Research Summary

I am a physician scientist focused on the treatment and study of primary liver cancers. I attend in the Gastrointestinal Oncology Group and run a research group in the Quantitive Biosciences Institute. My laboratory applies proteomic methods to identify novel targets and improve the application of existing therapeutics for liver cancers including hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma and fibrolamellar liver cancer. We have three major areas of investigation:
1. Mapping oncogenic kinase signaling and its response to targeted therapeutics to define biomarkers and combination treatments for clinically relevant agents
2. Characterizing the impact of hepatitis viruses on liver cancer and its response to treatment
3. Developing small molecule strategies to target Hippo pathway dysregulation

Education

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, BA, 06/2001, Biochemistry
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, PhD, 12/2007, Cancer Biology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, MD, 05/2009, Medicine
UC San Francisco, Resident, 06/2011, Internal Medicine
UC San Francisco, Clinical Fellow, 07/12, Hematology/Oncology

Honors & Awards

  • 2022
    NCI R37 Merit Award
  • 2018
    Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists
  • 2015
    American Society for Clinical Oncology Young Investigator Award
  • 2014
    American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 2008
    Saul Winegrad Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Pennsylvania

Selected Publications

  1. Chan GKL, Maisel S, Hwang YC, Pascual BC, Wolber RRB, Vu P, Patra KC, Bouhaddou M, Kenerson HL, Lim HC, Long D, Yeung RS, Sethupathy P, Swaney DL, Krogan NJ, Turnham RE, Riehle KJ, Scott JD, Bardeesy N, Gordan JD. Oncogenic PKA signaling increases c-MYC protein expression through multiple targetable mechanisms. Elife. 2023 Jan 24; 12.  View on PubMed
  2. Wu Q, Zhen Y, Shi L, Vu P, Greninger P, Adil R, Merritt J, Egan R, Wu MJ, Yin X, Ferrone CR, Deshpande V, Baiev I, Pinto CJ, McLoughlin DE, Walmsley CS, Stone JR, Gordan JD, Zhu AX, Juric D, Goyal L, Benes CH, Bardeesy N. EGFR Inhibition Potentiates FGFR Inhibitor Therapy and Overcomes Resistance in FGFR2 Fusion-Positive Cholangiocarcinoma. Cancer Discov. 2022 05 02; 12(5):1378-1395.  View on PubMed
  3. Qing T, Liu J, Liu F, Mitchell DC, Beresis RT, Gordan JD. Methods to assess small molecule allosteric modulators of the STRAD pseudokinase. Methods Enzymol. 2022; 667:427-453.  View on PubMed
  4. Dinh TA, Utria AF, Barry KC, Ma R, Abou-Alfa GK, Gordan JD, Jaffee EM, Scott JD, Zucman-Rossi J, O'Neill AF, Furth ME, Sethupathy P. A framework for fibrolamellar carcinoma research and clinical trials. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2022 05; 19(5):328-342.  View on PubMed
  5. Melnyk JE, Steri V, Nguyen HG, Hwang YC, Gordan JD, Hann B, Feng FY, Shokat KM. Targeting a splicing-mediated drug resistance mechanism in prostate cancer by inhibiting transcriptional regulation by PKC�1. Oncogene. 2022 03; 41(11):1536-1549.  View on PubMed
  6. Kim M, Park J, Bouhaddou M, Kim K, Rojc A, Modak M, Soucheray M, McGregor MJ, O'Leary P, Wolf D, Stevenson E, Foo TK, Mitchell D, Herrington KA, Mu?oz DP, Tutuncuoglu B, Chen KH, Zheng F, Kreisberg JF, Diolaiti ME, Gordan JD, Copp? JP, Swaney DL, Xia B, van 't Veer L, Ashworth A, Ideker T, Krogan NJ. A protein interaction landscape of breast cancer. Science. 2021 Oct; 374(6563):eabf3066.  View on PubMed
  7. Kelley RK, Joseph NM, Nimeiri HS, Hwang J, Kulik LM, Ngo Z, Behr SC, Onodera C, Zhang K, Bocobo AG, Benson AB, Venook AP, Gordan JD. Phase II Trial of the Combination of Temsirolimus and Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Tumor Mutation Profiling. Liver Cancer. 2021 Nov; 10(6):561-571.  View on PubMed
  8. Gordan JD, Mitchell DC, Beresis RT, Adler M. STRAD-binding agents and uses thereof. 2021.  View on PubMed
  9. Lim HC, Gordan JD. Tumor hepatitis B virus RNA identifies a clinically and molecularly distinct subset of hepatocellular carcinoma. PLoS Comput Biol. 2021 02; 17(2):e1008699.  View on PubMed
  10. Gordan JD, Kennedy EB, Abou-Alfa GK, Beg MS, Brower ST, Gade TP, Goff L, Gupta S, Guy J, Harris WP, Iyer R, Jaiyesimi I, Jhawer M, Karippot A, Kaseb AO, Kelley RK, Knox JJ, Kortmansky J, Leaf A, Remak WM, Shroff RT, Sohal DPS, Taddei TH, Venepalli NK, Wilson A, Zhu AX, Rose MG. Systemic Therapy for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma: ASCO Guideline. J Clin Oncol. 2020 12 20; 38(36):4317-4345.  View on PubMed
  11. Coles GL, Cristea S, Webber JT, Levin RS, Moss SM, He A, Sangodkar J, Hwang YC, Arand J, Drainas AP, Mooney NA, Demeter J, Spradlin JN, Mauch B, Le V, Shue YT, Ko JH, Lee MC, Kong C, Nomura DK, Ohlmeyer M, Swaney DL, Krogan NJ, Jackson PK, Narla G, Gordan JD, Shokat KM, Sage J. Unbiased Proteomic Profiling Uncovers a Targetable GNAS/PKA/PP2A Axis in Small Cell Lung Cancer Stem Cells. Cancer Cell. 2020 07 13; 38(1):129-143.e7.  View on PubMed
  12. El Dika I, Mayer RJ, Venook AP, Capanu M, LaQuaglia MP, Kobos R, O'Neill AF, Chou JF, Ly M, Ang C, O'Reilly EM, Gordan JD, Abou-Alfa GK. A Multicenter Randomized Three-Arm Phase II Study of (1) Everolimus, (2) Estrogen Deprivation Therapy (EDT) with Leuprolide + Letrozole, and (3) Everolimus + EDT in Patients with Unresectable Fibrolamellar Carcinoma. Oncologist. 2020 11; 25(11):925-e1603.  View on PubMed
  13. Huppert LA, Gordan JD, Kelley RK. Checkpoint Inhibitors for the Treatment of Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Clin Liver Dis (Hoboken). 2020 Feb; 15(2):53-58.  View on PubMed
  14. Abou-Alfa GK, Mayer R, Venook AP, O'Neill AF, Beg MS, LaQuaglia M, Kingham PT, Kobos R, Basturk O, Brennan C, Yopp A, Harding JJ, Leong S, Crown J, Hoti E, Leonard G, Ly M, Bradley M, Valentino E, Markowitz D, Zukiwski A, Ren K, Gordan JD. Phase II Multicenter, Open-Label Study of Oral ENMD-2076 for the Treatment of Patients with Advanced Fibrolamellar Carcinoma. Oncologist. 2020 12; 25(12):e1837-e1845.  View on PubMed
  15. McMahon M, Contreras A, Holm M, Uechi T, Forester CM, Pang X, Jackson C, Calvert ME, Chen B, Quigley DA, Luk JM, Kelley RK, Gordan JD, Gill RM, Blanchard SC, Ruggero D. A single H/ACA small nucleolar RNA mediates tumor suppression downstream of oncogenic RAS. Elife. 2019 09 03; 8.  View on PubMed
  16. Wang J, Wang H, Peters M, Ding N, Ribback S, Utpatel K, Cigliano A, Dombrowski F, Xu M, Chen X, Song X, Che L, Evert M, Cossu A, Gordan J, Zeng Y, Chen X, Calvisi DF. Loss of Fbxw7 synergizes with activated Akt signaling to promote c-Myc dependent cholangiocarcinogenesis. J Hepatol. 2019 10; 71(4):742-752.  View on PubMed
  17. Kambhampati S, Bauer KE, Bracci PM, Keenan BP, Behr SC, Gordan JD, Kelley RK. Nivolumab in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and Child-Pugh class B cirrhosis: Safety and clinical outcomes in a retrospective case series. Cancer. 2019 09 15; 125(18):3234-3241.  View on PubMed
  18. Lou K, Steri V, Ge AY, Hwang YC, Yogodzinski CH, Shkedi AR, Choi ALM, Mitchell DC, Swaney DL, Hann B, Gordan JD, Shokat KM, Gilbert LA. KRASG12C inhibition produces a driver-limited state revealing collateral dependencies. Sci Signal. 2019 05 28; 12(583).  View on PubMed
  19. Wang P, Song X, Utpatel K, Shang R, Yang YM, Xu M, Zhang J, Che L, Gordan J, Cigliano A, Seki E, Evert M, Calvisi DF, Hu X, Chen X. MEK inhibition suppresses K-Ras wild-type cholangiocarcinoma in vitro and in vivo via inhibiting cell proliferation and modulating tumor microenvironment. Cell Death Dis. 2019 02 11; 10(2):120.  View on PubMed
  20. Kastenhuber ER, Craig J, Ramsey J, Sullivan KM, Sage J, de Oliveira S, Riehle KJ, Scott JD, Gordan JD, Bardeesy N, Abou-Alfa GK. Road map for fibrolamellar carcinoma: progress and goals of a diversified approach. J Hepatocell Carcinoma. 2019; 6:41-48.  View on PubMed

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