Whitney E. Lewis

ORCID: 0000-0003-3839-8993
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Research Areas
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • Lung Cancer Research Studies
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances
  • Ear and Head Tumors
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis
  • Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Tumors and Oncological Cases
  • Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Brain Metastases and Treatment
  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2019-2025

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
2024

Argos Therapeutics (United States)
2016-2017

Durham University
2013

University Hospital of Wales
2012

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive malignancy composed of distinct transcriptional subtypes, but implementing subtyping in the clinic has remained challenging, particularly due to limited tissue availability. Given known epigenetic regulation critical SCLC programs, we hypothesized that subtype-specific patterns DNA methylation could be detected tumor or blood from patients. Using genomic-wide reduced-representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS) two cohorts totaling 179 patients...

10.1016/j.ccell.2024.01.001 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Cancer Cell 2024-01-25
Ferdinandos Skoulidis Haniel A. Araújo Minh Truong Yu Qian Xin Sun and 95 more Ana Galan Cobo John T. Le Meagan Montesion Rachael Palmer Nadine S. Jahchan Joseph Juan Chengyin Min Yi Yu Xuewen Pan Kathryn C. Arbour Natalie I. Vokes Stephanie Schmidt David Molkentine Dwight H. Owen Regan Memmott Pradnya D. Patil Melina E. Marmarelis Mark M. Awad Joseph C. Murray Jessica A. Hellyer Justin F. Gainor Anastasios Dimou Christine M. Bestvina Catherine A. Shu Jonathan W. Riess Collin M. Blakely Chad V. Pecot Laura Mezquita Fabrizio Tabbò Matthias Scheffler Subba R. Digumarthy Meghan J. Mooradian Adrian G. Sacher Sally C. M. Lau Andreas Saltos Julia Rotow Rocio Perez Johnson Corinne Liu Tyler F. Stewart Sarah B. Goldberg Jonathan Killam Zenta Walther Kurt A. Schalper Kurtis D. Davies Mark G. Woodcock Valsamo Anagnostou Kristen A. Marrone Patrick M. Forde Biagio Ricciuti Deepti Venkatraman Eliezer M. Van Allen Amy L. Cummings Jonathan W. Goldman Hiram Shaish Melanie Wain Kier Sharyn I. Katz Charu C. Aggarwal Ying Ni Joseph T. Azok Jeremy Segal Lauren L. Ritterhouse Joel W. Neal Ludovic Lacroix Yasir Y. Elamin Marcelo V. Negrão Xiuning Le Vincent K. Lam Whitney E. Lewis Haley N. Kemp Brett Carter Jack A. Roth Stephen G. Swisher Richard Lee Teng Zhou Alissa Poteete Yifan Kong Tomohiro Takehara Alvaro Guimaraes Paula Edwin R. Parra Carmen Behrens Ignacio I. Wistuba Jianjun Zhang George R. Blumenschein Carl M. Gay Lauren A. Byers Don L. Gibbons Anne S. Tsao J. Jack Lee Trever G. Bivona D. Ross Camidge Jhannelle E Gray Natasha Lieghl Benjamin Levy Julie R. Brahmer Marina Chiara Garassino

For patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), dual immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) CTLA4 inhibitors and PD-1 or PD-L1 (hereafter, PD-(L)1 inhibitors) is associated higher rates of anti-tumour activity immune-related toxicities, when compared treatment alone. However, there are currently no validated biomarkers to identify which will benefit from ICB1,2. Here we show that NSCLC who have mutations in the STK11 and/or KEAP1 tumour suppressor genes derived clinical ICB...

10.1038/s41586-024-07943-7 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Nature 2024-10-09

Abstract Purpose: Radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy is a mainstay of treatment for locally advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but no predictive markers are currently available to select patients who will benefit from these therapies. In this study, we investigated the association between alterations in STK11/LKB1, second most common tumor suppressor NSCLC, and response radiotherapy as well potential therapeutic approaches improve outcomes. Experimental Design: We conducted...

10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-20-2859 article EN Clinical Cancer Research 2020-12-15

AGS-004 consists of matured autologous dendritic cells co-electroporated with in vitro transcribed RNA encoding HIV antigens. In an open-label, single arm sub-study AGS-004-003, was administered monthly to suppressed participants who started antiretroviral therapy (ART) during acute infection. HIV-1 specific T cell responses were measured by multicolor flow cytometry after 3-4 doses. The frequency resting CD4+ T-cell infection (RCI) quantitative viral outgrowth assay. Participants...

10.1089/aid.2017.0071 article EN AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses 2017-06-21

Abstract Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) remains the deadliest histologic subtype with a median survival of only ∼12 months among patients extensive stage (ES) disease. SCLC is strongly associated heavy tobacco use, yet effect use on therapeutic outcomes understudied. Recent data from our group showed that inflammatory gene signatures (SCLC-I) responds better to immunotherapy (IO) than other subtypes. Given association between smoking and inflammation, we hypothesized may correlate IO...

10.1158/1538-7445.am2025-3279 article EN Cancer Research 2025-04-21

Amivantamab-vmjw (amivantamab) is a bispecific EGFR/MET antibody approved for patients with advanced NSCLC EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations, after prior therapy. Nevertheless, the benefits and safety of amivantamab in other EGFR-mutant lung cancer, or without osimertinib, concurrent radiation therapy, are less known. We queried MD Anderson Lung Cancer GEMINI, Fred Hutchinson Research Center, University California Davis Comprehensive Stanford Center's database treated amivantamab, not on...

10.1016/j.jtho.2023.11.020 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2023-11-25

IntroductionThe efficacy of targeted therapies in oncogene-driven lung adenocarcinomas (LUADs) has been well established; however, the benefit for EGFR-mutant or ALK-rearranged squamous cell carcinomas (LUSCs) is less known, partially owing to rarity incidence.MethodsWe reviewed database MD Anderson Cancer Center and identified metastatic LUSC with classic EGFR ALK alterations.ResultsThere were eight patients (median age = 58 y) six EML4-ALK 50 who received tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs)...

10.1016/j.jtocrr.2021.100237 article EN cc-by-nc-nd JTO Clinical and Research Reports 2021-10-12

Background: The benefit of chemotherapy combined with immunotherapy in EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) patients whose tumor developed resistance to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) is not thoroughly investigated. goal this retrospective cohort study assess the clinical efficiency alone or combination a real-world setting. Methods: This enrolled LUAD sensitive mutations had acquired TKIs and received systemic treatment (chemo; n = 84), (chemoIO; 30), plus bevacizumab without IO...

10.3390/cancers14143473 article EN Cancers 2022-07-17

Background Salivary duct carcinoma (SDC) and adenocarcinoma, not otherwise specified (adeno‐NOS), are rare salivary gland cancers. Data on the efficacy of systemic therapy for these diseases limited. Methods were retrospectively collected from patients seen at The University Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center during 1990 to 2020. Objective response rate (ORR) was assessed per RECIST v1.1. Recurrence‐free survival (RFS), progression‐free (PFS), overall (OS) by Kaplan‐Meier method. Cox regression...

10.1002/cncr.33968 article EN Cancer 2021-10-18

Dendritic cells (DCs) transfected with total amplified tumor cell RNA have the potential to induce broad antitumor immune responses. However, analytical methods required for quantitatively assessing integrity, fidelity, and functionality of are lacking. We developed a series assays including gel electrophoresis, northern blot, capping efficiency, microarray analysis determine integrity fidelity model system assess after transfection into human DCs. employed these tools demonstrate that...

10.1038/mtna.2013.18 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids 2013-01-01

Abstract Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) remains the deadliest histologic subtype with a median survival of only 12.3 months among trial-eligible patients extensive-stage (ES-SCLC) disease, as demonstrated in IMPower133 trial. Heavy tobacco use, >40 pack-years, is strongly associated developing SCLC, which near universally harbors RB1 and TP53 co-mutations. However, there paucity information regarding SCLC tumors that occur minimal use. This represents an unmet need given increasing...

10.1158/1538-7445.am2024-5061 article EN Cancer Research 2024-03-22

Many targeted therapies to treat genetic mutations in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have been developed. Amivantamab (Rybrevant), a bispecific antibody targeting the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor, was approved by US Food Drug Administration 2021 for treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC

10.6004/jadpro.2024.15.4.2 article EN Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology 2024-05-01

Introduction: Targeted therapy and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have drastically improved outcomes of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients in outpatient settings. Because trials on critically ill are improbable, little is known about their efficacy among admitted to intensive care units (ICU). Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the clinical critically-ill NSCLC receiving either ICI or targeted during ICU admission at MD Anderson Cancer Center from April 2016 August...

10.1177/08850666211061312 article EN Journal of Intensive Care Medicine 2021-11-17

Meeting abstracts AGS-003 is an autologous dendritic cell immunotherapy consisting of matured DC co-electroporated with amplified tumor RNA and synthetic CD40L RNA. A Phase 2 trial evaluated AGS-003-induced T immunity in RCC patients combination sunitinib. comprehensive

10.1186/2051-1426-1-s1-p207 article EN cc-by Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2013-11-01
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