Lingzhi Hong, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic-Head & Neck Med Onc, Division of Cancer Medicine
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Thoracic-Head & Neck Med Onc, Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Assistant Professor, Thoracic Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2009 | Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, CN, Internal Medicine, Ph.D |
| 2005 | Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, CN, Clinical Medicine, M.D |
Postgraduate Training
| 2024-2026 | Fellow, Thoracic / Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas |
| 2018-2021 | Visiting Scientist, Thoracic Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas |
| 2013-2014 | Clinical Fellowship, Medical Oncology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu |
| 2009-2012 | Clinical Residency, Internal Medicine, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu |
Licenses & Certifications
| 2026 | Faculty Temporary License |
| 2026 | Fellowship in Thoracic Head and Neck Medical Oncology |
| 2026 | Clinical Quality Improvement |
| 2024 | Physician in training (US) |
| 2023 | USMLE STEP 3 (US) |
| 2022 | ECFMG (US) |
| 2021 | USMLE STEP 2 (US) |
| 2021 | USMLE STEP 1 (US) |
| 2017 | Qualification as Associate Chief Physician in Medical Oncology (China, equivalent to Associate Professor in U.S. academic medicine) |
| 2014 | Completion of Clinical Fellowship in Medical Oncology (China) |
| 2014 | Board Certification of Attending Physician in Medical Oncology (China, equivalent to Assistant Professor in U.S. academic medicine) |
| 2014 | Qualification for National Medical Equipment Operators on Professional Competence (China) |
| 2012 | Proof of Residency in Internal Medicine (China) |
| 2010 | Physician Practicing Certificate (China) |
| 2009 | Physician Qualification Certificate (China) |
Experience & Service
Faculty Academic Appointments
Attending Physician (Assistant Professor), Medical Oncology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 2015 - 2018
Editorial Activities
Journal Reviewer, Experimental hematology & oncology, 2026 - Present
Journal Reviewer, The Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 2025 - Present
Co-Reviewer, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2025 - Present
Journal Reviewer, British journal of cancer, 2024 - Present
Journal Reviewer, PloS one, 2024 - Present
Journal Reviewer, BMC medicine, 2024 - Present
Journal Reviewer, Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023 - Present
Journal Reviewer, Frontiers, 2023 - Present
Journal Reviewer, Translational cancer research, 2023 - Present
Journal Reviewer, Cancers, 2022 - Present
Journal Reviewer, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - Present
Honors & Awards
| 2024 - Present | NYOF Young Investigator Travel Awards, The Chinese American Hematologist and Oncologist Network (CAHON) annual New York Oncology Forum (NYOF) |
| 2015 | Research Award for Outstanding Young Teachers in Higher Education Institution, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University |
| 2010 | Health Young Talents, Nanjing Commission of Health |
| 2010 | Six Talents Peaks Project, Jiangsu Commission of Health |
| 2009 | First Prize of PhD thesis defense, Medical College of Nanjing University |
| 2001 - 2005 | Annual Scholarship for academic excellence, Medical College of Nanjing University |
Selected Presentations & Talks
Local Presentations
- 2025. GEMINI: Real-World Data for Lung Cancer Translational Research. Invited. FY25 TRO Research Retreat. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2025. Distinct Clinicogenomic Features and Immunotherapy Associations in Pulmonary Sarcomatoid Carcinoma: A Multi‐ Center Retrospective Study. Conference. 5th THNMO Research Retreat. Houston, Texas, US.
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Muneer A, Showkatian E, Saad MB, Hong L, Li S, Salehjahromi M, Aminu M, Sujit SJ, Xu H, Waqas M, Zafar A, Shroff G, Wu CC, Carter BW, Chang JY, Liao Z, Altan M, Vokes NI, Cascone T, Le X, Haymaker CL, Wistuba II, Chung C, Jaffray D, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan A, Lee J, Lou Y, Heymach JV, Zhang J, Wu J. Deep learning of CT imaging predicts PD-L1 expression and immunotherapy response in metastatic NSCLC: A multi-center study. Cancer Lett, 2026. e-Pub 2026. PMID: 42314966.
- Gariazzo E, Elkrief A, Concannon K, Ognissanti D, Dodi A, Favorito V, Federico AD, Giglio AD, Brunetti L, Santo V, Pecci F, Aldea M, Garbo E, Alessi JV, LoPiccolo J, Paoloni F, Nishino M, Sholl LM, Florez N, Rotow J, Frumm SM, Hong L, Zhang J, Gibbons D, Wang X, Landi L, Cipriani L, Rakaee M, Cortellini A, Tiseo M, Cappuzzo F, Ardizzoni A, Awad MM, Heymach JV, Scalera S, Maugeri-Saccà M, Metro G, Vokes N, Schoenfeld A, Ricciuti B. Clinical outcomes and predictors of response to PD-(L) 1 blockade in patients with NSCLC without actionable genomic alterations who never used tobacco. Clin Cancer Res, 2026. e-Pub 2026. PMID: 42149140.
- Lei G, Lu Z, Xu Z, Braun C, Huo D, Gao J, Tan L, Hong T, Wu S, Sun M, Zhao X, Li Q, Chen X, Yan Y, Lee H, Mao C, Zhuang L, Ku L, Puebla N, Barsoumian H, Yao J, Hong L, Zhang J, Tran H, Lee JJ, Gibbons D, Vaporciyan A, Heymach J, Lin C, Gottlieb E, You MJ, Welsh JW, Lin SH, Zang X, Li Z, Gan B. Cuproptosis-immunity crosstalk informs strategy to overcome immunotherapy resistance. Cell, 2026. e-Pub 2026. PMID: 42330950.
- Liu X, Stamboulian M, Borgeaud M, Zhu E, Weipert C, Zhang N, Nilsson MB, Wang K, Hong L, Wang J, Morris BB, Heeke S, Robichaux JP, Lewis C, Drusbosky L, Chen H, Yang Y, He J, Cai L, Wu J, Zhang J, Alfredo A, Heymach JV, Le X. Compound EGFR Mutations Are Predominantly P-Loop and Alpha-C Helix Compressing Mutations With Increased Responsiveness to Second- Versus Third-Generation Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors. J Thorac Oncol, 2026. e-Pub 2026. PMID: 42191070.
- Parma M, Wang K, Taslicay CA, Shah K, Singhi EK, Rivera M, Soto LS, Wang W, Hong L, Li Z, Altan M, Vega MF, Groot PD, Halliday A, Jacome J, Zhang J, Le X, Pozadzides J, Tu J, Hume CB, Blumenschein G, Skoulidis F, Cascone T, Fossella F, Negrao MV, Vokes N, Gibbons D, Araujo H, Tsao A, Heymach JV, Byers LA, Gay CM, Zhang B. Real-World Experience of Tarlatamab in Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Showed Promising Systemic and Intracranial Efficacy With Higher Neurologic Toxicity. JCO Precis Oncol, 2026. e-Pub 2026. PMID: 42024839.
- Federico AD, Hong L, Elkrief A, Thummalapalli R, Cooper AJ, Ricciuti B, Digumarthy S, Alessi JV, Gogia P, Hambelton GM, Pecci F, Makarem M, Gandhi MM, Garbo E, Giglio AD, Gagliano A, Sperandi F, Gelsomino F, Scalera S, Cipriani L, Marinelli D, Lamberti G, Shaverdian N, Haradon J, Nguyen T, Voligny E, Ladanyi M, Zhang J, Gibbons DL, Heymach JV, Nishino M, Rodig SJ, Pfaff K, Wang X, Rekhtman N, Sholl LM, Luo J, Johnson BE, Janne PA, Arvind R, Gainor JF, Maugeri-Saccà M, Ardizzoni A, Heist RS, Arbour KC, Schoenfeld AJ, Vokes NI, Awad MM. TTF-1 Expression in Lung Adenocarcinoma: Clinicopathologic, Genomic, and Immunophenotypic Correlates and Outcomes to Immunotherapy-Based Treatments and KRASG12C Inhibitors. J Thorac Oncol, 2026. e-Pub 2026. PMID: 41690364.
- Nilsson MB, Le X, Poteete A, Yu X, He J, Huang Q, Shibata Y, Liu X, Moran C, Alizadeh AA, Diehn M, Wakelee H, Almanza D, Soltys S, Sugio T, Mutter J, Kang X, Wang R, Jun S, Esfahani MS, Tran H, Xi Y, Hong L, Huo X, Kumar A, Ren X, Oguchi K, Minamiguchi K, Weipert CM, Wang J, Kittler R, Heymach JV. Loss of Payload Sensitivity and Other Mechanisms of Resistance to T-DXd in HER2-Mutant NSCLC: Implications for Subsequent Responsiveness to HER2 TKIs. J Thorac Oncol, 2026. e-Pub 2026. PMID: 41548807.
- Han X, Li W, Lin J, Li S, Saad MB, Kitsel Y, Heeke S, Hong L, Mohamed MQ, Le X, Vokes N, Godoy MC, Carter BW, Shroff GS, Eapen G, Byers LA, Vaporciyan AA, Gibbons DL, Heymach J, Wu CC, Zhang J, Wu J. Development of PET/CT-clinical nomograms for predicting lymph node metastasis in primary lung cancer. Eur Radiol, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 41405691.
- Li, H, Hong, L, Rocha, P, Bach, R, Solis Soto, LM, Rinsurongkawong, W, Zhang, B, Araujo, HA, Elamin, YY, Altan, M, Arrechedera, C, Zhou, J, Khan, KB, Lu, W, Young, E, Gay, CM, Cascone, T, Byers, LA, Skoulidis, F, Blumenschein, GR, Fossella, FV, Tsao, A, Vailati Negrao, M, Vokes, N, Wu, J, Tran, HT, Wistuba, II, Lee, JJ, Gibbons, DL, Vaporciyan, AA, Heymach, JV, Le, X, Zhang, J. MET Overexpression Is Associated with Superior Immunotherapy Benefit in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Cancers 17(23), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 41375002.
- Salehjahromi, M, Li, H, Showkatian, E, Saad, M, Qayati, M, Ismail, SM, Sujit, S, Muneer, A, Aminu, M, Hong, L, Han, X, Heeke, S, Cascone, T, Le, X, Vokes, N, Gibbons, DL, Toumazis, I, Ostrin, EJ, Antonoff, MB, Vaporciyan, AA, Jaffray, D, Kay, FU, Carter, B, Wu, CC, Godoy, M, Lee, JJ, Gerber, DE, Heymach, JV, Zhang, J, Wu, J. Radiomics for Dynamic Lung Cancer Risk Prediction in USPSTF-Ineligible Patients. Cancers 17(21), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 41228201.
- Aminu M, Zhu B, Vokes N, Chen H, Hong L, Li J, Fujimoto J, Chaib M, Yang Y, Wang B, Poteete A, Nilsson M, Le X, Cascone T, Jaffray D, Navin N, Wang T, Byers LA, Gibbons DL, Heymach J, Chen K, Cheng C, Zhang J, Wu J. CoCo-ST detects global and local biological structures in spatial transcriptomics datasets. Nature Cell Biology, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 41083603.
- Le X, Robichaux JP, Nilsson M, Vijayan RSK, Ravichandran A, Wu J, Elamin YY, Hong L, Pei J, He J, Patel S, Udagawa H, Mani S, Jang CW, Clarke JM, Tchekmedyian N, Goldman JW, Socinski M, Bhat G, Leu S, Bunn V, Su Z, Vincent S, Lawson JW, Cross JB, Heymach JV. Poziotinib for EGFR exon 20-insertion NSCLC: Clinical efficacy of the phase 2 ZENITH trial and differential impact of EGFR exon 20 insertion location on sensitivity. Nat Commun 16(1):8358, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40993146.
- Pecci F, Li H, Federico AD, Wu J, Chen H, Gariazzo E, Mantuano F, Garbo E, Aldea M, Santo V, Gibbons D, Tran H, Paoloni F, de Almeida GR, Metro G, Giglio AD, Gelsomino F, Wang X, Tiseo M, Rotow J, Ardizzoni A, Lee J, Awad MM, Addeo A, Hong L, Negrao MV, Janne PA, Heymach JV, Zhang J, Ricciuti B, Le X. First-line MET tyrosine kinase inhibitors versus immunotherapy±chemotherapy for patients with MET exon 14 skipping mutant metastatic NSCLC. Clinical Cancer Research, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40864503.
- Hong L, Di Federico A, Liu B, Cooper AJ, Alessi JV, Clark P, Rinsurongkawong W, Young C, Li H, Qin K, Aminu M, Santo V, Elamin Y, Sepesi B, Lewis J, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan AA, Lee JJ, Le X, Wu J, Roy-Chowdhuri S, Routbort MJ, Futreal PA, Heymach JV, Awad MM, Schoenfeld AJ, Zhang J, Ricciuti B, Deng L, Vokes NI. Distinct Clinicogenomic Features and Immunotherapy Associations in Pulmonary Sarcomatoid Carcinoma: A Multicenter Retrospective Study. J Thorac Oncol, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40716572.
- Saad MB, Al-Tashi Q, Hong L, Verma V, Li W, Boiarsky D, Li S, Petranovic M, Wu CC, Carter BW, Shroff GS, Cascone T, Le X, Elamin YY, Altan M, Heeke S, Sheshadri A, Chang JY, Lee PP, Liao Z, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan AA, Lee JJ, Wistuba II, Haymaker C, Mirjalili S, Jaffray D, Gainor JF, Lou Y, Di Federico A, Pecci F, Awad M, Ricciuti B, Heymach JV, Vokes NI, Zhang J, Wu J. Machine-learning driven strategies for adapting immunotherapy in metastatic NSCLC. Nat Commun 16(1):6828, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40707438.
- Zhu B, Chen P, Aminu M, Li JR, Fujimoto J, Tian Y, Hong L, Chen H, Hu X, Li C, Vokes N, Moreira AL, Gibbons DL, Solis Soto LM, Parra Cuentas ER, Shi O, Diao S, Ye J, Rojas FR, Vilar E, Maitra A, Chen K, Navin N, Nilsson M, Huang B, Heeke S, Zhang J, Haymaker CL, Velcheti V, Sterman DH, Kochat V, Padron WI, Alexandrov LB, Wei Z, Le X, Wang L, Fukuoka J, Lee JJ, Wistuba II, Pass HI, Davis M, Hanash S, Cheng C, Dubinett S, Spira A, Rai K, Lippman SM, Futreal PA, Heymach JV, Reuben A, Wu J, Zhang J. Spatial and multiomics analysis of human and mouse lung adenocarcinoma precursors reveals TIM-3 as a putative target for precancer interception. Cancer Cell 43(6):1125-1140.e10, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40345189.
- Li, H, Salehjahromi, M, Godoy, M, Qin, K, Plummer, CM, Zhang, Z, Hong, L, Heeke, S, Le, X, Vokes, N, Zhang, B, Araujo, HA, Altan, M, Wu, CC, Antonoff, MB, Ostrin, EJ, Gibbons, DL, Heymach, JV, Lee, JJ, Gerber, DE, Wu, J, Zhang, J. Lung Cancer Risk Prediction in Patients with Persistent Pulmonary Nodules Using the Brock Model and Sybil Model. Cancers 17(9), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40361426.
- Federico A, Hong L, Elkrief A, Thummalapalli R, Cooper AJ, Ricciuti B, Digumarthy S, Alessi JV, Gogia P, Pecci F, Makarem M, Gandhi MM, Garbo E, Saini A, Giglio A, Favorito V, Scalera S, Cipriani L, Marinelli D, Haradon D, Nguyen T, Haradon J, Voligny E, Vaz V, Gelsomino F, Sperandi F, Melotti B, Ladanyi M, Zhang J, Gibbons DL, Heymach JV, Nishino M, Lindsay J, Rodig SJ, Pfaff K, Sholl LM, Wang X, Johnson BE, Jänne PA, Rekhtman N, Maugeri-Saccà M, Heist RS, Ardizzoni A, Awad MM, Arbour KC, Schoenfeld AJ, Vokes NI, Luo J. Lung adenocarcinomas with mucinous histology: clinical, genomic, and immune microenvironment characterization and outcomes to immunotherapy-based treatments and KRASG12C inhibitors. Ann Oncol 36(3):297-308, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39637943.
- Cooper, AJ, Arfe, A, Ricciuti, B, Gagné, A, Sholl, LM, Di Federico, A, Awad, MM, Aldea, M, Ghigna, MR, Grecea, M, Clark, P, Chaft, JE, Kris, MG, Riely, GJ, Rudin, CM, Dagogo-Jack, I, Mino-Kenudson, M, Hong, L, Kalhor, N, Vokes, N, Bowman, AS, Yang, SR, Rekhtman, N, Schoenfeld, AJ. Brief Report: Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients With Thoracic SMARCA4-Deficient Undifferentiated Tumors. JTO Clinical and Research Reports 6(1), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39802817.
- Hong L, Patel S, Drusbosky LM, Xiong Y, Chen R, Geng R, Heeke S, Nilsson M, Wu J, Heymach JV, Wang Y, Zhang J, Le X. Molecular landscape of ERBB2 alterations in 3000 advanced NSCLC patients. npj Precision Oncology 8(1), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39354054.
- Seth S, Chen R, Liu Y, Fujimoto J, Hong L, Reuben A, Varghese S, Behrens C, McDowell T, Soto LS, Haymaker C, Weisserdt A, Kalhor N, Wu J, Le X, Vokes N, Cheng C, Heymach JV, Gibbons DL, Futreal P, Wistuba II, Kadara H, Zhang J, Moran C, Zhang J. Integrative genomic and transcriptomic profiling of pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma identifies molecular subtypes associated with distinct immune features and clinical outcomes. Cancer Innovation, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38947760.
- Sujit SJ, Aminu M, Karpinets TV, Chen P, Saad MB, Salehjahromi M, Boom JD, Qayati M, George JM, Allen H, Antonoff MB, Hong L, Hu X, Heeke S, Tran HT, Le X, Elamin YY, Altan M, Vokes NI, Sheshadri A, Lin J, Zhang J, Lu Y, Behrens C, Godoy MCB, Wu CC, Chang JY, Chung C, Jaffray DA, Wistuba II, Lee JJ, Vaporciyan AA, Gibbons DL, Heymach J, Zhang J, Cascone T, Wu J. Enhancing NSCLC recurrence prediction with PET/CT habitat imaging, ctDNA, and integrative radiogenomics-blood insights. Nat Commun 15(1):3152, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38605064.
- Salehjahromi, M, Karpinets, T, Sujit, S, Qayati, M, Chen, P, Aminu, M, Saad, MB, Bandyopadhyay, R, Hong, L, Sheshadri, A, Lin, J, Antonoff, MB, Sepesi, B, Ostrin, EJ, Toumazis, I, Huang, P, Cheng, C, Cascone, T, Vokes, N, Behrens, C, Siewerdsen, JH, Hazle, JD, Chang, JY, Zhang, J, Lu, Y, Godoy, M, Chung, C, Jaffray, D, Wistuba, II, Lee, JJ, Vaporciyan, AA, Gibbons, DL, Gladish, G, Heymach, JV, Wu, CC, Zhang, J, Wu, J. Synthetic PET from CT improves diagnosis and prognosis for lung cancer. Cell Reports Medicine 5(3), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38471502.
- Qin, K, Wang, K, Li, S, Hong, L, Padmakumar, P, Waree, R, Hubert, SM, Le, X, Vokes, N, Rai, K, Vaporciyan, AA, Gibbons, DL, Heymach, JV, Lee, JJ, Woodman, SE, Chung, C, Jaffray, D, Altan, M, Lou, Y, Zhang, J. Clinical Benefit from Docetaxel +/− Ramucirumab Is Not Associated with Mutation Status in Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients Who Progressed on Platinum Doublets and Immunotherapy. Cancers 16(5), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38473297.
- Chen, P, Rojas Alvarez, F, Hu, X, Serrano, A, Zhu, B, Chen, H, Hong, L, Bandyoyadhyay, R, Aminu, M, Kalhor, N, Lee, JJ, El Hussein, S, Khoury, J, Pass, HI, Moreira, AL, Velcheti, V, Sterman, DH, Fukuoka, J, Tabata, K, Su, D, Ying, L, Gibbons, DL, Heymach, JV, Wistuba, II, Fujimoto, J, Solis Soto, LM, Zhang, J, Wu, J. Pathomic Features Reveal Immune and Molecular Evolution From Lung Preneoplasia to Invasive Adenocarcinoma. Modern Pathology 36(12), 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37678674.
- Wang K, Du R, Myall NJ, Lewis WE, Uy N, Hong L, Skoulidis F, Byers LA, Tsao A, Cascone T, Pozadzides J, Tu J, Negrao MV, Gibbons DL, Park K, Rinsurongkawong W, Lee J, Gandara D, Behl D, Shu CA, Riess JW, Baik C, Wakelee HA, Vaporciyan AA, Heymach JV, Zhang J, Le X. Real-World Efficacy and Safety of Amivantamab for EGFR-Mutant NSCLC. J Thorac Oncol 19(3):500-506, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 38012986.
- Thummalapalli, R, Ricciuti, B, Bandlamudi, C, Muldoon, D, Rizvi, H, Elkrief, A, Luo, J, Alessi, JV, Pecci, F, Lamberti, G, Di Federico, A, Hong, L, Zhang, J, Heymach, JV, Gibbons, DL, Plodkowski, AJ, Ravichandran, V, Donoghue, MT, Vanderbilt, C, Ladanyi, M, Rudin, CM, Kris, MG, Riely, GJ, Chaft, JE, Hellmann, MD, Vokes, N, Awad, MM, Schoenfeld, AJ. Clinical and Molecular Features of Long-term Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Patients with Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research 29(21):4408-4418, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37432985.
- Diao, S, Chen, P, Showkatian, E, Bandyopadhyay, R, Rojas Alvarez, F, Zhu, B, Hong, L, Aminu, M, Saad, MB, Salehjahromi, M, Muneer, A, Sujit, S, Behrens, MC, Gibbons, DL, Heymach, JV, Kalhor, N, Wistuba, II, Solis Soto, LM, Zhang, J, Qin, W, Wu, J. Automated Cellular-Level Dual Global Fusion of Whole-Slide Imaging for Lung Adenocarcinoma Prognosis. Cancers 15(19), 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37835518.
- Wang, K, Du, R, Roy Chowdhuri, S, Li, ZT, Hong, L, Vokes, N, Elamin, YY, Bueno Hume, C, Skoulidis, F, Gay, CM, Blumenschein, GR, Fossella, FV, Tsao, A, Zhang, J, Karachaliou, N, O'Brate, A, Gann, CN, Lewis, J, Rinsurongkawong, W, Lee, JJ, Gibbons, DL, Vaporciyan, AA, Heymach, JV, Altan, M, Le, X. Brief Report: Clinical Response, Toxicity, and Resistance Mechanisms to Osimertinib Plus MET Inhibitors in Patients With EGFR-Mutant MET-Amplified NSCLC. JTO Clinical and Research Reports 4(8), 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37649681.
- Saad, MB, Hong, L, Aminu, M, Vokes, N, Chen, P, Salehjahromi, M, Qin, K, Sujit, S, Lu, X, Young, E, Al-Tashi, Q, Qureshi, R, Wu, CC, Carter, B, Lin, SH, Lee, PP, Gandhi, S, Chang, JY, Li, R, Gensheimer, MF, Wakelee, HA, Neal, JW, Lee, HS, Cheng, C, Velcheti, V, Lou, Y, Petranovic, M, Rinsurongkawong, W, Le, X, Rinsurongkawong, V, Spelman, AR, Elamin, YY, Vailati Negrao, M, Skoulidis, F, Gay, CM, Cascone, T, Antonoff, MB, Sepesi, B, Lewis, J, Wistuba, II, Hazle, JD, Chung, C, Jaffray, D, Gibbons, DL, Vaporciyan, AA, Lee, JJ, Heymach, JV, Zhang, J, Wu, J. Predicting benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer by CT-based ensemble deep learning. The Lancet Digital Health 5(7):e404-e420, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37268451.
- Hong, L, Aminu, M, Li, S, Lu, X, Petranovic, M, Saad, MB, Chen, P, Qin, K, Varghese, S, Rinsurongkawong, W, Rinsurongkawong, V, Spelman, AR, Elamin, YY, Vailati Negrao, M, Skoulidis, F, Gay, CM, Cascone, T, Gandhi, S, Lin, SH, Lee, PP, Carter, B, Wu, CC, Antonoff, MB, Sepesi, B, Lewis, J, Gibbons, DL, Vaporciyan, AA, Le, X, Lee, JJ, Roy Chowdhuri, S, Routbort, MJ, Gainor, J, Heymach, JV, Lou, Y, Wu, J, Zhang, J, Vokes, N. Efficacy and clinicogenomic correlates of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors alone or with chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer. Nature communications 14(1), 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36755027.
- Aminu, M, Yadav, D, Hong, L, Young, E, Edelkamp, P, Saad, MB, Salehjahromi, M, Chen, P, Sujit, S, Chen, MM, Sabloff, B, Gladish, G, de Groot, P, Godoy, M, Cascone, T, Vokes, N, Zhang, J, Brock, K, Daver, N, Woodman, SE, Tawbi, H, Sheshadri, A, Lee, JJ, Jaffray, D, Wu, CC, Chung, C, Wu, J. Habitat Imaging Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Prognosis in Cancer Patients Infected with COVID-19. Cancers 15(1), 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36612278.
- Vokes, N, Galan Cobo, A, Fernandez-Chas, M, Molkentine, D, Trevino, S, Druker, V, Qian, Y, Patel, S, Schmidt, S, Hong, L, Lewis, J, Rinsurongkawong, W, Rinsurongkawong, V, Lee, JJ, Vailati Negrao, M, Gibbons, DL, Vaporciyan, AA, Le, X, Wu, J, Zhang, J, Rigney, U, Iyer, S, Dean, E, Heymach, JV. ATM Mutations Associate with Distinct Co-Mutational Patterns and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in NSCLC. Clinical Cancer Research 29(23):4958-4972, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37733794.
- Coleman N, Marcelo KL, Hopkins JF, Khan NI, Du R, Hong L, Park E, Balsara B, Leoni M, Pickering C, Myers J, Heymach J, Albacker LA, Hong D, Gillison M, Le X. HRAS Mutations Define a Distinct Subgroup in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. JCO Precis Oncol, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36603172.
- Chen, R, Li, J, Fujimoto, J, Hong, L, Hu, X, Quek, YK, Tang, M, Mitra, A, Behrens, MC, Chow, CW, Jiang, P, Little, L, Gumbs, C, Song, X, Zhang, J, Tan, D, Heymach, JV, Wistuba, II, Futreal, A, Gibbons, DL, Byers, LA, Zhang, J, Reuben, A. Immunogenomic intertumor heterogeneity across primary and metastatic sites in a patient with lung adenocarcinoma. Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research 41(1), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35546239.
- Hong, L, Lewis, WE, Nilsson, M, Patel, S, Varghese, S, Rivera, MJ, Du, R, Chen, P, Kemp, HN, Rinsurongkawong, W, Heeke, S, Spelman, AR, Elamin, YY, Vailati Negrao, M, Sepesi, B, Gibbons, DL, Lee, JJ, Wu, J, Vokes, N, Heymach, JV, Zhang, J, Le, X. Limited Benefit from the Addition of Immunotherapy to Chemotherapy in TKI-Refractory EGFR-Mutant Lung Adenocarcinoma. Cancers 14(14), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35884533.
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Review Articles
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Abstracts
- King NP, Fayngor R, Hong L, Nguyen RH, Sui D, Rinsurongkawong W, Young E, Lee J, Altan M, Zhang B, Vokes NI, Le X, Tran HT, Araujo HA, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan AA, Heymach JV, Zhang J, Lin JK. Race-associated clinicogenomic predictors in non-small cell lung cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. ASCO, 2026. e-Pub 2026.
- Hong L, Tian Y, Corredor M, Swift SZ, Li H, Alvarez FR, Rinsurongkawong W, Young E, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan AA, Lee J, Roy-Chowdhuri S, Routbort M, Le X, Elamin YY, Vokes NI, Heymach JV, Solis LM, Navin N, Zhang J. Clinicogenomic profile and progression patterns in lung squamous cell carcinoma treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. ASCO, 2026. e-Pub 2026.
- Boiarsky D, Hong L, Ricciuti B, Cooper AJ, Saad MB, Elkrief A, Federico AD, Aminu M, Rinsurongkawong W, Le X, Luo J, Wu J, Gibbons DL, Heymach JV, Skoulidis F, Kim SY, Schoenfeld AJ, Awad MM, Zhang J, Vokes NI. Machine learning to identify biomarkers of response to immunotherapy in KRAS wildtype (KRASwt) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). ASCO, 2026. e-Pub 2026.
- Santo V, Mankuzhy N, Beshiri K, Celarier A, Hong L, Mingo EC, Pannu S, Pecci F, Garbo E, Gariazzo E, Brunetti L, Aijaz A, Monaca F, Chaft JE, Corassa M, Cortellini A, Vokes NI, Aldea M, Shaverdian N, Ricciuti B. Post-progression treatment strategies and immunotherapy rechallenge sensitivity following chemoradiation and consolidation durvalumab in unresectable stage III NSCLC: The POST-PACIFIC study. ASCO, 2026. e-Pub 2026.
- Pan K, Zheng M, Xia Y, Zhang Y, Sun F, Borgeaud M, Singhal S, Hong L, Zhang J, Li W, Riess JW, Heymach JV, Myall NJ, Addeo A, Tan DS, Wu Y, Le X. Leptomeningeal disease in ALK-positive NSCLC: Survival impact of third-generation ALK inhibitors. ASCO, 2026. e-Pub 2026.
- Ricciuti B, Awad MM, Jeng MY, Thummalapalli R, Hong L, Gariazzo E, Gorria T, Mountzios GS, Monaca F, Pecci F, Cortellini A, Corassa M, Mezquita L, Metro G, Derosa L, Schoenfeld AJ, Vokes NI. Indefinite versus 2 years fixed duration of immune checkpoint inhibition in metastatic non–small cell lung cancer. ASCO, 2026. e-Pub 2026.
- Liew S, Jeng MY, Hong L, Pecci F, Gariazzo E, Santo V, Brunetti L, Hidalgo-Filho CM, Barbie DA, Vokes NI, Schoenfeld AJ, Ricciuti B. Prognostic significance of STK11, KEAP1, and NFE2L2-mutations in lung squamous cell carcinoma treated with immunotherapy with or without chemotherapy. ASCO, 2026. e-Pub 2026.
- Boiarsky D, Hong L, Ricciuti B, Cooper AJ, Saad MB, Elkrief A, Federico AD, Aminu M, Rinsurongkawong W, Le X, Luo J, Wu J, Gibbons DL, Heymach JV, Skoulidis F, Kim SY, Schoenfeld AJ, Awad MM, Zhang J, Vokes NI. Disentangling KEAP1 and STK11 in KRAS-mutant (KRASm) non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with immunotherapy. ASCO, 2026. e-Pub 2026.
- Xu H, Elamin YY, Hong L, Concannon K, Saad MB, Xu X, Amgad M, Li H, Qin K, Han X, Ismail S, Kitsel Y, Gandhi S, Antonoff MB, Wu CC, Carter BW, Shroff GS, Heeke S, Le X, Cascone T, Vokes N, Altan M, Gibbons DL, Jaffray D, Chang JY, Liao Z, Rice D, Vaporciyan A, G Swisher SG, Lee J, Zhang J, Heymach JV, Wu J. OncoTwin: A multimodal digital twin framework for predicting treatment response and guiding trial design in ALK-rearranged non-small-cell lung cancer. AACR, 2026. e-Pub 2026.
- Boiarsky D, Hong L, Cooper A, Ricciuti B, Spurr L, Saad M, Elkrief A, Federico AD, Aminu M, Rinsurongkawong W, Lewis J, Gibbons D, Vaporciyan A, Le X, Lee JJ, Heymach J, Wu J, Pitroda SP, Awad M, Schoenfeld A, Zhang J, Vokes N. P1. 11.55 Identifying Patients Cured From Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (mNSCLC) With Anti-PD-(L) 1 Therapy. WCLC 20(10):S192, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Aminu M, Zhu B, Saad M, Li H, Hong L, Qayati M, Mehmet A, Gandhi S, Soto LM, Rojas FR, Ou S, Santiago TI, Burns BA, Roger PC, Chen H, Jie Y, Stephen SG, Mara AB, Pozadzides JV, Blumenschein GJ, Gibbons DL, Cascone T, Elamin YY, Li X, Negrao MV, Skoulidis F, Anne T, Tu J, Lee JL, Wu J, Zhang J, Heymach JV, Vokes N. P1. 11.70 Immune Cell Infiltration and Spatial Associations in the Tumor Microenvironment Following Dual ICI or ICI-Chemotherapy. WCLC 20(10):S200, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Li H, Godoy MCB, Qin K, Salehjahromi M, Negrao MV, Plummer CM, Zhang Z, Hong L, Heeke S, Le X, Vokes N, Zhang B, Araujo HA, Altan M, Wu CC, Antonoff MB, Ostrin EJ, Gibbons DL, Heymach JV, Lee JJ, Gerber DE, Wu J, Zhang J. EP.04.31 Nomogram for Predicting Lung Cancer-Free Survival in Patients With Persistent Pulmonary Nodules. WCLC 20(10):S668-S669, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Perera ND, Hong L, Rinsurongkawong W, Young E, Sui D, McNeill LH, Rinsurongkawong V, Lewis J, Lee J, Altan M, Zhang B, Vokes NI, Le X, Tran HT, Araujo HA, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan AA, Heymach J, Zhang J, Lin JK. Race-associated clinicogenomic correlates of outcomes to immune checkpoint inhibitors alone or with chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). ASCO, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Boiarsky D, Hong L, Cooper AJ, Ricciuti B, Saad MB, Elkrief A, Federico AD, Aminu M, Rinsurongkawong W, Lewis J, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan AA, Le X, Lee J, Heymach J, Wu J, Awad MM, Schoenfeld AJ, Zhang J, Vokes NI. Molecular profiling of metastatic lung squamous cell carcinoma (mLUSC) to identify patients with differential response to immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy. ASCO, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Concannon K, Morris B, Diao L, Sahu M, Lewis W, Sun X, Heeke S, Zhang B, Tran H, Hong L, Rinsurongkawong W, Nguyen M, Qin K, Li H, Zhang J, Lee J, Wang J, Cardnell R, Gay C, Heymach J, Byers L. Smoking burden is associated with immunotherapy resistance in extensive stage small cell lung cancer. AACR, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Saad MB, Al-Tashi Q, Hong L, Li W, Boiarsky D, Li S, Petranovic M, Wu CC, Carter B, Cascone T, Le X, Chang J, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan AA, Lee J, Mirjalili S, Jaffray DA, Gainor JF, Lou Y, Ricciuti B, DiFederico A, Pecci F, Awad MM, Heymach JV, Vokes NI, Zhang J, Wu J. 1236 Machine learning-based clinico-genomic prediction of benefits to add chemotherapy to immunotherapy in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. SITC, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Muneer A, Showkatian E, Saad MB, Hong L, Aminu M, Salehjahromi M, Sujit SJ, Waqas M, Li W, Vokes NI, Wu CC, Carter B, Chang J, Cascone T, Le X, Wistuba II, Chung C, Jaffray DA, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan AA, Lee J, Heymach JV, Zhang J, Wu J. 1227 Predicting PD-L1 expression from CT scans using deep learning to guide immunotherapy in metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer. SITC, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Bandyopadhyay R, Rojas FR, Hong L, Saad MB, Showkatian E, Vokes NI, Kalhor N, Haymaker CL, Wu CC, Carter B, Chang J, Le X, Cascone T, Jaffray DA, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan AA, Lee J, Wistuba II, Heymach JV, Solis Soto LM, Zhang J, Wu J. 1198 Deep learning-driven pathomics signatures enhance patient stratification and prognosis in mNSCLC treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. SITC, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Aminu M, Zhu B, Vokes NI, Chen H, Hong L, Jian-Rong L, Junya F, Poteete A, Nilsson M, Le X, Cascone T, Jaffray DA, Nicholas N, Averett BL, Gibbons DL, Heymach JV, Chen K, Cheng C, Zhang J, Wu J. 1196 Unveiling immune evolution in lung pre-cancer through graph contrastive learning of spatial transcriptomics. SITC, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Trevino S, Chen H, Halliday A, Ren X, Du R, Hong L, Poteete A, Zhu B, Nilsson M, Aminu M, Rinsurongkawong W, Rinsurongkawong V, Lee J, Blumenschein G, Gay C, Negrao MV, Altan M, Cascone T, Elamin Y, Skoulidis F, Tran H, Antonoff M, Vaporciyan AA, Wu J, Kurie J, Gibbons DL, Zhang J, Heymach JV, Le X, Vokes NI. 578 Defining immune and tumor resistant cell states to targeted vs immune therapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). SITC, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Salehjahromi M, Hong L, Li H, Kitsel Y, Godoy M, Wu CC, Antonoff M, Toumazis I, Ostrin E, Heeke S, Vokes NI, Le X, Vaporciyan AA, Lee J, Heymach JV, Zhang J, Wu J. 1238 Predicting lung cancer risk with CT radiomics: implications for immunoprevention. SITC, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Saini A, Elkrief A, Hong L, Ricciuti B, Garbo E, Pecci F, Makarem M, Federico A, Gandhi MM, Aldea M, Nishino M, Sholl LM, Vokes NI, Schoenfeld AJ, Awad MM. P2. 11B. 02 Genomic Correlates of Response to Chemoimmunotherapy in STK11MUT and KEAP1MUT Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. WCLC, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Zhang JJ, Tran H, Hong L, Li H, Qin K, Rinsurongkawong W, Vokes N, Le X, Skoulidis F, Cascone T, Hubert S, Wu J, Lee JJ, Byers L, Gibbons D, Vaporciyan A, Heymach J. Harnessing Real-World Data for Translational Research in Lung Cancer: MD Anderson GEMINI Program. WCLC, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Hong L, Aminu M, Young C, Rinsurongkawong W, Li H, Qin K, Elamin Y, Sepesi B, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan AA, Lee J, Roy-Chowdhuri S, Routbort MJ, Le X, Heymach JV, Wu J, Zhang J, Vokes N. Clinicogenomic Profile of Different Resistance Patterns to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. WCLC, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Ricciuti B, Hong L, Gariazzo E, Gorria T, Thummalapalli R, Awosika N, Ludovica M, Fabrizio C, Gandhi M, Elkrief A, Pecci F, Alessi J, Federico AD, Makarem M, Saini A, Aldea M, Garbo E, Espinar JB, Ferrara R, Alessio C, Pinato D, Schoenfeld AJ, Nana FA, Mezquita L, Metro G, Vokes N, Awad MM. Clinical outcomes and immunotherapy retreatment in patients with metastatic NSCLC who complete at least two years of immune checkpoint blockade. WCLC, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
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