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Anat O. Stemmer-Rachamimov, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital
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Anat O. Stemmer-Rachamimov, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital

EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Associate Professor, Pathology, Harvard Medical School
  • Physician, Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital

DF/HCC PROGRAM AFFILIATION

Research Abstract

My research focuses on the pathology of hereditary brain tumor syndromes, specifically Neurofibromatosis 2 and Tuberous Sclerosis. I am interested in the histopathology of the different lesions encounters in these disease, hamartomas and frank tumors, and on studying how the pathological spectrum correlates with protein expression and mutations of affected genes.

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  • Jordan JT, Orr CC, Thalheimer RD, Cambillo JV, Beauchamp RL, Shaikh G, Muzikansky A, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Giovannini M, Kalamarides M, Barker FG, Ramesh V, Plotkin SR. Prospective phase II trial of the dual mTORC1/2 inhibitor vistusertib for progressive or symptomatic meningiomas in persons with neurofibromatosis 2. 2023; 5:vdad041. PubMed
  • Siegele BJ, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Lilljebjorn H, Fioretos T, Winters AC, Dal Cin P, Treece A, Gaskell A, Nardi V. N-terminus DUX4-immunohistochemistry is a reliable methodology for the diagnosis of DUX4-fused B-lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma (N-terminus DUX4 IHC for DUX4-fused B-ALL). Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2022. PubMed
  • Freeman SS, Sade-Feldman M, Kim J, Stewart C, Gonye ALK, Ravi A, Arniella MB, Gushterova I, LaSalle TJ, Blaum EM, Yizhak K, Frederick DT, Sharova T, Leshchiner I, Elagina L, Spiro OG, Livitz D, Rosebrock D, Aguet F, Carrot-Zhang J, Ha G, Lin Z, Chen JH, Barzily-Rokni M, Hammond MR, Vitzthum von Eckstaedt HC, Blackmon SM, Jiao YJ, Gabriel S, Lawrence DP, Duncan LM, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Wargo JA, Flaherty KT, Sullivan RJ, Boland GM, Meyerson M, Getz G, Hacohen N. Combined tumor and immune signals from genomes or transcriptomes predict outcomes of checkpoint inhibition in melanoma. Cell Rep Med 2022; 3:100500. PubMed
  • Kukutla P, Ahmed SG, DuBreuil DM, Abdelnabi A, Cetinbas M, Fulci G, Aldikacti B, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Plotkin SR, Wainger B, Sadreyev RI, Brenner GJ. Transcriptomic signature of painful human neurofibromatosis type 2 schwannomas. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2021. PubMed
  • Shepherd DJ, Miller TE, Forst DA, Jones P, Nardi V, Martinez-Lage M, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Gonzalez RG, Iafrate AJ, Ritterhouse LL. Mosaicism for Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Activation in a Glioblastoma Involving Both PDGFRA Amplification and NTRK2 Fusion. Oncologist 2021. PubMed
  • Chang LS, Oblinger JL, Smith AE, Ferrer M, Angus SP, Hawley E, Petrilli AM, Beauchamp RL, Riecken LB, Erdin S, Poi M, Huang J, Bessler WK, Zhang X, Guha R, Thomas C, Burns SS, Gilbert TSK, Jiang L, Li X, Lu Q, Yuan J, He Y, Dixon SAH, Masters A, Jones DR, Yates CW, Haggarty SJ, La Rosa S, Welling DB, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Plotkin SR, Gusella JF, Guinney J, Morrison H, Ramesh V, Fernandez-Valle C, Johnson GL, Blakeley JO, Clapp DW, . Brigatinib causes tumor shrinkage in both NF2-deficient meningioma and schwannoma through inhibition of multiple tyrosine kinases but not ALK. PLoS ONE 2021; 16:e0252048. PubMed
  • Goreshnik A, Serling-Boyd N, Theodore M, Champion S, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Sykes DB. A case of antisynthetase syndrome with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2020. PubMed
  • Richardson LG, Nieman LT, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Zheng XS, Stafford K, Nagashima H, Miller JJ, Kiyokawa J, Ting DT, Wakimoto H, Cahill DP, Choi BD, Curry WT. IDH-mutant gliomas harbor fewer regulatory T cells in humans and mice. Oncoimmunology 2020; 9:1806662. PubMed
  • Ortonne N, Carroll SL, Rodriguez FJ, Miller DC, Nazarian RM, Blakeley JO, Madaj ZB, Verma SK, Stemmer-Rachamimov A. Assessing interobserver variability and accuracy in the histological diagnosis and classification of cutaneous neurofibromass. 2020; 2:i117-i123. PubMed
  • Li M, Li G, Kiyokawa J, Tirmizi Z, Richardson LG, Ning J, Das S, Martuza RL, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Rabkin SD, Wakimoto H. Characterization and oncolytic virus targeting of FAP-expressing tumor-associated pericytes in glioblastoma. Acta Neuropathol Commun 2020; 8:221. PubMed
  • Prabhakar S, Cheah PS, Zhang X, Zinter M, Gianatasio M, Hudry E, Bronson RT, Kwiatkowski DJ, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Maguire CA, Sena-Esteves M, Tannous BA, Breakefield XO. Long-Term Therapeutic Efficacy of Intravenous AAV-Mediated Hamartin Replacement in Mouse Model of Tuberous Sclerosis Type 1. Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev 2019; 15:18-26. PubMed
  • Sagers JE, Sahin MI, Moon I, Ahmed SG, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Brenner GJ, Stankovic KM. NLRP3 inflammasome activation in human vestibular schwannoma: Implications for tumor-induced hearing loss. Hear Res 2019; 381:107770. PubMed
  • Coy S, Rashid R, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Santagata S. An update on the CNS manifestations of neurofibromatosis type 2. Acta Neuropathol 2019. PubMed
  • Ahmed SG, Ahmed A, Maguire CA, Doha M, Sagers J, Lewis RM, Muzikansky A, Giovannini M, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Stankovic KM, Fulci G, Brenner GJ. Gene therapy with apoptosis-associated speck-like protein (ASC), a newly described schwannoma tumor suppressor, inhibits schwannoma growth in vivo. 2019. PubMed
  • Juratli TA, McCabe D, Nayyar N, Williams EA, Silverman IM, Tummala SS, Fink AL, Baig A, Martinez-Lage M, Selig MK, Bihun IV, Shankar GM, Penson T, Lastrapes M, Daubner D, Meinhardt M, Hennig S, Kaplan AB, Fujio S, Kuter BM, Bertalan MS, Miller JJ, Batten JM, Ely HA, Christiansen J, Baretton GB, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Santagata S, Rivera MN, Barker FG, Schackert G, Wakimoto H, Iafrate AJ, Carter SL, Cahill DP, Brastianos PK. DMD genomic deletions characterize a subset of progressive/higher-grade meningiomas with poor outcome. Acta Neuropathol 2018. PubMed
  • Angus SP, Oblinger JL, Stuhlmiller TJ, DeSouza PA, Beauchamp RL, Witt L, Chen X, Jordan JT, Gilbert TSK, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Gusella JF, Plotkin SR, Haggarty SJ, Chang LS, Johnson GL, Ramesh V, . EPH receptor signaling as a novel therapeutic target in NF2-deficient meningioma. 2018; 20:1185-1196. PubMed
  • Ortonne N, Wolkenstein P, Blakeley JO, Korf B, Plotkin SR, Riccardi VM, Miller DC, Huson S, Peltonen J, Rosenberg A, Carroll SL, Verma SK, Mautner V, Upadhyaya M, Stemmer-Rachamimov A. Cutaneous neurofibromas: Current clinical and pathologic issues. Neurology 2018; 91:S5-S13. PubMed
  • Griveau A, Seano G, Shelton SJ, Kupp R, Jahangiri A, Obernier K, Krishnan S, Lindberg OR, Yuen TJ, Tien AC, Sabo JK, Wang N, Chen I, Kloepper J, Larrouquere L, Ghosh M, Tirosh I, Huillard E, Alvarez-Buylla A, Oldham MC, Persson AI, Weiss WA, Batchelor TT, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Suvà ML, Phillips JJ, Aghi MK, Mehta S, Jain RK, Rowitch DH. A Glial Signature and Wnt7 Signaling Regulate Glioma-Vascular Interactions and Tumor Microenvironment. Cancer Cell 2018; 33:874-889.e7. PubMed
  • Zhao Y, Liu P, Zhang N, Chen J, Landegger LD, Wu L, Zhao F, Zhao Y, Zhang Y, Zhang J, Fujita T, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Ferraro GB, Liu H, Muzikansky A, Plotkin SR, Stankovic KM, Jain RK, Xu L. Targeting the cMET pathway augments radiation response without adverse effect on hearing in NF2 schwannoma models. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:E2077-E2084. PubMed
  • Wu LMN, Deng Y, Wang J, Zhao C, Wang J, Rao R, Xu L, Zhou W, Choi K, Rizvi TA, Remke M, Rubin JB, Johnson RL, Carroll TJ, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Wu J, Zheng Y, Xin M, Ratner N, Lu QR. Programming of Schwann Cells by Lats1/2-TAZ/YAP Signaling Drives Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumorigenesis. Cancer Cell 2018; 33:292-308.e7. PubMed
  • , Allaway R, Angus SP, Beauchamp RL, Blakeley JO, Bott M, Burns SS, Carlstedt A, Chang LS, Chen X, Clapp DW, Desouza PA, Erdin S, Fernandez-Valle C, Guinney J, Gusella JF, Haggarty SJ, Johnson GL, La Rosa S, Morrison H, Petrilli AM, Plotkin SR, Pratap A, Ramesh V, Sciaky N, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Stuhlmiller TJ, Talkowski ME, Welling DB, Yates CW, Zawistowski JS, Zhao WN. Traditional and systems biology based drug discovery for the rare tumor syndrome neurofibromatosis type 2. PLoS ONE 2018; 13:e0197350. PubMed
  • Isakson SH, Rizzardi AE, Coutts AW, Carlson DF, Kirstein MN, Fisher J, Vitte J, Williams KB, Pluhar GE, Dahiya S, Widemann BC, Dombi E, Rizvi T, Ratner N, Messiaen L, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Fahrenkrug SC, Gutmann DH, Giovannini M, Moertel CL, Largaespada DA, Watson AL. Genetically engineered minipigs model the major clinical features of human neurofibromatosis type 1. Commun Biol 2018; 1:158. PubMed
  • Jenkins RW, Aref AR, Lizotte PH, Ivanova E, Stinson S, Zhou CW, Bowden M, Deng J, Liu H, Miao D, He MX, Walker W, Zhang G, Tian T, Cheng C, Wei Z, Palakurthi S, Bittinger M, Vitzthum H, Kim JW, Merlino A, Quinn M, Venkataramani C, Kaplan JA, Portell A, Gokhale PC, Phillips B, Smart A, Rotem A, Jones RE, Keogh L, Anguiano M, Stapleton L, Jia Z, Barzily-Rokni M, Cañadas I, Thai TC, Hammond MR, Vlahos R, Wang ES, Zhang H, Li S, Hanna GJ, Huang W, Hoang MP, Piris A, Eliane JP, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Cameron L, Su MJ, Shah P, Izar B, Thakuria M, LeBoeuf NR, Rabinowits G, Gunda V, Parangi S, Cleary JM, Miller BC, Kitajima S, Thummalapalli R, Miao B, Barbie TU, Sivathanu V, Wong J, Richards WG, Bueno R, Yoon CH, Miret J, Herlyn M, Garraway LA, Van Allen EM, Freeman GJ, Kirschmeier PT, Lorch JH, Ott PA, Hodi FS, Flaherty KT, Kamm RD, Boland GM, Wong KK, Dornan D, Paweletz CP, Barbie DA. Ex Vivo Profiling of PD-1 Blockade Using Organotypic Tumor Spheroids. 2017. PubMed
  • Sade-Feldman M, Jiao YJ, Chen JH, Rooney MS, Barzily-Rokni M, Eliane JP, Bjorgaard SL, Hammond MR, Vitzthum H, Blackmon SM, Frederick DT, Hazar-Rethinam M, Nadres BA, Van Seventer EE, Shukla SA, Yizhak K, Ray JP, Rosebrock D, Livitz D, Adalsteinsson V, Getz G, Duncan LM, Li B, Corcoran RB, Lawrence DP, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Boland GM, Landau DA, Flaherty KT, Sullivan RJ, Hacohen N. Resistance to checkpoint blockade therapy through inactivation of antigen presentation. Nat Commun 2017; 8:1136. PubMed
  • Zhang N, Chen J, Ferraro G, Wu L, Datta M, Jain RK, Plotkin SR, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Xu L. Anti-VEGF treatment improves neurological function in tumors of the nervous system. Exp Neurol 2017. PubMed
  • Kim D, Niemierko A, Hwang WL, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Curry WT, Barker FG, Martuza RL, Oh KS, Loeffler JS, Shih HA. Histopathological prognostic factors of recurrence following definitive therapy for atypical and malignant meningiomas. J Neurosurg 2017. PubMed
  • Blakeley JO, Bakker A, Barker A, Clapp W, Ferner R, Fisher MJ, Giovannini M, Gutmann DH, Karajannis MA, Kissil JL, Legius E, Lloyd AC, Packer RJ, Ramesh V, Riccardi VM, Stevenson DA, Ullrich NJ, Upadhyaya M, Stemmer-Rachamimov A. The path forward: 2015 International Children's Tumor Foundation conference on neurofibromatosis type 1, type 2, and schwannomatosis. Am J Med Genet A 2017; 173:1714-1721. PubMed
  • Okazaki A, Gameiro PA, Christodoulou D, Laviollette L, Schneider M, Chaves F, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Yazinski SA, Lee R, Stephanopoulos G, Zou L, Iliopoulos O. Glutaminase and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors suppress pyrimidine synthesis and VHL-deficient renal cancers. J Clin Invest 2017. PubMed
  • Bi WL, Greenwald NF, Abedalthagafi M, Wala J, Gibson WJ, Agarwalla PK, Horowitz P, Schumacher SE, Esaulova E, Mei Y, Chevalier A, Ducar M, Thorner AR, van Hummelen P, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Artyomov M, Al-Mefty O, Dunn GP, Santagata S, Dunn IF, Beroukhim R. Genomic landscape of high-grade meningiomas. NPJ Genom Med 2017. PubMed
  • Kim DW, Niemierko A, Hwang W, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Curry WT, Barker FG, Martuza R, Loeffler JS, Oh KS, Shih HA. Histopathologic Prognostic Factors of Recurrence Following Surgery and Radiation Therapy for Atypical and Malignant Meningiomas. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2016; 96:E80. PubMed
  • Hanemann CO, Blakeley JO, Nunes FP, Robertson K, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Mautner V, Kurtz A, Ferguson M, Widemann BC, Evans DG, Ferner R, Carroll SL, Korf B, Wolkenstein P, Knight P, Plotkin SR, . Current status and recommendations for biomarkers and biobanking in neurofibromatosis. Neurology 2016; 87:S40-8. PubMed
  • Lu F, Chen Y, Zhao C, Wang H, He D, Xu L, Wang J, He X, Deng Y, Lu EE, Liu X, Verma R, Bu H, Drissi R, Fouladi M, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Burns D, Xin M, Rubin JB, Bahassi el M, Canoll P, Holland EC, Lu QR. Olig2-Dependent Reciprocal Shift in PDGF and EGF Receptor Signaling Regulates Tumor Phenotype and Mitotic Growth in Malignant Glioma. Cancer Cell 2016; 29:669-83. PubMed
  • Nigim F, Esaki SI, Hood M, Lelic N, James MF, Ramesh V, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Cahill DP, Brastianos PK, Rabkin SD, Martuza RL, Wakimoto H. A new patient-derived orthotopic malignant meningioma model treated with oncolytic herpes simplex virus. 2016. PubMed
  • Wu J, Keng VW, Patmore DM, Kendall JJ, Patel AV, Jousma E, Jessen WJ, Choi K, Tschida BR, Silverstein KA, Fan D, Schwartz EB, Fuchs JR, Zou Y, Kim MO, Dombi E, Levy DE, Huang G, Cancelas JA, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Spinner RJ, Largaespada DA, Ratner N. Insertional Mutagenesis Identifies a STAT3/Arid1b/β-catenin Pathway Driving Neurofibroma Initiation. Cell Rep 2016; 14:1979-90. PubMed
  • Flavahan WA, Drier Y, Liau BB, Gillespie SM, Venteicher AS, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Suvà ML, Bernstein BE. Insulator dysfunction and oncogene activation in IDH mutant gliomas. Nature 2016; 529:110-4. PubMed
  • van der Vos KE, Abels ER, Zhang X, Lai C, Carrizosa E, Oakley D, Prabhakar S, Mardini O, Crommentuijn MH, Skog J, Krichevsky AM, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Mempel TR, El Khoury J, Hickman SE, Breakefield XO. Directly visualized glioblastoma-derived extracellular vesicles transfer RNA to microglia/macrophages in the brain. 2016; 18:58-69. PubMed
  • Gao X, Zhao Y, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Liu H, Huang P, Chin S, Selig MK, Plotkin SR, Jain RK, Xu L. Anti-VEGF treatment improves neurological function and augments radiation response in NF2 schwannoma model. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:14676-81. PubMed
  • Hwang WL, Marciscano AE, Niemierko A, Kim DW, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Curry WT, Barker FG, Martuza RL, Loeffler JS, Oh KS, Shih HA, Larvie M. Imaging and extent of surgical resection predict risk of meningioma recurrence better than WHO histopathological grade. 2015. PubMed
  • Brastianos PK, Carter SL, Santagata S, Cahill DP, Taylor-Weiner A, Jones RT, Van Allen EM, Lawrence MS, Horowitz PM, Cibulskis K, Ligon KL, Tabernero J, Seoane J, Martinez-Saez E, Curry WT, Dunn IF, Paek SH, Park SH, McKenna A, Chevalier A, Rosenberg M, Barker FG, Gill CM, Van Hummelen P, Thorner AR, Johnson BE, Hoang MP, Choueiri TK, Signoretti S, Sougnez C, Rabin MS, Lin NU, Winer EP, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Meyerson M, Garraway L, Gabriel S, Lander ES, Beroukhim R, Batchelor TT, Baselga J, Louis DN, Getz G, Hahn WC. Genomic Characterization of Brain Metastases Reveals Branched Evolution and Potential Therapeutic Targets. 2015. PubMed
  • Marciscano AE, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Niemierko A, Larvie M, Curry WT, Barker FG, Martuza RL, McGuone D, Oh KS, Loeffler JS, Shih HA. Benign meningiomas (WHO Grade I) with atypical histological features: correlation of histopathological features with clinical outcomes. J Neurosurg 2015. PubMed
  • Stivaros SM, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Alston R, Plotkin SR, Nadol JB, Quesnel A, O'Malley J, Whitfield GA, McCabe MG, Freeman SR, Lloyd SK, Wright NB, Kilday JP, Kamaly-Asl ID, Mills SJ, Rutherford SA, King AT, Evans DG. Multiple synchronous sites of origin of vestibular schwannomas in neurofibromatosis Type 2. J Med Genet 2015. PubMed
  • Redjal N, Agarwalla PK, Dietrich J, Dinevski N, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Nahed BV, Loeffler JS. Remote acute demyelination after focal proton radiation therapy for optic nerve meningioma. J Clin Neurosci 2015; 22:1367-9. PubMed
  • Shankar GM, Francis JM, Rinne ML, Ramkissoon SH, Huang FW, Venteicher AS, Akama-Garren EH, Kang YJ, Lelic N, Kim JC, Brown LE, Charbonneau SK, Golby AJ, Sekhar Pedamallu C, Hoang MP, Sullivan RJ, Cherniack AD, Garraway LA, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Reardon DA, Wen PY, Brastianos PK, Curry WT, Barker FG, Hahn WC, Nahed BV, Ligon KL, Louis DN, Cahill DP, Meyerson M. Rapid Intraoperative Molecular Characterization of Glioma. JAMA Oncol 2015. PubMed
  • Beauchamp RL, James MF, DeSouza PA, Wagh V, Zhao WN, Jordan JT, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Plotkin SR, Gusella JF, Haggarty SJ, Ramesh V. A high-throughput kinome screen reveals serum/glucocorticoid-regulated kinase 1 as a therapeutic target for NF2-deficient meningiomas. 2015; 6:16981-97. PubMed
  • Plotkin SR, Albers AC, Babovic-Vuksanovic D, Blakeley JO, Breakefield XO, Dunn CM, Evans DG, Fisher MJ, Friedman JM, Giovannini M, Gutmann DH, Kalamarides M, McClatchey AI, Messiaen L, Morrison H, Parkinson DB, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Van Raamsdonk CD, Riccardi VM, Rosser T, Schindeler A, Smith MJ, Stevenson DA, Ullrich NJ, van der Vaart T, Weiss B, Widemann BC, Zhu Y, Bakker AC, Lloyd AC. Update from the 2013 International Neurofibromatosis Conference. Am J Med Genet A 2014. PubMed
  • Antoszczyk S, Spyra M, Mautner VF, Kurtz A, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Martuza RL, Rabkin SD. Treatment of orthotopic malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors with oncolytic herpes simplex virus. 2014. PubMed
  • Pier DB, Nunes FP, Plotkin SR, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Kim JC, Shih HA, Brastianos P, Lin AE. Turner syndrome and meningioma: support for a possible increased risk of neoplasia in Turner syndrome. Eur J Med Genet 2014. PubMed
  • Shankar GM, Taylor-Weiner A, Lelic N, Jones RT, Kim JC, Francis JM, Abedalthagafi M, Borges LF, Coumans JV, Curry WT, Nahed BV, Shin JH, Paek SH, Park SH, Stewart C, Lawrence MS, Cibulskis K, Thorner AR, Van Hummelen P, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Batchelor TT, Carter SL, Hoang MP, Santagata S, Louis DN, Barker FG, Meyerson M, Getz G, Brastianos PK, Cahill DP. Sporadic hemangioblastomas are characterized by cryptic VHL inactivation. Acta Neuropathol Commun 2014; 2:167. PubMed
  • Mayes DA, Rizvi TA, Titus-Mitchell H, Oberst R, Ciraolo GM, Vorhees CV, Robinson AP, Miller SD, Cancelas JA, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Ratner N. Nf1 loss and Ras hyperactivation in oligodendrocytes induce NOS-driven defects in myelin and vasculature. Cell Rep 2013; 4:1197-212. PubMed
  • Lu-Emerson C, Snuderl M, Kirkpatrick ND, Goveia J, Davidson C, Huang Y, Riedemann L, Taylor J, Ivy P, Duda DG, Ancukiewicz M, Plotkin SR, Chi AS, Gerstner ER, Eichler AF, Dietrich J, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Batchelor TT, Jain RK. Increase in tumor-associated macrophages after antiangiogenic therapy is associated with poor survival among patients with recurrent glioblastoma. 2013; 15:1079-87. PubMed
  • Zhang W, Fulci G, Wakimoto H, Cheema TA, Buhrman JS, Jeyaretna DS, Stemmer Rachamimov AO, Rabkin SD, Martuza RL. Combination of oncolytic herpes simplex viruses armed with angiostatin and IL-12 enhances antitumor efficacy in human glioblastoma models. Neoplasia 2013; 15:591-9. PubMed
  • Las Heras F, Martuza R, Caruso P, Rincon S, Stemmer-Rachamimov A. 24-year-old woman with an internal auditory canal mass. Hybrid peripheral nerve sheath tumor with schwannoma/perineurioma components. Brain Pathol 2013; 23:361-2. PubMed
  • Plotkin SR, Blakeley JO, Evans DG, Hanemann CO, Hulsebos TJ, Hunter-Schaedle K, Kalpana GV, Korf B, Messiaen L, Papi L, Ratner N, Sherman LS, Smith MJ, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Vitte J, Giovannini M. Update from the 2011 International Schwannomatosis Workshop: From genetics to diagnostic criteria. Am J Med Genet A 2013; 161:405-16. PubMed
  • Brastianos PK, Horowitz PM, Santagata S, Jones RT, McKenna A, Getz G, Ligon KL, Palescandolo E, Van Hummelen P, Ducar MD, Raza A, Sunkavalli A, Macconaill LE, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Louis DN, Hahn WC, Dunn IF, Beroukhim R. Genomic sequencing of meningiomas identifies oncogenic SMO and AKT1 mutations. Nat Genet 2013; 45:285-9. PubMed
  • Prabhakar S, Taherian M, Gianni D, Conlon TJ, Fulci G, Brockmann J, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Sena-Esteves M, Breakefield XO, Brenner GJ. Regression of schwannomas induced by adeno-associated virus-mediated delivery of caspase-1. Hum Gene Ther 2013; 24:152-62. PubMed
  • Nunes FP, Merker VL, Jennings D, Caruso PA, di Tomaso E, Muzikansky A, Barker FG, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Plotkin SR. Bevacizumab treatment for meningiomas in NF2: a retrospective analysis of 15 patients. PLoS ONE 2013; 8:e59941. PubMed
  • Prabhakar S, Goto J, Zhang X, Sena-Esteves M, Bronson R, Brockmann J, Gianni D, Wojtkiewicz GR, Chen JW, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Kwiatkowski DJ, Breakefield XO. Correction: Stochastic Model of Tsc1 Lesions in Mouse Brain. PLoS ONE 2013. PubMed
  • Smith MJ, Walker JA, Shen Y, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Gusella JF, Plotkin SR. Expression of SMARCB1 (INI1) mutations in familial schwannomatosis. Hum Mol Genet 2012; 21:5239-45. PubMed
  • Fleming AJ, Hukin J, Rassekh R, Fryer C, Kim J, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Birks DK, Huang A, Yip S, Dunham C. Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors (ATRTs): the British Columbia's Children's Hospital's experience, 1986-2006. Brain Pathol 2012; 22:625-35. PubMed
  • Huynh N, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Swearingen B, Cestari DM. Decreased vision and junctional scotoma from pituicytoma. Case Rep Ophthalmol 2012; 3:190-6. PubMed
  • Merker VL, Esparza S, Smith MJ, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Plotkin SR. Clinical features of schwannomatosis: a retrospective analysis of 87 patients. Oncologist 2012; 17:1317-22. PubMed
  • Jeyaretna DS, Curry WT, Batchelor TT, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Plotkin SR. Exacerbation of cerebral radiation necrosis by bevacizumab. J Clin Oncol 2011; 29:e159-62. PubMed
  • Saydam O, Senol O, Würdinger T, Mizrak A, Ozdener GB, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Yi M, Stephens RM, Krichevsky AM, Saydam N, Brenner GJ, Breakefield XO. miRNA-7 attenuation in Schwannoma tumors stimulates growth by upregulating three oncogenic signaling pathways. Cancer Res 2011; 71:852-61. PubMed
  • Saydam O, Ozdener GB, Senol O, Mizrak A, Prabhakar S, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Breakefield XO, Brenner GJ. A novel imaging-compatible sciatic nerve schwannoma model. J Neurosci Methods 2011; 195:75-7. PubMed
  • Rodriguez FJ, Scheithauer BW, George D, Midha R, Maccollin M, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO. Superficial neurofibromas in the setting of schwannomatosis: nosologic implications. Acta Neuropathol 2010. PubMed
  • Saydam O, Senol O, Schaaij-Visser TB, Pham TV, Piersma SR, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Wurdinger T, Peerdeman SM, Jimenez CR. Comparative protein profiling reveals minichromosome maintenance (MCM) proteins as novel potential tumor markers for meningiomas. J Proteome Res 2010; 9:485-94. PubMed
  • Saydam O, Shen Y, Würdinger T, Senol O, Boke E, James MF, Tannous BA, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Yi M, Stephens RM, Fraefel C, Gusella JF, Krichevsky AM, Breakefield XO. Downregulated microRNA-200a in meningiomas promotes tumor growth by reducing E-cadherin and activating the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway. Mol Cell Biol 2009; 29:5923-40. PubMed
  • James MF,Han S,Polizzano C,Plotkin SR,Manning BD,Stemmer-Rachamimov AO,Gusella JF,Ramesh V. NF2/Merlin is a Novel Negative Regulator of mTOR Complex 1 and Activation of mTORC1 is Associated with Meningioma and Schwannoma Growth. Mol Cell Biol 2009; 29:4250-61. PubMed
  • Stankovic KM, Mrugala MM, Martuza RL, Silver M, Betensky RA, Nadol JB, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO. Genetic determinants of hearing loss associated with vestibular schwannomas. Otol. Neurotol. 2009; 30:661-7. PubMed
  • Plotkin SR, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Barker FG, Halpin C, Padera TP, Tyrrell A, Sorensen AG, Jain RK, di Tomaso E. Hearing improvement after bevacizumab in patients with neurofibromatosis type 2. N Engl J Med 2009; 361:358-67. PubMed
  • McGillicuddy LT, Fromm JA, Hollstein PE, Kubek S, Beroukhim R, De Raedt T, Johnson BW, Williams SM, Nghiemphu P, Liau LM, Cloughesy TF, Mischel PS, Parret A, Seiler J, Moldenhauer G, Scheffzek K, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Sawyers CL, Brennan C, Messiaen L, Mellinghoff IK, Cichowski K. Proteasomal and genetic inactivation of the NF1 tumor suppressor in gliomagenesis. Cancer Cell 2009; 16:44-54. PubMed
  • Wakimoto H,Kesari S,Farrell CJ,Curry WT Jr,Zaupa C,Aghi M,Kuroda T,Stemmer-Rachamimov A,Shah K,Liu TC,Jeyaretna DS,Debasitis J,Pruszak J,Martuza RL,Rabkin SD. Human glioblastoma-derived cancer stem cells: establishment of invasive glioma models and treatment with oncolytic herpes simplex virus vectors. Cancer Res 2009; 69:3472-81. PubMed
  • Scheithauer BW,Swearingen B,Whyte ET,Auluck PK,Stemmer-Rachamimov AO. Ependymoma of the sella turcica: a variant of pituicytoma. Hum Pathol 2009; 40:435-40. PubMed
  • Chang Z,Guo CL,Ahronowitz I,Stemmer-Rachamimov AO,MacCollin M,Nunes FP. A role for the p53 pathway in the pathology of meningiomas with NF2 loss. J Neurooncol 2009; 91:265-70. PubMed
  • Shen Y, Nunes F, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, James M, Mohapatra G, Plotkin S, Betensky RA, Engler DA, Roy J, Ramesh V, Gusella JF. Genomic profiling distinguishes familial multiple and sporadic multiple meningiomas. BMC Med Genomics 2009; 2:42. PubMed
  • Jones GN,Tep C,Towns WH 2nd,Mihai G,Tonks ID,Kay GF,Schmalbrock PM,Stemmer-Rachamimov AO,Yoon SO,Kirschner LS. Tissue-specific ablation of Prkar1a causes schwannomas by suppressing neurofibromatosis protein production. Neoplasia 2008; 10:1213-21. PubMed
  • Maguire CA,Meijer DH,LeRoy SG,Tierney LA,Broekman ML,Costa FF,Breakefield XO,Stemmer-Rachamimov A,Sena-Esteves M. Preventing growth of brain tumors by creating a zone of resistance. Mol Ther 2008; 16:1695-702. PubMed
  • Patil S, Perry A, Maccollin M, Dong S, Betensky RA, Yeh TH, Gutmann DH, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO. Immunohistochemical Analysis Supports a Role for INI1/SMARCB1 in Hereditary Forms of Schwannomas, but Not in Solitary, Sporadic Schwannomas. Brain Pathol 2008; 18:517-9. PubMed
  • Snuderl M,Chi SN,De Santis SM,Stemmer-Rachamimov AO,Betensky RA,De Girolami U,Kieran MW. Prognostic value of tumor microinvasion and metalloproteinases expression in intracranial pediatric ependymomas. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 2008; 67:911-20. PubMed
  • Desantis SM, Houseman EA, Coull BA, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Betensky RA. A penalized latent class model for ordinal data. Biostatistics 2008; 9:249-62. PubMed
  • Wu J, Williams JP, Rizvi TA, Kordich JJ, Witte D, Meijer D, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Cancelas JA, Ratner N. Plexiform and dermal neurofibromas and pigmentation are caused by Nf1 loss in desert hedgehog-expressing cells. Cancer Cell 2008; 13:105-16. PubMed
  • Gabeau-Lacet D, Grant E, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Yock T, Tarbell NJ. Sellar abnormalities in female first-degree relatives. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 2008; 110:202-6. PubMed
  • James MF, Lelke JM, Maccollin M, Plotkin SR, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Ramesh V, Gusella JF. Modeling NF2 with human arachnoidal and meningioma cell culture systems: NF2 silencing reflects the benign character of tumor growth. Neurobiol Dis 2008; 29:278-92. PubMed
  • Huang S, Vader D, Wang Z, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Weitz DA, Dai G, Rosen BR, Deisboeck TS. Using magnetic resonance microscopy to study the growth dynamics of a glioma spheroid in collagen I: A case study. BMC Med Imaging 2008; 8:3. PubMed
  • Kalamarides M, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Takahashi M, Han ZY, Chareyre F, Niwa-Kawakita M, Black PM, Carroll RS, Giovannini M. Natural history of meningioma development in mice reveals: a synergy of Nf2 and p16(Ink4a) mutations. Brain Pathol 2008; 18:62-70. PubMed
  • Samuels MA, Gonzalez RG, Kim AY, Stemmer-Rachamimov A. Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 34-2007. A 77-year-old man with ear pain, difficulty speaking, and altered mental status. N Engl J Med 2007; 357:1957-65. PubMed
  • Fulci G, Dmitrieva N, Gianni D, Fontana EJ, Pan X, Lu Y, Kaufman CS, Kaur B, Lawler SE, Lee RJ, Marsh CB, Brat DJ, van Rooijen N, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Hochberg FH, Weissleder R, Martuza RL, Chiocca EA. Depletion of peripheral macrophages and brain microglia increases brain tumor titers of oncolytic viruses. Cancer Res 2007; 67:9398-406. PubMed
  • Lessell S, Kim JW, Hatton MP, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Thiagalingham S, Rubin PA. Clinical without histopathological manifestations of inflammation in a patient with primary intraorbital optic nerve sheath meningioma. J Neuroophthalmol 2007; 27:104-6. PubMed
  • Prabhakar S, Messerli SM, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Liu TC, Rabkin S, Martuza R, Breakefield XO. Treatment of Implantable NF2 Schwannoma Tumor Models with Oncolytic Herpes Simplex Virus G47Delta. Cancer Gene Ther 2007; 14:460-7. PubMed
  • O'Neill GN, Gonzalez RG, Cros DP, Ackerman RH, Brown RH, Stemmer-Rachamimov A. Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 22-2006--a 77-year-old man with a rapidly progressive gait disorder. N Engl J Med 2006; 355:296-304. PubMed
  • Brown AB, Mahmood U, Cortes ML, Tang Y, Dai G, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Prabhakar S, Leishear K, Onda H, Kwiatkowski D, Weissleder R, Breakefield X. Magnetic resonance imaging and characterization of spontaneous lesions in a transgenic mouse model of tuberous sclerosis as a model for endothelial cell-based transgene delivery. Hum Gene Ther 2005; 16:1367-76. PubMed
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