2024 Conferences
April 2024 – American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
- Amelia Marvit co-presented her poster, Liquid biopsy of cerebrospinal fluid in breast to brain metastases
- Anya Shah presented her poster, Circulation of rare events in the liquid biopsy for early detection of lung mass lesions
- Divya Suresh presented his poster, Determining the efficacy of blood filtration in patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer through the liquid biopsy
April 2024 – USC Undergraduate Symposium
- Amelia Marvit presented her poster, Liquid biopsy of cerebrospinal fluid in breast to brain metastases
- Divya Suresh presented her poster, Determining the efficacy of blood filtration in patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer through the liquid biopsy
- Andrew Udov presented his poster, Longitudinal circulating rare cell analysis of CAR-T therapy within metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer patients
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April 2023 – American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
- Lily Bai presented her poster, Longitudinal tracking of circulating rare events in the liquid biopsy stage III-IV NSCLC patients during treatment
- Emmeline Lin presented her poster, Liquid biopsy to detect biomarkers in early-stage surgically-resected pancreatic cancer
- Salmaan Sayeed presented his poster, Circulating rare events inform disease progression in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma undergoing surgery
- Carli Kaleta and Dean Tessone presented poster, Single cell characterization of circulating plasma cells and BCMA levels in patients with multiple myeloma
April 2023 – West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (WCBSURC)
- Audrey Limb presented her poster, Liquid biopsy as a method to detect biomarkers in early-stage surgically-resected pancreatic cancer
- Amelia Marvit presented her poster, Liquid biopsy to monitor HER2 CAR-T therapy for breast to brain metastases
- Sankalp Mrutyunjaya presented his poster, Predicting survival outcomes for patients with bladder cancer and upper tract urothelial carcinoma
- Divya Suresh presented her poster, Characterization of cellular and acellular analytes from the liquid biopsy of pancreatic cancer patients during endoscopy ultrasound
April 2023 – USC Undergraduate Symposium
- Carla Collier presented her poster, Monitoring treatment response in HNSCC and NSCLC patients using liquid biopsy
- Amelia Marvit presented her poster, Liquid biopsy to monitor HER2 CAR-T therapy for breast to brain metastases
- Sankalp Mrutyunjaya presented his poster, Predicting survival outcomes for patients with bladder cancer and upper tract urothelial carcinoma
- Anya Shah presented her poster, Liquid biopsy as a companion diagnostic method for lung cancer
- Andrew Udov presented his poster, Longitudinal circulating rare cell analysis of CAR-T therapy within metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer patients
- Brandon Ye presented his poster, Substantiating predictive models for metastatic relapse in newly diagnosed upper tract urothelial carcinoma patients utilizing a multi-cancer machine learning approach
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May 2022 – Los Angeles Bioscience Ecosystem Summit (LABEST) 2022
- Lily Bai, Junior majoring in Human Biology and Global Medicine, presented her poster, Longitudinal tracking of circulating rare events in liquid biopsy of stage III-IV NSCLC patients during treatment
April 2022 – American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
- Sachin Narayan, Senior majoring in Global Health, presented his poster, Circulating tumor cell kinetics and rare cell morphology monitor disease progression in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer
April 2022 – West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (WCBSURC)
- Emmeline Lin, Junior majoring in Human Biology, won Outstanding Poster Presentation for her poster, Liquid biopsy as a method to detect biomarkers in early-stage surgically-resected pancreatic cancer
- Lily Bai, Junior majoring in Human Biology and Global Medicine, won 1st place in Session 3 for her poster, Longitudinal tracking of circulating rare events in liquid biopsy of stage III-IV NSCLC patients during treatment
- Salmaan Sayeed, Junior majoring in Neuroscience, presented his poster, Characterization of cellular and acellular analytes from pre-cystectomy liquid biopsies in patients newly diagnosed with primary bladder cancer
2024 Publications
Shishido SN, Suresh D, Courcoubetis G, Ye B, Lin E, Mason J, Park K, Lewis M, Wang R, Lo S, Kuhn P. Determining the efficacy of ExThera Seraph100 blood filtration in patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer through the liquid biopsy. BJC Rep 2, 47 (2024).
Bai L, Courcoubetis G, Mason J, Hicks J, Nieva J, Kuhn P, Shishido S. Longitudinal tracking of circulating rare events in the liquid biopsy of stage III-IV non-small lung cancer patients. Discov Onc 15, 142 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12672-024-00984-4.
Ghoreifi A, Shishido S, Sayeed S, Courcoubetis G, Huang A, Schuckman A, Aron M, Desai M, Daneshmand S, Gill IS, Kuhn P, Djaladat H*, Mason J*. Blood-based liquid biopsy: A promising noninvasive test in diagnosis, surveillance, and prognosis of patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma. Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations, 2024, ISSN 1078-1439, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urolonc.2024.02.001.
Shishido S, Lin E, Nissen N, Courcoubetis G, Suresh D, Mason J, Osipov A, Hendifar A, Lewis M, Gaddam S, Pandol S, Kuhn P, Lo S. Cancer-related cells and oncosomes in the liquid biopsy of pancreatic cancer patients undergoing surgery. npj Precis. Onc. 8, 36 (2024). https: doi.org/10.1038/s41698-024-00521-0.
Shishido S, Hart O, Jeong S, Moriarty A, Heeke D, Rossi J, Bot A, Kuhn P. Liquid biopsy approach to monitor the efficacy and response to CAR-T cell therapy. Journal of ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 2024;12:e007329. doi:10.1136/jitc-2023-007329.
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Welter L, Zheng S, Setayesh SM, Morikado M, Agrawal A, Nevarez R, Naghdloo A, Pore M, Higa N, Kolatkar A, Thiele JA, Sharma P, Moore H, Richer J, Elias A, Pienta K, Zurita A, Gross M, Shishido S, Hicks J, Ruiz C, Kuhn P. Cell state and cell type: Deconvoluting circulating tumor cell populations in liquid biopsies by multi-omics. Cancers. 2023. 15, 15: 3949.
Seo J, Kumar M, Mason J, Blackhall F, Matsumoto N, Dive C, Hicks J, Kuhn P, Shishido S. Plasticity of circulating tumor cells in small cell lung cancer. Sci Rep. 13, 11775 (2023).
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Qi E, Courcoubetis G, Liljegren E, Herrera E, Nguyen N, Nadri M, Ghandehari S, Kazemian E, Reckamp K, Merin N, Merchant A, Mason J, Figueiredo J, Shishido S, Kuhn P. Investigation of liquid biopsy analytes in peripheral blood of individuals after SARS-CoV-2 infection. eBioMedicine. 2023, Vol 90, 104519.
Ndacayisaba L, Rappard K, Shishido S, Setayesh S, Tang G, Lin P, Matsumoto N, Hsu C, Nevarez R, Ruiz C, Naghdloo A, Yang E, Kelly K, Hicks J, Mason J, Orlowski R, Manasanch E, Kuhn P. Characterization of BCMA expression in circulating rare single cells of patients with plasma cell neoplasms. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23(21), 13427.
Narayan S, Courcoubetis G, Mason J, Naghdloo A, Kolencik D, Patterson S, Kuhn P, Shishido S. Defining a liquid biopsy profile of circulating tumor cells and oncosomes in metastatic colorectal cancer for clinical utility. Cancers 2022, 14(19), 4891.
Setayesh S, Hart O, Naghdloo A, Higa N, Nieva J, Lu J, Hwang S, Wilkinson K, Kidd M, Anderson A, Velasco C, Kolatkar A, Matsumoto N, Nevarez R, Hicks J, Mason J, Shishido S, Kuhn P. Multianalyte Liquid Biopsy to Aid the Diagnostic Workup of Breast Cancer. npj Breast Cancer. 8, 112 (2022).
Ndacayisaba L, Rappard K, Shishido S, Ruiz C, Matsumoto N, Navarez R, Tang G, Lin P, Setayesh S, Naghdloo A, Hsu C, Maney C, Symer D, Bethel K, Kelly K, Merchant A, Orlowski R, Hicks J, Mason J, Manasanch E, Kuhn P. Enrichment-Free Single-Cell Detection and Morphogenomic Profiling of Myeloma Patient Samples to Delineate Circulating Rare Plasma Cell Clones. Current Oncology, 2022, 29, 2954-2972
Shishido S, Ghoreifi A, Sayeed S, Courcoubetis G, Huang A, Ye B, Mrutyunjaya S, Gill I, Kuhn P, Mason J, Djaladat H. Liquid Biopsy Landscape in Patients with Primary Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma. Cancers, 2022, 14(12), 3007.
Shishido S, Sayeed S, Courcoubetis G, Djaladat H, Miranda G, Pienta K, Nieva J, Hansel D, Desai M, Gill I, Kuhn P, Mason J. Characterization of cellular and acelluar analytes from pre-cystectomy liquid biopsies in patients newly diagnosed with primary bladder cancer. Cancers 2022; 14(3), 758
Kolencik D, Narayan S, Thiele JA, McKinley D, Gerdtsson A, Welter L, Hosek P, Ostasov P, Vycital O, Bruha J, Fiala O, Sorejs O, Liska V, Pitule P, Kuhn P, Shishido S. Circulating tumor cell kinetics and morphology from the liquid biopsy predict disease progression in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer following resection. Cancers 2022, 14(3), 642
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Chai S, Matsumoto N, Storgard R, Peng C, Aparicio A, Ormseth B, Rappard K, Cunningham K, Kolatkar A, Nevarez R, Tu K, Hsu C, Malihi P, Corn P, Zurita A, Hicks J, Kuhn P, Ruiz C. Platelet-coated circulating tumor cells are a predictive biomarker in patients with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer. Molecular Cancer Research 2021, 19(12), 2036-2045.
