Adi Diab, MD
Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Associate Professor, Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Research Interests
Dr. Diab is a clinical investigator whose research is focused on developing new Immunotherapeutic Strategies that will improve clinical outcomes in patients. Building on his extensive background in immunology in general and tumor immunology specifically, Dr. Diab is leading multiple clinical trials involving novel immune modulator agent with Melanoma. In addition he is leading a program for Interventional Immunotherapy that was established to develop intratumoral therapeutic and tumor vaccination strategies in combination with Systemic therapy; designed to improve clinical outcome and allow better understanding of the dynamics of each patient’s immune response to the tumor. These strategies include tumor ablation such as Cryoablation, RFA or Radiation therapy as well as direct intratumoral injection of immune modulation agents such as TLR agonists, STING agonist CD40 agonists and several cancer vaccines approaches. In addition Dr. Diab is leading the MDACC efforts for studying the biology of Immune related toxicities (irAE) and developing therapies the uncouple Tumor immunity from Autoimmunity.
Dr. Diab received his medical degree from St. George’s University. He completed a research fellowship in immunology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Following his residency at New York University Medical Center, Dr. Diab completed Medical Oncology fellowships at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in hematology oncology and breast medical oncology.
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
2003 | St. George's University, N/A, GRN, MD, Medicine |
Postgraduate Training
2012-2013 | Advanced Clinical Fellowship, Breast Medical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY |
2009-2012 | Clinical Fellowship, Hematology Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY |
2007-2009 | Clinical Residency, Internal Medicine, New York University (NYU) Medical Center, New York, NY |
2006-2007 | Clinical Internship, Internal Medicine, New York Hospital of Queens, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY |
2003-2006 | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Laboratory Tumor Immunology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY |
Experience & Service
Other Appointments/Responsibilities
Member, SITC Steering Committee (ACI), Washington, DC, 2017 - Present
Honors & Awards
2017 | Career Development Award (CDA), Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO & The Melanoma Research Alliance |
2015 | Immuno-Oncology Young Investigator's Forum Award, National Jewish Health |
2011 | The Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation Award |
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Creasy CA, Meng YJ, Forget MA, Karpinets T, Tomczak K, Stewart C, Torres-Cabala CA, Pilon-Thomas S, Sarnaik AA, Mulé JJ, Garraway L, Bustos M, Zhang J, Patel SP, Diab A, Glitza IC, Yee C, Tawbi H, Wong MK, McQuade J, Hoon DSB, Davies MA, Hwu P, Amaria RN, Haymaker C, Beroukhim R, Bernatchez C. Genomic Correlates of Outcome in Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapy for Metastatic Melanoma. Clin Cancer Res 28(9):1911-1924, 2022. PMID: 35190823.
- Hailemichael Y, Johnson DH, Abdel-Wahab N, Foo WC, Bentebibel SE, Daher M, Haymaker C, Wani K, Saberian C, Ogata D, Kim ST, Nurieva R, Lazar AJ, Abu-Sbeih H, Fa'ak F, Mathew A, Wang Y, Falohun A, Trinh V, Zobniw C, Spillson C, Burks JK, Awiwi M, Elsayes K, Soto LS, Melendez BD, Davies MA, Wargo J, Curry J, Yee C, Lizee G, Singh S, Sharma P, Allison JP, Hwu P, Ekmekcioglu S, Diab A. Interleukin-6 blockade abrogates immunotherapy toxicity and promotes tumor immunity. Cancer Cell 40(5):509-523.e6, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35537412.
- Tannir NM, Cho DC, Diab A, Sznol M, Bilen MA, Balar AV, Grignani G, Puente E, Tang L, Chien D, Hoch U, Choudhury A, Yu D, Currie SL, Tagliaferri MA, Zalevsky J, Siefker-Radtke AO, Hurwitz ME. Bempegaldesleukin plus nivolumab in first-line renal cell carcinoma: results from the PIVOT-02 study. J Immunother Cancer 10(4), 2022. PMID: 35444058.
- Kim ST, Chu Y, Misoi M, Suarez-Almazor ME, Tayar JH, Lu H, Buni M, Kramer J, Rodriguez E, Hussain Z, Neelapu SS, Wang J, Shah AY, Tannir NM, Campbell MT, Gibbons DL, Cascone T, Lu C, Blumenschein GR, Altan M, Lim B, Valero V, Loghin ME, Tu J, Westin SN, Naing A, Garcia-Manero G, Abdel-Wahab N, Tawbi HA, Hwu P, Oliva ICG, Davies MA, Patel SP, Zou J, Futreal A, Diab A, Wang L, Nurieva R. Distinct molecular and immune hallmarks of inflammatory arthritis induced by immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer therapy. Nat Commun 13(1):1970, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35413951.
- Eggermont AM, Ascierto PA, Khushalani NI, Schadendorf D, Boland G, Weber J, Lewis KD, Johnson D, Rivalland G, Khattak A, Majem M, Gogas H, Long GV, Currie SL, Chien D, Tagliaferri MA, Carlino MS, Diab A. PIVOT-12: a Phase III study of adjuvant bempegaldesleukin plus nivolumab in resected stage III/IV melanoma at high risk for recurrence. Future Oncol. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35073733.
- Diab A, Hamid O, Thompson JA, Ros W, Eskens FALM, Doi T, Hu-Lieskovan S, Klempner SJ, Ganguly B, Fleener C, Wang X, Jo T, Liao K, Salek-Ardakani S, Taylor CT, Chou J, El-Khoueiry AB. A Phase I, Open-Label, Dose-Escalation Study of the OX40 Agonist Ivuxolimab in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Cancers. Clin Cancer Res. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34615725.
- Yuan J, Khilnani A, Brody J, Andtbacka RHI, Hu-Lieskovan S, Luke JJ, Diab A, Marabelle A, Snyder A, Cao ZA, Hodi FS. Current strategies for intratumoural immunotherapy - Beyond immune checkpoint inhibition. Eur J Cancer. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34561127.
- Haymaker C, Johnson DH, Murthy R, Bentebibel SE, Uemura MI, Hudgens CW, Safa H, James M, Andtbacka RHI, Johnson DB, Shaheen M, Davies MA, Rahimian S, Chunduru SK, Milton DR, Tetzlaff MT, Overwijk WW, Hwu P, Gabrail N, Agrawal S, Doolittle G, Puzanov I, Markowitz J, Bernatchez C, Diab A *Senior Corresponding Author. Tilsotolimod with ipilimumab drives tumor responses in anti-PD-1 refractory melanoma. Cancer Discov 11(8):1996-2013, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33707233.
- Long GV, Robert C, Butler MO, Couture F, Carlino MS, O'Day S, Atkinson V, Cebon JS, Brown MP, Dalle S, Hill AG, Gibney GT, McCune S, Menzies AM, Niu C, Ibrahim N, Homet Moreno B, Diab A Senior Author. Standard-Dose Pembrolizumab Plus Alternate-Dose Ipilimumab in Advanced Melanoma: Keynote-029 Cohort 1C, a Phase 2 Randomized Study of Two Dosing Schedules. Clin Cancer Res. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34210681.
- Diab A, Tykodi SS, Daniels GA, Maio M, Curti BD, Lewis KD, Jang S, Kalinka E, Puzanov I, Spira AI, Cho DC, Guan S, Puente E, Nguyen T, Hoch U, Currie SL, Lin W, Tagliaferri MA, Zalevsky J, Sznol M, Hurwitz ME. Bempegaldesleukin Plus Nivolumab in First-Line Metastatic Melanoma. J Clin Oncol:JCO2100675. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34255535.
- Saberian C, Amaria RN, Najjar AM, Radvanyi LG, Haymaker CL, Forget MA, Bassett RL, Faria SC, Glitza IC, Alvarez E, Parshottam S, Prieto V, Lizée G, Wong MK, McQuade JL, Diab A, Yee C, Tawbi HA, Patel S, Shpall EJ, Davies MA, Hwu P, Bernatchez C. Randomized phase II trial of lymphodepletion plus adoptive cell transfer of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, with or without dendritic cell vaccination, in patients with metastatic melanoma. J Immunother Cancer 9(5), 2021. PMID: 34021033.
- Bentebibel SE,Diab A *Senior Corresponding Author. Cytokines in the Treatment of Melanoma. Curr Oncol Rep 23(7):83, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34003395.
- Abdelrahim M, Mamlouk O, Lin H, Lin J, Page V, Abdel-Wahab N, Swan J, Selamet U, Yee C, Diab A, Suki W, Abudayyeh A. Incidence, predictors, and survival impact of acute kidney injury in patients with melanoma treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a 10-year single-institution analysis. Oncoimmunology 10(1):1927313, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34104543.
- Ogata D, Haydu LE, Glitza IC, Patel SP, Tawbi HA, McQuade JL, Diab A, Ekmekcioglu S, Wong MK, Davies MA, Amaria RN. The efficacy of anti-programmed cell death protein 1 therapy among patients with metastatic acral and metastatic mucosal melanoma. Cancer Med 10(7):2293-2299, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33686688.
- Saberian C, Abdel-Wahab N, Abudayyeh A, Rafei H, Joseph J, Rondon G, Whited L, Gruschkus S, Fa'ak F, Daher M, Knape C, Safa H, Shoukier M, Suarez-Almazor ME, Marcotulli M, Ludford K, Gulbis AM, Konopleva M, Ohanian M, Ravandi F, Garcia-Manero G, Oran B, Popat UR, Mehta R, Alousi AM, Daver N, Champlin R, Al-Atrash G, Diab, A *Senior Corresponding Author. Post-transplantation cyclophosphamide reduces the incidence of acute graft-versus-host disease in patients with acute myeloid leukemia/myelodysplastic syndromes who receive immune checkpoint inhibitors after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. J Immunother Cancer 9(2), 2021. PMID: 33637601.
- Lin JS, Mamlouk O, Selamet U, Tchakarov A, Glass WF, Sheth RA, Layman RM, Dadu R, Abdel-Wahab N, Abdelrahim M, Diab A, Yee C, Abudayyeh A. Infliximab for the treatment of patients with checkpoint inhibitor-associated acute tubular interstitial nephritis. Oncoimmunology 10(1):1877415, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33643693.
- Abdel-Wahab N, Diab A, Yu RK, Futreal A, Criswell LA, Tayar JH, Dadu R, Shannon V, Shete SS, Suarez-Almazor ME. Genetic determinants of immune-related adverse events in patients with melanoma receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors. Cancer Immunol Immunother. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33409738.
- Grasso CS, Tsoi J, Onyshchenko M, Abril-Rodriguez G, Ross-Macdonald P, Wind-Rotolo M, Champhekar A, Medina E, Torrejon DY, Shin DS, Tran P, Kim YJ, Puig-Saus C, Campbell K, Vega-Crespo A, Quist M, Martignier C, Luke JJ, Wolchok JD, Johnson DB, Chmielowski B, Hodi FS, Bhatia S, Sharfman W, Urba WJ, Slingluff CL, Diab A, Haanen JBAG, Algarra SM, Pardoll DM, Anagnostou V, Topalian SL, Velculescu VE, Speiser DE, Kalbasi A, Ribas A. Conserved Interferon-γ Signaling Drives Clinical Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapy in Melanoma. Cancer Cell. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33306984.
- Murakami N, Mulvaney P, Danesh M, Abudayyeh A, Diab A, Abdel-Wahab N, Abdelrahim M, Khairallah P, Shirazian S, Kukla A, Owoyemi IO, Alhamad T, Husami S, Menon M, Santeusanio A, Blosser C, Zuniga SC, Soler MJ, Moreso F, Mithani Z, Ortiz-Melo D, Jaimes EA, Gutgarts V, Lum E, Danovitch GM, Cardarelli F, Drews RE, Bassil C, Swank JL, Westphal S, Mannon RB, Shirai K, Kitchlu A, Ong S, Machado SM, Mothi SS, Ott PA, Rahma O, Hodi FS, Sise ME, Gupta S, Leaf DE, Devoe CE, Wanchoo R, Nair VV, Schmults CD, Hanna GJ, Sprangers B, Riella LV, Jhaveri KD, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Solid Organ Transplant Consortium. A multi-center study on safety and efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer patients with kidney transplant. Kidney Int. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33359528.
- Safa H, Tamil M, Spiess PE, Manley B, Pow-Sang J, Gilbert S, Safa F, Gonzalez BD, Oswald LB, Semaan A, Diab A, Chahoud J. Patient Reported Outcomes in Clinical Trials Leading to Cancer Immunotherapy Drug Approvals from 2011 to 2018: A Systematic Review. J Natl Cancer Inst. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33146385.
- Barsoumian HB, Ramapriyan R, Younes AI, Caetano MS, Menon H, Comeaux NI, Cushman TR, Schoenhals JE, Cadena AP, Reilly TP, Chen D, Masrorpour F, Li A, Hong DS, Diab A, Nguyen QN, Glitza I, Ferrarotto R, Chun SG, Cortez MA, Welsh J. Low-dose radiation treatment enhances systemic antitumor immune responses by overcoming the inhibitory stroma. J Immunother Cancer 8(2), 2020. PMID: 33106386.
- Pelster MS, Gruschkus SK, Bassett R, Gombos DS, Shephard M, Posada L, Glover MS, Simien R, Diab A, Hwu P, Carter BW, Patel SP. Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Metastatic Uveal Melanoma: Results From a Single-Arm Phase II Study. J Clin Oncol:JCO2000605. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33125309.
- Diab A, Tannir NM, Bentebibel SE, Hwu P, Papadimitrakopoulou V, Haymaker C, Kluger HM, Gettinger SN, Sznol M, Tykodi SS, Curti BD, Tagliaferri MA, Zalevsky J, Hannah AL, Hoch U, Aung S, Fanton C, Rizwan A, Iacucci E, Liao Y, Bernatchez C, Hurwitz ME, Cho DC. Bempegaldesleukin (NKTR-214) plus Nivolumab in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors: Phase I Dose-Escalation Study of Safety, Efficacy, and Immune Activation (PIVOT-02). Cancer Discov 10(8):1158-1173, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32439653.
- Sheth RA, Murthy R, Hong DS, Patel S, Overman MJ, Diab A, Hwu P, Tam A. Assessment of Image-Guided Intratumoral Delivery of Immunotherapeutics in Patients With Cancer. JAMA Netw Open 3(7):e207911, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32725245.
- Khushalani NI, Diab A, Ascierto PA, Larkin J, Sandhu S, Sznol M, Koon HB, Jarkowski A, Zhou M, Statkevich P, Geese WJ, Long GV. Bempegaldesleukin plus nivolumab in untreated, unresectable or metastatic melanoma: Phase III PIVOT IO 001 study design. Future Oncol. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32723187.
- Haydu LE, Lo SN, McQuade JL, Amaria RN, Wargo J, Ross MI, Cormier JN, Lucci A, Lee JE, Ferguson SD, Saw RPM, Spillane AJ, Shannon KF, Stretch JR, Hwu P, Patel SP, Diab A, Wong MKK, Glitza Oliva IC, Tawbi H, Carlino MS, Menzies AM, Long GV, Lazar AJ, Tetzlaff MT, Scolyer RA, Gershenwald JE, Thompson JF, Davies MA. Cumulative Incidence and Predictors of CNS Metastasis for Patients With American Joint Committee on Cancer 8th Edition Stage III Melanoma. J Clin Oncol 38(13):JCO1901508, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 31990608.
- Ramani NS, Aung PP, Gu J, Sfamenos S, Sdringola-Maranga C, Nagarajan P, Tetzlaff MT, Curry JL, Ivan D, Diab A, Prieto VG, Hwu WJ, Torres-Cabala CA. TERT amplification but not activation of canonical Wnt/β-catenin pathway is involved in acral lentiginous melanoma progression to metastasis. Mod Pathol. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32404956.
- Lucci A, Hall CS, Patel SP, Narendran B, Bauldry JB, Royal RE, Karhade M, Upshaw JR, Wargo JA, Glitza IC, Wong MKK, Amaria RN, Tawbi HA, Diab A, Davies MA, Gershenwald JE, Lee JE, Hwu P, Ross MI. Circulating Tumor Cells and Early Relapse in Node-positive Melanoma. Clin Cancer Res 26(8):1886-1895, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32015020.
- Holbrook K, Lutzky J, Davies MA, Davis JM, Glitza IC, Amaria RN, Diab A, Patel SP, Amin A, Tawbi H. Intracranial antitumor activity with encorafenib plus binimetinib in patients with melanoma brain metastases: A case series. Cancer 126(3):523-530, 2020. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31658370.
- Appelbaum EN, Gross ND, Diab A, Bishop AJ, Nader ME, Gidley PW. Melanoma of the External Auditory Canal: A Review of Seven Cases at a Tertiary Care Referral Center. Laryngoscope. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32065414.
- Parisi G, Saco JD, Salazar FB, Tsoi J, Krystofinski P, Puig-Saus C, Zhang R, Zhou J, Cheung-Lau GC, Garcia AJ, Grasso CS, Tavaré R, Hu-Lieskovan S, Mackay S, Zalevsky J, Bernatchez C, Diab A, Wu AM, Comin-Anduix B, Charych D, Ribas A. Persistence of adoptively transferred T cells with a kinetically engineered IL-2 receptor agonist. Nat Commun 11(1):660, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32005809.
- Sharma M, Khong H, Fa'ak F, Bentebibel SE, Janssen LME, Chesson BC, Creasy CA, Forget MA, Kahn LMS, Pazdrak B, Karki B, Hailemichael Y, Singh M, Vianden C, Vennam S, Bharadwaj U, Tweardy DJ, Haymaker C, Bernatchez C, Huang S, Rajapakshe K, Coarfa C, Hurwitz ME, Sznol M, Hwu P, Hoch U, Addepalli M, Charych DH, Zalevsky J, Diab A, Overwijk WW. Bempegaldesleukin selectively depletes intratumoral Tregs and potentiates T cell-mediated cancer therapy. Nat Commun 11(1):661, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32005826.
- Welsh JW, Tang C, de Groot P, Naing A, Hess KR, Heymach JV, Papadimitrakopoulou VA, Cushman TR, Subbiah V, Chang JY, Simon GR, Ramapriyan R, Barsoumian HB, Menon H, Cortez MA, Massarelli E, Nguyen Q, Sharma P, Allison JP, Diab A, Verma V, Raju U, Shaaban SG, Dadu R, Cabanillas ME, Wang K, Anderson C, Gomez DR, Hahn S, Komaki R, Hong DS. Phase II Trial of Ipilimumab with Stereotactic Radiation Therapy for Metastatic Disease: Outcomes, Toxicities, and Low-Dose Radiation-Related Abscopal Responses. Cancer Immunol Res 7(12):1903-1909, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31658994.
- Pradhan D, Jour G, Milton D, Vasudevaraja V, Tetzlaff MT, Nagarajan P, Curry JL, Ivan D, Long L, Ding Y, Ezhilarasan R, Sulman EP, Diab A, Hwu WJ, Prieto VG, Torres-Cabala CA, Aung PP. Aberrant DNA Methylation Predicts Melanoma-Specific Survival in Patients with Acral Melanoma. Cancers (Basel) 11(12), 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31888295.
- Naing A, Wong DJ, Infante JR, Korn WM, Aljumaily R, Papadopoulos KP, Autio KA, Pant S, Bauer TM, Drakaki A, Daver NG, Hung A, Ratti N, McCauley S, Van Vlasselaer P, Verma R, Ferry D, Oft M, Diab A, Garon EB, Tannir NM. Pegilodecakin combined with pembrolizumab or nivolumab for patients with advanced solid tumors (IVY): a multicentre, multicohort, open-label, phase 1b trial. Lancet Oncol 20(11):1544-1555, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31563517.
- Safa H, Johnson DH, Trinh VA, Rodgers TE, Lin H, Suarez-Almazor ME, Fa'ak F, Saberian C, Yee C, Davies MA, Tummala S, Woodman K, Abdel-Wahab N, Diab A *Senior Corresponding Author. Immune checkpoint inhibitor related myasthenia gravis: single center experience and systematic review of the literature. J Immunother Cancer 7(1):319, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31753014.
- Menon H, Chen D, Ramapriyan R, Verma V, Barsoumian HB, Cushman TR, Younes AI, Cortez MA, Erasmus JJ, de Groot P, Carter BW, Hong DS, Glitza IC, Ferrarotto R, Altan M, Diab A, Chun SG, Heymach JV, Tang C, Nguyen QN, Welsh JW. Influence of low-dose radiation on abscopal responses in patients receiving high-dose radiation and immunotherapy. J Immunother Cancer 7(1):237, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31484556.
- Schvartsman G, Ma J, Bassett RL, Haydu LE, Amaria RN, Hwu P, Wong MK, Hwu WJ, Diab A, Patel SP, Davies MA, Hamerschlak N, Tawbi HA, Glitza Oliva IC. Incidence, patterns of progression, and outcomes of preexisting and newly discovered brain metastases during treatment with anti-PD-1 in patients with metastatic melanoma. Cancer. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31398264.
- Abu-Sbeih H, Ali FS, Qiao W, Lu Y, Patel S, Diab A, Wang Y. Immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced colitis as a predictor of survival in metastatic melanoma. Cancer Immunol Immunother 68(4):553-561, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30666357.
- Bentebibel SE, Hurwitz ME, Bernatchez C, Haymaker C, Hudgens CW, Kluger HM, Tetzlaff MT, Tagliaferri MA, Zalevsky J, Hoch U, Fanton C, Aung S, Hwu P, Curti BD, Tannir NM, Sznol M, Diab A Senior Correpsonding Author. A First-in-Human Study and Biomarker Analysis of NKTR-214, a Novel IL-2-Receptor Beta/Gamma (βγ)-Biased Cytokine, in Patients With Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors. Cancer Discov. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30988166.
- Abdel-Wahab N, Safa H, Abudayyeh A, Johnson DH, Trinh VA, Zobniw CM, Lin H, Wong MK, Abdelrahim M, Gaber AO, Suarez-Almazor ME, Diab A *Senior Corresponding Author. Checkpoint inhibitor therapy for cancer in solid organ transplantation recipients: an institutional experience and a systematic review of the literature. J Immunother Cancer 7(1):106, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30992053.
- Johnson D, Patel AB, Uemura MI, Trinh VA, Jackson N, Zobniw CM, Tetzlaff MT, Hwu P, Curry JL, Diab A *Senior Corresponding Author. IL17A Blockade Successfully Treated Psoriasiform Dermatologic Toxicity from Immunotherapy. Cancer Immunol Res. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30996018.
- Mamlouk O, Selamet U, Machado S, Abdelrahim M, Glass WF, Tchakarov A, Gaber L, Lahoti A, Workeneh B, Chen S, Lin J, Abdel-Wahab N, Tayar J, Lu H, Suarez-Almazor M, Tannir N, Yee C, Abudayyeh A,Diab A Senior Corresponding Author. Nephrotoxicity of immune checkpoint inhibitors beyond tubulointerstitial nephritis: single-center experience. J Immunother Cancer 7(1):2, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30612580.
- Amaria RN, Reddy SM, Tawbi HA, Davies MA, Ross MI, Glitza IC, Cormier JN, Lewis C, Hwu WJ, Hanna E, Diab A, Wong MK, Royal R, Gross N, Weber R, Lai SY, Ehlers R, Blando J, Milton DR, Woodman S, Kageyama R, Wells DK, Hwu P, Patel SP, Lucci A, Hessel A, Lee JE, Gershenwald J, Simpson L, Burton EM, Posada L, Haydu L, Wang L, Zhang S, Lazar AJ, Hudgens CW, Gopalakrishnan V, Reuben A, Andrews MC, Spencer CN, Prieto V, Sharma P, Allison J, Tetzlaff MT, Wargo JA. Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade in high-risk resectable melanoma. Nat Med 24(11):1649-1654, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30297909.
- Morikawa A, Wang R, Patil S, Diab A, Yang J, Hudis CA, McArthur HL, Beal K, Seidman AD. Characteristics and Prognostic Factors for Patients With HER2-overexpressing Breast Cancer and Brain Metastases in the Era of HER2-targeted Therapy: An Argument for Earlier Detection. Clin Breast Cancer 18(5):353-361, 2018. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29337140.
- Chen WS, Tetzlaff MT, Diwan H, Jahan-Tigh R, Diab A, Nelson K, Glitza IC, Kaunitz GJ, Johnson D, Torres-Cabala C, Pacha O, Taube JM, Maloney K, Prieto VG, Curry JL. Suprabasal acantholytic dermatologic toxicities associated checkpoint inhibitor therapy: A spectrum of immune reactions from paraneoplastic pemphigus-like to Grover-like lesions. J Cutan Pathol 45(10):764-773, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29943453.
- Arudra K, Patel R, Tetzlaff MT, Hymes S, Subbiah V, Meric-Bernstam F, Torres-Cabala C, Aung PP, Nagarajan P, Diab A, Prieto VG, Nelson K, Curry JL. Calcinosis cutis dermatologic toxicity associated with fibroblast growth factor receptor inhibitor for the treatment of Wilms tumor. J Cutan Pathol 45(10):786-790, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30021048.
- Iyer PC, Cabanillas ME, Waguespack SG, Hu MI, Thosani S, Lavis VR, Busaidy NL, Subudhi SK, Diab A, Dadu R. Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor mediated Thyroiditis. Thyroid 28(10):1243-1251, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30132401.
- Johnson DH, Zobniw CM, Trinh VA, Ma J, Bassett RL, Abdel-Wahab N, Anderson J, Davis JE, Joseph J, Uemura M, Noman A, Abu-Sbeih H, Yee C, Amaria R, Patel S, Tawbi H, Glitza IC, Davies MA, Wong MK, Woodman S, Hwu WJ, Hwu P, Wang Y, Diab A *Senior Contributing Author. Infliximab associated with faster symptom resolution compared with corticosteroids alone for the management of immune-related enterocolitis. J Immunother Cancer 6(1):103, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30305177.
- Wang Y, Abu-Sbeih H, Mao E, Ali N, Qiao W, Trinh VA, Zobniw C, Johnson DH, Samdani R, Lum P, Shuttlesworth G, Blechacz B, Bresalier R, Miller E, Thirumurthi S, Richards D, Raju G, Stroehlein J, Diab A *Senior Corresponding Author. Endoscopic and Histologic features of Immune Checkpoint inhibitor-related colitis. Inflamm Bowel Dis 24(8):1695-1705, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29718308.
- D'souza NM, Nguyen HD, Smith SV, Nagarajan P, Diab A, Allen RC, Gombos DS, Lee AG. Metastatic Melanoma of the Optic Nerve Sheath. Neuroophthalmology 42(3):187-190, 2018. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29796055.
- Méndez E, Rodriguez CP, Kao MC, Raju S, Diab A, Harbison RA, Konnick EQ, Mugundu GM, Santana-Davila R, Martins R, Futran ND, Chow LQM. A Phase I Clinical Trial of AZD1775 in Combination with Neoadjuvant Weekly Docetaxel and Cisplatin before Definitive Therapy in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res 24(12):2740-2748, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29535125.
- Wang Y, Abu-Sbeih H, Mao E, Ali N, Ali FS, Qiao W, Lum P, Raju G, Shuttlesworth G, Stroehlein J, Diab A *Senior Corresponding Author. Immune-checkpoint inhibitor-induced diarrhea and colitis in patients with advanced malignancies: retrospective review at MD Anderson. J Immunother Cancer 6(1):37, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29747688.
- Forget MA, Haymaker C, Hess KR, Meng YJ, Creasy C, Karpinets T, Fulbright OJ, Roszik J, Woodman SE, Kim YU, Sakellariou-Thompson D, Bhatta A, Wahl A, Flores E, Thorsen ST, Tavera RJ, Ramachandran R, Gonzalez AM, Toth CL, Wardell S, Mansaray R, Patel V, Carpio DJ, Vaughn C, Farinas CM, Velasquez PG, Hwu WJ, Patel SP, Davies MA, Diab A, Glitza IC, Tawbi H, Wong MK, Cain S, Ross MI, Lee JE, Gershenwald JE, Lucci A, Royal R, Cormier JN, Wargo JA, Radvanyi LG, Torres-Cabala CA, Beroukhim R, Hwu P, Amaria RN, Bernatchez C. Prospective analysis of adoptive TIL therapy in patients with metastatic melanoma: response, impact of anti-CTLA4, and biomarkers to predict clinical outcome. Clin Cancer Res. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29848573.
- Niknam S, Barsoumian HB, Schoenhals JE, Jackson H, Yanamandra N, Caetano MS, Li A, Younes AI, Cadena AP, Cushman TR, Chang JY, Nguyen Q, Gomez DR, Diab A, Heymach JV, Hwu P, Cortez MA, Welsh JW. Radiation followed by OX40 stimulation drives local and abscopal antitumor effects in an anti-PD1-resistant lung tumor model. Clin Cancer Res. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29784675.
- Amaria RN, Prieto PA, Tetzlaff MT, Reuben A, Andrews MC, Ross MI, Glitza IC, Cormier J, Hwu WJ, Tawbi HA, Patel SP, Lee JE, Gershenwald JE, Spencer CN, Gopalakrishnan V, Bassett R, Simpson L, Mouton R, Hudgens CW, Zhao L, Zhu H, Cooper ZA, Wani K, Lazar A, Hwu P, Diab A, Wong MK, McQuade JL, Royal R, Lucci A, Burton EM, Reddy S, Sharma P, Allison J, Futreal PA, Woodman SE, Davies MA, Wargo JA. Neoadjuvant plus adjuvant dabrafenib and trametinib versus standard of care in patients with high-risk, surgically resectable melanoma: a single-centre, open-label, randomised, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol 19(2):181-193, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29361468.
- Tetzlaff MT, Nelson KC, Diab A, Staerkel GA, Nagarajan P, Torres-Cabala CA, Chasen BA, Wargo JA, Prieto VG, Amaria RN, Curry JL. Granulomatous/sarcoid-like lesions associated with checkpoint inhibitors: a marker of therapy response in a subset of melanoma patients. J Immunother Cancer 6(1):14, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29433571.
- Gopalakrishnan V, Spencer CN, Nezi L, Reuben A, Andrews MC, Karpinets TV, Prieto PA, Vicente D, Hoffman K, Wei SC, Cogdill AP, Zhao L, Hudgens CW, Hutchinson DS, Manzo T, Petaccia de Macedo M, Cotechini T, Kumar T, Chen WS, Reddy SM, Szczepaniak Sloane R, Galloway-Pena J, Jiang H, Chen PL, Shpall EJ, Rezvani K, Alousi AM, Chemaly RF, Shelburne S, Vence LM, Okhuysen PC, Jensen VB, Swennes AG, McAllister F, Marcelo Riquelme Sanchez E, Zhang Y, Le Chatelier E, Zitvogel L, Pons N, Austin-Breneman JL, Haydu LE, Burton EM, Gardner JM, Sirmans E, Hu J, Lazar AJ, Tsujikawa T, Diab A, Tawbi H, Glitza IC, Hwu WJ, Patel SP, Woodman SE, Amaria RN, Davies MA, Gershenwald JE, Hwu P, Lee JE, Zhang J, Coussens LM, Cooper ZA, Futreal PA, Daniel CR, Ajami NJ, Petrosino JF, Tetzlaff MT, Sharma P, Allison JP, Jenq RR, Wargo JA. Gut microbiome modulates response to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in melanoma patients. Science 359(6371):97-103, 2018. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29097493.
- Glitza IC, Rohlfs M, Guha-Thakurta N, Bassett RL, Bernatchez C, Diab A, Woodman SE, Yee C, Amaria RN, Patel SP, Tawbi H, Wong M, Hwu WJ, Hwu P, Heimberger A, McCutcheon IE, Papadopoulos N, Davies MA. Retrospective review of metastatic melanoma patients with leptomeningeal disease treated with intrathecal interleukin-2. ESMO Open 3(1):e000283, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29387478.
- Diab A*, Puzanov I*(*Authors contributed equally), Bingham III CO, Abdallah K, Brogden C, Dadu R, Hamad L, Kim S, Lacouture ME, LeBoeuf NR, Lenihan D, Onofrei C, Shannon V, Sharma R, Skondra D, Suarez-Almazor ME, Wang Y, Wiley K, Kaufman HK, Ernstoff MS. Managing toxicities associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: Consensus recommendations from the Society for Immunotherapy for Cancer (SITC) Toxicity Management Working Group. J Immunother Cancer. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29162153.
- Singh M, Vianden C, Cantwell MJ, Dai Z, Xiao Z, Sharma M, Khong H, Jaiswal AR, Faak F, Hailemichael Y, Janssen LME, Bharadwaj U, Curran MA, Diab A, Bassett RL, Tweardy DJ, Hwu P, Overwijk WW. Intratumoral CD40 activation and checkpoint blockade induces T cell-mediated eradication of melanoma in the brain. Nat Commun 8(1):1447, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29129918.
- Mauzo S, Tetzlaff M, Nelson K, Amaria R, Patel S, Aung P, Nagarajan P, Torres-Cabala C, Diab A, Prieto V, Curry J. Regressed melanocytic nevi secondary to pembrolizumab therapy: an emerging melanocytic dermatologic effect from immune checkpoint antibody blockade. International Journal of Dermatology. e-Pub 2017.
- Tetzlaff MT, Jazaeri AA, Torres-Cabala CA, Korivi BR, Landon GA, Nagarajan P, Choksi A, Chen L, Uemura M, Aung PP, Diab A, Sharma P, Davies MA, Amaria R, Prieto VG, Curry JL. Erythema nodosum-like panniculitis mimicking disease recurrence: A novel toxicity from immune checkpoint blockade therapy-Report of 2 patients. J Cutan Pathol. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28901560.
- Kim ST, Tayar J, Trinh VA, Suarez-Almazor M, Garcia S, Hwu P, Johnson DH, Uemura M, Diab A, *Senior Corresponding Author. Successful treatment of arthritis induced by checkpoint inhibitors with tocilizumab: a case series. Ann Rheum Dis. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28830882.
- Tang C, Welsh JW, de Groot P, Massarelli E, Chang JY, Hess KR, Basu S, Curran MA, Cabanillas ME, Subbiah V, Fu S, Tsimberidou AM, Karp D, Gomez DR, Diab A, Komaki R, Heymach JV, Sharma P, Naing A, Hong DS. Ipilimumab with stereotactic ablative radiation therapy: Phase I results and immunologic correlates from peripheral T-cells. Clin Cancer Res 23(6):1388-1396, 2017. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27649551.
- Roh W, Chen PL, Reuben A, Spencer CN, Prieto PA, Miller JP, Gopalakrishnan V, Wang F, Cooper ZA, Reddy SM, Gumbs C, Little L, Chang Q, Chen WS, Wani K, De Macedo MP, Chen E, Austin-Breneman JL, Jiang H, Roszik J, Tetzlaff MT, Davies MA, Gershenwald JE, Tawbi H, Lazar AJ, Hwu P, Hwu WJ, Diab A, Glitza IC, Patel SP, Woodman SE, Amaria RN, Prieto VG, Hu J, Sharma P, Allison JP, Chin L, Zhang J, Wargo JA, Futreal PA. Integrated molecular analysis of tumor biopsies on sequential CTLA-4 and PD-1 blockade reveals markers of response and resistance. Sci Transl Med 9(379), 2017. PMID: 28251903.
- Tetzlaff MT, Nagarajan P, Chon S, Huen A, Diab A, Omar P, Aung PP, Torres-Cabala CA, Mays SR, Prieto VG, Curry JL. Lichenoid Dermatologic Toxicity from Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapy: A Detailed Examination of the Clinicopathologic Features. Am J Dermatopathol 39(2):121-129, 2017. PMID: 28134729.
- Curry JL, Tetzlaff MT, Nagarajan P, Drucker C, Diab A, Hymes SR, Duvic M, Hwu WJ, Wargo JA, Torres-Cabala CA, Rapini RP, Prieto VG. Diverse types of dermatologic toxicities from immune checkpoint blockade therapy. J Cutan Pathol 44(2):158-176, 2017. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27859479.
- Haymaker CL, Kim D, Uemura M, Vence LM, Phillip A, McQuail N, Brown PD, Fernandez I, Hudgens CW, Creasy C, Hwu WJ, Sharma P, Tetzlaff MT, Allison JP, Hwu P, Bernatchez C, Diab A, *Senior Corresponding Author. Metastatic Melanoma Patient Had a Complete Response with Clonal Expansion after Whole Brain Radiation and PD-1 Blockade. Cancer Immunol Res 5(2):100-105, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28062513.
- Kim DW, Uemura M, Diab, A *Senior Corresponding Author. Comprehensive Review of PD1/L1 Inhibition in Metastatic Solid Tumors: Safety, Efficacy and Resistance. Journal of Biomedical Sciences 6(2:14), 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Uemura M, Diab A *Senior Corresponding Author. Beyond systemic anti PD-1 and anti CTLA-4 in advanced Melanoma. Is intratumoral therapy the answer. Clinics and Oncology. e-Pub 2017.
- Adusumilli PS, Cha E, Cornfeld M, Davis T, Diab A, Dubensky TW, Evans E, Grogan JL, Irving BA, Leidner RS, Olwill SA, Soon-Shiong P, Triebel F, Tuck D, Bot A, Dansey RD, Drake CG, Freeman GJ, Ibrahim R, Patel S, Chen DS. New Cancer Immunotherapy Agents in Development: a report from an associated program of the 31(st)Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, 2016. J Immunother Cancer 5:50, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28649381.
- Reuben A, Spencer CN, Prieto PA, Gopalakrishnan V, Reddy SM, Miller JP, Mao X, De Macedo MP, Chen J, Song X, Jiang H, Chen PL, Beird HC, Garber HR, Roh W, Wani K, Chen E, Haymaker C, Forget MA, Little LD, Gumbs C, Thornton RL, Hudgens CW, Chen WS, Austin-Breneman J, Sloane RS, Nezi L, Cogdill AP, Bernatchez C, Roszik J, Hwu P, Woodman SE, Chin L, Tawbi H, Davies MA, Gershenwald JE, Amaria RN, Glitza IC, Diab A, Patel SP, Hu J, Lee JE, Grimm EA, Tetzlaff MT, Lazar AJ, Wistuba II, Clise-Dwyer K, Carter BW, Zhang J, Futreal PA, Sharma P, Allison JP, Cooper ZA, Wargo JA. Genomic and immune heterogeneity are associated with differential responses to therapy in melanoma. NPJ Genom Med 2, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28819565.
- Diab A ,McArthur HL, Page DB, Yuan J, Solomon SB, Sacchini V, Comstock C, Durack JC, Maybody M, Sung J, Ginsberg A, Wong P, Barlas A, Dong Z, Zhao C, Blum B, Patil S, Neville D, Comen EA, Morris EA, Kotin A, Brogi E, Wen YH, Morrow M, Lacouture ME, Sharma P, Allison JP, Hudis CA, Wolchok JD, Norton L. A pilot study of preoperative single-dose ipilimumab and/or cryoablation in women with early-stage breast cancer with comprehensive immune profiling. Clin Cancer Res 22(23):5729-5737, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27566765.
- Page DB, Yuan J, Redmond D, Wen YH, Durack JC, Emerson R, Solomon S, Dong Z, Wong P, Comstock C, Diab A, Sung J, Maybody M, Morris E, Brogi E, Morrow M, Sacchini V, Elemento O, Robins H, Patil S, Allison JP, Wolchok JD, Hudis C, Norton L, McArthur HL. Deep Sequencing of T-cell Receptor DNA as a Biomarker of Clonally Expanded TILs in Breast Cancer after Immunotherapy. Cancer Immunol Res 4(10):835-844, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27587469.
- Uemura M, Trinh VA, Haymaker C, Jackson N, Kim DW, Allison JP, Sharma P, Vence L, Bernatchez C, Hwu P, Diab A *Senior Corresponding Author. Selective inhibition of autoimmune exacerbation while preserving the anti-tumor clinical benefit using IL-6 blockade in a patient with advanced melanoma and Crohn's disease: a case report. J Hematol Oncol 9(1):81, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27595932.
- Chen G, McQuade JL, Panka DJ, Hudgens CW, Amin-Mansour A, Mu XJ, Bahl S, Jané-Valbuena J, Wani KM, Reuben A, Creasy CA, Jiang H, Cooper ZA, Roszik J, Bassett RL, Joon AY, Simpson LM, Mouton RD, Glitza IC, Patel SP, Hwu WJ, Amaria RN, Diab A, Hwu P, Lazar AJ, Wargo JA, Garraway LA, Tetzlaff MT, Sullivan RJ, Kim KB, Davies MA. Clinical, Molecular, and Immune Analysis of Dabrafenib-Trametinib Combination Treatment for BRAF Inhibitor-Refractory Metastatic Melanoma: A Phase 2 Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol 2(8):1056-64, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27124486.
- Chen PL, Roh W, Reuben A, Cooper ZA, Spencer CN, Prieto PA, Miller JP, Bassett RL, Gopalakrishnan V, Wani K, De Macedo MP, Austin-Breneman JL, Jiang H, Chang Q, Reddy SM, Chen WS, Tetzlaff MT, Broaddus RJ, Davies MA, Gershenwald JE, Haydu L, Lazar AJ, Patel SP, Hwu P, Hwu WJ, Diab A, Glitza IC, Woodman SE, Vence LM, Wistuba II, Amaria RN, Kwong LN, Prieto V, Davis RE, Ma W, Overwijk WW, Sharpe AH, Hu J, Futreal PA, Blando J, Sharma P, Allison JP, Chin L, Wargo JA. Analysis of Immune Signatures in Longitudinal Tumor Samples Yields Insight into Biomarkers of Response and Mechanisms of Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Blockade. Cancer Discov 6(8):827-37, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27301722.
- Cooper ZA, Reuben A, Spencer CN, Prieto PA, Austin-Breneman JL, Jiang H, Haymaker C, Gopalakrishnan V, Tetzlaff MT, Frederick DT, Sullivan RJ, Amaria RN, Patel SP, Hwu P, Woodman SE, Glitza IC, Diab A, Vence LM, Rodriguez-Canales J, Parra ER, Wistuba II, Coussens LM, Sharpe AH, Flaherty KT, Gershenwald JE, Chin L, Davies MA, Clise-Dwyer K, Allison JP, Sharma P, Wargo JA. Distinct clinical patterns and immune infiltrates are observed at time of progression on targeted therapy versus immune checkpoint blockade for melanoma. Oncoimmunology 5(3):e1136044, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27141370.
- Uemura M, Faisal F, Haymaker C, McQuail N, Sirmans E, Hudgens CW, Barbara L, Bernatchez C, Curry JL, Hwu P, Tetzlaff MT, Diab A*Senior Corresponding Author. A case report of Grover's disease from immunotherapy-a skin toxicity induced by inhibition of CTLA-4 but not PD-1. J Immunother Cancer 4:55, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27660709.
- Siroy AE, Boland GM, Milton DR, Roszik J, Frankian S, Malke J, Haydu L, Prieto VG, Tetzlaff M, Ivan D, Wang WL, Torres-Cabala C, Curry J, Roy-Chowdhuri S, Broaddus R, Rashid A, Stewart J, Gershenwald JE, Amaria RN, Patel SP, Papadopoulos NE, Bedikian A, Hwu WJ, Hwu P, Diab A, Woodman SE, Aldape KD, Luthra R, Patel KP, Shaw KR, Mills GB, Mendelsohn J, Meric-Bernstam F, Kim KB, Routbort MJ, Lazar AJ, Davies MA. Clinical Mutation Panel Testing by Next-Generation Sequencing in Advanced Melanoma. J Invest Dermatol 135(2):508-15, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25148578.
- Tang C, Wang X, Soh H, Seyedin S, Cortez MA, Krishnan S, Massarelli E, Hong D, Naing A, Diab A, Gomez D, Ye H, Heymach J, Komaki R, Allison JP, Sharma P, Welsh JW. Combining Radiation and Immunotherapy: A New Systemic Therapy for Solid Tumors?. Cancer Immunol Res 2(9):831-838, 2014. PMID: 25187273.
- Diab A, Zickl L, Abdel-Wahab O, Jhanwar S, Gulam MA, Panageas KS, Patel JP, Jurcic J, Maslak P, Paietta E, Mangan JK, Carroll M, Fernandez HF, Teruya-Feldstein J, Luger SM, Douer D, Litzow MR, Lazarus HM, Rowe JM, Levine RL, Tallman MS. Acute myeloid leukemia with translocation t(8;16) presents with features which mimic acute promyelocytic leukemia and is associated with poor prognosis. Leuk Res 37(1):32-6, 2013. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 23102703.
- Diab A, Jenq RR, Rizzuto GA, Cohen AD, Huggins DW, Merghoub T, Engelhorn ME, Guevara-Patiño JA, Suh D, Hubbard-Lucey VM, Kochman AA, Chen S, Zhong H, Wolchok JD, van den Brink MR, Houghton AN, Perales MA. Enhanced responses to tumor immunization following total body irradiation are time-dependent. PLoS One 8(12):e82496, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24349298.
- Diab A, Norton L, Solomon S, Allison J, McArthur H. Interventional Immunotherapy in Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer Management 1(4):257-260, 2012. e-Pub 2012.
- Cohen AD, Schaer DA, Liu C, Li Y, Hirschhorn-Cymmerman D, Kim SC, Diab A, Rizzuto G, Duan F, Perales MA, Merghoub T, Houghton AN, Wolchok JD. Agonist anti-GITR monoclonal antibody induces melanoma tumor immunity in mice by altering regulatory T cell stability and intra-tumor accumulation. PLoS One 5(5):e10436, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20454651.
- Jenq RR, King CG, Volk C, Suh D, Smith OM, Rao UK, Yim NL, Holland AM, Lu SX, Zakrzewski JL, Goldberg GL, Diab A, Alpdogan O, Penack O, Na IK, Kappel LW, Wolchok JD, Houghton AN, Perales MA, van den Brink MR. Keratinocyte growth factor enhances DNA plasmid tumor vaccine responses after murine allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Blood 113(7):1574-80, 2009. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 19011222.
- Zakrzewski JL, Kochman AA, Lu SX, Terwey TH, Kim TD, Hubbard VM, Muriglan SJ, Suh D, Smith OM, Grubin J, Patel N, Chow A, Cabrera-Perez J, Radhakrishnan R, Diab A, Perales MA, Rizzuto G, Menet E, Pamer EG, Heller G, Zúñiga-Pflücker JC, Alpdogan O, van den Brink MR. Adoptive transfer of T-cell precursors enhances T-cell reconstitution after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Nat Med 12(9):1039-47, 2006. e-Pub 2006. PMID: 16936725.
- Diab A, Perales MA, Cohen AD, Huggins DW, Guevara-Patiño JA, Hubbard VM, Engelhorn ME, Kochman AA, Eng JM, Mortazavi F, Alpdogan O, Terwey TH, Heller G, Wolchok JD, Houghton AN, van den Brink MR. DNA immunization against tissue-restricted antigens enhances tumor immunity after allogeneic hemopoietic stem cell transplantation. J Immunol 177(6):4159-67, 2006. PMID: 16951381.
- Cohen AD, Diab A, Perales MA, Wolchok JD, Rizzuto G, Merghoub T, Huggins D, Liu C, Turk MJ, Restifo NP, Sakaguchi S, Houghton AN. Agonist anti-GITR antibody enhances vaccine-induced CD8(+) T-cell responses and tumor immunity. Cancer Res 66(9):4904-12, 2006. PMID: 16651447.
- Diab A, Cohen AD, Alpdogan O, Perales MA. IL-15: targeting CD8+ T cells for immunotherapy. Cytotherapy 7(1):23-35, 2005. PMID: 16040381.
- Morecki S, Yacovlev E, Diab A, Slavin S. Allogeneic cell therapy for a murine mammary carcinoma. Cancer Res 58(17):3891-5, 1998. PMID: 9731499.
Invited Articles
- Suarez-Almazor ME, Kim ST, Abdel-Wahab N, Diab A, *Senior Author. Review: Immune-Related Adverse Events With Use of Checkpoint Inhibitors for Immunotherapy of Cancer. Arthritis Rheumatol 69(4):687-699, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28085999.
- Dadu R, Zobniw C, Diab A. Managing Adverse Events with Immune Checkpoint Agents. Cancer J 22(2):121-9, 2016. PMID: 27111908.
Manuals, Teaching Aids, Other Teaching Publications
- Ernstoff M, Puzanov I, Robert C, Diab A, Hersey P. SITC's Guide to Managing Immunotherapy Toxicity. Demos Medical, 2019.
Other Articles
- Diab, A Therapies beyond checkpoint inhibition. Melanoma Horizons(21):3.
Abstracts
- Diab A, Tykodi S, Brendan C, Cho D, Wong M, Puzanov I, Lewis K, Maio M, Daniels G, Spira A, Tagliaferri M, Hannah A, Clemens W, Imperiale M, Bernatchez C, Haymaker C, Bentebibel S, Zalevsky J, Hoch U, Fanton C, Rizwan A, Aung S, Cattaruzza F, Iaccucci E, Sawka D, Bilen M, Lorigan P, Grignani G, Larkin J, Jang S, Kalinka-Warzocha E, Sznol M, Hurwitz M. Immune monitoring after NKTR-214 plus nivolumab (PIVOT-02) in previously untreated patients with metastatic Stage IV melanoma. SITC Cancer 2018, 2018.
- Cara Haymaker, Dae Won Kim, Marc Uemura, Luis Vence, Ann Philip, Natalie McQuail, Paul Brown, Irina Fernandez, Courtney Hudgens, Caitlin Creasy, Wen-Jen Hwu, Padmanee Sharma, Michael Tetzlaff, James Allison, Patrick Hwu, Chantale Bernatchez, Diab A. Metastatic melanoma patient had complete response with clonal expansion after whole brain radiation and PD-1 blockade. Cancer Immunology Researh, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- I Mian, M Yang, H Zhao, M Shah, Diab A, V Shannon, A Patel, R N Amaria, S H Giordano, M E Suarez-Almazor. Immune-related adverse events and survival in elderly patients with melanoma treated with ipilimumab. ASCO 2016 Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Diab A, Martin A, Simpson L, Algazi AP, Chawla P, Kim DW, Santra S, Patel V, Jadhav N, Abhyankar D, Davies MA, Buch SC, Kim K, Daud A. Phase I trial of the CDK 4/6 inhibitor, P1446A-05 (voruciclib) in combination with the BRAF inhibitor (BRAFi), vemurafenib in advanced, BRAF-mutant melanoma. ASCO. e-Pub 2015.
- Page D, Diab A, Yuan J, Dong Z, Emerson R, Robins H, Redmond D, Zhao , Mu Z, Wong P, Solomon S, Sacchini V, Morrow M, Brogi E, Patil S, Wolchok J, Hudis C, Norton L, Allison J, McArthur H. T-Cell receptor (TCR) DNA deep sequencing to evaluate clonality of tumor-infiltrating lyphocytes (TILs) in ealry stage breast cancer patients (pts) receiving preoperative cryoablation (cryo) and/or ipilimumab (ipi). J Clin Oncol, 2014.
- Glitza I, Bernatchez C, Bassett R, Vaughn C, Velasquez P, Diab A, Amaria R, Yee C, Woodman S, Patel S, Kim K, Davies M, Papadopolous N, Bedikian A, Hwu WJ, Radvanyi L, Hwu P. Treatment with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) in metastatic melanoma and clinical benefit regardless o site of origin, mutation status, or prior checkpoint blockade. J Clin Oncol, 2014.
- Diab A, Mcarthur H, Soomon S, Sacchini V, comstock C, Maybody M, durack J, Blum B, Yuan J, Patil S, Neville D, Comen E, Morris E, Kotin A, Brogi E, Morrow M, Allison J, Hudis C, Norton L, Wolchok J. A Pilot study o preoperative (Pre-op), single-dose ipilimumab (ipi) and/or cryoablation (Cryo) in women (pts) with early-stage/resectable breast cancer (ESBC). J Clin Oncol, 2014.
- Diab A, Solomon S, Comstock C, Maybody M, Sacchini V, Durack J, Blum B, Yuan J, Patil S, Nevile D, Sung J, Kotin A, Morris E, Brogi E, Morow M, Wolchak J, Allison J, Hudis C, Norton L, McArthur H. A Pilot Study of single-Dose Ipilimumab and/or Cryoablation in Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer Scheduled for Mastectomy, 2013.
- Morikawa A, Diab A, Patil S, Forte V, Blum B, Beal K, Hudis C, Seidman A, McArthur H,. Radiation Therapy for Brast Cancer (BC) with Central Nervous System (CNS) Metastases: a contemporary experience at Memorial Sloan-Kettering cancer center (MSKCC), 2013.
- Diab A, Soloman S, Comstock C, Maybody M, Sacshini V, Durack J, Blum B, Yuan J, Patil S, Nevile D, Sung J, Kotin A, Morris E, Brogi E, Morrow M, Wolchok J Allison J, Hudis C, Norton L, McArthur H. A pilot Study of Single-dose Ipilimumab and/or Cryoablation in Women with early-stage Breast Cancer Scheduled for Mastectomy 31(26), 2013.
- Diab A, McArthur H, Soloman S, Comstock C, Maybody M, sacchini V, Durack J, Blum B, Yuan J, Patil S, Nevile D, Sung J, Kotin A, Morris E, Brogi E, Morrow M, Wolchok J, Allison J, Hudis C, Norton L,. A Pilot Study of Single-Dose Ipilimumab and/or Cryoablation in Women with Early-stage Breast Cancer scheduled for Mastectomy 72(24), 2012.
- Jhanwar S, Diab A, Zickl L, Manji G, Patel J, Abde-Wahab OI, Jurcic JG, Maslak PG, Steinherz PG, Paietta E, Feldstein J, Levine RL, Tallman MS. Cytomorphologic and clinical features of AML with translocation (8;16) mimicking APL, 2011.
- | Diab A, G. Ragupathi, WW Scholz, K. Panageas, C. Hudis, PO Livingston, T. Gilewski. A pilot study of vaccination with sialyl Lewisa (sLea)–keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) conjugate plus the immunologic adjuvant QS-21 in metastatic breast cancer patients (pts). ASCO Annual meeting 2011, 2011. e-Pub 2011.
- Rizzuto G, Diab A, Hirschhorn D, erghoub T, Perales MA, Houghton AN,. Less is more: Relevance of specific CD8+ T cell precursor frequency to the generation of anti-tumor immunity. Intracellular Signaling in dendritic cell function, 2007.
- Perales MA, Diab A, Sharon V, Goldberg S, Huggins D, Wolchok J,. DNA Immunization aganst Tumor Antigens using Biojector 2000, a Needle-Free injection Device, in Pre-Clinical Models, 2006.
- Diab A*, Perales M* (*contributed equally), Cohen A, Huggins D, Hubbard VM, Kochman A, Engelhorn M, Guevarra JA, Wolchok JD, Van Den B, Houghton AN. Dna Immunization against Tumor antigens during Homeostatic T-cell Proliferation povides tumor free survival in an established tumor model. Cancer Vaccines/Adjuvants/Delivery for the Next Decade, 2005.
- Cohen A, Diab A, Perales MA, Wolckok J, Huggins D, Liu M, Turk M, Sakaguchi S, Houghton A. An Agonist anti-GITR antibody enhances efector and memory CD8 T cell responses and tumor immunity following xenogeneic DNA vaccination with Melanoma differentiation antigens, 2005.
- Perales MA, Diab A, Huggins D, Hubbard VM, Kochman A, Engelhorn M, Guevarra JA, Alpdogan O, HOughton AN, Van Den B,. DNA vaccination and adoptive cell therapy against Melanoma antigens enhances tumor immunity in mouse models of allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), 2005.
- Diab A, Hubbard VM, Cohen A, Huggins D, Kochman A, Guevarra JA, Engelhorn M, Wolchok JD, Van Den B, Houghton AN, Perales MA,. DNA Immunization Against Melanoma Antigens Enhances Tumor Immunity in Mice Following Sub-Lethal Irradiation and Immune Reconstitution, 2004.
- Diab A, Perales MA, Cohen A, Hubbard VM, Eng , Huggins D, Engelhorn M, Guevara JA, Wolchok JD, Houghton AN, Van Den B,. DNA Immunization Against Melanoma Antigens Enhances Tumor Immunity in Mouse Models of Allogenic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT), 2004.
Books (edited and written)
- Diab A. SITC's Guide to Managing Immunotherapy Toxicity. Springer Publishing Company, 2019.
Grant & Contract Support
Title: | A Phase 1/2 Study to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of Intratumoral IMO-2125 in Combination with Ipilimumab in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma |
Funding Source: | Idera Pharmaceuticals |
Role: | Principal Investigator |
Title: | A Phase 3, Randomized, Open-label study of NKTR-214 combined with Nivolumab versus Nivolumab in participants with previously untreated unresectable or metastatic melanoma |
Funding Source: | Bristol-Myers Squibb |
Role: | Investigator |
Title: | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center SPORE in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Project 1: Targeting the PD-1 Pathway in HCC |
Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
Role: | Co-Investigator |
Title: | IL-1 in Innate and Acquired Resistance to Immunotherapy in Melanoma |
Funding Source: | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) |
Role: | Co-Investigator |
Title: | Strategic Alliance: A Phase 1/2, Open-Label, Multicenter Study for the Combination of NKTR-214 and Nivolumab or the combination of NKTR-214, Nivolumab, and Ipilimumab in Patients with Select Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumor Malignancies |
Funding Source: | Nektar Therapeutics |
Role: | Principal Investigator |
Title: | A Phase II Study to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of Tocilizumab in combination with Ipilimumab and Nivolumab in Patients with Advanced Melanoma, Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, or Urothelial Carcinoma |
Funding Source: | Prioritizing Research Innovation and Mentoring Excellence |
Role: | Principal Investigator |
Title: | Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) treatment for immune checkpoint inhibitor–mediated colitis |
Funding Source: | Gateway for Cancer Research |
Role: | Co-Investigator |
Title: | Increasing checkpoint blockade antitumor efficacy without exacerbating autoimmune disease |
Funding Source: | Department of Defense (DOD) |
Role: | Co-Investigator |
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CV information above last modified August 30, 2024