Meet Sattva Neelapu, M.D.

Sattva S. Neelapu, M.D.
Department of Lymphoma - Myeloma, Division of Cancer Medicine
In the News

MD Anderson researchers present cellular therapy advances at the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting

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ASCO: Advances in T cell therapies for lymphomas

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More than half of patients alive two years after receiving CAR-T therapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in ZUMA-1 trial

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Phase 2 CAR-T study reports significant remission rates at 15-month follow up

Researchers compose guidelines for handling CAR T cell side effects
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Professor, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Deputy Department Chair, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Member, Graduate Faculty, Immunology Program, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
1991 | Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, IND, MBBS, Medicine |
Postgraduate Training
2001-2004 | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tumor Immunology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD |
1998-2001 | Clinical Fellowship, Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD |
1994-1995 | Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY |
1993-1995 | Clinical Residency, Internal Medicine, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY |
1992-1993 | Clinical Internship, Internal Medicine, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY |
Board Certifications
2000 | American Board of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology |
1995 | American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine |
Honors & Awards
2018 | Excellence in Oncology Award, Oncology Times |
2018 | Outstanding Achievement Award, Indo-American Cancer Association |
2018 | Irwin H. Krakoff Award for Excellence in Clinical Research, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
2018 | Waun Ki Hong Award for Excellence in Team Science, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
2015 | Waun Ki Hong Award for Excellence in Team Science, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
2014 | Faculty Scholar Award, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center |
2014 | Emil Frei, III Award for Excellence in Translational Research, Division of Cancer Medicine, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center |
2008 | Clinical Scientist Development Award, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation |
2007 | ASH Scholar Award, American Society of Hematology |
2006 | ASCO Career Development Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology |
2003 | AACR Scholar-in-Training Award, American Association for Cancer Research 94th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C |
2003 | ASCO Merit Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology 39th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL |
2002 | Fellows Award for Research Excellence, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD |
2001 | Senior Fellowship Training Award, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD |
1995 | Virginia Nash Award for outstanding professional performance as a Resident on the Medical Services, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY |
1993 | Dr. Ghani Mohammad Memorial Award for outstanding professional performance as an Intern on the Medical Services, Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY |
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Jallouk AP, Gouni S, Westin J, Feng L, Mistry H, Steiner RE, James J, Noorani M, Horowitz S, Puebla-Osorio N, Fayad LE, Iyer SP, Hawkins M, Flowers CR, Ahmed S, Nastoupil LJ, Kebriaei P, Shpall EJ, Neelapu SS, Nieto Y, Strati P. Axicabtagene ciloleucel in relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma patients in complete metabolic response. Haematologica 108(4):1163-1167, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36384251.
- Stein-Thoeringer CK, Saini NY, Zamir E, Blumenberg V, Schubert ML, Mor U, Fante MA, Schmidt S, Hayase E, Hayase T, Rohrbach R, Chang CC, McDaniel L, Flores I, Gaiser R, Edinger M, Wolff D, Heidenreich M, Strati P, Nair R, Chihara D, Fayad LE, Ahmed S, Iyer SP, Steiner RE, Jain P, Nastoupil LJ, Westin J, Arora R, Wang ML, Turner J, Menges M, Hidalgo-Vargas M, Reid K, Dreger P, Schmitt A, Müller-Tidow C, Locke FL, Davila ML, Champlin RE, Flowers CR, Shpall EJ, Poeck H, Neelapu SS, Schmitt M, Subklewe M, Jain MD, Jenq RR, Elinav E. A non-antibiotic-disrupted gut microbiome is associated with clinical responses to CD19-CAR-T cell cancer immunotherapy. Nat Med 29(4):906-916, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36914893.
- Hines MR, Knight TE, McNerney KO, Leick MB, Jain T, Ahmed S, Frigault MJ, Hill JA, Jain MD, Johnson WT, Lin Y, Mahadeo KM, Maron GM, Marsh RA, Neelapu SS, Nikiforow S, Ombrello AK, Shah NN, Talleur AC, Turicek D, Vatsayan A, Wong SW, Maus MV, Komanduri KV, Berliner N, Henter JI, Perales MA, Frey NV, Teachey DT, Frank MJ, Shah NN. Immune Effector Cell associated Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis-like Syndrome (IEC-HS). Transplant Cell Ther. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36906275.
- Westin J, Davis RE, Feng L, Hagemeister F, Steiner R, Lee HJ, Fayad L, Nastoupil L, Ahmed S, Rodriguez A, Fanale M, Samaniego F, Iyer SP, Nair R, Oki Y, Fowler N, Wang M, Ma MCJ, Vega F, McDonnell T, Pinnix C, Griffith D, Lu Y, Tewari S, Sun R, Scott DW, Flowers CR, Neelapu S, Green MR. Smart Start: Rituximab, Lenalidomide, and Ibrutinib in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Large B-Cell Lymphoma. J Clin Oncol 41(4):JCO2200597, 2023. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35952327.
- Palomba ML, Ghione P, Patel AR, Nahas M, Beygi S, Hatswell AJ, Kanters S, Limbrick-Oldfield EH, Wade SW, Ray MD, Owen J, Neelapu SS, Gribben J, Radford J, Bobillo S. A 24-month updated analysis of the comparative effectiveness of ZUMA-5 (axi-cel) vs. SCHOLAR-5 external control in relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 23(2):199-206, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36723678.
- Wang Y, Jain P, Locke FL, Maurer MJ, Frank MJ, Munoz JL, Dahiya S, Beitinjaneh AM, Jacobs MT, Mcguirk JP, Vose JM, Goy A, Andreadis C, Hill BT, Dorritie KA, Oluwole OO, Deol A, Paludo J, Shah B, Wang T, Banerjee R, Miklos DB, Rapoport AP, Lekakis L, Ghobadi A, Neelapu SS, Lin Y, Wang ML, Jain MD. Brexucabtagene Autoleucel for Relapsed or Refractory Mantle Cell Lymphoma in Standard-of-Care Practice: Results From the US Lymphoma CAR T Consortium. J Clin Oncol:JCO2201797. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36753699.
- Neelapu SS, Jacobson CA, Ghobadi A, Miklos DB, Lekakis LJ, Oluwole OO, Lin Y, Braunschweig I, Hill BT, Timmerman JM, Deol A, Reagan PM, Stiff PJ, Flinn IW, Farooq U, Goy A, McSweeney P, Munoz J, Siddiqi T, Chavez JC, Herrera AF, Bartlett NL, Bot AA, Shen RR, Dong J, Singh K, Miao H, Kim JJ, Zheng Y, Locke FL. 5-Year Follow-Up Supports Curative Potential of Axicabtagene Ciloleucel in Refractory Large B-Cell Lymphoma (ZUMA-1). Blood. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36821768.
- Strati P, Jallouk AP, Sun R, Choi J, Das K, Cherng HJ, Ahmed S, Lee HJ, Iyer SP, Nair R, Nastoupil LJ, Steiner RE, Huff CD, Yu Y, Mistry H, Pulsifer B, Noorani M, Saini N, Shpall EJ, Kebriaei P, Flowers CR, Westin JR, Hildebrandt MAT, Neelapu SS. Impact of conditioning chemotherapy on lymphocyte kinetics and outcomes in LBCL patients treated with CAR T-cell therapy. Leukemia 36(11):2669-2677, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36127509.
- Fahrmann JF, Saini NY, Chia-Chi C, Irajizad E, Strati P, Nair R, Fayad LE, Ahmed S, Lee HJ, Iyer S, Steiner R, Vykoukal J, Wu R, Dennison JB, Nastoupil L, Jain P, Wang M, Green M, Westin J, Blumenberg V, Davila M, Champlin R, Shpall EJ, Kebriaei P, Flowers CR, Jain M, Jenq R, Stein-Thoeringer CK, Subklewe M, Neelapu SS, Hanash S. A polyamine-centric, blood-based metabolite panel predictive of poor response to CAR-T cell therapy in large B cell lymphoma. Cell Rep Med 3(11):100720, 2022. PMID: 36384092.
- Jacobs MT, Jain MD, Gao F, Nastoupil LJ, Spiegel JY, Lin Y, Dahiya S, Lunning M, Lekakis L, Reagan PM, Oluwole OO, McGuirk J, Deol A, Sehgal A, Goy A, Hill BT, Andreadis C, Munoz J, Chavez JC, Bennani NN, Rapoport AP, Vose JM, Miklos DB, Neelapu SS, Ghobadi A, Locke FL. Severity of Cytokine Release Syndrome Influences Outcome After Axicabtagene Ciloleucel for Large B cell Lymphoma: Results from the US Lymphoma CAR-T Consortium. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk 22(10):753-759, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35780055.
- Pemmaraju N, Wilson NR, Senapati J, Economides MP, Guzman ML, Neelapu SS, Kazemimood R, Davis RE, Jain N, Khoury JD, Sugita M, Cai T, Smith J, Frattini MG, Garton A, Roboz G, Konopleva M. CD123-directed allogeneic chimeric-antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CAR-T) in blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN): Clinicopathological insights. Leuk Res 121:106928, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35963025.
- Saini NY, Swoboda DM, Greenbaum U, Ma J, Patel RD, Devashish K, Das K, Tanner MR, Strati P, Nair R, Fayad L, Ahmed S, Lee HJ, Iyer SP, Steiner R, Jain N, Nastoupil L, Loghavi S, Tang G, Bassett RL, Jain P, Wang M, Westin JR, Green MR, Sallman DA, Padron E, Davila ML, Locke FL, Champlin RE, Garcia-Manero G, Shpall EJ, Kebriaei P, Flowers CR, Jain MD, Wang F, Futreal AP, Gillis N, Neelapu SS, Takahashi K. Clonal hematopoiesis is associated with increased risk of severe neurotoxicity in axicabtagene ciloleucel therapy of large B-cell lymphoma. Blood Cancer Discov 3(5):385-393, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35533245.
- Han G, Deng Q, Marques-Piubelli ML, Dai E, Dang M, Ma MCJ, Li X, Yang H, Henderson J, Kudryashova O, Meerson M, Isaev S, Kotlov N, Nomie KJ, Bagaev A, Parra ER, Solis Soto LM, Parmar S, Hagemeister FB, Ahmed S, Iyer SP, Samaniego F, Steiner R, Fayad L, Lee H, Fowler NH, Flowers CR, Strati P, Westin JR, Neelapu SS, Nastoupil LJ, Vega F, Wang L, Green MR. Follicular lymphoma microenvironment characteristics associated with tumor cell mutations and MHC class II expression. Blood Cancer Discov 3(5):428-443, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35687817.
- Romain G, Strati P, Rezvan A, Fathi M, Bandey IN, Adolacion JRT, Heeke D, Liadi I, Marques-Piubelli ML, Solis LM, Mahendra A, Vega F, Cooper LJ, Singh H, Mattie M, Bot A, Neelapu SS, Varadarajan N. Multidimensional single-cell analysis identifies a role for CD2-CD58 interactions in clinical antitumor T cell responses. J Clin Invest 132(17), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35881486.
- Scholler N, Perbost R, Locke FL, Jain MD, Turcan S, Danan C, Chang EC, Neelapu SS, Miklos DB, Jacobson CA, Lekakis LJ, Lin Y, Ghobadi A, Kim JJ, Chou J, Plaks V, Wang Z, Xue A, Mattie M, Rossi JM, Bot A, Galon J. Tumor immune contexture is a determinant of anti-CD19 CAR T cell efficacy in large B cell lymphoma. Nat Med 28(9):1872-1882, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36038629.
- Cherng HJ, Sun R, Sugg B, Irwin R, Yang H, Le CC, Deng Q, Fayad L, Fowler NH, Parmar S, Steiner R, Hagemeister F, Nair R, Lee HJ, Rodriguez M, Samaniego F, Iyer SP, Flowers CR, Wang L, Nastoupil LJ, Neelapu SS, Ahmed S, Strati P, Green MR, Westin J. Risk assessment with low pass whole genome sequencing of cell free DNA before CD19 CAR T-cells for large B-cell lymphoma. Blood 140(5):504-515, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35512184.
- Ghione P, Palomba ML, Patel AR, Bobillo S, Deighton K, Jacobson CA, Nahas M, Hatswell AJ, Jung AS, Kanters S, Snider JT, Neelapu SS, Ribeiro MT, Brookhart MA, Ghesquieres H, Radford J, Gribben JG. Comparative effectiveness of ZUMA-5 (axi-cel) vs SCHOLAR-5 external control in relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma. Blood 140(8):851-860, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35679476.
- Steiner RE, Banchs J, Koutroumpakis E, Becnel M, Gutierrez C, Strati P, Pinnix CC, Feng L, Rondon G, Claussen C, Palaskas N, Karimzad K, Ahmed S, Neelapu SS, Shpall E, Wang M, Vega F, Westin J, Nastoupil LJ, Deswal A. Cardiovascular events in patients treated with chimeric antigen receptor t-cell therapy for aggressive B-cell lymphoma. Haematologica 107(7):1555-1566, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 34758610.
- Marques-Piubelli ML, Parra ER, Feng L, Soto LS, Gallardo M, Gouni S, Samaniego F, Noorani M, Hagemeister FB, Westin JR, Lee HJ, Rodriguez MA, Neelapu SS, Gunther JR, Fowler NH, Flowers CR, Wistuba II, Nastoupil LJ, Vega F, Strati P. SIRPα+ macrophages are increased in patients with FL who progress or relapse after frontline lenalidomide and rituximab. Blood Adv 6(11):3286-3293, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35359004.
- Al Zaki A, Feng L, Watson G, Ahmed SA, Mistry H, Nastoupil LJ, Hawkins M, Nair R, Iyer SP, Lee HJ, Steiner RE, Flowers CR, Shpall EJ, Kebriaei P, Neelapu SS, Westin JR, Strati P. Day 30 SUVmax Predicts Progression in Lymphoma Patients Achieving PR/SD After CAR T-cell Therapy. Blood Adv 6(9):2867-2871, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35015825.
- Gouni S, Rosenthal AC, Crombie JL, Ip A, Kamdar MK, Hess B, Feng L, Watson G, Ayers A, Neelapu SS, Khurana A, Lin Y, Iqbal M, Merryman RW, Strati P. A Multicenter Retrospective Study of Polatuzumab Vedotin in Patients with Large B-cell Lymphoma After CAR T-cell Therapy. Blood Adv 6(9):2757-2762, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35240681.
- Neelapu SS, Dickinson M, Munoz J, Ulrickson ML, Thieblemont C, Oluwole OO, Herrera AF, Ujjani CS, Lin Y, Riedell PA, Kekre N, de Vos S, Lui C, Milletti F, Dong J, Xu H, Chavez JC. Axicabtagene ciloleucel as first-line therapy in high-risk large B-cell lymphoma: the phase 2 ZUMA-12 trial. Nat Med 28(4):735-742, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35314842.
- Kim ST, Chu Y, Misoi M, Suarez-Almazor ME, Tayar JH, Lu H, Buni M, Kramer J, Rodriguez E, Hussain Z, Neelapu SS, Wang J, Shah AY, Tannir NM, Campbell MT, Gibbons DL, Cascone T, Lu C, Blumenschein GR, Altan M, Lim B, Valero V, Loghin ME, Tu J, Westin SN, Naing A, Garcia-Manero G, Abdel-Wahab N, Tawbi HA, Hwu P, Oliva ICG, Davies MA, Patel SP, Zou J, Futreal A, Diab A, Wang L, Nurieva R. Distinct molecular and immune hallmarks of inflammatory arthritis induced by immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer therapy. Nat Commun 13(1):1970, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35413951.
- Cai T, Gouble A, Black KL, Skwarska A, Naqvi AS, Taylor D, Zhao M, Yuan Q, Sugita M, Zhang Q, Galetto R, Filipe S, Cavazos A, Han L, Kuruvilla V, Ma H, Weng C, Liu CG, Liu X, Konoplev S, Gu J, Tang G, Su X, Al-Atrash G, Ciurea S, Neelapu SS, Lane AA, Kantarjian H, Guzman ML, Pemmaraju N, Smith J, Thomas-Tikhonenko A, Konopleva M. Targeting CD123 in blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm using allogeneic anti-CD123 CAR T cells. Nat Commun 13(1):2228, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35484100.
- Ma MCJ, Tadros S, Bouska A, Heavican T, Yang H, Deng Q, Moore D, Akhter A, Hartert K, Jain N, Showell J, Ghosh S, Street L, Davidson M, Carey C, Tobin J, Perumal D, Vose JM, Lunning MA, Sohani AR, Chen BJ, Buckley S, Nastoupil LJ, Davis RE, Westin JR, Fowler NH, Parekh S, Gandhi M, Neelapu S, Stewart D, Bhalla K, Iqbal J, Greiner T, Rodig SJ, Mansoor A, Green MR. Subtype-specific and co-occurring genetic alterations in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Haematologica 107(3):690-701, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 33792219.
- Nastoupil LJ, Chin CK, Westin JR, Fowler NH, Samaniego F, Cheng X, Ma MCJ, Wang Z, Chu F, Dsouza L, Obi C, Mims J, Feng L, Zhou S, Green M, Davis RE, Neelapu SS. Safety and activity of pembrolizumab in combination with rituximab in relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma. Blood Adv 6(4):1143-1151, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35015819.
- Morris EC, Neelapu SS, Giavridis T, Sadelain M. Cytokine release syndrome and associated neurotoxicity in cancer immunotherapy. Nat Rev Immunol 22(2):85-96, 2022. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34601571.
- Jacobson CA, Chavez JC, Sehgal AR, William BM, Munoz J, Salles G, Munshi PN, Casulo C, Maloney DG, de Vos S, Reshef R, Leslie LA, Yakoub-Agha I, Oluwole OO, Fung HCH, Rosenblatt J, Rossi JM, Goyal L, Plaks V, Yang Y, Vezan R, Avanzi MP, Neelapu SS. Axicabtagene ciloleucel in relapsed or refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (ZUMA-5): a single-arm, multicentre, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol 23(1):91-103, 2022. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34895487.
- Singh S, Roszik J, Saini N, Singh VK, Bavisi K, Wang Z, Vien LT, Yang Z, Kundu S, Davis RE, Bover L, Diab A, Neelapu SS, Overwijk WW, Rai K, Singh M. B Cells Are Required to Generate Optimal Anti-Melanoma Immunity in Response to Checkpoint Blockade. Front Immunol 13:794684, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35720386.
- Ragoonanan D, Bhar S, Mohan G, Beltramo F, Khazal SJ, Hurley C, Andersen C, Margossian S, Neelapu SS, Shpall E, Gutierrez C, Tewari P, Shoberu B, Talleur A, McCall D, Nunez C, Cuglievan B, Tambaro FP, Petropoulos D, Abdel-Azim H, Mahadeo KM. A multicenter study of ICU resource utilization in pediatric, adolescent and young adult patients post CAR-T therapy. Front Oncol 12:1022901, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36353531.
- Wang XS, Srour SA, Whisenant M, Subbiah IM, Chen TH, Ponce D, Gonzalez AG, Kamal M, Mendoza T, Cleland CS, Kebriaei P, Neelapu SS, Rezvani K, Ahmed S, Shpall E. Patient-Reported Symptom and Functioning Status during the First 12 Months after Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy for Hematologic Malignancies. Transplant Cell Ther 27(11):930.e1-930.e10, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34265479.
- Strati P, Varma A, Adkins S, Nastoupil LJ, Westin J, Hagemeister FB, Fowler NH, Lee HJ, Fayad LE, Samaniego F, Ahmed S, Chen Y, Horowitz S, Arafat S, Johncy S, Kebriaei P, Mulanovich VE, Ariza Heredia E, Neelapu SS. Hematopoietic recovery and immune reconstitution after axicabtagene ciloleucel in patients with large B-cell lymphoma. Haematologica 106(10):2667-2672, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 32732355.
- Neelapu SS, Locke FL, Bartlett NL, Lekakis LJ, Reagan PM, Miklos DB, Jacobson CA, Braunschweig I, Oluwole OO, Siddiqi T, Lin Y, Crump M, Kuruvilla J, Van Den Neste E, Farooq U, Navale L, DePuy V, Kim JJ, Gisselbrecht C. Comparison of 2-year outcomes with CAR T cells (ZUMA-1) versus salvage chemotherapy in refractory large B-cell lymphoma. Blood Adv 5(20):4149-4155, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34478487.
- Whisenant MS, Srour SA, Williams LA, Subbiah I, Griffin D, Ponce D, Kebriaei P, Neelapu SS, Shpall E, Ahmed S, Wang XS. The Unique Symptom Burden of Patients Receiving CAR T-Cell Therapy. Semin Oncol Nurs:151216. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34629213.
- Plaks V, Rossi JM, Chou J, Wang L, Poddar S, Han G, Wang Z, Kuang SQ, Chu F, Davis RE, Vega F, Bashir Z, Jacobson CA, Locke FL, Reagan PM, Rodig SJ, Lekakis LJ, Flinn IW, Miklos DB, Bot A, Neelapu SS. CD19 target evasion as a mechanism of relapse in large B-cell lymphoma treated with axicabtagene ciloleucel. Blood 138(12):1081-1085, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34041526.
- Handley G, Khawaja F, Kondapi DS, Lee HJ, Kaufman GP, Neelapu SS, Fayad LE, Tummala S, Chi L, Strati P, Mulanovich VE. Human Herpesvirus-6 Myelitis after Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy. Int J Infect Dis. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34600133.
- Ragoonanan D, Khazal SJ, Abdel-Azim H, McCall D, Cuglievan B, Tambaro FP, Ahmad AH, Rowan CM, Gutierrez C, Schadler K, Li S, Di Nardo M, Chi L, Gulbis AM, Shoberu B, Mireles ME, McArthur J, Kapoor N, Miller J, Fitzgerald JC, Tewari P, Petropoulos D, Gill JB, Duncan CN, Lehmann LE, Hingorani S, Angelo JR, Swinford RD, Steiner ME, Hernandez Tejada FN, Martin PL, Auletta J, Choi SW, Bajwa R, Dailey Garnes N, Kebriaei P, Rezvani K, Wierda WG, Neelapu SS, Shpall EJ, Corbacioglu S, Mahadeo KM. Diagnosis, grading and management of toxicities from immunotherapies in children, adolescents and young adults with cancer. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 18(7):435-453, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33608690.
- Greenbaum U, Strati P, Saliba RM, Torres J, Rondon G, Nieto Y, Hosing C, Srour SA, Westin J, Fayad LE, Lee HJ, Iyer SP, Nair R, Nastoupil LJ, Parmar S, Rodriguez MA, Samaniego F, Steiner RE, Wang M, Pinnix CC, Flowers CR, Tummala S, Ramdial JL, Yalniz FF, Hawkins M, Rezvani K, Champlin RE, Shpall EJ, Neelapu SS, Kebriaei P, Ahmed S. CRP and ferritin in addition to the EASIX score predict CAR-T-related toxicity. Blood Adv 5(14):2799-2806, 2021. PMID: 34264268.
- Strati P, Ahmed S, Furqan F, Fayad LE, Lee HJ, Iyer SP, Nair R, Nastoupil LJ, Parmar S, Rodriguez MA, Samaniego F, Steiner RE, Wang M, Pinnix CC, Horowitz SB, Feng L, Sun R, Claussen CM, Hawkins MC, Johnson NA, Singh P, Mistry H, Johncy S, Adkins S, Kebriaei P, Shpall EJ, Green MR, Flowers CR, Westin J, Neelapu SS. Prognostic Impact of Corticosteroids on Efficacy of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy in Large B-cell Lymphoma. Blood 137(23):3272-3276, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33534891.
- Mueller-Schoell A, Puebla-Osorio N, Michelet R, Green MR, Künkele A, Huisinga W, Strati P, Chasen B, Neelapu SS, Yee C, Kloft C. Early Survival Prediction Framework in CD19-Specific CAR-T Cell Immunotherapy Using a Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Model. Cancers (Basel) 13(11), 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34205020.
- Nair R, Drillet G, Lhomme F, Le Bras A, Michel L, Rossi J, Sherman M, Xue A, Kerber A, Jittapiromsak N, Chi L, Tummala S, Neelapu SS, Houot R. Acute leucoencephalomyelopathy and quadriparesis after CAR T-cell therapy. Haematologica 106(5):1504-1506, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 32732365.
- Mamlouk O, Nair R, Iyer SP, Edwards A, Neelapu SS, Steiner RE, Adkins SA, Hawkins M, Saini N, Devashish K, Strati P, Mandayam S, Ahmed S. Safety and Efficacy of CAR T-Cell Therapy in Kidney Transplant Recipients. Blood 137(18):2558-2562, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33512386.
- Strati P, Jain P, Johnson RJ, Forbes S, Feng L, Samaniego F, Rodriguez MA, Fayad LE, Hagemeister F, Westin J, Wang M, Neelapu SS, Nastoupil LJ, Fowler NH. Long Term Follow-Up of Lenalidomide and Rituximab as Initial Treatment of Follicular Lymphoma. Blood 137(8):1124-1129, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32932518.
- Deng Q, Han G, Puebla-Osorio N, Ma MCJ, Strati P, Chasen B, Dai E, Dang M, Jain N, Yang H, Wang Y, Zhang S, Wang R, Chen R, Showell J, Ghosh S, Patchva S, Zhang Q, Sun R, Hagemeister F, Fayad L, Samaniego F, Lee HC, Nastoupil LJ, Fowler N, Eric Davis R, Westin J, Neelapu SS, Wang L, Green MR. Characteristics of anti-CD19 CAR T cell infusion products associated with efficacy and toxicity in patients with large B cell lymphomas. Nat Med 26(12):1878-1887, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33020644.
- Maus MV, Alexander S, Bishop MR, Brudno JN, Callahan C, Davila ML, Diamonte C, Dietrich J, Fitzgerald JC, Frigault MJ, Fry TJ, Holter-Chakrabarty JL, Komanduri KV, Lee DW, Locke FL, Maude SL, McCarthy PL, Mead E, Neelapu SS, Neilan TG, Santomasso BD, Shpall EJ, Teachey DT, Turtle CJ, Whitehead T, Grupp SA. Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) clinical practice guideline on immune effector cell-related adverse events. J Immunother Cancer 8(2), 2020. PMID: 33335028.
- Neelapu SS, Adkins S, Ansell SM, Brody J, Cairo MS, Friedberg JW, Kline JP, Levy R, Porter DL, van Besien K, Werner M, Bishop MR. Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) clinical practice guideline on immunotherapy for the treatment of lymphoma. J Immunother Cancer 8(2), 2020. PMID: 33361336.
- Locke FL, Rossi JM, Neelapu SS, Jacobson CA, Miklos DB, Ghobadi A, Oluwole OO, Reagan PM, Lekakis LJ, Lin Y, Sherman M, Better M, Go WY, Wiezorek JS, Xue A, Bot A. Tumor burden, inflammation, and product attributes determine outcomes of axicabtagene ciloleucel in large B-cell lymphoma. Blood Adv 4(19):4898-4911, 2020. PMID: 33035333.
- Nastoupil LJ, Jain MD, Feng L, Spiegel JY, Ghobadi A, Lin Y, Dahiya S, Lunning M, Lekakis L, Reagan P, Oluwole O, McGuirk J, Deol A, Sehgal AR, Goy A, Hill BT, Vu K, Andreadis C, Munoz J, Westin J, Chavez JC, Cashen A, Bennani NN, Rapoport AP, Vose JM, Miklos DB, Neelapu SS, Locke FL. Standard-of-Care Axicabtagene Ciloleucel for Relapsed or Refractory Large B-Cell Lymphoma: Results From the US Lymphoma CAR T Consortium. J Clin Oncol 38(27):JCO1902104, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32401634.
- Gutierrez C, Brown ART, Herr MM, Kadri SS, Hill B, Rajendram P, Duggal A, Turtle CJ, Patel K, Lin Y, May HP, Gallo de Moraes A, Maus MV, Frigault MJ, Brudno JN, Athale J, Shah NN, Kochenderfer JN, Dharshan A, Beitinjaneh A, Arias AS, McEvoy C, Mead E, Stephens RS, Nates JL, Neelapu SS, Pastores SM. The chimeric antigen receptor-intensive care unit (CAR-ICU) initiative: Surveying intensive care unit practices in the management of CAR T-cell associated toxicities. J Crit Care 58:58-64, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32361219.
- Strati P, Nastoupil LJ, Westin J, Fayad LE, Ahmed S, Fowler NH, Hagemeister FB, Lee HJ, Iyer SP, Nair R, Parmar S, Rodriguez MA, Samaniego F, Steiner RE, Wang M, Pinnix CC, Adkins S, Claussen CM, Martinez CS, Hawkins MC, Johnson NA, Singh P, Mistry HE, Horowitz S, George S, Feng L, Kebriaei P, Shpall EJ, Neelapu SS, Tummala S, Chi TL. Clinical and radiologic correlates of neurotoxicity after axicabtagene ciloleucel in large B-cell lymphoma. Blood Adv 4(16):3943-3951, 2020. PMID: 32822484.
- Strati P, Ahmed MA, Fowler NH, Nastoupil LJ, Samaniego F, Fayad LE, Hagemeister FB, Romaguera JE, Rodriguez A, Wang M, Westin JR, Cheah C, Noorani M, Feng L, Davis RE, Neelapu SS. Pre-treatment maximum standardized uptake value predicts outcome after frontline therapy in patients with advanced stage follicular lymphoma. Haematologica 105(7):1907-1913, 2020. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31601688.
- Kohorst MA, Nunez CA, Tewari P, Petropoulos D, Mahadeo KM, Neelapu SS, Shpall EJ, Khazal S. Primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma in paediatric and adolescent patients: emerging questions in the era of immunotherapy. Br J Haematol 190(2):e114-e117, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32469086.
- Pinnix CC, Gunther JR, Dabaja BS, Strati P, Fang P, Hawkins MC, Adkins S, Westin J, Ahmed S, Fayad L, Lee HJ, Nair R, Steiner RE, Iyer SP, Rodriguez MA, Wang M, Flowers C, Neelapu SS, Nastoupil LJ. Bridging therapy prior to axicabtagene ciloleucel for relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma. Blood Adv 4(13):2871-2883, 2020. PMID: 32589728.
- Strati P, Ahmed S, Kebriaei P, Nastoupil LJ, Claussen CM, Watson G, Horowitz SB, Brown ART, Do B, Rodriguez MA, Nair R, Shpall EJ, Green MR, Neelapu SS, Westin JR. Clinical efficacy of anakinra to mitigate CAR T-cell therapy-associated toxicity in large B-cell lymphoma. Blood Adv 4(13):3123-3127, 2020. PMID: 32645136.
- Strati P, Ahmed MA, Nastoupil LJ, Feng L, Hagemeister FB, Fayad LE, Rodriguez MA, Samaniego F, Wang M, Westin JR, Lee HJ, Iyer SP, Parmar S, Ahmed S, Nair R, Steiner RE, Noorani M, Flowers CR, Davis RE, Fowler NH, Neelapu SS. Pretreatment SUVmax may influence the clinical benefit of BR over R-CHOP in patients with previously untreated FL. Leuk Lymphoma 61(6):1-8, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 31971032.
- Neelapu SS, Jacobson CA, Oluwole OO, Munoz J, Deol A, Miklos DB, Bartlett NL, Braunschweig I, Jiang Y, Kim JJ, Zheng L, Rossi JM, Locke FL. Outcomes of older patients in ZUMA-1, a pivotal study of axicabtagene ciloleucel in refractory large B-cell lymphoma. Blood 135(23):2106-2109, 2020. PMID: 32181801.
- Timmerman J, Herbaux C, Ribrag V, Zelenetz AD, Houot R, Neelapu SS, Logan T, Lossos IS, Urba W, Salles G, Ramchandren R, Jacobson C, Godwin J, Carpio C, Lathers D, Liu Y, Neely J, Suryawanshi S, Koguchi Y, Levy R. Urelumab alone or in combination with rituximab in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell lymphoma. Am J Hematol 95(5):510-520, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32052473.
- Locke FL, Go WY, Neelapu SS. Development and Use of the Anti-CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy Axicabtagene Ciloleucel in Large B-Cell Lymphoma: A Review. JAMA Oncol 6(2):1-10, 2020. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31697310.
- Liu E, Marin D, Banerjee P, Macapinlac HA, Thompson P, Basar R, Nassif Kerbauy L, Overman B, Thall P, Kaplan M, Nandivada V, Kaur I, Nunez Cortes A, Cao K, Daher M, Hosing C, Cohen EN, Kebriaei P, Mehta R, Neelapu S, Nieto Y, Wang M, Wierda W, Keating M, Champlin R, Shpall EJ, Rezvani K. Use of CAR-Transduced Natural Killer Cells in CD19-Positive Lymphoid Tumors. N Engl J Med 382(6):545-553, 2020. PMID: 32023374.
- Jain T, Bar M, Kansagra AJ, Chong EA, Hashmi SK, Neelapu SS, Byrne M, Jacoby E, Lazaryan A, Jacobson CA, Ansell SM, Awan FT, Burns L, Bachanova V, Bollard CM, Carpenter PA, DiPersio JF, Hamadani M, Heslop HE, Hill JA, Komanduri KV, Kovitz CA, Lazarus HM, Serrette JM, Mohty M, Miklos D, Nagler A, Pavletic SZ, Savani BN, Schuster SJ, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Perales MA, Lin Y. Use of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy in Clinical Practice for Relapsed/Refractory Aggressive B Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: An Expert Panel Opinion from the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 25(12):2305-2321, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31446199.
- Chu F, Li HS, Liu X, Cao J, Ma W, Ma Y, Weng J, Zhu Z, Cheng X, Wang Z, Liu J, Jiang ZY, Luong AU, Peng W, Wang J, Balakrishnan K, Yee C, Dong C, Davis RE, Watowich SS, Neelapu SS. CXCR5+CD8+ T cells are a distinct functional subset with an antitumor activity. Leukemia 33(11):2640-2653, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31028278.
- Manasanch EE, Han G, Mathur R, Qing Y, Zhang Z, Lee H, Weber DM, Amini B, Berkova Z, Eterovic K, Zhang S, Zhang J, Song X, Mao X, Morgan M, Feng L, Baladandayuthapani V, Futreal A, Wang L, Neelapu SS, Orlowski RZ. A pilot study of pembrolizumab in smoldering myeloma: report of the clinical, immune, and genomic analysis. Blood Adv 3(15):2400-2408, 2019. PMID: 31405950.
- Strati P, Lee ST, Teegavarupu P, Karri A, Anireddy S, Hagemeister FB, Romaguera J, Fayad LE, Rodriguez MA, Samaniego F, Fowler N, Westin J, Wang M, Lee HJ, Pinnix C, Gunther JR, Dabaja B, Feng L, Davis RE, Neelapu SS. Frontline antibiotic therapy for early-stage Helicobacter pylori-negative gastric MALT lymphoma. Am J Hematol 94(6):E150-E153, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30785215.
- Strati P, Nastoupil LJ, Fayad LE, Samaniego F, Adkins S, Neelapu SS. Safety of CAR T-Cell Therapy in Patients with B-Cell Lymphoma and Chronic Hepatitis B or C Virus Infection. Blood 133(26):2800-2802, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31101626.
- Lee DW, Santomasso BD, Locke FL, Ghobadi A, Turtle CJ, Brudno JN, Maus MV, Park JH, Mead E, Pavletic S, Go WY, Eldjerou L, Gardner RA, Frey N, Curran KJ, Peggs K, Pasquini M, DiPersio JF, van den Brink MRM, Komanduri KV, Grupp SA, Neelapu SS. ASTCT Consensus Grading for Cytokine Release Syndrome and Neurologic Toxicity Associated with Immune Effector Cells. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 25(4):625-638, 2019. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30592986.
- Mahadeo KM, Khazal SJ, Abdel-Azim H, Fitzgerald JC, Taraseviciute A, Bollard CM, Tewari P, Duncan C, Traube C, McCall D, Steiner ME, Cheifetz IM, Lehmann LE, Mejia R, Slopis JM, Bajwa R, Kebriaei P, Martin PL, Moffet J, McArthur J, Petropoulos D, O'Hanlon Curry J, Featherston S, Foglesong J, Shoberu B, Gulbis A, Mireles ME, Hafemeister L, Nguyen C, Kapoor N, Rezvani K, Neelapu SS, Shpall EJ, Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. Management guidelines for paediatric patients receiving chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 16(1):45-63, 2019. PMID: 30082906.
- Locke FL, Ghobadi A, Jacobson CA, Miklos DB, Lekakis LJ, Oluwole OO, Lin Y, Braunschweig I, Hill BT, Timmerman JM, Deol A, Reagan PM, Stiff P, Flinn IW, Farooq U, Goy A, McSweeney PA, Munoz J, Siddiqi T, Chavez JC, Herrera AF, Bartlett NL, Wiezorek JS, Navale L, Xue A, Jiang Y, Bot A, Rossi JM, Kim JJ, Go WY, Neelapu SS. Long-term safety and activity of axicabtagene ciloleucel in refractory large B-cell lymphoma (ZUMA-1): a single-arm, multicentre, phase 1-2 trial. Lancet Oncol 20(1):31-42, 2019. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30518502.
- Boyiadzis MM, Dhodapkar MV, Brentjens RJ, Kochenderfer JN, Neelapu SS, Maus MV, Porter DL, Maloney DG, Grupp SA, Mackall CL, June CH, Bishop MR. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T therapies for the treatment of hematologic malignancies: clinical perspective and significance. J Immunother Cancer 6(1):137, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30514386.
- Neelapu SS, Tummala S, Kebriaei P, Wierda W, Gutierrez C, Locke FL, Komanduri KV, Lin Y, Jain N, Daver N, Westin J, Gulbis AM, Loghin ME, de Groot JF, Adkins S, Davis SE, Rezvani K, Hwu P, Shpall EJ. Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy - assessment and management of toxicities. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 15(1):47-62, 2018. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28925994.
- Neelapu SS, Locke FL, Bartlett NL, Lekakis LJ, Miklos DB, Jacobson CA, Braunschweig I, Oluwole OO, Siddiqi T, Lin Y, Timmerman JM, Stiff PJ, Friedberg JW, Flinn IW, Goy A, Hill BT, Smith MR, Deol A, Farooq U, McSweeney P, Munoz J, Avivi I, Castro JE, Westin JR, Chavez JC, Ghobadi A, Komanduri KV, Levy R, Jacobsen ED, Witzig TE, Reagan P, Bot A, Rossi J, Navale L, Jiang Y, Aycock J, Elias M, Chang D, Wiezorek J, Go WY. Axicabtagene Ciloleucel CAR T-Cell Therapy in Refractory Large B-Cell Lymphoma. N Engl J Med 377(26):2531-2544, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29226797.
- Crump M, Neelapu SS, Farooq U, Van Den Neste E, Kuruvilla J, Westin J, Link BK, Hay A, Cerhan JR, Zhu L, Boussetta S, Feng L, Maurer MJ, Navale L, Wiezorek J, Go WY, Gisselbrecht C. Outcomes in refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: results from the international SCHOLAR-1 study. Blood 130(16):1800-1808, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28774879.
- Haymaker C, Yang Y, Wang J, Zou Q, Sahoo A, Alekseev A, Singh D, Ritthipichai K, Hailemichael Y, Hoang ON, Qin H, Schluns KS, Wang T, Overwijk WW, Sun SC, Bernatchez C, Kwak LW, Neelapu SS, Nurieva R. Absence of Grail promotes CD8(+) T cell anti-tumour activity. Nat Commun 8(1):239, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28798332.
- Locke FL, Neelapu SS, Bartlett NL, Siddiqi T, Chavez JC, Hosing CM, Ghobadi A, Budde LE, Bot A, Rossi JM, Jiang Y, Xue AX, Elias M, Aycock J, Wiezorek J, Go WY. Phase 1 Results of ZUMA-1: A Multicenter Study of KTE-C19 Anti-CD19 CAR T Cell Therapy in Refractory Aggressive Lymphoma. Mol Ther 25(1):285-295, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28129122.
- Cheah CY, Chihara D, Ahmed M, Davis RE, Nastoupil LJ, Phansalkar K, Hagemeister FB, Fayad LE, Westin JR, Oki Y, Fanale MA, Romaguera JE, Wang ML, Lee H, Turturro F, Samaniego F, Rodriguez MA, Neelapu SS,* Fowler NH* (*equal contribution). Factors influencing outcome in advanced stage, low-grade follicular lymphoma treated at MD Anderson Cancer Center in the rituximab era. Ann Oncol 27(5):895-901, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26802151.
- Weng J, Baio FE, Moriarty KE, Torikai H, Wang H, Liu Z, Maiti SN, Gwak D, Popescu MS, Cha SC, Cooper LJ, Neelapu SS, Kwak LW. Targeting B-cell malignancies through human B-cell receptor specific CD4 T cells. Oncoimmunology 5(11):e1232220, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27999743.
- Voo KS, Foglietta M, Percivalle E, Chu F, Nattamai D, Harline M, Lee ST, Bover L, Lin HY, Baladandayuthapani V, Delgado D, Luong A, Davis RE, Kwak LW, Liu YJ, Neelapu SS. Selective targeting of Toll-like receptors and OX40 inhibit regulatory T-cell function in follicular lymphoma. Int J Cancer 135(12):2834-46, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24771328.
- Fowler NH, Davis RE, Rawal S, Nastoupil L, Hagemeister FB, McLaughlin P, Kwak LW, Romaguera JE, Fanale MA, Fayad LE, Westin JR, Shah J, Orlowski RZ, Wang M, Turturro F, Oki Y, Claret LC, Feng L, Baladandayuthapani V, Muzzafar T, Tsai KY, Samaniego F, Neelapu SS. Safety and activity of lenalidomide and rituximab in untreated indolent lymphoma: an open-label, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol 15(12):1311-8, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25439689.
- Liu X, Chen X, Zhong B, Wang A, Wang X, Chu F, Nurieva RI, Yan X, Chen P, van der Flier LG, Nakatsukasa H, Neelapu SS, Chen W, Clevers H, Tian Q, Qi H, Wei L, Dong C. Transcription factor achaete-scute homologue 2 initiates follicular T-helper-cell development. Nature 507(7493):513-8, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24463518.
- Westin JR, Chu F, Zhang M, Fayad LE, Kwak LW, Fowler N, Romaguera J, Hagemeister F, Fanale M, Samaniego F, Feng L, Baladandayuthapani V, Wang Z, Ma W, Gao Y, Wallace M, Vence LM, Radvanyi L, Muzzafar T, Rotem-Yehudar R, Davis RE, Neelapu SS. Safety and activity of PD1 blockade by pidilizumab in combination with rituximab in patients with relapsed follicular lymphoma: a single group, open-label, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol 15(1):69-77, 2014. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24332512.
- Rawal S, Chu F, Zhang M, Park HJ, Nattamai D, Kannan S, Sharma R, Delgado D, Chou T, Lin HY, Baladandayuthapani V, Luong A, Vega F, Fowler N, Dong C, Davis RE, Neelapu SS. Cross talk between follicular Th cells and tumor cells in human follicular lymphoma promotes immune evasion in the tumor microenvironment. J Immunol 190(12):6681-93, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23686488.
- Cha SC, Qin H, Kannan S, Rawal S, Watkins LS, Baio FE, Wu W, Ong J, Wei J, Kwak B, Kim S, Popescu MS, Paick DS, Kim K, Luong A, Davis RE, Schroeder HW, Kwak LW, Neelapu SS. Nonstereotyped lymphoma B cell receptors recognize vimentin as a shared autoantigen. J Immunol 190(9):4887-98, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23536634.
- Foglietta M,* Neelapu SS,* (*equal contribution), Kwak LW, Jiang Y, Nattamai D, Lee ST, Fowler DH, Sportes C, Gress RE, Steinberg SM, Vence LM, Radvanyi L, Dwyer KC, Qazilbash MH, Bryant RN, Bishop MR. Neoantigen and tumor antigen-specific immunity transferred from immunized donors is detectable early after allogeneic transplantation in myeloma patients. Bone Marrow Transplant 48(2):269-77, 2013. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22773122.
- Weng J, Rawal S, Chu F, Park HJ, Sharma R, Delgado DA, Fayad L, Fanale M, Romaguera J, Luong A, Kwak LW, Neelapu SS. TCL1: a shared tumor-associated antigen for immunotherapy against B-cell lymphomas. Blood 120(8):1613-23, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22645177.
- Khouri IF, Saliba RM, Erwin WD, Samuels BI, Korbling M, Medeiros LJ, Valverde R, Alousi AM, Anderlini P, Bashir Q, Ciurea S, Gulbis AM, de Lima M, Hosing C, Kebriaei P, Popat UR, Fowler N, Neelapu SS, Samaniego F, Champlin RE, Macapinlac HA. Nonmyeloablative allogeneic transplantation with or without 90yttrium ibritumomab tiuxetan is potentially curative for relapsed follicular lymphoma: 12-year results. Blood 119(26):6373-8, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22586182.
- Westin JR, Gibbs A, Mills KR, Neelapu SS. Hodgkin lymphoma untreated for six years presenting with tracheoesophageal fistula. Case Report Med 2012:457908, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22811723.
- Weng J, Cha SC, Matsueda S, Alatrash G, Popescu MS, Yi Q, Molldrem JJ, Wang M, Neelapu SS, Kwak LW. Targeting human B-cell malignancies through Ig light chain specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Clin Cancer Res 17(18):5945-52, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21813633.
- Chung Y, Tanaka S, Chu F, Nurieva RI, Martinez GJ, Rawal S, Wang YH, Lim H, Reynolds JM, Zhou XH, Fan HM, Liu ZM, Neelapu SS, Dong C. Follicular regulatory T cells expressing Foxp3 and Bcl-6 suppress germinal center reactions. Nat Med 17(8):983-8, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21785430.
- Schuster SJ,* Neelapu SS,* (*equal contribution) Gause BL, Janik JE, Muggia FM, Gockerman JP, Winter JN, Flowers CR, Nikcevich DA, Sotomayor EM, McGaughey DS, Jaffe ES, Chong EA, Reynolds CW, Berry DA, Santos CF, Popa MA, McCord AM, Kwak LW. Vaccination with patient-specific tumor-derived antigen in first remission improves disease-free survival in follicular lymphoma. J Clin Oncol 29(20):2787-94, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21632504.
- Freedman A, Neelapu SS, Nichols C, Robertson MJ, Djulbegovic B, Winter JN, Bender JF, Gold DP, Ghalie RG, Stewart ME, Esquibel V, Hamlin P. Placebo-controlled phase III trial of patient-specific immunotherapy with mitumprotimut-T and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor after rituximab in patients with follicular lymphoma. J Clin Oncol 27(18):3036-43, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19414675.
- Lee ST, Liu S, Radvanyi L, Sukhumalchandra P, Molldrem JJ, Wieder ED, Hwu P, Liu YJ, Kwak LW, Lizée G, Neelapu SS. A novel strategy for rapid and efficient isolation of human tumor-specific CD4(+) and CD8(+) T-cell clones. J Immunol Methods 331(1-2):13-26, 2008. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17959194.
- Neelapu SS, Gause BL, Harvey L, Lee ST, Frye AR, Horton J, Robb RJ, Popescu MC, Kwak LW. A novel proteoliposomal vaccine induces antitumor immunity against follicular lymphoma. Blood 109(12):5160-3, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17339422.
- Popescu MC, Robb RJ, Batenjany MM, Boni LT, Neville ME, Pennington RW, Neelapu SS, Kwak LW. A novel proteoliposomal vaccine elicits potent antitumor immunity in mice. Blood 109(12):5407-10, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17351111.
- O'Mahony D, Morris JC, Quinn C, Gao W, Wilson WH, Gause B, Pittaluga S, Neelapu S, Brown M, Fleisher TA, Gulley JL, Schlom J, Nussenblatt R, Albert P, Davis TA, Lowy I, Petrus M, Waldmann TA, Janik JE. A pilot study of CTLA-4 blockade after cancer vaccine failure in patients with advanced malignancy. Clin Cancer Res 13(3):958-64, 2007. PMID: 17289891.
- Neelapu SS, Kwak LW, Kobrin CB, Reynolds CW, Janik JE, Dunleavy K, White T, Harvey L, Pennington R, Stetler-Stevenson M, Jaffe ES, Steinberg SM, Gress R, Hakim F, Wilson WH. Vaccine-induced tumor-specific immunity despite severe B-cell depletion in mantle cell lymphoma. Nat Med 11(9):986-91, 2005. e-Pub 2005. PMID: 16116429.
- Neelapu SS, Munshi NC, Jagannath S, Watson TM, Pennington R, Reynolds C, Barlogie B, Kwak LW. Tumor antigen immunization of sibling stem cell transplant donors in multiple myeloma. Bone Marrow Transplant 36(4):315-23, 2005. PMID: 15968284.
- Neelapu SS, Baskar S, Gause BL, Kobrin CB, Watson TM, Frye AR, Pennington R, Harvey L, Jaffe ES, Robb RJ, Popescu MC, Kwak LW. Human autologous tumor-specific T-cell responses induced by liposomal delivery of a lymphoma antigen. Clin Cancer Res 10(24):8309-17, 2004. PMID: 15623607.
Invited Articles
- Morris EC, Neelapu SS, Giavridis T, Sadelain M. Cytokine release syndrome and associated neurotoxicity in cancer immunotherapy. Nat Rev Immunol 22(2):85-96, 2022. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34002066.
- Greenbaum U, Kebriaei P, Srour SA, Olson A, Bashir Q, Neelapu SS, Rezvani K, Shpall EJ. Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy Toxicities. Br J Clin Pharmacol 87(6):2414-2424, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32463929.
- Reagan PM, Neelapu SS. How I Manage: Pathophysiology and Management of Toxicity of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapies. J Clin Oncol 39(5):456-466, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33434058.
- Fang PQ, Gunther JR, Wu SY, Dabaja BS, Nastoupil LJ, Ahmed S, Neelapu SS, Pinnix CC. Radiation and CAR T-cell Therapy in Lymphoma: Future Frontiers and Potential Opportunities for Synergy. Front Oncol 11:648655, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33842363.
- Neelapu SS. Managing the toxicities of CAR T-cell therapy. Hematol Oncol 37 Suppl 1:48-52, 2019. PMID: 31187535.
- Strati P, Neelapu SS. Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Engineered T Cell Therapy in Lymphoma. Curr Oncol Rep 21(5):38, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30919158.
- Nair R, Neelapu SS. The promise of CAR T-cell therapy in aggressive B-cell lymphoma. Best Pract Res Clin Haematol 31(3):293-298, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30213399.
- Sathyanarayanan V, Neelapu SS. Cancer immunotherapy: Strategies for personalization and combinatorial approaches. Mol Oncol 9(10):2043-53, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26548534.
- Cheah CY, Fowler NH, Neelapu SS. Targeting the programmed death-1/programmed death-ligand 1 axis in lymphoma. Curr Opin Oncol 27(5):384-91, 2015. PMID: 26248256.
- Nastoupil LJ, Neelapu SS. Novel immunologic approaches in lymphoma: unleashing the brakes on the immune system. Curr Oncol Rep 17(7):30, 2015. PMID: 25986722.
- Chu F, Neelapu SS. Anti-PD-1 antibodies for the treatment of B-cell lymphoma: Importance of PD-1(+) T-cell subsets. Oncoimmunology 3(1):e28101, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24808975.
- Westin JR, Neelapu SS. Therapy of newly diagnosed follicular lymphoma. Front Oncol 2:188, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 23248775.
- Kannan S, Neelapu SS. Vaccination strategies in follicular lymphoma. Curr Hematol Malig Rep 4(4):189-95, 2009. PMID: 20425407.
- Park HJ, Neelapu SS. Developing idiotype vaccines for lymphoma: from preclinical studies to phase III clinical trials. Br J Haematol 142(2):179-91, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 18422783.
- Lee ST, Jiang YF, Park KU, Woo AF, Neelapu SS. BiovaxID: a personalized therapeutic cancer vaccine for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Expert Opin Biol Ther 7(1):113-22, 2007. PMID: 17150023.
- Neelapu SS, Lee ST, Qin H, Cha SC, Woo AF, Kwak LW. Therapeutic lymphoma vaccines: importance of T-cell immunity. Expert Rev Vaccines 5(3):381-94, 2006. PMID: 16827622.
Editorials
- Saini N, Neelapu SS. CAR Treg cells: prime suspects in therapeutic resistance. Nat Med 28(9):1755-1756, 2022. PMID: 36109644.
- Strati P, Neelapu SS. CAR-T failure: beyond antigen loss and T cells. Blood 137(19):2567-2568, 2021. PMID: 33983421.
- Green MR, Neelapu SS. Not so FASt: Tumor cells resisting death drive CAR T-cell dysfunction. Cancer Discov 10(4):492-494, 2020. PMID: 32238396.
- Neelapu SS. A CAR against CAR for unintended consequences. Blood 135(7):460-462, 2020. PMID: 32197269.
- Coscia M, Bruno B, Neelapu S. Editorial: CAR T-Cell Therapies in Hematologic Tumors. Front Oncol 10:588134, 2020. PMID: 33178614.
- Neelapu SS. CAR-T efficacy: is conditioning the key?. Blood 133(17):1799-1800, 2019. PMID: 31023743.
- Neelapu SS, Sharma P. Targeting the tumor niche to treat cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112(42):12907-8, 2015. PMID: 26450879.
- Neelapu SS. Mutations and microenvironment collude in FL. Blood 125(4):587-9, 2015. PMID: 25614636.
- Neelapu SS, Kwak LW. Rush hour traffic: directing T cells to tumor. J Natl Cancer Inst 106(11), 2014. PMID: 25255804.
- Neelapu SS, Kwak LW. Cancer vaccines: up, down, ... up again?. Blood 113(1):1-2, 2009. PMID: 19122114.
Letters to the Editor
- Gribben JG, Palomba ML, Patel AR, Nahas M, Neelapu SS. Need for risk adjustment in comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness studies in r/r follicular lymphoma. Blood Adv.