- University of Pittsburgh, PhD, 2024
- Illinois Institute of Technology, BS, 2013
Education & Training
Davar D, Morrison RM, Dzutsev AK, Karunamurthy A, Chauvin JM, Amatore F, Deutsch JS, Das Neves RX, Rodrigues RR, McCulloch JA, Wang H, Hartman DJ, Badger JH, Fernandes MR, Bai Y, Sun J, Cole AM, Aggarwal P, Fang JR, Deitrick C, Bao R, Duvvuri U, Sridharan SS, Kim SW, A Choudry H, Holtzman MP, Pingpank JF, O'Toole JP, DeBlasio R, Jin Y, Ding Q, Gao W, Groetsch C, Pagliano O, Rose A, Urban C, Singh J, Divarkar P, Mauro D, Bobilev D, Wooldridge J, Krieg AM, Fury MG, Whiteaker JR, Zhao L, Paulovich AG, Najjar YG, Luke JJ, Kirkwood JM, Taube JM, Park HJ, Trinchieri G, Zarour HM. Neoadjuvant vidutolimod and nivolumab in high-risk resectable melanoma: A prospective phase II trial. Cancer Cell. 2024 Nov 11;42(11):1898-1918.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2024.10.007. Epub 2024 Oct 31. PMID: 39486411; PMCID: PMC11560503.
Bai Y, Qin Y, Fan Z, Morrison RM, Nam K, Zarour HM, Koldamova R, Padiath QS, Kim S, Park HJ. scMAPA: Identification of cell-type-specific alternative polyadenylation in complex tissues. Gigascience. 2022 Apr 30;11:giac033. doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giac033. PMID: 35488860; PMCID: PMC9055853.
Pagliano O, Morrison RM, Chauvin JM, Banerjee H, Davar D, Ding Q, Tanegashima T, Gao W, Chakka SR, DeBlasio R, Lowin A, Kara K, Ka M, Zidi B, Amin R, Raphael I, Zhang S, Watkins SC, Sander C, Kirkwood JM, Bosenberg M, Anderson AC, Kuchroo VK, Kane LP, Korman AJ, Rajpal A, West SM, Han M, Bee C, Deng X, Schebye XM, Strop P, Zarour HM. Tim-3 mediates T cell trogocytosis to limit antitumor immunity. J Clin Invest. 2022 May 2;132(9):e152864. doi: 10.1172/JCI152864. PMID: 35316223; PMCID: PMC9057587.
McCulloch JA, Davar D, Rodrigues RR, Badger JH, Fang JR, Cole AM, Balaji AK, Vetizou M, Prescott SM, Fernandes MR, Costa RGF, Yuan W, Salcedo R, Bahadiroglu E, Roy S, DeBlasio RN, Morrison RM, Chauvin JM, Ding Q, Zidi B, Lowin A, Chakka S, Gao W, Pagliano O, Ernst SJ, Rose A, Newman NK, Morgun A, Zarour HM, Trinchieri G, Dzutsev AK. Intestinal microbiota signatures of clinical response and immune-related adverse events in melanoma patients treated with anti-PD-1. Nat Med. 2022 Mar;28(3):545-556. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-01698-2. Epub 2022 Feb 28. PMID: 35228752; PMCID: PMC10246505.
Uncovering the mechanism of neoadjuvant Vidutolimod and Nivolumab for the treatment of melanoma using multi-omics