Research Summary

Jennifer Rosenbluth, MD, PhD, is a medical oncologist who specializes in breast cancer, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, and a member of the Breast Oncology Program in the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. The research in her laboratory utilizes three-dimensional organoid cultures of premalignant and tumorigenic breast tissues to identify heterogeneous populations of cells that promote cancer development and progression.

Research Funding

  • August 12, 2024 - July 31, 2029 - Developing liquid biopsy tests for malignant effusions using artificial intelligence-assisted, morphology-based isolation of tumor cells , Co-Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01CA292019
  • September 20, 2022 - August 31, 2027 - In vitro models as a window to learn how to change outcomes in women at high risk of developing breast cancer , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01CA281361

Education

  • Princeton University, BA, 2003, Molecular Biology
  • Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, MD, 2009, Medicine
  • Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, PhD, 2011, Biochemistry
  • Massachusetts General Hospital, Residency, 2013, Internal Medicine
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Fellowship, 2018, Medical Oncology

Honors & Awards

  • 2003-2011
    Canby Robinson Society Scholar, Vanderbilt University
  • 2006-2007
    DOD Breast Cancer Research Program Predoctoral Fellowship
  • 2011
    John G. Coniglio Prize for Excellence in Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University
  • 2011
    Dean's Award for Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  • 2014
    Dana-Farber Leadership Council Fellow
  • 2016
    Inflammatory Breast Cancer Program member, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • 2017
    Young Investigator Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
  • 2018
    Scholar-In-Training Award, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
  • 2019
    Panelist (student-invited), National Collegiate Research Conference at Harvard University
  • 2019
    Eleanor and Miles Shore Faculty Development Award, Harvard Medical School
  • 2020
    Sidney Farber Scholar, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • 2021
    Sulochana Pradhan, MD Endowed Professorship in Breast Cancer

Selected Publications

  1. Julia Ye MD, PhD, Nadine Goldhammer PhD, Poonam Vohra MD, Shruti Warhadpande MS, George C. de Castro MD, Cristian K. Maldonado Rodas BS, Mark M. Moasser MD, Kirithiga Ramalingam MD, MAS, Shoko E. Abe MD, Michael Alvarado MD, Cheryl Ewing MD, Karen M. Goodwin DO, FACS, Rita A. Mukhtar MD, Jasmine M. Wong MD, Laura J. Esserman MD, MBA, Ronald Balassanian MD, Jennifer M. Rosenbluth MD, PhD. FNA biopsy of breast specimens effectively harvests cells for patient-derived organoids modeling ductal carcinoma in situ View on PubMed
  2. Graham AJ, Khoo MWL, Srivastava V, Viragova S, Kim H, Parekh K, Hennick KM, Bird M, Goldhammer N, Yu JZ, Hu G, Brinkley NT, Pardo L, Amaya JS, Morley CD, Chadha N, Lebel P, Kumar S, Rosenbluth JM, Nowakowski TJ, Chaudhuri O, Klein O, Gómez-Sjöberg R, Gartner ZJ. Stress relaxing granular bioprinting materials enable complex and uniform organoid self-organization. bioRxiv. 2025 Sep 04. View on PubMed
  3. Bui TBV, Wolf DM, Bruck MC, Moore K, Lien J, Choi SDW, Warhadpande S, Parizadeh A, Dillon D, Overmoyer B, Lynce F, I-SPY 2 Investigators, Nijman IJ, Burgering BMT, Harris IS, Esserman LJ, Veer LJV', Rosenbluth JM. Organoid-evaluable clinical biomarkers predict drug responses and guide new breast cancer therapies. bioRxiv. 2025 Aug 28. View on PubMed
  4. Mondal G, Gonzalez H, Marsh T, Leidal AM, Vlahakis A, Phadatare PR, Bustamante Eguiguren S, Bruck M, Naik A, Magbanua MJM, Huppert LA, Wiita AP, Roose JP, Rosenbluth JM, Debnath J. Autophagy-targeted NBR1-p62/SQSTM1 complexes promote breast cancer metastasis by sequestering ITCH. Nat Cell Biol. 2025 Jul; 27(7):1098-1113. View on PubMed
  5. Phi LTH, Cheng Y, Funakoshi Y, Bertucci F, Finetti P, Van Laere SJ, Zou F, Long JP, Ogata S, Krishnamurthy S, Reuben JM, Foulks JM, Warner SL, Rosenbluth JM, Sood AK, Tripathy D, Ueno NT, Wang X. AXL promotes inflammatory breast cancer progression by regulating immunosuppressive macrophage polarization. Breast Cancer Res. 2025 May 06; 27(1):70. View on PubMed
  6. Ramalingam K, Woody R, Glencer A, Schwartz CJ, Mori H, Wong J, Hirst G, Rosenbluth J, Onishi N, Gibbs J, Hylton N, Borowsky AD, Campbell M, Esserman LJ. Intratumoral Injection of mRNA-2752 and Pembrolizumab for High-Risk Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: A Phase 1 Nonrandomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2025 Mar 01; 11(3):288-292. View on PubMed
  7. Nguyen HP, An K, Ito Y, Kharbikar BN, Sheng R, Paredes B, Murray E, Pham K, Bruck M, Zhou X, Biellak C, Ushiki A, Nobuhara M, Fong SL, Bernards DA, Lynce F, Dillon DA, Magbanua MJM, Huppert LA, Hammerlindl H, Klein JA, Valdiviez L, Fiehn O, Esserman L, Desai TA, Yee SW, Rosenbluth JM, Ahituv N. Implantation of engineered adipocytes suppresses tumor progression in cancer models. Nat Biotechnol. 2025 Dec; 43(12):1979-1995. View on PubMed
  8. Cho NW, Guldberg SM, Nabet BY, Yu JZ, Kim EJ, Hiam-Galvez KJ, Yee JL, DeBarge R, Tenvooren I, Ashitey NA, Lynce F, Dillon DA, Rosenbluth JM, Spitzer MH. T Cells Instruct Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy Resistance in Tumors Responsive to IL1 and TNFα Inflammation. Cancer Immunol Res. 2025 Feb 03; 13(2):229-244. View on PubMed
  9. Greenwood HI, Maldonado Rodas CK, Freimanis RI, Glencer AC, Miller PN, Mukhtar RA, Brabham C, Yau C, Rosenbluth JM, Hirst GL, Campbell MJ, Borowsky A, Hylton N, Esserman LJ, Basu A. Magnetic resonance imaging insights from active surveillance of women with ductal carcinoma in situ. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2024 Aug 04; 10(1):71. View on PubMed
  10. Garrido-Castro AC, Regan MM, Niman SM, Nakhlis F, Remolano C, Rosenbluth JM, Block C, Warren LE, Bellon JR, Yeh E, Harrison BT, Troll E, Lin NU, Tolaney SM, Overmoyer B, Lynce F. Clinical outcomes of de novo metastatic HER2-positive inflammatory breast cancer. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2023 Jun 02; 9(1):50. View on PubMed
  11. Nguyen HP, Sheng R, Murray E, Ito Y, Bruck M, Biellak C, An K, Lynce F, Dillon DA, Magbanua MJM, Huppert LA, Hammerlindl H, Esserman L, Rosenbluth JM, Ahituv N. Implantation of engineered adipocytes that outcompete tumors for resources suppresses cancer progression. bioRxiv. 2023 Mar 29. View on PubMed
  12. Glencer AC, Miller PN, Greenwood H, Maldonado Rodas CK, Freimanis R, Basu A, Mukhtar RA, Brabham C, Kim P, Hwang ES, Rosenbluth JM, Hirst GL, Campbell MJ, Borowsky AD, Esserman LJ. Identifying Good Candidates for Active Surveillance of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: Insights from a Large Neoadjuvant Endocrine Therapy Cohort. Cancer Res Commun. 2022 12; 2(12):1579-1589. View on PubMed
  13. Gray GK, Li CM, Rosenbluth JM, Selfors LM, Girnius N, Lin JR, Schackmann RCJ, Goh WL, Moore K, Shapiro HK, Mei S, D'Andrea K, Nathanson KL, Sorger PK, Santagata S, Regev A, Garber JE, Dillon DA, Brugge JS. A human breast atlas integrating single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics. Dev Cell. 2022 06 06; 57(11):1400-1420.e7. View on PubMed
  14. Hirko KA, Regan MM, Remolano MC, Schlossman J, Harrison B, Yeh E, Jacene H, Nakhlis F, Block C, Rosenbluth JM, Garrido-Castro AC, Overmoyer BA. Dermal Lymphatic Invasion, Survival, and Time to Recurrence or Progression in Inflammatory Breast Cancer. Am J Clin Oncol. 2021 09 01; 44(9):449-455. View on PubMed
  15. Dekkers JF, van Vliet EJ, Sachs N, Rosenbluth JM, Kopper O, Rebel HG, Wehrens EJ, Piani C, Visvader JE, Verissimo CS, Boj SF, Brugge JS, Clevers H, Rios AC. Long-term culture, genetic manipulation and xenotransplantation of human normal and breast cancer organoids. Nat Protoc. 2021 04; 16(4):1936-1965. View on PubMed
  16. Li CM, Shapiro H, Tsiobikas C, Selfors LM, Chen H, Rosenbluth J, Moore K, Gupta KP, Gray GK, Oren Y, Steinbaugh MJ, Guerriero JL, Pinello L, Regev A, Brugge JS. Aging-Associated Alterations in Mammary Epithelia and Stroma Revealed by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing. Cell Rep. 2020 12 29; 33(13):108566. View on PubMed
  17. White RE, Warren L, Nakhlis F, Rosenbluth J, Bellon J, Block C, Overmoyer B. Characteristics associated with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC): An epidemiologic study from a dedicated IBC program. Breast J. 2020 09; 26(9):1688-1694. View on PubMed
  18. Jacene HA, DiPiro PJ, Bellon J, Hu J, Cheng SC, Warren L, Schlosnagle E, Nakhlis F, Rosenbluth JM, Yeh E, Overmoyer B. Discrepancy between FDG-PET/CT and contrast-enhanced CT in the staging of patients with inflammatory breast cancer: implications for treatment planning. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Jun; 181(2):383-390. View on PubMed
  19. Rosenbluth JM, Schackmann RCJ, Gray GK, Selfors LM, Li CM, Boedicker M, Kuiken HJ, Richardson A, Brock J, Garber J, Dillon D, Sachs N, Clevers H, Brugge JS. Organoid cultures from normal and cancer-prone human breast tissues preserve complex epithelial lineages. Nat Commun. 2020 04 06; 11(1):1711. View on PubMed
  20. Sarkizova S, Klaeger S, Le PM, Li LW, Oliveira G, Keshishian H, Hartigan CR, Zhang W, Braun DA, Ligon KL, Bachireddy P, Zervantonakis IK, Rosenbluth JM, Ouspenskaia T, Law T, Justesen S, Stevens J, Lane WJ, Eisenhaure T, Lan Zhang G, Clauser KR, Hacohen N, Carr SA, Wu CJ, Keskin DB. A large peptidome dataset improves HLA class I epitope prediction across most of the human population. Nat Biotechnol. 2020 02; 38(2):199-209. View on PubMed

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