Description of Research Expertise
Immunotherapy
Translational Research
Pancreatic Cancer
Selected Publications
Reiss KA, Wattenberg MM, Damjanov N, Prechtel Dunphy E, Jacobs-Small M, Lubas MJ, Robinson J, Dicicco L, Garcia-Marcano L, Giannone MA, Karasic TB, Furth EE, Carpenter EL, Wojcieszynski AP, Vonderheide RH, Beatty GL, Ben-Josef E.: A Pilot Study of Galunisertib plus Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy in Patients with Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma Mol Cancer Ther 20 : 389-397,2021.
Wattenberg MM, Herrera VM, Giannone MA, Gladney WL, Carpenter EL, Beatty GL.: Systemic inflammation is a determinant of outcomes to CD40 agonist-based therapy in pancreatic cancer patients JCI Insight : 2021.
Lin JH, Huffman AP, Wattenberg MM, Walter DM, Carpenter EL, Feldser DM, Beatty GL, Furth EE, Vonderheide RH.: Type 1 conventional dendritic cells are systemically dysregulated early in pancreatic carcinogenesis J Exp Med 217 : e20190673,2020.
Wattenberg MM, Asch D, Yu S, O'Dwyer PJ, Domchek SM, Nathanson KL, Rosen MA, Beatty GL, Siegelman ES, Reiss KA.: Platinum response characteristics of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and a germline BRCA1, BRCA2 or PALB2 mutation Br J Cancer 122 : 333-339,2020.
Wattenberg MM, Damjanov N, Kaplan DE.: Utility of bevacizumab in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: A veterans affairs experience Cancer Med 8 : 1442-1446,2019.
Kanagavelu S, Gupta S, Wu X, Philip S, Wattenberg MM, Hodge JW, Couto MD, Chung KD, Ahmed MM.: In vivo effects of lattice radiation therapy on local and distant lung cancer: potential role of immunomodulation Radiat Res 182 : 149-62,2014.
Bernstein MB, Garnett CT, Zhang H, Velcich A, Wattenberg MM, Gameiro SR, Kalnicki S, Hodge JW, Guha C.: Radiation-induced modulation of costimulatory and coinhibitory T-cell signaling molecules on human prostate carcinoma cells promotes productive antitumor immune interactions Cancer Biother Radiopharm 29 : 153-61,2014.
Wattenberg MM, Kwilas AR, Gameiro SR, Dicker AP, Hodge JW.: Expanding the use of monoclonal antibody therapy of cancer by using ionising radiation to upregulate antibody targets Br J Cancer 110 : 1472-80,2014.
Gameiro SR, Jammeh ML, Wattenberg MM, Tsang KY, Ferrone S, Hodge JW.: Radiation-induced immunogenic modulation of tumor enhances antigen processing and calreticulin exposure, resulting in enhanced T-cell killing Oncotarget 5 : 403-16,2014.
Henson AL, Moore JB 4th, Alard P, Wattenberg MM, Liu JM, Ellis SR.: Mitochondrial function is impaired in yeast and human cellular models of Shwachman Diamond syndrome Biochem Biophys Res Commun 437 : 29-34,2013.
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