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Ana C. Anderson, PhD

Brigham And Women's Hospital

Brigham And Women's Hospital
Phone: (617) 525-5850


aanderson@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Ana C. Anderson, PhD

Brigham And Women's Hospital

EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Professor, Neurology, Harvard Medical School
  • Associate Scientist, Neurology, Brigham And Women's Hospital

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  • Anderson AC, Acharya N. Steroid hormone regulation of immune responses in cancer. Immunometabolism (Cobham) 2022; 4:e00012. PubMed
  • Pawlak M, DeTomaso D, Schnell A, Meyer Zu Horste G, Lee Y, Nyman J, Dionne D, Regan BML, Singh V, Delorey T, Schramm MA, Wang C, Wallrapp A, Burkett PR, Riesenfeld SJ, Anderson AC, Regev A, Xavier RJ, Yosef N, Kuchroo VK. Induction of a colitogenic phenotype in Th1-like cells depends on interleukin-23 receptor signaling. Immunity 2022; 55:1663-1679.e6. PubMed
  • Tooley KA, Escobar G, Anderson AC. Spatial determinants of CD8 T cell differentiation in cancer. Trends Cancer 2022. PubMed
  • Pagliano O, Morrison RM, Chauvin JM, Banerjee H, Davar D, Ding Q, Tanegashima T, Gao W, Chakka SR, DeBlasio R, Lowin A, Kara K, Ka M, Zidi B, Amin R, Raphael I, Zhang S, Watkins SC, Sander C, Kirkwood JM, Bosenberg M, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK, Kane LP, Korman AJ, Rajpal A, West SM, Han M, Bee C, Deng X, Schebye XM, Strop P, Zarour HM. Tim-3 mediates T cell trogocytosis to limit antitumor immunity. J Clin Invest 2022. PubMed
  • Tang R, Acharya N, Subramanian A, Purohit V, Tabaka M, Hou Y, He D, Dixon KO, Lambden C, Xia J, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Sobel RA, Wang C, Regev A, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK. Tim-3 adapter protein Bat3 acts as an endogenous regulator of tolerogenic dendritic cell function. Sci Immunol 2022; 7:eabm0631. PubMed
  • Klapholz M, Drage MG, Srivastava A, Anderson AC. Presence of Tim3 and PD-1 CD8 T cells identifies microsatellite stable colorectal carcinomas with immune exhaustion and distinct clinicopathological features. J Pathol 2022. PubMed
  • Pelka K, Hofree M, Chen JH, Sarkizova S, Pirl JD, Jorgji V, Bejnood A, Dionne D, Ge WH, Xu KH, Chao SX, Zollinger DR, Lieb DJ, Reeves JW, Fuhrman CA, Hoang ML, Delorey T, Nguyen LT, Waldman J, Klapholz M, Wakiro I, Cohen O, Albers J, Smillie CS, Cuoco MS, Wu J, Su MJ, Yeung J, Vijaykumar B, Magnuson AM, Asinovski N, Moll T, Goder-Reiser MN, Applebaum AS, Brais LK, DelloStritto LK, Denning SL, Phillips ST, Hill EK, Meehan JK, Frederick DT, Sharova T, Kanodia A, Todres EZ, Jané-Valbuena J, Biton M, Izar B, Lambden CD, Clancy TE, Bleday R, Melnitchouk N, Irani J, Kunitake H, Berger DL, Srivastava A, Hornick JL, Ogino S, Rotem A, Vigneau S, Johnson BE, Corcoran RB, Sharpe AH, Kuchroo VK, Ng K, Giannakis M, Nieman LT, Boland GM, Aguirre AJ, Anderson AC, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Regev A, Hacohen N. Spatially organized multicellular immune hubs in human colorectal cancer. Cell 2021; 184:4734-4752.e20. PubMed
  • Dixon KO, Tabaka M, Schramm MA, Xiao S, Tang R, Dionne D, Anderson AC, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Regev A, Kuchroo VK. TIM-3 restrains anti-tumour immunity by regulating inflammasome activation. Nature 2021. PubMed
  • Chen B, Scurrah CR, McKinley ET, Simmons AJ, Ramirez-Solano MA, Zhu X, Markham NO, Heiser CN, Vega PN, Rolong A, Kim H, Sheng Q, Drewes JL, Zhou Y, Southard-Smith AN, Xu Y, Ro J, Jones AL, Revetta F, Berry LD, Niitsu H, Islam M, Pelka K, Hofree M, Chen JH, Sarkizova S, Ng K, Giannakis M, Boland GM, Aguirre AJ, Anderson AC, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Regev A, Hacohen N, Kawasaki K, Sato T, Goettel JA, Grady WM, Zheng W, Washington MK, Cai Q, Sears CL, Goldenring JR, Franklin JL, Su T, Huh WJ, Vandekar S, Roland JT, Liu Q, Coffey RJ, Shrubsole MJ, Lau KS. Differential pre-malignant programs and microenvironment chart distinct paths to malignancy in human colorectal polyps. Cell 2021; 184:6262-6280.e26. PubMed
  • Zhang H, Madi A, Yosef N, Chihara N, Awasthi A, Pot C, Lambden C, Srivastava A, Burkett PR, Nyman J, Christian E, Etminan Y, Lee A, Stroh H, Xia J, Karwacz K, Thakore PI, Acharya N, Schnell A, Wang C, Apetoh L, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Anderson AC, Regev A, Kuchroo VK. An IL-27-Driven Transcriptional Network Identifies Regulators of IL-10 Expression across T Helper Cell Subsets. Cell Rep 2020; 33:108433. PubMed
  • Acharya N, Madi A, Zhang H, Klapholz M, Escobar G, Dulberg S, Christian E, Ferreira M, Dixon KO, Fell G, Tooley K, Mangani D, Xia J, Singer M, Bosenberg M, Neuberg D, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Regev A, Kuchroo VK, Anderson AC. Endogenous Glucocorticoid Signaling Regulates CD8 T Cell Differentiation and Development of Dysfunction in the Tumor Microenvironment. Immunity 2020; 53:658-671.e6. PubMed
  • Eskiocak U, Guzman W, Wolf B, Cummings C, Milling L, Wu HJ, Ophir M, Lambden C, Bakhru P, Gilmore DC, Ottinger S, Liu L, McConaughy WK, He SQ, Wang C, Leung CL, Lajoie J, Carson WF, Zizlsperger N, Schmidt MM, Anderson AC, Bobrowicz P, Schuetz TJ, Tighe R. Differentiated agonistic antibody targeting CD137 eradicates large tumors without hepatotoxicity. JCI Insight 2020. PubMed
  • Escobar G, Mangani D, Anderson AC. T cell factor 1: A master regulator of the T cell response in disease. Sci Immunol 2020. PubMed
  • Ascierto PA, Fox BA, Urba WJ, Anderson AC, Atkins MB, Borden EC, Brahmer JR, Butterfield LH, Cesano A, Chen DC, de Gruijl TD, Dillman RO, Drake CG, Emens LA, Gajewski TF, Gulley JL, Stephen Hodi FJ, Hwu P, Kaufman D, Kaufman HL, Lotze MT, McNeel DG, Margolin KM, Marincola FM, Mastrangelo MJ, Maus MV, Parkinson DR, Romero PJ, Sondel PM, Spranger S, Sznol M, Weiner GJ, Wigginton JM, Weber JS. Insights from immuno-oncology: the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Statement on access to IL-6-targeting therapies for COVID-19. J Immunother Cancer 2020. PubMed
  • Li XY, Moesta AK, Xiao C, Nakamura K, Casey M, Zhang H, Madore J, Lepletier A, Aguilera AR, Sundarrajan A, Jacoberger-Foissac C, Wong C, Dela Cruz T, Welch M, Lerner AG, Spatola BN, Soros VB, Corbin J, Anderson AC, Effern M, Hölzel M, Robson SC, Johnston RL, Waddell N, Smith C, Bald T, Geetha N, Beers C, Teng MWL, Smyth MJ. Targeting CD39 in Cancer Reveals an Extracellular ATP- and Inflammasome-Driven Tumor Immunity. 2019; 9:1754-1773. PubMed
  • Wolf Y, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK. TIM3 comes of age as an inhibitory receptor. Nat Rev Immunol 2019. PubMed
  • Singer M, Anderson AC. Revolutionizing Cancer Immunology: The Power of Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies. Cancer Immunol Res 2019; 7:168-173. PubMed
  • Kurtulus S, Madi A, Escobar G, Klapholz M, Nyman J, Christian E, Pawlak M, Dionne D, Xia J, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Kuchroo VK, Regev A, Anderson AC. Checkpoint Blockade Immunotherapy Induces Dynamic Changes in PD-1CD8 Tumor-Infiltrating T Cells. Immunity 2019; 50:181-194.e6. PubMed
  • Chihara N, Madi A, Kondo T, Zhang H, Acharya N, Singer M, Nyman J, Marjanovic ND, Kowalczyk MS, Wang C, Kurtulus S, Law T, Etminan Y, Nevin J, Buckley CD, Burkett PR, Buenrostro JD, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Anderson AC, Regev A, Kuchroo VK. Induction and transcriptional regulation of the co-inhibitory gene module in T cells. Nature 2018; 558:454-459. PubMed
  • Nakashima H, Nguyen T, Kasai K, Passaro C, Ito H, Goins WF, Shaikh I, Erdelyi R, Nishihara R, Nakano I, Reardon DA, Anderson AC, Kuchroo V, Chiocca EA. Toxicity and efficacy of a novel GADD34-expressing oncolytic HSV-1 for the treatment of experimental glioblastoma. Clin Cancer Res 2018. PubMed
  • Dixon KO, Schorer M, Nevin J, Etminan Y, Amoozgar Z, Kondo T, Kurtulus S, Kassam N, Sobel RA, Fukumura D, Jain RK, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK, Joller N. Functional Anti-TIGIT Antibodies Regulate Development of Autoimmunity and Antitumor Immunity. J Immunol 2018. PubMed
  • Sabatos-Peyton CA, Nevin J, Brock A, Venable JD, Tan DJ, Kassam N, Xu F, Taraszka J, Wesemann L, Pertel T, Acharya N, Klapholz M, Etminan Y, Jiang X, Huang YH, Blumberg RS, Kuchroo VK, Anderson AC. Blockade of Tim-3 binding to phosphatidylserine and CEACAM1 is a shared feature of anti-Tim-3 antibodies that have functional efficacy. Oncoimmunology 2018; 7:e1385690. PubMed
  • Wang C, Singer M, Anderson AC. Molecular Dissection of CD8(+) T-Cell Dysfunction. Trends Immunol 2017. PubMed
  • Dougall WC, Kurtulus S, Smyth MJ, Anderson AC. TIGIT and CD96: new checkpoint receptor targets for cancer immunotherapy. Immunol Rev 2017; 276:112-120. PubMed
  • Singer M, Wang C, Cong L, Marjanovic ND, Kowalczyk MS, Zhang H, Nyman J, Sakuishi K, Kurtulus S, Gennert D, Xia J, Kwon JY, Nevin J, Herbst RH, Yanai I, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Kuchroo VK, Regev A, Anderson AC. A Distinct Gene Module for Dysfunction Uncoupled from Activation in Tumor-Infiltrating T Cells. Cell 2016; 166:1500-1511.e9. PubMed
  • Kurtulus S, Sakuishi K, Ngiow SF, Joller N, Tan DJ, Teng MW, Smyth MJ, Kuchroo VK, Anderson AC. TIGIT predominantly regulates the immune response via regulatory T cells. J Clin Invest 2015. PubMed
  • Anderson AC, Sullivan JM, Tan DJ, Lee DH, Kuchroo VK. A T cell extrinsic mechanism by which IL-2 dampens Th17 differentiation. J Autoimmun 2015. PubMed
  • Huang YH, Zhu C, Kondo Y, Anderson AC, Gandhi A, Russell A, Dougan SK, Petersen BS, Melum E, Pertel T, Clayton KL, Raab M, Chen Q, Beauchemin N, Yazaki PJ, Pyzik M, Ostrowski MA, Glickman JN, Rudd CE, Ploegh HL, Franke A, Petsko GA, Kuchroo VK, Blumberg RS. CEACAM1 regulates TIM-3-mediated tolerance and exhaustion. Nature 2015; 517:386-90. PubMed
  • Zhu C, Sakuishi K, Xiao S, Sun Z, Zaghouani S, Gu G, Wang C, Tan DJ, Wu C, Rangachari M, Pertel T, Jin HT, Ahmed R, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK. An IL-27/NFIL3 signalling axis drives Tim-3 and IL-10 expression and T-cell dysfunction. Nat Commun 2015; 6:6072. PubMed
  • Kuchroo VK, Anderson AC, Petrovas C. Coinhibitory receptors and CD8 T cell exhaustion in chronic infections. Curr Opin HIV AIDS 2014; 9:439-45. PubMed
  • Wu C, Thalhamer T, Franca RF, Xiao S, Wang C, Hotta C, Zhu C, Hirashima M, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK. Galectin-9-CD44 interaction enhances stability and function of adaptive regulatory T cells. Immunity 2014; 41:270-82. PubMed
  • Anderson AC. Tim-3: an emerging target in the cancer immunotherapy landscape. Cancer Immunol Res 2014; 2:393-8. PubMed
  • da Silva IP, Gallois A, Jimenez-Baranda S, Khan S, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK, Osman I, Bhardwaj N. Reversal of NK-cell exhaustion in advanced melanoma by Tim-3 blockade. Cancer Immunol Res 2014; 2:410-22. PubMed
  • Fourcade J, Sun Z, Pagliano O, Chauvin JM, Sander C, Janjic B, Tarhini AA, Tawbi HA, Kirkwood JM, Moschos S, Wang H, Guillaume P, Luescher IF, Krieg A, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK, Zarour HM. PD-1 and Tim-3 regulate the expansion of tumor antigen-specific CD8⁺ T cells induced by melanoma vaccines. Cancer Res 2014; 74:1045-55. PubMed
  • Jayaraman P, Sada-Ovalle I, Nishimura T, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK, Remold HG, Behar SM. IL-1β promotes antimicrobial immunity in macrophages by regulating TNFR signaling and caspase-3 activation. J Immunol 2013; 190:4196-204. PubMed
  • Sakuishi K, Ngiow SF, Sullivan JM, Teng MW, Kuchroo VK, Smyth MJ, Anderson AC. TIM3(+)FOXP3(+) regulatory T cells are tissue-specific promoters of T-cell dysfunction in cancer. Oncoimmunology 2013; 2:e23849. PubMed
  • Rangachari M, Zhu C, Sakuishi K, Xiao S, Karman J, Chen A, Angin M, Wakeham A, Greenfield EA, Sobel RA, Okada H, McKinnon PJ, Mak TW, Addo MM, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK. Bat3 promotes T cell responses and autoimmunity by repressing Tim-3–mediated cell death and exhaustion. Nat Med 2012; 18:1394-400. PubMed
  • Veenstra RG, Taylor PA, Zhou Q, Panoskaltsis-Mortari A, Hirashima M, Flynn R, Liu D, Anderson AC, Strom TB, Kuchroo VK, Blazar BR. Contrasting acute graft-versus-host disease effects of Tim-3/galectin-9 pathway blockade dependent upon the presence of donor regulatory T cells. Blood 2012; 120:682-90. PubMed
  • Zhou Q, Munger ME, Veenstra RG, Weigel BJ, Hirashima M, Munn DH, Murphy WJ, Azuma M, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK, Blazar BR. Coexpression of Tim-3 and PD-1 identifies a CD8+ T-cell exhaustion phenotype in mice with disseminated acute myelogenous leukemia. Blood 2011; 117:4501-10. PubMed
  • Sakuishi K, Apetoh L, Sullivan JM, Blazar BR, Kuchroo VK, Anderson AC. Targeting Tim-3 and PD-1 pathways to reverse T cell exhaustion and restore anti-tumor immunity. J Exp Med 2010; 207:2187-94. PubMed
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