Theocharis Panaretakis, Ph.D.
Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Associate Professor, Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology - Research, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Associate Professor, Division of Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
2003 | Karolinska Institutet, Solnavagen, USA, PHD, Experimental Oncology |
1997 | University of Sussex, Falmer, GBR, BS, Biochemistry |
Postgraduate Training
2006-2008 | Research Fellowship, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif |
2004-2006 | Research Fellowship, Karonliska Institutet, Stockholm |
Experience & Service
Academic Appointments
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology - Research, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2017 - 2019
Principal investigator, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 2010 - 2016
Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 2009 - Present
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Sakellakis MJ, Hahn AW, Ramachandran S, Zhang M, Hoang A, Song JH, Liu J, Wang F, Basu HS, Sheperd P, Wang X, Frigo DE, Lin SH, Panaretakis T, Zhang J, Navone N, Troncoso P, Logothetis CJ, Titus MA. Characterization of prostate cancer adrenal metastases: dependence upon androgen receptor signaling and steroid hormones. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 26(4):751-758, 2023. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36100698.
- Yu G, Corn PG, Shen P, Song JH, Lee YC, Lin SC, Pan J, Agarwal SK, Panaretakis T, Pacifici M, Logothetis CJ, Yu-Lee LY, Lin SH. Retinoic acid receptor activation reduces metastatic prostate cancer bone lesions by blocking the endothelial-to-osteoblast transition. Cancer Res 82(17):3158-3171, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35802768.
- Chioureas D, Beck J, Baltatzis G, Vardaki I, Fonseca P, Tsesmetzis N, Vega F, Leventaki V, Eliopoulos AG, Drakos E, Rassidakis GZ, Panaretakis T. ALK+ Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL)-Derived Exosomes Carry ALK Signaling Proteins and Interact with Tumor Microenvironment. Cancers (Basel) 14(12), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35740600.
- Lee YC, Lin SC, Yu G, Zhu M, Song JH, Rivera K, Pappin DJ, Logothetis CJ, Panaretakis T, Wang G, Yu-Lee LY, Lin SH. Prostate tumor-induced stromal reprogramming generates Tenascin C that promotes prostate cancer metastasis through YAP/TAZ inhibition. Oncogene 41(6):757-769, 2022. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34845375.
- Pan T, Lin SC, Lee YC, Yu G, Song JH, Pan J, Titus M, Satcher RL, Panaretakis T, Logothetis C, Yu-Lee LY, Lin SH. Statins reduce castration-induced bone marrow adiposity and prostate cancer progression in bone. Oncogene 40(27):4592-4603, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34127814.
- Vardaki I, Corn P, Gentile E, Song JH, Madan N, Hoang A, Parikh N, Guerra L, Lee YC, Lin SC, Yu G, Santos E, Melancon MP, Troncoso P, Navone N, Gallick GE, Efstathiou E, Subudhi SK, Lin SH, Logothetis CJ, Panaretakis T. Radium-223 Treatment Increases Immune Checkpoint Expression in Extracellular Vesicles from the Metastatic Prostate Cancer Bone Microenvironment. Clin Cancer Res 27(11):3253-3264, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33753455.
- Yu G, Shen P, Lee YC, Pan J, Song JH, Pan T, Lin SC, Liang X, Wang G, Panaretakis T, Logothetis CJ, Gallick GE, Yu-Lee LY, Lin SH. Multiple pathways coordinating reprogramming of endothelial cells into osteoblasts by BMP4. iScience 24(4):102388, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33981975.
- Corn PG, Zhang M, Nogueras-Gonzalez GM, Xiao L, Zurita AJ, Subudhi SK, Tu SM, Aparicio AM, Coarfa C, Rajapakshe K, Huang S, Navone NM, Lin SH, Wang G, Ramachandran S, Titus MA, Panaretakis T, Gallick GE, Efstathiou E, Troncoso P, Logothetis C. A Phase II Study of Cabozantinib and Androgen Ablation in Patients with Hormone-Naïve Metastatic Prostate Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 26(5):990-999, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 31941830.
- Koinis F, Corn P, Parikh N, Song J, Vardaki I, Mourkioti I, Lin SH, Logothetis C, Panaretakis T, Gallick G. Resistance to MET/VEGFR2 Inhibition by Cabozantinib Is Mediated by YAP/TBX5-Dependent Induction of FGFR1 in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Cancers (Basel) 12(1), 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 31963871.
- Yachnin J, Gilje B, Thon K, Johansson H, Brandberg Y, Panaretakis T, Ullén A. Weekly versus 3-weekly cabazitaxel for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer: A randomised phase II trial (ConCab). Eur J Cancer 97:33-40, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29685343.
- Forsberg J, Li X, Zamaraev AV, Panaretakis T, Zhivotovsky B, Olsson M. Caspase-2 associates with FAN through direct interaction and overlapping functionality. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 499(4):822-828, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29621545.
- Galluzzi L, Vitale I, Aaronson SA, Abrams JM, Adam D, Agostinis P, Alnemri ES, Altucci L, Amelio I, Andrews DW, Annicchiarico-Petruzzelli M, Antonov AV, Arama E, Baehrecke EH, Barlev NA, Bazan NG, Bernassola F, Bertrand MJM, Bianchi K, Blagosklonny MV, Blomgren K, Borner C, Boya P, Brenner C, Campanella M, Candi E, Carmona-Gutierrez D, Cecconi F, Chan FK, Chandel NS, Cheng EH, Chipuk JE, Cidlowski JA, Ciechanover A, Cohen GM, Conrad M, Cubillos-Ruiz JR, Czabotar PE, D'Angiolella V, Dawson TM, Dawson VL, De Laurenzi V, De Maria R, Debatin KM, DeBerardinis RJ, Deshmukh M, Di Daniele N, Di Virgilio F, Dixit VM, Dixon SJ, Duckett CS, Dynlacht BD, El-Deiry WS, Elrod JW, Fimia GM, Fulda S, García-Sáez AJ, Garg AD, Garrido C, Gavathiotis E, Golstein P, Gottlieb E, Green DR, Greene LA, Gronemeyer H, Gross A, Hajnoczky G, Hardwick JM, Harris IS, Hengartner MO, Hetz C, Ichijo H, Jäättelä M, Joseph B, Jost PJ, Juin PP, Kaiser WJ, Karin M, Kaufmann T, Kepp O, Kimchi A, Kitsis RN, Klionsky DJ, Knight RA, Kumar S, Lee SW, Lemasters JJ, Levine B, Linkermann A, Lipton SA, Lockshin RA, López-Otín C, Lowe SW, Luedde T, Lugli E, MacFarlane M, Madeo F, Malewicz M, Malorni W, Manic G, Marine JC, Martin SJ, Martinou JC, Medema JP, Mehlen P, Meier P, Melino S, Miao EA, Molkentin JD, Moll UM, Muñoz-Pinedo C, Nagata S, Nuñez G, Oberst A, Oren M, Overholtzer M, Pagano M, Panaretakis T, Pasparakis M, Penninger JM, Pereira DM, Pervaiz S, Peter ME, Piacentini M, Pinton P, Prehn JHM, Puthalakath H, Rabinovich GA, Rehm M, Rizzuto R, Rodrigues CMP, Rubinsztein DC, Rudel T, Ryan KM, Sayan E, Scorrano L, Shao F, Shi Y, Silke J, Simon HU, Sistigu A, Stockwell BR, Strasser A, Szabadkai G, Tait SWG, Tang D, Tavernarakis N, Thorburn A, Tsujimoto Y, Turk B, Vanden Berghe T, Vandenabeele P, Vander Heiden MG, Villunger A, Virgin HW, Vousden KH, Vucic D, Wagner EF, Walczak H, Wallach D, Wang Y, Wells JA, Wood W, Yuan J, Zakeri Z, Zhivotovsky B, Zitvogel L, Melino G, Kroemer G. Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018. Cell Death Differ 25(3):486-541, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29362479.
- Atsaves V, Tsesmetzis N, Chioureas D, Kis L, Leventaki V, Drakos E, Panaretakis T, Grander D, Medeiros LJ, Young KH, Rassidakis GZ. PD-L1 is commonly expressed and transcriptionally regulated by STAT3 and MYC in ALK-negative anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Leukemia 31(7):1633-1637, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28344319.
- Kharaziha P, Panaretakis T. Dynamics of Atg5-Atg12-Atg16L1 Aggregation and Deaggregation. Methods Enzymol 587:247-255, 2017. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 28253959.
- Pathan M, Keerthikumar S, Chisanga D, Alessandro R, Ang CS, Askenase P, Batagov AO, Benito-Martin A, Camussi G, Clayton A, Collino F, Di Vizio D, Falcon-Perez JM, Fonseca P, Fonseka P, Fontana S, Gho YS, Hendrix A, Hoen EN, Iraci N, Kastaniegaard K, Kislinger T, Kowal J, Kurochkin IV, Leonardi T, Liang Y, Llorente A, Lunavat TR, Maji S, Monteleone F, Øverbye A, Panaretakis T, Patel T, Peinado H, Pluchino S, Principe S, Ronquist G, Royo F, Sahoo S, Spinelli C, Stensballe A, Théry C, van Herwijnen MJC, Wauben M, Welton JL, Zhao K, Mathivanan S. A novel community driven software for functional enrichment analysis of extracellular vesicles data. J Extracell Vesicles 6(1):1321455, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28717418.
- Vardaki I, Sanchez C, Fonseca P, Olsson M, Chioureas D, Rassidakis G, Ullén A, Zhivotovsky B, Björkholm M, Panaretakis T. Caspase-3-dependent cleavage of Bcl-xL in the stroma exosomes is required for their uptake by hematological malignant cells. Blood 128(23):2655-2665, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27742710.
- Vardaki I, Ceder S, Rutishauser D, Baltatzis G, Foukakis T, Panaretakis T. Periostin is identified as a putative metastatic marker in breast cancer-derived exosomes. Oncotarget 7(46):74966-74978, 2016. PMID: 27589561.
- Ronquist KG, Sanchez C, Dubois L, Chioureas D, Fonseca P, Larsson A, Ullén A, Yachnin J, Ronquist G, Panaretakis T. Energy-requiring uptake of prostasomes and PC3 cell-derived exosomes into non-malignant and malignant cells. J Extracell Vesicles 5:29877, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26955882.
- Klionsky DJ, Abdelmohsen K, Abe A, Abedin MJ, Abeliovich H, Acevedo Arozena A, Adachi H, Adams CM, Adams PD, Adeli K, Adhihetty PJ, Adler SG, Agam G, Agarwal R, Aghi MK, Agnello M, Agostinis P, Aguilar PV, Aguirre-Ghiso J, Airoldi EM, Ait-Si-Ali S, Akematsu T, Akporiaye ET, Al-Rubeai M, Albaiceta GM, Albanese C, Albani D, Albert ML, Aldudo J, Algül H, Alirezaei M, Alloza I, Almasan A, Almonte-Beceril M, Alnemri ES, Alonso C, Altan-Bonnet N, Altieri DC, Alvarez S, Alvarez-Erviti L, Alves S, Amadoro G, Amano A, Amantini C, Ambrosio S, Amelio I, Amer AO, Amessou M, Amon A, An Z, Anania FA, Andersen SU, Andley UP, Andreadi CK, Andrieu-Abadie N, Anel A, Ann DK, Anoopkumar-Dukie S, Antonioli M, Aoki H, Apostolova N, Aquila S, Aquilano K, Araki K, Arama E, Aranda A, Araya J, Arcaro A, Arias E, Arimoto H, Ariosa AR, Armstrong JL, Arnould T, Arsov I, Asanuma K, Askanas V, Asselin E, Atarashi R, Atherton SS, Atkin JD, Attardi LD, Auberger P, Auburger G, Aurelian L, Autelli R, Avagliano L, Avantaggiati ML, Avrahami L, Awale S, Azad N, Bachetti T, Backer JM, Bae DH, Bae JS, Bae ON, Bae SH, Baehrecke EH, Baek SH, Baghdiguian S, Bagniewska-Zadworna A, Bai H, Bai J, Bai XY, Bailly Y, Balaji KN, Balduini W, Ballabio A, Balzan R, Banerjee R, Bánhegyi G, Bao H, Barbeau B, Barrachina MD, Barreiro E, Bartel B, Bartolomé A, Bassham DC, Bassi MT, Bast RC, Basu A, Batista MT, Batoko H, Battino M, Bauckman K, Baumgarner BL, Bayer KU, Beale R, Beaulieu JF, Beck GR, Becker C, Beckham JD, Bédard PA, Bednarski PJ, Begley TJ, Behl C, Behrends C, Behrens GM, Behrns KE, Bejarano E, Belaid A, Belleudi F, Bénard G, Berchem G, Bergamaschi D, Bergami M, Berkhout B, Berliocchi L, Bernard A, Bernard M, Bernassola F, Bertolotti A, Bess AS, Besteiro S, Bettuzzi S, Bhalla S, Bhattacharyya S, Bhutia SK, Biagosch C, Bianchi MW, Biard-Piechaczyk M, Billes V, Bincoletto C, Bingol B, Bird SW, Bitoun M, Bjedov I, Blackstone C, Blanc L, Blanco GA, Blomhoff HK, Boada-Romero E, Böckler S, Boes M, Boesze-Battaglia . Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition). Autophagy 12(1):1-222, 2016. PMID: 26799652.
- Kharaziha P, Chioureas D, Baltatzis G, Fonseca P, Rodriguez P, Gogvadze V, Lennartsson L, Björklund AC, Zhivotovsky B, Grandér D, Egevad L, Nilsson S, Panaretakis T. Sorafenib-induced defective autophagy promotes cell death by necroptosis. Oncotarget 6(35):37066-82, 2015. PMID: 26416459.
- Kharaziha P, Chioureas D, Rutishauser D, Baltatzis G, Lennartsson L, Fonseca P, Azimi A, Hultenby K, Zubarev R, Ullén A, Yachnin J, Nilsson S, Panaretakis T. Molecular profiling of prostate cancer derived exosomes may reveal a predictive signature for response to docetaxel. Oncotarget 6(25):21740-54, 2015. PMID: 25844599.
- Dubois L, Stridsberg M, Kharaziha P, Chioureas D, Meersman N, Panaretakis T, Ronquist KG. Malignant cell-derived extracellular vesicles express different chromogranin epitopes compared to prostasomes. Prostate 75(10):1063-73, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25783430.
- Galluzzi L, Bravo-San Pedro JM, Vitale I, Aaronson SA, Abrams JM, Adam D, Alnemri ES, Altucci L, Andrews D, Annicchiarico-Petruzzelli M, Baehrecke EH, Bazan NG, Bertrand MJ, Bianchi K, Blagosklonny MV, Blomgren K, Borner C, Bredesen DE, Brenner C, Campanella M, Candi E, Cecconi F, Chan FK, Chandel NS, Cheng EH, Chipuk JE, Cidlowski JA, Ciechanover A, Dawson TM, Dawson VL, De Laurenzi V, De Maria R, Debatin KM, Di Daniele N, Dixit VM, Dynlacht BD, El-Deiry WS, Fimia GM, Flavell RA, Fulda S, Garrido C, Gougeon ML, Green DR, Gronemeyer H, Hajnoczky G, Hardwick JM, Hengartner MO, Ichijo H, Joseph B, Jost PJ, Kaufmann T, Kepp O, Klionsky DJ, Knight RA, Kumar S, Lemasters JJ, Levine B, Linkermann A, Lipton SA, Lockshin RA, López-Otín C, Lugli E, Madeo F, Malorni W, Marine JC, Martin SJ, Martinou JC, Medema JP, Meier P, Melino S, Mizushima N, Moll U, Muñoz-Pinedo C, Nuñez G, Oberst A, Panaretakis T, Penninger JM, Peter ME, Piacentini M, Pinton P, Prehn JH, Puthalakath H, Rabinovich GA, Ravichandran KS, Rizzuto R, Rodrigues CM, Rubinsztein DC, Rudel T, Shi Y, Simon HU, Stockwell BR, Szabadkai G, Tait SW, Tang HL, Tavernarakis N, Tsujimoto Y, Vanden Berghe T, Vandenabeele P, Villunger A, Wagner EF, Walczak H, White E, Wood WG, Yuan J, Zakeri Z, Zhivotovsky B, Melino G, Kroemer G. Essential versus accessory aspects of cell death: recommendations of the NCCD 2015. Cell Death Differ 22(1):58-73, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25236395.
- Kepp O, Senovilla L, Vitale I, Vacchelli E, Adjemian S, Agostinis P, Apetoh L, Aranda F, Barnaba V, Bloy N, Bracci L, Breckpot K, Brough D, Buqué A, Castro MG, Cirone M, Colombo MI, Cremer I, Demaria S, Dini L, Eliopoulos AG, Faggioni A, Formenti SC, Fucíková J, Gabriele L, Gaipl US, Galon J, Garg A, Ghiringhelli F, Giese NA, Guo ZS, Hemminki A, Herrmann M, Hodge JW, Holdenrieder S, Honeychurch J, Hu HM, Huang X, Illidge TM, Kono K, Korbelik M, Krysko DV, Loi S, Lowenstein PR, Lugli E, Ma Y, Madeo F, Manfredi AA, Martins I, Mavilio D, Menger L, Merendino N, Michaud M, Mignot G, Mossman KL, Multhoff G, Oehler R, Palombo F, Panaretakis T, Pol J, Proietti E, Ricci JE, Riganti C, Rovere-Querini P, Rubartelli A, Sistigu A, Smyth MJ, Sonnemann J, Spisek R, Stagg J, Sukkurwala AQ, Tartour E, Thorburn A, Thorne SH, Vandenabeele P, Velotti F, Workenhe ST, Yang H, Zong WX, Zitvogel L, Kroemer G, Galluzzi L. Consensus guidelines for the detection of immunogenic cell death. Oncoimmunology 3(9):e955691, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25941621.
- Kharaziha P, Ceder S, Sanchez C, Panaretakis T. Multitargeted therapies for multiple myeloma. Autophagy 9(2):255-7, 2013. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 23183549.
- Rundqvist H, Augsten M, Strömberg A, Rullman E, Mijwel S, Kharaziha P, Panaretakis T, Gustafsson T, Östman A. Effect of acute exercise on prostate cancer cell growth. PLoS One 8(7):e67579, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23861774.
- Kharaziha P, Ceder S, Li Q, Panaretakis T. Tumor cell-derived exosomes: a message in a bottle. Biochim Biophys Acta 1826(1):103-11, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22503823.
- Panaretakis T, Shabalina IG, Grandér D, Shoshan MC, DePierre JW. Reactive oxygen species and mitochondria mediate the induction of apoptosis in human hepatoma HepG2 cells by the rodent peroxisome proliferator and hepatocarcinogen, perfluorooctanoic acid. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 173(1):56-64, 2001. PMID: 11350215.
- Shabalina IG, Panaretakis T, Bergstrand A, DePierre JW. Effects of the rodent peroxisome proliferator and hepatocarcinogen, perfluorooctanoic acid, on apoptosis in human hepatoma HepG2 cells. Carcinogenesis 20(12):2237-46, 1999. PMID: 10590214.
Book Chapters
- Fonseca P, Vardaki I, Occhionero A, Panaretakis T. Chapter Five: Metabolic and Signaling Functions of Cancer Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles. In: International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology. Elsevier, 175-199, 2016.
Grant & Contract Support
Title: | Prostate Cancer Moon Shot Flagship 2:Development of Rational Immunotherapy Combinations to Overcome the Immunosuppressive Prostate Tumor Microenvironment |
Funding Source: | MD Anderson Moon Shot Program |
Role: | Co-Leader |
Title: | Exosome Profiling of Immune and Non-Immune Bone Microenvironment to Improve Therapeutic Effect for Metastatic Prostate Cancer |
Funding Source: | Cancerfonden (Swedish Cancer Society) |
Role: | Principal Investigator |
Title: | Impact of Local Therapy on Outcomes of Men with de novo Metastatic within Molecularly Defined Prostate Cancers |
Funding Source: | Prostate Cancer Foundation |
Role: | Co-Principal Investigator |
Title: | Prostate Cancer Moonshot Flagship 1: Development of Mechanism-based Combination Therapies for Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Subproject: Targeting Prostate Cancer-Induced Aberrant Bone Formation for the Treatment of Bone Metastasis (S-H Lin) |
Funding Source: | MD Anderson Moon Shot Program |
Role: | Co-Leader |
Title: | Project 3: Development of Rational Immunotherapy Combinations to Overcome the Immunosuppressive Prostate Tumor Microenvironment |
Funding Source: | MD Anderson Moon Shot Program |
Role: | Collaborator |
Patient Reviews
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