Luisa M Solis Soto, M.D.
Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, Division of Pathology-Lab Medicine Div
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, Division of Pathology/Lab Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
2003 | University of San Francisco Xavier, Chuquisaca Sucre, BOL, MD, Medicine |
Postgraduate Training
2007-2011 | Research Fellowship, Molecular Pathology Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX |
2004-2007 | Clinical Residency, Anatomic Pathology, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago |
Board Certifications
2011 | Anatomic Pathology, Bolivia |
2007 | Anatomic Pathology, Chile |
Experience & Service
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Director of the Immunohistochemistry and Digital pathology Laboratory, Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2018 - Present
Other Appointments/Responsibilities
Sr. Research Scientist, Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2017 - 2018
Sr. Research Scientist, ECOG-ACRIN Central Biorepository and Pathology Facilities, Immunohistochemistry and Digital Pathology Lab, Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2015 - 2017
Pathologist, Department of Anatomic Pathology, Hospital Jaime Mendoza, Caja Nacional de Salud, Sucre, 2013 - 2015
Pathologist, Institute of Anatomic Pathology-Hospital Sta. Barbara. University of San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca, Sucre, 2012 - 2015
Pathologist, Private Laboratory of Pathology “ONCOS”, Santa Cruz, 2011 - 2012
Honors & Awards
2020 | 2020 ITERT Outstanding Mentorship Awardees: Peer Mentors, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
2020 | DPLM Early Career Faculty and Instructor Research Award, The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
2009 | Travel award -9th Annual Targeted Therapies of the Treatment of Lung Cancer – The Fairmont Miramar Hotel, Santa Monica, CA |
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Cascone T, Leung CH, Weissferdt A, Pataer A, Carter BW, Godoy MCB, Feldman H, William WN, Xi Y, Basu S, Sun JJ, Yadav SS, Rojas Alvarez FR, Lee Y, Mishra AK, Chen L, Pradhan M, Guo H, Sinjab A, Zhou N, Negrao MV, Le X, Gay CM, Tsao AS, Byers LA, Altan M, Glisson BS, Fossella FV, Elamin YY, Blumenschein G, Zhang J, Skoulidis F, Wu J, Mehran RJ, Rice DC, Walsh GL, Hofstetter WL, Rajaram R, Antonoff MB, Fujimoto J, Solis LM, Parra ER, Haymaker C, Wistuba II, Swisher SG, Vaporciyan AA, Lin HY, Wang J, Gibbons DL, Jack Lee J, Ajami NJ, Wargo JA, Allison JP, Sharma P, Kadara H, Heymach JV, Sepesi B. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus nivolumab with or without ipilimumab in operable non-small cell lung cancer: the phase 2 platform NEOSTAR trial. Nat Med 29(3):593-604, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36928818.
- Steiner RE, Parra ER, Vega F, Feng L, Westin JR, Neelapu SS, Strati P, Green MR, Flowers CR, Solis LM, Wistuba II, Ahmed S, Nair R, Hagemeister FB, Noorani M, Marques-Piubelli ML. PD-L1+ macrophages are associated with favorable features in primary mediastinal (thymic) large B-cell lymphoma. Exp Hematol Oncol 12(1):32, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36941707.
- Jiao J, Sanchez JI, Saldarriaga OA, Solis LM, Tweardy DJ, Maru DM, Stevenson HL, Beretta L. Spatial molecular and cellular determinants of STAT3 activation in liver fibrosis progression in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. JHEP Rep 5(2):100628, 2023. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36687470.
- Francisco-Cruz A, Rocha P, Reuben A, Krishnan SN, Das P, Chen R, Quek K, Li J, Parra ER, Solis LM, Barua S, Jiang M, Lazcano R, Chow CW, Behrens C, Gumb C, Little L, Fukuoka J, Kalhor N, Weissferdt A, Kadara H, Heymach JV, Swisher S, Sepesi B, Rao A, Moran C, Zhang J, Lee JJ, Fujimoto J, Futreal PA, Wistuba II, Peterson CB, Zhang J. Analysis of Immune Intratumor Heterogeneity Highlights Immunoregulatory and Coinhibitory Lymphocytes as Hallmarks of Recurrence in Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Mod Pathol 36(1):100028, 2023. PMID: 36788067.
- Gulhati P, Schalck A, Jiang S, Shang X, Wu CJ, Hou P, Ruiz SH, Soto LS, Parra E, Ying H, Han J, Dey P, Li J, Deng P, Sei E, Maeda DY, Zebala JA, Spring DJ, Kim M, Wang H, Maitra A, Moore D, Clise-Dwyer K, Wang YA, Navin NE, DePinho RA. Targeting T cell checkpoints 41BB and LAG3 and myeloid cell CXCR1/CXCR2 results in antitumor immunity and durable response in pancreatic cancer. Nat Cancer. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36585453.
- Hao D, Han G, Sinjab A, Gomez-Bolanos LI, Lazcano R, Serrano A, Hernandez SD, Dai E, Cao X, Hu J, Dang M, Wang R, Chu Y, Song X, Zhang J, Parra ER, Wargo JA, Swisher SG, Cascone T, Sepesi B, Futreal AP, Li M, Dubinett SM, Fujimoto J, Solis Soto LM, Wistuba II, Stevenson CS, Spira A, Shalapour S, Kadara H, Wang L. The Single-Cell Immunogenomic Landscape of B and Plasma Cells in Early-Stage Lung Adenocarcinoma. Cancer Discov 12(11):2626-2645, 2022. PMID: 36098652.
- Le UQ, Chen N, Balasenthil S, Lurie E, Yang F, Liu S, Rubin L, Solis Soto LM, Raso MG, Batra H, Sahin AA, Wistuba II, Killary AM. Tumor suppressor DEAR1 regulates mammary epithelial cell fate and predicts early onset and metastasis in triple negative breast cancer. Sci Rep 12(1):19504, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36376460.
- Ghosh A, Marques-Piubelli ML, Wang X, Sheu TG, Cheng J, Khan K, Lu W, Manning J, Tang G, Solis LM, Vega F. CD2-negative lymphoma-associated T-cells: a potential mechanism of immune-evasion in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Virchows Arch 481(4):659-663, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35622145.
- Akhave N, Zhang J, Bayley E, Frank M, Chiou SH, Behrens C, Chen R, Hu X, Parra ER, Lee WC, Swisher S, Solis L, Weissferdt A, Moran C, Kalhor N, Zhang J, Scheet P, Vaporciyan AA, Sepesi B, Gibbons DL, Heymach JV, Lee JJ, Wistuba II, Andrew Futreal P, Zhang J, Fujimoto J, Reuben A. Immunogenomic profiling of lung adenocarcinoma reveals poorly differentiated tumors are associated with an immunogenic tumor microenvironment. Lung Cancer 172:19-28, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35973335.
- Somaiah N, Conley AP, Parra ER, Lin H, Amini B, Solis Soto L, Salazar R, Barreto C, Chen H, Gite S, Haymaker C, Nassif EF, Bernatchez C, Mitra A, Livingston JA, Ravi V, Araujo DM, Benjamin R, Patel S, Zarzour MA, Sabir S, Lazar AJ, Wang WL, Daw NC, Zhou X, Roland CL, Cooper ZA, Rodriguez-Canales J, Futreal A, Soria JC, Wistuba II, Hwu P. Durvalumab plus tremelimumab in advanced or metastatic soft tissue and bone sarcomas: a single-centre phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol 23(9):1156-1166, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35934010.
- Han G, Deng Q, Marques-Piubelli ML, Dai E, Dang M, Ma MCJ, Li X, Yang H, Henderson J, Kudryashova O, Meerson M, Isaev S, Kotlov N, Nomie KJ, Bagaev A, Parra ER, Solis Soto LM, Parmar S, Hagemeister FB, Ahmed S, Iyer SP, Samaniego F, Steiner R, Fayad L, Lee H, Fowler NH, Flowers CR, Strati P, Westin JR, Neelapu SS, Nastoupil LJ, Vega F, Wang L, Green MR. Follicular Lymphoma Microenvironment Characteristics Associated with Tumor Cell Mutations and MHC Class II Expression. Blood Cancer Discov 3(5):428-443, 2022. PMID: 35687817.
- Romain G, Strati P, Rezvan A, Fathi M, Bandey IN, Adolacion JRT, Heeke D, Liadi I, Marques-Piubelli ML, Solis LM, Mahendra A, Vega F, Cooper LJ, Singh H, Mattie M, Bot A, Neelapu SS, Varadarajan N. Multidimensional single-cell analysis identifies a role for CD2-CD58 interactions in clinical antitumor T cell responses. J Clin Invest 132(17), 2022. PMID: 35881486.
- Bajaj R, Rodriguez BL, Russell WK, Warner AN, Diao L, Wang J, Raso MG, Lu W, Khan K, Solis LS, Batra H, Tang X, Fradette JF, Kundu ST, Gibbons DL. Impad1 and Syt11 work in an epistatic pathway that regulates EMT-mediated vesicular trafficking to drive lung cancer invasion and metastasis. Cell Rep 40(13):111429, 2022. PMID: 36170810.
- Zhang B, Stewart CA, Wang Q, Cardnell RJ, Rocha P, Fujimoto J, Solis Soto LM, Wang R, Novegil V, Ansell P, He L, Fernandez L, Jendrisak A, Gilbertson C, Schonhoft JD, Byun J, Jones J, Anderson AKL, Aparicio A, Tran H, Negrao MV, Zhang J, Wang WL, Wistuba II, Wang J, Wenstrup R, Byers LA, Gay CM. Dynamic expression of Schlafen 11 (SLFN11) in circulating tumour cells as a liquid biomarker in small cell lung cancer. Br J Cancer 127(3):569-576, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35440668.
- Bartolacci C, Andreani C, Vale G, Berto S, Melegari M, Crouch AC, Baluya DL, Kemble G, Hodges K, Starrett J, Politi K, Starnes SL, Lorenzini D, Raso MG, Solis Soto LM, Behrens C, Kadara H, Gao B, Wistuba II, Minna JD, McDonald JG, Scaglioni PP. Author Correction: Targeting de novo lipogenesis and the Lands cycle induces ferroptosis in KRAS-mutant lung cancer. Nat Commun 13(1):4640, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35941179.
- Marques-Piubelli ML, Sagert J, Pham MT, Will M, Henderson D, Tipton K, Iyer S, Lu W, Khan KB, Hamana L, Chapman JR, Thakral B, Xu J, Miranda RN, Jennings K, Solis LM, Vega F. CD70 is a potential target biomarker in peripheral T-cell lymphomas. Histopathology 81(2):272-275, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35474464.
- Johnson B, Haymaker CL, Parra ER, Soto LMS, Wang X, Thomas JV, Dasari A, Morris VK, Raghav K, Vilar E, Kee BK, Eng C, Parseghian CM, Wolff RA, Lee Y, Lorenzini D, Laberiano-Fernandez C, Verma A, Lang W, Wistuba II, Futreal A, Kopetz S, Overman MJ. Phase II study of durvalumab (anti-PD-L1) and trametinib (MEKi) in microsatellite stable (MSS) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). J Immunother Cancer 10(8), 2022. PMID: 36007963.
- Bartolacci C, Andreani C, Vale G, Berto S, Melegari M, Crouch AC, Baluya DL, Kemble G, Hodges K, Starrett J, Politi K, Starnes SL, Lorenzini D, Raso MG, Solis Soto LM, Behrens C, Kadara H, Gao B, Wistuba II, Minna JD, McDonald JG, Scaglioni PP. Targeting de novo lipogenesis and the Lands cycle induces ferroptosis in KRAS-mutant lung cancer. Nat Commun 13(1):4327, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35882862.
- Hassane M, Rahal Z, Karaoghlanian N, Zhang J, Sinjab A, Wong JW, Lu W, Scheet P, Lee JJ, Raso MG, Solis LM, Fujimoto J, Chami H, Shihadeh AL, Kadara H. Chronic Exposure to Waterpipe Smoke Elicits Immunomodulatory and Carcinogenic Effects in the Lung. Cancer Prev Res (Phila) 15(7):423-434, 2022. PMID: 35468191.
- Halperin DM, Liu S, Dasari A, Fogelman D, Bhosale P, Mahvash A, Estrella JS, Rubin L, Morani AC, Knafl M, Overeem TA, Fu SC, Solis LM, Parra Cuentas E, Verma A, Chen HL, Gite S, Subashchandrabose P, Dervin S, Schulze K, Darbonne WC, Yun C, Wistuba II, Futreal PA, Woodman SE, Yao JC. Assessment of Clinical Response Following Atezolizumab and Bevacizumab Treatment in Patients With Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol 8(6):904-909, 2022. PMID: 35389428.
- Rocha P, Zhang J, Laza-Briviesca R, Cruz-Bermúdez A, Bota-Rabassedas N, Sanchez-Espiridon B, Yoshimura K, Behrens C, Lu W, Tang X, Pataer A, Parra ER, Haymaker C, Fujimoto J, Swisher SG, Heymach JV, Gibbons DL, Lee JJ, Sepesi B, Cascone T, Solis LM, Provencio M, Wistuba II, Kadara H. Distinct Immune Gene Programs Associated with Host Tumor Immunity, Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, and Chemoimmunotherapy in Resectable NSCLC. Clin Cancer Res 28(11):2461-2473, 2022. PMID: 35394499.
- Marques-Piubelli ML, Parra ER, Feng L, Soto LS, Gallardo M, Gouni S, Samaniego F, Noorani M, Hagemeister FB, Westin JR, Lee HJ, Rodriguez MA, Neelapu SS, Gunther JR, Fowler NH, Flowers CR, Wistuba II, Nastoupil LJ, Vega F, Strati P. SIRPα+ macrophages are increased in patients with FL who progress or relapse after frontline lenalidomide and rituximab. Blood Adv 6(11):3286-3293, 2022. PMID: 35359004.
- Soundararajan R, Viscuse P, Pilie P, Liu J, Logotheti S, Laberiano Fernández C, Lorenzini D, Hoang A, Lu W, Soto LMS, Wistuba II, Xu M, Song X, Shepherd PDA, Navone NM, Tidwell RSS, Lozano G, Logothetis C, Zhang J, Long JP, Estecio MR, Tzelepi V, Aparicio AM. Genotype-to-Phenotype Associations in the Aggressive Variant Prostate Cancer Molecular Profile (AVPC-m) Components. Cancers (Basel) 14(13), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35805010.
- Sun B, Laberiano-Fernández C, Salazar-Alejo R, Zhang J, Solorzano Rendon JL, Lee J, Solis Soto LM, Wistuba II, Parra ER. Impact of Region-of-Interest Size on Immune Profiling Using Multiplex Immunofluorescence Tyramide Signal Amplification for Paraffin-Embedded Tumor Tissues. Pathobiology:1-12. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35609532.
- Sun X, Zhai J, Sun B, Parra ER, Jiang M, Ma W, Wang J, Kang AM, Kannan K, Pandurengan R, Zhang S, Solis LM, Haymaker CL, Raso MG, Mendoza Perez J, Sahin AA, Wistuba II, Yam C, Litton JK, Yang F. Effector memory cytotoxic CD3+/CD8+/CD45RO+ T cells are predictive of good survival and a lower risk of recurrence in triple-negative breast cancer. Mod Pathol 35(5):601-608, 2022. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34839351.
- Kundu ST, Rodriguez BL, Gibson LA, Warner AN, Perez MG, Bajaj R, Fradette JJ, Class CA, Solis LM, Rojas Alvarez FR, Wistuba II, Diao L, Chen F, Sachdeva M, Wang J, Kirsch DG, Creighton CJ, Gibbons DL. The microRNA-183/96/182 cluster inhibits lung cancer progression and metastasis by inducing an interleukin-2-mediated antitumor CD8+ cytotoxic T-cell response. Genes Dev 36(9-10):582-600, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35654454.
- Hernandez S, Parra ER, Uraoka N, Tang X, Shen Y, Qiao W, Jiang M, Zhang S, Mino B, Lu W, Pandurengan R, Haymaker C, Affolter K, Scaife CL, Yip-Schneider M, Schmidt CM, Firpo MA, Mulvihill SJ, Koay EJ, Wang H, Wistuba II, Maitra A, Solis LM, Sen S. Diminished Immune Surveillance during Histologic Progression of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms Offers a Therapeutic Opportunity for Cancer Interception. Clin Cancer Res 28(9):1938-1947, 2022. PMID: 35491652.
- Hailemichael Y, Johnson DH, Abdel-Wahab N, Foo WC, Bentebibel SE, Daher M, Haymaker C, Wani K, Saberian C, Ogata D, Kim ST, Nurieva R, Lazar AJ, Abu-Sbeih H, Fa'ak F, Mathew A, Wang Y, Falohun A, Trinh V, Zobniw C, Spillson C, Burks JK, Awiwi M, Elsayes K, Soto LS, Melendez BD, Davies MA, Wargo J, Curry J, Yee C, Lizee G, Singh S, Sharma P, Allison JP, Hwu P, Ekmekcioglu S, Diab A. Interleukin-6 blockade abrogates immunotherapy toxicity and promotes tumor immunity. Cancer Cell 40(5):509-523.e6, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35537412.
- Fahrmann JF, Tanaka I, Irajizad E, Mao X, Dennison JB, Murage E, Casabar J, Mayo J, Peng Q, Celiktas M, Vykoukal JV, Park S, Taguchi A, Delgado O, Tripathi SC, Katayama H, Soto LMS, Rodriguez-Canales J, Behrens C, Wistuba I, Hanash S, Ostrin EJ. Mutational Activation of the NRF2 Pathway Upregulates Kynureninase Resulting in Tumor Immunosuppression and Poor Outcome in Lung Adenocarcinoma. Cancers (Basel) 14(10), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35626147.
- 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 13(1):1797, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35379845.
- Wang J, Wang WL, Sun H, Huo L, Wu Y, Chen H, Gan Q, Meis JM, Maloney N, Lazar AJ, Yoon EC, Albarracin CT, Krishnamurthy S, Middleton LP, Resetkova E, Yu W, Tan D, Lu W, Solis Soto LM, Wang S, Wistuba II, Parwani AV, Prieto VG, Sahin AA, Li Z, Ding Q. Expression of TRPS1 in phyllodes tumor and sarcoma of the breast. Hum Pathol 121:73-80, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35063444.
- Li H, Liu Z, Liu L, Zhang H, Han C, Girard L, Park H, Zhang A, Dong C, Ye J, Rayford A, Peyton M, Li X, Avila K, Cao X, Hu S, Alam MM, Akbay EA, Solis LM, Behrens C, Hernandez-Ruiz S, Lu W, Wistuba I, Heymach JV, Chisamore M, Micklem D, Gabra H, Gausdal G, Lorens JB, Li B, Fu YX, Minna JD, Brekken RA. AXL targeting restores PD-1 blockade sensitivity of STK11/LKB1 mutant NSCLC through expansion of TCF1+ CD8 T cells. Cell Rep Med 3(3):100554, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35492873.
- Carapeto F, Bozorgui B, Shroff RT, Chagani S, Solis Soto L, Foo WC, Wistuba I, Meric-Bernstam F, Shalaby A, Javle M, Korkut A, Kwong LN. The immunogenomic landscape of resected intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Hepatology 75(2):297-308, 2022. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34510503.
- Tanaka I, Dayde D, Tai MC, Mori H, Solis LM, Tripathi SC, Fahrmann JF, Unver N, Parhy G, Jain R, Parra ER, Murakami Y, Aguilar-Bonavides C, Mino B, Celiktas M, Dhillon D, Casabar JP, Nakatochi M, Stingo F, Baladandayuthapani V, Wang H, Katayama H, Dennison JB, Lorenzi PL, Do KA, Fujimoto J, Behrens C, Ostrin EJ, Rodriguez-Canales J, Hase T, Fukui T, Kajino T, Kato S, Yatabe Y, Hosoda W, Kawaguchi K, Yokoi K, Chen-Yoshikawa TF, Hasegawa Y, Gazdar AF, Wistuba II, Hanash S, Taguchi A. SRGN-Triggered Aggressive and Immunosuppressive Phenotype in a Subset of TTF-1-Negative Lung Adenocarcinomas. J Natl Cancer Inst 114(2):290-301, 2022. PMID: 34524427.
- Federico L, McGrail DJ, Bentebibel SE, Haymaker C, Ravelli A, Forget MA, Karpinets T, Jiang P, Reuben A, Negrao MV, Li J, Khairullah R, Zhang J, Weissferdt A, Vaporciyan AA, Antonoff MB, Walsh G, Lin SY, Futreal A, Wistuba I, Roth J, Byers LA, Gaudreau PO, Uraoka N, Cruz AF, Dejima H, Lazcano RN, Solis LM, Parra ER, Lee JJ, Swisher S, Cascone T, Heymach JV, Zhang J, Sepesi B, Gibbons DL, Bernatchez C. Distinct tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte landscapes are associated with clinical outcomes in localized non-small-cell lung cancer. Ann Oncol 33(1):42-56, 2022. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34653632.
- Hong DS, Butler MO, Pachynski RK, Sullivan R, Kebriaei P, Boross-Harmer S, Ghobadi A, Frigault MJ, Dumbrava EE, Sauer A, Brophy F, Navenot JM, Fayngerts S, Wolchinsky Z, Broad R, Batrakou DG, Wang R, Solis LM, Duose DY, Sanderson JP, Gerry AB, Marks D, Bai J, Norry E, Fracasso PM. Phase 1 Clinical Trial Evaluating the Safety and Anti-Tumor Activity of ADP-A2M10 SPEAR T-Cells in Patients With MAGE-A10+ Head and Neck, Melanoma, or Urothelial Tumors. Front Oncol 12:818679, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35372008.
- Hernandez S, Lazcano R, Serrano A, Powell S, Kostousov L, Mehta J, Khan K, Lu W, Solis LM. Challenges and Opportunities for Immunoprofiling Using a Spatial High-Plex Technology: The NanoString GeoMx® Digital Spatial Profiler. Front Oncol 12:890410, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35847846.
- Lazcano R, Barreto CM, Salazar R, Carapeto F, Traweek RS, Leung CH, Gite S, Mehta J, Ingram DR, Wani KM, Vu KT, Parra ER, Lu W, Zhou J, Witt RG, Cope B, Thirasastr P, Lin HY, Scally CP, Conley AP, Ratan R, Livingston JA, Zarzour AM, Ludwig J, Araujo D, Ravi V, Patel S, Benjamin R, Wargo J, Wistuba II, Somaiah N, Roland CL, Keung EZ, Solis L, Wang WL, Lazar AJ, Nassif EF. The immune landscape of undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma. Front Oncol 12:1008484, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36313661.
- Raghav K, Liu S, Overman MJ, Willett AF, Knafl M, Fu SC, Malpica A, Prasad S, Royal RE, Scally CP, Mansfield PF, Wistuba II, Futreal AP, Maru DM, Solis Soto LM, Parra Cuentas ER, Chen H, Villalobos P, Verma A, Mahvash A, Hwu P, Cortazar P, McKenna E, Yun C, Dervin S, Schulze K, Darbonne WC, Morani AC, Kopetz S, Fournier KF, Woodman SE, Yao JC, Varadhachary GR, Halperin DM. Efficacy, Safety, and Biomarker Analysis of Combined PD-L1 (Atezolizumab) and VEGF (Bevacizumab) Blockade in Advanced Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma. Cancer Discov 11(11):2738-2747, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34261675.
- Sinjab A, Han G, Treekitkarnmongkol W, Hara K, Brennan PM, Dang M, Hao D, Wang R, Dai E, Dejima H, Zhang J, Bogatenkova E, Sanchez-Espiridion B, Chang K, Little DR, Bazzi S, Tran LM, Krysan K, Behrens C, Duose DY, Parra ER, Raso MG, Solis LM, Fukuoka J, Zhang J, Sepesi B, Cascone T, Byers LA, Gibbons DL, Chen J, Moghaddam SJ, Ostrin EJ, Rosen D, Heymach JV, Scheet P, Dubinett SM, Fujimoto J, Wistuba II, Stevenson CS, Spira A, Wang L, Kadara H. Resolving the Spatial and Cellular Architecture of Lung Adenocarcinoma by Multiregion Single-Cell Sequencing. Cancer Discov 11(10):2506-2523, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33972311.
- Abbas HA, Hao D, Tomczak K, Barrodia P, Im JS, Reville PK, Alaniz Z, Wang W, Wang R, Wang F, Al-Atrash G, Takahashi K, Ning J, Ding M, Beird HC, Mathews JT, Little L, Zhang J, Basu S, Konopleva M, Marques-Piubelli ML, Solis LM, Parra ER, Lu W, Tamegnon A, Garcia-Manero G, Green MR, Sharma P, Allison JP, Kornblau SM, Rai K, Wang L, Daver N, Futreal A. Single cell T cell landscape and T cell receptor repertoire profiling of AML in context of PD-1 blockade therapy. Nat Commun 12(1):6071, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34663807.
- Padhye A, Konen JM, Rodriguez BL, Fradette JJ, Ochieng JK, Diao L, Wang J, Lu W, Solis LS, Batra H, Raso MG, Peoples MD, Minelli R, Carugo A, Bristow CA, Gibbons DL. Targeting CDK4 overcomes EMT-mediated tumor heterogeneity and therapeutic resistance in KRAS-mutant lung cancer. JCI Insight 6(17), 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34309585.
- Marques-Piubelli ML, Solis LM, Parra ER, Castillo LM, Gouni S, Nair R, Chihara D, Konopleva M, Wistuba II, Iyer SP, Vega F, Strati P. BCL-W expression associates with poor outcome in patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma not otherwise specified. Blood Cancer J 11(9):153, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34531377.
- Zhao J, Soto LMS, Wang H, Katz MH, Prakash LR, Kim M, Tzeng CD, Lee JE, Wolff RA, Huang Y, Wistuba II, Maitra A, Wang H. Overexpression of CD73 in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is associated with immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and poor survival. Pancreatology 21(5):942-949, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33832821.
- Cascone T, Weissferdt A, Godoy MCB, William WN, Leung CH, Lin HY, Basu S, Yadav SS, Pataer A, Mitchell KG, Khan MAW, Shi Y, Haymaker C, Solis LM, Parra ER, Kadara H, Wistuba II, Sharma P, Allison JP, Ajami NJ, Wargo JA, Jenq RR, Gibbons DL, Lee JJ, Swisher SG, Vaporciyan AA, Heymach JV, Sepesi B. Nodal immune flare mimics nodal disease progression following neoadjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer. Nat Commun 12(1):5045, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34413300.
- Marques-Piubelli ML, Schlette EJ, Khoury JD, Furqan F, Vega F, Soto LMS, Wistuba II, Wierda WG, Konopleva M, Ferrajoli A, Strati P. Expression of BCL2 alternative proteins and association with outcome in CLL patients treated with venetoclax. Leuk Lymphoma 62(5):1129-1135, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33327833.
- Dejima H, Hu X, Chen R, Zhang J, Fujimoto J, Parra ER, Haymaker C, Hubert SM, Duose D, Solis LM, Su D, Fukuoka J, Tabata K, Pham HHN, Mcgranahan N, Zhang B, Ye J, Ying L, Little L, Gumbs C, Chow CW, Estecio MR, Godoy MCB, Antonoff MB, Sepesi B, Pass HI, Behrens C, Zhang J, Vaporciyan AA, Heymach JV, Scheet P, Lee JJ, Wu J, Futreal PA, Reuben A, Kadara H, Wistuba II, Zhang J. Immune evolution from preneoplasia to invasive lung adenocarcinomas and underlying molecular features. Nat Commun 12(1):2722, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33976164.
- Joseph R, Soundararajan R, Vasaikar S, Yang F, Allton KL, Tian L, den Hollander P, Isgandarova S, Haemmerle M, Mino B, Zhou T, Shin C, Martinez-Paniagua M, Sahin AA, Rodriguez-Canales J, Gelovani J, Chang JT, Acharya G, Sood AK, Wistuba II, Gibbons DL, Solis LM, Barton MC, Varadarajan N, Rosen JM, Zhang XH, Mani SA. CD8+ T cells inhibit metastasis and CXCL4 regulates its function. Br J Cancer. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33795809.
- Kanikarla Marie P, Haymaker C, Parra ER, Kim YU, Lazcano R, Gite S, Lorenzini D, Wistuba II, Tidwell RSS, Song X, Foo WC, Maru DM, Chun YS, Futreal PA, Kee B, Menter D, Solis LM, Tzeng CD, Parseghian CM, Raghav K, Morris VK, Chang CC, Jenq RR, Tam A, Bernatchez C, Kopetz S, Vauthey JN, Overman MJ. Pilot Clinical Trial of Perioperative Durvalumab and Tremelimumab in the Treatment of Resectable Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases. Clin Cancer Res. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33811152.
- Le X, Negrao MV, Reuben A, Federico L, Diao L, McGrail D, Nilsson M, Robichaux J, Munoz IG, Patel S, Elamin Y, Fan YH, Lee WC, Parra E, Solis Soto LM, Chen R, Li J, Karpinets T, Khairullah R, Kadara H, Behrens C, Sepesi B, Wang R, Zhu M, Wang L, Vaporciyan A, Roth J, Swisher S, Haymaker C, Zhang J, Wang J, Wong KK, Byers LA, Bernatchez C, Zhang J, Wistuba II, Gibbons DL, Akbay EA, Heymach JV. Characterization of the Immune Landscape of EGFR-Mutant NSCLC Identifies CD73/Adenosine Pathway as a Potential Therapeutic Target. J Thorac Oncol 16(4):583-600, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33388477.
- Ai D, Yao J, Yang F, Huo L, Chen H, Lu W, Soto LMS, Jiang M, Raso MG, Wang S, Bell D, Liu J, Wang H, Tan D, Torres-Cabala C, Gan Q, Wu Y, Albarracin C, Hung MC, Meric-Bernstam F, Wistuba II, Prieto VG, Sahin AA, Ding Q. TRPS1: a highly sensitive and specific marker for breast carcinoma, especially for triple-negative breast cancer. Mod Pathol 34(4):710-719, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33011748.
- Parra ER, Ferrufino-Schmidt MC, Tamegnon A, Zhang J, Solis L, Jiang M, Ibarguen H, Haymaker C, Lee JJ, Bernatchez C, Wistuba II. Immuno-profiling and cellular spatial analysis using five immune oncology multiplex immunofluorescence panels for paraffin tumor tissue. Sci Rep 11(1):8511, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33875760.
- Bota-Rabassedas N, Banerjee P, Niu Y, Cao W, Luo J, Xi Y, Tan X, Sheng K, Ahn YH, Lee S, Parra ER, Rodriguez-Canales J, Albritton J, Weiger M, Liu X, Guo HF, Yu J, Rodriguez BL, Firestone JJA, Mino B, Creighton CJ, Solis LM, Villalobos P, Raso MG, Sazer DW, Gibbons DL, Russell WK, Longmore GD, Wistuba II, Wang J, Chapman HA, Miller JS, Zong C, Kurie JM. Contextual cues from cancer cells govern cancer-associated fibroblast heterogeneity. Cell Rep 35(3):109009, 2021. PMID: 33882319.
- Gay CM, Stewart CA, Park EM, Diao L, Groves SM, Heeke S, Nabet BY, Fujimoto J, Solis LM, Lu W, Xi Y, Cardnell RJ, Wang Q, Fabbri G, Cargill KR, Vokes NI, Ramkumar K, Zhang B, Della Corte CM, Robson P, Swisher SG, Roth JA, Glisson BS, Shames DS, Wistuba II, Wang J, Quaranta V, Minna J, Heymach JV, Byers LA. Patterns of transcription factor programs and immune pathway activation define four major subtypes of SCLC with distinct therapeutic vulnerabilities. Cancer Cell 39(3):346-360.e7, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33482121.
- Cascone T, William WN, Weissferdt A, Leung CH, Lin HY, Pataer A, Godoy MCB, Carter BW, Federico L, Reuben A, Khan MAW, Dejima H, Francisco-Cruz A, Parra ER, Solis LM, Fujimoto J, Tran HT, Kalhor N, Fossella FV, Mott FE, Tsao AS, Blumenschein G, Le X, Zhang J, Skoulidis F, Kurie JM, Altan M, Lu C, Glisson BS, Byers LA, Elamin YY, Mehran RJ, Rice DC, Walsh GL, Hofstetter WL, Roth JA, Antonoff MB, Kadara H, Haymaker C, Bernatchez C, Ajami NJ, Jenq RR, Sharma P, Allison JP, Futreal A, Wargo JA, Wistuba II, Swisher SG, Lee JJ, Gibbons DL, Vaporciyan AA, Heymach JV, Sepesi B. Neoadjuvant nivolumab or nivolumab plus ipilimumab in operable non-small cell lung cancer: the phase 2 randomized NEOSTAR trial. Nat Med 27(3):504-514, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33603241.
- Rocha P, Salazar R, Zhang J, Ledesma D, Solorzano JL, Mino B, Villalobos P, Dejima H, Douse DY, Diao L, Mitchell KG, Le X, Zhang J, Weissferdt A, Parra-Cuentas E, Cascone T, Rice DC, Sepesi B, Kalhor N, Moran C, Vaporciyan A, Heymach J, Gibbons DL, Lee JJ, Kadara H, Wistuba I, Behrens C, Solis LM. Correction to: CD73 expression defines immune, molecular, and clinicopathological subgroups of lung adenocarcinoma. Cancer Immunol Immunother. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33686493.
- Han G, Sinjab A, Hara K, Treekitkarnmongkol W, Brennan P, Chang K, Bogatenkova E, Sanchez-Espiridion B, Behrens C, Solis LM, Gao B, Girard L, Zhang J, Sepesi B, Cascone T, Byers LA, Gibbons DL, Chen J, Moghaddam SJ, Ostrin EJ, Scheet P, Fujimoto J, Shay J, Heymach JV, Minna JD, Dubinett S, Wistuba II, Stevenson CS, Spira AE, Wang L, Kadara H. Single-Cell Expression Landscape of SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 and Host Proteases in Normal and Malignant Lung Tissues from Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma Patients. Cancers (Basel) 13(6), 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33809063.
- Rocha P, Salazar R, Zhang J, Ledesma D, Solorzano JL, Mino B, Villalobos P, Dejima H, Douse DY, Diao L, Mitchell KG, Le X, Zhang J, Weissferdt A, Parra-Cuentas E, Cascone T, Rice DC, Sepesi B, Kalhor N, Moran C, Vaporciyan A, Heymach J, Gibbons DL, Lee JJ, Kadara H, Wistuba I, Behrens C, Solis LM. CD73 expression defines immune, molecular, and clinicopathological subgroups of lung adenocarcinoma. Cancer Immunol Immunother. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33416944.
- Carroll MR, Ramalingam P, Salvo G, Fujimoto J, Solis Soto LM, Phoolcharoen N, Hillman RT, Cardnell R, Byers L, Frumovitz M. Evaluation of PARP and PDL-1 as potential therapeutic targets for women with high-grade neuroendocrine carcinomas of the cervix. Int J Gynecol Cancer 30(9):1303-1307, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32727929.
- Peng DH, Rodriguez BL, Diao L, Chen L, Wang J, Byers LA, Wei Y, Chapman HA, Yamauchi M, Behrens C, Raso G, Soto LMS, Cuentes ERP, Wistuba II, Kurie JM, Gibbons DL. Collagen promotes anti-PD-1/PD-L1 resistance in cancer through LAIR1-dependent CD8+ T cell exhaustion. Nat Commun 11(1):4520, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32908154.
Invited Articles
- Hernandez S, Serrano AG, Solis Soto LM. The Role of Nerve Fibers in the Tumor Immune Microenvironment of Solid Tumors. Adv Biol (Weinh) 6(9):e2200046, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35751462.
- Rojas F, Parra ER, Wistuba II, Haymaker C, Solis Soto LM. Pathological Response and Immune Biomarker Assessment in Non-Small-Cell Lung Carcinoma Receiving Neoadjuvant Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. Cancers (Basel) 14(11), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35681755.
Abstracts
- Caddie Laberiano , Khalida Wani, Davis Ingram, Wei Lu, Rossana Lazcano, Wei-Lien Wang, Yao Chen, Swethajit Biswas, Dennis Williams, Cheryl McAlpine, Alexander J. Lazar, Luisa M. Solis Soto. Identifying New Therapeutic Indications for Afamitresgene Autoleucel (“Afami-cel” [Formerly ADP-A2M4]) in Adult and Pediatric Sarcomas Using MAGE-A4 Immunohistochemistry. AACR Special Conference on Sarcomas, 2022.
- Tina Cascone, William N. William Jr, Annikka Weissferdt, Cheuk H. Leung, Heather Y. Lin,Apar Pataer, Myrna C. B. Godoy, Brett W. Carter, Lorenzo Federico, Alexandre Reuben, Md Abdul Wadud Khan, Hitoshi Dejima, Alejandro Francisco-Cruz, Edwin R. Parra , Luisa M. Solis , Junya Fujimoto, Hai T. Tran, Neda Kalhor, Frank V. Fossella, Frank E. Mott, Anne S. Tsao, George Blumenschein Jr, Xiuning Le, Jianjun Zhang , Ferdinandos Skoulidis, Jonathan M. Kurie, Mehmet Altan, Charles Lu, Bonnie S. Glisson, Lauren Averett Byers,Yasir Y. Elamin, Reza J. Mehran, David C. Rice, Garrett L. Walsh, Wayne L. Hofstetter, Jack A. Roth, Mara B. Antonoff, Humam Kadara, Cara Haymaker, Chantale Bernatchez, Nadim J. Ajami, Robert R. Jenq, Padmanee Sharma, James P. Allison, Andrew Futreal , Jennifer A. Wargo, Ignacio I. Wistuba, Stephen G. Swisher, J. Jack Lee, Don L. Gibbons 1, Ara A. Vaporciyan, John V. Heymach, and Boris Sepesi. Neoadjuvant nivolumab or nivolumab plus ipilimumab in operable non-small cell lung cancer: the phase 2 randomized NEOSTAR trial. Nat Med, 2021.
- Xiuning Le, Marcelo V Negrao, Alexandre Reuben, Lorenzo Federico, Lixia Diao, Daniel McGrail, Monique Nilsson, Jacqulyne Robichaux, Irene Guijarro Munoz, Sonia Patel, Yasir Elamin, You-Hong Fan, Won-Chul Lee, Edwin Parra, Luisa Maren Solis Soto, Runzhe Chen, Jun Li, Tatiana Karpinets, Roohussaba Khairullah, Humam Kadara, Carmen Behrens, Boris Sepesi, Ruiping Wang, Mingrui Zhu, Linghua Wang, Ara Vaporciyan, Jack Roth, Stephen Swisher, Cara Haymaker, Jianhua Zhang, Jing Wang, Kwok-Kin Wong, Lauren A Byers, Chantale Bernatchez, Jianjun Zhang, Ignacio I Wistuba, Don L Gibbons, Esra A Akbay, John V Heymach. Characterization of the Immune Landscape of EGFR-Mutant NSCLC Identifies CD73/Adenosine Pathway as a Potential Therapeutic Target. J Thorac Oncol, 2020.
Book Chapters
- Solis Soto, L.M., Wang, H. Implications of Tumor Immune Microenvironment and Molecular Markers for Cancer Immunotherapy. In: Handbook of Cancer and Immunology. Springer, 2022.
Patient Reviews
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