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Mark C. Poznansky, MD, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital
Phone: (617) 724-6375
Fax: (617) 726-4691


mpoznansky@partners.org

Mark C. Poznansky, MD, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital

EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases Medicine, Brigham And Women's Hospital
  • Professor, Infectious Disease Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Director - Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

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  • Raju Paul S, Valiev I, Korek SE, Zyrin V, Shamsutdinova D, Gancharova O, Zaitsev A, Nuzhdina E, Davies DL, Dagogo-Jack I, Frenkel F, Brown JH, Hess JM, Viet S, Petersen JL, Wright CD, Ott HC, Auchincloss HG, Muniappan A, Shioda T, Lanuti M, Davis CM, Ehli EA, Hung YP, Mino-Kenudson M, Tsiper M, Sluder AE, Reeves PM, Kotlov N, Bagaev A, Ataullakhanov R, Poznansky MC. B cell-dependent subtypes and treatment-based immune correlates to survival in stage 3 and 4 lung adenocarcinomas. FASEB Bioadv 2023; 5:156-170. PubMed
  • Zaitsev A, Chelushkin M, Dyikanov D, Cheremushkin I, Shpak B, Nomie K, Zyrin V, Nuzhdina E, Lozinsky Y, Zotova A, Degryse S, Kotlov N, Baisangurov A, Shatsky V, Afenteva D, Kuznetsov A, Paul SR, Davies DL, Reeves PM, Lanuti M, Goldberg MF, Tazearslan C, Chasse M, Wang I, Abdou M, Aslanian SM, Andrewes S, Hsieh JJ, Ramachandran A, Lyu Y, Galkin I, Svekolkin V, Cerchietti L, Poznansky MC, Ataullakhanov R, Fowler N, Bagaev A. Precise reconstruction of the TME using bulk RNA-seq and a machine learning algorithm trained on artificial transcriptomes. Cancer Cell 2022; 40:879-894.e16. PubMed
  • Sung W, Hong TS, Poznansky MC, Paganetti H, Grassberger C. Mathematical modeling to simulate the effect of adding radiotherapy to immunotherapy and application to hepatocellular carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2021. PubMed
  • Li B, Li G, Yan X, Zhu D, Lin PP, Wang Z, Qu H, He X, Fu Y, Zhu X, Lin P, Zhang J, Li X, Dai H, Chen H, Poznansky MC, Lin N, Ye Z. Fresh Tissue Multi-omics Profiling Reveals Immune Classification and Suggests Immunotherapy Candidates for Conventional Chondrosarcoma. Clin Cancer Res 2021. PubMed
  • Wang J, Tannous BA, Poznansky MC, Chen H. CXCR4 antagonist AMD3100 (plerixafor): From an impurity to a therapeutic agent. Pharmacol. Res. 2020; 159:105010. PubMed
  • Alagpulinsa DA, Szalat RE, Poznansky MC, Shmookler Reis RJ. Genomic Instability in Multiple Myeloma. Trends Cancer 2020. PubMed
  • Zeng Y, Li B, Li T, Liu W, Ran C, Penson RT, Poznansky MC, Du Y, Chen H. CD90 MSCs modulate intratumoral immunity to confer antitumor activity in a mouse model of ovarian cancer. 2019; 10:4479-4491. PubMed
  • Zeng Y, Li B, Liang Y, Reeves PM, Qu X, Ran C, Liu Q, Callahan MV, Sluder AE, Gelfand JA, Chen H, Poznansky MC. Dual blockade of CXCL12-CXCR4 and PD-1-PD-L1 pathways prolongs survival of ovarian tumor-bearing mice by prevention of immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment. FASEB J. 2019. PubMed
  • Kimizuka Y, Katagiri W, Locascio JJ, Shigeta A, Sasaki Y, Shibata M, Morse K, Sîrbulescu RF, Miyatake M, Reeves P, Suematsu M, Gelfand J, Brauns T, Poznansky MC, Tsukada K, Kashiwagi S. Brief Exposure of Skin to Near-Infrared Laser Modulates Mast Cell Function and Augments the Immune Response. J Immunol 2018; 201:3587-3603. PubMed
  • Gelfand JA, Nazarian RM, Kashiwagi S, Brauns T, Martin B, Kimizuka Y, Korek S, Botvinick E, Elkins K, Thomas L, Locascio J, Parry B, Kelly KM, Poznansky MC. A pilot clinical trial of a near-infrared laser vaccine adjuvant: safety, tolerability, and cutaneous immune cell trafficking. FASEB J. 2018. PubMed
  • Li B, Wang Z, Wu H, Xue M, Lin P, Wang S, Lin N, Huang X, Pan W, Liu M, Yan X, Qu H, Sun L, Li H, Wu Y, Teng W, Wang Z, Zhou X, Chen H, Poznansky MC, Ye Z. Epigenetic regulation of CXCL12 plays a critical role in mediating tumor progression and the immune response in osteosarcoma. Cancer Res 2018. PubMed
  • Li B, Zeng Y, Reeves PM, Ran C, Liu Q, Qu X, Liang Y, Liu Z, Yuan J, Leblanc PR, Ye Z, Sluder AE, Gelfand JA, Brauns TA, Chen H, Poznansky MC. AMD3100 augments the efficacy of mesothelin-targeted, immune-activating VIC-008 in mesothelioma by modulating intratumoral immunosuppression. Cancer Immunol Res 2018. PubMed
  • Reeves PM, Abbaslou MA, Kools FRW, Vutipongsatorn K, Tong X, Gavegano C, Schinazi RF, Poznansky MC. Ruxolitinib sensitizes ovarian cancer to reduced dose Taxol, limits tumor growth and improves survival in immune competent mice. 2017; 8:94040-94053. PubMed
  • Reeves PM, Abbaslou MA, Kools FRW, Poznansky MC. CXCR4 blockade with AMD3100 enhances Taxol chemotherapy to limit ovarian cancer cell growth. 2017; 28:935-942. PubMed
  • Mattox A, Lee J, Westra WH, Pierce RH, Ghossein R, Faquin WC, Diefenbach TJ, Morris LG, Lin DT, Wirth LJ, Lefranc-Torres A, Ishida E, Chakravarty PD, Johnson L, Zeng Y, Chen H, Poznansky MC, Iyengar NM, Pai SI. PD-1 expression in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas derives primarily from functionally anergic CD4+ TILs in the presence of PD-L1+ TAMs. Cancer Res 2017. PubMed
  • Jones CN, Dimisko L, Forrest K, Judice K, Poznansky MC, Markmann JF, Vyas JM, Irimia D. Human Neutrophils Are Primed by Chemoattractant Gradients for Blocking the Growth of Aspergillus fumigatus. J Infect Dis 2015. PubMed
  • Kashiwagi S, Brauns T, Gelfand J, Poznansky MC. Laser vaccine adjuvants: History, progress, and potential. Hum Vaccin Immunother 2014. PubMed
  • Leblanc P, Moise L, Luza C, Chantaralawan K, Lezeau L, Yuan J, Field M, Richer D, Boyle C, Martin WD, Fishman JB, Berg EA, Baker D, Zeigler B, Mais DE, Taylor W, Coleman R, Warren HS, Gelfand JA, De Groot AS, Brauns T, Poznansky MC. VaxCelerate II: rapid development of a self-assembling vaccine for Lassa fever. Hum Vaccin Immunother 2014; 10:3022-38. PubMed
  • Yuan J, Kashiwagi S, Reeves P, Nezivar J, Yang Y, Arrifin NH, Nguyen M, Jean-Mary G, Tong X, Uppal P, Korochkina S, Forbes B, Chen T, Righi E, Bronson R, Chen H, Orsulic S, Brauns T, Leblanc P, Scholler N, Dranoff G, Gelfand J, Poznansky MC. A novel mycobacterial Hsp70-containing fusion protein targeting mesothelin augments antitumor immunity and prolongs survival in murine models of ovarian cancer and mesothelioma. J Hematol Oncol 2014; 7:15. PubMed
  • Huang Y, Yuan J, Righi E, Kamoun WS, Ancukiewicz M, Nezivar J, Santosuosso M, Martin JD, Martin MR, Vianello F, Leblanc P, Munn LL, Huang P, Duda DG, Fukumura D, Jain RK, Poznansky MC. Vascular normalizing doses of antiangiogenic treatment reprogram the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and enhance immunotherapy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:17561-6. PubMed
  • Santosuosso M, Righi E, Leblanc PR, Poznansky MC. Reply to cummins et Al. J Infect Dis 2010; 201:1274-5. PubMed
  • Chenine AL, Siddappa NB, Kramer VG, Sciaranghella G, Rasmussen RA, Lee SJ, Santosuosso M, Poznansky MC, Velu V, Amara RR, Souder C, Anderson DC, Villinger F, Else JG, Novembre FJ, Strobert E, O'Neil SP, Evan Secor W, Ruprecht RM. Relative Transmissibility of an R5 Clade C Simian-Human Immunodeficiency Virus Across Different Mucosae in Macaques Parallels the Relative Risks of Sexual HIV-1 Transmission in Humans via Different Routes. J Infect Dis 2010; 201:1155-63. PubMed
  • Lee JY, Buzney CD, Poznansky MC, Sackstein R. Dynamic alterations in chemokine gradients induce transendothelial shuttling of human T cells under physiologic shear conditions. J Leukoc Biol 2009; 86:1285-94. PubMed
  • Jaafar F, Righi E, Lindstrom V, Linton C, Nohadani M, Van Noorden S, Lloyd T, Poznansky J, Stamp G, Dina R, Coleman DV, Poznansky MC. Correlation of CXCL12 expression and FoxP3+ cell infiltration with human papillomavirus infection and clinicopathological progression of cervical cancer. Am J Pathol 2009; 175:1525-35. PubMed
  • Stevceva L,Yoon V,Carville A,Pacheco B,Santosuosso M,Korioth-Schmitz B,Mansfield K,Poznansky MC. The efficacy of T cell-mediated immune responses is reduced by the envelope protein of the chimeric HIV-1/SIV-KB9 virus in vivo. J Immunol 2008; 181:5510-21. PubMed
  • Huttenlocher A, Poznansky MC. Reverse leukocyte migration can be attractive or repulsive. Trends Cell Biol 2008; 18:298-306. PubMed
  • Papeta N, Chen T, Vianello F, Gererty L, Malik A, Mok YT, Tharp WG, Bagley J, Zhao G, Stevceva L, Yoon V, Sykes M, Sachs D, Iacomini J, Poznansky MC. Long-term survival of transplanted allogeneic cells engineered to express a T cell chemorepellent. Transplantation 2007; 83:174-83. PubMed
  • Stevceva L, Yoon V, Anastasiades D, Poznansky MC. Immune responses to HIV Gp120 that facilitate viral escape. Curr HIV Res 2007; 5:47-54. PubMed
  • Vianello F, Papeta N, Chen T, Kraft P, White N, Hart WK, Kircher MF, Swart E, Rhee S, Palù G, Irimia D, Toner M, Weissleder R, Poznansky MC. Murine B16 melanomas expressing high levels of the chemokine stromal-derived factor-1/CXCL12 induce tumor-specific T cell chemorepulsion and escape from immune control. J Immunol 2006; 176:2902-14. PubMed
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