Expertise/ Research Interests:
- Pathobiology of ovarian epithelial cancer. Exfoliative and aspiration biopsy cytoPathology and Cell Biology; gynecologic Pathology and Cell Biology; analytical cytology.

Publications:

1. Jiang K; Coppola D; Crespo NC; Nicosia SV; Hamilton AD; Sebti SM; Cheng JQ. The phosphoinositide 3-OH kinase/AKT2 pathway as a critical target for farnesyltransferase inhibitor-induced apoptosis. Mol Cell Biol. 20(1): 139-48, 2000
2. Nicosia SV, Ku NNK, Giacomini G, Pierro E, Mayer J, Nicosia RF. Ovarian mesothelium (surface epithelium) in normal, pathological and experimental conditions. In: Recent Advances in Microscopy of Cells (Motta PM, ed.), Piccin Press, Rome, 1997.
3. Pierro E, Nicosia SV, Saunders BO, Fultz C, Nicosia RF, Mancuso S. Influence of growth factors on proliferation and morphogenesis of ovarian mesothelial cells in vitro. Biol. Reprod. 54:660-669, 1996.
4. Nicosia SV, Nicosia RF, Saunders BO, Sun X, Pierro E, Mancuso S. Control of papillogenesis in benign and malignant ovarian mesothelium. In: New Achievements in Research of Ovarian Function (Strauss J, Fujimoto S, Hsueh AJW, Tanaka P, and Eds.) Ares-Serono Symposia 333-343, 1995.
5. Nicosia RF, Nicosia SV, Smith M. Vascular endothelial growth factor, platelet derived growth factor and insulin-like growth factor-1 promote rat aortic angiogenesis. Am. J. Pathol. 145:1023-1029, 1994.
6. Mora LB, Nicosia SV, Ku NNK, Diaz J, Lockart J, Einstein A, Pow-Sang JM. Ancillary techniques in the follow-up of transitional cell carcinoma: a comparison of cytology, histology and DNA image analysis cytometry in 91 patients. J Urol. In press. 1996
7. Nicosia SV, Nicosia RF, Saunders BO, Sun X, Pierro E, Mancuso S. Control of papillogenesis in benign and malignant ovarian mesothelium. New Achievements in Research of Ovarian Function. Strauss J, Fujimoto S, Hsueh AJW, Strauss JF, Tanaka P, eds. Ares-Serono Symposia, 1995,333-343