Research
Current Interests
- Treatment Resistance
- Computational Biology
- Programmed Inflammation
- Adaptive Memory and Cellular Learning
- Acute vs Chronic Perturbation Adaptations
- Next Generation Clinical Trial Design & Treatment Monitoring
- Innovation, Translation, and Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
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Publications
Full list of publications at Google Scholar.
- Honkala, A. (2025). Python Encoders for Archetypal Convex Hulls (PEACH): PyTorch-Based Archetypal Analysis. bioRxiv, 2025-12.
- Honkala, A. (2025). Connecting Preclinical Models to Patient Outcomes: A Machine Learning Dataset for Predictive Validity in Drug Development. NeurIPS 2025 AI4Science Workshop (Abstract).
- Stefan, K., Gordon, R., Rolig, A., Honkala, A., Tailor, D., Davis, L. E., Modi, R. I., Joshipura, M., Khamar, B., & Malhotra, S. V. (2024). Mycobacterium w—a promising immunotherapeutic intervention for diseases. Frontiers in Immunology, 15, 1450118.
- Dheeraj, A., Garcia-Marques, F. J., Tailor, D., Bermudez, A., Resendez, A., Pandrala, M., Grau, B., Kumar, P., Haley, C. B., Honkala, A., ... & Malhotra, S. V. (2024). Inhibition of protein translational machinery in triple-negative breast cancer as a promising therapeutic strategy. Cell Reports Medicine, 5(5).
- Zhou, X., Shen, X., Johnson, J. S., Spakowicz, D. J., Agnello, M., Zhou, W., Avina, M., Honkala, A., Chleilat, F., Chen, S. J., ... & Snyder, M. P. (2024). Longitudinal profiling of the microbiome at four body sites reveals core stability and individualized dynamics during health and disease. Cell Host & Microbe, 32(4), 506–526.
- Tailor, D., Tsai, C. F., Honkala, A., Li, W., Liu, T., Pejovic, T., & Malhotra, S. V. (2022). Targeting mRNA processing pathways in ovarian cancer with a small molecule inhibitor. Cancer Research, 82(12_Supplement), 2645–2645.
- Honkala, A., Malhotra, S. V., Kummar, S., & Junttila, M. R. (2022). Harnessing the predictive power of preclinical models for oncology drug development. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 21(2), 99–114.
- Honkala, A., & Snyder, M. (2022). Monitoring Health Through Wearables and Connected Devices. Journal of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 61(8), 572–577.
- Honkala, A., Smith, B., Margulis, K., & Zare, R. (2022). Myeloid cell-targeted nanoparticles and related compositions and methods. US Patent App. 17/783,939.
- Alavi, A., Bogu, G. K., Wang, M., Rangan, E. S., Brooks, A. W., Wang, Q., Honkala, A., ... & Snyder, M. P. (2022). Real-time alerting system for COVID-19 and other stress events using wearable data. Nature Medicine, 28(1), 175–184.
- Tailor, D., Resendez, A., Garcia-Marques, F. J., Pandrala, M., Going, C. C., Bermudez, A., Honkala, A., ... & Malhotra, S. V. (2021). Y box binding protein 1 inhibition as a targeted therapy for ovarian cancer. Cell Chemical Biology, 28(8), 1206–1220.
- Keating, B. J., Mukhtar, E. H., Elftmann, E. D., Eweje, F. R., Gao, H., Ibrahim, L. I., Honkala, A., ... & Snyder, M. P. (2021). Early detection of SARS-CoV-2 and other infections in solid organ transplant recipients and household members using wearable devices. Transplant International, 34(6), 1019–1031.
- Li-Pook-Than, J., Banuelos, S., Honkala, A., Sahoo, M. K., Pinsky, B. A., & Snyder, M. P. (2021). Long-read sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 reveals novel transcripts and a diverse complex transcriptome landscape. bioRxiv.
- Si, P., Honkala, A., de la Zerda, A., & Smith, B. R. (2020). Optical Microscopy and Coherence Tomography of Cancer in Living Subjects. Trends in Cancer, 6(3), 205–222.
- Margulis, K., Honkala, A., Kalashnikova, I., Noll, S. E., Hill, M., Zare, R. N., & Smith, B. R. (2020). Nanoparticles decorated with granulocyte-colony stimulating factor for targeting myeloid cells. Nanoscale, 12(4), 2752–2763.
- Honkala, A. T., Tailor, D., & Malhotra, S. V. (2020). Guanylate-Binding Protein 1: An Emerging Target in Inflammation and Cancer. Frontiers in Immunology, 10, 3139.
- Owyong, M., Hosseini-Nassab, N., Efe, G., Honkala, A., van den Bijgaart, R. J. E., Plaks, V., & Smith, B. R. (2017). Cancer immunotherapy getting brainy: visualizing the distinctive CNS metastatic niche to illuminate therapeutic resistance. Drug Resistance Updates, 33, 23–35.
- Eaton, K. A., Honkala, A., Auchtung, T. A., & Britton, R. A. (2011). Probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri ameliorates disease due to enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli in germfree mice. Infection and Immunity, 79(1), 185–191.