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Mark M. Awad, MD, PhD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Phone: (617) 632-3468
Fax: (617) 632-5786


mark_awad@dfci.harvard.edu

Mark M. Awad, MD, PhD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Associate Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

DF/HCC PROGRAM AFFILIATION

Research Abstract

I am a medical oncologist at the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. I conduct clinical trials and perform translational research to gain a deeper understanding of mechanisms of response and resistance to targeted therapy and immunotherapy in lung cancer.

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  • Bychkovsky BL, Li T, Sotelo J, Tayob N, Mercado J, Gomy I, Chittenden A, Kane S, Stokes S, Hughes ME, Kim JS, Umeton R, Awad MM, Konstantinopoulos PA, Yurgelun MB, Wolpin BM, Taplin ME, Newmark RE, Johnson BE, Lindeman NI, MacConaill LE, Garber JE, Lin NU. Identification and Management of Pathogenic Variants in BRCA1, BRCA2, and PALB2 in a Tumor-Only Genomic Testing Program. Clin Cancer Res 2022. PubMed
  • Hughes NM, Hammer MM, Awad MM, Jacene HA. Radiation Recall Pneumonitis on FDG PET/CT Triggered by COVID-19 Vaccination. Clin Nucl Med 2021. PubMed
  • Pujol JL, Vansteenkiste J, Paz-Ares Rodríguez L, Gregorc V, Mazieres J, Awad M, Jänne PA, Chisamore M, Hossain AM, Chen Y, Beck JT. Abemaciclib in Combination With Pembrolizumab for Stage IV -Mutant or Squamous NSCLC: A Phase 1b Study. JTO Clin Res Rep 2021; 2:100234. PubMed
  • Nishino M, Hatabu H, Ricciuti B, Vaz V, Michael K, Awad MM. Axillary Lymphadenopathy After Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccinations in Patients With Thoracic Malignancy: Incidence, Predisposing Factors, and Imaging Characteristics. J Thorac Oncol 2021. PubMed
  • Ramalingam SS, Thara E, Awad MM, Dowlati A, Haque B, Stinchcombe TE, Dy GK, Spigel DR, Lu S, Iyer Singh N, Tang Y, Teslenko I, Iannotti N. JASPER: Phase 2 trial of first-line niraparib plus pembrolizumab in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Cancer 2021. PubMed
  • Cunningham-Bussel A, Wang J, Prisco LC, Martin LW, Vanni KMM, Zaccardelli A, Nasrallah M, Gedmintas L, MacFarlane LA, Shadick NA, Awad MM, Rahma O, LeBoeuf NR, Gravallese EM, Sparks JA. Predictors of rheumatic immune-related adverse events and de novo inflammatory arthritis after immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment for cancer. 2021. PubMed
  • Powell SF, Rodríguez-Abreu D, Langer CJ, Tafreshi A, Paz-Ares L, Kopp HG, Rodríguez-Cid J, Kowalski DM, Cheng Y, Kurata T, Awad MM, Lin J, Zhao B, Pietanza MC, Piperdi B, Garassino MC. Outcomes With Pembrolizumab Plus Platinum-Based Chemotherapy for Patients With Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Stable Brain Metastases: Pooled Analysis of KEYNOTE-021, 189, and 407. J Thorac Oncol 2021. PubMed
  • Wang X, Ricciuti B, Alessi JV, Nguyen T, Awad MM, Lin X, Johnson BE, Christiani DC. Smoking History as a Potential Predictor of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Efficacy in Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2021. PubMed
  • Terraf P, Sholl LM, Davids MS, Awad MM, Garcia EP, MacConaill LE, Dal Cin P, Kim A, Lindeman NI, Stachler M, Hwang DH, Dubuc AM. Twists and Turns from 'Tumor in Tumor' Profiling: Surveillance of CLL leads to detection of a lung adenocarcinoma, whose genomic characterization alters the original hematologic diagnosis. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud 2021. PubMed
  • Wang X, Ricciuti B, Nguyen T, Li X, Rabin MS, Awad MM, Lin X, Johnson BE, Christiani DC. Association between Smoking History and Tumor Mutation Burden in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Cancer Res 2021; 81:2566-2573. PubMed
  • Habib AR, Chen R, Magnavita ES, Jaung T, Awad MM, Odejide O, Abel GA. Prevalence and Tolerance of Prognostic Uncertainty Among Thoracic Oncologists. Oncologist 2021. PubMed
  • Alessi JV, Ricciuti B, Spurr LF, Gupta H, Li YY, Glass C, Nishino M, Cherniack AD, Lindsay J, Sharma B, Felt KD, Rodig SJ, Cheng ML, Sholl LM, Awad MM. SMARCA4 and other SWI/SNF family genomic alterations in non-small cell lung cancer: Clinicopathological characteristics and outcomes to immune checkpoint inhibition. J Thorac Oncol 2021. PubMed
  • Lawrence MN, Tamen RM, Martinez P, Sable-Hunt A, Addario T, Barbour P, Shaffer T, Hosseini SA, Bertucci C, Lim LP, Hong F, Michael K, Simon GR, Riess JW, Awad MM, Oxnard GR. SPACEWALK: A Remote Participation Study of ALK Resistance Leveraging Plasma Cell-Free DNA Genotyping. JTO Clin Res Rep 2021; 2:100151. PubMed
  • Vora KB, Ricciuti B, Awad MM. Exclusion of patients living with HIV from cancer immune checkpoint inhibitor trials. Sci Rep 2021; 11:6637. PubMed
  • Mahadevan NR, Knelson EH, Wolff JO, Vajdi A, Saigi M, Campisi M, Hong D, Thai TC, Piel B, Han S, Reinhold BB, Duke-Cohan JS, Poitras MJ, Taus LJ, Lizotte PH, Portell A, Quadros V, Santucci AD, Murayama T, Canadas I, Kitajima S, Akitsu A, Fridrikh M, Watanabe H, Reardon B, Gokhale PC, Paweletz CP, Awad MM, Van Allen EM, Lako A, Wang XT, Chen B, Hong F, Sholl LM, Tolstorukov MY, Pfaff K, Janne PA, Gjini E, Edwards R, Rodig S, Reinherz EL, Oser MG, Barbie DA. Intrinsic immunogenicity of small cell lung carcinoma revealed by its cellular plasticity. 2021. PubMed
  • Ricciuti B, Jones G, Severgnini M, Alessi JV, Recondo G, Lawrence M, Forshew T, Lydon C, Nishino M, Cheng M, Awad M. Early plasma circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) changes predict response to first-line pembrolizumab-based therapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). J Immunother Cancer 2021. PubMed
  • Alden SL, Swanson SJ, Nishino M, Sholl LM, Awad MM. -Mutant Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Mimicking Recurrence of Early-Stage -Mutant Lung Adenocarcinoma. JTO Clin Res Rep 2021; 2:100127. PubMed
  • Brahmer JR, Johnson ML, Cobo M, Viteri S, Sarto JC, Sukari A, Awad MM, Salgia R, Papadimitrakopoulou VA, Rajan A, Bandyopadhyay N, Allred AJ, Wade M, Mason GE, Zudaire E, Knoblauch RE, Stone N, Lorenzi MV, Hassan R. JNJ-64041757 (JNJ-757), a Live, Attenuated, Double-Deleted -Based Immunotherapy in Patients With NSCLC: Results From Two Phase 1 Studies. JTO Clin Res Rep 2021; 2:100103. PubMed
  • Lee JK, Madison R, Classon A, Gjoerup O, Rosenzweig M, Frampton GM, Alexander BM, Oxnard GR, Venstrom JM, Awad MM, Schrock AB. Characterization of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancers With MET Exon 14 Skipping Alterations Detected in Tissue or Liquid: Clinicogenomics and Real-World Treatment Patterns. JCO Precis Oncol 2021. PubMed
  • Awad MM, Le Bruchec Y, Lu B, Ye J, Miller J, Lizotte PH, Cavanaugh ME, Rode AJ, Dumitru CD, Spira A. Selective Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor ACY-241 (Citarinostat) Plus Nivolumab in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Results From a Phase Ib Study. 2021; 11:696512. PubMed
  • Awad MM, Liu S, Rybkin II, Arbour KC, Dilly J, Zhu VW, Johnson ML, Heist RS, Patil T, Riely GJ, Jacobson JO, Yang X, Persky NS, Root DE, Lowder KE, Feng H, Zhang SS, Haigis KM, Hung YP, Sholl LM, Wolpin BM, Wiese J, Christiansen J, Lee J, Schrock AB, Lim LP, Garg K, Li M, Engstrom LD, Waters L, Lawson JD, Olson P, Lito P, Ou SI, Christensen JG, Jänne PA, Aguirre AJ. Acquired Resistance to KRAS Inhibition in Cancer. N Engl J Med 2021; 384:2382-2393. PubMed
  • Nishino M, Hong F, Ricciuti B, Hatabu H, Awad MM. Tumor Response Dynamics During First-Line Pembrolizumab Therapy in Patients With Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol 2021. PubMed
  • Bhalla S, Bakouny Z, Schmidt AL, Labaki C, Steinharter JA, Tremblay DA, Awad MM, Kessler AJ, Haddad RI, Evans M, Busser F, Wotman M, Curran CR, Zimmerman BS, Bouchard G, Jun T, Nuzzo PV, Qin Q, Hirsch L, Feld J, Kelleher KM, Seidman D, Huang HH, Anderson-Keightly HM, El Zarif T, Abou Alaiwi S, Rosenbloom TD, Stewart PS, Galsky MD, Choueiri TK, Doroshow DB. Care disruptions among patients with lung cancer: A COVID-19 and cancer outcomes study. Lung Cancer 2021; 160:78-83. PubMed
  • Meador CB, Milan MSD, Hu EY, Awad MM, Rabin MS, Paweletz CP, Hartmaier R, Laus G, Oxnard GR. High Sensitivity of Plasma Cell-Free DNA Genotyping in Cases With Evidence of Adequate Tumor Content. JCO Precis Oncol 2021. PubMed
  • Awad MM, Gadgeel SM, Borghaei H, Patnaik A, Yang JC, Powell SF, Gentzler RD, Martins RG, Stevenson JP, Altan M, Jalal SI, Panwalkar A, Gubens M, Sequist LV, Saraf S, Zhao B, Piperdi B, Langer CJ. Long-Term Overall Survival From KEYNOTE-021 Cohort G: Pemetrexed and Carboplatin With or Without Pembrolizumab as First-Line Therapy for Advanced Nonsquamous NSCLC. J Thorac Oncol 2021; 16:162-168. PubMed
  • Schmidt AL, Bakouny Z, Bhalla S, Steinharter JA, Tremblay DA, Awad MM, Kessler AJ, Haddad RI, Evans M, Busser F, Wotman M, Curran CR, Zimmerman BS, Bouchard G, Jun T, Nuzzo PV, Qin Q, Hirsch L, Feld J, Kelleher KM, Seidman D, Huang HH, Anderson-Keightly HM, Abou Alaiwi S, Rosenbloom TD, Stewart PS, Galsky MD, Choueiri TK, Doroshow DB. Cancer Care Disparities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: COVID-19 and Cancer Outcomes Study. Cancer Cell 2020; 38:769-770. PubMed
  • Park H, Hatabu H, Ricciuti B, Aijazi SJ, Awad MM, Nishino M. Immune-related adverse events on body CT in patients with small-cell lung cancer treated with immune-checkpoint inhibitors. Eur J Radiol 2020; 132:109275. PubMed
  • Alessi JV, Ricciuti B, Jiménez-Aguilar E, Hong F, Wei Z, Nishino M, Plodkowski AJ, Sawan P, Luo J, Rizvi H, Carter BW, Heymach JV, Altan M, Hellmann M, Awad M. Outcomes to first-line pembrolizumab in patients with PD-L1-high (≥50%) non-small cell lung cancer and a poor performance status. J Immunother Cancer 2020. PubMed
  • Pertejo-Fernandez A, Ricciuti B, Hammond SP, Marty FM, Recondo G, Rangachari D, Costa DB, Awad MM. Safety and efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and hepatitis B or hepatitis C infection. Lung Cancer 2020; 145:181-185. PubMed
  • Recondo G, Che J, Jänne PA, Awad MM. Targeting Dysregulation in Cancer. 2020. PubMed
  • Shu CA, Gainor JF, Awad MM, Chiuzan C, Grigg CM, Pabani A, Garofano RF, Stoopler MB, Cheng SK, White A, Lanuti M, D'Ovidio F, Bacchetta M, Sonett JR, Saqi A, Rizvi NA. Neoadjuvant atezolizumab and chemotherapy in patients with resectable non-small-cell lung cancer: an open-label, multicentre, single-arm, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2020; 21:786-795. PubMed
  • Rudin CM, Awad MM, Navarro A, Gottfried M, Peters S, Csőszi T, Cheema PK, Rodriguez-Abreu D, Wollner M, Yang JC, Mazieres J, Orlandi FJ, Luft A, Gümüş M, Kato T, Kalemkerian GP, Luo Y, Ebiana V, Pietanza MC, Kim HR, . Pembrolizumab or Placebo Plus Etoposide and Platinum as First-Line Therapy for Extensive-Stage Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Randomized, Double-Blind, Phase III KEYNOTE-604 Study. J Clin Oncol 2020. PubMed
  • Baldacci S, Grégoire V, Patrucco E, Chiarle R, Jamme P, Wasielewski E, Descarpentries C, Copin MC, Awad MM, Cortot AB. Complete and prolonged response to anti-PD1 therapy in an ALK rearranged lung adenocarcinoma. Lung Cancer 2020. PubMed
  • Grover S, Ruan AB, Srivoleti P, Giobbie-Hurder A, Braschi-Amirfarzan M, Srivastava A, Buchbinder EI, Ott PA, Kehl KL, Awad MM, Hodi FS, Rahma OE. Safety of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Patients With Pre-Existing Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Microscopic Colitis. JCO Oncol Pract 2020. PubMed
  • Ricciuti B, Recondo G, Spurr LF, Li YY, Lamberti G, Venkatraman D, Umeton R, Cherniack AD, Nishino M, Sholl LM, Shapiro GI, Awad MM, Cheng ML. Impact of DNA Damage Response and Repair (DDR) Gene Mutations on Efficacy of PD-(L)1 Immune Checkpoint Inhibition in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2020. PubMed
  • Abou Alaiwi S, Nassar AH, Xie W, Bakouny Z, Berchuck JE, Braun DA, Baca SC, Nuzzo PV, Flippot R, Mouhieddine TH, Spurr LF, Li YY, Li T, Flaifel A, Steinharter JA, Margolis CA, Vokes NI, Du H, Shukla SA, Cherniack AD, Sonpavde G, Haddad RI, Awad MM, Giannakis M, Hodi FS, Liu XS, Signoretti S, Kadoch C, Freedman ML, Kwiatkowski DJ, Van Allen EM, Choueiri TK. Mammalian SWI/SNF Complex Genomic Alterations and Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Solid Tumors. Cancer Immunol Res 2020. PubMed
  • Alessi JV, Awad MM. Immunotherapy in lung cancer: effective for patients with poor performance status? Lancet Respir Med 2020. PubMed
  • Hellmann MD, Gettinger S, Chow LQM, Gordon M, Awad MM, Cha E, Gong X, Zhou G, Walker C, Leopold L, Heist RS. Phase 1 study of epacadostat in combination with atezolizumab for patients with previously treated advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer. Int. J. Cancer 2020. PubMed
  • Recondo G, Bahcall M, Spurr LF, Che J, Ricciuti B, Leonardi GC, Lo YC, Li YY, Lamberti G, Nguyen T, Milan MSD, Venkatraman D, Umeton R, Paweletz CP, Albayrak A, Cherniack AD, Price KS, Fairclough SR, Nishino M, Sholl LM, Oxnard GR, Janne PA, Awad MM. Molecular mechanisms of acquired resistance to MET tyrosine kinase inhibitors in patients with MET exon 14 mutant NSCLC. Clin Cancer Res 2020. PubMed
  • Nishino M, Hida T, Kravets S, Dahlberg SE, Lydon CA, Hatabu H, Johnson BE, Awad MM. Tumor volume dynamics and tumor growth rate in -rearranged advanced non-small-cell lung cancer treated with crizotinib. European J Radiol Open 2020; 7:100210. PubMed
  • Lee Y, Clark EW, Milan MSD, Champagne C, Michael KS, Awad MM, Barbie DA, Cheng ML, Kehl KL, Marcoux JP, Rabin MS, Rotow JK, Sands JM, Jänne PA, Oxnard GR. Turnaround Time of Plasma Next-Generation Sequencing in Thoracic Oncology Patients: A Quality Improvement Analysis. JCO Precis Oncol 2020. PubMed
  • Drilon A, Clark JW, Weiss J, Ou SI, Camidge DR, Solomon BJ, Otterson GA, Villaruz LC, Riely GJ, Heist RS, Awad MM, Shapiro GI, Satouchi M, Hida T, Hayashi H, Murphy DA, Wang SC, Li S, Usari T, Wilner KD, Paik PK. Antitumor activity of crizotinib in lung cancers harboring a MET exon 14 alteration. Nat Med 2020; 26:47-51. PubMed
  • Keegan A, Ricciuti B, Garden P, Cohen L, Nishihara R, Adeni A, Paweletz C, Supplee J, Jänne PA, Severgnini M, Awad MM, Walt DR. Plasma IL-6 changes correlate to PD-1 inhibitor responses in NSCLC. J Immunother Cancer 2020. PubMed
  • Abu-Sbeih H, Faleck DM, Ricciuti B, Mendelsohn RB, Naqash AR, Cohen JV, Sellers MC, Balaji A, Ben-Betzalel G, Hajir I, Zhang J, Awad MM, Leonardi GC, Johnson DB, Pinato DJ, Owen DH, Weiss SA, Lamberti G, Lythgoe MP, Manuzzi L, Arnold C, Qiao W, Naidoo J, Markel G, Powell N, Yeung SJ, Sharon E, Dougan M, Wang Y. Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy in Patients With Preexisting Inflammatory Bowel Disease. J Clin Oncol 2019. PubMed
  • Park H, Sholl LM, Hatabu H, Awad MM, Nishino M. Imaging of Precision Therapy for Lung Cancer: Current State of the Art. Radiology 2019; 293:15-29. PubMed
  • Awad MM, Leonardi GC, Kravets S, Dahlberg SE, Drilon A, Noonan SA, Camidge DR, Ou SI, Costa DB, Gadgeel SM, Steuer CE, Forde PM, Zhu VW, Fukuda Y, Clark JW, Jänne PA, Mok T, Sholl LM, Heist RS. Impact of MET inhibitors on survival among patients with non-small cell lung cancer harboring MET exon 14 mutations: a retrospective analysis. Lung Cancer 2019; 133:96-102. PubMed
  • Ricciuti B, Dahlberg SE, Adeni A, Sholl LM, Nishino M, Awad MM. Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Outcomes for Patients With Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Receiving Baseline Corticosteroids for Palliative Versus Nonpalliative Indications. J Clin Oncol 2019. PubMed
  • Dagogo-Jack I, Awad MM, Shaw AT. BRAF Mutation Class and Clinical Outcomes-Response. Clin Cancer Res 2019; 25:3189. PubMed
  • Bahleda R, Italiano A, Hierro C, Mita A, Cervantes A, Chan N, Awad M, Calvo E, Moreno V, Govindan R, Spira A, Gonzalez M, Zhong B, Santiago-Walker A, Poggesi I, Parekh T, Xie H, Infante J, Tabernero J. Multicenter Phase I Study of Erdafitinib (JNJ-42756493), Oral Pan-Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitor, in Patients with Advanced or Refractory Solid Tumors. Clin Cancer Res 2019. PubMed
  • Hida T, Dahlberg SE, Lydon CA, Hatabu H, Johnson BE, Awad MM, Nishino M. Tumor Volume Analysis as a Predictive Marker for Prolonged Survival in Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase-rearranged Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Treated With Crizotinib. J Thorac Imaging 2019. PubMed
  • Ricciuti B, Kravets S, Dahlberg SE, Umeton R, Albayrak A, Subegdjo SJ, Johnson BE, Nishino M, Sholl LM, Awad MM. Use of targeted next generation sequencing to characterize tumor mutational burden and efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibition in small cell lung cancer. J Immunother Cancer 2019; 7:87. PubMed
  • Kehl KL, Yang S, Awad MM, Palmer N, Kohane IS, Schrag D. Pre-existing autoimmune disease and the risk of immune-related adverse events among patients receiving checkpoint inhibitors for cancer. Cancer Immunol Immunother 2019. PubMed
  • Alessandrino F, Sahu S, Nishino M, Adeni AE, Tirumani SH, Shinagare AB, Awad MM. Frequency and imaging features of abdominal immune-related adverse events in metastatic lung cancer patients treated with PD-1 inhibitor. Abdom Radiol (NY) 2019. PubMed
  • Ready N, Hellmann MD, Awad MM, Otterson GA, Gutierrez M, Gainor JF, Borghaei H, Jolivet J, Horn L, Mates M, Brahmer J, Rabinowitz I, Reddy PS, Chesney J, Orcutt J, Spigel DR, Reck M, O'Byrne KJ, Paz-Ares L, Hu W, Zerba K, Li X, Lestini B, Geese WJ, Szustakowski JD, Green G, Chang H, Ramalingam SS. First-Line Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab in Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (CheckMate 568): Outcomes by Programmed Death Ligand 1 and Tumor Mutational Burden as Biomarkers. J Clin Oncol 2019. PubMed
  • Vokes NI, Liu D, Ricciuti B, Jimenez-Aguilar E, Rizvi H, Dietlein F, He MX, Margolis CA, Elmarakeby HA, Girshman J, Adeni A, Sanchez-Vega F, Schultz N, Dahlberg S, Zehir A, Jänne PA, Nishino M, Umeton R, Sholl LM, Van Allen EM, Hellmann MD, Awad MM. Harmonization of Tumor Mutational Burden Quantification and Association With Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol 2019. PubMed
  • Fareed MM, Pike LRG, Bang A, Huynh MA, Taylor A, Spektor A, Awad MM, Ott PA, Krishnan M, Balboni TA, Schoenfeld JD. Palliative Radiation Therapy for Vertebral Metastases and Metastatic Cord Compression in Patients Treated With Anti-PD-1 Therapy. 2019; 9:199. PubMed
  • Dagogo-Jack I, Martinez P, Yeap BY, Ambrogio C, Ferris LA, Lydon C, Nguyen T, Jessop NA, Iafrate AJ, Johnson BE, Lennerz JK, Shaw AT, Awad MM. Impact of BRAF Mutation Class on Disease Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes in BRAF-Mutant Lung Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2018. PubMed
  • Miao D, Margolis CA, Vokes NI, Liu D, Taylor-Weiner A, Wankowicz SM, Adeegbe D, Keliher D, Schilling B, Tracy A, Manos M, Chau NG, Hanna GJ, Polak P, Rodig SJ, Signoretti S, Sholl LM, Engelman JA, Getz G, Jänne PA, Haddad RI, Choueiri TK, Barbie DA, Haq R, Awad MM, Schadendorf D, Hodi FS, Bellmunt J, Wong KK, Hammerman P, Van Allen EM. Genomic correlates of response to immune checkpoint blockade in microsatellite-stable solid tumors. Nat Genet 2018; 50:1271-1281. PubMed
  • Borghaei H, Langer CJ, Gadgeel S, Papadimitrakopoulou VA, Patnaik A, Powell SF, Gentzler RD, Martins RG, Stevenson JP, Jalal SI, Panwalkar A, Chih-Hsin Yang J, Gubens M, Sequist LV, Awad MM, Fiore J, Saraf S, Keller SM, Gandhi L. 24-Month Overall Survival from KEYNOTE-021 Cohort G: Pemetrexed and Carboplatin with or without Pembrolizumab as First-Line Therapy for Advanced Nonsquamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol 2018. PubMed
  • Bahcall M, Awad MM, Sholl LM, Wilson FH, Xu M, Wang S, Palakurthi S, Choi J, Ivanova EV, Leonardi GC, Ulrich BC, Paweletz CP, Kirschmeier PT, Watanabe M, Baba H, Nishino M, Nagy RJ, Lanman RB, Capelletti M, Chambers ES, Redig AJ, VanderLaan PA, Costa DB, Imamura Y, Jänne PA. Amplification of Wild-type Imparts Resistance to Crizotinib in Exon 14 Mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2018. PubMed
  • Ostios-Garcia L, Faig J, Leonardi GC, Adeni AE, Subegdjo SJ, Lydon CA, Rangachari D, Huberman MS, Sehgal K, Shea M, VanderLaan PA, Cheng MP, Marty FM, Hammond SP, Costa DB, Awad MM. Safety and Efficacy of PD-1 Inhibitors Among HIV-Positive Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol 2018; 13:1037-1042. PubMed
  • Skoulidis F, Goldberg ME, Greenawalt DM, Hellmann MD, Awad MM, Gainor JF, Schrock AB, Hartmaier RJ, Trabucco SE, Gay L, Ali SM, Elvin JA, Singal G, Ross JS, Fabrizio D, Szabo PM, Chang H, Sasson A, Srinivasan S, Kirov S, Szustakowski J, Vitazka P, Edwards R, Bufill JA, Sharma N, Ou SI, Peled N, Spigel DR, Rizvi H, Aguilar EJ, Carter BW, Erasmus J, Halpenny DF, Plodkowski AJ, Long NM, Nishino M, Denning WL, Galan-Cobo A, Hamdi H, Hirz T, Tong P, Wang J, Rodriguez-Canales J, Villalobos PA, Parra ER, Kalhor N, Sholl LM, Sauter JL, Jungbluth AA, Mino-Kenudson M, Azimi R, Elamin YY, Zhang J, Leonardi GC, Jiang F, Wong KK, Lee JJ, Papadimitrakopoulou VA, Wistuba II, Miller VA, Frampton GM, Wolchok JD, Shaw AT, Jänne PA, Stephens PJ, Rudin CM, Geese WJ, Albacker LA, Heymach JV. Mutations and PD-1 Inhibitor Resistance in -Mutant Lung Adenocarcinoma. 2018; 8:822-835. PubMed
  • Leonardi GC, Gainor JF, Altan M, Kravets S, Dahlberg SE, Gedmintas L, Azimi R, Rizvi H, Riess JW, Hellmann MD, Awad MM. Safety of Programmed Death-1 Pathway Inhibitors Among Patients With Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Preexisting Autoimmune Disorders. J Clin Oncol 2018; 36:1905-1912. PubMed
  • Nishino M, Sholl LM, Awad MM, Hatabu H, Armand P, Hodi FS. Sarcoid-Like Granulomatosis of the Lung Related to Immune-Checkpoint Inhibitors: Distinct Clinical and Imaging Features of a Unique Immune-Related Adverse Event. Cancer Immunol Res 2018; 6:630-635. PubMed
  • Hellmann MD, Callahan MK, Awad MM, Calvo E, Ascierto PA, Atmaca A, Rizvi NA, Hirsch FR, Selvaggi G, Szustakowski JD, Sasson A, Golhar R, Vitazka P, Chang H, Geese WJ, Antonia SJ. Tumor Mutational Burden and Efficacy of Nivolumab Monotherapy and in Combination with Ipilimumab in Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Cancer Cell 2018; 33:853-861.e4. PubMed
  • Abravanel DL, Nishino M, Sholl LM, Ambrogio C, Awad MM. An Acquired NRAS Q61K Mutation in BRAF V600E-Mutant Lung Adenocarcinoma Resistant to Dabrafenib Plus Trametinib. J Thorac Oncol 2018. PubMed
  • Hu Y, Ulrich B, Supplee J, Kuang Y, Lizotte PH, Feeney N, Guibert N, Awad MM, Wong KK, Janne PA, Paweletz CP, Oxnard GR. False positive plasma genotyping due to clonal hematopoiesis. Clin Cancer Res 2018. PubMed
  • Engstrom LD, Aranda R, Lee M, Tovar EA, Essenburg CJ, Madaj Z, Chiang H, Briere D, Hallin J, Lopez-Casas PP, Baños N, Menendez C, Hidalgo M, Tassell V, Chao R, Chudova DI, Lanman RB, Olson P, Bazhenova L, Patel SP, Graveel C, Nishino M, Shapiro GI, Peled N, Awad MM, Jänne PA, Christensen JG. Glesatinib Exhibits Antitumor Activity in Lung Cancer Models and Patients Harboring MET Exon 14 Mutations and Overcomes Mutation-mediated Resistance to Type I MET Inhibitors in Nonclinical Models. Clin Cancer Res 2017. PubMed
  • Nishino M, Dahlberg SE, Adeni AE, Lydon C, Hatabu H, Janne PA, Hodi FS, Awad MM. Tumor response dynamics of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer patients treated with PD-1 inhibitors: Imaging markers for treatment outcome. Clin Cancer Res 2017. PubMed
  • Adeegbe D, Liu Y, Lizotte PH, Kamihara Y, Aref AR, Almonte C, Dries R, Li Y, Liu S, Wang X, Warner-Hatten T, Castrillon J, Yuan GC, Poudel-Neupane N, Zhang H, Guerriero JL, Han S, Awad MM, Barbie DA, Ritz J, Jones SS, Hammerman PS, Bradner JE, Quayle SN, Wong KK. Synergistic Immunostimulatory Effects and Therapeutic Benefit of Combined Histone Deacetylase and Bromodomain Inhibition in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. 2017. PubMed
  • De Velasco G, Je Y, Bossé D, Awad MM, Ott PA, Moreira RB, Schutz F, Bellmunt J, Sonpavde GP, Hodi FS, Choueiri TK. Comprehensive Meta-analysis of Key Immune-Related Adverse Events from CTLA-4 and PD-1/PD-L1 Inhibitors in Cancer Patients. Cancer Immunol Res 2017; 5:312-318. PubMed
  • Nishino M, Ramaiya NH, Awad MM, Sholl LM, Maattala JA, Taibi M, Hatabu H, Ott PA, Armand PF, Hodi FS. PD-1 Inhibitor-Related Pneumonitis in Advanced Cancer Patients: Radiographic Patterns and Clinical Course. Clin Cancer Res 2016. PubMed
  • Awad MM, Jones RE, Liu H, Lizotte PH, Ivanova EV, Kulkarni M, Herter-Sprie GS, Liao X, Santos AA, Bittinger MA, Keogh L, Koyama S, Almonte C, English JM, Barlow J, Richards WG, Barbie DA, Bass AJ, Rodig SJ, Hodi FS, Wucherpfennig KW, Jänne PA, Sholl LM, Hammerman PS, Wong KK, Bueno R. Cytotoxic T Cells in PD-L1-Positive Malignant Pleural Mesotheliomas Are Counterbalanced by Distinct Immunosuppressive Factors. Cancer Immunol Res 2016; 4:1038-1048. PubMed
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