER, Jensen ARD, Madsen CD, Reuten R, Willacy O, Brøchner CB, Jensen TH, Zornhagen KW, Crespo M, Grønseth DS, Nielsen SR, Idorn M, Straten PT, Rohrberg K, Spanggaard I, Højgaard M, Lassen U, Erler JT, Mayorca-Guiliani AE. Modeling Metastatic Colonization in a Decellularized Organ Scaffold-Based Perfusion Bioreactor. Adv Healthc Mater. 2022;11(1):e2100684.
  11. Reuten R, Zendehroud S, Nicolau M, Fleischhauer L, Laitala A, Kiderlen S, Nikodemus D, Wullkopf L, Nielsen SR, McNeilly S, Prein C, Rafaeva M, Schoof EM, Furtwängler B, Porse BT, Kim H, Won KJ, Sudhop S, Zornhagen KW, Suhr F, Maniati E, Pearce OMT, Koch M, Oddershede LB, Van Agtmael T, Madsen CD, Mayorca-Guiliani AE, Bloch W, Netz RR, Clausen-Schaumann H, Erler JT. Basement membrane stiffness determines metastases formation. Nat Mater. 2021;20(6):892–903.
  12. Nielsen SR, Strøbech JE, Horton ER, Jackstadt R, Laitala A, Bravo MC, Maltese G, Jensen ARD, Reuten R, Rafaeva M, Karim SA, Hwang CI, Arnes L, Tuveson DA, Sansom OJ, Morton JP, Erler JT. Suppression of tumor-associated neutrophils by lorlatinib attenuates pancreatic cancer growth and improves treatment with immune checkpoint blockade. Nat Commun. 2021;12(1):3414.
  13. Jensen ARD, Horton ER, Blicher LH, Pietras EJ, Steinhauer C, Reuten R, Schoof EM, Erler JT. Organ-Specific, Fibroblast-Derived Matrix as a Tool for Studying Breast Cancer Metastasis. Cancers (Basel). 2021;13(13):3331.
  14. Mayorca-Guiliani AE, Rafaeva M, Willacy O, Madsen CD, Reuten R, Erler JT. Decellularization of the Murine Cardiopulmonary Complex. J Vis Exp. 2021;(171).
  15. Venning FA, Zornhagen KW, Wullkopf L, Sjölund J, Rodriguez-Cupello C, Kjellman P, Morsing M, Hajkarim MC, Won KJ, Erler JT, Madsen CD. Deciphering the temporal heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblast subpopulations in breast cancer. J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2021;40(1):175.

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Invited book chapters

Erler JT, Giaccia AJ. Critical steps in cancer metastasis. Chapter 3 in: Abeloff’s Clinical Oncology. Elsevier, 2008.

El Rayes T, Gao D, Altorki N, Cox TR, Erler JT, Mittal V. Biomarkers of the tumor microenvironment: Basic studies and practical applications. Springer, 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-39145-8.

Chang J, Erler JT. Quantification of lung metastases from in vivo mouse models. In: Tumour Microenvironment and Cellular Stress. Springer, 2015. ISBN 978-3-319-26664-0.

Cox TR, Erler JT. Remodeling of the extracellular matrix. In: Cell and Molecular Biology of Breast Cancer. Humana Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-62703-633-7.

Chang J, Erler JT. Hypoxia regulated metastasis. In: Tumour Microenvironment and Cellular Stress. Springer, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4614-5914-9.

Rankin EB, Erler JT, Giaccia AJ. Critical steps in cancer metastasis. Chapter 3 in: Abeloff’s Clinical Oncology. Elsevier, 2013.

Bennewith KL, Erler JT, Giaccia AJ. Pre-metastatic niches. Chapter 8 in: Tumour Micro-environment. John Wiley, 2010. ISBN 978-0-4707-4996-8.