Dr. Allan R. Albig joined the faculty of the Department of Biological Sciences at
Boise State University in 2012. He has a Ph.D. from the School of Molecular Biosciences
at Washington State University, and a B.S. in Genetics and Cell Biology from the
University of Minnesota. He has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of
Pediatrics, National Jewish Medical Center in Denver, and at the Department of
Pharmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Aurora, Colorado. Before
coming to Boise State, Dr. Albig was a physiology professor at Indiana State University
in Terre Haute. His primary research interests are in vascular biology, cancer,
angiogenesis, and the extracellular matrix. Vascular abnormalities are associated with at
least 70 different human diseases, including heart disease and cancer, and the overall
goal of his research is to better understand diseases that are characterized by
insufficient or excessive angiogenesis. Dr. Albig also serves as a reviewer for Journal
of Cellular Biochemistry, Experimental Cell Research, and Journal of Molecular Cancer.

Articles

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Matrix Gla Protein Reinforces Angiogenic Resolution (with Bikram Sharma), Microvascular Research (2013)

Matrix Gla Protein (MGP) is an ECM molecule commonly associated with dysfunctions of large blood...

 

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Lumican Reduces Tumor Growth Via Induction of Fas-Mediated Endothelial Cell Apoptosis (with Kent E. Williams and Logan A. Fulford), Cancer Microenvironment (2011)

Matrikines are important components of tumor microenvironments that integrate communication between extracellular matricies and membrane-bound...

 

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Lipocalin-7 Is a Matricellular Regulator of Angiogenesis (with Leslie J. Brown, Mariam Alawoki, Mary E. Crawford, Tiffany Reida, Allison Sears, and Tory Torma), PLoS ONE (2010)

Background Matricellular proteins are extracellular regulators of cellular adhesion, signaling and performing a variety of...

 

Fibulin-5 Initiates Epithelial–mesenchymal Transition (EMT) and Enhances EMT Induced by TGF-β in Mammary Epithelial Cells Via a MMP-dependent Mechanism (with Yong-Hun Lee, Mary Ann Regner, Barbara J. Schiemann, and William P. Schiemann), Carcinogenesis (2008)

Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a normal physiological process that regulates tissue development, remodeling and repair;...

 

Presentations

Characterization of Matrix Gla Protein (MGP) in Vascular Function and Angiogenesis (with Bikram Sharma), American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting (2011)
 

What is the Matrix? ECM Regulation of Cellular Behaviors, Angiogenesis, and Cancer, First Fridays Lecture Series, Indiana University School of Medicine (2011)
 

Vascular Abnormalities Associated with Disease, Extended Learning, Indiana State University (2011)

This lecture will focus on how molecules of the extracellular matrix (ECM) impact vascular biology....