Melanoma Program

The DF/HCC Melanoma Program continues to drive discovery in the melanoma field. Its broad mission is to integrate discoveries in the laboratory with research initiatives in the clinic. The program emphasizes inter-institutional and transdisciplinary research interactions and collaborations, with publications and ongoing clinical trials as evidence of success. The Program’s deep laboratory backdrop provides a strong flow of clinical specimens for cutting-edge molecular characterization, often linked to clinical annotation.

Program members are national and international leaders in the study of preclinical and clinical aspects of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers, thus supporting the Program’s goal of contributing to the scientific agenda. Members are also leaders in the use of targeted signaling pathway antagonists and immunotherapeutic strategies for treatment of melanoma. Currently, there are more than 40 members in the Melanoma Program.

Recent Publications

  • Roider E, Lakatos AIT, McConnell AM, Wang P, Mueller A, Kawakami A, Tsoi J, Szabolcs BL, Ascsillán AA, Suita Y, Igras V, Lo JA, Hsiao JJ, Lapides R, Pál DMP, Lengyel AS, Navarini A, Okazaki A, Iliopoulos O, Németh I, Graeber TG, Zon L, Giese RW, Kemeny LV, Fisher DE. MITF regulates IDH1, NNT, and a transcriptional program protecting melanoma from reactive oxygen species. Sci Rep 2024; 14:21527. PubMed
  • Mooradian MJ, Fintelmann FJ, LaSalle TJ, Simon J, Graur A, Muzikansky A, Mino-Kenudson M, Shalhout S, Kaufman HL, Jenkins RW, Lawrence D, Lawless A, Sharova T, Uppot RN, Fang J, Blaum EM, Gonye ALK, Gushterova I, Boland GM, Azzoli C, Hacohen N, Sade-Feldman M, Sullivan RJ. Cryoablation and post-progression immune checkpoint inhibition in metastatic melanoma: a phase II trial. Nat Commun 2024; 15:7357. PubMed
  • Holzgruber J, Martins C, Kulcsar Z, Duplaine A, Rasbach E, Migayron L, Singh P, Statham E, Landsberg J, Boniface K, Seneschal J, Hoetzenecker W, Berdan EL, Ho Sui S, Ramsey MR, Barthel SR, Schatton T. Type I interferon signaling induces melanoma cell-intrinsic PD-1 and its inhibition antagonizes immune checkpoint blockade. Nat Commun 2024; 15:7165. PubMed
  • Samarkina A, Youssef MK, Ostano P, Ghosh S, Ma M, Tassone B, Proust T, Chiorino G, Levesque MP, Goruppi S, Dotto GP. Androgen receptor is a determinant of melanoma targeted drug resistance. Nat Commun 2023; 14:6498. PubMed
  • Ascierto PA, Dummer R, Gogas HJ, Arance A, Mandala M, Liszkay G, Garbe C, Schadendorf D, Krajsova I, Gutzmer R, Chiarion-Sileni V, Dutriaux C, de Groot JWB, Yamazaki N, Loquai C, Robert C, Flaherty KT. Contribution of MEK Inhibition to BRAF/MEK Inhibitor Combination Treatment of -Mutant Melanoma: Part 2 of the Randomized, Open-Label, Phase III COLUMBUS Trial. J Clin Oncol 2023. PubMed
  • Liang J, Yu D, Luo C, Bennett C, Jedrychowski M, Gygi SP, Widlund HR, Puigserver P. Epigenetic suppression of PGC1α (PPARGC1A) causes collateral sensitivity to HMGCR-inhibitors within BRAF-treatment resistant melanomas. Nat Commun 2023; 14:3251. PubMed
  • Sahu A, Wang X, Munson P, Klomp JPG, Wang X, Gu SS, Han Y, Qian G, Nicol P, Zeng Z, Wang C, Tokheim C, Zhang W, Fu J, Wang J, Nair NU, Rens JAP, Bourajjaj M, Jansen B, Leenders I, Lemmers J, Musters M, van Zanten S, van Zelst L, Worthington J, Liu JS, Juric D, Meyer CA, Oubrie A, Liu XS, Fisher DE, Flaherty KT. Discovery of Targets for Immune-Metabolic Antitumor Drugs Identifies Estrogen-Related Receptor Alpha. 2023; 13:672-701. PubMed
  • Ablain J, Al Mahi A, Rothschild H, Prasad M, Aires S, Yang S, Dokukin ME, Xu S, Dang M, Sokolov I, Lian CG, Zon LI. Loss of NECTIN1 triggers melanoma dissemination upon local IGF1 depletion. Nat Genet 2022. PubMed
  • Oliveira G, Stromhaug K, Cieri N, Iorgulescu JB, Klaeger S, Wolff JO, Rachimi S, Chea V, Krause K, Freeman SS, Zhang W, Li S, Braun DA, Neuberg D, Carr SA, Livak KJ, Frederick DT, Fritsch EF, Wind-Rotolo M, Hacohen N, Sade-Feldman M, Yoon CH, Keskin DB, Ott PA, Rodig SJ, Boland GM, Wu CJ. Landscape of helper and regulatory antitumour CD4 T cells in melanoma. Nature 2022; 605:532-538. PubMed
  • Nirmal AJ, Maliga Z, Vallius T, Quattrochi B, Chen AA, Jacobson CA, Pelletier RJ, Yapp C, Arias-Camison R, Chen YA, Lian CG, Murphy GF, Santagata S, Sorger PK. The spatial landscape of progression and immunoediting in primary melanoma at single cell resolution. 2022. PubMed
  • Du K, Wei S, Wei Z, Frederick DT, Miao B, Moll T, Tian T, Sugarman E, Gabrilovich DI, Sullivan RJ, Liu L, Flaherty KT, Boland GM, Herlyn M, Zhang G. Pathway signatures derived from on-treatment tumor specimens predict response to anti-PD1 blockade in metastatic melanoma. Nat Commun 2021; 12:6023. PubMed
  • Oliveira G, Stromhaug K, Klaeger S, Kula T, Frederick DT, Le PM, Forman J, Huang T, Li S, Zhang W, Xu Q, Cieri N, Clauser KR, Shukla SA, Neuberg D, Justesen S, MacBeath G, Carr SA, Fritsch EF, Hacohen N, Sade-Feldman M, Livak KJ, Boland GM, Ott PA, Keskin DB, Wu CJ. Phenotype, specificity and avidity of antitumour CD8 T cells in melanoma. Nature 2021; 596:119-125. PubMed
  • Allouche J, Rachmin I, Adhikari K, Pardo LM, Lee JH, McConnell AM, Kato S, Fan S, Kawakami A, Suita Y, Wakamatsu K, Igras V, Zhang J, Navarro PP, Lugo CM, Noonan HR, Christie KA, Itin K, Mujahid N, Lo JA, Won CH, Evans CL, Weng QY, Wang H, Osseiran S, Lovas A, Németh I, Cozzio A, Navarini AA, Hsiao JJ, Nguyen N, Kemény LV, Iliopoulos O, Berking C, Ruzicka T, Gonzalez-José R, Bortolini MC, Canizales-Quinteros S, Acuna-Alonso V, Gallo C, Poletti G, Bedoya G, Rothhammer F, Ito S, Schiaffino MV, Chao LH, Kleinstiver BP, Tishkoff S, Zon LI, Nijsten T, Ruiz-Linares A, Fisher DE, Roider E. NNT mediates redox-dependent pigmentation via a UVB- and MITF-independent mechanism. Cell 2021; 184:4268-4283.e20. PubMed
  • Liu D, Lin JR, Robitschek EJ, Kasumova GG, Heyde A, Shi A, Kraya A, Zhang G, Moll T, Frederick DT, Chen YA, Wang S, Schapiro D, Ho LL, Bi K, Sahu A, Mei S, Miao B, Sharova T, Alvarez-Breckenridge C, Stocking JH, Kim T, Fadden R, Lawrence D, Hoang MP, Cahill DP, Malehmir M, Nowak MA, Brastianos PK, Lian CG, Ruppin E, Izar B, Herlyn M, Van Allen EM, Nathanson K, Flaherty KT, Sullivan RJ, Kellis M, Sorger PK, Boland GM. Evolution of delayed resistance to immunotherapy in a melanoma responder. Nat Med 2021. PubMed
  • Lo JA, Kawakubo M, Juneja VR, Su MY, Erlich TH, LaFleur MW, Kemeny LV, Rashid M, Malehmir M, Rabi SA, Raghavan R, Allouche J, Kasumova G, Frederick DT, Pauken KE, Weng QY, Pereira da Silva M, Xu Y, van der Sande AAJ, Silkworth W, Roider E, Browne EP, Lieb DJ, Wang B, Garraway LA, Wu CJ, Flaherty KT, Brinckerhoff CE, Mullins DW, Adams DJ, Hacohen N, Hoang MP, Boland GM, Freeman GJ, Sharpe AH, Manstein D, Fisher DE. Epitope spreading toward wild-type melanocyte-lineage antigens rescues suboptimal immune checkpoint blockade responses. Sci Transl Med 2021. PubMed
  • Conway JR, Dietlein F, Taylor-Weiner A, AlDubayan S, Vokes N, Keenan T, Reardon B, He MX, Margolis CA, Weirather JL, Haq R, Schilling B, Stephen Hodi F, Schadendorf D, Liu D, Van Allen EM. Integrated molecular drivers coordinate biological and clinical states in melanoma. Nat Genet 2020; 52:1373-1383. PubMed
  • Pruessmann W, Rytlewski J, Wilmott J, Mihm MC, Attrill GH, Dyring-Andersen B, Fields P, Zhan Q, Colebatch AJ, Ferguson PM, Thompson JF, Kallenbach K, Yusko E, Clark RA, Robins H, Scolyer RA, Kupper TS. Molecular analysis of primary melanoma T cells identifies patients at risk for metastatic recurrence. 2020; 1:197-209. PubMed
  • Kato S, Weng QY, Insco ML, Chen KY, Muralidhar S, Pozniak J, Diaz JMS, Drier Y, Nguyen N, Lo JA, van Rooijen E, Kemeny LV, Zhan Y, Feng Y, Silkworth W, Powell CT, Liau BB, Xiong Y, Jin J, Newton-Bishop J, Zon LI, Bernstein BE, Fisher DE. Gain-of-Function Genetic Alterations of G9a Drive Oncogenesis. 2020. PubMed
  • Gstalder C, Liu D, Miao D, Lutterbach B, DeVine AL, Lin C, Shettigar M, Pancholi P, Buchbinder EI, Carter SL, Manos MP, Rojas-Rudilla V, Brennick R, Gjini E, Chen PH, Lako A, Rodig S, Yoon CH, Freeman GJ, Barbie DA, Hodi FS, Miles W, Van Allen EM, Haq R. Inactivation of Fbxw7 impairs dsRNA sensing and confers resistance to PD-1 blockade. 2020. PubMed
  • Santoriello C, Sporrij A, Yang S, Flynn RA, Henriques T, Dorjsuren B, Custo Greig E, McCall W, Stanhope ME, Fazio M, Superdock M, Lichtig A, Adatto I, Abraham BJ, Kalocsay M, Jurynec M, Zhou Y, Adelman K, Calo E, Zon LI. RNA helicase DDX21 mediates nucleotide stress responses in neural crest and melanoma cells. Nat Cell Biol 2020. PubMed
  • Montero J, Gstalder C, Kim DJ, Sadowicz D, Miles W, Manos M, Cidado JR, Paul Secrist J, Tron AE, Flaherty K, Stephen Hodi F, Yoon CH, Letai A, Fisher DE, Haq R. Destabilization of NOXA mRNA as a common resistance mechanism to targeted therapies. Nat Commun 2019; 10:5157. PubMed
  • Sullivan RJ, Hamid O, Gonzalez R, Infante JR, Patel MR, Hodi FS, Lewis KD, Tawbi HA, Hernandez G, Wongchenko MJ, Chang Y, Roberts L, Ballinger M, Yan Y, Cha E, Hwu P. Atezolizumab plus cobimetinib and vemurafenib in BRAF-mutated melanoma patients. Nat Med 2019; 25:929-935. PubMed
  • Chow MT, Ozga AJ, Servis RL, Frederick DT, Lo JA, Fisher DE, Freeman GJ, Boland GM, Luster AD. Intratumoral Activity of the CXCR3 Chemokine System Is Required for the Efficacy of Anti-PD-1 Therapy. Immunity 2019; 50:1498-1512.e5. PubMed
  • Geller AC, Keske RR, Haneuse S, Davine JA, Emmons KM, Daniel CL, Gibson TM, Marghoob A, Mertens AC, McDonald AJ, Robison LL, Howell RM, Whitton JA, Coroiu A, Leisenring WM, Armstrong GT. Skin cancer early detection practices among adult survivors of childhood cancer treated with radiation. J Invest Dermatol 2019. PubMed
  • Atkins MB, Tarhini A, Rael M, Gupte-Singh K, O'Brien E, Ritchings C, Rao S, McDermott DF. Comparative efficacy of combination immunotherapy and targeted therapy in the treatment of BRAF-mutant advanced melanoma: a matching-adjusted indirect comparison. 2019; 11:617-629. PubMed
  • Ablain J, Xu M, Rothschild H, Jordan RC, Mito JK, Daniels BH, Bell CF, Joseph NM, Wu H, Bastian BC, Zon LI, Yeh I. Human tumor genomics and zebrafish modeling identify loss as a driver of mucosal melanoma. Science 2018; 362:1055-1060. PubMed
  • Jerby-Arnon L, Shah P, Cuoco MS, Rodman C, Su MJ, Melms JC, Leeson R, Kanodia A, Mei S, Lin JR, Wang S, Rabasha B, Liu D, Zhang G, Margolais C, Ashenberg O, Ott PA, Buchbinder EI, Haq R, Hodi FS, Boland GM, Sullivan RJ, Frederick DT, Miao B, Moll T, Flaherty KT, Herlyn M, Jenkins RW, Thummalapalli R, Kowalczyk MS, Cañadas I, Schilling B, Cartwright ANR, Luoma AM, Malu S, Hwu P, Bernatchez C, Forget MA, Barbie DA, Shalek AK, Tirosh I, Sorger PK, Wucherpfennig K, Van Allen EM, Schadendorf D, Johnson BE, Rotem A, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Garraway LA, Yoon CH, Izar B, Regev A. A Cancer Cell Program Promotes T Cell Exclusion and Resistance to Checkpoint Blockade. Cell 2018; 175:984-997.e24. PubMed
  • Sade-Feldman M, Yizhak K, Bjorgaard SL, Ray JP, de Boer CG, Jenkins RW, Lieb DJ, Chen JH, Frederick DT, Barzily-Rokni M, Freeman SS, Reuben A, Hoover PJ, Villani AC, Ivanova E, Portell A, Lizotte PH, Aref AR, Eliane JP, Hammond MR, Vitzthum H, Blackmon SM, Li B, Gopalakrishnan V, Reddy SM, Cooper ZA, Paweletz CP, Barbie DA, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Flaherty KT, Wargo JA, Boland GM, Sullivan RJ, Getz G, Hacohen N. Defining T Cell States Associated with Response to Checkpoint Immunotherapy in Melanoma. Cell 2018; 175:998-1013.e20. PubMed
  • Rodig SJ, Gusenleitner D, Jackson DG, Gjini E, Giobbie-Hurder A, Jin C, Chang H, Lovitch SB, Horak C, Weber JS, Weirather JL, Wolchok JD, Postow MA, Pavlick AC, Chesney J, Hodi FS. MHC proteins confer differential sensitivity to CTLA-4 and PD-1 blockade in untreated metastatic melanoma. Sci Transl Med 2018. PubMed
  • Dummer R, Ascierto PA, Gogas HJ, Arance A, Mandala M, Liszkay G, Garbe C, Schadendorf D, Krajsova I, Gutzmer R, Chiarion Sileni V, Dutriaux C, de Groot JWB, Yamazaki N, Loquai C, Moutouh-de Parseval LA, Pickard MD, Sandor V, Robert C, Flaherty KT. Overall survival in patients with BRAF-mutant melanoma receiving encorafenib plus binimetinib versus vemurafenib or encorafenib (COLUMBUS): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2018. PubMed
  • Sweeney JG, Liang J, Antonopoulos A, Giovannone N, Kang S, Mondala TS, Head SR, King SL, Tani Y, Brackett D, Dell A, Murphy GF, Haslam SM, Widlund HR, Dimitroff CJ. Loss of GCNT2/I-branched glycans enhances melanoma growth and survival. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3368. PubMed
  • Kapp FG, Perlin JR, Hagedorn EJ, Gansner JM, Schwarz DE, O'Connell LA, Johnson NS, Amemiya C, Fisher DE, Wölfle U, Trompouki E, Niemeyer CM, Driever W, Zon LI. Protection from UV light is an evolutionarily conserved feature of the haematopoietic niche. Nature 2018; 558:445-448. PubMed
  • de Masson A, O'Malley JT, Elco CP, Garcia SS, Divito SJ, Lowry EL, Tawa M, Fisher DC, Devlin PM, Teague JE, Leboeuf NR, Kirsch IR, Robins H, Clark RA, Kupper TS. High-throughput sequencing of the T cell receptor β gene identifies aggressive early-stage mycosis fungoides. Sci Transl Med 2018. PubMed
  • Shukla SA, Bachireddy P, Schilling B, Galonska C, Zhan Q, Bango C, Langer R, Lee PC, Gusenleitner D, Keskin DB, Babadi M, Mohammad A, Gnirke A, Clement K, Cartun ZJ, Van Allen EM, Miao D, Huang Y, Snyder A, Merghoub T, Wolchok JD, Garraway LA, Meissner A, Weber JS, Hacohen N, Neuberg D, Potts PR, Murphy GF, Lian CG, Schadendorf D, Hodi FS, Wu CJ. Cancer-Germline Antigen Expression Discriminates Clinical Outcome to CTLA-4 Blockade. Cell 2018; 173:624-633.e8. PubMed
  • Ferrari de Andrade L, Tay RE, Pan D, Luoma AM, Ito Y, Badrinath S, Tsoucas D, Franz B, May KF, Harvey CJ, Kobold S, Pyrdol JW, Yoon C, Yuan GC, Hodi FS, Dranoff G, Wucherpfennig KW. Antibody-mediated inhibition of MICA and MICB shedding promotes NK cell-driven tumor immunity. Science 2018; 359:1537-1542. 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
  • Geller AC, Jablonski NG, Pagoto SL, Hay JL, Hillhouse J, Buller DB, Kenney WL, Robinson JK, Weller RB, Moreno MA, Gilchrest BA, Sinclair C, Arndt J, Taber JM, Morris KL, Dwyer LA, Perna FM, Klein WMP, Suls J. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sun Safety. JAMA Dermatol 2017. PubMed
  • Ott PA, Hu Z, Keskin DB, Shukla SA, Sun J, Bozym DJ, Zhang W, Luoma A, Giobbie-Hurder A, Peter L, Chen C, Olive O, Carter TA, Li S, Lieb DJ, Eisenhaure T, Gjini E, Stevens J, Lane WJ, Javeri I, Nellaiappan K, Salazar AM, Daley H, Seaman M, Buchbinder EI, Yoon CH, Harden M, Lennon N, Gabriel S, Rodig SJ, Barouch DH, Aster JC, Getz G, Wucherpfennig K, Neuberg D, Ritz J, Lander ES, Fritsch EF, Hacohen N, Wu CJ. An immunogenic personal neoantigen vaccine for patients with melanoma. Nature 2017. PubMed
  • Mujahid N, Liang Y, Murakami R, Choi HG, Dobry AS, Wang J, Suita Y, Weng QY, Allouche J, Kemeny LV, Hermann AL, Roider EM, Gray NS, Fisher DE. A UV-Independent Topical Small-Molecule Approach for Melanin Production in Human Skin. Cell Rep 2017; 19:2177-2184. PubMed
  • Wang H, Osseiran S, Igras V, Nichols AJ, Roider EM, Pruessner J, Tsao H, Fisher DE, Evans CL. In vivo coherent Raman imaging of the melanomagenesis-associated pigment pheomelanin. Sci Rep 2016; 6:37986. PubMed
  • Luo C, Lim JH, Lee Y, Granter SR, Thomas A, Vazquez F, Widlund HR, Puigserver P. A PGC1α-mediated transcriptional axis suppresses melanoma metastasis. Nature 2016; 537:422-426. PubMed
  • Hodi FS, Chesney J, Pavlick AC, Robert C, Grossmann KF, McDermott DF, Linette GP, Meyer N, Giguere JK, Agarwala SS, Shaheen M, Ernstoff MS, Minor DR, Salama AK, Taylor MH, Ott PA, Horak C, Gagnier P, Jiang J, Wolchok JD, Postow MA. Combined nivolumab and ipilimumab versus ipilimumab alone in patients with advanced melanoma: 2-year overall survival outcomes in a multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2016. PubMed
  • Weber JS, Gibney G, Sullivan RJ, Sosman JA, Slingluff CL, Lawrence DP, Logan TF, Schuchter LM, Nair S, Fecher L, Buchbinder EI, Berghorn E, Ruisi M, Kong G, Jiang J, Horak C, Hodi FS. Sequential administration of nivolumab and ipilimumab with a planned switch in patients with advanced melanoma (CheckMate 064): an open-label, randomised, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2016. PubMed
  • Tirosh I, Izar B, Prakadan SM, Wadsworth MH, Treacy D, Trombetta JJ, Rotem A, Rodman C, Lian C, Murphy G, Fallahi-Sichani M, Dutton-Regester K, Lin JR, Cohen O, Shah P, Lu D, Genshaft AS, Hughes TK, Ziegler CG, Kazer SW, Gaillard A, Kolb KE, Villani AC, Johannessen CM, Andreev AY, Van Allen EM, Bertagnolli M, Sorger PK, Sullivan RJ, Flaherty KT, Frederick DT, Jané-Valbuena J, Yoon CH, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Shalek AK, Regev A, Garraway LA. Dissecting the multicellular ecosystem of metastatic melanoma by single-cell RNA-seq. Science 2016; 352:189-196. PubMed
  • Tan JL, Fogley RD, Flynn RA, Ablain J, Yang S, Saint-André V, Fan ZP, Do BT, Laga AC, Fujinaga K, Santoriello C, Greer CB, Kim YJ, Clohessy JG, Bothmer A, Pandell N, Avagyan S, Brogie JE, van Rooijen E, Hagedorn EJ, Shyh-Chang N, White RM, Price DH, Pandolfi PP, Peterlin BM, Zhou Y, Kim TH, Asara JM, Chang HY, Young RA, Zon LI. Stress from Nucleotide Depletion Activates the Transcriptional Regulator HEXIM1 to Suppress Melanoma. Mol Cell 2016; 62:34-46. PubMed
  • Sabbatino F, Wang Y, Scognamiglio G, Favoino E, Feldman SA, Villani V, Flaherty KT, Nota S, Giannarelli D, Simeone E, Anniciello AM, Palmieri G, Pepe S, Botti G, Ascierto PA, Ferrone CR, Ferrone S. Antitumor Activity of BRAF Inhibitor and IFNα Combination in BRAF-Mutant Melanoma. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2016. PubMed
  • Kaufman CK, Mosimann C, Fan ZP, Yang S, Thomas AJ, Ablain J, Tan JL, Fogley RD, van Rooijen E, Hagedorn EJ, Ciarlo C, White RM, Matos DA, Puller AC, Santoriello C, Liao EC, Young RA, Zon LI. A zebrafish melanoma model reveals emergence of neural crest identity during melanoma initiation. Science 2016; 351:aad2197. PubMed
  • Van Allen EM, Miao D, Schilling B, Shukla SA, Blank C, Zimmer L, Sucker A, Hillen U, Foppen MH, Goldinger SM, Utikal J, Hassel JC, Weide B, Kaehler KC, Loquai C, Mohr P, Gutzmer R, Dummer R, Gabriel S, Wu CJ, Schadendorf D, Garraway LA. Genomic correlates of response to CTLA-4 blockade in metastatic melanoma. Science 2015. PubMed
  • Larkin J, Chiarion-Sileni V, Gonzalez R, Grob JJ, Cowey CL, Lao CD, Schadendorf D, Dummer R, Smylie M, Rutkowski P, Ferrucci PF, Hill A, Wagstaff J, Carlino MS, Haanen JB, Maio M, Marquez-Rodas I, McArthur GA, Ascierto PA, Long GV, Callahan MK, Postow MA, Grossmann K, Sznol M, Dreno B, Bastholt L, Yang A, Rollin LM, Horak C, Hodi FS, Wolchok JD. Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab or Monotherapy in Untreated Melanoma. N Engl J Med 2015; 373:23-34. PubMed
  • Postow MA, Chesney J, Pavlick AC, Robert C, Grossmann K, McDermott D, Linette GP, Meyer N, Giguere JK, Agarwala SS, Shaheen M, Ernstoff MS, Minor D, Salama AK, Taylor M, Ott PA, Rollin LM, Horak C, Gagnier P, Wolchok JD, Hodi FS. Nivolumab and ipilimumab versus ipilimumab in untreated melanoma. N Engl J Med 2015; 372:2006-17. PubMed
  • Luke JJ, Lezcano C, Hodi FS, Murphy GF. Antitumor granuloma formation by CD4+ T cells in a patient with rapidly progressive melanoma experiencing spiking fevers, neuropathy, and other immune-related toxicity after treatment with ipilimumab. J Clin Oncol 2015. PubMed
  • DeRan M, Yang J, Shen CH, Peters EC, Fitamant J, Chan P, Hsieh M, Zhu S, Asara JM, Zheng B, Bardeesy N, Liu J, Wu X. Energy stress regulates hippo-YAP signaling involving AMPK-mediated regulation of angiomotin-like 1 protein. Cell Rep 2014; 9:495-503. PubMed
  • Hodi FS, Lee S, McDermott DF, Rao UN, Butterfield LH, Tarhini AA, Leming P, Puzanov I, Shin D, Kirkwood JM. Ipilimumab plus sargramostim vs ipilimumab alone for treatment of metastatic melanoma: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA 2014; 312:1744-53. PubMed
  • Konieczkowski DJ, Johannessen CM, Abudayyeh O, Kim JW, Cooper ZA, Piris A, Frederick DT, Barzily-Rokni M, Straussman R, Haq R, Fisher DE, Mesirov JP, Hahn WC, Flaherty KT, Wargo JA, Tamayo P, Garraway LA. A melanoma cell state distinction influences sensitivity to MAPK pathway inhibitors. 2014. PubMed
  • Cooper ZA, Juneja VR, Sage PT, Frederick DT, Piris A, Mitra D, Lo JA, Hodi FS, Freeman GJ, Bosenberg MW, McMahon M, Flaherty KT, Fisher DE, Sharpe AH, Wargo JA. Response to BRAF inhibition in melanoma is enhanced when combined with immune checkpoint blockade. Cancer Immunol Res 2014. PubMed
  • Larson AR, Dresser KA, Zhan Q, Lezcano C, Woda BA, Yosufi B, Thompson JF, Scolyer RA, Mihm MC, Shi YG, Murphy GF, Lian CG. Loss of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine correlates with increasing morphologic dysplasia in melanocytic tumors. Mod Pathol 2014. PubMed
  • Fell GL, Robinson KC, Mao J, Woolf CJ, Fisher DE. Skin β-endorphin mediates addiction to UV light. Cell 2014; 157:1527-34. PubMed
  • Ackerman A, Klein O, McDermott DF, Wang W, Ibrahim N, Lawrence DP, Gunturi A, Flaherty KT, Hodi FS, Kefford R, Menzies AM, Atkins MB, Long GV, Sullivan RJ. Outcomes of patients with metastatic melanoma treated with immunotherapy prior to or after BRAF inhibitors. Cancer 2014. PubMed
  • Luo X, Mitra D, Sullivan RJ, Wittner BS, Kimura AM, Pan S, Hoang MP, Brannigan BW, Lawrence DP, Flaherty KT, Sequist LV, McMahon M, Bosenberg MW, Stott SL, Ting DT, Ramaswamy S, Toner M, Fisher DE, Maheswaran S, Haber DA. Isolation and molecular characterization of circulating melanoma cells. Cell Rep 2014. 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 2014; 32:1020-30. PubMed
  • Deperalta DK, Hoang MP, Tanabe KK. Approaches to regional nodes in patients with melanoma. J Clin Oncol 2014; 32:881-5. PubMed
  • Schlapbach C, Gehad A, Yang C, Watanabe R, Guenova E, Teague JE, Campbell L, Yawalkar N, Kupper TS, Clark RA. Human TH9 cells are skin-tropic and have autocrine and paracrine proinflammatory capacity. Sci Transl Med 2014; 6:219ra8. PubMed
  • Wagle N, Van Allen EM, Treacy DJ, Frederick DT, Cooper ZA, Taylor-Weiner A, Rosenberg M, Goetz EM, Sullivan RJ, Farlow DN, Friedrich DC, Anderka K, Perrin D, Johannessen CM, McKenna A, Cibulskis K, Kryukov G, Hodis E, Lawrence DP, Fisher S, Getz G, Gabriel SB, Carter SL, Flaherty KT, Wargo JA, Garraway LA. MAP kinase pathway alterations in BRAF-mutant melanoma patients with acquired resistance to combined RAF/MEK inhibition. 2014; 4:61-8. PubMed
  • Johannessen CM, Johnson LA, Piccioni F, Townes A, Frederick DT, Donahue MK, Narayan R, Flaherty KT, Wargo JA, Root DE, Garraway LA. A melanocyte lineage program confers resistance to MAP kinase pathway inhibition. Nature 2013; 504:138-42. PubMed
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