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Qiang L, Hoffman MT, Chun JH, Parent B, Hambitzer F, Peprah F, Kureshi CTS, Lim BS, Chang E, Walsh MJ, Tello JG, Atajanova T, Shin H, Perkins C, Kureshi R, Molina-Aponte Y, Dougan JM, Zuo C, Brais L, Clancy TE, Cleary JM, Hornick JL, Huffman BM, Mancias JD, Molina G, Fairweather M, Nowak JA, Perez KJ, Rubinson DA, Slater S, van Dams R, Wang J, Wolpin BM, Wong KK, Singh H, Aguirre AJ, Baker D, Dougan M, Dougan SK. CD4 T cells convert transient responses to KRAS inhibition to durable remissions in pancreatic cancer. Cell. 2026 Sep 23:S0092-8674(26)01018-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.045. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42777708.


Karam J, Hoffman SE, Garza A, Gui D, Hoffman HI, Titchen BM, Tanaka Y, Pimenta E, Pappa T, Valderrabano L, Bi K, Gillani R, Brais L, Shannon E, Hornick JL, Park J, Chan J, Van Allen EM. Conserved neuronal-like and secretory programs define the spatial architecture of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. J Clin Invest. 2026 Sep 1:e204119. doi: 10.1172/JCI204119. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42678737.


Aronchik I, Kar S, Zhuang Y, Ahler E, Lai LP, Seshadri V, Yang YC, Bulle A, Menard M, Nayak B, Labrecque MP, Dilly J, Kim E, Jiang L, Yano J, Wasko UN, Helland C, Bredeson S, Garrick B, Gindin Y, Sickler B, Wei X, Seamon K, Jiang J, Lim KH, Holderfield M, Quintana E, Hegde A, Salman Z, Starodub A, Spira A, Park W, Hong DS, Barve M, Pelster M, Sommerhalder D, Punekar SR, Garrido-Laguna I, Wolpin BM, Maitra A, Gustafson WC, Kelsey S, Smith JAM, Lin KK, Aguirre AJ, Singh M. Acquired resistance to the RAS(ON) multi-selective inhibitor daraxonrasib guides rational combination therapy strategies in pancreatic cancer. Nat Med. 2026 Aug;32(8):2865-2877. doi: 10.1038/s41591-026-04537-w. Epub 2026 Aug 11. PMID: 42581230; PMCID: PMC13472880.


Neiswender JV, Maffa S, Brenan L, ElHarouni D, Yun Y, Boyle I, Wienand K, Inam H, Bertea T, Anderson A, Wong M, Enriquez M, Lenz E, Villafranca B, Shanks N, Hager M, Lloyd N, Shadmany H, Wie SJ, Liang H, Yunghans K, Zhang X, Golden L, Harris H, Day S, Montgomery P, Stokes S, Giglio RM, Hajal C, Whittle JR, Garcia G, Mills CE, Touat M, Pelton K, Li H, Prabhakar PS, Herter S, Kamrat ZH, Gui D, Dilly J, Wong CK, Guo JA, Pal S, Baidi Y, Johnston R, Brown DD, Bhatia S, Winter PS, Raghavan S, Beroukhim R, Colas E, Spector DL, Bass AJ, Sorger PK, Chen Y, Hill SJ, Oesterreich S, Lee AV, Beltran H, Boehm JS, Tseng YY, Root DE, Hahn WC, Aguirre AJ, Campbell CD, Ligon KL, Dempster JM, Shibue T, Vazquez F. A dependency map enhanced with next-generation 3D cancer models. Nature. 2026 Sep;657(8132):789-799. doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10843-7. Epub 2026 Aug 5. PMID: 42557315; PMCID: PMC13581591.


Parent BD, Kelly AE, Hoffman MT, Dougan M, Aguirre AJ, Dougan SK. Growth factor supportive care for chemotherapy-induced neutropenia suppresses antitumour immunity in checkpoint blockade-responsive pancreatic cancer. Immunother Adv. 2026 Jul 15;6(1):ltag013. doi: 10.1093/immadv/ltag013. PMID: 42500327; PMCID: PMC13398997


Biancur DE, Venkatesh H, Crawford A, Jeong Y, Sohn ASW, Kapner KS, Yamamoto K, Lin EY, Banh RS, Assi M, Shapiro B, Yu P, Song SC, Coetzee WA, Aguirre AJ, Jones AN, Kimmelman AC, Possemato R. Iron overload suppresses LKB1 and induces IL36G anti-tumor immunity in PDAC metastasis. Sci Adv. 2026 Jul 17;12(29):eadz8681. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adz8681. Epub 2026 Jul 17. PMID: 42467776; PMCID: PMC13378540.


Surana R, Perez KJ. Going beyond total skeletal muscle area at L3 (tSMA) to accurately assess pancreatic cancer cachexia. J Gastrointest Oncol. 2026 Jun 30;17(3):191. doi: 10.21037/jgo-2026-0221. Epub 2026 Jun 25. PMID: 42434244; PMCID: PMC13350469.


Gültekin Y, Vander Heiden MG. Local signals, systemic decline. Science. 2026 Jul 2;393(6806):33-34. doi: 10.1126/science.aej0415. Epub 2026 Jul 2. PMID: 42391391.


Shen Q, Mobley C, Wang M, Ferrari P, Adami HO, Afshar N, Babic A, van den Brandt PA, Cheng E, Eliassen AH, Fung TT, Giovannucci EL, Hirabayashi M, Hou T, Huang BZ, Huang WY, Joshu CE, Kanehara R, Katzke V, Lacey JV Jr, Landry MJ, Larsson SC, Liao LM, Martinez ME, McCullough ML, Miller AB, Milne RL, Moore SC, Mucci LA, Naudin S, Prizment A, Park SY, Rohan TE, Riboli E, Robien K, Sandin S, Sawada N, Shams-White MM, Sinha R, Smith-Byrne K, Stampfer MJ, Stolzenberg-Solomon RZ, Um CY, Visvanathan K, Wang SS, Weiderpass E, White E, Willett WC, Wolk A, Wolpin BM, Yuan C, Smith-Warner SA, Genkinger JM. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and risk of pancreatic cancer: an analysis of 2.3 million participants in the Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer (DCPP). Eur J Epidemiol. 2026 Jun 25. doi: 10.1007/s10654-026-01418-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42348090.


Waters AM, Khatib TO, Papke B, Goodwin CM, Hobbs GA, Diehl JN, Yang R, Edwards AC, Walsh KH, Sulahian R, McFarland JM, Kapner KS, Gilbert TSK, Stalnecker CA, Javaid S, Barkovskaya A, Grover KR, Hibshman PS, Blake DR, Schaefer A, Nowak KM, Klomp JE, Hayes TK, Kassner M, Tang N, Tanaseichuk O, Chen K, Zhou Y, Kalkat M, Herring LE, Graves LM, Penn LZ, Yin HH, Aguirre AJ, Hahn WC, Cox AD, Der CJ. Targeting p130Cas- and microtubule-dependent MYC regulation sensitizes pancreatic cancer to ERK MAPK inhibition. Cell Rep. 2026 Jun 17;45(7):117627. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117627. Epub ahead of print. Erratum for: Cell Rep. 2021 Jun 29;35(13):109291. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109291. PMID: 42308106.


Ludvigsson JF, Sun J, Yuan C, Vujasinovic M, Löhr JM, Wolpin BM, Wang QL. Risk of pancreatic cancer associated with precursor lesions in individuals and first-degree relatives: a nationwide cohort study. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2026 Jun 15:S1542-3565(26)00443-X. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2026.06.009. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42297317.


DenAdel A, Hughes M, Thoutam A, Gupta A, Navia AW, Fusi N, Raghavan S, Winter PS, Amini AP, Crawford L. Evaluating the role of pretraining dataset size and diversity on single-cell foundation model performance. Nat Methods. 2026 Jul;23(7):1447-1457. doi: 10.1038/s41592-026-03120-y. Epub 2026 Jun 9. PMID: 42265208.


Lin EY, Mukhopadhyay S, Corcoran D, Assi M, Encarnación Rosado J, Sohn ASW, Biancur DE, Yu P, Deng J, Chen T, Wong KK, Dougan SK, Kimmelman AC. Autophagy Inhibition Reprograms the Tumor Microenvironment of Pancreatic Cancer to Promote Macrophage Phagocytosis of Tumor Cells. Cancer Res. 2026 Jun 1. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-25-2451. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42224631.


O'Reilly EM, Wainberg ZA, Hendifar AE, Borad MJ, Pietrantonio F, Pant S, Hammel P, Cremolini C, Manji GA, Oberstein PE, Garrido-Laguna I, Springfeld C, Azad NS, Ueno M, Chui SY, Zhang Y, Patel H, Lee Y, Salman Z, Wolpin BM; RASolute 302 Trial Investigators. Daraxonrasib or Chemotherapy in Previously Treated Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2026 May 31. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2605555. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42223072.


Perez KJ, Dias Costa A, Jordan A, Karasic TB, Elganainy D, Kim S, Yuan C, Gui DY, Tan R, Hong SC, Wang X, Cristea S, Coleman E, Truitt M, Oh TG, Zheng H, Furniss CS, Brais L, Bird A, Remland J, Gocheva V, Thalappillil JS, Anderson M, Cleary JM, Enzinger A, Giannakis M, Ng K, Rubinson DA, Schlechter B, Surana R, Singh H, Abrams T, Teitelbaum U, Izgur N, Allen E, Winter PS, Raghavan S, Yeh JJ, Von Hoff D, Liddle C, Downes M, Evans RM, O'Dwyer P, Aguirre A, Nowak JA, Wolpin BM. Gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel with or without the VDR agonist paricalcitol for metastatic pancreatic cancer: a randomized, multiarm, run-in phase trial. Nat Cancer. 2026 May 25. doi: 10.1038/s43018-026-01165-8. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42185478.


Grabski IN, Schneider JL, Hanahan S, Ravi A, Gainor JF, Haigis KM, Irizarry RA, Haigis MC. Aging dictates tumor-specific genomic alterations across cancer types. NPJ Aging. 2026 May 12. doi: 10.1038/s41514-026-00392-8. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42120871.


Kureshi CTS, Walsh MJ, Kureshi R, Cardot-Ruffino V, Agardy DA, Ali LR, Dougan JM, Qiang L, Shen J, Zuo C, Lenehan PJ, Wang SJ, Chang E, Remland J, Brais L, Clancy TE, Cleary JM, Hornick JL, Huffman BM, Mancias JD, Molina G, Fairweather M, Nowak JA, Perez KJ, Rubinson DA, Slater S, van Dams R, Wang J, Wolpin BM, Zhao L, Barrientos K, Novosiadly R, Broz M, Singh H, Dougan M, Dougan SK. Dendritic cell redundancy enables priming of anti-tumor CD4+ T cells in pancreatic cancer. Cancer Cell. 2026 May 7:S1535-6108(26)00216-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2026.04.005. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42102812.


Gong D, Guo JA, Su J, Cetinkaya S, Hennessey C, Yu P, Jambhale A, Wang PL, Caldwell NJ, Lam A, Wang J, Shiau C, Kapner KS, Dilly J, Abbassi L, Chugh S, Dasgupta S, Nowak J, Wolpin BM, Zhang ML, Mino-Kenudson M, Jacks T, Aguirre AJ, Hwang WL. GLIS3 marks a neural-like progenitor cell state that drives metastasis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Cell Rep. 2026 May 26;45(5):117314. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117314. Epub 2026 Apr 27. PMID: 42048185.


Srinivas Rao S, Song OK, Noda Y, Khurschid KS, Rosenthal MH, Kambadakone AR. Pancreatic Cancer Screening and Early Detection: Current Strategies and Emerging Innovations in Imaging. Radiol Clin North Am. 2026 May;64(3):489-499. doi: 10.1016/j.rcl.2026.01.005. Epub 2026 Mar 6. PMID: 42020073.


Wolpin BM, Park W, Garrido-Laguna I, Spira A, Starodub A, Sommerhalder D, Punekar SR, Barve M, Pelster M, Herzberg B, Azad NS, Hecht JR, Ou SHI, Lin T, Kar S, Tao L, Vora R, Hegde A, Aung K, Hong DS. Daraxonrasib in Previously Treated Advanced RAS-Mutated Pancreatic Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2026 May 7;394(18):1790-1802. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2505783. PMID: 42090791.


Oberg AL, Bamlet WR, Izmirlian G, Balasenthil S, Batra SK, Hayashi M, Herman DS, Hollingsworth MA, Jain M, Killary AM, Krusen BM, Liu S, Majumder S, Natarajan G, Sen S, Smith LM, Srivastava S, Wolpin BM, Zaret KS, Goggins MG. Pancreatic Cancer Detection Consortium Biomarker Bakeoff: A Phase 2 blinded biomarker validation and panel discovery study. Clin Cancer Res. 2026 Mar 23. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-4061. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41870276.


Ferreira S, Flowers BM, Choi WY, Farina-Morillas M, Gatto A, Bhattacharyya S, Boross G, Hassan G, Mulligan AS, Vogel H, Wood LD, Weaver VM, Winslow MM, Petrov DA, Sherman MH, Choi HY, Hayes DN, Aguirre AJ, Seoane JA, Attardi LD. Inactivation of CDKN2AARF Promotes p53-Independent Remodeling of the PDAC Tumor Microenvironment. Cancer Res. 2026 Mar 11. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-25-1969. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41811433.


Assi M, Wang R, Kawaler EA, Sohn ASW, Zahidunnabi Dewan M, Kalfakakou D, Encarnacion-Rosado J, Kapner KS, Ganguly K, Paulo JA, Simeone DM, Aguirre AJ, Banh RS, Kimmelman AC. Extracellular matrix sensing regulates intratumoral heterogeneity of autophagic flux. Cell. 2026 Mar 19;189(6):1731-1747.e25. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.12.053. Epub 2026 Feb 16. PMID: 41702399.


McDonald TO, Bruno S, Roney JP, Zervantonakis IK, Michor F. BESTDR Enables Bayesian Quantification of Mechanism-Specific Drug Responses. Cancer Res. 2026 Mar 2;86(5):1286-1299. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-25-1181. PMID: 41248483.


Frisch A, Martin E, Cannon T, Wadlow R, Raghavan S, Sen T, Karim NA. Unlocking KRAS: Navigating Its Molecular Biology and Treatment Landscape Among Gastrointestinal Malignancies. Curr Oncol. 2026 Mar 3;33(3):148. doi: 10.3390/curroncol33030148. PMID: 41892176; PMCID: PMC13024909.


Nwizu C, Hughes M, Ramseier ML, Navia AW, Shalek AK, Fusi N, Raghavan S, Winter PS, Amini AP, Crawford L. Scalable nonparametric clustering with unified marker gene selection for single-cell RNA-seq data. Cell Rep Methods. 2026 Mar 23;6(3):101329. doi: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2026.101329. Epub 2026 Mar 12. PMID: 41825449; PMCID: PMC13030991.


Johnson CW, Oladimeji R, O'Donohue E, Haigis KM. The Neomorphic Chemistry of KRAS Autophosphorylation Is Dynamically Regulated by Active Site Conformation. ACS Chem Biol. 2026 Mar 30. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.6c00157. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41906856.


Rodriguez GE, Zhao Y, Nishiga Y, Peprah F, Shen J, Abhiraman GC, Ogishi M, Zhang C, Saco J, Waghray D, Serasanambati M, Torres L, Simone BW, Su L, Wilson SC, Yang A, Sun Q, Picton L, Saxton RA, Bhandarkar V, Lee MJ, Andrews E, Jiang H, Obenaus M, Yen M, Atajanova T, Blish CA, Spranger S, Wherry EJ, Kirane A, Ribas A, Raulet DH, Kalbasi A, Dougan SK, Dougan M, Sage J, Garcia KC. Rewiring STAT signaling from the cell surface with Trikine immunotherapeutics. Science. 2026 Feb 19:eadx9954. doi: 10.1126/science.adx9954. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41712697.


Assi M, Wang R, Kawaler EA, Sohn ASW, Zahidunnabi Dewan M, Kalfakakou D, Encarnacion-Rosado J, Kapner KS, Ganguly K, Paulo JA, Simeone DM, Aguirre AJ, Banh RS, Kimmelman AC. Extracellular matrix sensing regulates intratumoral heterogeneity of autophagic flux. Cell. 2026 Feb 16:S0092-8674(25)01502-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.12.053. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41702399.


Huffman BM, Diossy M, Yurgelun MB, Horick N, Li YY, Crowdis J, Nguyen H, Parmar K, Kochupurakkal BS, Vonk L, Lam H, Ramsey K, Andrews E, Loeb SC, Culnane L, Biller LH, Bullock AJ, Enzinger A, Giannakis M, Jackson NA, Ng K, Nowak JA, Patel AK, Perez KJ, Rattani A, Rubinson DA, Schlechter BL, Singh H, Cai M, Raghavan S, Clark JW, Peters ML, Weipert CM, Wolpin BM, D'Andrea AD, Shapiro GI, Aguirre AJ, Szallasi Z, Cleary JM. A Phase 2 Trial of Niraparib in Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Harboring Pathogenic Variants in ATM, BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, and CHEK2. Clin Cancer Res. 2025 Feb 13. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-24-3766. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41686836.


Cheng HH, Giri VN, Goggins M, Yurgelun MB, Karlan BY, Norquist BS, Daly MB, Pal T, AlHilli Z, Arun B, Churpek J, Colonna S, Domchek SM, Escobar MR, Fejerman L, Friedman S, Hagemann A, Hendrix A, Huo D, Hutton ML, Kassem N, Khan S, Kurian AW, Laronga C, Mak JS, Maxwell KN, McDonnell K, Merajver SD, Mersch J, Offit K, Plichta J, Rash D, Reiser G, Senter-Jamieson L, Shannon KM, Welborn J, Wick MJ, Wood M, Darlow S, Diwan Z, Dwyer M. NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment: Breast, Ovarian, Pancreatic, and Prostate, Version 2.2026. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2026 Feb;24(2):2-10. doi: 10.6004/jnccn.2026.0007. PMID: 41671423.


Jun H, Tanaka Y, Johri S, Camp SY, Bao EL, Carvalho FLF, Gui DY, Jordan AC, Labaki C, Martin SD, Nagy M, O'Meara TA, Pappa T, Pimenta EM, Saad E, Yang DD, Gillani R, Tewari AK, Reardon B, Van Allen E. A context-augmented large language model for accurate precision oncology medicine recommendations. 2026 Mar 9;44(3):676-685.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2025.12.017. Epub 2026 Jan 15. PMID: 41544626; PMCID: PMC12811686.


Reardon B, Culhane AC, Van Allen EM. Convergence of machine learning and genomics for precision oncology. Nat Rev Cancer. 2026 Jan 2. doi: 10.1038/s41568-025-00897-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41478861.