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Giannakis Lab Publications

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Kim H, Cazaubiel J, Chiang TL, Stylianakis D, Fitzgerald S, De Silva P, Gurjao C, Giannakis M. Increased vulnerability of colorectal cancer models with high alkylation damage to NTHL1 inactivation. Sci Rep. 2026 Apr 21. 

Gurjao C, Cazaubiel J, Tan C, Reardon B , Hofree M, Ugai T, Meyerhardt JA, Nowak JA, Giovannucci E, Townsend JP, Ogino S, Giannakis M. Germline predisposition to oncogenic alkylating damage in colorectal cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2026 Mar 2;35(3): 420-428.

Fang L, Ford-Roshon D, Russo M, O'Brien C, Xiong X, Gurjao C, Grandclaudon M, Raghavan S, Corsello SM, Carr SA, Udeshi ND, Berstler J, Sicinska E, Ng K, Giannakis M. RNF43 G659fs is an oncogenic colorectal cancer mutation and sensitizes tumor cells to PI3K/mTOR inhibition. Nat Commun. 2022 Jun 8;13(1):3181. 

Gurjao C, Zhong R, Haruki K, Li YY, Spurr LF, Lee-Six H, Reardon B, Ugai T, Zhang X, Cherniack AD, Song M, Van Allen EM, Meyerhardt JA, Nowak JA, Giovannucci EL, Fuchs CS, Wu K, Ogino S, Giannakis M. Discovery and features of an alkylating signature in colorectal cancer. Cancer Discov. 2021 Oct;11(10):2446-2455.

Li H, Bullock K, Gurjao C, Braun D, Shukla SA, Bossé D, Lalani AA, Gopal S, Jin C, Horak C, Wind-Rotolo M, Signoretti S, McDermott DF, Freeman GJ, Van Allen EM, Schreiber SL, Stephen Hodi F, Sellers WR, Garraway LA, Clish CB, Choueiri TK, Giannakis M. Metabolomic adaptations and correlates of survival to immune checkpoint blockade. Nat Commun. 2019 Sep 25;10(1):4346

Gurjao C, Liu D, Hofree M, AlDubayan SH, Wakiro I, Su MJ, Felt K, Gjini E, Brais LK, Rotem A, Rosenthal MH, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Rodig S, Ng K, Van Allen EM, Corsello SM, Ogino S, Regev A, Nowak JA, Giannakis M. Intrinsic Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in a Mismatch Repair Deficient Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Immunol Res. 2019 Aug;7(8):1230-1236.

Giannakis M, Mu XJ, Shukla SA, Qian ZR, Cohen O, Nishihara R, Bahl S, Cao Y, Amin-Mansour A, Yamauchi M, Sukawa Y, Stewart C, Rosenberg M, Mima K, Inamura K, Nosho K, Nowak JA, Lawrence MS, Giovannucci EL, Chan AT, Ng K, Meyerhardt JA, Van Allen EM, Getz G, Gabriel SB, Lander ES, Wu CJ, Fuchs CS, Ogino S, Garraway LA. Genomic Correlates of Immune-Cell Infiltrates in Colorectal Carcinoma. Cell Rep. 2016 Apr 26;15(4):857-865. 

Giannakis M, Hodis E, Jasmine Mu X, Yamauchi M, Rosenbluh J, Cibulskis K, Saksena G, Lawrence MS, Qian ZR, Nishihara R, Van Allen EM, Hahn WC, Gabriel SB, Lander ES, Getz G, Ogino S, Fuchs CS, Garraway LA. RNF43 is frequently mutated in colorectal and endometrial cancers. Nat Genet. 2014 Dec;46(12):1264-6.