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David F. McDermott, MD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Phone: (617) 667-2100
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dmcdermo@bidmc.harvard.edu

David F. McDermott, MD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Staff Physician, Hematology/Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Director, Biologic Therapy and Cutaneous Oncology Programs, Hematology/Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

DF/HCC PROGRAM AFFILIATION

DF/HCC ASSOCIATIONS

  • Member, Center Scientific Council
  • Co-Associate Director, Clinical Science, Executive Committee

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  • Jonasch E, Bauer TM, Papadopoulos KP, Plimack ER, Merchan JR, McDermott DF, Dror Michaelson M, Appleman LJ, Roy A, Perini RF, Liu Y, Choueiri TK. Phase I LITESPARK-001 study of belzutifan for advanced solid tumors: Extended 41-month follow-up in the clear cell renal cell carcinoma cohort. Eur J Cancer 2024; 196:113434. PubMed
  • Denize T, Jegede OA, Matar S, El Ahmar N, West DJ, Walton E, Bagheri AS, Savla V, Nabil Laimon Y, Gupta S, Vemula SV, Braun DA, Burke KP, Catalano PJ, Freeman GJ, Motzer RJ, Atkins MB, McDermott DF, Sharpe AH, Choueiri TK, Signoretti S. PD-1 Expression on Intratumoral Regulatory T Cells is Associated with Lack of Benefit from Anti-PD-1 Therapy in Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients. Clin Cancer Res 2023. PubMed
  • Kirkwood JM, Kottschade LA, McWilliams RR, Khushalani NI, Jang S, Hallmeyer S, McDermott DF, Tawbi H, Che M, Lee CH, Ritchings C, Le TK, Park B, Ramsey S. Real-world outcomes with immuno-oncology therapies in advanced melanoma: final results of the OPTIMIzE registry study. 2023. PubMed
  • Shigemura T, Perrot N, Huang Z, Bhatt RS, Sheshdeh AB, Ahmar NE, Ghandour F, Signoretti S, McDermott DF, Freeman GJ, Mahoney KM. Regulation of HHLA2 expression in kidney cancer and myeloid cells. BMC Cancer 2023; 23:1039. PubMed
  • Carthon BC, Kim SE, McDermott DF, Dutcher JP, Puligandla M, Manola J, Pins M, Carducci MA, Plimack ER, Appleman LJ, MacVicar GR, Kohli M, Kuzel TM, DiPaola RS, Haas NB. Results From a Randomized Phase II Trial of Sunitinib and Gemcitabine or Sunitinib in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma with Sarcomatoid Features: ECOG-ACRIN E1808. Clin Genitourin Cancer 2023. PubMed
  • Saliby RM, El Zarif T, Bakouny Z, Shah V, Xie W, Flippot R, Denize T, Kane MH, Madsen KN, Ficial M, Hirsch L, Wei XX, Steinarter JA, Harshman LC, Vaishampayan UN, Severgnini M, McDermott DF, Lee GM, Xu W, Van Allen EM, McGregor BA, Signoretti S, Choueiri TK, McKay RR, Braun DA. Circulating and intratumoral immune determinants of response to atezolizumab plus bevacizumab in patients with variant histology or sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Immunol Res 2023. PubMed
  • Choueiri TK, McDermott DF, Merchan J, Bauer TM, Figlin R, Heath EI, Michaelson MD, Arrowsmith E, D'Souza A, Zhao S, Roy A, Perini R, Vickery D, Tykodi SS. Belzutifan plus cabozantinib for patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma previously treated with immunotherapy: an open-label, single-arm, phase 2 study. Lancet Oncol. 2023; 24:553-562. PubMed
  • Atkins MB, Jegede OA, Haas NB, McDermott DF, Bilen MA, Stein M, Sosman JA, Alter R, Plimack ER, Ornstein MC, Hurwitz M, Peace DJ, Signoretti S, Denize T, Cimadamore A, Wu CJ, Braun D, Einstein D, Catalano PJ, Hammers H. Phase II study of nivolumab and salvage nivolumab/ipilimumab in treatment-naïve patients with advanced non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma (HCRN GU16-260-Cohort B). J Immunother Cancer 2023. PubMed
  • Deutsch JS, Lipson EJ, Danilova L, Topalian SL, Jedrych J, Baraban E, Ged Y, Singla N, Choueiri TK, Gupta S, Motzer RJ, McDermott D, Signoretti S, Atkins M, Taube JM. Combinatorial biomarker for predicting outcomes to anti-PD-1 therapy in patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Cell Rep Med 2023; 4:100947. PubMed
  • Topalian SL, Sznol M, McDermott DF, Kluger HM, Carvajal RD, Sharfman WH, Brahmer JR, Lawrence DP, Atkins MB, Powderly JD, Leming PD, Lipson EJ, Puzanov I, Smith DC, Taube JM, Wigginton JM, Kollia GD, Gupta A, Pardoll DM, Sosman JA, Hodi FS. Survival, Durable Tumor Remission, and Long-Term Safety in Patients With Advanced Melanoma Receiving Nivolumab. J Clin Oncol 2023; 41:943-954. PubMed
  • Huseni MA, Wang L, Klementowicz JE, Yuen K, Breart B, Orr C, Liu LF, Li Y, Gupta V, Li C, Rishipathak D, Peng J, Şenbabaoǧlu Y, Modrusan Z, Keerthivasan S, Madireddi S, Chen YJ, Fraser EJ, Leng N, Hamidi H, Koeppen H, Ziai J, Hashimoto K, Fassò M, Williams P, McDermott DF, Rosenberg JE, Powles T, Emens LA, Hegde PS, Mellman I, Turley SJ, Wilson MS, Mariathasan S, Molinero L, Merchant M, West NR. CD8 T cell-intrinsic IL-6 signaling promotes resistance to anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy. Cell Rep Med 2023; 4:100878. PubMed
  • Silk AW, Curti B, Bryan J, Saunders T, Shih W, Kane MP, Hannon P, Fountain C, Felcher J, Zloza A, Kaufman HL, Mehnert JM, McDermott DF. A phase Ib study of interleukin-2 plus pembrolizumab for patients with advanced melanoma. 2023; 13:1108341. PubMed
  • Meza L, McDermott DF, Escudier B, Hutson TE, Porta C, Verzoni E, Atkins MB, Kasturi V, Pal SK, Rini B. Tivozanib in Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma Previously Treated With Axitinib: Subgroup Analysis from TIVO-3. Oncologist 2022. PubMed
  • Rini BI, Signoretti S, Choueiri TK, McDermott DF, Motzer RJ, George S, Powles T, Donskov F, Tykodi SS, Pal SK, Gupta S, Lee CW, Jiang R, Tannir NM. Long-term outcomes with nivolumab plus ipilimumab versus sunitinib in first-line treatment of patients with advanced sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma. J Immunother Cancer 2022. PubMed
  • Zengin ZB, Pal SK, McDermott DF, Escudier B, Hutson TE, Porta C, Verzoni E, Atkins MB, Kasturi V, Rini B. Temporal Characteristics of Adverse Events of Tivozanib and Sorafenib in Previously Treated Kidney Cancer. Clin Genitourin Cancer 2022. PubMed
  • Denize T, Hou Y, Pignon JC, Walton E, West DJ, Freeman GJ, Braun DA, Wu CJ, Gupta S, Motzer RJ, Atkins MB, McDermott D, Choueiri TK, Shukla SA, Signoretti S. Transcriptomic Correlates of Tumor Cell PD-L1 Expression and Response to Nivolumab Monotherapy in Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res 2022. PubMed
  • Viray H, McDermott DF, Einstein DJ. Tivozanib in relapsed or refractory advanced renal cell carcinoma: a focus on US approval. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 2022; 22:695-702. PubMed
  • Hasanov E, Yeboa DN, Tucker MD, Swanson TA, Beckham TH, Rini B, Ene CI, Hasanov M, Derks S, Smits M, Dudani S, Heng DYC, Brastianos PK, Bex A, Hanalioglu S, Weinberg JS, Hirsch L, Carlo MI, Aizer A, Brown PD, Bilen MA, Chang EL, Jaboin J, Brugarolas J, Choueiri TK, Atkins MB, McGregor BA, Halasz LM, Patel TR, Soltys SG, McDermott DF, Elder JB, Baskaya MK, Yu JB, Timmerman R, Kim MM, Mut M, Markert J, Beal K, Tannir NM, Samandouras G, Lang FF, Giles R, Jonasch E. An interdisciplinary consensus on the management of brain metastases in patients with renal cell carcinoma. CA Cancer J Clin 2022. PubMed
  • Graff RE, Wilson KM, Sanchez A, Chang SL, McDermott DF, Choueiri TK, Cho E, Signoretti S, Giovannucci EL, Preston MA. Obesity in Relation to Renal Cell Carcinoma Incidence and Survival in Three Prospective Studies. Eur Urol 2022. PubMed
  • Atkins MB, Jegede OA, Haas NB, McDermott DF, Bilen MA, Stein M, Sosman JA, Alter R, Plimack ER, Ornstein M, Hurwitz M, Peace DJ, Signoretti S, Denize T, Cimadamore A, Wu CJ, Braun D, Einstein D, Catalano PJ, Hammers H. Phase II Study of Nivolumab and Salvage Nivolumab/Ipilimumab in Treatment-Naive Patients With Advanced Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (HCRN GU16-260-Cohort A). J Clin Oncol 2022. PubMed
  • Motzer RJ, McDermott DF, Escudier B, Burotto M, Choueiri TK, Hammers HJ, Barthélémy P, Plimack ER, Porta C, George S, Powles T, Donskov F, Gurney H, Kollmannsberger CK, Grimm MO, Barrios C, Tomita Y, Castellano D, Grünwald V, Rini BI, McHenry MB, Lee CW, McCarthy J, Ejzykowicz F, Tannir NM. Conditional survival and long-term efficacy with nivolumab plus ipilimumab versus sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma. Cancer 2022. PubMed
  • Motzer RJ, Choueiri TK, McDermott DF, Powles T, Vano YA, Gupta S, Yao J, Han C, Ammar R, Papillon-Cavanagh S, Saggi SS, McHenry MB, Ross-Macdonald P, Wind-Rotolo M. Biomarker analysis from CheckMate 214: nivolumab plus ipilimumab versus sunitinib in renal cell carcinoma. J Immunother Cancer 2022. PubMed
  • Motzer RJ, Powles T, Atkins MB, Escudier B, McDermott DF, Alekseev BY, Lee JL, Suarez C, Stroyakovskiy D, De Giorgi U, Donskov F, Mellado B, Banchereau R, Hamidi H, Khan O, Craine V, Huseni M, Flinn N, Dubey S, Rini BI. Final Overall Survival and Molecular Analysis in IMmotion151, a Phase 3 Trial Comparing Atezolizumab Plus Bevacizumab vs Sunitinib in Patients With Previously Untreated Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. JAMA Oncol 2022; 8:275-280. PubMed
  • Mantia CM, Werner L, Stwalley B, Ritchings C, Tarhini AA, Atkins MB, McDermott DF, Regan MM. Sensitivity of treatment-free survival to subgroup analyses in patients with advanced melanoma treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Melanoma Res 2022; 32:35-44. PubMed
  • Mahoney KM, Ross-Macdonald P, Yuan L, Song L, Veras E, Wind-Rotolo M, McDermott DF, Stephen Hodi F, Choueiri TK, Freeman GJ. Soluble PD-L1 as an early marker of progressive disease on nivolumab. J Immunother Cancer 2022. PubMed
  • Bakouny Z, Sadagopan A, Ravi P, Metaferia NY, Li J, AbuHammad S, Tang S, Denize T, Garner ER, Gao X, Braun DA, Hirsch L, Steinharter JA, Bouchard G, Walton E, West D, Labaki C, Dudani S, Gan CL, Sethunath V, Carvalho FLF, Imamovic A, Ricker C, Vokes NI, Nyman J, Berchuck JE, Park J, Hirsch MS, Haq R, Mary Lee GS, McGregor BA, Chang SL, Feldman AS, Wu CJ, McDermott DF, Heng DYC, Signoretti S, Van Allen EM, Choueiri TK, Viswanathan SR. Integrative clinical and molecular characterization of translocation renal cell carcinoma. Cell Rep 2022; 38:110190. PubMed
  • Regan MM, Jegede OA, Mantia CM, Powles T, Werner L, Motzer RJ, Tannir NM, Lee CH, Tomita Y, Voss MH, Plimack ER, Choueiri TK, Rini BI, Hammers HJ, Escudier B, Albiges L, Huo S, Del Tejo V, Stwalley B, Atkins MB, McDermott DF. Treatment-free Survival after Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy versus Targeted Therapy for Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma: 42-Month Results of the CheckMate 214 Trial. Clin Cancer Res 2021. PubMed
  • Ott PA, Nazzaro M, Pfaff KL, Gjini E, Felt KD, Wolff JO, Buchbinder EI, Haq R, Sullivan RJ, Lawrence DP, McDermott DF, Severgnini M, Giobbie-Hurder A, Rodig SJ, Stephen Hodi F. Combining CTLA-4 and angiopoietin-2 blockade in patients with advanced melanoma: a phase I trial. J Immunother Cancer 2021. PubMed
  • Braun DA, Street K, Burke KP, Cookmeyer DL, Denize T, Pedersen CB, Gohil SH, Schindler N, Pomerance L, Hirsch L, Bakouny Z, Hou Y, Forman J, Huang T, Li S, Cui A, Keskin DB, Steinharter J, Bouchard G, Sun M, Pimenta EM, Xu W, Mahoney KM, McGregor BA, Hirsch MS, Chang SL, Livak KJ, McDermott DF, Shukla SA, Olsen LR, Signoretti S, Sharpe AH, Irizarry RA, Choueiri TK, Wu CJ. Progressive immune dysfunction with advancing disease stage in renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Cell 2021; 39:632-648.e8. PubMed
  • Choueiri TK, Bauer TM, Papadopoulos KP, Plimack ER, Merchan JR, McDermott DF, Michaelson MD, Appleman LJ, Thamake S, Perini RF, Zojwalla NJ, Jonasch E. Inhibition of hypoxia-inducible factor-2α in renal cell carcinoma with belzutifan: a phase 1 trial and biomarker analysis. Nat Med 2021; 27:802-805. PubMed
  • Powles T, Atkins MB, Escudier B, Motzer RJ, Rini BI, Fong L, Joseph RW, Pal SK, Sznol M, Hainsworth J, Stadler WM, Hutson TE, Ravaud A, Bracarda S, Suarez C, Choueiri TK, Reeves J, Cohn A, Ding B, Leng N, Hashimoto K, Huseni M, Schiff C, McDermott DF. Efficacy and Safety of Atezolizumab Plus Bevacizumab Following Disease Progression on Atezolizumab or Sunitinib Monotherapy in Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma in IMmotion150: A Randomized Phase 2 Clinical Trial. Eur Urol 2021; 79:665-673. PubMed
  • Chowdhury S, Infante JR, Hawkins R, Voss MH, Perini R, Arkenau T, Voskoboynik M, Aimone P, Naeije I, Reising A, McDermott DF. A Phase I/II Study to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of Pazopanib and Pembrolizumab Combination Therapy in Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma. Clin Genitourin Cancer 2021. PubMed
  • Szarek M, Needle MN, Rini BI, Pal SK, McDermott DF, Atkins MB, Hutson TE, Escudier BJ. Q-TWiST Analysis of Tivozanib Versus Sorafenib in Patients With Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma in the TIVO-3 Study. Clin Genitourin Cancer 2021. PubMed
  • McDermott DF, Lee JL, Bjarnason GA, Larkin JMG, Gafanov RA, Kochenderfer MD, Jensen NV, Donskov F, Malik J, Poprach A, Tykodi SS, Alonso-Gordoa T, Cho DC, Geertsen PF, Climent Duran MA, DiSimone C, Silverman RK, Perini RF, Schloss C, Atkins MB. Open-Label, Single-Arm Phase II Study of Pembrolizumab Monotherapy as First-Line Therapy in Patients With Advanced Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. J Clin Oncol 2021. PubMed
  • McDermott DF, Lee JL, Ziobro M, Suarez C, Langiewicz P, Matveev VB, Wiechno P, Gafanov RA, Tomczak P, Pouliot F, Donskov F, Alekseev BY, Shin SJ, Bjarnason GA, Castellano D, Silverman RK, Perini RF, Schloss C, Atkins MB. Open-Label, Single-Arm, Phase II Study of Pembrolizumab Monotherapy as First-Line Therapy in Patients With Advanced Non-Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. J Clin Oncol 2021. PubMed
  • Bhatt RS, Berjis A, Konge JC, Mahoney KM, Klee AN, Freeman SS, Chen CH, Jegede OA, Catalano PJ, Pignon JC, Sticco-Ivins M, Zhu B, Hua P, Soden J, Zhu J, McDermott DF, Arulanandam AR, Signoretti S, Freeman GJ. KIR3DL3 Is an Inhibitory Receptor for HHLA2 that Mediates an Alternative Immunoinhibitory Pathway to PD1. Cancer Immunol Res 2021; 9:156-169. PubMed
  • Choueiri TK, Atkins MB, Rose TL, Alter RS, Ju Y, Niland K, Wang Y, Arbeit R, Parasuraman S, Gan L, McDermott DF. A phase 1b trial of the CXCR4 inhibitor mavorixafor and nivolumab in advanced renal cell carcinoma patients with no prior response to nivolumab monotherapy. Invest New Drugs 2021. PubMed
  • Atkins MB, Plimack ER, Puzanov I, Fishman MN, McDermott DF, Cho DC, Vaishampayan U, George S, Tarazi JC, Duggan W, Perini R, Thakur M, Fernandez KC, Choueiri TK. Axitinib plus pembrolizumab in patients with advanced renal-cell carcinoma: Long-term efficacy and safety from a phase Ib trial. Eur J Cancer 2021; 145:1-10. PubMed
  • Regan MM, Mantia CM, Werner L, Tarhini AA, Larkin J, Stephen Hodi F, Wolchok J, Postow MA, Stwalley B, Moshyk A, Ritchings C, Re S, van Dijck W, McDermott DF, Atkins MB. Treatment-free survival over extended follow-up of patients with advanced melanoma treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors in CheckMate 067. J Immunother Cancer 2021. PubMed
  • Bakouny Z, Braun DA, Shukla SA, Pan W, Gao X, Hou Y, Flaifel A, Tang S, Bosma-Moody A, He MX, Vokes N, Nyman J, Xie W, Nassar AH, Abou Alaiwi S, Flippot R, Bouchard G, Steinharter JA, Nuzzo PV, Ficial M, Sant'Angelo M, Forman J, Berchuck JE, Dudani S, Bi K, Park J, Camp S, Sticco-Ivins M, Hirsch L, Baca SC, Wind-Rotolo M, Ross-Macdonald P, Sun M, Lee GM, Chang SL, Wei XX, McGregor BA, Harshman LC, Genovese G, Ellis L, Pomerantz M, Hirsch MS, Freedman ML, Atkins MB, Wu CJ, Ho TH, Linehan WM, McDermott DF, Heng DYC, Viswanathan SR, Signoretti S, Van Allen EM, Choueiri TK. Integrative molecular characterization of sarcomatoid and rhabdoid renal cell carcinoma. Nat Commun 2021; 12:808. PubMed
  • McKay RR, McGregor BA, Xie W, Braun DA, Wei X, Kyriakopoulos CE, Zakharia Y, Maughan BL, Rose TL, Stadler WM, McDermott DF, Harshman LC, Choueiri TK. Optimized Management of Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Response-Based Phase II Study (OMNIVORE). J Clin Oncol 2020; 38:4240-4248. PubMed
  • Ficial M, Jegede OA, Sant'Angelo M, Hou Y, Flaifel A, Pignon JC, Braun DA, Wind-Rotolo M, Sticco-Ivins MA, Catalano PJ, Freeman GJ, Sharpe AH, Hodi FS, Motzer RJ, Wu CJ, Atkins MB, McDermott DF, Shukla SA, Choueiri TK, Signoretti S. Expression of T-Cell Exhaustion Molecules and Human Endogenous Retroviruses as Predictive Biomarkers for Response to Nivolumab in Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res 2020. PubMed
  • Pal SK, Escudier BJ, Atkins MB, Hutson TE, Porta C, Verzoni E, Needle MN, Powers D, McDermott DF, Rini BI. Final Overall Survival Results from a Phase 3 Study to Compare Tivozanib to Sorafenib as Third- or Fourth-line Therapy in Subjects with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. Eur Urol 2020. PubMed
  • Tannir NM, Signoretti S, Choueiri TK, McDermott DF, Motzer RJ, Flaifel A, Pignon JC, Ficial M, Frontera OA, George S, Powles T, Donskov F, Harrison MR, Barthélémy P, Tykodi SS, Kocsis J, Ravaud A, Rodriguez-Cid JR, Pal SK, Murad AM, Ishii Y, Saggi SS, McHenry MB, Rini BI. Efficacy and Safety of Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab versus Sunitinib in First-line Treatment of Patients with Advanced Sarcomatoid Renal Cell Carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res 2020. PubMed
  • Martini JF, Plimack ER, Choueiri TK, McDermott DF, Puzanov I, Fishman MN, Cho DC, Vaishampayan U, Rosbrook B, Fernandez KC, Tarazi JC, George S, Atkins MB. Angiogenic and Immune-Related Biomarkers and Outcomes Following Axitinib/Pembrolizumab Treatment in Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res 2020. PubMed
  • Motzer RJ, Escudier B, George S, Hammers HJ, Srinivas S, Tykodi SS, Sosman JA, Plimack ER, Procopio G, McDermott DF, Castellano D, Choueiri TK, Donskov F, Gurney H, Oudard S, Richardet M, Peltola K, Alva AS, Carducci M, Wagstaff J, Chevreau C, Fukasawa S, Tomita Y, Gauler TC, Kollmannsberger CK, Schutz FA, Larkin J, Cella D, McHenry MB, Saggi SS, Tannir NM. Nivolumab versus everolimus in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma: Updated results with long-term follow-up of the randomized, open-label, phase 3 CheckMate 025 trial. Cancer 2020. PubMed
  • Rini BI, Motzer RJ, Powles T, McDermott DF, Escudier B, Donskov F, Hawkins R, Bracarda S, Bedke J, De Giorgi U, Porta C, Ravaud A, Parnis F, Grande E, Zhang W, Huseni M, Carroll S, Sufan R, Schiff C, Atkins MB. Atezolizumab plus Bevacizumab Versus Sunitinib for Patients with Untreated Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma and Sarcomatoid Features: A Prespecified Subgroup Analysis of the IMmotion151 Clinical Trial. Eur Urol 2020. PubMed
  • Motzer RJ, Escudier B, McDermott DF, Arén Frontera O, Melichar B, Powles T, Donskov F, Plimack ER, Barthélémy P, Hammers HJ, George S, Grünwald V, Porta C, Neiman V, Ravaud A, Choueiri TK, Rini BI, Salman P, Kollmannsberger CK, Tykodi SS, Grimm MO, Gurney H, Leibowitz-Amit R, Geertsen PF, Amin A, Tomita Y, McHenry MB, Saggi SS, Tannir NM. Survival outcomes and independent response assessment with nivolumab plus ipilimumab versus sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma: 42-month follow-up of a randomized phase 3 clinical trial. J Immunother Cancer 2020. PubMed
  • Gul A, Stewart TF, Mantia CM, Shah NJ, Gatof ES, Long Y, Allman KD, Ornstein MC, Hammers HJ, McDermott DF, Atkins MB, Hurwitz M, Rini BI. Salvage Ipilimumab and Nivolumab in Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma After Prior Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. J Clin Oncol 2020. PubMed
  • Braun DA, Hou Y, Bakouny Z, Ficial M, Sant' Angelo M, Forman J, Ross-Macdonald P, Berger AC, Jegede OA, Elagina L, Steinharter J, Sun M, Wind-Rotolo M, Pignon JC, Cherniack AD, Lichtenstein L, Neuberg D, Catalano P, Freeman GJ, Sharpe AH, McDermott DF, Van Allen EM, Signoretti S, Wu CJ, Shukla SA, Choueiri TK. Interplay of somatic alterations and immune infiltration modulates response to PD-1 blockade in advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Nat Med 2020; 26:909-918. PubMed
  • Ravi P, Mantia C, Su C, Sorenson K, Elhag D, Rathi N, Bakouny Z, Agarwal N, Zakharia Y, Costello BA, McKay RR, Narayan V, Alva A, McGregor BA, Gao X, McDermott DF, Choueiri TK. Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of Immunotherapy Rechallenge in Patients With Renal Cell Carcinoma. JAMA Oncol 2020. PubMed
  • Yuen KC, Liu LF, Gupta V, Madireddi S, Keerthivasan S, Li C, Rishipathak D, Williams P, Kadel EE, Koeppen H, Chen YJ, Modrusan Z, Grogan JL, Banchereau R, Leng N, Thastrom A, Shen X, Hashimoto K, Tayama D, van der Heijden MS, Rosenberg JE, McDermott DF, Powles T, Hegde PS, Huseni MA, Mariathasan S. High systemic and tumor-associated IL-8 correlates with reduced clinical benefit of PD-L1 blockade. Nat Med 2020; 26:693-698. PubMed
  • Pal SK, McDermott DF, Atkins MB, Escudier B, Rini BI, Motzer RJ, Fong L, Joseph RW, Oudard S, Ravaud A, Bracarda S, Suarez C, Lam ET, Choueiri TK, Ding B, Quach C, Hashimoto K, Schiff C, Piault-Louis E, Powles T. Patient-Reported Outcomes in a Phase 2 Study Comparing Atezolizumab Alone or With Bevacizumab Versus Sunitinib in Previously Untreated Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. BJU Int 2020. PubMed
  • Atkins MB, Rini BI, Motzer RJ, Powles T, McDermott DF, Suarez C, Bracarda S, Stadler WM, Donskov F, Gurney H, Oudard S, Uemura M, Lam ET, Grüllich C, Quach C, Carroll S, Ding B, Zhu Q, Piault-Louis E, Schiff C, Escudier B. Patient-reported outcomes from the phase 3 randomized IMmotion151 trial: atezolizumab + bevacizumab vs sunitinib in treatment-naive metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res 2020. PubMed
  • Tripathi A, Lin E, Xie W, Flaifel A, Steinharter JA, Stern Gatof EN, Bouchard G, Fleischer JH, Martinez-Chanza N, Gray C, Mantia C, Thompson L, Wei XX, Giannakis M, McGregor BA, Choueiri TK, Agarwal N, McDermott DF, Signoretti S, Harshman LC. Prognostic significance and immune correlates of CD73 expression in renal cell carcinoma. J Immunother Cancer 2020. PubMed
  • Albiges L, Tannir NM, Burotto M, McDermott D, Plimack ER, Barthélémy P, Porta C, Powles T, Donskov F, George S, Kollmannsberger CK, Gurney H, Grimm MO, Tomita Y, Castellano D, Rini BI, Choueiri TK, Saggi SS, McHenry MB, Motzer RJ. Nivolumab plus ipilimumab versus sunitinib for first-line treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma: extended 4-year follow-up of the phase III CheckMate 214 trial. ESMO Open 2020; 5:e001079. PubMed
  • Ambavane A, Yang S, Atkins MB, Rao S, Shah A, Regan MM, McDermott DF, Michaelson MD. Clinical and economic outcomes of treatment sequences for intermediate- to poor-risk advanced renal cell carcinoma. 2020; 12:37-51. PubMed
  • Xu W, Atkins MB, McDermott DF. Checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy in kidney cancer. Nat Rev Urol 2020; 17:137-150. PubMed
  • McGregor BA, McKay RR, Braun DA, Werner L, Gray K, Flaifel A, Signoretti S, Hirsch MS, Steinharter JA, Bakouny Z, Flippot R, Wei XX, Choudhury A, Kilbridge K, Freeman GJ, Van Allen EM, Harshman LC, McDermott DF, Vaishampayan U, Choueiri TK. Results of a Multicenter Phase II Study of Atezolizumab and Bevacizumab for Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma With Variant Histology and/or Sarcomatoid Features. J Clin Oncol 2020; 38:63-70. PubMed
  • Rini BI, Battle D, Figlin RA, George DJ, Hammers H, Hutson T, Jonasch E, Joseph RW, McDermott DF, Motzer RJ, Pal SK, Pantuck AJ, Quinn DI, Seery V, Voss MH, Wood CG, Wood LS, Atkins MB. The society for immunotherapy of cancer consensus statement on immunotherapy for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). J Immunother Cancer 2019; 7:354. PubMed
  • Varkaris A, Xu W, Davis RB, Healy B, McDermott DF. Combining Immune Checkpoint and VEGFR Inhibition in Favorable Risk and Elderly Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. Clin Genitourin Cancer 2019. PubMed
  • Rini BI, Pal SK, Escudier BJ, Atkins MB, Hutson TE, Porta C, Verzoni E, Needle MN, McDermott DF. Tivozanib versus sorafenib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (TIVO-3): a phase 3, multicentre, randomised, controlled, open-label study. Lancet Oncol. 2019. PubMed
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  • Clark JI, Mehrabi J, Sosman JA, Logan TF, Margolin KA, Dutcher JP, Urba WJ, Ernstoff MS, McDermott DF, Lau AM, Atkins MB. Phase I/II trial of outpatient PEG-interferon with interleukin-2 in advanced renal cell carcinoma: a cytokine working group study. J Immunother 2007; 30:839-46. PubMed
  • Chandrakantan A, McDermott DH, Tran HT, Jurewicz M, Gallon L, Gaston R, Milford E, Abdi R. Role of beta3 integrin in acute renal allograft rejection in humans. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2007; 2:1268-73. PubMed
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