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Alvaro Quintanal-Villalonga

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Verified email at mskcc.org
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Lineage plasticity in cancer: a shared pathway of therapeutic resistance

Á Quintanal-Villalonga, JM Chan, HA Yu… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Lineage plasticity, the ability of cells to transition from one committed developmental pathway
to another, has been proposed as a source of intratumoural heterogeneity and of tumour …

[PDF][PDF] Signatures of plasticity, metastasis, and immunosuppression in an atlas of human small cell lung cancer

JM Chan, A Quintanal-Villalonga, VR Gao, Y Xie… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive malignancy that includes subtypes defined
by differential expression of ASCL1, NEUROD1, and POU2F3 (SCLC-A, -N, and -P, …

[HTML][HTML] Concurrent RB1 and TP53 alterations define a subset of EGFR-mutant lung cancers at risk for histologic transformation and inferior clinical outcomes

…, Y Daneshbod, A Quintanal-Villalonga… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction EGFR-mutant lung cancers are clinically and genomically heterogeneous with
concurrent RB transcriptional corepressor 1 (RB1)/tumor protein p53 (TP53) alterations …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting lysine-specific demethylase 1 rescues major histocompatibility complex class I antigen presentation and overcomes programmed death-ligand 1 …

…, M Liu, SF Cai, R Levine, Á Quintanal-Villalonga… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction SCLC is a highly aggressive neuroendocrine tumor that is characterized by early
acquired therapeutic resistance and modest benefit from immune checkpoint blockade (ICB…

[PDF][PDF] Concurrent mutations in STK11 and KEAP1 promote ferroptosis protection and SCD1 dependence in lung cancer

…, F Uddin, CH Hulton, À Quintanal-Villalonga… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Concurrent loss-of-function mutations in STK11 and KEAP1 in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD)
are associated with aggressive tumor growth, resistance to available therapies, and early …

Neuroendocrine neoplasms of the lung and gastrointestinal system: convergent biology and a path to better therapies

…, N Rekhtman, Á Quintanal-Villalonga… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) can develop in almost any organ and span a spectrum
from well-differentiated and indolent neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) to poorly differentiated …

Lineage tracing reveals clonal progenitors and long-term persistence of tumor-specific T cells during immune checkpoint blockade

…, EM Nguyen, FZ Uddin, A Quintanal-Villalonga… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Paired single-cell RNA and T cell receptor sequencing (scRNA/TCR-seq) has allowed for
enhanced resolution of clonal T cell dynamics in cancer. Here, we report a scRNA/TCR-seq …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved transcriptional connectivity of regulatory T cells in the tumor microenvironment informs new combination cancer therapy strategies

…, T Xu, L Mazutis, G Rizzuto, A Quintanal-Villalonga… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
While regulatory T (T reg ) cells are traditionally viewed as professional suppressors of antigen
presenting cells and effector T cells in both autoimmunity and cancer, recent findings of …

The ectonucleotidase CD39 identifies tumor-reactive CD8+ T cells predictive of immune checkpoint blockade efficacy in human lung cancer

…, Y Lavin, H Rizvi, SE Tischfield, A Quintanal-Villalonga… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Improved identification of anti-tumor T cells is needed to advance cancer immunotherapies.
CD39 expression is a promising surrogate of tumor-reactive CD8 + T cells. Here, we …

Epigenetics of lung cancer: a translational perspective

Á Quintanal-Villalonga, S Molina-Pinelo - Cellular Oncology, 2019 - Springer
Background Lung cancer remains the most common cause of cancer-related death, with a 5-year
survival rate of only 18%. In recent years, the development of targeted …