Biography
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Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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UCSF | Fellowship | Medical Oncology | 2011 |
University of Pennsylvania Health System | Residency | Internal Medicine | 2009 |
University of Pennsylvania | M.D. | Medicine | 2007 |
University of Pennsylvania | Ph.D. | Cell and Molecular Biology | 2006 |
University of Washington | B.S. | Molecular and Cellular Biology | 1997 |
Awards & Honors
Award | Conferred By | Date |
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Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award | Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation | 2018/2021 |
V Scholar Award | V Foundation | 2018/2020 |
Clinical Scientist Award | Doris Duke Charitable Foundation | 2018/2012 |
AACR BioOncology Fellowship | AACR | 2014/2016 |
Legacy Award | Uniting Against Lung Cancer | 2014/2016 |
Research Grant | Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation | 2013 |
Clinical Expertise
Non-small cell lung cancer
Small cell lung cancer
Research Narrative
The primary focus of my research is to translate laboratory-based findings into novel investigator sponsored trials that aim to assess the safety and efficacy of rationally designed targeted therapies for lung cancer patients.
My goals are to: 1) define how TKI resistance pathways evolve at the tumor genome, transcriptome and molecular signaling levels within lung cancers and to translate these findings into novel prognostic and predictive biomarkers that may predict TKI resistance before it occurs; 2) develop investigator sponsored clinical trials to test rational companion therapies that can prevent, delay, or overcome TKI resistance, 3) develop investigator sponsored clinical trials to target recently identified oncogenic pathways, outside of EGFR and ALK, that drive NSCLC; and 4) establish a cohort of patient-derived xenograft (PDX) mice to foster research that aims to further understand the molecular mechanisms of response and resistance to TKI therapies in lung cancer
Research Interests
EGFR-mutant lung cancer
ALK-rearranged lung cancer
ROS1-rearranged lung cancer
Mechanisms of resistance to targeted therapies
Publications
- RAS nucleotide cycling underlies the SHP2 phosphatase dependence of mutant BRAF-, NF1- and RAS-driven cancers.| | PubMed
- Clinical Utility of Cell-Free DNA for the Detection of ALK Fusions and Genomic Mechanisms of ALK Inhibitor Resistance in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.| | PubMed
- Imaging PD-L1 Expression with ImmunoPET.| | PubMed
- Evolution and clinical impact of co-occurring genetic alterations in advanced-stage EGFR-mutant lung cancers.| | PubMed
- Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by Molecular Profiling and Improved Outcomes in Early Stage, Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.| | PubMed
- Novel computational method for predicting polytherapy switching strategies to overcome tumor heterogeneity and evolution.| | PubMed
- Inactivation of Capicua drives cancer metastasis.| | PubMed
- Neoadjuvant Oncogene-Targeted Therapy in Early Stage Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer as a Strategy to Improve Clinical Outcome and Identify Early Mechanisms of Resistance.| | PubMed
- RAS-MAPK dependence underlies a rational polytherapy strategy in EML4-ALK-positive lung cancer.| | PubMed
- NF-κB-activating complex engaged in response to EGFR oncogene inhibition drives tumor cell survival and residual disease in lung cancer.| | PubMed