Publications

Journal Articles:

1. Ridge-assisted Micro Positioning of Cells in a Channel, A. Payan-Medina, V. R. Putaturo, S. R. Bazaz, Q. E. Cunneely, V. Kulkarni, M. Toner, and A. Mishra, Provisionally Accepted, Science Advances, 2026, bioRxiv (Corresponding Author).

2. Epitope Expression Persists in Circulating Tumor Cells as Breast Cancers Acquire Resistance to Antibody Drug Conjugates, A. Mishra, R. Abelman, Q. Cunneely, V. Putaturo, A. A. Deshpande, R. Bell, E. M. Seider, K. H. Xu, M. Shan, J. Kelly, S.-B. Huang, K. A. Gopinathan, K. Kikkeri, J. F. Edd, J. Walsh, C. S. Dai, L. Ellisen, D. T. Ting, L. Nieman, M. Toner, A. Bardia, D. A. Haber and S. Maheswaran, Provisionally Accepted, PNAS, 2026, bioRxiv.

3. Circulating Tumor Cells Predict Response to the DLL3-targeting Bispecific Antibody Tarlatamab, A. Mishra, C. B. Meador, K. Kikkeri, Q Cunneely, M. Lin, T. J. Carmona-LaSalle, S-B Huang, R. Bell, V. Putaturo, W. Xia, J. H. Liang, J. Fang, S. S. Vicente, C. E. Zielinski, S. R. Digumarthy, Y. P. Hung, B. Y. Yeap, J. F. Edd, M. S. Lawrence, M. Sade-Feldman, D. R. Sen, M. Toner, S. Maheswaran, J. F. Gainor and D. A. Haber, Cancer Discovery, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-25-1483

Press: MGH, NETRF, Oncology News Central, Cancer Therapy

4. Circulating tumor cells: Blood-based detection, molecular biology, and clinical applications, C. S. Dai, A. Mishra, J. F. Edd, M. Toner, S. Maheswaran, D. A. Haber. Cell Press Cancer Cell, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2025.07.008

5. Tumor cell-based liquid biopsy using high-throughput microfluidic enrichment of entire leukapheresis product, A. Mishra, S-B Huang, T. Dubash, R. Burr, J. F. Edd, B. S. Wittner, Q. E. Cunneely, V. R. Putaturo, A. Deshpande, E. Antmen, K. A. Gopinathan, K. Otani, Y. Miyazawa, J. E. Kwak, S. Y. Guay, J. Kelly, J. Walsh, L. Nieman, I. Galler, P. Chan, M. S. Lawrence, R. J. Sullivan, A. Bardia, D. S. Micalizzi, L. V. Sequist, R. J. Lee, J. W. Franses, D. T. Ting, P. A. R. Brunker, S. Maheswaran, D. T. Miyamoto, D. A. Haber, and M. Toner, Nature Communications, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55140-x

6. Label-free microfluidic apheresis of circulating tumor cell clusters, L. Zhan, J. F. Edd, A. Mishra, and M. Toner, Advanced Science, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202405853

7. A microfluidic transistor for automatic control of liquids, K. A. Gopinathan, A. Mishra, B. R. Mutlu, J. F. Edd, and M. Toner, Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06517-3

8. Isolation of circulating tumor cells, J. F. Edd, A. Mishra, K. C. Smith, R. Kapur, S. Maheswaran, D. A. Haber, and M. Toner, iScience (Cell Press), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104696

9. Nature of trapping forces in optically induced electrothermal vortex-based tweezers, A. Mishra, K. Gupta, and S. Wereley, Physical Review Fluids, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.023701

10. Ultrahigh-throughput magnetic sorting of large blood volumes for epitope-agnostic isolation of circulating tumor cells, A. Mishra, T. D. Dubash, J. F. Edd, M. K. Jewett, S. G. Garre, N. M. Karabacak, D. C. Rabe, B. R. Mutlu, J. R. Walsh, R. Kapur, S. L. Stott, S. Maheswaran, D. A. Haber, and M. Toner, PNAS, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2006388117\

Press: MGH

11. In-flow measurement of cell-cell adhesion using oscillatory inertial microfluidics, B. R. Mutlu, T. Dubash, C. Dietsche, A. Mishra, A. Ozbey, K. Keim, J. F. Edd, D. A. Haber, S. Maheswaran, and M. Toner, Lab on a Chip, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0LC00089B

12. Microfluidic concentration and separation of circulating tumor cell clusters from large blood volumes, J. F. Edd, A. Mishra, T. D. Dubash, S. Herrera, R. Mohammad, E. K. Williams, X. Hong, B. R. Mutlu, J. R. Walsh, F. Machado De Carvalho, B. Aldikacti, L. T. Nieman, S. L. Stott, R. Kapur, S. Maheswaran, D. A. Haber, and M. Toner, Lab on a Chip, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9LC01122F

13. Trapped Chromatin Fibers Damage Flowing Red Blood Cells , M. Roushan, M. Jorfi, A. Mishra, K. Wong, J. Jorgensen, E. Ell, J. Markmann, J. Lee, and D. Irimia, Advanced Biosystems, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.201800040

14. Trapping and viability of swimming bacteria in an optoelectric trap, A. Mishra, T. Maltais, T. Walter, A. Wei, S. Williams and S. Wereley, Lab on a Chip, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5LC01559F

15. Dynamic optoelectric trapping and deposition of multiwalled carbon nanotubes, A. Mishra, K. Clayton, V. Velasco, S. Williams and S. Wereley, Nature Microsystems & Nanoengineering, Nature Publishing Group, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/micronano.2016.5

16. Optoelectric patterning: Effect of electrode material and thickness on laser-induced AC electrothermal flow, A. Mishra, J.-W. Khor, K. Clayton, S. Williams, X. Pan, T. Kinzer-Ursem and S. Wereley, Electrophoresis, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/elps.201500473

17. Mapping surface tension induced menisci with application to tensiometry and refractometry, A. Mishra, V. Kulkarni, J.-W. Khor and S. Wereley, Soft Matter, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5SM00497G

18. Optoelectrical microfluidics as a promising tool in biology, A. Mishra, J.-S. Kwon, R. Thakur and S. Wereley, Cell Press Trends in Biotechnology, , 2014 (*Cover Article). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2014.06.002

19. Photothermal heating enabled by plasmonic nanostructures for electrokinetic manipulation and sorting of particles, J. C. Ndukaife, A. Mishra, U. Guler, A. A. Nnanna, S. Wereley and A. Boltasseva, ACS Nano, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn502294w

20. Transient thermal analyses of midwall cooling and external cooling methods for a gun barrel, A. Mishra, A. Hameed and B. Lawton, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4001607

21. A novel scheme for computing gun barrel temperature history and its experimental validation, A. Mishra, A. Hameed and B. Lawton, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4001740

Book Chapters

"Droplet and Digital Microfluidics Enabled Analytical Techniques," K. Gupta, Z. Chen, K. Gopinathan, A. Mishra, and S. T. Wereley, Droplet and Digital Microfluidics, Elsevier, 2023.
"Negative-Selection Enrichment of Circulating Tumor Cells from Peripheral Blood Using the Microfluidic CTC-iChip," Methods in molecular biology, R. Burr, J. Edd, B. Chirn, A. Mishra, D. A. Haber, M. Toner, and S. Maheswaran, Mammary Stem Cells, Springer, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2193-6_18