Journal Publications
Mirza AN, Gonzalez F, Ha SK, Oro AE. The Sky’s the LEMit: New insights into nuclear structure regulation of transcription factor activity. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2021.
Kilgour JM, Shah A, Urman NM, Eichstadt S, Do HN, Bailey I, Mirza AN, Li S, Oro AE, Aasi SZ, Sarin KY. Phase II Open-Label, Single-Arm Trial to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of Topical Remetinostat Gel in Patients with Basal Cell Carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2021.
Mirza AN, McKellar SA, Urman NM, Brown AS, Hollmig T, Aasi SZ, Oro AE. LAP2 Proteins Chaperone GLI1 Movement between the Lamina and Chromatin to Regulate Transcription. Cell. 2019.
Sohn GK, Kwon GP, Bailey-Healy I, Mirza AN, Sarin K, Oro A, Tang JY. Topical Itraconazole for the Treatment of Basal Cell Carcinoma in Patients With Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome or High-Frequency Basal Cell Carcinomas: A Phase 2, Open-Label, Placebo-Controlled Trial. JAMA Dermatol. 2019.
Whitson RJ, Lee A, Urman NM, Mirza AN, Yao CY, Brown AS, Li JR, Shankar G, Fry MA, Atwood SX, et al. Noncanonical hedgehog pathway activation through SRF–MKL1 promotes drug resistance in basal cell carcinomas. Nature Medicine. 2018.
Mirza AN, Fry MA, Urman NM, Atwood SX, Roffey J, Ott GR, Chen B, Lee AL, Brown AS, Aasi SZ, et al. Atypical Protein Kinase C–Histone Deacetylase 1 inhibitors cooperate in basal cell carcinoma treatment. J Clin Investig Insight. 2017.
Urman NM, Mirza AN, Atwood SX, Whitson RJ, Sarin KY, Tang JY, Oro AE. Tumor-Derived Suppressor of Fused Mutations Reveal Hedgehog Pathway Interactions. PLoS One. 2016.
Kovacs E, Das R, Wang Q, Collier TS, Cantor A, Huang Y, Wong K, Mirza AN, Barros T, Grob P, et al. Analysis of the Role of the C-Terminal Tail in the Regulation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor. Mol Cell Biol. 2015.
Talevich E, Mirza AN, Kannan N. Structural and evolutionary divergence of eukaryotic protein kinases in Apicomplexa. BMC Evol Biol. 2011.
Mustafa M, Mirza AN, Kannan N. Conformational regulation of the EGFR kinase core by the juxtamembrane and C-terminal tail: A molecular dynamics study. Proteins Struct Funct Bioinforma. 2011.
Mirza AN, Mustafa M, Talevich E, Kannan N. Co-Conserved Features Associated with cis Regulation of ErbB Tyrosine Kinases. PLoS One. 2010.
Book Chapters
Cover Author (Editor): Dermatopathology, 1st Edition (Surgical Pathology: A Case-Based Approach to Diagnosis series). Edited by Tim McCalmont, Michael Tetzlaff, Erik A. Williams, and Amar Mirza. Elsevier, April 2025.
Contributing Author: Molecular Surgical Pathology, Chapter 17: Molecular Pathology of Melanoma and Nonmelanoma Skin Tumors. De la Sancha C, Mirza AN, Bastian B. Springer Nature, 2023.
Published Abstracts
American Society of Dermatopathology (2024; Chicago, IL) – oral presentation
Mirza AN, Tetzlaff M, LeBoit P. Exploring the Morphologic Spectrum of Conventional Pathway Mutated but Morphologically Spitzoid Tumors in a Large Series. J Cutan Pathol. 2024.
Society for Investigative Dermatology (2019; Chicago, IL) – oral and poster presentations
Mirza AN. 138 LAP2 proteins chaperone GLI1 movement between the lamina and chromatin to regulate transcription. J Invest Dermatol. 2019; 139:S24.
International Society for Investigative Dermatology (2018; Orlando, FL) – e-poster and poster presentations
Mirza A, McKeller SA, Oro AE. 179 Drug resistance in basal cell carcinoma identifies the inner nuclear membrane as a critical GLI1 regulatory checkpoint. J Invest Dermatol. 2018; 138:S30.
Society for Investigative Dermatology (2017; Portland, OR) – oral and poster presentations
Mirza A, Tang JY, Sarin KY, Oro A. 086 Identification of an atypical protein kinase C–histone deacetylase 1 axis as a therapeutic target in basal cell carcinoma. J Invest Dermatol. 2017; 137:S15.