Publications Print Sigafoos AN, Tolosa EJ, Carr RM, Fernandez-Barrena MG, Almada LL, Pease DR, Hogenson TL, Raja Arul GL, Mousavi F, Sen S, Vera RE, Marks DL, Flores LF, LaRue-Nolan KC, Wu C, Bamlet WR, Vrabel AM, Sicotte H, Schenk EL, Smyrk TC, Zhang L, Rabe KG, Oberg AL, Zaphiropoulos PG, Chevet E, Graham RP, Hagen CE, di Magliano MP, Elsawa SF, Pin CL, Mao J, McWilliams RR, Fernandez-Zapico ME. KRAS Promotes GLI2-Dependent Transcription during Pancreatic Carcinogenesis. Cancer Res Commun. 2024 Jul 1; 4 (7):1677-1689 View PubMed Desai A, Xiao AH, Choi D, Toruner MD, Walden D, Halfdanarson TR, Alberts S, McWilliams RR, Mahipal A, Ahn D, Babiker H, Stybayeva G, Revzin A, Kizilbash S, Adjei A, Bekaii-Saab T, Mansfield AS, Carr RM, Ma WW. Molecular Characterization and Therapeutic Opportunities in KRAS Wildtype Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma. Cancers (Basel). 2024 May 13; 16 (10) View PubMed Gatenby RA, Luddy KA, Teer JK, Berglund A, Freischel AR, Carr RM, Lam AE, Pienta KJ, Amend SR, Austin RH, Hammarlund EU, Cleveland JL, Tsai KY, Brown JS. Lung adenocarcinomas without driver genes converge to common adaptive strategies through diverse genetic, epigenetic, and niche construction evolutionary pathways. Med Oncol. 2024 May 5; 41 (6):135 Epub 2024 May 05 View PubMed Hogenson TL, Xie H, Phillips WJ, Toruner MD, Li JJ, Horn IP, Kennedy DJ, Almada LL, Marks DL, Carr RM, Toruner M, Sigafoos AN, Koenig-Kappes AN, Olson RL, Tolosa EJ, Zhang C, Li H, Doles JD, Bleeker J, Barrett MT, Boyum JH, Kipp BR, Mahipal A, Hubbard JM, Scheffler Hanson TJ, Petersen GM, Dasari S, Oberg AL, Truty MJ, Graham RP, Levy MJ, Zhu M, Billadeau DD, Adjei AA, Dusetti N, Iovanna JL, Bekaii-Saab TS, Ma WW, Fernandez-Zapico ME. Culture media composition influences patient-derived organoid ability to predict therapeutic responses in gastrointestinal cancers. JCI Insight. 2022 Nov 22; 7 (22) View PubMed Raja Arul GL, Toruner MD, Gatenby RA, Carr RM. Ecoevolutionary biology of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Pancreatology. 2022 Sep; 22 (6):730-740 Epub 2022 July 06 View PubMed Binder M, Carr RM, Lasho TL, Finke CM, Mangaonkar AA, Pin CL, Berger KR, Mazzone A, Potluri S, Ordog T, Robertson KD, Marks DL, Fernandez-Zapico ME, Gaspar-Maia A, Patnaik MM. Oncogenic gene expression and epigenetic remodeling of cis-regulatory elements in ASXL1-mutant chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Nat Commun. 2022 Mar 17; 13 (1):1434 View PubMed Ho M, Zanwar S, Duggan P, Carr R, Habermann T, Navin PJ, Salama ME, Parikh SA. Hiding in (not so) plain sight: Spontaneous tumor Lysis syndrome due to intravascular large B cell lymphoma. Am J Hematol. 2022 Jan 01; 97(1):151-159. Epub 2021 Nov 01. View PubMed Carr RM, Vorobyev D, Lasho T, Marks DL, Tolosa EJ, Vedder A, Almada LL, Yurcheko A, Padioleau I, Alver B, Coltro G, Binder M, Safgren SL, Horn I, You X, Solary E, Balasis ME, Berger K, Hiebert J, Witzig T, Buradkar A, Graf T, Valent P, Mangaonkar AA, Robertson KD, Howard MT, Kaufmann SH, Pin C, Fernandez-Zapico ME, Geissler K, Droin N, Padron E, Zhang J, Nikolaev S, Patnaik MM. RAS mutations drive proliferative chronic myelomonocytic leukemia via a KMT2A-PLK1 axis. Nat Commun. 2021 May 18; 12 (1):2901 View PubMed Carr RM, Jin Z, Hubbard J. Research on Anal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Systemic Therapy Strategies for Anal Cancer. Cancers (Basel). 2021 May 1; 13 (9) Epub 2021 May 01 View PubMed Buradkar A, Bezerra E, Coltro G, Lasho TL, Finke CM, Gangat N, Carr RM, Binder M, Mangaonkar AA, Ketterling R, Khan S, Rodriguez V, Tefferi A, Patnaik MM. Landscape of RAS pathway mutations in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome/myeloproliferative neoplasm overlap syndromes: a study of 461 molecularly annotated patients. Leukemia. 2021 Feb; 35 (2):644-649 Epub 2020 June 08 View PubMed Abeykoon JP, Wu X, Nowakowski KE, Dasari S, Paludo J, Weroha SJ, Hu C, Hou X, Sarkaria JN, Mladek AC, Phillips JL, Feldman AL, Ravindran A, King RL, Boysen J, Stenson MJ, Carr RM, Manske MK, Molina JR, Kapoor P, Parikh SA, Kumar S, Robinson SI, Yu J, Boughey JC, Wang L, Goetz MP, Couch FJ, Patnaik MM, Witzig TE. Salicylates enhance CRM1 inhibitor antitumor activity by induction of S-phase arrest and impairment of DNA-damage repair. Blood. 2021 Jan 28; 137 (4):513-523 View PubMed Wudhikarn K, Loghavi S, Mangaonkar AA, Al-Kali A, Binder M, Carr R, Reichard K, Finke C, Howard M, Gangat N, Tefferi A, Komrokji R, Ali N, Lasho T, Ketterling R, Padron E, Patnaik MM. SF3B1-mutant CMML defines a predominantly dysplastic CMML subtype with a superior acute leukemia-free survival. Blood Adv 2020 Nov 24; 4 (22):5716-5721 View PubMed Montagnani V, Maresca L, Apollo A, Pepe S, Carr RM, Fernandez-Zapico ME, Stecca B. E3 ubiquitin ligase PARK2, an inhibitor of melanoma cell growth, is repressed by the oncogenic ERK1/2-ELK1 transcriptional axis. J Biol Chem. 2020 Nov 20; 295 (47):16058-16071 Epub 2020 Sept 16 View PubMed Pietrobono S, Anichini G, Sala C, Manetti F, Almada LL, Pepe S, Carr RM, Paradise BD, Sarkaria JN, Davila JI, Tofani L, Battisti I, Arrigoni G, Ying L, Zhang C, Li H, Meves A, Fernandez-Zapico ME, Stecca B. ST3GAL1 is a target of the SOX2-GLI1 transcriptional complex and promotes melanoma metastasis through AXL. Nat Commun. 2020 Nov 17; 11 (1):5865 View PubMed Mangaonkar AA, Reichard KK, Binder M, Coltro G, Lasho TL, Carr RM, Chiu A, Negron V, Hefazi M, Anagnostou T, Timm MM, Hiebert JW, Villasboas JC, Gonsalves WI, Gangat N, Shah M, Alkhateeb HB, Al-Kali A, Elliott MA, Begna KH, Wolanskyj-Spinner AP, Litzow MR, Hogan WJ, Ansell SM, Pardanani A, Tefferi A, Patnaik MM. Bone marrow dendritic cell aggregates associate with systemic immune dysregulation in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Blood Adv. 2020 Nov 10; 4(21):5425-5430. View PubMed Abeykoon J, Wu X, Nowakowski KE, Dasari S, Paludo J, Weroha SJ, Hu C, Hou X, Sarkaria JN, Mladek AC, Phillips JL, Feldman A, Ravindran A, King RL, Boysen JC, Stenson M, Carr RM, Manske MK, Molina JR, Kapoor P, Parikh SA, Kumar SK, Robinson SI, Yu J, Boughey JC, Wang L, Goetz MP, Couch FJ, Patnaik MM, Witzig TE. CRM1 inhibitor anti-tumor activity is enhanced with salicylates by S-phase arrest and impaired DNA-damage repair. Blood. 2020 Nov 2 Epub 2020 Nov 02 View PubMed Tolosa EJ, Fernandez-Barrena MG, Iguchi E, McCleary-Wheeler AL, Carr RM, Almada LL, Flores LF, Vera RE, Alfonse GW, Marks DL, Hogenson TL, Vrabel AM, Horn IP, Koenig AN, Safgren SL, Sigafoos AN, Erkan M, Romecin-Duran PA, Sarabia Gonzalez A, Zhou B, Javelaud D, Marsaud V, Graham RP, Mauviel A, Elsawa SF, Fernandez-Zapico ME. GLI1/GLI2 functional interplay is required to control Hedgehog/GLI targets gene expression. Biochem J. 2020 Sep 18; 477 (17):3131-3145 View PubMed DiFilippo EC, Coltro G, Carr RM, Mangaonkar AA, Binder M, Khan SP, Rodriguez V, Gangat N, Wolanskyj A, Pruthi RK, Chen D, He R, Viswanatha DS, Lasho T, Finke C, Tefferi A, Pardanani A, Patnaik MM. Spectrum of abnormalities and clonal transformation in germline RUNX1 familial platelet disorder and a genomic comparative analysis with somatic RUNX1 mutations in MDS/MPN overlap neoplasms. Leukemia 2020 Sep; 34 (9):2519-2524 Epub 2020 Feb 14 View PubMed Carr RM, Duma N, McCleary-Wheeler AL, Almada LL, Marks DL, Graham RP, Smyrk TC, Lowe V, Borad MJ, Kim G, Johnson GB, Allred JB, Yin J, Lim VS, Bekaii-Saab T, Ma WW, Erlichman C, Adjei AA, Fernandez-Zapico ME. Targeting of the Hedgehog/GLI and mTOR pathways in advanced pancreatic cancer, a phase 1 trial of Vismodegib and Sirolimus combination. Pancreatology. 2020 Sep; 20 (6):1115-1122 Epub 2020 July 14 View PubMed Coltro G, Mangaonkar AA, Lasho TL, Finke CM, Pophali P, Carr R, Gangat N, Binder M, Pardanani A, Fernandez-Zapico M, Robertson KD, Bosi A, Droin N, Vannucchi AM, Tefferi A, Hunter A, Padron E, Solary E, Patnaik MM. Clinical, molecular, and prognostic correlates of number, type, and functional localization of TET2 mutations in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)-a study of 1084 patients. Leukemia. 2020 May; 34 (5):1407-1421 Epub 2019 Dec 13 View PubMed Carr RM, Romecin Duran PA, Tolosa EJ, Ma C, Oseini AM, Moser CD, Banini BA, Huang J, Asumda F, Dhanasekaran R, Graham RP, Toruner MD, Safgren SL, Almada LL, Wang S, Patnaik MM, Roberts LR, Fernandez-Zapico ME. The extracellular sulfatase SULF2 promotes liver tumorigenesis by stimulating assembly of a promoter-looping GLI1-STAT3 transcriptional complex. J Biol Chem. 2020 Feb 28; 295 (9):2698-2712 Epub 2020 Jan 27 View PubMed Mangaonkar AA, Swoboda DM, Coltro G, Lasho TL, Novotny PJ, Pophali P, Carr RM, Binder M, Finke CM, Gangat N, Al-Kali A, Begna KH, Reichard KK, Ketterling RP, Al Ali NH, Vafaii P, Zhang L, Padron E, Talati C, Patnaik MM. Clinicopathologic characteristics, prognostication and treatment outcomes for myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm, unclassifiable (MDS/MPN-U): Mayo Clinic-Moffitt Cancer Center study of 135 consecutive patients. Leukemia 2020 Feb; 34 (2):656-661 Epub 2019 Sept 11 View PubMed Carr RM, Patnaik MM. Genetic and epigenetic factors interacting with clonal hematopoiesis resulting in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Curr Opin Hematol. 2020 Jan; 27 (1):2-10 View PubMed McCleary-Wheeler AL, Carr RM, Palmer SR, Smyrk TC, Allred JB, Almada LL, Tolosa EJ, Lamberti MJ, Marks DL, Borad MJ, Molina JR, Qi Y, Lingle WL, Grothey A, Pitot HC, Jatoi A, Northfelt DW, Bryce AH, McWilliams RR, Okuno SH, Haluska P, Kim GP, Colon-Otero G, Lowe VJ, Callstrom MR, Ma WW, Bekaii-Saab T, Hung MC, Erlichman C, Fernandez-Zapico ME. Phase 1 trial of Vismodegib and Erlotinib combination in metastatic pancreatic cancer. Pancreatology. 2020 Jan; 20 (1):101-109 Epub 2019 Nov 21 View PubMed Haddox CL, Carr RM, Abraham RS, Perez Botero J, Rodriguez V, Pardanani A, Patnaik MM. Phenotypic heterogeneity associated with germline GATA2 haploinsufficiency: a comprehensive kindred study. Leuk Lymphoma 2019 Dec; 60 (13):3282-3286 Epub 2019 June 27 View PubMed Carr RM, Fernandez-Zapico ME. Toward personalized TGFbeta inhibition for pancreatic cancer. EMBO Mol Med 2019 Nov 7; 11 (11):e11414 Epub 2019 Oct 22 View PubMed Coston T, Pophali P, Vallapureddy R, Lasho TL, Finke CM, Ketterling RP, Carr R, Binder M, Mangaonkar AA, Gangat N, Al-Kali A, Litzow M, Zblewski D, Pardanani A, Tefferi A, Patnaik MM. Suboptimal response rates to hypomethylating agent therapy in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia; a single institutional study of 121 patients. Am J Hematol. 2019 Jul; 94 (7):767-779 Epub 2019 May 03 View PubMed Carr RM, Enriquez-Hesles E, Olson RL, Jatoi A, Doles J, Fernandez-Zapico ME. Epigenetics of cancer-associated muscle catabolism. Epigenomics 2017 Oct; 9 (10):1259-1265 Epub 2017 Sept 25 View PubMed Egan JB, Marks DL, Hogenson TL, Vrabel AM, Sigafoos AN, Tolosa EJ, Carr RM, Safgren SL, Hesles EE, Almada LL, Romecin-Duran PA, Iguchi E, Ala'Aldeen A, Kocher JA, Oliver GR, Prodduturi N, Mead DW, Hossain A, Huneke NE, Tagtow CM, Ailawadhi S, Ansell SM, Banck MS, Bryce AH, Carballido EM, Chanan-Khan AA, Curtis KK, Resnik E, Gawryletz CD, Go RS, Halfdanarson TR, Ho TH, Joseph RW, Kapoor P, Mansfield AS, Meurice N, Nageswara Rao AA, Nowakowski GS, Pardanani A, Parikh SA, Cheville JC, Feldman AL, Ramanathan RK, Robinson SI, Tibes R, Finnes HD, McCormick JB, McWilliams RR, Jatoi A, Patnaik MM, Silva AC, Wieben ED, McAllister TM, Rumilla KM, Kerr SE, Lazaridis KN, Farrugia G, Stewart AK, Clark KJ, Kennedy EJ, Klee EW, Borad MJ, Fernandez-Zapico ME. Molecular Modeling and Functional Analysis of Exome Sequencing-Derived Variants of Unknown Significance Identify a Novel, Constitutively Active FGFR2 Mutant in Cholangiocarcinoma. JCO Precis Oncol. 2017; 2017 Epub 2017 Aug 01 View PubMed Kozub MM, Carr RM, Lomberk GL, Fernandez-Zapico ME. LSD1, a double-edged sword, confers dynamic chromatin regulation but commonly promotes aberrant cell growth. F1000Res. 2017; 6:2016 Epub 2017 Nov 16 View PubMed Maker AV, Carr R. Techniques to perform a laparoscopic right adrenalectomy for metastases abutting the liver, renal vein, and posterior vena cava. Surg Endosc. 2016 Mar; 30 (3):1226 Epub 2015 July 03 View PubMed Carr RM, Qiao G, Qin J, Jayaraman S, Prabhakar BS, Maker AV. Targeting the metabolic pathway of human colon cancer overcomes resistance to TRAIL-induced apoptosis. Cell Death Discov. 2016; 2:16067 Epub 2016 Sept 12 View PubMed Li LC, Wang Y, Carr R, Haddad CS, Li Z, Qian L, Oberholzer J, Maker AV, Wang Q, Prabhakar BS. IG20/MADD plays a critical role in glucose-induced insulin secretion. Diabetes. 2014 May; 63 (5):1612-23 Epub 2013 Dec 30 View PubMed Li P, Jayarama S, Ganesh L, Mordi D, Carr R, Kanteti P, Hay N, Prabhakar BS. Akt-phosphorylated mitogen-activated kinase-activating death domain protein (MADD) inhibits TRAIL-induced apoptosis by blocking Fas-associated death domain (FADD) association with death receptor 4. J Biol Chem. 2010 Jul 16; 285 (29):22713-22 Epub 2010 May 18 View PubMed PST-20538756 Home Publications