Jianjun Gao, MD, PhD

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. 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. PMID: 32947310.
2. 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.
3. 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. PMID: 32209822.
4. 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.
5. 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. PMID: 31067463.
6. 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.
7. 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. PMID: 30169584.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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. PMID: 29264217.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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 signalling in T-cell controls tumour eradication by combined α-CTLA-4+α-PD-1 therapy. Nat Commun 7:12335, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27498556.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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 2013. PMID: 24778280.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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. PMID: 20160661.
22. 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. PMID: 16721267.
23. 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. PMID: 12935354.
24. 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. PMID: 12488506.
25. 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. PMID: 11359654.
26. 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. PMID: 11159964.
27. 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. PMID: 10898490.
28. 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. PMID: 10600009.
29. 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. PMID: 10510342.
30. 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. PMID: 9794412.
31. 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. PMID: 8995425.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. 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 multicentre collaborative study. BJU Int. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27860149.

Invited Articles

1. Alhalabi O, Shah AY, Lemke EA, Gao J. Current and future landscape of immunotherapy in urothelial cancer. Oncology 33(1):11-8, 2019. PMID: 30731013.
2. 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.
3. Tabayoyong W, Gao J. The emerging role of immunotherapy in advanced urothelial cancers. Curr Opin Oncol 30(3):172-180, 2018. PMID: 29553950.
4. 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. PMID: 28877627.
5. 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. PMID: 27111904.
6. 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.
7. Siefker-Radtke AO, Gao J. Towards effective adjuvant treatment for urothelial cancer. Lancet Oncol 16(1):9-10, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25498220.
8. Jonasch E, Gao J, Rathmell WK. Renal cell carcinoma. BMJ 349(10):g4797, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25385470.
9. 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 2012. PMID: 23031830.
10. 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 2012. PMID: 23092383.
11. Lei MG, Gao JJ, Morrison DC, Qureshi N. Pathogenesis of sepsis: current concepts and emerging therapies. Mo Med 100(5):524-9, 2003. PMID: 14601445.

Abstracts

1. 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.
2. Subudhi SK, Aparicio A, Troncoso P, Zhang Jianhua, 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.

Book Chapters

1. 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.
2. Shnyra A, Luchi M, Gao JJ et al. Endotoxin in human disease and its endogenious control. In: Multiple Organ Failure. Springer-Verlag New York Inc: New York, 114-130, 2000.