Heng lab publications
Selected highlight publications
1 . Payne N, Pang S, Freeman A, Ozkocak D, Limar J, Wallis G, Zheng D, Mendonca S, O’Reilly L, Gray D, Poon I, Heng T (2025). Proinflammatory cytokines sensitise mesenchymal stromal cells to apoptosis. Cell Death Discovery 11:121.
2. Zheng D, Bhuvan T, Payne N, Pang S, Mendonca S, Hutchinson M, McKinnirey F, Morgan C, Vesey G, Meagher L, Heng T (2024). Subcutaneous delivery of mesenchymal stromal cells induces immunoregulatory effects in the lymph node prior to their apoptosis. Stem Cell Research & Therapy 15:432.
3. Pang S, D’Rozario J, Mendonca S, Bhuvan T, Payne N, Zheng D, Hisana A, Wallis G, Barugahare A, Powell D, Rautela J, Huntington N, Dewson G, Huang D, Gray D, Heng T. 2021. Mesenchymal stromal cell apoptosis is required for their therapeutic function. Nature Communications 12(1), 6495.
4. Sheridan J, Keown A, Policheni A, Roesley S, Rivlin N, Ritchie M, Jain R, Abramson J, Heng T, Gray D. 2017. Thymospheres are formed by mesenchymal cells with the potential to generate adipocytes, but not epithelial cells. Cell Reports 21(4), 934-942.
5. Morison J, Homann J, Layton D, Chidgey A, Boyd R, Heng T. 2014. Establishment of transplantation tolerance via minimal conditioning in aged recipients. American Journal of Transplantation 14(11), 2478-2490.
6. Mathias L, Khong S, Spyroglou L, Payne N, Siatskas C, Thorburn A, Boyd R, Heng T. 2013. Alveolar macrophages are critical for the inhibition of allergic asthma by mesenchymal stromal cells. The Journal of Immunology 191(12), 5914-24.
7. Mingueneau M*, Kreslavsky T*, Gray D*, Heng T* (*joint first), Cruse R, Ericson J, Bendall S, Spitzer M, Nolan G, Kobayashi K, von Boehmer H, Mathis D, Benoist C; the Immunological Genome Consortium. 2013. The transcriptional landscape of T cell differentiation. Nature Immunology 14(6), 619-32.
8. Heng T, Painter M, Immunological Genome Project Consortium. 2008. The Immunological Genome Project: networks of gene expression in immune cells. Nature Immunology 9(10), 1091-1094.
Additional publications
A full list of Heng Lab publications can be viewed on my Monash Research Profile.