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Rendo V, Lee EQ, Bossi C, Khuu N, Rudek MA, Pal S, Azazmeh N, Rashid R, Lin JR, Cusick M, Reynolds ARN, Fassinou ACR, Ayoub G, Malinowski S, Lapinskas E, Pisano W, Jeang J, Stopka SA, Regan MS, Spetz J, Desai A, Lieberman F, Palanichamy K, Fisher JD, Pelton K, Huang RY, Sarosiek KA, Nabors LB, Holdhoff M, Danda N, Strowd R, Desideri S, Walbert T, Ye X, Chakravarti A, Sorger PK, Santagata S, Agar NYR, Grossman SA, Alexander BM, Wen PY, Ligon KL, Beroukhim R. A window-of-opportunity trial reveals mechanisms of response and resistance to navtemadlin in patients with recurrent glioblastoma. Sci Transl Med. 2025 Feb 19;17(786):eadn6274. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adn6274. Online 2025 Feb 19. PMID: 39970230.

Fischer GM, Lamba N, Vogelzang J, Aizer A, Ligon KL. Genomic Profiling Reveals SMARCA4 Mutations Are Associated with Shorter Overall and Intracranial Progression-Free Survival in Patients with Melanoma Brain Metastases. Clin Cancer Res. 2025 Feb 17;31(4):719-732. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-24-0301. PMID: 39786469.
Full text article: fischer_gm_smarca4_ccr_2025.pdf

Spitzer A, Gritsch S, Nomura M, Jucht A, Fortin J, Raviram R, Weisman HR, Gonzalez Castro LN, Druck N, Chanoch-Myers R, Lee JJY, Mylvaganam R, Lee Servis R, Fung JM, Lee CK, Nagashima H, Miller JJ, Arrillaga-Romany I, Louis DN, Wakimoto H, Pisano W, Wen PY, Mak TW, Sanson M, Touat M, Landau DA, Ligon KL, Cahill DP, SuvĂ ML, Tirosh I. Mutant IDH inhibitors induce lineage differentiation in IDH-mutant oligodendroglioma. Cancer Cell. 2024 May 13;42(5):904-914.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2024.03.008. Epub 2024 Apr 4. PMID: 38579724; PMCID: PMC11096020.
Full text article: www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(24)00093-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS153561082400093X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
Wu W, Ishamuddin SH, Quinn TW, Yerrum S, Zhang Y, Debaize LL, Kao PL, Duquette SM, Murakami MA, Mohseni M, Chow KH, Miettinen TP, Ligon KL, Manalis SR. High-throughput single-cell density measurements enable dynamic profiling of immune cell and drug response from patient samples. Nat Biomed Eng. 2025 May 20. doi: 10.1038/s41551-025-01408-6. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40394221.
Full text article: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11071500/

Rahman R, Trippa L, Lee EQ, Arrillaga-Romany I, Fell G, Touat M, McCluskey C, Wiley J, Gaffey S, Drappatz J, Welch MR, Galanis E, Ahluwalia MS, Colman H, Nabors LB, Hepel J, Elinzano H, Schiff D, Chukwueke UN, Beroukhim R, Nayak L, McFaline-Figueroa JR, Batchelor TT, Rinne ML, Kaley TJ, Lu-Emerson C, Mellinghoff IK, Bi WL, Arnaout O, Peruzzi PP, Haas-Kogan D, Tanguturi S, Cagney D, Aizer A, Doherty L, Lavallee M, Fisher-Longden B, Dowling S, Geduldig J, Watkinson F, Pisano W, Malinowski S, Ramkissoon S, Santagata S, Meredith DM, Chiocca EA, Reardon DA, Alexander BM, Ligon KL, Wen PY. Inaugural Results of the Individualized Screening Trial of Innovative Glioblastoma Therapy: A Phase II Platform Trial for Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma Using Bayesian Adaptive Randomization. J Clin Oncol. 2023 Dec 20;41(36):5524-5535. doi: 10.1200/JCO.23.00493. Epub 2023 Sep 18. PMID: 37722087.
Full text article: research_labs_sign-off_document-final.pdf

Touat M, Li YY, Boynton AN, Spurr LF, Iorgulescu JB, Bohrson CL, Cortes-Ciriano I, Birzu C, Geduldig JE, Pelton K, Lim-Fat MJ, Pal S, Ferrer-Luna R, Ramkissoon SH, Dubois F, Bellamy C, Currimjee N, Bonardi J, Qian K, Ho P, Malinowski S, Taquet L, Jones RE, Shetty A, Chow KH, Sharaf R, Pavlick D, Albacker LA, Younan N, Baldini C, Verreault M, Giry M, Guillerm E, Ammari S, Beuvon F, Mokhtari K, Alentorn A, Dehais C, Houillier C, Laigle-Donadey F, Psimaras D, Lee EQ, Nayak L, McFaline-Figueroa JR, Carpentier A, Cornu P, Capelle L, Mathon B, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Chakravarti A, Bi WL, Chiocca EA, Fehnel KP, Alexandrescu S, Chi SN, Haas-Kogan D, Batchelor TT, Frampton GM, Alexander BM, Huang RY, Ligon AH, Coulet F, Delattre JY, Hoang-Xuan K, Meredith DM, Santagata S, Duval A, Sanson M, Cherniack AD, Wen PY, Reardon DA, Marabelle A, Park PJ, Idbaih A, Beroukhim R, Bandopadhayay P, Bielle F, Ligon KL. Mechanisms and therapeutic implications of hypermutation in gliomas. Nature. 2020 04; 580(7804):517-523
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