Neoantigen vaccine generates intratumoral T cell responses in phase Ib glioblastoma trial

…, S Charbonneau, K Pelton, JB Iorgulescu, L Elagina… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Neoantigens, which are derived from tumour-specific protein-coding mutations, are exempt
from central tolerance, can generate robust immune responses 1 , 2 and can function as …

Liquid versus tissue biopsy for detecting acquired resistance and tumor heterogeneity in gastrointestinal cancers

AR Parikh, I Leshchiner, L Elagina, L Goyal… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
During cancer therapy, tumor heterogeneity can drive the evolution of multiple tumor
subclones harboring unique resistance mechanisms in an individual patient 1 , 2 – 3 . Previous …

Personal neoantigen vaccines induce persistent memory T cell responses and epitope spreading in patients with melanoma

…, S Sarkizova, SH Gohil, RA Redd, J Sun, L Elagina… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Personal neoantigen vaccines have been envisioned as an effective approach to induce,
amplify and diversify antitumor T cell responses. To define the long-term effects of such a …

TAS-120 overcomes resistance to ATP-competitive FGFR inhibitors in patients with FGFR2 fusion–positive intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

…, JK Lennerz, S Raghavan, I Leschiner, L Elagina… - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
ATP-competitive FGFR inhibitors (BGJ398, Debio 1347) show efficacy in FGFR2 -altered
ICC; however, acquired FGFR2 kinase domain mutations cause drug resistance and tumor …

Evolutionary history of transformation from chronic lymphocytic leukemia to Richter syndrome

…, D Livitz, C Schneider, N Ruthen, L Elagina… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Richter syndrome (RS) arising from chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) exemplifies an
aggressive malignancy that develops from an indolent neoplasm. To decipher the genetics …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic profiling of smoldering multiple myeloma identifies patients at a high risk of disease progression

…, SJ Chavda, C Boehner, L Elagina… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PURPOSE Smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) is a precursor condition of multiple myeloma
(MM) with a 10% annual risk of progression. Various prognostic models exist for risk …

Comprehensive analysis of tumour initiation, spatial and temporal progression under multiple lines of treatment

…, A Martinez, E Mroz, JJ Lin, C Stewart, J Kim, L Elagina… - biorxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Driver mutations alter cells from normal to cancer through several evolutionary epochs:
premalignancy, early malignancy, subclonal diversification, metastasis and resistance to therapy. …

[PDF][PDF] Combined tumor and immune signals from genomes or transcriptomes predict outcomes of checkpoint inhibition in melanoma

…, DT Frederick, T Sharova, I Leshchiner, L Elagina… - Cell Reports …, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (CPB) improves melanoma outcomes, but many patients still
do not respond. Tumor mutational burden (TMB) and tumor-infiltrating T cells are associated …

Distinct evolutionary paths in chronic lymphocytic leukemia during resistance to the graft-versus-leukemia effect

…, N Barkas, S Freeman, N Bavli, L Elagina… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Leukemic relapse remains a major barrier to successful allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell
transplantation (allo-HSCT) for aggressive hematologic malignancies. The basis for relapse …

Differentially private rank aggregation

M Hay, L Elagina, G Miklau - Proceedings of the 2017 SIAM International …, 2017 - SIAM
Given a collection of rankings of a set of items, rank aggregation seeks to compute a ranking
that can serve as a single best representative of the collection. Rank aggregation is a well-…