Research Summary

My research program has been highly focused on identifying and overriding molecular mechanisms of resistance to targeted therapeutics in hematopoietic malignancies, and is highly translational in nature. I therefore rely heavily upon HDFCCC infrastructure, including the Phase I Unit in the Developmental Therapeutics Program, the Tissue Core, the Bioinformatics Core, and the Mouse Therapeutics Core Facility. Additionally, I have ongoing Intra- and Inter-Programmatic collaborations with numerous Members and Associate Members, including Benjamin Braun, Emmanuelle Passegue, Scott Kogan, Mignon Loh, and Kevan Shokat.

Research Funding

  • August 1, 2015 - July 31, 2019 - Discovery and Development of a Selective pan-FLT3-ITD Kinase Inhibitor Clinical Candidate for the Treatment of FLT3-ITD-Driven AML , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01CA194094
  • April 8, 2013 - March 31, 2018 - Crenolanib and ponatinib for the treatment of FLT3 mutant AML , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01CA176091
  • April 17, 2012 - March 31, 2017 - Mechanisms of resistance to clinically-effective FLT3 kinase inhibitors in AML , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01CA166616
  • September 23, 2015 - August 31, 2016 - Pre-IND study of PMT-254, a pan-FLT3 inhibitor for the treatment of FLT3 driven cancers. , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R41CA199753
  • March 1, 1982 - May 31, 2015 - Bio-Organic Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource , Co-Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: P41RR001614

Education

University of California, Berkeley, BS,1984, Genetics
University of California, Los Angeles, PhD, 1992, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
University of California, Los Angeles, MD, 1996, Medicine

Honors & Awards

  • 1989-1991
    National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Award in Tumor Cell Biology
  • 1995
    Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Student Research Prize
  • 1995-2003
    UCLA Specialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) Award
  • 2001-2004
    Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Career Development Award for Fellows
  • 2003-2005
    NIH K12 Award in Clinical Pharmacology
  • 2004-2007
    Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Career Development Award for Special Fellows
  • 2006-2009
    Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award
  • 2009-2014
    Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar in Clinical Research Award
  • 2024
    2024 Rowley Prize for exceptional lifetime achievements in advancing the understanding of the biology of CML 

Selected Publications

  1. Kawasaki K, Salehi S, Zhan YA, Chen K, Lee JH, Salataj E, Zhong H, Manoj P, Kinyua D, Mello BP, Sridhar H, Tischfield SE, Linkov I, Ceglia N, Zatzman M, Havasov E, Shah NJ, Meng F, Loomis B, Bhanot UK, Redin E, de Stanchina E, Hamard PJ, Koche RP, McPherson A, Quintanal-Villalonga Á, Shah SP, Massagué J, Rudin CM. FOXA2 promotes metastatic competence in small cell lung cancer. Nat Commun. 2025 May 26; 16(1):4865.  View on PubMed
  2. Shah NJ, Sura S, Shinde R, Shi J, Bupathi M, Vickery D, Perini R, Motzer RJ. Real-World Treatment Patterns and Clinical Outcomes Among Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Post-Immune-Oncology and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor Targeted Therapies. Cancers (Basel). 2025 Apr 25; 17(9).  View on PubMed
  3. Leyte-Vidal AM, Shah NP. How I individualize treatment for chronic-phase CML. Blood. 2025 Apr 16.  View on PubMed
  4. Kotecha RR, Doshi SD, Knezevic A, Jacobi R, Woo HJ, Aggen DH, McHugh DJ, Shah NJ, Carlo MI, Keegan NM, Gayadin Y, Chaim J, Donoghue MTA, Iyer G, Lee CH, Feldman DR, Motzer RJ, Voss MH. A Phase 1b/2 Study of Talazoparib and Axitinib in Patients with Advanced Clear-cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Eur Urol Oncol. 2025 Mar 29.  View on PubMed
  5. Shang J, Del Valle DM, Britton GJ, Mead KR, Rajpal U, Chen-Liaw A, Mogno I, Li Z, Menon R, Gonzalez-Kozlova E, Elkrief A, Peled JU, Gonsalves TR, Shah NJ, Postow M, Colombel JF, Gnjatic S, Faleck DM, Faith JJ. Baseline colitogenicity and acute perturbations of gut microbiota in immunotherapy-related colitis. J Exp Med. 2025 Jan 06; 222(1).  View on PubMed
  6. Sewell M, Toumbacaris N, Tan KS, Bahadur N, Philip J, Shah NJ, Niederhausern A, Tavarez Martinez C, Zheng H, Boerner T, Janjigian YY, Maron SB, Bott MJ, Gray KD, Park BJ, Sihag S, Jones DR, Ku GY, Wu AJ, Molena D. Esophagectomy may have a role in stage IV esophageal adenocarcinoma. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2024 Nov 22.  View on PubMed
  7. Shah NP. The promise of allosteric kinase inhibition. Blood. 2024 Nov 07; 144(19):1975-1976.  View on PubMed
  8. Fitzgerald KN, Lee CH, Voss MH, Carlo MI, Knezevic A, Peralta L, Chen Y, Lefkowitz RA, Shah NJ, Owens CN, McHugh DJ, Aggen DH, Laccetti AL, Kotecha RR, Feldman DR, Motzer RJ. Corrigendum to "Cabozantinib Plus Nivolumab in Patients with Non-Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma: Updated Results from a Phase II Trial" [Eur. Urol. 86(2) (2024) 90-94]. Eur Urol. 2025 Jan; 87(1):96.  View on PubMed
  9. Leyte-Vidal A, Garrido Ruiz D, DeFilippis R, Leske IB, Rea D, Phan S, Miller KB, Hu F, Mase A, Shan Y, Hantschel O, Jacobson MP, Shah NP. BCR::ABL1 kinase N-lobe mutants confer moderate to high degrees of resistance to asciminib. Blood. 2024 08 08; 144(6):639-645.  View on PubMed
  10. Leyte-Vidal A, DeFilippis R, Outhwaite IR, Kwan I, Lee JY, Leavitt C, Miller KB, Rea D, Rangwala AM, Lou K, Patel S, Alvarez A, Shokat KM, Bahar I, Seeliger MA, Shah NP. Absence of ABL1 exon 2-encoded SH3 residues in BCR::ABL1 destabilizes the autoinhibited kinase conformation and confers resistance to asciminib. Leukemia. 2024 Sep; 38(9):2046-2050.  View on PubMed
  11. Shah NJ, Shinde R, Moore KJ, Sainski-Nguyen A, Le LB, Cao F, Song R, Singhal P, Motzer RJ. Health Care Resource Use for Modern First-Line Treatments in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 07 01; 7(7):e2422674.  View on PubMed
  12. Lacouture ME, Goleva E, Shah N, Rotemberg V, Kraehenbuehl L, Ketosugbo KF, Merghoub T, Maier T, Bang A, Gu S, Salvador T, Moy AP, Lyubchenko T, Xiao O, Hall CF, Berdyshev E, Crooks J, Weight R, Kern JA, Leung DYM. Immunologic Profiling of Immune-Related Cutaneous Adverse Events with Checkpoint Inhibitors Reveals Polarized Actionable Pathways. Clin Cancer Res. 2024 Jul 01; 30(13):2822-2834.  View on PubMed
  13. Shah NJ, Della Pia A, Wu T, Williams A, Weber M, Sinclaire B, Gourna Paleoudis E, Alaoui A, Lev-Ari S, Adams S, Kaufman J, Parikh SB, Tonti E, Muller E, Serzan M, Cheruku D, Lee A, Sridhar A, Hee BTP, Ahn J, Pecora A, Ip A, Atkins MB. Clinical Outcomes of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Unique Cohorts Underrepresented in Clinical Trials. Cancers (Basel). 2024 Jun 14; 16(12).  View on PubMed
  14. Wang X, DeFilippis RA, Yan W, Shah NP, Li HY. Overcoming Secondary Mutations of Type II Kinase Inhibitors. J Med Chem. 2024 Jun 27; 67(12):9776-9788.  View on PubMed
  15. Fitzgerald KN, Lee CH, Voss MH, Carlo MI, Knezevic A, Peralta L, Chen Y, Lefkowitz RA, Shah NJ, Owens CN, McHugh DJ, Aggen DH, Laccetti AL, Kotecha RR, Feldman DR, Motzer RJ. Cabozantinib Plus Nivolumab in Patients with Non-Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma: Updated Results from a Phase 2 Trial. Eur Urol. 2024 Aug; 86(2):90-94.  View on PubMed
  16. Shah NP, Bhatia R, Altman JK, Amaya M, Begna KH, Berman E, Chan O, Clements J, Collins RH, Curtin PT, DeAngelo DJ, Drazer M, Maness L, Metheny L, Mohan S, Moore JO, Oehler V, Pratz K, Pusic I, Rose MG, Shomali W, Smith BD, Styler M, Talpaz M, Tanaka TN, Tantravahi S, Thompson J, Tsai S, Vaughn J, Welborn J, Yang DT, Sundar H, Gregory K. Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, Version 2.2024, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2024 02; 22(1):43-69.  View on PubMed
  17. Jabbour E, Apperley J, Cortes J, Rea D, Deininger M, Abruzzese E, Chuah C, DeAngelo DJ, Hochhaus A, Lipton JH, Mauro M, Nicolini F, Pinilla-Ibarz J, Rosti G, Rousselot P, Shah NP, Talpaz M, Vorog A, Ren X, Kantarjian H. Dose modification dynamics of ponatinib in patients with chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CP-CML) from the PACE and OPTIC trials. Leukemia. 2024 03; 38(3):475-481.  View on PubMed
  18. Qi Z, Smith C, Shah NP, Yu J. Complex Genomic Rearrangements Involving ETV6::ABL1 Gene Fusion in an Individual with Myeloid Neoplasm. Genes (Basel). 2023 09 23; 14(10).  View on PubMed
  19. Shah NP, García-Gutiérrez V, Jiménez-Velasco A, Larson SM, Saussele S, Rea D, Mahon FX, Levy MY, Gómez-Casares MT, Mauro MJ, Sy O, Martin-Regueira P, Lipton JH. Treatment-free remission after dasatinib in patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia in chronic phase with deep molecular response: Final 5-year analysis of DASFREE. Br J Haematol. 2023 09; 202(5):942-952.  View on PubMed
  20. Schoenbeck KL, Atallah E, Lin L, Weinfurt KP, Cortes J, Deininger MWN, Kota V, Larson RA, Mauro MJ, Oehler VG, Pinilla-Ibarz J, Radich JP, Schiffer CA, Shah NP, Silver RT, Thompson JE, Flynn KE. Patient-Reported Functional Outcomes in Patients With Chronic Myeloid Leukemia After Stopping Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2022 01 11; 114(1):160-164.  View on PubMed

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