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David T Miyamoto, MD, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital
Phone: (617) 726-5866


dmiyamoto@mgh.harvard.edu

David T Miyamoto, MD, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital

EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School

DF/HCC PROGRAM AFFILIATION

Research Abstract

Our laboratory focuses on the discovery and development of novel biomarkers to guide the personalized treatment of patients with prostate cancer and bladder cancer. We focus on two general classes of biomarkers, namely those based on the molecular profiles of tumor biopsies, and those based on circulating tumors cells (CTCs) in the blood that can be sampled non-invasively and repeatedly. By analyzing these patient-derived specimens, we have identified new molecular predictors of response to therapy and potential mechanisms of treatment resistance. Our overall aim is to develop tools for “real-time precision medicine” to probe the molecular signatures of cancers as they evolve over time, and to guide the precise and rational selection of appropriate therapies for each individual patient.

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  • Saylor PJ, Otani K, Balza R, Ukleja J, Pleskow H, Fisher R, Kusaka E, Otani YS, Badusi PO, Smith MR, Meneely E, Olivier K, Lowe AC, Toner M, Maheswaran S, Haber DA, Yeap BY, Lee RJ, Miyamoto DT. Circulating and Imaging Biomarkers of Radium-223 Response in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol 2024; 8:e2300230. PubMed
  • Zhou Y, Börcsök J, Adib E, Kamran SC, Neil AJ, Stawiski K, Freeman D, Stormoen DR, Sztupinszki Z, Samant A, Nassar A, Bekele RT, Hanlon T, Valentine H, Epstein I, Sharma B, Felt K, Abbosh P, Wu CL, Efstathiou JA, Miyamoto DT, Anderson W, Szallasi Z, Mouw KW. ATM deficiency confers specific therapeutic vulnerabilities in bladder cancer. Sci Adv 2023; 9:eadg2263. PubMed
  • Kamran SC, Zhou Y, Otani K, Drumm M, Otani Y, Wu S, Wu CL, Feldman AS, Wszolek M, Lee RJ, Saylor PJ, Lennerz J, Van Allen E, Willers H, Hong TS, Liu Y, Davicioni E, Gibb EA, Shipley WU, Mouw KW, Efstathiou JA, Miyamoto DT. Genomic Tumor Correlates of Clinical Outcomes Following Organ-Sparing Chemoradiation Therapy for Bladder Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2023. PubMed
  • Guo H, Vuille JA, Wittner BS, Lachtara EM, Hou Y, Lin M, Zhao T, Raman AT, Russell HC, Reeves BA, Pleskow HM, Wu CL, Gnirke A, Meissner A, Efstathiou JA, Lee RJ, Toner M, Aryee MJ, Lawrence MS, Miyamoto DT, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. DNA hypomethylation silences anti-tumor immune genes in early prostate cancer and CTCs. Cell 2023; 186:2765-2782.e28. PubMed
  • Wang Y, Boyd G, Zieminski S, Kamran SC, Zietman AL, Miyamoto DT, Kirk MC, Efstathiou JA. A pair of deep learning auto-contouring models for prostate cancer patients injected with a radio-transparent versus radiopaque hydrogel spacer. Med Phys 2023; 50:3324-3337. PubMed
  • Zlotta AR, Ballas LK, Niemierko A, Lajkosz K, Kuk C, Miranda G, Drumm M, Mari A, Thio E, Fleshner NE, Kulkarni GS, Jewett MAS, Bristow RG, Catton C, Berlin A, Sridhar SS, Schuckman A, Feldman AS, Wszolek M, Dahl DM, Lee RJ, Saylor PJ, Michaelson MD, Miyamoto DT, Zietman A, Shipley W, Chung P, Daneshmand S, Efstathiou JA. Radical cystectomy versus trimodality therapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a multi-institutional propensity score matched and weighted analysis. Lancet Oncol. 2023; 24:669-681. PubMed
  • Madueke I, Lee RJ, Miyamoto DT. Circulating Tumor Cells and Circulating Tumor DNA in Urologic Cancers. Urol Clin North Am 2023; 50:109-114. PubMed
  • Magliocco AM, Moughan J, Miyamoto DT, Simko J, Shipley WU, Gray PJ, Hagan MP, Parliament M, Tester WJ, Zietman AL, McCarthy S, Saeed-Vafa D, Xiong Y, Ayral T, Hartford AC, Patel A, Rosenthal SA, Chafe S, Greenberg R, Schwartz MA, Augspurger ME, Keech JA, Winter KA, Feng FY, Efstathiou JA. Analysis of MRE11 and Mortality Among Adults With Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Managed With Trimodality Therapy. JAMA Netw Open 2022; 5:e2242378. PubMed
  • Karabacak NM, Zheng Y, Dubash TD, Burr R, Micalizzi DS, Wittner BS, Lin M, Wiley DF, Comaills V, Emmons E, Niederhoffer KL, Ho U, Ukleja J, Che D, Stowe H, Nieman LT, Haas W, Stott SL, Lawrence MS, Ting DT, Miyamoto DT, Haber DA, Toner M, Maheswaran S. Differential Kinase Activity Across Prostate Tumor Compartments Defines Sensitivity to Target Inhibition. Cancer Res 2022; 82:1084-1097. PubMed
  • Casanova-Salas I, Athie A, Boutros PC, Del Re M, Miyamoto DT, Pienta KJ, Posadas EM, Sowalsky AG, Stenzl A, Wyatt AW, Mateo J. Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Blood-based Liquid Biopsies to Inform Clinical Decision-making in Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol 2021. PubMed
  • Ukleja J, Kusaka E, Miyamoto DT. Immunotherapy Combined With Radiation Therapy for Genitourinary Malignancies. 2021; 11:663852. PubMed
  • Miyamoto DT, Abbosh PH, West CML, Mouw KW. Bladder preservation: Translating discovery for clinical impact in urothelial cancer. Urol Oncol 2020. PubMed
  • de Jong JJ, Boormans JL, van Rhijn BWG, Seiler R, Boorjian SA, Konety B, Bivalacqua TJ, Wheeler T, Svatek RS, Douglas J, Wright J, Dall'Era M, Crabb SJ, Efstathiou JA, van der Heijden MS, Mouw KW, Miyamoto DT, Lotan Y, Black PC, Gibb EA, Porten SP. Distribution of Molecular Subtypes in Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer Is Driven by Sex-specific Differences. Eur Urol Oncol 2020. PubMed
  • Fisher RR, Pleskow HM, Bedingfield K, Miyamoto DT. Noncanonical Wnt as a prognostic marker in prostate cancer: "you can't always get what you Wnt". Expert Rev Mol Diagn 2019. PubMed
  • Batista da Costa J, Gibb EA, Bivalacqua TJ, Liu Y, Oo HZ, Miyamoto DT, Alshalalfa M, Davicioni E, Wright JL, Dall'Era M, Douglas J, Boormans JL, van der Heijden MS, Wu CL, van Rhijn BW, Gupta S, Grivas P, Mouw KW, Murugan P, Fazli L, Ra S, Konety BR, Seiler R, Daneshmand S, Mian OY, Efstathiou JA, Lotan Y, Black PC. Molecular characterization of neuroendocrine-like bladder cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2019. PubMed
  • Zheng Y, Comaills V, Burr R, Boulay G, Miyamoto DT, Wittner BS, Emmons E, Sil S, Koulopoulos MW, Broderick KT, Tai E, Rengarajan S, Kulkarni AS, Shioda T, Wu CL, Ramaswamy S, Ting DT, Toner M, Rivera MN, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. COX-2 mediates tumor-stromal prolactin signaling to initiate tumorigenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:5223-5232. PubMed
  • Efstathiou JA, Mouw KW, Gibb EA, Liu Y, Wu CL, Drumm MR, da Costa JB, du Plessis M, Wang NQ, Davicioni E, Feng FY, Seiler R, Black PC, Shipley WU, Miyamoto DT. Impact of Immune and Stromal Infiltration on Outcomes Following Bladder-Sparing Trimodality Therapy for Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer. Eur Urol 2019. PubMed
  • Miyamoto DT, Mouw KW, Feng FY, Shipley WU, Efstathiou JA. Molecular biomarkers in bladder preservation therapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Lancet Oncol. 2018; 19:e683-e695. PubMed
  • Kwan TT, Bardia A, Spring LM, Giobbie-Hurder A, Kalinich M, Dubash T, Sundaresan T, Hong X, LiCausi JA, Ho U, Silva EJ, Wittner BS, Sequist LV, Kapur R, Miyamoto DT, Toner M, Haber DA, Maheswaran S. A Digital RNA Signature of Circulating Tumor Cells Predicting Early Therapeutic Response in Localized and Metastatic Breast Cancer. 2018; 8:1286-1299. PubMed
  • Hong X, Sullivan RJ, Kalinich M, Kwan TT, Giobbie-Hurder A, Pan S, LiCausi JA, Milner JD, Nieman LT, Wittner BS, Ho U, Chen T, Kapur R, Lawrence DP, Flaherty KT, Sequist LV, Ramaswamy S, Miyamoto DT, Lawrence M, Toner M, Isselbacher KJ, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. Molecular signatures of circulating melanoma cells for monitoring early response to immune checkpoint therapy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:2467-2472. PubMed
  • Hwang WL, Pleskow HM, Miyamoto DT. Molecular analysis of circulating tumors cells: Biomarkers beyond enumeration. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2018. PubMed
  • Miyamoto DT, Lee RJ, Kalinich M, LiCausi J, Zheng Y, Chen T, Milner JD, Emmons E, Ho U, Broderick K, Silva E, Javaid S, Kwan TT, Hong X, Dahl DM, McGovern FJ, Efstathiou JA, Smith MR, Sequist LV, Kapur R, Wu CL, Stott SL, Ting DT, Giobbie-Hurder A, Toner M, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. An RNA-based digital circulating tumor cell signature is predictive of drug response and early dissemination in prostate cancer. 2018. PubMed
  • Wong KHK, Tessier SN, Miyamoto DT, Miller KL, Bookstaver LD, Carey TR, Stannard CJ, Thapar V, Tai EC, Vo KD, Emmons ES, Pleskow HM, Sandlin RD, Sequist LV, Ting DT, Haber DA, Maheswaran S, Stott SL, Toner M. Whole blood stabilization for the microfluidic isolation and molecular characterization of circulating tumor cells. Nat Commun 2017; 8:1733. PubMed
  • Wo JY, Drapek LC, Niemierko A, Silvia B, Noé BN, Russo AL, Miyamoto DT, Hong TS, Efstathiou JA, Zietman AL, Dizon DS. Clinical needs assessment for sexual health among cancer patients receiving pelvic radiation: Implications for development of a radiation oncology sexual health clinic. 2017. PubMed
  • Miyamoto DT, Ting DT, Toner M, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. Single-Cell Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells as a Window into Tumor Heterogeneity. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 2017. PubMed
  • Zheng Y, Miyamoto DT, Wittner BS, Sullivan JP, Aceto N, Jordan NV, Yu M, Karabacak NM, Comaills V, Morris R, Desai R, Desai N, Emmons E, Milner JD, Lee RJ, Wu CL, Sequist LV, Haas W, Ting DT, Toner M, Ramaswamy S, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. Expression of β-globin by cancer cells promotes cell survival during blood-borne dissemination. Nat Commun 2017; 8:14344. PubMed
  • Kalinich M, Bhan I, Kwan TT, Miyamoto DT, Javaid S, LiCausi JA, Milner JD, Hong X, Goyal L, Sil S, Choz M, Ho U, Kapur R, Muzikansky A, Zhang H, Weitz DA, Sequist LV, Ryan DP, Chung RT, Zhu AX, Isselbacher KJ, Ting DT, Toner M, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. An RNA-based signature enables high specificity detection of circulating tumor cells in hepatocellular carcinoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:1123-1128. PubMed
  • Comaills V, Kabeche L, Morris R, Buisson R, Yu M, Madden MW, LiCausi JA, Boukhali M, Tajima K, Pan S, Aceto N, Sil S, Zheng Y, Sundaresan T, Yae T, Jordan NV, Miyamoto DT, Ting DT, Ramaswamy S, Haas W, Zou L, Haber DA, Maheswaran S. Genomic Instability Is Induced by Persistent Proliferation of Cells Undergoing Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition. Cell Rep 2016; 17:2632-2647. PubMed
  • Hwang WL, Hwang KL, Miyamoto DT. The promise of circulating tumor cells for precision cancer therapy. Biomark Med 2016; 10:1269-1285. PubMed
  • Miyamoto DT, Lee RJ. Cell-free and circulating tumor cell-based biomarkers in men with metastatic prostate cancer: Tools for real-time precision medicine? Urol Oncol 2016; 34:490-501. PubMed
  • Saylor PJ, Lee RJ, Arora KS, Deshpande V, Hu R, Olivier K, Meneely E, Rivera MN, Ting DT, Wu CL, Miyamoto DT. Branched chain RNA in situ hybridization for androgen receptor splice variant AR-V7 as a prognostic biomarker for metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2016. PubMed
  • Manuel MM, Cho LP, Catalano PJ, Damato AL, Miyamoto DT, Tempany CM, Schmidt EJ, Viswanathan AN. Outcomes with image-based interstitial brachytherapy for vaginal cancer. Radiother Oncol 2016. PubMed
  • Shaw Bagnall J, Byun S, Miyamoto DT, Kang JH, Maheswaran S, Stott SL, Toner M, Manalis SR. Deformability-based cell selection with downstream immunofluorescence analysis. Integr Biol (Camb) 2016. PubMed
  • Miyamoto DT, Zheng Y, Wittner BS, Lee RJ, Zhu H, Broderick KT, Desai R, Fox DB, Brannigan BW, Trautwein J, Arora KS, Desai N, Dahl DM, Sequist LV, Smith MR, Kapur R, Wu CL, Shioda T, Ramaswamy S, Ting DT, Toner M, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. RNA-Seq of single prostate CTCs implicates noncanonical Wnt signaling in antiandrogen resistance. Science 2015; 349:1351-6. PubMed
  • Sarioglu AF, Aceto N, Kojic N, Donaldson MC, Zeinali M, Hamza B, Engstrom A, Zhu H, Sundaresan TK, Miyamoto DT, Luo X, Bardia A, Wittner BS, Ramaswamy S, Shioda T, Ting DT, Stott SL, Kapur R, Maheswaran S, Haber DA, Toner M. A microfluidic device for label-free, physical capture of circulating tumor cell clusters. Nat Methods 2015; 12:685-91. PubMed
  • Shaw Bagnall J, Byun S, Begum S, Miyamoto DT, Hecht VC, Maheswaran S, Stott SL, Toner M, Hynes RO, Manalis SR. Deformability of Tumor Cells versus Blood Cells. Sci Rep 2015; 5:18542. PubMed
  • Ting DT, Wittner BS, Ligorio M, Vincent Jordan N, Shah AM, Miyamoto DT, Aceto N, Bersani F, Brannigan BW, Xega K, Ciciliano JC, Zhu H, MacKenzie OC, Trautwein J, Arora KS, Shahid M, Ellis HL, Qu N, Bardeesy N, Rivera MN, Deshpande V, Ferrone CR, Kapur R, Ramaswamy S, Shioda T, Toner M, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. Single-cell RNA sequencing identifies extracellular matrix gene expression by pancreatic circulating tumor cells. Cell Rep 2014; 8:1905-18. PubMed
  • Aceto N, Bardia A, Miyamoto DT, Donaldson MC, Wittner BS, Spencer JA, Yu M, Pely A, Engstrom A, Zhu H, Brannigan BW, Kapur R, Stott SL, Shioda T, Ramaswamy S, Ting DT, Lin CP, Toner M, Haber DA, Maheswaran S. Circulating tumor cell clusters are oligoclonal precursors of breast cancer metastasis. Cell 2014; 158:1110-22. PubMed
  • Miyamoto DT, Sequist LV, Lee RJ. Circulating tumour cells-monitoring treatment response in prostate cancer. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 2014. PubMed
  • Seible DM, Gu X, Hyatt AS, Beard CJ, Choueiri TK, Efstathiou JA, Miyamoto DT, Mitin T, Martin NE, Sweeney CJ, Trinh QD, Beckman JA, Basaria S, Nguyen PL. Weight gain on androgen deprivation therapy: which patients are at highest risk? Urology 2014. PubMed
  • Lee RJ, Saylor PJ, Michaelson MD, Rothenberg SM, Smas ME, Miyamoto DT, Gurski CA, Xie W, Maheswaran S, Haber DA, Goldin JG, Smith MR. A dose-ranging study of cabozantinib in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer and bone metastases. Clin Cancer Res 2013. PubMed
  • Ozkumur E, Shah AM, Ciciliano JC, Emmink BL, Miyamoto DT, Brachtel E, Yu M, Chen PI, Morgan B, Trautwein J, Kimura A, Sengupta S, Stott SL, Karabacak NM, Barber TA, Walsh JR, Smith K, Spuhler PS, Sullivan JP, Lee RJ, Ting DT, Luo X, Shaw AT, Bardia A, Sequist LV, Louis DN, Maheswaran S, Kapur R, Haber DA, Toner M. Inertial focusing for tumor antigen-dependent and -independent sorting of rare circulating tumor cells. Sci Transl Med 2013; 5:179ra47. PubMed
  • Miyamoto DT, Viswanathan AN. Concurrent chemoradiation for vaginal cancer. PLoS ONE 2013; 8:e65048. PubMed
  • Miyamoto DT, Lee RJ, Stott SL, Ting DT, Wittner BS, Ulman M, Smas ME, Lord JB, Brannigan BW, Trautwein J, Bander NH, Wu CL, Sequist LV, Smith MR, Ramaswamy S, Toner M, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. Androgen receptor signaling in circulating tumor cells as a marker of hormonally responsive prostate cancer. 2012; 2:995-1003. PubMed
  • Miyamoto DT, Harris JR. Molecular predictors of local tumor control in early-stage breast cancer. Semin Radiat Oncol 2011; 21:35-42. PubMed
  • Stott SL, Hsu CH, Tsukrov DI, Yu M, Miyamoto DT, Waltman BA, Rothenberg SM, Shah AM, Smas ME, Korir GK, Floyd FP, Gilman AJ, Lord JB, Winokur D, Springer S, Irimia D, Nagrath S, Sequist LV, Lee RJ, Isselbacher KJ, Maheswaran S, Haber DA, Toner M. Isolation of circulating tumor cells using a microvortex-generating herringbone-chip. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:18392-7. PubMed
  • Miyamoto DT, Mamon HJ, Ryan DP, Willett CG, Ancukiewicz M, Kobayashi WK, Blaszkowsky L, Castillo CF, Hong TS. Outcomes and Tolerability of Chemoradiation Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer Patients Aged 75 Years or Older. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010; 77:1171-7. PubMed
  • Mak RH, Mamon HJ, Ryan DP, Miyamoto DT, Ancukiewicz M, Kobayashi WK, Willett CG, Choi NC, Blaszkowsky LS, Hong TS. Toxicity and outcomes after chemoradiation for esophageal cancer in patients age 75 or older. 2010; 23:316-23. PubMed
  • Stott SL, Lee RJ, Nagrath S, Yu M, Miyamoto DT, Ulkus L, Inserra EJ, Ulman M, Springer S, Nakamura Z, Moore AL, Tsukrov DI, Kempner ME, Dahl DM, Wu CL, Iafrate AJ, Smith MR, Tompkins RG, Sequist LV, Toner M, Haber DA, Maheswaran S. Isolation and characterization of circulating tumor cells from patients with localized and metastatic prostate cancer. Sci Transl Med 2010; 2:25ra23. PubMed
  • Miyamoto DT, Perlman ZE, Burbank KS, Groen AC, Mitchison TJ. The kinesin Eg5 drives poleward microtubule flux in Xenopus laevis egg extract spindles. J Cell Biol 2004; 167:813-8. PubMed
  • Groen AC, Cameron LA, Coughlin M, Miyamoto DT, Mitchison TJ, Ohi R. XRHAMM functions in ran-dependent microtubule nucleation and pole formation during anastral spindle assembly. Curr Biol 2004; 14:1801-11. PubMed
  • Gupta A, Sanada K, Miyamoto DT, Rovelstad S, Nadarajah B, Pearlman AL, Brunstrom J, Tsai LH. Layering defect in p35 deficiency is linked to improper neuronal-glial interaction in radial migration. Nat Neurosci 2003; 6:1284-91. PubMed
  • Miyamoto DT, Perlman ZE, Mitchison TJ, Shirasu-Hiza M. Dynamics of the mitotic spindle--potential therapeutic targets. Prog Cell Cycle Res 2003; 5:349-60. PubMed
  • Haggarty SJ, Mayer TU, Miyamoto DT, Fathi R, King RW, Mitchison TJ, Schreiber SL. Dissecting cellular processes using small molecules: identification of colchicine-like, taxol-like and other small molecules that perturb mitosis. Chem Biol 2000; 7:275-86. PubMed
  • McDonald, W.H., Ohi, R., Miyamoto, D.T., Mitchison, T.J., and Yates, J.R. 3rd.. Comparison of three directly coupled HPLC MS/MS strategies for identification of proteins from complex mixtures: single-dimensional LC-MS/MS, 2-phase MudPIT, and 3-phase MudPIT. ; 219:245-51.
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