Jianjun Gao, MD, PhD

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. Msaouel, P, Yu, K, Yuan, Y, Chen, J, Yan, X, Karki, M, Duan, F, Sheth, RA, Rao, P, Sircar, K, Shah, AY, Zurita-Saavedra, A, Genovese, G, Li, M, Yeh, CC, Dang, M, Han, G, Chu, Y, Hallin, M, Olson, P, Yang, R, Slavin, D, Der-Torossian, H, Chin, CD, Tannir, NM, Wang, L, Gao, J. Sitravatinib in combination with nivolumab plus ipilimumab in patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Nature communications 16(1), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39794332.
2. Goswami, S, Gao, J, Basu, S, Shapiro, DD, Karam, JA, Tidwell, RS, Ahrar, K, Campbell, M, Shen, Y, Trevino, AE, Mayer, AT, Espejo, A, Seua, C, Macaluso, M, Chen, Y, Liu, W, He, Z, Yadav, SS, Wang, Y, Rao, P, Zhao, L, Zhang, J, Jindal, S, Tannir, NM, Futreal, A, Wang, L, Sharma, P. Immune checkpoint inhibitors plus debulking surgery for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Nature communications 16(1), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39984485.
3. Zhao Z, Hu B, Deng Y, Soeung M, Yao J, Bei L, Zhang Y, Gong P, Huang LA, Jiang Z, Gao J, Peng S, Nguyen TK, Karki M, Lim B, Yee C, Burks JK, Zhang Q, Ma L, Gao J, Tannir NM, Han L, Yu D, Wang L, Curran MA, Gubbiotti MA, Genovese G, Gan B, Li W, Msaouel P, Yang L, Lin C. Sickle cell disease induces chromatin introversion and ferroptosis in CD8(+) T cells to suppress anti-tumor immunity. Immunity 58(6):1484-1501.e11, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40359940.
4. Shen Y, Zheng L, Zhao J, Wang Y, Chen H, Roy-Chowdhuri S, Kamat AM, Alhalabi O, Gao J, Siefker-Radtke A, Wei P, Hansel DE, Czerniak B, Guo CC. Molecular profile of micropapillary urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder: An analysis of 99 cases by next-generation sequencing. Hum Pathol 159:105812, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40403852.
5. Hahn, AW, Adra, N, Vaishampayan, U, Xiao, L, Dizman, N, Yuan, Y, Mukhida, SS, Campbell, M, Gao, J, Zurita-Saavedra, A, Jonasch, E, Tannir, NM, Shah, AY, Msaouel, P. A phase II trial of sitravatinib + nivolumab after progression on immune checkpoint inhibitor in patients with metastatic clear cell RCC. Oncologist 30(4), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40212021.
6. Coleman, K, Schroeder, A, Loth, M, Zhang, D, Park, JH, Sung, JY, Blank, N, Cowan, AJ, Qian, X, Chen, J, Jiang, J, Yan, H, Samarah, LZ, Clemenceau, JR, Jang, I, Kim, M, Barnfather, I, Rabinowitz, J, Deng, Y, Lee, EB, Lazar, A, Gao, J, Furth, EE, Hwang, TH, Wang, L, Thaiss, CA, Hu, J, Li, M. Resolving tissue complexity by multimodal spatial omics modeling with MISO. Nature Methods 22(3):530-538, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39815104.
7. Masaouel P, Yu K, Yuan Y, Chen J, Yan X, Karki M, Duan F, Sheth RA, Rao P, Sircar K, Shah AY, Zurita AJ, Genovese G, Li M, Yeh C, Dang M, Han G, Chu Y, Hallin M, Olson P, Yang R, Slavin D, Der-Torossian H, Chin CD, Tannir NM, Wang L, Gao J. Sitravatinib in combination with nivolumab plus ipilimumab in patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma: a phase 1 trial. Nature Communications, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
8. Moussa, MJ, Tabet, GC, Siefker-Radtke, AO, Xiao, L, Wilson, NR, Gao, J, Logothetis, CJ, Grivas, PD, Lee, B, Shah, AY, Msaouel, P, Li, R, Clemente, LC, Zhao, J, Tannir, NM, Kamat, A, Hansel, DE, Guo, CC, Campbell, M, Alhalabi, O. Histopathologic Progression and Metastatic Relapse Outcomes in Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinomas of the Urinary Tract. Cancer medicine 14(2), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39831734.
9. Mir M, Soto F, Gomez PAA, Arroyo RDR, Suresh A, Su A, Gan Q, Stewart J, Adachi R, Balachandran DD, Bashoura L, Casal RF, Dickey BF, Eapen GA, Evans SE, Grosu H, Jimenez CA, Lin J, Ost DE, Sabath BF, Shannon VR, Naing A, Gao J, Wu J, Suresh K, Faiz SA, Altan M, Sheshadri A. Bronchoalveolar lavage cell percentages as diagnostic markers of immune checkpoint inhibitor pneumonitis. Front Med (Lausanne) 12:1582714, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40529125.
10. Jiang, J, Liu, Y, Qin, JJ, Chen, J, Wu, J, Pizzi, M, Segura Lazcano, R, Yamashita, K, Xu, Z, Pei, G, Cho, KS, Chu, Y, Sinjab, A, Peng, F, Yan, X, Han, G, Wang, R, Dai, E, Dai, Y, Czerniak, BA, Futreal, A, Maitra, A, Lazar, A, Kadara, HN, Jazaeri, AA, Cheng, X, Ajani, JA, Gao, J, Hu, J, Wang, L. METI. Nature communications 15(1), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39181865.
11. Crupi, E, Costa De Padua, T, Marandino, L, Fallara, G, Pederzoli, F, Cimadamore, A, Goetz, EC, Cigliola, A, Patané, DA, Mercinelli, C, Tateo, V, Salonia, A, Briganti, A, Montorsi, F, Meeks, JJ, Spiess, PE, Alhalabi, O, Gao, J, Kamat, A, Grivas, PD, Necchi, A, Raggi, D. Nectin-4 Positivity in Genitourinary Malignancies. JCO Precision Oncology 8, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39626158.
12. Reddy, KK, Piyarathna, DB, Park, JH, Putluri, V, Amara, CS, Kamal, AM, Xu, J, Kraushaar, D, Huang, S, Jung, SY, Eberlin, LS, Johnson, JR, Kittles, RA, Ballester, L, Parsawar, K, Minhaj Siddiqui, M, Gao, J, Gramer, AL, Bollag, R, Terris, MK, Lotan, Y, Creighton, CJ, Lerner, SP, Sreekumar, A, Kaipparettu, BA, Putluri, N. Mitochondrial reprogramming by activating OXPHOS via glutamine metabolism in African American patients with bladder cancer. JCI Insight 9(17), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39253977.
13. Gao J. Resolving tissue complexity by multi-modal spatial omics modeling with MISO. Nature Methods. e-Pub 2024.
14. Yang, S, Tang, W, Azizian, A, Gaedcke, J, Ohara, Y, Cawley, H, Hanna, N, Ghadimi, MB, Lal, T, Sen, S, Creighton, CJ, Gao, J, Putluri, N, Ambs, S, Hussain, P. MIF/NR3C2 axis regulates glucose metabolism reprogramming in pancreatic cancer through MAPK–ERK and AP-1 pathways. Carcinogenesis 45(8):582-594, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38629149.
15. Gao J, Wang L, Jiang J, Hu J, Liu Y, Qin J, Chen J, Wu J, Pizzi M, Lazcano R, Yamashita K, Xu Z, Pei G, Cho K, Sinjab A, Peng F, Yan X, Han G, Wang R, Dai E, Dao Y, Czerniak B, Futreal A, Maitra A, Lazar A, Kadara H, Jazaeri A, Cheng X, Ajani J. METI: Deep profiling of tumor ecosystems by integrating cell morphology and spatial transcriptomics. Nature Communications. e-Pub 2024.
16. Johns, AC, Campbell, M, Gao, M, Hahn, AW, Lim, ZD, Wang, E, Gao, J, Shah, AY, Msaouel, P, Tannir, NM. Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Tivozanib in Heavily Pretreated Patients With Advanced Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Oncologist 29(7):589-595, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38478923.
17. Fleming S, Gifkins D, Resnick HE, Shalaby W, Rosenberg P, Gaj C, Maio V, Crawford A, Lu-Yao G, Gao J, Siefker-Radtke A. Prognostic Value of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Genetic Alterations in Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma. Clin Genitourin Cancer 22(3):102054, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38457853.
18. Hahn AW, Surasi DS, Viscuse PV, Bathala TK, Wiele AJ, Campbell MT, Zurita AJ, Shah AY, Jonasch E, Gao J, Goswami S, Alhalabi O, Rao P, Sircar K, Tannir NM, Msaouel P. Treatment Outcomes in Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma With Sarcomatoid and/or Rhabdoid Dedifferentiation After Progression on Immune Checkpoint Therapy. Oncologist 29(5):392-399, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38035767.
19. Zheng L, Chen H, Zhao J, Roy-Chowdhuri S, Kamat AM, Alhalabi O, Gao J, Siefker-Radtke A, Hansel DE, Czerniak B, Guo CC. Plasmacytoid urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder-A clinicopathological and molecular analysis of 52 cases. Hum Pathol 148:1-6. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38679207.
20. Johns AC, Campbell MT, Gao M, Hahn AW, Lim Z, Wang E, Gao J, Shah AY, Msaouel P, Tannir N. Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Tivozanib in Heavily Pretreated Patients With Advanced Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. The Oncologist, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
21. Kumar D, Gurrapu S, Wang Y, Bae SY, Pandey PR, Chen H, Mondal J, Han H, Wu CJ, Karaiskos S, Yang F, Sahin A, Wistuba II, Gao J, Tripathy D, Gao H, Izar B, Giancotti FG. LncRNA MALAT1 Suppresses Pyroptosis and T cell-mediated Killing of Incipient Metastatic Cells. Nat Cancer 5(2):262-282, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38195932.
22. Sood A, Rudzinski JK, Labbate CV, Hensley PJ, Bree KK, Guo CC, Alhalabi O, Campbell MT, Siefker-Radtke AO, Navai N, Dinney CPN, Gao J, Kamat AM. Long-Term Oncological Outcomes in Patients Diagnosed with Non-Metastatic Plasmacytoid Variant of Bladder Cancer: A 20-Year University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Experience. J Urol 211(2):101097JU0000000000003778, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 37922370.
23. Amara CS, Kami Reddy KR, Yuntao Y, Chan YS, Piyarathna DWB, Dobrolecki LE, Shih DJH, Shi Z, Xu J, Huang S, Ellis MJ, Apolo AB, Ballester LY, Gao J, Hansel DE, Lotan Y, Hodges HC, Lerner SP, Creighton CJ, Sreekumar A, Zheng WJ, Msaouel P, Kavuri SM, Putluri N. The IL6/JAK/STAT3 signaling axis is a therapeutic vulnerability in SMARCB1-deficient bladder cancer. Nat Commun 15(1):1373, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38355560.
24. Alhalabi O, Wilson N, Xiao L, Lin Y, Khandelwal J, Moussa MJ, Msaouel P, Navai N, Gao J, Kamat AM, Pilie P, Shah AY, Goswami S, Matin S, Kovitz C, Holla V, Guo C, Czerniak B, Logothetis C, Corn PG, Dinney CPN, Campbell MT, Hansel DE, Tannir NM, Siefker-Radtke AO. Comparative Effectiveness Analysis of Treatment Strategies for Surgically Resectable Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Urinary Tract. Eur Urol Oncol 6(6):611-620, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37833193.
25. Gjuka D, Adib E, Garrison K, Chen J, Zhang Y, Li W, Boutz D, Lamb C, Tanno Y, Nassar A, El Zarif T, Kale N, Rakaee M, Mouhieddine TH, Alaiwi SA, Gusev A, Rogers T, Gao J, Georgiou G, Kwiatkowski DJ, Stone E. Enzyme-mediated depletion of methylthioadenosine restores T cell function in MTAP-deficient tumors and reverses immunotherapy resistance. Cancer Cell 41(10):1774-1787.e9, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37774699.
26. Hahn AW, Kotecha RR, Viscuse PV, Pieretti AC, Wiele AJ, Jonasch E, Lee CH, Gao J, Zurita AJ, Shah AY, Campbell MT, Sharma P, Motzer RJ, Russo P, Wood CG, Tannir NM, Voss MH, Karam JA, Hakimi AA, Msaouel P. Cytoreductive Nephrectomy for Patients with Metastatic Sarcomatoid and/or Rhabdoid Renal Cell Carcinoma Treated with Immune Checkpoint Therapy. Eur Urol Focus 9(5):734-741, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36863962.
27. Perelli L, Carbone F, Zhang L, Huang JK, Le C, Khan H, Citron F, Del Poggetto E, Gutschner T, Tomihara H, Soeung M, Minelli R, Srinivasan S, Peoples M, Lam TNA, Lundgren S, Xia R, Zhu C, Mohamed AMT, Zhang J, Sircar K, Sgambato A, Gao J, Jonasch E, Draetta GF, Futreal A, Bakouny Z, Van Allen EM, Choueiri T, Signoretti S, Msaouel P, Litchfield K, Turajlic S, Wang L, Chen YB, Di Natale RG, Hakimi AA, Giuliani V, Heffernan TP, Viale A, Bristow CA, Tannir NM, Carugo A, Genovese G. Interferon signaling promotes tolerance to chromosomal instability during metastatic evolution in renal cancer. Nat Cancer 4(7):984-1000, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37365326.
28. Shapiro DD, Zacharias NM, Tripathi DN, Karki M, Bertocchio JP, Soeung M, He R, Westerman ME, Gao J, Rao P, Lam TNA, Jonasch E, Perelli L, Cheng EH, Carugo A, Heffernan TP, Walker CL, Genovese G, Tannir NM, Karam JA, Msaouel P. Neddylation inhibition sensitises renal medullary carcinoma tumors to platinum chemotherapy. Clin Transl Med 13(5):e1267, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37226898.
29. Alhalabi O, Zhu Y, Hamza A, Qiao W, Lin Y, Wang RM, Shah AY, Campbell MT, Holla V, Kamat A, Wang WL, Wang J, Chen J, Meng J, Zhang M, Bondaruk J, Titus M, Genovese G, Czerniak BA, Shaw KR, Meric-Bernstam F, Guo CC, Logothetis CJ, Siefker-Radtke A, Msaouel P, Wang L, Liu J, Gao J. Integrative Clinical and Genomic Characterization of MTAP-deficient Metastatic Urothelial Cancer. Eur Urol Oncol 6(2):228-232, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 34789422.
30. Sun C, Ye Y, Tan Z, Liu Y, Li Y, Hu W, Liang K, Egranov SD, Huang LA, Zhang Z, Zhang Y, Yao J, Nguyen TK, Zhao Z, Wu A, Marks JR, Caudle AS, Sahin AA, Gao J, Gammon ST, Piwnica-Worms D, Hu J, Chiao PJ, Yu D, Hung MC, Curran MA, Calin GA, Ying H, Han L, Lin C, Yang L. Tumor-associated nonmyelinating Schwann cell-expressed PVT1 promotes pancreatic cancer kynurenine pathway and tumor immune exclusion. Sci Adv 9(5):eadd6995, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36724291.
31. Leo J, Dondossola E, Basham KJ, Wilson NR, Alhalabi O, Gao J, Kurnit KC, White MG, McQuade JL, Westin SN, Wellberg EA, Frigo DE. Stranger Things: New Roles and Opportunities for Androgen Receptor in Oncology Beyond Prostate Cancer. Endocrinology 164(6), 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37154098.
32. Altan M, Li QZ, Wang Q, Vokes NI, Sheshadri A, Gao J, Zhu C, Tran HT, Gandhi S, Antonoff MB, Swisher S, Wang J, Byers LA, Abdel-Wahab N, Franco-Vega MC, Wang Y, Lee JJ, Zhang J, Heymach JV. Distinct patterns of auto-reactive antibodies associated with organ-specific immune-related adverse events. Front Immunol 14:1322818, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 38152395.
33. Labbate CV, Hensley PJ, Miest TS, Qiao W, Adibi M, Shah AY, Chery L, Papadopoulos J, Siefker-Radtke AO, Gao J, Guo CC, Czerniak BA, Navai N, Kamat AM, Dinney CP, Campbell MT, Matin SF. Longitudinal GFR trends after neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma. Urol Oncol 40(10):454.e17-454.e23, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35961847.
34. Zaleski MP, Chen H, Roy-Chowdhuri S, Patel KP, Luthra R, Routbort MJ, Kamat AM, Gao J, Siefker-Radtke A, Czerniak B, Guo CC. Distinct Gene Mutations Are Associated With Clinicopathologic Features in Urachal Carcinoma. Am J Clin Pathol 158(2):263-269, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35467000.
35. Bondaruk J, Jaksik R, Wang Z, Cogdell D, Lee S, Chen Y, Dinh KN, Majewski T, Zhang L, Cao S, Tian F, Yao H, Kus P, Chen H, Weinstein JN, Navai N, Dinney C, Gao J, Theodorescu D, Logothetis C, Guo CC, Wang W, McConkey D, Wei P, Kimmel M, Czerniak B. The origin of bladder cancer from mucosal field effects. iScience 25(7):104551, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35747385.
36. Msaouel, P, Goswami, S, Thall, PF, Wang, X, Yuan, Y, Jonasch, E, Gao, J, Campbell, M, Shah, AY, Corn, P, Tam, AL, Ahrar, K, Rao, P, Sircar, K, Cohen, L, Basu, S, Duan, F, Jindal, S, Zhang, Y, Chen, H, Yadav, SS, Shazer, R, Der-Torossian, H, Allison, JP, Sharma, P, Tannir, NM. A phase 1-2 trial of sitravatinib and nivolumab in clear cell renal cell carcinoma following progression on antiangiogenic therapy. Science translational medicine 14(641), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35442707.
37. Alhalabi O, Chen J, Zhang Y, Lu Y, Wang Q, Ramachandran S, Tidwell RS, Han G, Yan X, Meng J, Wang R, Hoang AG, Wang WL, Song J, Lopez L, Andreev-Drakhlin A, Siefker-Radtke A, Zhang X, Benedict WF, Shah AY, Wang J, Msaouel P, Zhang M, Guo CC, Czerniak B, Behrens C, Soto L, Papadimitrakopoulou V, Lewis J, Rinsurongkawong W, Rinsurongkawong V, Lee J, Roth J, Swisher S, Wistuba I, Heymach J, Wang J, Campbell MT, Efstathiou E, Titus M, Logothetis CJ, Ho TH, Zhang J, Wang L, Gao J. MTAP deficiency creates an exploitable target for antifolate therapy in 9p21-loss cancers. Nat Commun Paper #NCOMMS-20-37775B(1):1797, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35379845.
38. Adibi M, McCormick B, Economides MP, Petros F, Xiao L, Guo C, Shah A, Kamat AM, Dinney C, Navai N, Gao J, Siefker-Radtke A, Matin SF, Campbell MT. Five and Ten-Year Outcomes of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Surgery for High-Risk Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma. Clin Genitourin Cancer 20(2):176-182, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35039231.
39. Alhalabi O, Hahn AW, Msaouel P, Meric-Bernstam F, Wilson N, Naing A, Piha-Paul S, Janku F, Pant S, Yap TA, Hong DS, Fu S, Karp D, Beltran K, Campbell E, Le H, Campbell MT, Shah A, Tannir NM, Siefker-Radtke A, Gao J, Roszik J, Subbiah V. Validation of Prognostic Scores in Patients With Metastatic Urothelial Cancer Enrolling in Phase I Targeted Therapy or Next Generation Immunotherapy Trials. Clin Genitourin Cancer 20(1):e16-e24, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 34362693.
40. Ye Y, Zhang Y, Yang N, Gao Q, Ding X, Kuang X, Bao R, Zhang Z, Sun C, Zhou B, Wang L, Hu Q, Lin C, Gao J, Lou Y, Lin SH, Diao L, Liu H, Chen X, Mills GB, Han L. Profiling of immune features to predict immunotherapy efficacy. Innovation (N Y) 3(1):100194, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 34977836.
41. Hensley PJ, Bree KK, Campbell MT, Alhalabi O, Kokorovic A, Miest T, Nogueras-Gonzalez GM, Gao J, Siefker-Radtke AO, Guo CC, Navai N, Dinney CP, Kamat AM. Progression of Disease after Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Therapy: Refining Patient Selection for Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy before Radical Cystectomy. J Urol 206(5):101097JU0000000000001943, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34184926.
42. Campbell MT, Matin SF, Tam AL, Sheth RA, Ahrar K, Tidwell RS, Rao P, Karam JA, Wood CG, Tannir NM, Jonasch E, Gao J, Zurita AJ, Shah AY, Jindal S, Duan F, Basu S, Chen H, Espejo AB, Allison JP, Yadav SS, Sharma P. Pilot study of Tremelimumab with and without cryoablation in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Nat Commun 12(1):6375, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34737281.
43. Alhalabi O, Campbell MT, Xiao L, Adriazola AC, Wilson NR, Siefer-Radke AO, Corn PG, Zurita A, Jonasch E, Gao J, Adibi M, Kamat AM, Navai N, Pisters LL, Dinney C, Matin SF, Shah AY. Multimodal kidney-preserving approach in localised and locally advanced high-risk upper tract urothelial carcinoma. BJUI Compass 3(1):37-44, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 35475152.
44. Han G, Yang G, Hao D, Lu Y, Thein K, Simpson BS, Chen J, Sun R, Alhalabi O, Wang R, Dang M, Dai E, Zhang S, Nie F, Zhao S, Guo C, Hamza A, Czerniak B, Cheng C, Siefker-Radtke A, Bhat K, Futreal A, Peng G, Wargo J, Peng W, Kadara H, Ajani J, Swanton C, Litchfield K, Ahnert JR, Gao J, Wang L. 9p21 Loss Confers a Cold Tumor Immune Microenvironment and Primary Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Therapy. Nat Commun 12(1):5606, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34556668.
45. Msaouel P, Oromendia C, Siefker-Radtke AO, Tannir NM, Subudhi SK, Gao J, Wang Y, Siddiqui BA, Shah AY, Aparicio AM, Campbell MT, Zurita AJ, Shaw LK, Lopez LP, McCord H, Chakraborty SN, Perales J, Lu C, Van Alstine ML, Elashoff M, Logothetis C. Evaluation of Technology-Enabled Monitoring of Patient-Reported Outcomes to Detect and Treat Toxic Effects Linked to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. JAMA Netw Open 4(8):e2122998, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34459906.
46. Siddiqui BA, Gheeya JS, Goswamy R, Bathala TK, Surasi DS, Gao J, Shah A, Campbell MT, Msaouel P, Goswami S, Wang J, Zurita AJ, Jonasch E, Corn PG, Aparicio AM, Siefker-Radtke AO, Sharma P, Subudhi SK, Tannir N. Durable responses in patients with genitourinary cancers following immune checkpoint therapy rechallenge after moderate-to-severe immune-related adverse events. J Immunother Cancer 9(7), 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34326169.
47. Brooks NA, Kokorovic A, Xiao L, Matulay JT, Li R, Ranasinghe WKB, Nagaraju S, Shen Y, Gao J, Navai N, Dinney CPN, Grossman HB, Kamat AM. The Obesity Paradox: Defining the impact of Body Mass Index and Diabetes Mellitus for patients with Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer Treated with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin. BJU Int 128(1):65-71, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33210440.
48. Alhalabi O, Hasanov E, Wilson NR, Araujo J, Wang J, Campbell MT, Goswami S, Shah AY, Gao J, Msaouel P, Tannir NM. Outcomes of patients with intermediate- or poor-risk metastatic renal cell carcinoma who received their first cycle of nivolumab and ipilimumab in the hospital because of symptomatic disease: The MD Anderson Cancer Center experience. Int J Cancer 149(2):387-393, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33739450.
49. Laccetti AL, Garmezy B, Xiao L, Economides M, Venkatesan A, Gao J, Jonasch E, Corn P, Zurita-Saavedra A, Brown LC, Kao C, Kinsey EN, Gupta RT, Harrison MR, Armstrong AJ, George DJ, Tannir N, Msaouel P, Shah A, Zhang T, Campbell MT. Combination antiangiogenic tyrosine kinase inhibition and anti-PD1 immunotherapy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: A retrospective analysis of safety, tolerance, and clinical outcomes. Cancer Med 10(7):2341-2349, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33650321.
50. Alhalabi O, Hahn AW, Msaouel P, Andreev-Drakhlin AY, Meric-Bernstam F, Naing A, Piha-Paul S, Filip J, Pant S, Yap TA, Hong DS, Fu S, Karp D, Campbell E, Le H, Campbell MT, Shah AY, Tannir NM, Siefker-Radtke AO, Gao J, Roszik J, Subbiah V. Molecular profiling of metastatic bladder cancer early-phase clinical trial participants predicts patient outcomes. Mol Cancer Res 19(3):395-402, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33323389.
51. Chahoud J, Msaouel P, Ross JA, McCormick BZ, Bathala TK, Gao J, Horn R, Xiao L, Sircar K, Campbell MT, Shah AY, Goswami S, Zurita AJ, Jonasch E, Matin SF, Wood CG, Karam JA, Sharma P, Tannir NM. Outcomes of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma with sarcomatoid dedifferentiation to immune checkpoint inhibitors. Urol Oncol 39(2):134.e9-134.e16, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33187886.
52. Viscuse PV, Marques-Piubelli ML, Heberton MM, Parra ER, Shah AY, Siefker-Radtke A, Gao J, Goswami S, Ivan D, Curry JL, Campbell MT. Case Report: Enfortumab Vedotin for Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma: A Case Series on the Clinical and Histopathologic Spectrum of Adverse Cutaneous Reactions From Fatal Stevens-Johnson Syndrome/Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis to Dermal Hypersensitivity Reaction. Front Oncol 11:621591, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33747934.
53. Chang KY, Chiang NJ, Wu SY, Yen CJ, Chen SH, Yeh YM, Li CF, Feng X, Wu K, Johnston A, Bomalaski JS, Wu BW, Gao J, Subudhi SK, Kaseb AO, Blando JM, Yadav SS, Szlosarek PW, Chen LT. Phase 1b study of pegylated arginine deiminase (ADI-PEG 20) plus Pembrolizumab in advanced solid cancers. Oncoimmunology 10(1):1943253, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34290906.
54. Gao J, Navai N, Alhalabi O, Siefker-Radtke A, Campbell MT, Tidwell RS, Guo CC, Kamat AM, Matin SF, Araujo JC, Shah AY, Msaouel P, Corn P, Wang J, Papadopoulos JN, Yadav SS, Blando JM, Duan F, Basu S, Liu W, Shen Y, Zhang Y, Macaluso MD, Wang Y, Chen J, Zhang J, Futreal A, Dinney C, Allison JP, Goswami S, Sharma P. Neoadjuvant PD-L1 plus CTLA-4 blockade in patients with cisplatin-ineligible operable high-risk urothelial carcinoma. Nat Med. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33046869.
55. Guo CC, Bondaruk J, Yao H, Wang Z, Zhang L, Lee S, Lee JG, Cogdell D, Zhang M, Yang G, Dadhania V, Choi W, Wei P, Gao J, Theodorescu D, Logothetis C, Dinney C, Kimmel M, Weinstein JN, McConkey DJ, Czerniak B. Assessment of Luminal and Basal Phenotypes in Bladder Cancer. Sci Rep 10(1):9743, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32546765.
56. Yang G, Bondaruk J, Cogdell D, Wang Z, Lee S, Lee JG, Zhang S, Choi W, Wang Y, Liang Y, Wang G, Wang Y, Yao H, Dadhania V, Gao J, Logothetis C, Siefker-Radtke A, Kamat A, Dinney C, Theodorescu D, Kimmel M, Wei P, Guo CC, Weinstein JN, McConkey DJ, Czerniak B. Urothelial-to-Neural Plasticity Drives Progression to Small Cell Bladder Cancer. iScience 23(6):101201. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32521509.
57. Msaouel P, Malouf GG, Su X, Yao H, Tripathi DN, Soeung M, Gao J, Rao P, Coarfa C, Creighton CJ, Bertocchio JP, Kunnimalaiyaan S, Multani AS, Blando J, He R, Shapiro DD, Perelli L, Srinivasan S, Carbone F, Pilié PG, Karki M, Seervai RNH, Vokshi BH, Lopez-Terrada D, Cheng EH, Tang X, Lu W, Wistuba II, Thompson TC, Davidson I, Giuliani V, Schlacher K, Carugo A, Heffernan TP, Sharma P, Karam JA, Wood CG, Walker CL, Genovese G, Tannir NM. Comprehensive Molecular Characterization Identifies Distinct Genomic and Immune Hallmarks of Renal Medullary Carcinoma. Cancer Cell. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32359397.
58. Chahoud J, Msaouel P, Campbell MT, Bathala T, Xiao L, Gao J, Zurita AJ, Shah AY, Jonasch E, Sharma P, Tannir NM. Nivolumab for the Treatment of Patients with Metastatic Non-Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (nccRCC): A Single-Institutional Experience and Literature Meta-Analysis. Oncologist 25(3):252-258, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32162795.
59. Lu T, Wang S, Xu L, Zhou Q, Singla N, Gao J, Manna S, Pop L, Xie Z, Chen M, Luke JJ, Brugarolas J, Hannan R, Wang T. Tumor neoantigenicity assessment with CSiN score incorporates clonality and immunogenicity to predict immunotherapy outcomes. Science Immunology 5(44), 2020. e-Pub 2020.
60. Helmink BA, Reddy SM, Gao J, Zhang S, Basar R, Thakur R, Yizhak K, Sade-Feldman M, Blando J, Han G, Gopalakrishnan V, Xi Y, Zhao H, Amaria RN, Tawbi HA, Cogdill AP, Liu W, LeBleu VS, Kugeratski FG, Patel S, Davies MA, Hwu P, Lee JE, Gershenwald JE, Lucci A, Arora R, Woodman S, Keung EZ, Gaudreau PO, Reuben A, Spencer CN, Burton EM, Haydu LE, Lazar AJ, Zapassodi R, Hudgens CW, Ledesma DA, Ong S, Bailey M, Warren S, Rao D, Krijgsman O, Rozeman EA, Peeper D, Blank CU, Schumacher TN, Butterfield LH, Zelazowska MA, McBride KM, Kalluri R, Allison J, Petitprez F, Fridman WH, Sautès-Fridman C, Hacohen N, Rezvani K, Sharma P, Tetzlaff MT, Wang L, Wargo JA. B cells and tertiary lymphoid structures promote immunotherapy response. Nature 577(7791):549-555, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 31942075.
61. Tahir SA, Gao J, Miura Y, Blando J, Tidwell RSS, Zhao H, Subudhi SK, Tawbi H, Keung E, Wargo J, Allison JP, Sharma P. Autoimmune antibodies correlate with immune checkpoint therapy-induced toxicities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 116(44):22246-22251, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31611368.
62. Abu-Sbeih H, Ali FS, Naqash AR, Owen DH, Patel S, Otterson GA, Kendra K, Ricciuti B, Chiari R, De Giglio A, Sleiman J, Funchain P, Wills B, Zhang J, Naidoo J, Philpott J, Gao J, Subudhi SK, Wang Y. Resumption of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy After Immune-Mediated Colitis. J Clin Oncol 37(30):JCO1900320, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31163011.
63. Lobo N, Shariat SF, Guo CC, Fernandez MI, Kassouf W, Choudhury A, Gao J, Williams SB, Galsky MD, Taylor JA, Roupret M, Kamat AM. What Is the Significance of Variant Histology in Urothelial Carcinoma?. Eur Urol Focus. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31530497.
64. Shi LZ, Goswami S, Fu T, Guan B, Chen J, Xiong L, Zhang J, Ng Tang D, Zhang X, Vence L, Blando J, Allison JP, Collazo R, Gao J, Sharma P. Blockade of CTLA-4 and PD-1 Enhances Adoptive T-cell Therapy Efficacy in an ICOS-Mediated Manner. Cancer Immunol Res. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31466995.
65. Shah AY, Kotecha RR, Lemke EA, Chandramohan A, Chaim JL, Msaouel P, Xiao L, Gao J, Campbell MT, Zurita AJ, Wang J, Corn PG, Jonasch E, Motzer RJ, Sharma P, Voss MH, Tannir NM. Outcomes of patients with metastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma treated with second-line VEGFR-TKI after first-line immune checkpoint inhibitors. Eur J Cancer 114:67-75. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31075726.
66. Guo CC, Majewski T, Zhang L, Yao H, Bondaruk J, Wang Y, Zhang S, Wang Z, Lee JG, Lee S, Cogdell D, Zhang M, Wei P, Grossman HB, Kamat A, Duplisea JJ, Ferguson JE, Huang H, Dadhania V, Gao J, Dinney C, Weinstein JN, Baggerly K, McConkey D, Czerniak B. Dysregulation of EMT Drives the Progression to Clinically Aggressive Sarcomatoid Bladder Cancer. Cell Rep 27(6):1781-1793.e4, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31067463.
67. Ye Y, Hu Q, Chen H, Liang K, Yuan Y, Xiang Y, Ruan H, Zhang Z, Song A, Zhang H, Liu L, Diao L, Lou Y, Zhou B, Wang L, Zhou S, Gao JJ, Jonasch E, Lin S, Xia Y, Lin C, Yang L, Mills G, Liang H, and Han L. Characterization of Hypoxia-associated Molecular Features to Aid Hypoxia-Targeted Therapy. Nat Metab, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
68. Choi K, Abu-Sbeih H, Samdani R, Gonzalez GN, Raju GS, Richards DM, Gao J, Subudhi S, Stroehlein J, Wang Y. Can Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Induce Microscopic Colitis or a Brand New Entity?. Inflamm Bowel Dis, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30169584.
69. Wang Y, Wiesnoski DH, Helmink BA, Gopalakrishnan V, Choi K, DuPont HL, Jiang ZD, Abu-Sbeih H, Sanchez CA, Chang CC, Parra ER, Francisco-Cruz A, Raju GS, Stroehlein JR, Campbell MT, Gao J, Subudhi SK, Maru DM, Blando JM, Lazar AJ, Allison JP, Sharma P, Tetzlaff MT, Wargo JA, Jenq RR. Fecal microbiota transplantation for refractory immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated colitis. Nat Med 24(12):1804-1808, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30420754.
70. Mmeje CO, Benson CR, Nogueras-González GM, Jayaratna IS, Gao J, Siefker-Radtke AO, Kamat AM, Dinney CP, Navai N, Shah JB. Determining the optimal time for radical cystectomy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. BJU Int 122(1):89-98, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29569824.
71. Reuben A, Gittelman R, Gao J, Zhang J, Yusko EC, Wu CJ, Emerson R, Zhang J, Tipton C, Li J, Quek K, Gopalakrishnan V, Chen R, Vence LM, Cascone T, Vignali M, Fujimoto J, Rodriguez-Canales J, Parra ER, Little LD, Gumbs C, Forget MA, Federico L, Haymaker C, Behrens C, Benzeno S, Bernatchez C, Sepesi B, Gibbons DL, Wargo JA, William WN, Swisher S, Heymach JV, Robins H, Lee JJ, Sharma P, Allison JP, Futreal PA, Wistuba II, Zhang J. TCR Repertoire Intratumor Heterogeneity in Localized Lung Adenocarcinomas: an Association with Predicted Neoantigen Heterogeneity and Postsurgical Recurrence. Cancer Discov 7(10):1088-1097, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28733428.
72. Gao J, Ward JF, Pettaway CA, Shi LZ, Subudhi SK, Vence LM, Zhao H, Chen J, Chen H, Efstathiou E, Troncoso P, Allison JP, Logothetis CJ, Wistuba II, Sepulveda MA, Sun J, Wargo J, Blando J, Sharma P. VISTA is an inhibitory immune checkpoint that is increased after ipilimumab therapy in patients with prostate cancer. Nat Med 23(5):551-555, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28346412.
73. Biebighauser KC, Gao J, Rao P, Landon G, Pagliaro L, Dinney CPN, Karam J, Navai N. Non-seminomatous germ cell tumor with bone metastasis only at diagnosis: A rare clinical presentation. Asian J Urol 4(2):124-127, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29264217.
74. Shah AY, Karam JA, Malouf GG, Rao P, Lim ZD, Jonasch E, Xiao L, Gao J, Vaishampayan UN, Heng DY, Plimack ER, Guancial EA, Fung C, Lowas SR, Tamboli P, Sircar K, Matin SF, Kimryn Rathmell W, Wood CG, Tannir NM. Management and outcomes of patients with renal medullary carcinoma: a multicenter collaborative study. BJU Int. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27860149.
75. Gao J, Shi LZ, Zhao H, Chen J, Xiong L, He Q, Chen T, Roszik J, Bernatchez C, Woodman SE, Chen PL, Hwu P, Allison JP, Futreal A, Wargo JA, Sharma P. Loss of IFN-γ Pathway Genes in Tumor Cells as a Mechanism of Resistance to Anti-CTLA-4 Therapy. Cell 167(2):397-404.e9, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27667683.
76. Kim C, Gao J, Shannon VR, Siefker-Radtke A. Systemic sarcoidosis first manifesting in a tattoo in the setting of immune checkpoint inhibition. BMJ Case Rep 2016, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27797838.
77. Subudhi SK, Aparicio A, Gao J, Zurita AJ, Araujo JC, Logothetis CJ, Tahir SA, Korivi BR, Slack RS, Vence L, Emerson RO, Yusko E, Vignali M, Robins HS, Sun J, Allison JP, Sharma P. Clonal expansion of CD8 T cells in the systemic circulation precedes development of ipilimumab-induced toxicities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113(42):11919-11924, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27698113.
78. Shi LZ, Fu T, Guan B, Chen J, Blando JM, Allison JP, Xiong L, Subudhi SK, Gao J, Sharma P. Interdependent IL-7 and IFN-γ signaling in T-cell controls tumor eradication by combined α-CTLA-4+α-PD-1 therapy. Nat Commun 7:12335, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27498556.
79. Bilen MA, Subudhi SK, Gao J, Tannir NM, Tu SM, Sharma P. Acute rhabdomyolysis with severe polymyositis following ipilimumab-nivolumab treatment in a cancer patient with elevated anti-striated muscle antibody. J Immunother Cancer 4:36, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27330809.
80. Liu XD, Hoang A, Zhou L, Kalra S, Yetil A, Sun M, Ding Z, Zhang X, Bai S, German P, Tamboli P, Rao P, Karam JA, Wood C, Matin S, Zurita A, Bex A, Griffioen AW, Gao J, Sharma P, Tannir N, Sircar K, Jonasch E. Resistance to Antiangiogenic Therapy Is Associated with an Immunosuppressive Tumor Microenvironment in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Immunol Res 3(9):1017-29, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26014097.
81. Malouf GG, Su X, Yao H, Gao J, Xiong L, He Q, Compérat E, Couturier J, Molinié V, Escudier B, Camparo P, Doss DJ, Thompson EJ, Khayat D, Wood CG, Yu W, Teh BT, Weinstein J, Tannir NM. Next-generation sequencing of translocation renal cell carcinoma reveals novel RNA splicing partners and frequent mutations of chromatin-remodeling genes. Clin Cancer Res 20(15):4129-40, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24899691.
82. Chen H, Fu T, Suh WK, Tsavachidou D, Wen S, Gao J, Ng Tang D, He Q, Sun J, Sharma P. CD4 cells require ICOS-mediated P13K-signaling to increase T-bet expression in the setting of anti-CTLA therapy. Cancer Immunol Res 2(2):167-76, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24778280.
83. Gou HF, Li X, Qiu M, Cheng K, Li LH, Dong H, Chen Y, Tang Y, Gao F, Zhao F, Men HT, Ge J, Su JM, Xu F, Bi F, Gao JJ, Liu JY. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-RAS signaling pathway in penile squamous cell carcinoma. PLoS One 8(4):e62175, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23637996.
84. Gao JJ, Maricque BB, Morse MD, Huang W, McNeel DG. Identification of autoantibodies in a patient with testicular cancer and concurrent inflammatory bowel disease. J Clin Oncol 28(33):e680-3, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20805455.
85. Gao JJ, Shen J, Kolbert C, Raghavakaimal S, Papasian CJ, Qureshi AA, Vogel SN, Morrison DC, Qureshi N. The proteasome regulates bacterial CpG DNA-induced signaling pathways in murine macrophages. Shock 34(4):390-401, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20160661.
86. Shen J, Gao JJ, Zhang G, Tan X, Morrison DC, Papasian C, Vogel SN, Qureshi N. Proteasome-mediated regulation of CpG DNA- and peptidoglycan-induced cytokines, inflammatory genes, and mitogen-activated protein kinase activation. Shock 25(6):594-9, 2006. e-Pub 2006. PMID: 16721267.
87. Gao JJ, Diesl V, Wittmann T, Morrison DC, Ryan JL, Vogel SN, Follettie MT. Bacterial LPS and CpG DNA differentially induce gene expression profiles in mouse macrophages. J Endotoxin Res 9(4):237-43, 2003. e-Pub 2003. PMID: 12935354.
88. Gao JJ, Diesl V, Wittmann T, Morrison DC, Ryan JL, Vogel SN, Follettie MT. Regulation of gene expression in mouse macrophages stimulated with bacterial CpG-DNA and lipopolysaccharide. J Leukoc Biol 72(6):1234-45, 2002. e-Pub 2002. PMID: 12488506.
89. Gao JJ, Xue Q, Papasian CJ, Morrison DC. Bacterial DNA and lipopolysaccharide induce synergistic production of TNF-alpha through a post-transcriptional mechanism. J Immunol 166(11):6855-60, 2001. e-Pub 2001. PMID: 11359845.
90. Chi L, Li Y, Stehno-Bittel L, Gao J, Morrison DC, Stechschulte DJ, Dileepan KN. Interleukin-6 production by endothelial cells via stimulation of protease-activated receptors is amplified by endotoxin and tumor necrosis factor-alpha. J Interferon Cytokine Res 21(4):231-40, 2001. e-Pub 2001. PMID: 11359654.
91. Gao JJ, Xue Q, Zuvanich EG, Haghi KR, Morrison DC. Commercial preparations of lipoteichoic acid contain endotoxin that contributes to activation of mouse macrophages in vitro. Infect Immun 69(2):751-7, 2001. e-Pub 2001. PMID: 11159964.
92. Gao JJ, Filla MB, Lorsbach RB, Pace JL, Crespo A, Russell SW, Murphy WJ. Prolonged exposure of mouse macrophages to IFN-beta suppresses transcription of the inducible nitric oxide synthase gene: altered availability of transcription factor Stat1alpha. Eur J Immunol 30(6):1551-61, 2000. e-Pub 2000. PMID: 10898490.
93. Chu W, Gao J, Murphy WJ, Hunt JS. A candidate interferon-gamma activated site (GAS element) in the HLA-G promoter does not bind nuclear proteins. Hum Immunol 60(11):1113-8, 1999. e-Pub 1999. PMID: 10600009.
94. Gao JJ, Zuvanich EG, Xue Q, Horn DL, Silverstein R, Morrison DC. Cutting edge: bacterial DNA and LPS act in synergy in inducing nitric oxide production in RAW 264.7 macrophages. J Immunol 163(8):4095-9, 1999. e-Pub 1999. PMID: 10510342.
95. Gao JJ, Filla MB, Fultz MJ, Vogel SN, Russell SW, Murphy WJ. Autocrine/paracrine IFN-alphabeta mediates the lipopolysaccharide-induced activation of transcription factor Stat1alpha in mouse macrophages: pivotal role of Stat1alpha in induction of the inducible nitric oxide synthase gene. J Immunol 161(9):4803-10, 1998. e-Pub 1998. PMID: 9794412.
96. Gao J, Morrison DC, Parmely TJ, Russell SW, Murphy WJ. An interferon-gamma-activated site (GAS) is necessary for full expression of the mouse iNOS gene in response to interferon-gamma and lipopolysaccharide. J Biol Chem 272(2):1226-30, 1997. e-Pub 1997. PMID: 8995425.

Invited Articles

1. Koti M, Bivalacqua T, Black PC, Cathomen T, Galsky MD, Gulley JL, Ingersoll MA, Kamat AM, Kassouf W, Siemens DR, Gao J. Adaptive Immunity in Genitourinary Cancers. Eur Urol Oncol 6(3):263-272, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37069029.
2. Tan WS, Tan MY, Alhalabi O, Campbell MT, Kamat AM, Gao J. Evolving systemic management of urothelial cancers. Curr Opin Oncol 35(3)(3):186-199, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36966497.
3. Andreev-Drakhlin AY, Egoryan G, Shah AY, Msaouel P, Alhalabi O, Gao J. The evolving treatment landscape of advanced urothelial carcinoma. Curr Opin Oncol 33(3):221-230, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33818541.
4. Sharma P, Siddiqui BA, Anandhan S, Yadav SS, Subudhi SK, Gao J, Goswami S, Allison JP. The Next Decade of Immune Checkpoint Therapy. Cancer Discov 11(4):838-857, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33811120.
5. Msaouel P, Genovese G, Gao J, Sen S, Tannir NM. TAM kinase inhibition and immune checkpoint blockade- a winning combination in cancer treatment?. Expert Opin Ther Targets:1-11. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33356674.
6. Hasanov E, Gao J, Tannir NM. The Immunotherapy Revolution in Kidney Cancer Treatment: Scientific Rationale and First-Generation Results. Cancer J 26(5):419-431, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32947310.
7. Alhalabi O, Campbell M, Shah A, Siefker-Radtke A, Gao J. Emerging treatments in advanced urothelial cancer. Curr Opin Oncol 32(3):232-239, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32209822.
8. Alhalabi O, Rafei H, Shah A, Siefker-Radtke A, Campbell M, Gao J. Targeting advanced urothelial carcinoma-developing strategies. Curr Opin Oncol 31(3):207-215, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30844889.
9. Alhalabi O, Shah AY, Lemke EA, Gao J. Current and future landscape of immunotherapy in urothelial cancer. Oncology 33(1):11-8, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30731013.
10. Tabayoyong W, Li R, Gao J, Kamat A. Optimal Timing of Chemotherapy and Surgery in Patients with Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer and Upper Urinary Tract Urothelial Carcinoma. Urol Clin North Am 45(2):155-167, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29650132.
11. Tabayoyong W, Gao J. The emerging role of immunotherapy in advanced urothelial cancers. Curr Opin Oncol 30(3):172-180, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29553950.
12. Shah AY, Gao J, Siefker-Radtke AO. Five new therapies or just one new treatment? A critical look at immune checkpoint inhibition in urothelial cancer. Immunotherapy 9(10):781-784, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28877627.
13. Campbell MT, Siefker-Radtke AO, Gao J. The state of immune check point inhibition in urothelial carcinoma: current evidence and future areas of exploration. Cancer J 22(2):96-100, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27111904.
14. Gao J, He Q, Subudhi S, Aparicio A, Zurita-Saavedra A, Lee DH, Jimenez C, Suarez-Almazor M, Sharma P. Review of Immune-Related Adverse Events in Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with Ipilimumab: MD Anderson Experience. Oncogene 34(43):5411-7, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25659583.
15. Siefker-Radtke AO, Gao J. Towards effective adjuvant treatment for urothelial cancer. Lancet Oncol 16(1):9-10, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25498220.
16. Jonasch E, Gao J, Rathmell WK. Renal cell carcinoma. BMJ 349(10):g4797, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25385470.
17. Gao J, Bernatchez C, Sharma P, Radvanyi LG, Hwu P. Advances in the development of cancer immunotherapies. Trends Immunol 34(2):90-8, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23031830.
18. Lizée G, Overwijk WW, Radvanyi L, Gao J, Sharma P, Hwu P. Harnessing the power of the immune system to target cancer. Annu Rev Med 64:71-90, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23092383.
19. Lei MG, Gao JJ, Morrison DC, Qureshi N. Pathogenesis of sepsis: current concepts and emerging therapies. Mo Med 100(5):524-9, 2003. e-Pub 2003. PMID: 14601445.

Other Articles

1. Coleman, K, Schroeder, A, Loth, M, Zhang, D, Park, JH, Sung, JY, Blank, N, Cowan, AJ, Qian, X, Chen, J, Jiang, J, Yan, H, Samarah, LZ, Clemenceau, JR, Jang, I, Kim, M, Barnfather, I, Rabinowitz, J, Deng, Y, Lee, EB, Lazar, A, Gao, J, Furth, EE, Hwang, TH, Wang, L, Thaiss, CA, Hu, J, Li, M Correction to. Nature Methods 22(4):874, 2025. PMID: 40050700.
2. Coleman, K, Schroeder, A, Loth, M, Zhang, D, Park, JH, Sung, JY, Blank, N, Cowan, AJ, Qian, X, Chen, J, Jiang, J, Yan, H, Samarah, LZ, Clemenceau, JR, Jang, I, Kim, M, Barnfather, I, Rabinowitz, J, Deng, Y, Lee, EB, Lazar, A, Gao, J, Furth, EE, Hwang, TH, Wang, L, Thaiss, CA, Hu, J, Li, M Author Correction. Nature Methods 22(3):635, 2025. PMID: 39856234.
3. Bondaruk, J, Jaksik, R, Wang, Z, Cogdell, D, Lee, S, Chen, Y, Dinh, KN, Majewski, T, Zhang, L, Cao, S, Tian, F, Yao, H, Kuś, P, Chen, H, Weinstein, JN, Navai, N, Dinney, CP, Gao, J, Theodorescu, D, Logothetis, CJ, Guo, CC, Wang, W, McConkey, DJ, Wei, P, Kimmel, M, Czerniak, BA Erratum. iScience 25(7), 2022. PMID: 35811851.
4. Hensley PJ, Bree KK, Campbell MT, Alhalabi O, Kokorovic A, Miest T, Nogueras-Gonzalez GM, Gao J, Siefker-Radtke AO, Guo CC, Navai N, Dinney CP, Kamat AM Reply by Authors. J Urol 206(5):101097JU000000000000194302, 2021. PMID: 34372685.

Editorials

1. Andreev-Drakhlin, AY, Gao, J, Siefker-Radtke, AO. Levelling the Evidence. European urology 79(5):655-656, 2021. PMID: 32921520.

Abstracts

1. Wang J, Campbell MT, Shah AY, Goswami S, Msaouel P, Alhalabi O, Hahn AW, Kovitz CA, Jana B, Araujo JC, Gao J, Zurita A, Jonasch E, Corn P, Tannir N. A phase II study of nivolumab with ipilimumab and cabozantinib in patients with untreated renal cell carcinoma brain metastases. J Clinical Oncology(6 suppl), 2023. e-Pub 2023.
2. Shah AY, Campbell MT, Tidwell R, Siefker-Radtke AO, Goswami S, Alhalabi O, Adriazola A, Shaw L, Ye Y, Chen J, Yan X, Wang L, Gao J. A phase II trial evaluating combination pemetrexed and avelumab in patients with MTAP-deficient advanced urothelial cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology 40(16_suppl):TPS4612, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
3. Hahn A, Viscuse P, Surasi D, Bathala T, Wiele A, Starbuck M, Campbell MT, Shah A, Jonasch E, Gao JJ, Alhalabi O, Sircar K, Tannir N, Msaouel P. Treatment outcomes in patients (pts) with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) with sarcomatoid and/or rhabdoid (S/R) features after progressive disease (PD) on immune checkpoint therapy (ICT): The MD Anderson Cancer Center experience. Journal of Clinical Oncology 40(6_suppl):351, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
4. Alhalabi O, Wilson N, Ajufo H, Lehner M, Hasanov E, Campbell MT, Shah A, Wang J, Jonasch E, Araujo J, Wang J, Gao JJ, Goswami S, Msaouel P, Tannir N. Safety and differential clinical activity of nivolumab plus ipilimumab (nivo-ipi) in patients (pts) with non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma (nccRCC). Journal of Clinical Oncology 40(6_suppl):356, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
5. Alhalabi O, Wilson N, Xiao L, Navai N, Kamat A, Shah A, Araujo J, Wang J, Goswami S, Gao JJ, Wang J, Guo C, Czerniak B, Corn P, Logothetis C, Dinney C, Campbell MT, Tannir N, Siefker-Radtke A. Factors associated with improved outcomes in surgically resectable small cell urothelial cancer (SCUC). Journal of Clinical Oncology 40(6_suppl):495, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
6. Msaouel P, Van Alstine ML, Oromendia C, Gao J, Wang Y, Siddiqui BA, Siefker-Ratke AO, Shah AY, Shaw L, Lopez L, Laccetti AL, Tannir NM, Elashoff M, Logothetis C. Technology-enabled longitudinal monitoring of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) to individualize care of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) in patients (pts) treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Journal of Clinical Oncology 38(15_suppl), 2020. e-Pub 2020.
7. Msaouel P, Thall PF, Yuan Y, Wang X, Jonasch E, Gao J Campbell MT, Shah AY, Corn PG, Tam A, Ahrar K, Rao P, Sircar K, Der-Torossian H, Tannir NM. A phase I/II trial of sitravatinib (sitra) combined with nivolumab (nivo) in patients (pts) with advanced clear cell renal cell cancer (aCCRCC) that progressed on prior VEGF-targeted therapy. Journal of Clinical Oncology 38(6_ suppl):612-612, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
8. Gao J, Karam J, Tannir NM, Campbell MT, Slack Tidwell R, Ahrar K, Rao P, Ng CS, Jonasch E, Matin S, Zurita AJ, Shah AY, Shen Y, Blando JM, Vence LM, Basu S, Zhao H, Allison JP, Wood CG, Sharma P. A pilot randomized study evaluating nivolumab (nivo) or nivo + bevacizumab (bev) or nivo + ipilimumab (ipi) in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (MRCC) eligible for cytoreductive nephrectomy, metastasectomy or post-treatment biopsy (Bx). 2019 ASCO, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
9. Gao J, Siefker-Radtke O, Navai N, Campbell MT, Slack-Tidwell R, Guo C, Kamat A, Matin S, Araujo J, Shah AY, Msaouel P, Blando J, Vence L, Duan F, Basu S, Singh S, Zhao H, Allison JP, Dinney CPN, Sharma P. A pilot presurgical study evaluating anti-PD-L1 durvalumab (durva) plus anti-CTLA-4 tremelimumab (treme) in patients (pts) with high-risk muscle-invasive bladder carcinoma (MIBC) who are ineligible for cisplatin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). 2019 ASCO, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
10. Alhalabi O, Campbell MT, Slack-Tidwell R, Siefker-Radtke AO, Shah AY, Efstathiou E, W-L W, Titus MA, Czerniak B, Zhang M, Guo C, Logothetis C, Gao J. A phase II trial to evaluate pemetrexed clinical responses in relation to tumor methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) gene status in patients with prevously treated metastatic urothelial carcinoma. J Clin Oncol 37(suppl 7S; abstr 385), 2019. e-Pub 2019.
11. Lancetti AL, Economides MP, Venkatesan AM, Gao J, Jonasch E, Corn PG, Zurita AJ, Tannir NM, Msaouel P, Shah AY, Campbell MT. Combination anti-angiogenic tyrosine kinase inhibition and anti-PD1 immunotherapy in metastatic renal carcinoma: A retrospective analysis of safety, tolerance, and clinical outcomes. J Clin Oncol 37(suppl 7S; abstr 388), 2019. e-Pub 2019.
12. Siefker-Radtke AO, Fishman MN, Balar AV, Grignani G, Diab A, Gao J, Tagliaferri MA, Hannah AL, Karski EE, Zalevsky J, Hoch U, Rizwan AN, Bilen MA. NKTR-214 + nivolumab in first-line advanced/metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC): Updated results from PIVOT-02. J Clin Oncol 37(suppl 7S; abstr 388), 2019. e-Pub 2019.
13. Shah AY, Kotecha R, Lemke E, Chandramohan A, Chaim J, Msaouel P, Xiao L, Gao J, Campbell MT, Zurita AJ, Wang J, Corn PG, Jonasch E, Motzer RJ, Sharma P, Voss MH, Tannir NM. Outcomes of patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma treated with second-line VEGFR-TKI after first-line immune checkpoint inhibitors. J Clin Oncol 37(suppl 7s; abstr 575), 2019. e-Pub 2019.
14. Msaouel P, Malouf GG, Su X, Yao H, Trapathi DN, Gao J, Rao P, He R, Karam JA, Wood CG, Walker CL, Tannir NM. Comparative transcriptomic profiling of renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) to determine distinct signatures and pathways associated with response to chemotherapy. J Clin Oncol 36(suppl; abstr 4575), 2018. e-Pub 2018.
15. Gao J, Karam JA, Tannir NM, Slack R, Ahrar K, Rao P, Ng CS, Jonasch E, Campbell MT, Matin SF, Zurita AJ, Wang J, Blando JM, Zhao H, Vence LM, Basu S, Chen H, Allison JP, Wood CG, Sharma P. A pilot randomized study evaluating nivolumab (nivo) or nivo = bevacizumab (bev) or nivo + ipilmumab (ipi) in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (MRCC) eligible for cytoreductive nephrectomy (CN), metastectomy (MS) or post-treatment biopsy (Bx). J Clin Oncol 36(suppl; abstr 4520), 2018. e-Pub 2018.
16. Gao, JJ, Siefker-Radtke A, Navai N, Campbell M, Slack R, Guo C, Kamat A, Matin S, Pappadoplous J, Araujo JC, Shah AY, Blando JM, Vence LM, Duan F, Basu S, Singh S, Zhao H, Allison JP, Dinney C, Sharma P. A pilot presurgical study evaluating anti-PD-L1 durvalumab (durva)plus anti-CTLA-4 tremelimumab (treme) in patients with muscle-invasive high-risk urothelial bladder carcinoma who are ineligible for cisplatin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy. J Clin Oncol 36(suppl; abstr e16524), 2018. e-Pub 2018.
17. Diab A, Hurwitz ME, Cho DC, Papadimitrakopoulou V, Curti BD, Tykodi SS, Puzanov I, Ibrahim NK, Tolaney SM, Tripathy D, Gao J, Siefker-Radtke AO, Clemens W, Tagliaferri MA, Gettinger SN, Kluger HM, Larking JMG, Grignani G, Sznol M, Tannir NM. NKTR-214 (CD 122-biased agnoist) plus nivolumab in patients with advanced solid tumors: Preliminary phase 1/2 results of PIVOT. J Clin Oncol 36(suppl; abstr 3006), 2018. e-Pub 2018.
18. Chahoud J, Campbell MT, Gao J, Zurita AJ, Shah AY, Msaouel P, Ross JA, Xiao L, Jonasch E, Sharma P, Tannir NM. Nivolumab (nivo) for patients (pts) with metastatic non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma (nccRCC): A single-institution experience. J Clin Oncol 36(suppl; abstr 4585), 2018. e-Pub 2018.
19. Msaouel P, Malouf GG, Su X, Yao H, Tripathi DN, Gao JJ, Rao P, He R, Weissman BE, Karam JA, Wood CG, Walker CL, Tannir NM. Effect of SMARCB1 deficiency in renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) on genes associated with nucleosome assembly and telomere organization. J Clin Oncol(suppl 6s; abstr 614), 2018. e-Pub 2018.
20. Ross JA, McCormick BZ, Gao J, Msaouel P, Campbell MT, Zurita AJ, Shah AY, Jonasch E, Matin SF, Wood CG, Karam JA, Sharma P, Tannir NM. Outcomes of patients (pts) with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) and sarcomatoid differentiation (sRCC) after treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI): A single-institution retrospective study. J Clin Oncol 36(suppl; abstr 4583), 2018. e-Pub 2018.
21. Gao J, Ward JF, Pettaway CA, Subudhi SK, Vence LM, Zhao H, Chen J, Chen H, Efstathiou E, Troncoso P, Allison JP, Logothetis C, Wistuba II, Wargo JA, Blando JM, Sepulveda MA, Sun JJ, Sharma P. Investigation of mechanisms of resistance to ipilimumab therapy with a pre-surgical trial in patients with high-risk, localized prostate cancer. J Clin Oncol, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
22. Subudhi SK, Aparicio A, Troncoso P, Jianhua Z, Gumbs C, Wu CJ, Gao J, Vence LM, Blando JM, Corn PG, Araujo JC, Zurita AJ, Prokhorova IN, Van Alstine M, Logothetis C, Futreal A, Allison JP, Sharma P. Linking tumor mutational load to clinical responses to ipilimumab (IPI) in men with advanced prostate cancer (PCa). J Clin Oncol 35(15_suppl):5065-5065, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
23. Gao J, Karam JA, Wood CG, Matin S, Ahrar K, Jonasch E, Tannir N, Campbell M, Ng C, Slack R, Rao P, Allison JP, Blando JM, Vence LM, Basu S, Zhao H, Chen T, Chen H, Sharma P. Clinical activity, immune and molecular correlates of nivolumab vs. nivolumab plus bevacizumab vs nivolumab plus ipilimumab in metastatic renal cell carcinoma. AACR Annual Meeting, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
24. Shah AY, Gao J, Lemke ES, Campbell MT, Zurita AJ, Wang J, Corn PG, Jonasch E, Sharma P, Tannir NM. Responses to second-line tyrosine kinase inhibitors after first-line immune checkpoint inhibitors in advanced renal cell carcinoma, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
25. Subudhi SK, Aparicio A, Gao J, Zurita-Saavedra A, Araujo J, Logothetis CJ, Brinda KR, Allison JP, Vence L, Emerson RO, Yusko E, Vignali M, Robins HS, Sung J, Sharma P. Exploratory biomarkers that predict for clinical outcomes in a Phase II trial with ipilimumab plus finite androgen deprivation therapy for metastatic non-castrate prostate cancer. Cancer Res 76(14_suppl):1402, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
26. Gao J, Malouf GG, Su X, Yao H, Rao P, He R, Xiong L, Karam JA, Matin SF, Mouawad R, Comperat E, Khayat D, Wood CG, Tannir N. Molecular profiling of renal medullary carcinoma to reveal frequent alterations in chromatin remodeling genes and to identify EZH2 as a relevant therapeutic target. J Clin Oncol 34(15_suppl):4566-4566, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
27. Mmeje CO, Slade A, Slack R, Navai N, Gao J, Siefker-Radtke AO, Kamat AM, Dinner CPN, Shah JB. The utility of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in determining survival outcomes in patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radical cystectomy for high-risk bladder cancer. J Clin Oncol 34(2_suppl):419-419, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
28. Campbell MT, McConkey DJ, Matin SF, Kamat AM, Dinner CPN, Wang J, Gao JJ, Siefker-Radtke AO. The hotspot mutational landscape of upper tract and bladder urothelial cancers and correlation to survival. J Clin Oncol 34(2_suppl):466-466, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
29. Shah AY, Karam JA, Malouf GG, Rao P, Lim ZD, Jonasch E, Xiao L, Gao J, Vaishampayan UN, Heng DYC, Plimack ER, Guancial EA, Fung C, Lowas SR, Tamboli P, Sircar K, Matin SF, Rathemell K, Wood CG, Tannir NM. Management and outcomes of patients with renal medullary carcinoma (RMC): A collaborative multi-center study of 52 patients. J Clin Oncol 34(15_suppl):e16111-e16111, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
30. Gao J, Shi LZ, Xiong L, He Q, Chen J, Shen DY, Sharma P. Expression of IFNgR on tumor cells impact response to anti-CTLA-4. AAI Annual Meeting, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
31. Liu X, Hoang A, Zhou L, Kalra S, Yetil A, Sun M, Ding Z, Tamboli P, Rao P, Karam JA, Wood CG, Matin SF, Zurita AJ, Bex A, Griffioen AW, Gao J, Sharma P, Tannir NM, Sircar K, Jonasch E. Association of resistance to antiangiogenic therapy with an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in metastatic renal cell carcinoma. J Clin Oncol 33(7_suppl):419-419, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
32. Mmeje CO, Benson CR, Nogueras-Gonzalez GM, Jayaratna IS, Gao J, Siefker-Radtke AO, Kamat AM, Dinney CP, Navai N, Shay JB. Determining the optimal timing for radical cystectomy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. BJU Int 122(1):89-98, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
33. Gao J, Yao H, Su X, Xiong L, Rao P, Sharma P, Karam JA, Wood C, Tannir NM. Molecular characterization of renal medullary carcinoma (RMC). J Clin Oncol 32(15_suppl):4586-4586, 2014. e-Pub 2014.

Book Chapters

1. Sharma P, Anandhan S, Siddiqui BA, Goswami S, Subudhi SK, Gao J, Peggs K, Quezada S, Allison JP. Cancer Immunotherapy. In: Holland-Frie Cancer Medicine. 10th. Wiley-Blackwell, 2023.
2. Alhalabi, O, Gao, J. Medical treatment with targeted therapy for metastatic urothelial bladder carcinoma, 199-209, 2021.
3. Alhalabi O, Gao J. Medical Treatment with targeted Therapy for Metastatic Urothelial Bladder Carcinoma. In: Urinary Bladder Pathology. Springer, 199-209, 2021.
4. Johnson DH, Gao J. Overview of Anti-CTLA-4 Agents: Ipilimumab and Tremelimumab. In: SITC's Guide to Managing Immunotherapy Toxicity. Demos Medical Publishing, 2019.
5. Sharma P, Subudhi S, Peggs K, Goswami S, Gao J, Quezada S, Allison JP. Cancer Immunotherapy. In: Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine. 9th. Wiley Blackwell, 2017.
6. Shnyra A, Luchi M, et al GJ. Endotoxin in human disease and its endogenious control. In: Multiple Organ Failure. Springer-Verlag New York Inc, 114-130, 2000.