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Colin D. Weekes, MD, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital
Phone: (617) 724-8700


cdweekes@mgh.harvard.edu

Colin D. Weekes, MD, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital

EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Associate Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Director of Medical Pancreas Cancer Research, Medicine - Division of Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital

DF/HCC PROGRAM AFFILIATION

Research Abstract

As Director for Medical Oncology Research for Pancreatic Cancer in the Tucker Gosnell Center for Gastrointestinal Cancers at MGH, I focus on clinical and translational research in patients with Pancreas cancer. The goal of our group is to incorporate biologic principles into the treatment of patients with pancreas cancer. As such, I work with basic scientist to integrate targeted therapies and biomarkers of disease response into clinical trial development. In addition to my work in pancreas cancer, I also focus on early drug development for gastrointestinal malignancies.

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  • Perez K, Chiarella AM, Cleary JM, Horick N, Weekes C, Abrams T, Blaszkowsky L, Enzinger P, Giannakis M, Goyal L, Meyerhardt JA, Rubinson D, Yurgelun MB, Goessling W, Giantonio BJ, Brais L, Germon V, Stonely D, Raghavan S, Bakir B, Das K, Pitarresi JR, Aguirre AJ, Needle M, Rustgi AK, Wolpin BM. Phase Ib and Expansion Study of Gemcitabine, Nab-Paclitaxel, and Ficlatuzumab in Patients With Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer. Oncologist 2023. PubMed
  • Fong ZV, Verdugo FL, Fernandez-Del Castillo C, Ferrone CR, Allen JN, Blaszkowsky LS, Clark JW, Parikh AR, Ryan DP, Weekes CD, Hong TS, Wo JY, Lillemoe KD, Qadan M. Tolerability, Attrition Rates, and Survival Outcomes of Neoadjuvant FOLFIRINOX for Non-Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Intent-to-Treat Analysis. J Am Coll Surg 2022. PubMed
  • Heumann TR, Baretti M, Sugar EA, Durham JN, Linden S, Lopez-Vidal TY, Leatherman J, Cope L, Sharma A, Weekes CD, O'Dwyer PJ, Reiss KA, Monga DK, Ahuja N, Azad NS. A randomized, phase II trial of oral azacitidine (CC-486) in patients with resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma at high risk for recurrence. Clin Epigenetics 2022; 14:166. PubMed
  • Jimenez RB, Schenkel C, Levit LA, Hu B, Lei XJ, Harvey RD, Morrison VA, Pollastro T, Waterhouse D, Weekes C, Williams GR, Bruinooge S, Garrett-Mayer E, Peppercorn J. Oncologists' Perspectives on Individualizing Dose Selection for Patients With Metastatic Cancer. JCO Oncol Pract 2022; 18:e1807-e1817. PubMed
  • Nipp RD, Gaufberg E, Vyas C, Azoba C, Qian CL, Jaggers J, Weekes CD, Allen JN, Roeland EJ, Parikh AR, Miller L, Wo JY, Smith MH, Brown PMC, Shulman E, Fernandez-Del Castillo C, Kimmelman AC, Ting D, Hong TS, Greer JA, Ryan DP, Temel JS, El-Jawahri A. Supportive Oncology Care at Home Intervention for Patients With Pancreatic Cancer. JCO Oncol Pract 2022. PubMed
  • Furtado FS, Wu MZ, Esfahani SA, Ferrone CR, Blaszkowsky LS, Clark JW, Ryan DP, Goyal L, Franses JW, Wo JY, Hong TS, Qadan M, Tanabe KK, Weekes CD, Cusack JC, Crafa F, Mahmood U, Anderson MA, Mojtahed A, Hahn PF, Caravan P, Kilcoyne A, Vangel M, Striar RR, Rosen BR, Catalano OA. Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance Imaging Versus the Standard of Care Imaging in the Diagnosis of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis. Ann Surg 2022. PubMed
  • Zafar A, Drobni ZD, Lei M, Gongora CA, Quinaglia T, Lou UY, Mosarla R, Murphy SP, Jones-O'Connor M, Mahmood A, Hartmann S, Gilman HK, Weekes CD, Nipp R, Clark JR, Clark JW, Blaszkowsky LS, Tavares E, Neilan TG. The efficacy and safety of cardio-protective therapy in patients with 5-FU (Fluorouracil)-associated coronary vasospasm. PLoS ONE 2022; 17:e0265767. PubMed
  • Gupta A, Khalid O, Moravek C, Lamkin A, Matrisian LM, Doss S, Denlinger CS, Coveler AL, Weekes CD, Roeland EJ, Hendifar AE, Nipp RD. Leveraging patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in patients with pancreatic cancer: The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) online patient registry experience. Cancer Med 2021; 10:7152-7161. PubMed
  • Spring LM, Nakajima E, Hutchinson J, Viscosi E, Blouin G, Weekes C, Rugo H, Moy B, Bardia A. Sacituzumab Govitecan for Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Clinical Overview and Management of Potential Toxicities. Oncologist 2021. PubMed
  • Kanter K, Fish M, Mauri G, Horick NK, Allen JN, Blaszkowsky LS, Clark JW, Ryan DP, Nipp RD, Giantonio BJ, Goyal L, Dubois J, Murphy JE, Franses J, Klempner SJ, Roeland EJ, Weekes CD, Wo JY, Hong TS, Van Seventer EE, Corcoran RB, Parikh AR. Care Patterns and Overall Survival in Patients With Early-Onset Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. JCO Oncol Pract 2021. PubMed
  • Lee G, Kim DW, Oladeru OT, Niemierko A, Gergelis KR, Haddock MG, Toesca DAS, Koong AJ, Owen D, Weekes C, Hong TS, Chang DT, Hallemeier CL, Wo JY. Liver Metastasis-Directed Ablative Radiotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer Offers Prolonged Time Off Systemic Therapy in Selected Patients: Data From a Multi-institutional Retrospective Study. Pancreas 2021. PubMed
  • Parikh AR, Van Seventer EE, Siravegna G, Hartwig AV, Jaimovich A, He Y, Kanter K, Fish M, Fosbenner KD, Miao B, Phillips S, Carmichael JH, Sharma N, Jarnagin J, Baiev I, Shah YS, Fetter IJ, Shahzade HA, Allen JN, Blaszkowsky LS, Clark JW, Dubois JS, Franses JW, Giantonio B, Goyal L, Klempner SJ, Nipp RD, Roeland EJ, Ryan DP, Weekes CD, Wo JY, Hong TS, Bordeianou L, Ferrone CR, Qadan M, Kunitake H, Berger D, Ricciardi R, Cusack JC, Raymond VM, Talasaz A, Boland GM, Corcoran RB. Minimal Residual Disease Detection using a Plasma-Only Circulating Tumor DNA Assay in Colorectal Cancer Patients. Clin Cancer Res 2021. PubMed
  • Guo JA, Hoffman HI, Weekes CD, Zheng L, Ting DT, Hwang WL. Refining the Molecular Framework for Pancreatic Cancer with Single-cell and Spatial Technologies. Clin Cancer Res 2021. PubMed
  • Zafar A, Drobni ZD, Mosarla R, Alvi RM, Lei M, Lou UY, Raghu VK, Murphy SP, Jones-O'Connor M, Hartmann S, Gilman HK, Weekes CD, Clark JR, Clark J, Blaszkowsky L, Tavares E, Neilan TG. The Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes With 5-Fluorouracil-Associated Coronary Vasospasm. JACC CardioOncol 2021; 3:101-109. PubMed
  • van Seventer EE, Fish MG, Fosbenner K, Kanter K, Mojtahed A, Allen JN, Blaszkowsky L, Clark JW, Dubois J, Franses JW, Giantonio BJ, Goyal L, Klempner SJ, Roeland EJ, Ryan DP, Weekes CD, Mulvey T, El-Jawahri A, Horick N, Corcoran RB, Parikh AR, Nipp RD. Associations of baseline patient-reported outcomes with treatment outcomes in advanced gastrointestinal cancer. Cancer 2021; 127:619-627. PubMed
  • Michelakos T, Sekigami Y, Kontos F, Fernández-Del Castillo C, Qadan M, Deshpande V, Ting DT, Clark JW, Weekes CD, Parikh A, Ryan DP, Wo JY, Hong TS, Allen JN, Catalano O, Warshaw AL, Lillemoe KD, Ferrone CR. Conditional Survival in Resected Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Patients Treated with Total Neoadjuvant Therapy. J Gastrointest Surg 2021. PubMed
  • McDuff SGR, Hardiman KM, Ulintz PJ, Parikh AR, Zheng H, Kim DW, Lennerz JK, Hazar-Rethinam M, Van Seventer EE, Fetter IJ, Nadres B, Eyler CE, Ryan DP, Weekes CD, Clark JW, Cusack JC, Goyal L, Zhu AX, Wo JY, Blaszkowsky LS, Allen J, Corcoran RB, Hong TS. Circulating Tumor DNA Predicts Pathologic and Clinical Outcomes Following Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation and Surgery for Patients With Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol 2021. PubMed
  • Parikh AR, Szabolcs A, Allen JN, Clark JW, Wo JY, Raabe M, Thel H, Hoyos D, Mehta A, Arshad S, Lieb DJ, Drapek LC, Blaszkowsky LS, Giantonio BJ, Weekes CD, Zhu AX, Goyal L, Nipp RD, Dubois JS, Van Seventer EE, Foreman BE, Matlack LE, Ly L, Meurer JA, Hacohen N, Ryan DP, Yeap BY, Corcoran RB, Greenbaum BD, Ting DT, Hong TS. Radiation therapy enhances immunotherapy response in microsatellite stable colorectal and pancreatic adenocarcinoma in a phase II trial. 2021; 2:1124-1135. PubMed
  • Chawla A, Qadan M, Castillo CF, Wo JY, Allen JN, Clark JW, Murphy JE, Catalano OA, Ryan DP, Ting DT, Deshpande V, Weekes CD, Parikh A, Lillemoe KD, Hong TS, Ferrone CR. Prospective Phase II Trials Validate the Effect of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy on Pattern of Recurrence in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. Ann Surg 2020. PubMed
  • Tolaney SM, Do KT, Eder JP, LoRusso PM, Weekes CD, Chandarlapaty S, Chang CW, Chen SC, Nazzal D, Schuth E, Brunstein F, Carrasco-Triguero M, Darbonne WC, Giltnane JM, Flanagan WM, Commerford SR, Ungewickell A, Shapiro GI, Modi S. A Phase I Study of DLYE5953A, an Anti-LY6E Antibody Covalently Linked to Monomethyl Auristatin E, in Patients with Refractory Solid Tumors. Clin Cancer Res 2020. PubMed
  • Grossberg AJ, Chu LC, Deig CR, Fishman EK, Hwang WL, Maitra A, Marks DL, Mehta A, Nabavizadeh N, Simeone DM, Weekes CD, Thomas CR. Multidisciplinary standards of care and recent progress in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. CA Cancer J Clin 2020. PubMed
  • Hank T, Sandini M, Ferrone CR, Ryan DP, Mino-Kenudson M, Qadan M, Wo JY, Klaiber U, Weekes CD, Weniger M, Hinz U, Harrison JM, Heckler M, Warshaw AL, Hong TS, Hackert T, Clark JW, Büchler MW, Lillemoe KD, Strobel O, Castillo CF. A Combination of Biochemical and Pathological Parameters Improves Prediction of Postresection Survival After Preoperative Chemotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer: The PANAMA-score. Ann Surg 2020. PubMed
  • Michelakos T, Cai L, Villani V, Sabbatino F, Kontos F, Fernández-Del Castillo C, Yamada T, Neyaz A, Taylor MS, Deshpande V, Kurokawa T, Ting DT, Qadan M, Weekes CD, Allen JN, Clark JW, Hong TS, Ryan DP, Wo JY, Warshaw AL, Lillemoe KD, Ferrone S, Ferrone CR. Tumor microenvironment immune response in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients treated with neoadjuvant therapy. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2020. PubMed
  • Rodrigues C, Hank T, Qadan M, Ciprani D, Mino-Kenudson M, Weekes CD, Ryan DP, Clark JW, Allen JN, Hong TS, Wo JY, Ferrone CR, Warshaw AL, Lillemoe KD, Fernandez-Del Castillo C. Impact of adjuvant therapy in patients with invasive intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms of the pancreas. Pancreatology 2020. PubMed
  • Parikh AR, Mojtahed A, Schneider JL, Kanter K, Van Seventer EE, Fetter IJ, Thabet A, Fish MG, Teshome B, Fosbenner K, Nadres B, Shahzade HA, Allen JN, Blaszkowsky LS, Ryan DP, Giantonio B, Goyal L, Nipp RD, Roeland E, Weekes CD, Wo JY, Zhu AX, Dias-Santagata D, Iafrate AJ, Lennerz JK, Hong TS, Siravegna G, Horick N, Clark JW, Corcoran RB. Serial ctDNA Monitoring to Predict Response to Systemic Therapy in Metastatic Gastrointestinal Cancers. Clin Cancer Res 2020. PubMed
  • Murphy JE, Wo JY, Ryan DP, Clark JW, Jiang W, Yeap BY, Drapek LC, Ly L, Baglini CV, Blaszkowsky LS, Ferrone CR, Parikh AR, Weekes CD, Nipp RD, Kwak EL, Allen JN, Corcoran RB, Ting DT, Faris JE, Zhu AX, Goyal L, Berger DL, Qadan M, Lillemoe KD, Talele N, Jain RK, DeLaney TF, Duda DG, Boucher Y, Fernández-Del Castillo C, Hong TS. Total Neoadjuvant Therapy With FOLFIRINOX in Combination With Losartan Followed by Chemoradiotherapy for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Phase 2 Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol 2019. PubMed
  • Strickler JH, Weekes CD, Nemunaitis J, Ramanathan RK, Heist RS, Morgensztern D, Angevin E, Bauer TM, Yue H, Motwani M, Parikh A, Reilly EB, Afar D, Naumovski L, Kelly K. First-in-Human Phase I, Dose-Escalation and -Expansion Study of Telisotuzumab Vedotin, an Antibody-Drug Conjugate Targeting c-Met, in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors. J Clin Oncol 2018. PubMed
  • Davis SL, Eckhardt SG, Diamond JR, Messersmith WA, Dasari A, Weekes CD, Lieu CH, Kane M, Choon Tan A, Pitts TM, Leong S. A Phase I Dose-Escalation Study of Linsitinib (OSI-906), a Small-Molecule Dual Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Receptor/Insulin Receptor Kinase Inhibitor, in Combination with Irinotecan in Patients with Advanced Cancer. Oncologist 2018. PubMed
  • Weekes CD, Rosen LS, Capasso A, Wong KM, Ye W, Anderson M, McCall B, Fredrickson J, Wakshull E, Eppler S, Shon-Nguyen Q, Desai R, Huseni M, Hegde PS, Pourmohamad T, Rhee I, Bessudo A. Phase I study of the anti-α5β1 monoclonal antibody MINT1526A with or without bevacizumab in patients with advanced solid tumors. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 2018. PubMed
  • Weekes CD, Clark JW, Zhu AX. Tivantinib for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: is MET still a viable target? Lancet Oncol. 2018; 19:591-592. PubMed
  • Tempero MA, Malafa MP, Al-Hawary M, Asbun H, Bain A, Behrman SW, Benson AB, Binder E, Cardin DB, Cha C, Chiorean EG, Chung V, Czito B, Dillhoff M, Dotan E, Ferrone CR, Hardacre J, Hawkins WG, Herman J, Ko AH, Komanduri S, Koong A, LoConte N, Lowy AM, Moravek C, Nakakura EK, O'Reilly EM, Obando J, Reddy S, Scaife C, Thayer S, Weekes CD, Wolff RA, Wolpin BM, Burns J, Darlow S. Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, Version 2.2017, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2017; 15:1028-1061. PubMed
  • Bendell JC, Javle M, Bekaii-Saab TS, Finn RS, Wainberg ZA, Laheru DA, Weekes CD, Tan BR, Khan GN, Zalupski MM, Infante JR, Jones S, Papadopoulos KP, Tolcher AW, Chavira RE, Christy-Bittel JL, Barrett E, Patnaik A. A phase 1 dose-escalation and expansion study of binimetinib (MEK162), a potent and selective oral MEK1/2 inhibitor. Br J Cancer 2017; 116:575-583. PubMed
  • Kendrick AA, Schafer J, Dzieciatkowska M, Nemkov T, D'Alessandro A, Neelakantan D, Ford HL, Pearson CG, Weekes CD, Hansen KC, Eisenmesser EZ. CD147: a small molecule transporter ancillary protein at the crossroad of multiple hallmarks of cancer and metabolic reprogramming. 2017; 8:6742-6762. PubMed
  • Narayanan V, Weekes CD. Molecular therapeutics in pancreas cancer. World J Gastrointest Oncol 2016; 8:366-79. PubMed
  • Cohen SJ, O'Neil BH, Berlin J, Ames P, McKinley M, Horan J, Catalano PM, Davies A, Weekes CD, Leichman L. A phase 1b study of erlotinib in combination with gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel in patients with previously untreated advanced pancreatic cancer: an Academic Oncology GI Cancer Consortium study. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 2016; 77:693-701. PubMed
  • Weekes CD, Lamberts LE, Borad MJ, Voortman J, McWilliams RR, Diamond JR, de Vries EG, Verheul HM, Lieu CH, Kim GP, Wang Y, Scales SJ, Samineni D, Brunstein F, Choi Y, Maslyar DJ, Colon-Otero G. Phase I Study of DMOT4039A, an Antibody-Drug Conjugate Targeting Mesothelin, in Patients with Unresectable Pancreatic or Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer. Mol Cancer Ther 2016; 15:439-47. PubMed
  • Tempero MA, Malafa MP, Behrman SW, Benson AB, Casper ES, Chiorean EG, Chung V, Cohen SJ, Czito B, Engebretson A, Feng M, Hawkins WG, Herman J, Hoffman JP, Ko A, Komanduri S, Koong A, Lowy AM, Ma WW, Merchant NB, Mulvihill SJ, Muscarella P, Nakakura EK, Obando J, Pitman MB, Reddy S, Sasson AR, Thayer SP, Weekes CD, Wolff RA, Wolpin BM, Burns JL, Freedman-Cass DA. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma, version 2.2014: featured updates to the NCCN guidelines. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2014; 12:1083-93. PubMed
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