Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery, 2007

Research
Targeted Nanoshell Mediated Drug Delivery and Thermal Ablation

Selected Publications

• Cao XX, Mohuiddin I, Chada S, Mhashilkar AM, Ozvaran MK, McConkey DJ, Miller SD, Daniel JC, Smythe WR.
• Adenoviral transfer of mda-7 leads to BAX up-regulation and apoptosis in mesothelioma cells, and is abrogated by over-expression of BCL-XL.  Mol Med 8:  869-76, 2002.
• Daniel JC, Smythe W. R.: Gene Therapy of Lung Cancer.  Seminars in Surgical Oncology 21: 196-204, 2003.
• Daniel JC, Smythe W. R.: The Role of the Bcl-2 Family in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.  Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 16: 19-27, 2004.
• Miller SD, Mohiuddin I, Cao X, Ozvaran MK, Daniel JC, Smythe WR.  Gene therapy for sarcoma utilizing adenoviral transfer of the beta-glucoronidase and bax genes and an anthracycline prodrug.  J Surg Res 121: 153-8.
• Zhu H, Guo W, Zhang L, Davis JJ, Teraishi F, Wu S, Cao X, Daniel J, Smythe WR, Fang B.  Bcl-XL small interfering RNA suppresses the proliferation of 5-fluorouracil-resistant human colon cancer cells.  Mol Cancer Ther 2005 Mar 4(3): 451-6.
• Rascoe PA, Cao X, Daniel JC, Miller SD, Smythe WR.  Receptor tyrosine kinase and phosphoinositide-3 kinase signaling in malignant mesothelioma.  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005 Aug:  130(2):  393-400.
• Daniel JC, Willard T, Zhou W, Coselli J, Lin PH.  Acute Aortic Dissection Associated with Use of Cocaine.  J of Vasc Surg 2007 Sep:  46(3):  427-33.
• Lee LS, Daniel JC.  Highlights from the 11th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery.  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008 Oct: 136:  1107-9.
• Wolf A, Daniel J, Sugarbaker DJ.  Surgical Techniques for Multimodality Treatment of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma:  Extrapleural pneumonectomy and Pleurectomy/Decortication.  Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovarscular Surgery.  (in press)