David C. Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc
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  • Associate Professor of Medicine (Translational Medicine and Human Genetics)

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Sheila K. Pierson, Joshua D. Brandstadter, Drew Torigian, Adam Bagg, Mary Jo Lechowicz, Daisy Alapat, Corey Casper, Amy Chadburn, Shanmuganathan Chandrakasan, Angela Dispenzieri, Alexander Fossa, Christian Hoffmann, Makoto Ide, Razelle Kurzrock, Sudipto Mukherjee, Sunita D. Nasta, José-Tomás Navarro, Ariela Noy, Eric Oksenhendler, Mateo Sarmiento Bustamante, Saishravan Shyamsundar, Matthew J. Streetly, Raymond Siu Ming Wong, Lu Zhang, Megan S. Lim, Gordan Srkalovic, Frits van Rhee, David C. Fajgenbaum Characterizing the heterogeneity of Castleman disease and oligocentric subtype: Findings from the ACCELERATE registry , Blood Advances.: 2025 (online ahead of print)


Mizuna Otsuka, Tomohiro Koga, Remi Sumiyoshi, Shoichi Fukui, Yuko Kaneko, Takayuki Shimizu, Atsushi Katsube, Shingo Yano, Yasufumi Masaki, Makoto Ide, Hajime Yoshifuji, Masayasu Kitano, Yasuharu Sato, Naoki Sawa, Hiroaki Niiro, Naoya Nakamura, David C. Fajgenbaum, Frits van Rhee, Atsushi Kawakami Exploring the Clinical Diversity of Castleman Disease and TAFRO Syndrome: A Japanese Multicenter Study on Lymph Node Distribution Patterns , American Journal of Hematology. : 2025 (online ahead of print)


Allan Feng, Michael V. Gonzalez, Muge Kalaycioglu, Xihui Yin, Melanie D. Mumau, Saishravan Shyamsundar, Mateo Bustamante Sarmiento, Sarah E. Chang, Dhingra Shaurya, Tea Dodig-Crnkovic, Jochen M. Schwenk, Tarun Garg, Kazuyuki Yoshizaki, Frits van Rhee, David C. Fajgenbaum, Paul J. Utz Common connective tissue disorder and anti-cytokine autoantibodies are enriched in idiopathic multicentric castleman disease patients , Frontiers in Immunology, 16(1528465): 2025


Ira D. Miller, Melanie D. Mumau, Saishravan Shyamsundar, Mateo Sarmiento Bustamante, Pedro Horna, Michael V. Gonzalez, David C. Fajgenbaum No evidence for active viral infection in unicentric and idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease by Viral-Track analysis , Scientific Reports., 15(1): 2025,1676


Melanie D. Mumau, Michael V. Gonzalez, Chunyu Ma, Abiola H. Irvine, Mateo Sarmiento Bustamante, Saishravan Shyamsundar, Luke Y.C. Chen, David Koslicki, David C. Fajgenbaum Identifying and Targeting TNF Signaling in Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman's Disease , The New England Journal of Medicine., 392(6): 2025,616-618


Asami Nishikori, Midori Filiz Nishimura, David C. Fajgenbaum, Yoshito Nishimura, Kanna Maehama, Tomoka Haratake, Tetsuya Tabata, Mitsuhiro Kawano, Naoya Nakamura, Shuji Momose, Remi Sumiyoshi, Tomohiro Koga, Hidetaka Yamamoto, Frits van Rhee, Atsushi Kawakami, Yasuharu Sato Diagnostic challenges of the idiopathic plasmacytic lymphadenopathy (IPL) subtype of idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD): Factors to differentiate from IgG4-related disease , Journal of Clinical Pathology.: 2024 (online ahead of print)


Marley Blommers, Sorin Selegean, Richard K Wood, Mateo Sarmiento Bustamante, Saishravan Shyamsundar, E. Ashley Wiley, Emilie Comeau, Allam A. Shawwa, Stefan Rose-John, David C. Fajgenbaum, Luke Y. C. Chen. Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease with marrow fibrosis and extramedullary hematopoiesis , European Journal of Haematology., 113(6): 2024,833-841


Gordan Srkalovic, Sally Nijim, Maya Blanka Srkalovic, David C. Fajgenbaum Increase in Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Expression and the Pathogenesis of iMCD-TAFRO , Biomedicines., 12(6): 2024,1328


Madelaine Beckett, Caroline Spaner, Mariam Goubran, John Wade, Juan Antonio Avina-Zubieta, Audi Setiadi, Lori Tucker, Kam Shojania, Sheila Au, Andre Mattman, Agnes Y. Y. Lee, David C. Fajgenbaum, Luke Y. C. Chen CRP and sCD25 help distinguish between adult-onset Still's disease and HLH , European Journal of Haematology., 113(5): 2024,576-583


Christian Hoffmann, Eric Oksenhendler, Sarah Littler, Lisa Grant, Karan Kanhai, David C. Fajgenbaum The clinical picture of Castleman disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis , Blood Advances., 8(18): 2024,4924-4935


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