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Mostafa Rezapour PhD

TitleAssistant Professor of Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem
InstitutionWake Forest School of Medicine
DepartmentWake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem
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    TitleAssistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Winston-Salem
    InstitutionWake Forest School of Medicine
    DepartmentBiomedical Engineering, Winston-Salem


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    1. Rezapour M, Ornelles DA, Walker SJ, Bishop CE, Murphy SV, Gurcan MN, McNutt PM, Atala A. Transcriptional signatures of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection using relaxed magnitude altitude score with hub-centric network analysis (RMAS-HCNA). Front Genet. 2026; 17:1879778. PMID: 42774097.
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    2. Rezapour M. Tool choice matters: Evaluating edgeR vs. DESeq2 for sensitivity, robustness, and cross-study performance. PLoS One. 2026; 21(7):e0353788. PMID: 42441585.
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    3. Rezapour M, Shupe TD, Ornelles DA, Murphy SV, Atala A. Integrative Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Distinct and Shared Host Responses in Dengue and Chikungunya Infections. Int J Mol Sci. 2026 Jun 19; 27(12). PMID: 42353266.
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    4. Rezapour M, Murphy SV, Ornelles DA, Shupe TD, Walker SJ, Jacobson AR, Gurcan MN, McNutt PM, Atala A. Exploring Ebola virus-associated gene expression through comparative analysis. Front Genet. 2026; 17:1793277. PMID: 42080095.
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    5. Rezapour M, Trefry SV, Opoku LA, Narayanan A. Artificial Intelligence in Bulk RNA-Seq: Challenges and Potential Solutions. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2026; 35(1):0039. PMID: 41939295.
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    6. Rezapour M, Opoku LA, Trefry SV, Alili A, Konadu M, Dionisio MG, Gurcan MN, Narayanan A. Transcriptomic profiling of human endothelial cells infected with venezuelan equine encephalitis virus reveals NRF2 driven host reprogramming mediated by omaveloxolone treatment. Front Genet. 2025; 16:1722527. PMID: 41480150.
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    7. Rezapour M, Murphy SV, Ornelles DA, McNutt PM, Atala A. Opposite regulation of immune genes in blood and skin highlights tissue-specific dynamics of mpox virus. Sci Rep. 2025 Nov 07; 15(1):39172. PMID: 41203638.
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    8. Rezapour M, McNutt PM, Ornelles DA, Walker SJ, Murphy SV, Atala A, Gurcan MN. Cross-modal predictive modeling of multi-omic data in 3D airway organ tissue equivalents during viral infection. Front Genet. 2025; 16:1658577. PMID: 41070224.
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    9. Rezapour M, Bowser J, Richardson C, Gurcan MN. Transcriptional Consequences of MeCP2 Knockdown and Overexpression in Mouse Primary Cortical Neurons. Int J Mol Sci. 2025 Sep 17; 26(18). PMID: 41009596.
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    10. Rezapour M, Murphy SV, Ornelles DA, McNutt PM, Atala A. Tracing the evolutionary pathway of SARS-CoV-2 through RNA sequencing analysis. Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 04; 15(1):23961. PMID: 40615624.
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    11. Rezapour M, Narayanan A, Mowery WH, Gurcan MN. Assessing concordance between RNA-Seq and NanoString technologies in Ebola-infected nonhuman primates using machine learning. BMC Genomics. 2025 Apr 10; 26(1):358. PMID: 40211167.
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    12. Afzaal U, Su Z, Sajjad U, Stack T, Rezapour M, Lu H, Niu S, Gurcan MN, Frankel W, Chen W, Khan Niazi MK. Instruction tuning for colorectal histopathology: a multimodal vision-language assistant on human-evaluated data. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2025 Feb; 13413. PMID: 41799657.
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    13. Rezapour M, Seymour RB, Medda S, Sims SH, Karunakar MA, Habet N, Gurcan MN. Analyzing Gait Dynamics and Recovery Trajectory in Lower Extremity Fractures Using Linear Mixed Models and Gait Analysis Variables. Bioengineering (Basel). 2025 Jan 14; 12(1). PMID: 39851341.
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    14. Su Z, Rezapour M, Sajjad U, Niu S, Gurcan MN, Niazi MKK. Cross-Attention-Based Saliency Inference for Predicting Cancer Metastasis on Whole Slide Images. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2024 Dec; 28(12):7206-7216. PMID: 39106145.
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    15. Rezapour M, Walker SJ, Ornelles DA, Niazi MKK, McNutt PM, Atala A, Gurcan MN. Exploring the host response in infected lung organoids using NanoString technology: A statistical analysis of gene expression data. PLoS One. 2024; 19(11):e0308849. PMID: 39591472.
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    16. Lu H, Rezapour M, Baha H, Khalid Khan Niazi M, Narayanan A, Nafi Gurcan M. Classification-based pathway analysis using GPNet with novel P-value computation. Brief Bioinform. 2024 Nov 22; 26(1). PMID: 39879387.
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    17. Rezapour M, Narayanan A, Gurcan MN. Machine Learning Analysis of RNA-Seq Data Identifies Key Gene Signatures and Pathways in Mpox Virus-Induced Gastrointestinal Complications Using Colon Organoid Models. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Oct 17; 25(20). PMID: 39456924.
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    18. Rezapour M, Niazi MKK, Lu H, Narayanan A, Gurcan MN. Machine learning-based analysis of Ebola virus' impact on gene expression in nonhuman primates. Front Artif Intell. 2024; 7:1405332. PMID: 39282474.
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    19. Rezapour M, Wesolowski R, Gurcan MN. Identifying Key Genes Involved in Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis in Breast Cancer Using Advanced RNA-Seq Analysis: A Methodological Approach with GLMQL and MAS. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Jul 03; 25(13). PMID: 39000413.
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    20. Rezapour M, Walker SJ, Ornelles DA, Niazi MKK, McNutt PM, Atala A, Gurcan MN. A comparative analysis of RNA-Seq and NanoString technologies in deciphering viral infection response in upper airway lung organoids. Front Genet. 2024; 15:1327984. PMID: 38957806.
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    21. Rezapour M, Seymour RB, Sims SH, Karunakar MA, Habet N, Gurcan MN. Employing machine learning to enhance fracture recovery insights through gait analysis. J Orthop Res. 2024 Aug; 42(8):1748-1761. PMID: 38596829.
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    22. Rezapour M, Walker SJ, Ornelles DA, McNutt PM, Atala A, Gurcan MN. Analysis of gene expression dynamics and differential expression in viral infections using generalized linear models and quasi-likelihood methods. Front Microbiol. 2024; 15:1342328. PMID: 38655085.
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    23. Su Z, Chen W, Annem S, Sajjad U, Rezapour M, Frankel WL, Gurcan MN, Niazi MKK. Adapting SAM to Histopathology Images for Tumor Bud Segmentation in Colorectal Cancer. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2024 Feb; 12933. PMID: 38765185.
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    24. Su Z, Chen W, Leigh PJ, Sajjad U, Niu S, Rezapour M, Frankel WL, Gurcan MN, Niazi MKK. Few-shot Tumor Bud Segmentation Using Generative Model in Colorectal Carcinoma. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2024 Feb; 12933. PMID: 38756441.
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    25. Sajjad U, Chen W, Rezapour M, Su Z, Tavolara T, Frankel WL, Gurcan MN, Niazi MKK. Enhancing Colorectal Cancer Tumor Bud Detection Using Deep Learning from Routine H&E-Stained Slides. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2024 Feb; 12933. PMID: 38752165.
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    26. Su Z, Rezapour M, Sajjad U, Gurcan MN, Niazi MKK. Attention2Minority: A salient instance inference-based multiple instance learning for classifying small lesions in whole slide images. Comput Biol Med. 2023 Dec; 167:107607. PMID: 37890421.
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    27. Sajjad U, Rezapour M, Su Z, Tozbikian GH, Gurcan MN, Niazi MKK. NRK-ABMIL: Subtle Metastatic Deposits Detection for Predicting Lymph Node Metastasis in Breast Cancer Whole-Slide Images. Cancers (Basel). 2023 Jun 30; 15(13). PMID: 37444538.
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    28. Rezapour M, Niazi MKK, Gurcan MN. Author Correction: Machine learning-based analytics of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on alcohol consumption habit changes among United States healthcare workers. Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 26; 13(1):6818. PMID: 37100854.
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    29. Rezapour M, Niazi MKK, Gurcan MN. Machine learning-based analytics of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on alcohol consumption habit changes among United States healthcare workers. Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 12; 13(1):6003. PMID: 37046069.
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    30. Rezapour M, Elmshaeuser SK. Artificial intelligence-based analytics for impacts of COVID-19 and online learning on college students' mental health. PLoS One. 2022; 17(11):e0276767. PMID: 36399458.
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    31. Rezapour M, Hansen L. A machine learning analysis of COVID-19 mental health data. Sci Rep. 2022 Sep 02; 12(1):14965. PMID: 36056129.
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