Leonard Frisbie

  • 4th Year Graduate Student

Dissertation Mentor

Dr. Lan Coffman

Education & Training

  • M.S. Biotechnology, Duquesne University
  • B.S. Biology, Duquesne University

Representative Publications

Huda I. Atiya, Taylor J. Orellana, Alyssa Wield, Leonard Frisbie, Lan G. Coffman. "An Orthotopic Mouse Model of Ovarian Cancer using Human Stroma to Promote Metastasis" (2021) J. Visual Exp. doi:10.3791/62382

Atiya H., Frisbie L., Pressimone C., Coffman L. (2020) Mesenchymal Stem Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment. In: Birbrair A. (eds) Tumor Microenvironment. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1234. Springer, Cham

Huihui Fan, Huda I. Atiya, Yeh Wang, Thomas R. Pisanic, Tza-Huei Wang, Ie-Ming Shih, Kelly K. Foy, Leonard Frisbie, Ronald J. Buckanovich, Alison A. Chomiak, Rochelle L. Tiedemann, Scott B. Rothbart, Chelsea Chandler, Hui Shen, Lan G. Coffman. (2020) "Epigenomic Reprogramming toward Mesenchymal-Epithelial Transition in Ovarian-Cancer-Associated Mesenchymal Stem Cells Drives Metastasis" Cell Reports. Vol. 33(10). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108473.

Coffman LG, Pearson AT, Frisbie LG, et al. Ovarian Carcinoma-Associated Mesenchymal Stem Cells Arise from Tissue-Specific Normal Stroma. Stem Cells. 2019;37(2):257-269. doi:10.1002/stem.2932