Dr. George Wright

Office Address:
Room 8144
6130 Executive Plaza
Rockville, MD 20852

Contact Information:
Tel: (301) 402-0039
Fax: (301) 402-0560
Email:wrightge@mail.nih.gov

Research Interests
Statistical methodology for cDNA and oligonucleotide microarray analysis.  
Applications of microarray analysis to the Molecular classification of Lymphoma

Selected Publications
As of April 3, 2006

Iqbal J, Neppalli VT, Wright G, Dave LJ, Horsman DE, Rosenwald A, Lynch J, Hans CP, Weisenburger DD, Greiner TC, Gascoyne RD, Campo E, Ott G, Muller-Hermelink HK, Delabie J, Jaffe ES, Grogan TM, Connors JM, Vose JM, Armitage JO, Staudt LM, Chan WC. BCL2 expression is a prognostic marker for the activated B-cell-like type of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY 24 (6): 961-968 FEB 20 2006

Fu K, Weisenburger DD, Greiner TC, Dave S, Wright G, Rosenwald A, Chiorazzi M, Iqbal J, Gesk S, Siebert R, De Jong D, Jaffe ES, Wilson WH, Delabie J, Ott G, Dave BJ, Sanger WG, Smith LM, Rimsza L, Braziel RM, Muller-Hermelink HK, Campo E, Gascoyne RD, Staudt LM, Chan WCCyclin D1-negative mantle cell lymphoma: a clinicopathologic study based on gene expression profiling BLOOD 106 (13): (2005)

Bea S, Zettl A, Wright G, Salaverria I, Jehn P, Moreno V, Burek C, Ott G, Puig X, Yang LM, Lopez-Guillermo A, Chan WC, Greiner TC, Weisenburger DD, Armitage JO, Gascoyne RD, Connors JM, Grogan TM, Braziel R, Fisher RI, Smeland EB, Kvaloy S, Holte H, Delabie J, Simon R, Powell J, Wilson WH, Jaffe ES, Montserrat E, Muller-Hermelink HK, Staudt LM, Campo E, Rosenwald A.Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma subgroups have distinct genetic profiles that influence tumor biology and improve gene-expression-based survival prediction. BLOOD 106 (9): 3183-3190(2005)

Dunleavy K., Hakim F., Kim HK, Janik JE, Grant N, Nakayama T, White T, Wright G, Kwak L, Gress R, Tosato G. Wilson W.B-cell recovery following rituximab-based therapy is associated with perturbations in stromal derived factor-1 and granulocyte homeostais. Blood 106 (3): 795-802 (2005)

Dave SS, Wright G, Tan B, Rosenwald A, Gascoyne RD, Chan WC, Fisher RI, Braziel RM, Rimsza LM, Grogan TM, Miller TP, LeBlanc M, Greiner TC, Weisenburger DD, Lynch JC, Vose J, Armitage JO, Smeland EB, Kvaloy S, Holte H, Delabie J, Connors JM, Lansdorp PM, Ouyang Q, Lister TA, Davies AJ, Norton AJ, Muller-Hermelink HK, Ott G, Campo E, Montserrat E, Wilson WH, Jaffe ES, Simon R, Yang LM, Powell J, Zhao H, Goldschmidt N, Chiorazzi M, Staudt LM.Prediction of survival in follicular lymphoma based on molecular features of tumor-infiltrating immune cells New England Journal of Medicine 351 (21): 2159-2169 (2004)

Simon RM, Korn EL, McShane LM, Radmacher MD, Wright GW, Zhao Y. Design and Analysis of DNA Microarray Investigations: New York, Springer (2003)

Wright GW, Simon RM. A random variance model for detection of differential gene expression in small microarray experiments Bioinformatics 19: 2448-2455, 2003

Rosenwald A, Wright G, Leroy K, Yu X, Gaulard P, Gascoyne RD, Chan WC, Zhao T, Haioun C, Greiner TC, Weisenburger DD, Lynch JC, Vose J, Armitage JO, Smeland EB, Kvaloy S, Holte H, Delabie J, Campo E, Montserrat E, Lopez-Guillermo A, Ott G, Muller-Hermelink HK, Connors JM, Braziel R, Grogan TM, Fisher RI, Miller TP, LeBlanc M, Chiorazzi M, Zhao H, Yang LM, Powell J, Wilson WH, Jaffe ES, Simon R, Klausner RD, Staudt LM. Molecular diagnosis of primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma identifies a clinically favorable subgroup of diffuse large B cell lymphoma related to Hodgkin lymphoma. Journal of Experimental Medicine 198: 851-862, 2003

Wright G, Tan B, Rosenwald A, Hurt EH, Wiestner A, Staudt LM A gene expression-based method to diagnose clinically distinct subgroups of diffuse large B cell lymphoma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100: 9991-9996, 2003

Glebov OK, Rodriguez LM, Nakahara K, Jenkins J, Cliatt J, Humbyrd CJ, DeNobile J, Soballe P, Simon R, Wright G, Lynch P, Patterson S, Lynch H, Gallinger S, Buchbinder A, Gordon G, Hawk E, Kirsch IR Distinguishing right from left colon by the pattern of gene expression. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 12: 755-762, 2003

Wiestner A, Rosenwald A, Barry TS, Wright G, Davis RE, Henrickson SE, Zhao H, Ibbotson RE, Orchard JA, Davis Z, Stetler-Stevenson M, Raffeld M, Arthur DC, Marti GE, Wilson WH, Hamblin TJ, Oscier DG, Staudt LM. ZAP-70 expression identifies a chronic lymphocytic leukemia subtype with unmutated immunoglobulin genes, inferior clinical outcome, and distinct gene expression profile. Blood 101: 4944-4951, 2003

Rosenwald A, Wright G, Wiestner A,  Chan WC, Connors JM, Campo E, Gascoyne RD, Grogan TM, et. al. The proliferation gene expression signature is a quantitative integrator of oncogenic events that predicts survival in mantle cell lymphoma. Cancer Cell 2003 3: 185-197. 

Kovanen PE, Rosenwald A,  Fu J,  Hurt EM, Lam LT,  Giltnane  JM, Wright G, Staudt LM,  Leonard WJ. Analysis  of  c-Family Cytokine Target Genes.  IDENTIFICATION OF DUAL-SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE 5 (DUSP5) AS A  REGULATOR OF MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE ACTIVITY IN INTERLEUKIN-2 SIGNALING. J. Biol. Chem,  Feb 2003; 278: 5205-5213

Rosenwald A., Wright G., Chan W. C., Connors  J. M., Campo E., Fisher R. I., Gascoyne R. D., Muller- Hermelink H. K., Smeland E. B., Giltnane, J. M., et al. The use of molecular profiling to predict  survival after chemotherapy for diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma, N Engl J Med 2002 346, 1937-47.

Rieves D,  Wright G,  Gupta G, Shacter E.  Clinical trial (GUSTO-1 and INJECT)  Evidence of Earlier Death  for men than Women after Acute Myocardial Infarction.  Am. J Cardiol  2000;  85:147-153.


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last updated: April 3, 2006