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Oliver Jonas, PhD

Brigham And Women's Hospital

Brigham And Women's Hospital


ojonas@bwh.harvard.edu

Oliver Jonas, PhD

Brigham And Women's Hospital

EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Assistant Professor, Radiology, Harvard Medical School
  • Laboratory for Bio Micro-Devices, Radiology, Brigham And Women's Hospital

DF/HCC PROGRAM AFFILIATION

Research Abstract

I develop microdevices that are implanted directly into tumors and measure how the tumor responds to 30 different chemotherapies. These devices carry microdoses of each therapy which are released into small confined regions of tumor. Each therapy interacts with the tumor in its native microenvironment. The effect of each therapy is then assessed using a variety of readouts, including immunohistochemistry, mass spectrometry and RNAseq. This data can then be used to identify which therapy works optimally for a given patient.

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  • Cotler MJ, Ramadi KB, Hou X, Christodoulopoulos E, Ahn S, Bashyam A, Ding H, Larson M, Oberg AL, Whittaker C, Jonas O, Kaufmann SH, Weroha SJ, Cima MJ. Machine-learning aided in situ drug sensitivity screening predicts treatment outcomes in ovarian PDX tumors. Transl Oncol 2022; 21:101427. PubMed
  • Tsai LL, Phillips WW, Hung YP, Dominas C, Deans K, Ahn S, Ferland B, Weiss K, Lanuti M, Auchincloss H, Schumacher L, Jonas O, Colson YL. First-in-Human Intrathoracic Implantation of Multidrug-Eluting Microdevices for In Situ Chemotherapeutic Sensitivity Testing as Proof of Concept in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Ann Surg 2022. PubMed
  • Liu G, Valvo V, Ahn SW, Thompson D, Deans K, Kang JW, Bhagavatula S, Dominas C, Jonas O. A Two-Photon Microimaging-Microdevice System for Four-Dimensional Imaging of Local Drug Delivery in Tissues. Int J Mol Sci 2021. PubMed
  • Dominas C, Bhagavatula S, Stover EH, Deans K, Larocca C, Colson YL, Peruzzi PP, Kibel AS, Hata N, Tsai LL, Hung YP, Packard R, Jonas O. The translational and regulatory development of an implantable microdevice for multiple drug sensitivity measurements in cancer patients. 2021. PubMed
  • Bhagavatula S, Thompson D, Dominas C, Haider I, Jonas O. Self-Expanding Anchors for Stabilizing Percutaneously Implanted Microdevices in Biological Tissues. Micromachines (Basel) 2021. PubMed
  • Bhagavatula S, Thompson D, Ahn SW, Upadhyaya K, Lammers A, Deans K, Dominas C, Ferland B, Valvo V, Liu G, Jonas O. A Miniaturized Platform for Multiplexed Drug Response Imaging in Live Tumors. Cancers (Basel) 2021. PubMed
  • Ahn SW, Ferland B, Jonas OH. An Interactive Pipeline for Quantitative Histopathological Analysis of Spatially Defined Drug Effects in Tumors. J Pathol Inform 2021; 12:34. PubMed
  • Dominas C, Deans K, Packard R, Jonas O. Preparation and sterilization of an implantable drug-delivery microdevice for clinical use. MethodsX 2021; 8:101382. PubMed
  • Chatterjee N, Whitman MA, Harris CA, Min SM, Jonas O, Lien EC, Luengo A, Vander Heiden MG, Hong J, Zhou P, Hemann MT, Walker GC. REV1 inhibitor JH-RE-06 enhances tumor cell response to chemotherapy by triggering senescence hallmarks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:28918-28921. PubMed
  • Bhagavatula SK, Upadhyaya K, Miller BJ, Bursch P, Lammers A, Cima MJ, Silverman SG, Jonas O. An interventional image-guided microdevice implantation and retrieval method for in-vivo drug response assessment. Med Phys 2019. PubMed
  • Patterson JC, Joughin BA, Prota AE, Mühlethaler T, Jonas OH, Whitman MA, Varmeh S, Chen S, Balk SP, Steinmetz MO, Lauffenburger DA, Yaffe MB. VISAGE Reveals a Targetable Mitotic Spindle Vulnerability in Cancer Cells. Cell Syst 2019; 9:74-92.e8. PubMed
  • Price C, Gill S, Ho ZV, Davidson SM, Merkel E, McFarland JM, Leung L, Tang A, Kost-Alimova M, Tsherniak A, Jonas O, Vazquez F, Hahn WC. Genome-wide interrogation of human cancers identifies EGLN1 dependency in clear cell ovarian cancers. Cancer Res 2019. PubMed
  • Jonas O, Kang JW, Singh SP, Lammers A, Nguyen FT, Dasari RR, So PTC, Langer R, Cima MJ. In vivo detection of drug-induced apoptosis in tumors using Raman spectroscopy. Analyst 2018; 143:4836-4839. PubMed
  • Arai S, Jonas O, Whitman MA, Corey E, Balk SP, Chen S. Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Increase MCL1 Degradation and in Combination with BCLXL/BCL2 Inhibitors Drive Prostate Cancer Apoptosis. Clin Cancer Res 2018. PubMed
  • Watson SS, Dane M, Chin K, Tatarova Z, Liu M, Liby T, Thompson W, Smith R, Nederlof M, Bucher E, Kilburn D, Whitman M, Sudar D, Mills GB, Heiser LM, Jonas O, Gray JW, Korkola JE. Microenvironment-Mediated Mechanisms of Resistance to HER2 Inhibitors Differ between HER2+ Breast Cancer Subtypes. Cell Syst 2018; 6:329-342.e6. PubMed
  • Geller LT, Barzily-Rokni M, Danino T, Jonas OH, Shental N, Nejman D, Gavert N, Zwang Y, Cooper ZA, Shee K, Thaiss CA, Reuben A, Livny J, Avraham R, Frederick DT, Ligorio M, Chatman K, Johnston SE, Mosher CM, Brandis A, Fuks G, Gurbatri C, Gopalakrishnan V, Kim M, Hurd MW, Katz M, Fleming J, Maitra A, Smith DA, Skalak M, Bu J, Michaud M, Trauger SA, Barshack I, Golan T, Sandbank J, Flaherty KT, Mandinova A, Garrett WS, Thayer SP, Ferrone CR, Huttenhower C, Bhatia SN, Gevers D, Wargo JA, Golub TR, Straussman R. Potential role of intratumor bacteria in mediating tumor resistance to the chemotherapeutic drug gemcitabine. Science 2017; 357:1156-1160. PubMed
  • Davidson SM, Jonas O, Keibler MA, Hou HW, Luengo A, Mayers JR, Wyckoff J, Del Rosario AM, Whitman M, Chin CR, Condon KJ, Lammers A, Kellersberger KA, Stall BK, Stephanopoulos G, Bar-Sagi D, Han J, Rabinowitz JD, Cima MJ, Langer R, Vander Heiden MG. Direct evidence for cancer-cell-autonomous extracellular protein catabolism in pancreatic tumors. Nat Med 2017; 23:235-241. PubMed
  • Oudin MJ, Barbier L, Schäfer C, Kosciuk T, Miller MA, Han S, Jonas O, Lauffenburger DA, Gertler FB. MENA Confers Resistance to Paclitaxel in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Mol Cancer Ther 2017; 16:143-155. PubMed
  • Jonas O, Landry HM, Fuller JE, Santini JT, Baselga J, Tepper RI, Cima MJ, Langer R. An implantable microdevice to perform high-throughput in vivo drug sensitivity testing in tumors. Sci Transl Med 2015; 7:284ra57. PubMed
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