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Sattva S. Neelapu, M.D.

Present Title & Affiliation

Primary Appointment

Assistant Professor, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Education & Training

Degree-Granting Education

1991 Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India, M.B., B.S., Medicine

Postgraduate Training

7/2001-3/2004 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tumor Immunology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
7/1998-6/2001 Clinical Fellowship, Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
7/1992-6/1995 Clinical Residency, Internal Medicine, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY

Board Certifications

2000 American Board of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology
1995 American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles
1. Park HJ, Neelapu SS. Developing idiotype vaccines for lymphoma: From preclinical studies to Phase III clinical trials. Br J Haematol 142((2)):179-91, 7/2008. e-Pub 4/2008. NIHMSID: NIHMS41463.
2. Lee ST, Liu S, Radvanyi L, Sukhumalchandra P, Molldrem JJ, Wieder ED, Hwu P, Liu YJ, Kwak LW, Lizée G, Neelapu SS. A novel strategy for rapid and efficient isolation of human tumor-specific CD4(+) and CD8(+) T-cell clones. J Immunol Methods 331(1-2):13-26, 2/2008. e-Pub 10/2007. PMCID: PMC2265521.
3. Neelapu SS, Gause BL, Harvey L, Lee ST, Frye AR, Horton J, Robb RJ, Popescu MC, Kwak LW. A novel proteoliposomal vaccine induces antitumor immunity against follicular lymphoma. Blood 109(12):5160-3, 6/2007. e-Pub 3/2007. PMID: 17339422.
4. O'Mahony D, Morris JC, Quinn C, Gao W, Wilson WH, Gause B, Pittaluga S, Neelapu S, Brown M, Fleisher TA, Gulley JL, Schlom J, Nussenblatt R, Albert P, Davis TA, Lowy I, Petrus M, Waldmann TA, Janik JE. A Pilot Study of CTLA-4 blockade after cancer vaccine failure in patients with advanced malignancy. Clin Cancer Res 13(3):958-964, 2/2007. PMID: 17289891.
5. Neelapu SS, Kwak LW, Kobrin CB, Reynolds CW, Janik JE, Dunleavy K, White T, Harvey L, Pennington R, Stetler-Stevenson M, Jaffe ES, Steinberg SM, Gress R, Hakim F, Wilson WH. Vaccine-induced tumor-specific immunity despite severe B-cell depletion in mantle cell lymphoma. Nat Med 11(9):986-91, 9/2005. PMID: 16116429.
6. Neelapu SS, Munshi NC, Jagannath S, Watson TM, Pennington R, Reynolds C, Barlogie B, Kwak LW. Tumor antigen immunization of sibling stem cell transplant donors in multiple myeloma. Bone Marrow Transplant 36(4):315-23, 8/2005. PMID: 15968284.
7. Neelapu SS, Baskar S, Gause BL, Kobrin CB, Watson TM, Frye AR, Pennington R, Harvey L, Jaffe ES, Robb RJ, Popescu MC, Kwak LW. Human autologous tumor-specific T-cell responses induced by liposomal delivery of a lymphoma antigen. Clin Cancer Res 10(24):8309-17, 12/2004. PMID: 15623607.

Last updated: 9/2/2009