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Jeffrey Tosoian, MD, MPH

  • Assistant Professor of Urology

Jeffrey Tosoian, MD, MPH

  • Assistant Professor of Urology

jeff.tosoian@vumc.org

Research Program

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Robert Ramirez, DO

  • Associate Professor of Medicine

Robert Ramirez, DO

  • Associate Professor of Medicine

robert.ramirez@vumc.org

Research Program

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Steven Townsend, PhD

  • Associate Professor of Chemistry

Steven Townsend, PhD

  • Associate Professor of Chemistry

615-322-8171

steven.d.townsend@vanderbilt.edu

Research Program

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This is an umbrella study evaluating the efficacy and safety of multiple treatment combinations in participants with metastatic or inoperable locally advanced breast cancer. The study will be performed in two stages. During Stage 1, four cohorts will be enrolled in parallel in this study: Cohort 1 will consist of Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1)-positive participants who have received no prior systemic therapy for metastatic or inoperable locally advanced triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) (first-line [1L] PD-L1+ cohort). Cohort 2 will consist of participants who had disease progression during or following 1L treatment with chemotherapy for metastatic or inoperable locally-advanced TNBC and have not received cancer immunotherapy (CIT) (second-line [2L] CIT-naive cohort). Cohort 3 will consist of participants with locally-advanced or metastatic HR+, HER2-negative disease with PIK3CA mutation who may or may not have had disease progression during or following previous lines of treatment for metastatic disease (HR+cohort). Cohort 4 will consist of participants with locally-advanced or metastatic HER2+ /HER2-low disease with PIK3CA mutation who had disease progression on standard-of-care therapies (HER2+ /HER2-low cohort). In each cohort, eligible participants will initially be assigned to one of several treatment arms (Stage 1). In addition, participants in the 2L CIT-nave cohort who experience disease progression, loss of clinical benefit, or unacceptable toxicity during Stage 1 may be eligible to continue treatment with a different treatment combination (Stage 2), provided Stage 2 is open for enrollment.
This is a global, multicenter Phase 1/3 study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of selinexor plus ruxolitinib in JAK inhibitor (JAKi) treatment-nave myelofibrosis (MF) participants. The study will be conducted in two phases: Phase 1 (open-label) and Phase 3 (double-blind). Phase 1 (enrollment completed) was an open-label evaluation of the safety and recommended dose (RD) of selinexor in combination with ruxolitinib and included a dose escalation using a standard 3+3 design (Phase 1a) and a dose expansion part (Phase 1b). In Phase 3, JAKi treatment-nave MF participants are enrolled in 2:1 ratio to receive the combination therapy of selinexor + ruxolitinib or the combination of placebo + ruxolitinib.
This is a study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of belzutifan monotherapy in participants with advanced pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma (PPGL), pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (pNET), von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) Disease-Associated Tumors, Advanced Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (wt GIST), or Advanced Solid Tumors With hypoxia inducible factor-2 alpha (HIF-2) related genetic alterations. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the objective response rate (ORR) of belzutifan per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors Version 1.1 (RECIST 1.1) by blinded independent central review (BICR).

Featured Speakers:

Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD

(Rogel Cancer Center)

is the S.P Hicks Endowed Professor of Pathology and Professor of Urology at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. He also serves as the Director of the Michigan Center for Translational Pathology and is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research interests focus on functional genomic and bioinformatic approaches to study cancer to understand tumor biology and discover genetic drivers.

Celeste Simon, PhD

(Abramson Cancer Center)

is the Scientific Director of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and an Associate Director of the Cancer Center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on how cells sense and respond to changes in the availability of molecular oxygen and nutrients. Her research team is currently studying how O2 sensing impacts tumor inflammation, metabolism, metastasis and overall disease progression.

Angie Smith, MD, MS

(UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center)

is an Associate Professor and Vice-Chair of Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Department of Urology in Chapel Hill. In addition, she is the Director of Urologic Oncology at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, where she treats GU malignancies, including bladder, prostate and kidney cancer. She has a background in health services research, and her research interests focus on patient-outcomes research, patient engagement and quality of care for bladder cancer.

Samra Turajlic, MBBS, PhD

(The Francis Crick Institute)

is the Chief Investigator of translational studies into melanoma and kidney cancer and an Independent Group Leader at The Francis Crick Institute. Her research focuses on the development of an evolutionary understanding of cancer for patient benefit. Dr. Turajlic is the Chief Clinical Investigator for the TRACERx Renal study, aiming to map how kidney cancer evolves.

Randy Vince, Jr. MD

(Rogel Cancer Center)

is a Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) Fellow at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. While at the University of Michigan, Dr. Vince also earned a Master’s degree in computational medicine and bioinformatics. His research interests are focused on using precision medicine to combat the concept of racial biology and evaluate the intersectionality of environmental exposures and gene expression on tumor biology.

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