Faculty & Staff

Faculty & Staff

Andrew Carson, PhD

Research Instructor, University Pittsburgh UPMC Cardiovascular Institute




Peer Reviewed Articles

1. Dziewanowska K, Carson AR, Patti JM, Deobald CF, Bayles KW, Bohach GA. Staphylococcal fibronectin binding protein interacts with heat shock protein 60 and integrins: role in internalization by epithelial cells. Infect Immun 2000;68:6321-6328.

2. Carson A, Wang Z, Xiao X, Khan SA. A DNA recombination-based approach to eliminate papillomavirus infection. Gene Ther 2005;12:534-540.

3. Carson A, Khan SA. Characterization of transcription factor binding to human papillomavirus type 16 DNA during cellular differentiation. J Virol 2006;80:4356-4362.

4. Ha S, Carson A, Agarwal A, Kotov N, Kim K.  Multi-target photoacoustic molecular imaging of cardiovascular inflammatory biomarkers using bioconjugated gold nanorods. Biomed Opt Express 2011;2:645-657.

5. Moguillansky D, Leng X, Carson A, Lavery L, Schwartz A, Chen X, Villanueva FS. Quantification of plaque neovascularization using contrast ultrasound: a histologic validation. Eur Heart J 2011;32:646-653.

6. Carson AR, McTiernan CF, Lavery L, Hodnick A, Grata M, Leng X, Wang J, Chen X, Modzelewski RA, Villanueva FS. Gene therapy of carcinoma using ultrasound-targeted microbubble destruction. Ultrasound Med Biol 2011;37:393-402.

7. Ha SH, Carson AR, Kim K.  Ferritin as a novel reporter gene for photoacoustic molecular imaging.  Cytometry A 2012;81:910-915.

8. Carson AR, McTiernan CF, Lavery L, Grata M, Leng X, Wang J, Chen X, Villanueva FS.  Ultrasound-targeted microbubble destruction to deliver siRNA cancer therapy.  Cancer Res 2012;72:6191-9.

9. Leng X, Wang J, Carson A, Chen X, Fu H, Ottoboni S, Wagner WR, Villanueva FS. Ultrasound detection of myocardial ischemic memory using an e-selectin targeting peptide amenable to human application.  Molecular Imaging 2014;16:1-9.

10. Kopechek JA, Carson AR, McTiernan CF, Chen X, Villanueva FS. Transcription factor decoy-mediated knockdown of STAT3 signaling to inhibit tumor growth using ultrasound targeted microbubble destruction. Theranostics 2015;5(12):1378-1387.