Penn Medicine Provider
Zev Binder, MD, PhD
About me
- Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
My Locations
Qualifications and experience
- Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, National
- American Cancer Society, National
- National Cancer Institute, International
My research
Benjamin Lin, Abigail K. Shelton, Erin Smithberger, Julia Ziebro, Kasey R. Skinner, Ryan E. Bash, Richard Kirkman, Allie Stamper, Madison Butler, Alex Flores, Steven P. Angus, Michael P. East, Timothy F. Cloughesy, David A. Nathanson, Michael E. Berens, Jann N. Sarkaria, Zev A. Binder, Donald M. O’Rourke, Timothy C. Howton, Brittany N. Lasseigne, Christopher D. Willey, Gary L. Johnson, Anita B. Hjelmeland, Frank B. Furnari & C. Ryan Miller Identifying and exploiting combinatorial synthetic lethality by characterizing adaptive kinome rewiring of EGFRvIII-driven glioblastoma , Acta Neuropathologica Communications: 2025
Stephen J. Bagley, Arati S. Desai, Joseph A. Fraietta, Dana Silverbush, Daniel Chafamo, Nelson F. Freeburg, Gayathri Konanur Gopikrishna, Andrew J. Rech, Ali Nabavizadeh, Linda J. Bagley, Jungmin Park, Danuta Jarocha, Rene Martins, Nicolas Sarmiento, Eileen Maloney, Lester Lledo, Carly Stein, Amy Marshall, Rachel M. Leskowitz, Julie K. Jadlowsky, Shane Mackey, Shannon Christensen, Bike Su Oner, Gabriela Plesa, Andrea Brennan, Vanessa Gonzalez, Fang Chen, David Barrett, Robert Colbourn, MacLean P. Nasrallah, Zissimos Mourelatos, Wei-Ting Hwang, Cecile Alanio, Donald L. Siegel, Carl H. June, Elizabeth O. Hexner, Zev A. Binder & Donald M. O’Rourke Intracerebroventricular bivalent CAR T cells targeting EGFR and IL-13Rα2 in recurrent glioblastoma: a phase 1 trial , Nature Medicine: 2025
Fathi Kazerooni A, Akbari H, Hu X, Bommineni V, Grigoriadis D, Toorens E, Sako C, Mamourian E, Ballinger D, Sussman R, Singh A, Verginadis II, Dahmane N, Koumenis C, Binder ZA, Bagley SJ, Mohan S, Hatzigeorgiou A, O'Rourke DM, Ganguly T, De S, Bakas S, Nasrallah MP, Davatzikos C. The radiogenomic and spatiogenomic landscapes of glioblastoma and their relationship to oncogenic drivers , Communications Medicine, 5(1): 2025
Sabrina L. Begley, Donald M. O’Rourke, and Zev A. Binder CAR T cell therapy for glioblastoma: A review of the first decade of clinical trials , Molecular Therapy: 2025
Sun Y, Wang X, Zhang DY, Zhang Z, Bhattarai JP, Wang Y, Park KH, Dong W, Hung YF, Yang Q, Zhang F, Rajamani K, Mu S, Kennedy BC, Hong Y, Galanaugh J, Sambangi A, Kim SH, Wheeler G, Gonçalves T, Wang Q, Geschwind DH, Kawaguchi R, Viaene AN, Helbig I, Kessler SK, Hoke A, Wang H, Xu F, Binder ZA, Isaac Chen H, Pai EL, Stone S, Nasrallah MP, Christian KM, Fuccillo M, Toni N, Wu Z, Cheng HJ, O'Rourke DM, Ma M, Ming GL, Song H. Brain-wide neuronal circuit connectome of human glioblastoma , Nature: 2025
Till JE, Seewald NJ, Yazdani Z, Wang Z, Ballinger D, Samberg H, Dandu S, Macia C, Yin M, Abdalla A, Prior T, Shah S, Patel T, McCoy E, Mansour M, Wills CA, Bochenek V, Serrano J, Snuderl M, Phillips RE, O'Rourke DM, Amankulor NM, Nabavizadeh A, Desai AS, Gollomp K, Binder ZA, Zhou W, Bagley SJ, Carpenter EL Corticosteroid-Dependent Association between Prognostic Peripheral Blood Cell-Free DNA Levels and Neutrophil-Mediated NETosis in Patients with Glioblastoma , Clinical Cancer Research: 2025
Meghan Logun, Xin Wang, Yusha Sun, Stephen J Bagley, Nannan Li, Arati Desai, Daniel Y Zhang, MacLean P Nasrallah, Emily Ling-Lin Pai, Bike Su Oner, Gabriela Plesa, Donald Siegel, Zev A Binder*, Guo-Li Ming*, Hongjun Song*, Donald M O'Rourke* Patient-derived glioblastoma organoids as real-time avatars for assessing responses to clinical CAR-T cell therapy , Cell Stem Cell, S1934-5909(24): 2024,00409-0
Daniel H Park, Pratik S Bhojnagarwala, Kevin Liaw, Devivasha Bordoloi, Nicholas J Tursi, Shushu Zhao, Zev A Binder, Donald O’Rourke, and David B Weiner Novel tri-specific T-cell engager targeting IL-13Rα2 and EGFRvIII provides long-term survival in heterogeneous GBM challenge and promotes antitumor cytotoxicity with patient immune cells , Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 12(12): 2024,e009604
Akbari H, Bakas S, Sako C, Fathi Kazerooni A, Villanueva-Meyer J, Garcia JA, Mamourian E, Liu F, Cao Q, Shinohara RT, Baid U, Getka A, Pati S, Singh A, Calabrese E, Chang S, Rudie J, Sotiras A, LaMontagne P, Marcus DS, Milchenko M, Nazeri A, Balana C, Capellades J, Puig J, Badve C, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Sloan AE, Vadmal V, Waite K, Ak M, Colen RR, Park YW, Ahn SS, Chang JH, Choi YS, Lee SK, Alexander GS, Ali AS, Dicker AP, Flanders AE, Liem S, Lombardo J, Shi W, Shukla G, Griffith B, Poisson LM, Rogers LR, Kotrotsou A, Booth TC, Jain R, Lee M, Mahajan A, Chakravarti A, Palmer JD, DiCostanzo D, Fathallah-Shaykh H, Cepeda S, Santonocito OS, Di Stefano AL, Wiestler B, Melhem ER, Woodworth GF, Tiwari P, Valdes P, Matsumoto Y, Otani Y, Imoto R, Aboian M, Koizumi S, Kurozumi K, Kawakatsu T, Alexander K, Satgunaseelan L, Rulseh AM, Bagley SJ, Bilello M, Binder ZA, Brem S, Desai AS, Lustig RA, Maloney E, Prior T, Amankulor N, Nasrallah MLP, O'Rourke DM, Mohan S, Davatzikos C; ReSPOND consortium Machine Learning-based Prognostic Subgrouping of Glioblastoma: A Multi-center Study , Neuro-Oncology: 2024
Nannan Li, Jesse L. Rodriguez, Yibo Yin, Meghan T Logun, Logan Zhang, Shengkun Yu, Kelly A. Hicks, Vicky Zhang, Laura Zhang, Chuncheng Xie, Jiabin Wang, Joseph A Fraietta, Zev A. Binder*, Zhiguo Lin*, and Donald M. O’Rourke* Armored Bicistronic CAR T Cells with Dominant-negative TGF-β Receptor II to Overcome Resistance in Glioblastoma , Mol Ther, 32(10): 2024,3522-3538