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      Sattva S. Neelapu Image

      Sattva S. Neelapu, M.D.

      Department of Lymphoma - Myeloma, Division of Cancer Medicine

      Present Title & Affiliation

      Primary Appointment

      Professor, Lymphoma/Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

      Deputy Department Chair, Lymphoma/Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

      Member, Graduate Faculty, Immunology Program, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX

      Education & Training

      Degree-Granting Education

      1991Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, IN, Medicine, MBBS

      Postgraduate Training

      2001-2004Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
      1998-2001Clinical Fellowship, Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
      1994-1995Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, New York
      1993-1995Clinical Residency, Internal Medicine, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, New York
      1992-1993Clinical Internship, Internal Medicine, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, New York

      Licenses & Certifications

      2005Texas Medical License

      Honors & Awards

      2025Emil Frei, III Award of Excellence in Translational Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
      2025Waun Ki Hong Award for Excellence in Team Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
      2024Otis W. and Pearl L. Walters Faculty Achievement Award in Clinical Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
      2024AAAS Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
      2023 - 2025Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science
      2023Mentor of the Year Award, Division of Cancer Medicine Fellowship Program, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
      2023President’s Recognition of Faculty Excellence in Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
      2018Excellence in Oncology Award, Oncology Times
      2018Outstanding Achievement Award, Indo-American Cancer Association
      2018Irwin H. Krakoff Award for Excellence in Clinical Research, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
      2018Waun Ki Hong Award for Excellence in Team Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
      2015Waun Ki Hong Award for Excellence in Team Science, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
      2014 - 2017Faculty Scholar Award, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
      2014Emil Frei, III Award for Excellence in Translational Research, Division of Cancer Medicine, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
      2008 - 2011Clinical Scientist Development Award, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
      2007 - 2009ASH Scholar Award, American Society of Hematology
      2006 - 2009ASCO Career Development Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology
      2003AACR Scholar-in-Training Award, American Association for Cancer Research 94th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C
      2003ASCO Merit Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology 39th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
      2002Fellows Travel Award, AACR/ASCO Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop, Vail, CO
      2002Fellows Award for Research Excellence, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
      2001Senior Fellowship Training Award, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
      2000Fellows Travel Award, Third Annual Mayo Clinic Hematology/Oncology Fellows Poster Presentation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
      1995Virginia Nash Award for outstanding professional performance as a Resident on the Medical Services, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
      1993Dr. Ghani Mohammad Memorial Award for outstanding professional performance as an Intern on the Medical Services, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY

      Selected Publications

      Peer-Reviewed Articles

      1. Yang H, Arita K, Bowman K, Chihara D, Henderson J, Rost G, Rojas E, Parsons S, Lakra P, Abedin AS, Neelapu SS, Strati P, Nastoupil LJ, Fayad LE, Iyer SP, Rodriguez MA, Hagemeister FB, Malpica L, Lee H, Hilton LK, Scott DW, Davis RE, Flowers CR, Westin JR, Inghirami G, Vega F, Green MR. A Patient-Derived Xenograft Repository Capturing Clinical and Molecular Heterogeneity of Large B-cell Lymphoma. Blood Cancer Discov:OF1-OF16, 2026. e-Pub 2026. PMID: 42341086.
      2. Strati, P, Feng, L, Westin, JR, Nair, R, Fayad, LE, Rodriguez, MA, Chihara, D, Malpica Castillo, LE, Henderson, J, Gallardo, M, Rivera, M, Wang, I, Bolshakova, A, Radko, A, Kurtz, DM, Alig, S, Flowers, CR, Alizadeh, AA, Neelapu, SS. Frontline acalabrutinib, lenalidomide and rituximab for advanced stage follicular lymphoma with high tumor burden. Nature communications 16(1), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40775236.
      3. Neelapu SS, Chavez JC, Sehgal AR, Epperla N, Ulrickson ML, Bachy E, Munshi PN, Casulo C, Maloney DG, de Vos S, Reshef R, Leslie LA, Oluwole OO, Yakoub-Agha I, Khanal R, Rosenblatt JD, Wulff J, Shen RR, Zhang W, Poddar S, Miao H, Nikolajeva O, Jacobson CA. Five-Year Follow-Up Analysis of ZUMA-5: Axicabtagene Ciloleucel in Relapsed/Refractory Indolent Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. J Clin Oncol 43(33):3573-3577, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 41100801.
      4. Strati, P, Brandt, AC, Lionel, A, Henderson, J, Westin, JR, Adkins, S, Shpall, E, Kebriaei, P, Ramdial, JL, Saini, N, Ahmed, S, Flowers, CR, Neelapu, SS, Hildebrandt, MA. Germline determinants of toxicity and efficacy in patients with large B-cell lymphoma treated with CAR T-cell therapy. Journal for immunotherapy of cancer 13(10), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 41067879.
      5. Manzar GS, Pinnix CC, Dudzinski SO, Marqueen KE, Cha EE, Nasr LF, Yoder AK, Rooney MK, Strati P, Ahmed S, Nze C, Nair R, Fayad LE, Wang M, Nastoupil LJ, Westin JR, Flowers CR, Neelapu SS, Gunther JR, Dabaja BS, Wu SY, Fang PQ. Outcomes with bridging radiation therapy prior to chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy in patients with aggressive large B-cell lymphomas. Front Immunol 16:1517348, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39958356.
      6. Szymura SJ, Wang L, Zhang T, Cha SC, Song J, Dong Z, Anderson A, Oh E, Lee V, Wang Z, Parshottam S, Rao S, Olsem JB, Crumpton BN, Lee HC, Manasanch EE, Neelapu S, Kwak LW, Thomas SK. Personalized neoantigen vaccines as early intervention in untreated patients with lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma: a non-randomized phase 1 trial. Nat Commun 15(1):6874, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39128904.
      7. Chu, F, Cao, J, Liu, J, Yang, H, Davis, TJ, Kuang, SQ, Cheng, X, Zhang, Z, Karri, S, Vien, LT, Bover, L, Sun, R, Vega Vazquez, F, Green, M, Davis, RE, Neelapu, SS. Chimeric antigen receptor T cells to target CD79b in B-cell lymphomas. Journal for immunotherapy of cancer 11(11), 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 38007239.
      8. Strati P, Li X, Deng Q, Marques-Piubelli ML, Henderson J, Watson G, Deaton L, Cain T, Yang H, Ravanmehr V, Fayad LE, Iyer SP, Nastoupil LJ, Hagemeister FB, Parra ER, Saini N, Takahashi K, Fowler NH, Westin JR, Steiner RE, Nair R, Flowers CR, Wang L, Ahmed S, Al-Atrash G, Vega F, Neelapu SS, Green MR. Prolonged cytopenia following CD19 CAR T cell therapy is linked with bone marrow infiltration of clonally expanded IFNγ-expressing CD8 T cells. Cell Rep Med 4(8):101158, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37586321.
      9. Strati P, Pasvolsky O, Feng L, Xu G, Tewari SO, Varghese J, Ow K, Santiago M, Al Zaki A, Jallouk A, Neelapu SS, Kebriaei P, Shpall EJ, Ahmed S. ASCT vs CART for Patients with Relapsed LBCL in PR: Role of TMTV. Blood Adv 7(11):2586-2589, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36745104.
      10. Dang M, Wang R, Lee HC, Patel KK, Becnel MR, Han G, Thomas SK, Hao D, Chu Y, Weber DM, Lin P, Lutter-Berka Z, Berrios Nolasco DA, Huang M, Bansal H, Song X, Zhang J, Futreal A, Moreno Rueda LY, Symer DE, Green MR, Rojas Hernandez CM, Kroll M, Afshar-Khargan V, Ndacayisaba LJ, Kuhn P, Neelapu SS, Orlowski RZ, Wang L, Manasanch EE. Single cell clonotypic and transcriptional evolution of multiple myeloma precursor disease. Cancer Cell 41(6):1032-1047.e4, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37311413.
      11. Liu S, Xie SM, Liu W, Gagea M, Hanker AB, Nguyen N, Singareeka Raghavendra A, Yang-Kolodji G, Chu F, Neelapu SS, Marchese A, Hanash S, Zimmermann J, Arteaga CL, Tripathy D. Targeting CXCR4 abrogates resistance to trastuzumab by blocking cell cycle progression and synergizes with docetaxel in breast cancer treatment. Breast Cancer Res 25(1):62, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37280713.
      12. Strati P, Jallouk A, Deng Q, Li X, Feng L, Sun R, Adkins S, Johncy S, Cain T, Steiner RE, Ahmed S, Chihara D, Fayad LE, Padmanabhan Iyer S, Horowitz SB, Nastoupil LJ, Nair R, Hassan A, Daoud T, Hawkins M, Rodriguez MA, Shpall EJ, Ramdial JL, Kebriaei P, Hong DS, Westin JR, Neelapu SS, Green MR. A Phase I Study of Prophylactic Anakinra to Mitigate ICANS in Patients with Large B-cell Lymphoma. Blood Adv. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37389847.
      13. Neelapu SS, Jacobson CA, Ghobadi A, Miklos DB, Lekakis LJ, Oluwole OO, Lin Y, Braunschweig I, Hill BT, Timmerman JM, Deol A, Reagan PM, Stiff P, Flinn IW, Farooq U, Goy AH, McSweeney PA, Munoz J, Siddiqi T, Chavez JC, Herrera AF, Bartlett NL, Bot AA, Shen RR, Dong J, Singh K, Miao H, Kim JJ, Zheng Y, Locke FL. 5-Year Follow-Up Supports Curative Potential of Axicabtagene Ciloleucel in Refractory Large B-Cell Lymphoma (ZUMA-1). Blood 141(19):2307-2315, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36821768.
      14. Wang Y, Jain P, Locke FL, Maurer MJ, Frank MJ, Munoz JL, Dahiya S, Beitinjaneh AM, Jacobs MT, Mcguirk JP, Vose JM, Goy A, Andreadis C, Hill BT, Dorritie KA, Oluwole OO, Deol A, Paludo J, Shah B, Wang T, Banerjee R, Miklos DB, Rapoport AP, Lekakis L, Ghobadi A, Neelapu SS, Lin Y, Wang ML, Jain MD. Brexucabtagene Autoleucel for Relapsed or Refractory Mantle Cell Lymphoma in Standard-of-Care Practice: Results From the US Lymphoma CAR T Consortium. J Clin Oncol 41(14):JCO2201797, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36753699.
      15. Cherng HJ, Alig SK, Oki Y, Nastoupil LJ, Fayad L, Neelapu SS, Turturro F, Hagemeister F, Craig AFM, Macaulay CW, Rodriguez MA, Lee HJ, McDonnell TJ, Flowers CR, Vega F, Green MR, Feng L, Kurtz DM, Alizadeh AA, Davis RE, Westin JR. A phase 1/2 study of lenalidomide and obinutuzumab with CHOP for newly diagnosed DLBCL. Blood Adv 7(7):1137-1145, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36375046.
      16. Jallouk AP, Gouni S, Westin J, Feng L, Mistry H, Steiner RE, James J, Noorani M, Horowitz S, Puebla-Osorio N, Fayad LE, Iyer SP, Hawkins M, Flowers CR, Ahmed S, Nastoupil LJ, Kebriaei P, Shpall EJ, Neelapu SS, Nieto Y, Strati P. Axicabtagene ciloleucel in relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma patients in complete metabolic response. Haematologica 108(4):1163-1167, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36384251.
      17. Stein-Thoeringer CK, Saini NY, Zamir E, Blumenberg V, Schubert ML, Mor U, Fante MA, Schmidt S, Hayase E, Hayase T, Rohrbach R, Chang CC, McDaniel L, Flores I, Gaiser R, Edinger M, Wolff D, Heidenreich M, Strati P, Nair R, Chihara D, Fayad LE, Ahmed S, Iyer SP, Steiner RE, Jain P, Nastoupil LJ, Westin J, Arora R, Wang ML, Turner J, Menges M, Hidalgo-Vargas M, Reid K, Dreger P, Schmitt A, Müller-Tidow C, Locke FL, Davila ML, Champlin RE, Flowers CR, Shpall EJ, Poeck H, Neelapu SS, Schmitt M, Subklewe M, Jain MD, Jenq RR, Elinav E. A non-antibiotic-disrupted gut microbiome is associated with clinical responses to CD19-CAR-T cell cancer immunotherapy. Nat Med 29(4):906-916, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36914893.
      18. Steiner RE, Parra ER, Vega F, Feng L, Westin JR, Neelapu SS, Strati P, Green MR, Flowers CR, Solis LM, Wistuba II, Ahmed S, Nair R, Hagemeister FB, Noorani M, Marques-Piubelli ML. PD-L1+ macrophages are associated with favorable features in primary mediastinal (thymic) large B-cell lymphoma. Exp Hematol Oncol 12(1):32, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36941707.
      19. Westin J, Davis RE, Feng L, Hagemeister F, Steiner R, Lee HJ, Fayad L, Nastoupil L, Ahmed S, Rodriguez A, Fanale M, Samaniego F, Iyer SP, Nair R, Oki Y, Fowler N, Wang M, Ma MCJ, Vega F, McDonnell T, Pinnix C, Griffith D, Lu Y, Tewari S, Sun R, Scott DW, Flowers CR, Neelapu S, Green MR. Smart Start: Rituximab, Lenalidomide, and Ibrutinib in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Large B-Cell Lymphoma. J Clin Oncol 41(4):JCO2200597, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 35952327.
      20. Fahrmann JF, Saini NY, Chia-Chi C, Irajizad E, Strati P, Nair R, Fayad LE, Ahmed S, Lee HJ, Iyer S, Steiner R, Vykoukal J, Wu R, Dennison JB, Nastoupil L, Jain P, Wang M, Green M, Westin J, Blumenberg V, Davila M, Champlin R, Shpall EJ, Kebriaei P, Flowers CR, Jain M, Jenq R, Stein-Thoeringer CK, Subklewe M, Neelapu SS, Hanash S. A polyamine-centric, blood-based metabolite panel predictive of poor response to CAR-T cell therapy in large B cell lymphoma. Cell Rep Med 3(11):100720, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36384092.
      21. Strati P, Jallouk AP, Sun R, Choi J, Das K, Cherng HJ, Ahmed S, Lee HJ, Iyer SP, Nair R, Nastoupil LJ, Steiner RE, Huff CD, Yu Y, Mistry H, Pulsifer B, Noorani M, Saini N, Shpall EJ, Kebriaei P, Flowers CR, Westin JR, Hildebrandt MAT, Neelapu SS. Impact of conditioning chemotherapy on lymphocyte kinetics and outcomes in LBCL patients treated with CAR T-cell therapy. Leukemia 36(11):2669-2677, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36127509.
      22. Saini NY, Swoboda DM, Greenbaum U, Ma J, Patel RD, Devashish K, Das K, Tanner MR, Strati P, Nair R, Fayad L, Ahmed S, Lee HJ, Iyer SP, Steiner R, Jain N, Nastoupil L, Loghavi S, Tang G, Bassett RL, Jain P, Wang M, Westin JR, Green MR, Sallman DA, Padron E, Davila ML, Locke FL, Champlin RE, Garcia-Manero G, Shpall EJ, Kebriaei P, Flowers CR, Jain MD, Wang F, Futreal AP, Gillis N, Neelapu SS, Takahashi K. Clonal hematopoiesis is associated with increased risk of severe neurotoxicity in axicabtagene ciloleucel therapy of large B-cell lymphoma. Blood Cancer Discov 3(5):385-393, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35533245.
      23. Han G, Deng Q, Marques-Piubelli ML, Dai E, Dang M, Ma MCJ, Li X, Yang H, Henderson J, Kudryashova O, Meerson M, Isaev S, Kotlov N, Nomie KJ, Bagaev A, Parra ER, Solis Soto LM, Parmar S, Hagemeister FB, Ahmed S, Iyer SP, Samaniego F, Steiner R, Fayad L, Lee H, Fowler NH, Flowers CR, Strati P, Westin JR, Neelapu SS, Nastoupil LJ, Vega F, Wang L, Green MR. Follicular lymphoma microenvironment characteristics associated with tumor cell mutations and MHC class II expression. Blood Cancer Discov 3(5):428-443, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35687817.
      24. Romain G, Strati P, Rezvan A, Fathi M, Bandey IN, Adolacion JRT, Heeke D, Liadi I, Marques-Piubelli ML, Solis LM, Mahendra A, Vega F, Cooper LJ, Singh H, Mattie M, Bot A, Neelapu SS, Varadarajan N. Multidimensional single-cell analysis identifies a role for CD2-CD58 interactions in clinical antitumor T cell responses. J Clin Invest 132(17), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35881486.
      25. Scholler N, Perbost R, Locke FL, Jain MD, Turcan S, Danan C, Chang EC, Neelapu SS, Miklos DB, Jacobson CA, Lekakis LJ, Lin Y, Ghobadi A, Kim JJ, Chou J, Plaks V, Wang Z, Xue A, Mattie M, Rossi JM, Bot A, Galon J. Tumor immune contexture is a determinant of anti-CD19 CAR T cell efficacy in large B cell lymphoma. Nat Med 28(9):1872-1882, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36038629.
      26. Ghione P, Palomba ML, Patel AR, Bobillo S, Deighton K, Jacobson CA, Nahas M, Hatswell AJ, Jung AS, Kanters S, Snider JT, Neelapu SS, Ribeiro MT, Brookhart MA, Ghesquieres H, Radford J, Gribben JG. Comparative effectiveness of ZUMA-5 (axi-cel) vs SCHOLAR-5 external control in relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma. Blood 140(8):851-860, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35679476.
      27. Cherng HJ, Sun R, Sugg B, Irwin R, Yang H, Le CC, Deng Q, Fayad L, Fowler NH, Parmar S, Steiner R, Hagemeister F, Nair R, Lee HJ, Rodriguez M, Samaniego F, Iyer SP, Flowers CR, Wang L, Nastoupil LJ, Neelapu SS, Ahmed S, Strati P, Green MR, Westin J. Risk assessment with low pass whole genome sequencing of cell free DNA before CD19 CAR T-cells for large B-cell lymphoma. Blood 140(5):504-515, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35512184.
      28. Steiner RE, Banchs J, Koutroumpakis E, Becnel M, Gutierrez C, Strati P, Pinnix CC, Feng L, Rondon G, Claussen C, Palaskas N, Karimzad K, Ahmed S, Neelapu SS, Shpall E, Wang M, Vega F, Westin J, Nastoupil LJ, Deswal A. Cardiovascular events in patients treated with chimeric antigen receptor t-cell therapy for aggressive B-cell lymphoma. Haematologica 107(7):1555-1566, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 34758610.
      29. Marques-Piubelli ML, Parra ER, Feng L, Soto LS, Gallardo M, Gouni S, Samaniego F, Noorani M, Hagemeister FB, Westin JR, Lee HJ, Rodriguez MA, Neelapu SS, Gunther JR, Fowler NH, Flowers CR, Wistuba II, Nastoupil LJ, Vega F, Strati P. SIRPα+ macrophages are increased in patients with FL who progress or relapse after frontline lenalidomide and rituximab. Blood Adv 6(11):3286-3293, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35359004.
      30. Al Zaki A, Feng L, Watson G, Ahmed SA, Mistry H, Nastoupil LJ, Hawkins M, Nair R, Iyer SP, Lee HJ, Steiner RE, Flowers CR, Shpall EJ, Kebriaei P, Neelapu SS, Westin JR, Strati P. Day 30 SUVmax Predicts Progression in Lymphoma Patients Achieving PR/SD After CAR T-cell Therapy. Blood Adv 6(9):2867-2871, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35015825.
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      84. Haymaker C, Yang Y, Wang J, Zou Q, Sahoo A, Alekseev A, Singh D, Ritthipichai K, Hailemichael Y, Hoang ON, Qin H, Schluns KS, Wang T, Overwijk WW, Sun SC, Bernatchez C, Kwak LW, Neelapu SS, Nurieva R. Absence of Grail promotes CD8(+) T cell anti-tumour activity. Nat Commun 8(1):239, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28798332.
      85. Fanale MA, Cheah CY, Rich A, Medeiros LJ, Lai CM, Oki Y, Romaguera JE, Fayad LE, Hagemeister FB, Samaniego F, Rodriguez MA, Neelapu SS, Lee HJ, Nastoupil L, Fowler NH, Turturro F, Westin JR, Wang ML, McLaughlin P, Pinnix CC, Milgrom SA, Dabaja B, Horowitz SB, Younes A. Encouraging activity for R-CHOP in Advanced Stage Nodular Lymphocyte Predominant Hodgkin Lymphoma. Blood 130(4):472-477, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28522441.
      86. Yu L, Tu M, Cortes J, Xu-Monette ZY, Miranda RN, Zhang J, Orlowski RZ, Neelapu S, Boddu PC, Akosile MA, Uldrick TS, Yarchoan R, Medeiros LJ, Li Y, Fajgenbaum DC, Young KH. Clinical and pathological characteristics of HIV- and HHV8- negative Castleman disease. Blood 129(12):1658-1668, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28100459.
      87. Mathur R, Sehgal L, Havranek O, Köhrer S, Khashab T, Jain N, Burger JA, Neelapu SS, Davis RE, Samaniego F. Inhibition of demethylase KDM6B sensitizes diffuse large B-cell lymphoma to chemotherapeutic drugs. Haematologica 102(2):373-380, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 27742770.
      88. Locke FL, Neelapu SS, Bartlett NL, Siddiqi T, Chavez JC, Hosing CM, Ghobadi A, Budde LE, Bot A, Rossi JM, Jiang Y, Xue AX, Elias M, Aycock J, Wiezorek J, Go WY. Phase 1 Results of ZUMA-1: A Multicenter Study of KTE-C19 Anti-CD19 CAR T Cell Therapy in Refractory Aggressive Lymphoma. Mol Ther 25(1):285-295, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28129122.
      89. Takahashi K, Wang F, Kantarjian H, Doss D, Khanna K, Thompson E, Zhao L, Patel K, Neelapu S, Gumbs C, Bueso-Ramos C, DiNardo CD, Colla S, Ravandi F, Zhang J, Huang X, Wu X, Samaniego F, Garcia-Manero G, Futreal PA. Preleukaemic clonal haemopoiesis and risk of therapy-related myeloid neoplasms: a case-control study. Lancet Oncol 18(1):100-111, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 27923552.
      90. Mannino RG, Santiago-Miranda AN, Pradhan P, Qiu Y, Mejias JC, Neelapu SS, Roy K, Lam WA. 3D microvascular model recapitulates the diffuse large B-cell lymphoma tumor microenvironment in vitro. Lab Chip 17(3):407-414, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28054086.
      91. Chihara D, Westin JR, Oki Y, Ahmed MA, Do B, Fayad LE, Hagemeister FB, Romaguera JE, Fanale MA, Lee HJ, Turturro F, Samaniego F, Neelapu SS, Rodriguez MA, Fowler NH, Wang M, Davis RE, Nastoupil LJ. Management strategies and outcomes for very elderly patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Cancer 122(20):3145-3151, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27351173.
      92. Li HS, Liu C, Xiao Y, Chu F, Liang X, Peng W, Hu J, Neelapu SS, Sun SC, Hwu P, Watowich SS. Bypassing STAT3-mediated inhibition of the transcriptional regulator ID2 improves the antitumor efficacy of dendritic cells. Sci Signal 9(447):ra94, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27678219.
      93. Pinnix CC, Osborne EM, Chihara D, Lai P, Zhou S, Ramirez MM, Oki Y, Hagemeister FB, Rodriguez AM, Samaniego F, Fowler N, Romaguera JE, Turturro F, Fayad L, Westin JR, Nastoupil L, Neelapu SS, Cheah CY, Dabaja BS, Milgrom SA, Smith GL, Horace P, Milbourne A, Wogan CF, Ballas L, Fanale MA. Maternal and Fetal Outcomes After Therapy for Hodgkin or Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Diagnosed During Pregnancy. JAMA Oncol 2(8):1065-9, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27227654.
      94. Cheah CY, Chihara D, Horowitz S, Sevin A, Oki Y, Zhou S, Fowler NH, Romaguera JE, Turturro F, Hagemeister FB, Fayad LE, Wang M, Neelapu SS, Nastoupil LJ, Westin JR, Rodriguez MA, Samaniego F, Anderlini P, Nieto Y, Fanale MA. Patients with classical Hodgkin lymphoma experiencing disease progression after treatment with brentuximab vedotin have poor outcomes. Ann Oncol 27(7):1317-23, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27091808.
      95. Cheah CY, Chihara D, Ahmed M, Davis RE, Nastoupil LJ, Phansalkar K, Hagemeister FB, Fayad LE, Westin JR, Oki Y, Fanale MA, Romaguera JE, Wang ML, Lee H, Turturro F, Samaniego F, Rodriguez MA, Neelapu SS, (*equal contribution) *FN. Factors influencing outcome in advanced stage, low-grade follicular lymphoma treated at MD Anderson Cancer Center in the rituximab era. Ann Oncol 27(5):895-901, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26802151.
      96. Younes A, Berdeja JG, Patel MR, Flinn I, Gerecitano JF, Neelapu SS, Kelly KR, Copeland AR, Akins A, Clancy MS, Gong L, Wang J, Ma A, Viner JL, Oki Y. Safety, tolerability, and preliminary activity of CUDC-907, a first-in-class, oral, dual inhibitor of HDAC and PI3K, in patients with relapsed or refractory lymphoma or multiple myeloma: an open-label, dose-escalation, phase 1 trial. Lancet Oncol 17(5):622-31, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27049457.
      97. Ishizawa J, Kojima K, Chachad D, Ruvolo P, Ruvolo V, Jacamo RO, Borthakur G, Mu H, Zeng Z, Tabe Y, Allen JE, Wang Z, Ma W, Lee HC, Orlowski R, Sarbassov dos D, Lorenzi PL, Huang X, Neelapu SS, McDonnell T, Miranda RN, Wang M, Kantarjian H, Konopleva M, Davis RE, Andreeff M. ATF4 induction through an atypical integrated stress response to ONC201 triggers p53-independent apoptosis in hematological malignancies. Sci Signal 9(415):ra17, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26884599.
      98. Fowler NH, Nastoupil LJ, Hagemeister FB, Neelapu SS, Fayad LE, LeBlanc D, Samaniego F, Cheah CY. Characteristics and management of rash following lenalidomide and rituximab in patients with untreated indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Haematologica 100(11):e454-7, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26250576.
      99. Pinnix CC, Dabaja B, Ahmed MA, Chuang HH, Costelloe C, Wogan CF, Reed V, Romaguera JE, Neelapu S, Oki Y, Rodriguez MA, Fayad L, Hagemeister FB, Nastoupil L, Turturro F, Fowler N, Fanale MA, Nieto Y, Khouri IF, Ahmed S, Medeiros LJ, Davis RE, Westin J. Single-institution experience in the treatment of primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma treated with immunochemotherapy in the setting of response assessment by (18)fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 92(1):113-21, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25863759.
      100. Cheah CY, Nastoupil LJ, Neelapu SS, Forbes SG, Oki Y, Fowler NH. Lenalidomide, idelalisib, and rituximab are unacceptably toxic in patients with relapsed/refractory indolent lymphoma. Blood 125(21):3357-9, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25999447.
      101. Mathur R, Sehgal L, Braun FK, Berkova Z, Romaguerra J, Wang M, Rodriguez MA, Fayad L, Neelapu SS, Samaniego F. Targeting Wnt pathway in mantle cell lymphoma-initiating cells. J Hematol Oncol 8(1):63, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26048374.
      102. Sehgal L, Mathur R, Braun FK, Wise JF, Berkova Z, Neelapu S, Kwak LW, Samaniego F. FAS-antisense 1 lncRNA and production of soluble versus membrane Fas in B-cell lymphoma. Leukemia 28(12):2376-87, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24811343.
      103. Fowler NH, Davis RE, Rawal S, Nastoupil L, Hagemeister FB, McLaughlin P, Kwak LW, Romaguera JE, Fanale MA, Fayad LE, Westin JR, Shah J, Orlowski RZ, Wang M, Turturro F, Oki Y, Claret LC, Feng L, Baladandayuthapani V, Muzzafar T, Tsai KY, Samaniego F, Neelapu SS. Safety and activity of lenalidomide and rituximab in untreated indolent lymphoma: an open-label, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol 15(12):1311-8, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25439689.
      104. Liu X, Chen X, Zhong B, Wang A, Wang X, Chu F, Nurieva RI, Yan X, Chen P, van der Flier LG, Nakatsukasa H, Neelapu SS, Chen W, Clevers H, Tian Q, Qi H, Wei L, Dong C. Transcription factor achaete-scute homologue 2 initiates follicular T-helper-cell development. Nature 507(7493):513-8, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24463518.
      105. Westin JR, Chu F, Zhang M, Fayad LE, Kwak LW, Fowler N, Romaguera J, Hagemeister F, Fanale M, Samaniego F, Feng L, Baladandayuthapani V, Wang Z, Ma W, Gao Y, Wallace M, Vence LM, Radvanyi L, Muzzafar T, Rotem-Yehudar R, Davis RE, Neelapu SS. Safety and activity of PD1 blockade by pidilizumab in combination with rituximab in patients with relapsed follicular lymphoma: a single group, open-label, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol 15(1):69-77, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24332512.
      106. Wang L, Qian J, Lu Y, Li H, Bao H, He D, Liu Z, Zheng Y, He J, Li Y, Neelapu S, Yang J, Kwak LW, Yi Q, Cai Z. Immune evasion evasion of mantle cell lymphoma: expression of B7-H1 leads to inhibited T-cell response to and killing of tumor cells. Haematologica 98(9):1458-66, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23508008.
      107. Wang M, Fowler N, Wagner-Bartak N, Feng L, Romaguera J, Neelapu SS, Hagemeister F, Fanale M, Oki Y, Pro B, Shah J, Thomas S, Younes A, Hosing C, Zhang L, Newberry KJ, Desai M, Cheng N, Badillo M, Bejarano M, Chen Y, Young KH, Champlin R, Kwak L, Fayad L. Oral lenalidomide with rituximab in relapsed or refractory diffuse large cell, follicular and transformed lymphoma: a phase II clinical trial. Leukemia 27(9):1902-9, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23545991.
      108. Foglietta M, * Neelapu SS, contribution) *(, Kwak LW, Jiang Y, Nattamai D, Lee ST, Fowler DH, Sportes C, Gress RE, Steinberg SM, Vence LM, Radvanyi L, Dwyer KC, Qazilbash MH, Bryant RN, Bishop MR. Neoantigen and tumor antigen-specific immunity transferred from immunized donors is detectable early after allogeneic transplantation in myeloma patients. Bone Marrow Transplant 48(2):269-77, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 22773122.
      109. Younes A, Romaguera J, Fanale M, McLaughlin P, Hagemeister F, Copeland A, Neelapu S, Kwak L, Shah J, de Castro Faria S, Hart S, Wood J, Jayaraman R, Ethirajulu K, Zhu J. Phase I Study of a Novel Oral Janus Kinase 2 Inhibitor, SB1518, in Patients With Relapsed Lymphoma: Evidence of Clinical and Biologic Activity in Multiple Lymphoma Subtypes. J Clin Oncol 30(33):4161-7, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22965964.
      110. Yang Q, Chen LS, Neelapu SS, Miranda RN, Medeiros LJ, Gandhi V. Transcription and translation are primary targets of Pim kinase inhibitor SGI-1776 in mantle cell lymphoma. Blood 120(17):3491-500, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22955922.
      111. Weng J, Rawal S, Chu F, Park HJ, Sharma R, Delgado DA, Fayad L, Fanale M, Romaguera J, Luong A, Kwak LW, Neelapu SS. TCL1: a shared tumor-associated antigen for immunotherapy against B-cell lymphomas. Blood 120(8):1613-23, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22645177.
      112. Younes A, Kim S, Romaguera J, Copeland A, Farial Sde C, Kwak LW, Fayad L, Hagemeister F, Fanale M, Neelapu S, Lambert JM, Morariu-Zamfir R, Payrard S, Gordon LI. Phase I Multidose-Escalation Study of the Anti-CD19 Maytansinoid Immunoconjugate SAR3419 Administered by Intravenous Infusion Every 3 Weeks to Patients With Relapsed/Refractory B-Cell Lymphoma. J Clin Oncol 30(22):2776-82, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22753910.
      113. Wang M, Fayad L, Wagner-Bartak N, Zhang L, Hagemeister F, Neelapu SS, Samaniego F, McLaughlin P, Fanale M, Younes A, Cabanillas F, Fowler N, Newberry KJ, Sun L, Young KH, Champlin R, Kwak L, Feng L, Badillo M, Bejarano M, Hartig K, Chen W, Chen Y, Byrne C, Bell N, Zeldis J, Romaguera J. Lenalidomide in combination with rituximab for patients with relapsed or refractory mantle-cell lymphoma: a phase 1/2 clinical trial. Lancet Oncol 13(7):716-23, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22677155.
      114. Buglio D, Palakurthi S, Byth K, Vega F, Toader D, Saeh J, Neelapu SS, Younes A. Essential role of TAK1 in regulating mantle cell lymphoma survival. Blood 120(2):347-55, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22649101.
      115. Khouri IF, Saliba RM, Erwin WD, Samuels BI, Korbling M, Medeiros LJ, Valverde R, Alousi AM, Anderlini P, Bashir Q, Ciurea S, Gulbis AM, de Lima M, Hosing C, Kebriaei P, Popat UR, Fowler N, Neelapu SS, Samaniego F, Champlin RE, Macapinlac HA. Nonmyeloablative allogeneic transplantation with or without 90yttrium ibritumomab tiuxetan is potentially curative for relapsed follicular lymphoma: 12-year results. Blood 119(26):6373-8, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22586182.
      116. Younes A, Oki Y, McLaughlin P, Copeland AR, Goy A, Pro B, Feng L, Yuan Y, Chuang HH, Macapinlac HA, Hagemeister F, Romaguera J, Samaniego F, Fanale MA, Dabaja BS, Rodriguez MA, Dang N, Kwak LW, Neelapu SS, Fayad LE. Phase II study of rituximab plus ABVD in patients with newly diagnosed classical Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood 119(18):4123-8, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22371887.
      117. Wang W, Corrigan-Cummins M, Hudson J, Maric I, Simakova O, Neelapu SS, Kwak LW, Janik JE, Gause B, Jaffe ES, Calvo KR. MicroRNA profiling of follicular lymphoma identifies microRNAs related to cell proliferation and tumor response. Haematologica 97(4):586-94, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22102710.
      118. Qian J, Zheng Y, Zheng C, Wang L, Qin H, Hong S, Li H, Lu Y, He J, Yang J, Neelapu S, Kwak LW, Hou J, Yi Q. Active vaccination with Dickkopf-1 induces protective and therapeutic antitumor immunity in murine multiple myeloma. Blood 119(1):161-9, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22049519.
      119. Singh RR, Kunkalla K, Qu C, Schlette E, Neelapu SS, Samaniego F, Vega F. ABCG2 is a direct transcriptional target of hedgehog signaling and involved in stroma-induced drug tolerance in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Oncogene 30(49):1-13, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21625222.
      120. Younes A, Oki Y, Bociek RG, Kuruvilla J, Fanale M, Neelapu S, Copeland A, Buglio D, Galal A, Besterman J, Li Z, Drouin M, Patterson T, Ward MR, Paulus JK, Ji Y, Medeiros LJ, Martell RE. Mocetinostat for relapsed classical Hodgkin's lymphoma: an open-label, single-arm, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol 12(13):1222-8, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22033282.
      121. Jones RJ, Baladandayuthapani V, Neelapu S, Fayad LE, Romaguera JE, Wang M, Sharma R, Yang D, Orlowski RZ. HDM-2 inhibition suppresses expression of ribonucleotide reductase subunit M2, and synergistically enhances gemcitabine-induced cytotoxicity in mantle cell lymphoma. Blood 118(15):4140-9, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21844567.
      122. Chung Y, Tanaka S, Chu F, Nurieva RI, Martinez GJ, Rawal S, Wang YH, Lim H, Reynolds JM, Zhou XH, Fan HM, Liu ZM, Neelapu SS, Dong C. Follicular regulatory T cells expressing Foxp3 and Bcl-6 suppress germinal center reactions. Nat Med 17(8):983-8, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21785430.
      123. Schuster SJ, * Neelapu SS, * (*equal contribution) Gause BL, Janik JE, Muggia FM, Gockerman JP, Winter JN, Flowers CR, Nikcevich DA, Sotomayor EM, McGaughey DS, Jaffe ES, Chong EA, Reynolds CW, Berry DA, Santos CF, Popa MA, McCord AM, Kwak LW. Vaccination with patient-specific tumor-derived antigen in first remission improves disease-free survival in follicular lymphoma. J Clin Oncol 29(20):2787-94, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21632504.
      124. Jamshed S, Fowler DH, Neelapu SS, Dean RM, Steinberg SM, Odom J, Bryant K, Hakim F, Bishop MR. EPOCH-F: a novel salvage regimen for multiple myeloma prior to reduced-intensity allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 46(5):676-81, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 20661232.
      125. Dennison JB, Shanmugam M, Ayres ML, Qian J, Krett NL, Medeiros LJ, Neelapu SS, Rosen ST, Gandhi V. 8-Aminoadenosine inhibits Akt/mTOR and Erk signaling in mantle cell lymphoma. Blood 116(25):5622-30, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20844237.
      126. Wang M, Oki Y, Pro B, Romaguera JE, Rodriguez MA, Samaniego F, McLaughlin P, Hagemeister F, Neelapu S, Copeland A, Samuels BI, Loyer EM, Ji Y, Younes A. Phase II study of yttrium-90-ibritumomab tiuxetan in patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma. J Clin Oncol 27(31):5213-8, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19770379.
      127. Qin H, Cha SC, Neelapu SS, Lou Y, Wei J, Liu YJ, Kwak LW. Vaccine site inflammation potentiates idiotype DNA vaccine-induced therapeutic T cell-, and not B cell-, dependent antilymphoma immunity. Blood 114(19):4142-9, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19749091.
      128. Freedman A, Neelapu SS, Nichols C, Robertson MJ, Djulbegovic B, Winter JN, Bender JF, Gold DP, Ghalie RG, Stewart ME, Esquibel V, Hamlin P. Placebo-controlled phase III trial of patient-specific immunotherapy with mitumprotimut-T and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor after rituximab in patients with follicular lymphoma. J Clin Oncol 27(18):3036-43, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19414675.
      129. Esmaeli B, McLaughlin P, Pro B, Samaniego F, Gayed I, Hagemeister F, Romaguera J, Cabanillas F, Neelapu SS, Banay R, Fayad L, Wayne Saville M, Kwak LW. Prospective trial of targeted radioimmunotherapy with Y-90 ibritumomab tiuxetan (Zevalin) for front-line treatment of early-stage extranodal indolent ocular adnexal lymphoma. Ann Oncol 20(4):709-14, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19150940.
      130. Khouri IF, McLaughlin P, Saliba RM, Hosing C, Korbling M, Lee MS, Medeiros LJ, Fayad L, Samaniego F, Alousi A, Anderlini P, Couriel D, de Lima M, Giralt S, Neelapu SS, Ueno NT, Samuels BI, Hagemeister F, Kwak LW, Champlin RE. Eight-year experience with allogeneic stem cell transplantation for relapsed follicular lymphoma after nonmyeloablative conditioning with fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab. Blood 111(12):5530-6, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 18411419.
      131. Malyguine A, Strobl SL, Shafer-Weaver KA, Ulderich T, Troke A, Baseler M, Kwak LW, Neelapu SS. A modified human ELISPOT assay to detect specific responses to primary tumor cell targets. J Transl Med 2(1):9, 2004. e-Pub 2004. PMID: 15050026.

      Invited Articles

      1. Morris EC, Neelapu SS, Giavridis T, Sadelain M. Cytokine release syndrome and associated neurotoxicity in cancer immunotherapy. Nat Rev Immunol 22(2):85-96, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 34002066.
      2. Reagan PM, Neelapu SS. How I Manage: Pathophysiology and Management of Toxicity of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapies. J Clin Oncol 39(5):456-466, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33434058.

      Review Articles

      1. Lane DL, Neelapu SS, Xu G, Weaver O. COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Axillary and Cervical Lymphadenopathy in Patients with Current or Prior Breast Cancer and Other Malignancies: Cross-Sectional Imaging Findings on MRI, CT, and PET-CT. Korean J Radiol. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34719892.
      2. Ragoonanan D, Khazal SJ, Abdel-Azim H, McCall D, Cuglievan B, Tambaro FP, Ahmad AH, Rowan CM, Gutierrez C, Schadler K, Li S, Di Nardo M, Chi L, Gulbis AM, Shoberu B, Mireles ME, McArthur J, Kapoor N, Miller J, Fitzgerald JC, Tewari P, Petropoulos D, Gill JB, Duncan CN, Lehmann LE, Hingorani S, Angelo JR, Swinford RD, Steiner ME, Hernandez Tejada FN, Martin PL, Auletta J, Choi SW, Bajwa R, Dailey Garnes N, Kebriaei P, Rezvani K, Wierda WG, Neelapu SS, Shpall EJ, Corbacioglu S, Mahadeo KM. Diagnosis, grading and management of toxicities from immunotherapies in children, adolescents and young adults with cancer. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 18(7):435-453, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33608690.
      3. Mahadeo KM, Khazal SJ, Abdel-Azim H, Fitzgerald JC, Taraseviciute A, Bollard CM, Tewari P, Duncan C, Traube C, McCall D, Steiner ME, Cheifetz IM, Lehmann LE, Mejia R, Slopis JM, Bajwa R, Kebriaei P, Martin PL, Moffet J, McArthur J, Petropoulos D, O'Hanlon Curry J, Featherston S, Foglesong J, Shoberu B, Gulbis A, Mireles ME, Hafemeister L, Nguyen C, Kapoor N, Rezvani K, Neelapu SS, Shpall EJ, (PALISI) Network PALIASI. Management guidelines for paediatric patients receiving chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 16(1):45-63, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30082906.
      4. Boyiadzis MM, Dhodapkar MV, Brentjens RJ, Kochenderfer JN, Neelapu SS, Maus MV, Porter DL, Maloney DG, Grupp SA, Mackall CL, June CH, Bishop MR. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T therapies for the treatment of hematologic malignancies: clinical perspective and significance. J Immunother Cancer 6(1):137, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30514386.
      5. Neelapu SS, Tummala S, Kebriaei P, Wierda W, Gutierrez C, Locke FL, Komanduri KV, Lin Y, Jain N, Daver N, Westin J, Gulbis AM, Loghin ME, de Groot JF, Adkins S, Davis SE, Rezvani K, Hwu P, Shpall EJ. Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy - assessment and management of toxicities. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 15(1):47-62, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 28925994.
      6. Fowler NH, Cheah CY, Gascoyne RD, Gribben J, Neelapu SS, Ghia P, Bollard C, Ansell S, Curran M, Wilson WH, O'Brien S, Grant C, Little R, Zenz T, Nastoupil LJ, Dunleavy K. Role of the tumor microenvironment in mature B-cell lymphoid malignancies. Haematologica 101(5):531-40, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27132279.
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