Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD

Our goal is to identify novel therapeutic approaches for cancer that target the genetic mutations and altered signaling networks that are specific to cancer cells and their microenvironment. We use functional genomics applied to mouse and human systems (genetically engineered models, patient derived xenografts) to understand the signaling pathways and transcriptional networks that regulate the outcome of specific oncogenic mutations and to identify new approaches for cancer therapy. We have two primary disease interests: lung cancer and pediatric sarcomas. Our research spans the continuum from basic discovery to preclinical target development, done in a dynamic and interactive environment that is highly collaborative.

In our lung cancer work, we use functional genomic approaches to study how KRAS functions as an oncogene and to identify novel therapeutic opportunities. We performed one of the first mouse and human in vivo functional screens to identify WT1 loss as a synthetic vulnerability for KRAS-driven NSCLC (Vicent et al, 2010, JCI). More recently, we described a key role of oncogenic KRAS in regulation of the response to nutrient stress (Gwinn et al 2018, Cancer Cell). Through a multidisciplinary collaboration we have performed a high-throughput proteomic and genomics screen to characterize novel KRAS specific combinatorial vulnerabilities (Kelly, Kostyrko and Han, Cancer Discovery 2020). We are also interested in identifying and characterizing the role of tumor-propagating cells (also called cancer stem cells) in NSCLC. Using a combination of mouse and human systems, we identified a key role for Notch3 as a self-renewal pathway in mouse and human NSCLC (Zheng et al, 2013, Cancer Cell). We also have identified novel methods for targeting tumor-stroma interactions in lung cancer (Kim and Marquez et al, Nature Medicine, 2019). Ongoing projects are seeking to identify other KRAS specific vulnerabilities using 2D and 3D systems in both mouse and human. We are also using single-cell sequencing and other genomics approaches (ATACseq, etc) to study the role of TPCs in lung cancer.

In our sarcoma work, we study mechanisms driving Osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma metastatic progression and therapy resistance using in vivo patient-derived xenograft models. These two diseases provide an interesting contrast as clinically they are similar but from a genomic stand point they are quite distinct. We identified EWSAT1 as the first lncRNA involved in the pathogenesis of Ewing sarcoma (Howarth et al, JCI, 2014) and ongoing work is focused on understanding how lncRNAs regulate the oncogenic capacity of the EWS/FLI1 fusion. In osteosarcoma, we are performing translational studies to evaluate the use of targeted therapies for this disease and to understand mechanisms of metastatic progression using PDX and GEM models. Recently, we described how genomic analysis of osteosarcoma can help identify targeted therapies for this disease (Sayles and Breese et al, Cancer Discovery 2019). Our sarcoma work is facilitated by access to a large collection of patient-derived xenograft models and primary tumor samples which have been analyzed by Whole genome sequencing and RNAseq. We are using these models to explore the genomic evolution of sarcomas and define novel therapeutics that are informed by the alterations present in individual tumors.

We make extensive use of computational genomic approaches in our work and we have wide experience in generating and using next-generation sequencing data for gene and network discovery. We lead a multidisciplinary effort to apply next-generation sequencing (WGS/RNAseq etc.) to advance the care of relapsed and other high-risk pediatric cancer patients at UCSF/Benioff Children’s Hospitals (San Francisco and Oakland). To date, our laboratory has sequenced over 200 pediatric tumors by Whole Genome Sequencing and RNAseq. These datasets provide ample research opportunity for trainees interested in the intersection of cancer biology, functional genomics and computational biology. We have an active collaboration with the Genome Institute at the University of California Santa Cruz (D. Haussler and O. Vaske) to develop advance the care of relapsed and metastatic cancer patients using transcriptome analysis (Vaske et al JCI insight, 2019, Pfeil et al Plos Computational Biology, 2020).
Education
MD, 1995 - Medicine, University of California San Francisco
BS, 1989 - Anthropology, Stanford University
BA, 1989 - Biology, Stanford University
Websites

  1. Menon S, Breese MR, Lin YP, Allegakoen H, Perati S, Heslin A, Horlbeck MA, Weissman J, Sweet-Cordero EA, Bivona TG, Tulpule A. FET fusion oncoproteins disrupt physiologic DNA repair networks and induce ATR synthetic lethality in cancer. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023. PMID: 37205599


  2. Young EP, Marinoff AE, Lopez-Fuentes E, Sweet-Cordero EA. Osteosarcoma through the Lens of Bone Development, Signaling, and Microenvironment. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 2024. PMID: 38565264


  3. Lizardo MM, Hughes C, Huang YZ, Shyp T, Delaidelli A, Zhang HF, Shaool SS, Renner AF, Burwag F, Sayles LC, Lee AG, Sweet-Cordero EA, Sorensen PH. Pharmacologic inhibition of eIF4A blocks NRF2 synthesis to prevent osteosarcoma metastasis. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2024. PMID: 39078310


  4. Mazur PK, Herner A, Mello SS, Wirth M, Hausmann S, Sánchez-Rivera FJ, Lofgren SM, Kuschma T, Hahn SA, Vangala D, Trajkovic-Arsic M, Gupta A, Heid I, Noël PB, Braren R, Erkan M, Kleeff J, Sipos B, Sayles LC, Heikenwalder M, Heßmann E, Ellenrieder V, Esposito I, Jacks T, Bradner JE, Khatri P, Sweet-Cordero EA, Attardi LD, Schmid RM, Schneider G, Sage J, Siveke JT. Author Correction: Combined inhibition of BET family proteins and histone deacetylases as a potential epigenetics-based therapy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Nature medicine 2024. PMID: 38816611


  5. Sweet-Cordero E, Marini K, Champion E, Lee A, Young I, Leung S, Mathey-Andrews N, Jacks T, Jackson P, Cochran J. The CLCF1-CNTFR axis drives an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and blockade enhances the effects of established cancer therapies. Research square 2024. PMID: 38562778


  6. Schott CR, Koehne AL, Sayles LC, Young EP, Luck C, Yu K, Lee AG, Breese MR, Leung SG, Xu H, Shah AT, Liu HY, Spillinger A, Behroozfard IH, Marini KD, Dinh PT, Pons Ventura MV, Vanderboon EN, Hazard FK, Cho SJ, Avedian RS, Mohler DG, Zimel M, Wustrack R, Curtis C, Sirota M, Sweet-Cordero EA. Osteosarcoma PDX-Derived Cell Line Models for Preclinical Drug Evaluation Demonstrate Metastasis Inhibition by Dinaciclib through a Genome-Targeted Approach. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2023. PMID: 37703185


  7. Shumock SS, Temple WC, Marinoff A, Aaronson K, Southworth E, Xirenayi S, Lee AG, Leung SG, Sweet-Cordero EA, Hermiston M, Higham C, Stieglitz E. Pre-and post-HSCT use of TKI therapy for fusion-driven B-ALL: A case series of five pediatric, adolescent and young adult patients. Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) 2023. PMID: 37933765


  8. Kostyrko K, Román M, Lee AG, Simpson DR, Dinh PT, Leung SG, Marini KD, Kelly MR, Broyde J, Califano A, Jackson PK, Sweet-Cordero EA. UHRF1 is a mediator of KRAS driven oncogenesis in lung adenocarcinoma. Nature communications 2023. PMID: 37407562


  9. Solomon PE, Bracken CJ, Carozza JA, Wang H, Young EP, Wellner A, Liu CC, Sweet-Cordero EA, Li L, Wells JA. Discovery of VH domains that allosterically inhibit ENPP1. Nature chemical biology 2023. PMID: 37400538


  10. Tulpule A, Menon S, Breese M, Lin Y, Allegakoen H, Perati S, Heslin A, Horlbeck M, Weissman J, Sweet-Cordero A, Bivona T. FET fusion oncoproteins disrupt physiologic DNA repair networks and induce ATR synthetic lethality in cancer. Research square 2023. PMID: 37398210


  11. Sun CX, Daniel P, Bradshaw G, Shi H, Loi M, Chew N, Parackal S, Tsui V, Liang Y, Koptyra M, Adjumain S, Sun C, Chong WC, Fernando D, Drinkwater C, Tourchi M, Habarakada D, Sooraj D, Carvalho D, Storm PB, Baubet V, Sayles LC, Fernandez E, Nguyen T, P?rksen M, Doan A, Crombie DE, Panday M, Zhukova N, Dun MD, Ludlow LE, Day B, Stringer BW, Neeman N, Rubens JA, Raabe EH, Vinci M, Tyrrell V, Fletcher JI, Ekert PG, Dumevska B, Ziegler DS, Tsoli M, Syed Sulaiman NF, Loh AHP, Low SYY, Sweet-Cordero EA, Monje M, Resnick A, Jones C, Downie P, Williams B, Rosenbluh J, Gough D, Cain JE, Firestein R. Generation and multi-dimensional profiling of a childhood cancer cell line atlas defines new therapeutic opportunities. Cancer cell 2023. PMID: 37001527


  12. Schott CR, Koehne AL, Sayles LC, Young EP, Luck C, Yu K, Lee AG, Breese MR, Leung SG, Xu H, Shah AT, Liu HY, Spillinger A, Behroozfard IH, Marini KD, Dinh PT, Pons Ventura MAV, Vanderboon EN, Hazard FK, Cho SJ, Avedian RS, Mohler DG, Zimel M, Wustrack R, Curtis C, Sirota M, Sweet-Cordero EA. Development and characterization of new patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models of osteosarcoma with distinct metastatic capacities. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023. PMID: 36711882


  13. Fang H, Yan HHN, Bilardi RA, Flensburg C, Yang H, Barbour JA, Siu HC, Turski M, Chew E, Xu Z, Lam ST, Sharma R, Xu M, Li J, Ip HW, Cheung CYM, Huen MSY, Sweet-Cordero EA, Majewski IJ, Leung SY, Wong JWH. Ganciclovir-induced mutations are present in a diverse spectrum of post-transplant malignancies. Genome medicine 2022. PMID: 36316687


  14. Song H, Bucher S, Rosenberg K, Tsui M, Burhan D, Hoffman D, Cho SJ, Rangaswami A, Breese M, Leung S, Ventura MVP, Sweet-Cordero EA, Huang FW, Nijagal A, Wang B. Single-cell analysis of hepatoblastoma identifies tumor signatures that predict chemotherapy susceptibility using patient-specific tumor spheroids. Nature communications 2022. PMID: 36008377


  15. González Díaz EC, Lee AG, Sayles LC, Feria C, Sweet-Cordero EA, Yang F. A 3D Osteosarcoma Model with Bone-Mimicking Cues Reveals a Critical Role of Bone Mineral and Informs Drug Discovery. Advanced healthcare materials 2022. PMID: 35767377


  16. Roman M, Hwang E, Sweet-Cordero EA. Synthetic Vulnerabilities in the KRAS Pathway. Cancers 2022. PMID: 35740503


  17. Solomon PE, Kirkemo LL, Wilson GM, Leung KK, Almond MH, Sayles LC, Sweet-Cordero EA, Rosenberg OS, Coon JJ, Wells JA. Discovery proteomics analysis determines that driver oncogenes suppress antiviral defense pathways through reduction in interferon-b autocrine stimulation. 2022. PMID: 35594991


  18. Van Loon K, Mohar A, Unger-Saldaña K, Potter MB, Sweet-Cordero EA, Breithaupt L, Espinosa-Tamez P, Sepúlveda-Amor J, Lajous M. Untitled Publication 2022. PMID: 35438915


  19. Youn M, Smith SM, Lee AG, Chae HD, Spiteri E, Erdmann J, Galperin I, Jones LM, Donato M, Abidi P, Bittencourt H, Lacayo N, Dahl G, Aftandilian C, Davis KL, Matthews JA, Kornblau SM, Huang M, Sumarsono N, Redell MS, Fu CH, Chen IM, Alonzo TA, Eklund E, Gotlib J, Khatri P, Sweet-Cordero EA, Hijiya N, Sakamoto KM. Comparison of the Transcriptomic Signatures in Pediatric and Adult CML. 2021. PMID: 34944883


  20. Shah AT, Azad TD, Breese MR, Chabon JJ, Hamilton EG, Straessler K, Kurtz DM, Leung SG, Spillinger A, Liu HY, Behroozfard IH, Wittber FM, Hazard FK, Cho SJ, Daldrup-Link HE, Vo KT, Rangaswami A, Pribnow A, Spunt SL, Lacayo NJ, Diehn M, Alizadeh AA, Sweet-Cordero EA. A comprehensive circulating tumor DNA assay for detection of translocation and copy number changes in pediatric sarcomas. Molecular cancer therapeutics 2021. PMID: 34353895


  21. Behnert A, Lee AG, Young EP, Breese MR, Leung SG, Behroozfard I, Maruffi M, Sweet-Cordero EA, Dvorak CC, Chu J, Stieglitz E. NUP98-NSD1 Driven MDS/MPN in Childhood Masquerading as JMML. Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology 2020. PMID: 32815876


  22. Levinson A, Lee AG, Martell HJ, Breese MR, Zaloudek C, Van Ziffle J, Laguna B, Leung SG, Chen MD, Chen LM, Pfeil J, Ladwig NR, Shah AT, Behroozfard I, Rao AA, Salama SR, Sweet-Cordero EA, Stieglitz E. Complete Response to PD-1 Inhibition in an Adolescent With Relapsed Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma of the Cervix Predicted by Neoepitope Burden and APOBEC Signature. JCO precision oncology 2020. PMID: 33283136


  23. Kostyrko K, Sweet-Cordero EA. An Expanded Tool Kit for Modeling the Oncogenic Functions of KRAS. Cancer discovery 2020. PMID: 33139339


  24. Hawkins C, Pfister S, Jones DTW, Shah NN, Gilbertson RJ, Sweet-Cordero EA, Dyer MA, Mossé YP, Haber M, DuBois SG. Advances and Challenges in Pediatric and Childhood Cancers. Cancer cell 2020. PMID: 33049203


  25. Broyde J, Simpson DR, Murray D, Paull EO, Chu BW, Tagore S, Jones SJ, Griffin AT, Giorgi FM, Lachmann A, Jackson P, Sweet-Cordero EA, Honig B, Califano A. Oncoprotein-specific molecular interaction maps (SigMaps) for cancer network analyses. Nature biotechnology 2020. PMID: 32929263


  26. Kelly MR, Kostyrko K, Han K, Mooney NA, Jeng EE, Spees K, Dinh PT, Abbott KL, Gwinn DM, Sweet-Cordero EA, Bassik MC, Jackson PK. Combined Proteomic and Genetic Interaction Mapping Reveals New RAS Effector Pathways and Susceptibilities. Cancer discovery 2020. PMID: 32727735


  27. Kim JW, Marquez CP, Sperberg RAP, Wu J, Bae WG, Huang PS, Sweet-Cordero EA, Cochran JR. Engineering a potent receptor superagonist or antagonist from a novel IL-6 family cytokine ligand. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020. PMID: 32522868


  28. Pfeil J, Sanders LM, Anastopoulos I, Lyle AG, Weinstein AS, Xue Y, Blair A, Beale HC, Lee A, Leung SG, Dinh PT, Shah AT, Breese MR, Devine WP, Bjork I, Salama SR, Sweet-Cordero EA, Haussler D, Vaske OM. Hydra: A mixture modeling framework for subtyping pediatric cancer cohorts using multimodal gene expression signatures. PLoS computational biology 2020. PMID: 32275708


  29. Valencia K, Erice O, Kostyrko K, Hausmann S, Guruceaga E, Tathireddy A, Flores NM, Sayles LC, Lee AG, Fragoso R, Sun TQ, Vallejo A, Roman M, Entrialgo-Cadierno R, Migueliz I, Razquin N, Fortes P, Lecanda F, Lu J, Ponz-Sarvise M, Chen CZ, Mazur PK, Sweet-Cordero EA, Vicent S. The Mir181ab1 cluster promotes KRAS-driven oncogenesis and progression in lung and pancreas. The Journal of clinical investigation 2020. PMID: 31874105


  30. Han K, Pierce SE, Li A, Spees K, Anderson GR, Seoane JA, Lo YH, Dubreuil M, Olivas M, Kamber RA, Wainberg M, Kostyrko K, Kelly MR, Yousefi M, Simpkins SW, Yao D, Lee K, Kuo CJ, Jackson PK, Sweet-Cordero A, Kundaje A, Gentles AJ, Curtis C, Winslow MM, Bassik MC. CRISPR screens in cancer spheroids identify 3D growth-specific vulnerabilities. Nature 2020. PMID: 32238925


  31. Schott C, Shah AT, Sweet-Cordero EA. Genomic Complexity of Osteosarcoma and Its Implication for Preclinical and Clinical Targeted Therapies. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2020. PMID: 32767231


  32. Kim JW, Marquez CP, Kostyrko K, Koehne AL, Marini K, Simpson DR, Lee AG, Leung SG, Sayles LC, Shrager J, Ferrer I, Paz-Ares L, Gephart MH, Vicent S, Cochran JR, Sweet-Cordero EA. Antitumor activity of an engineered decoy receptor targeting CLCF1-CNTFR signaling in lung adenocarcinoma. Nature medicine 2019. PMID: 31700175


  33. Sanders LM, Rangaswami A, Bjork I, Lam DL, Beale HC, Kephart ET, Durbin A, Learned K, Currie R, Lyle AG, Pfeil J, Shah AT, Lee AG, Leung SG, Behroozfard IH, Breese MR, Peralez J, Hazard FK, Lacayo N, Spunt SL, Haussler D, Salama SR, Sweet-Cordero EA, Vaske OM. Comparative RNA-seq analysis aids in diagnosis of a rare pediatric tumor. Cold Spring Harbor molecular case studies 2019. PMID: 31645344


  34. Fernandez KS, Turski ML, Shah AT, Bastian BC, Horvai A, Hardee S, Sweet-Cordero EA. Ewing sarcoma in a child with neurofibromatosis type 1. Cold Spring Harbor molecular case studies 2019. PMID: 31645347


  35. Vaske OM, Bjork I, Salama SR, Beale H, Tayi Shah A, Sanders L, Pfeil J, Lam DL, Learned K, Durbin A, Kephart ET, Currie R, Newton Y, Swatloski T, McColl D, Vivian J, Zhu J, Lee AG, Leung SG, Spillinger A, Liu HY, Liang WS, Byron SA, Berens ME, Resnick AC, Lacayo N, Spunt SL, Rangaswami A, Huynh V, Torno L, Plant A, Kirov I, Zabokrtsky KB, Rassekh SR, Deyell RJ, Laskin J, Marra MA, Sender LS, Mueller S, Sweet-Cordero EA, Goldstein TC, Haussler D. Comparative Tumor RNA Sequencing Analysis for Difficult-to-Treat Pediatric and Young Adult Patients With Cancer. JAMA network open 2019. PMID: 31651965


  36. Chao AK, Meyer JA, Lee AG, Hecht A, Tarver T, Van Ziffle J, Koegel AK, Golden C, Braun BS, Sweet-Cordero EA, Smith CC, Dvorak CC, Loh ML, Stieglitz E. Fusion driven JMML: a novel CCDC88C-FLT3 fusion responsive to sorafenib identified by RNA sequencing. Leukemia 2019. PMID: 31511612


  37. Roberts RD, Lizardo MM, Reed DR, Hingorani P, Glover J, Allen-Rhoades W, Fan T, Khanna C, Sweet-Cordero EA, Cash T, Bishop MW, Hegde M, Sertil AR, Koelsche C, Mirabello L, Malkin D, Sorensen PH, Meltzer PS, Janeway KA, Gorlick R, Crompton BD. Provocative questions in osteosarcoma basic and translational biology: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Cancer 2019. PMID: 31355930


  38. Ren Y, Huang S, Dai C, Xie D, Zheng L, Xie H, Zheng H, She Y, Zhou F, Wang Y, Li P, Fei K, Jiang G, Zhang Y, Su B, Sweet-Cordero EA, Tran NL, Yang Y, Patel JN, Rolfo C, Rocco G, Cardona AF, Tuzi A, Suter MB, Yang P, Xu W, Chen C. Germline Predisposition and Copy Number Alteration in Pre-stage Lung Adenocarcinomas Presenting as Ground-Glass Nodules. Frontiers in oncology 2019. PMID: 31058088


  39. Sweet-Cordero EA, Biegel JA. The genomic landscape of pediatric cancers: Implications for diagnosis and treatment. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2019. PMID: 30872516


  40. Sayles LC, Breese MR, Koehne AL, Leung SG, Lee AG, Liu HY, Spillinger A, Shah AT, Tanasa B, Straessler K, Hazard FK, Spunt SL, Marina N, Kim GE, Cho SJ, Avedian RS, Mohler DG, Kim MO, DuBois SG, Hawkins DS, Sweet-Cordero EA. Genome-Informed Targeted Therapy for Osteosarcoma. Cancer discovery 2018. PMID: 30266815


  41. Marini KD, Croucher DR, McCloy RA, Vaghjiani V, Gonzalez-Rajal A, Hastings JF, Chin V, Szczepny A, Kostyrko K, Marquez C, Jayasekara WSN, Alamgeer M, Boolell V, Han JZR, Waugh T, Lee HC, Oakes SR, Kumar B, Harrison CA, Hedger MP, Lorensuhewa N, Kita B, Barrow R, Robinson BW, de Kretser DM, Wu J, Ganju V, Sweet-Cordero EA, Burgess A, Martelotto LG, Rossello FJ, Cain JE, Watkins DN. Inhibition of activin signaling in lung adenocarcinoma increases the therapeutic index of platinum chemotherapy. Science translational medicine 2018. PMID: 30045976


  42. Gwinn DM, Lee AG, Briones-Martin-Del-Campo M, Conn CS, Simpson DR, Scott AI, Le A, Cowan TM, Ruggero D, Sweet-Cordero EA. Oncogenic KRAS Regulates Amino Acid Homeostasis and Asparagine Biosynthesis via ATF4 and Alters Sensitivity to L-Asparaginase. Cancer cell 2018. PMID: 29316436


  43. Hsieh G, Bierman R, Szabo L, Lee AG, Freeman DE, Watson N, Sweet-Cordero EA, Salzman J. Statistical algorithms improve accuracy of gene fusion detection. Nucleic acids research 2017. PMID: 28541529


  44. Alvarez E, Seppa M, Rivas S, Fuentes L, Valverde P, Antillón-Klussmann F, Castellanos M, Sweet-Cordero EA, Messacar K, Kurap J, Bustamante M, Howard SC, Efron B, Luna-Fineman S. Improvement in treatment abandonment in pediatric patients with cancer in Guatemala. Pediatric blood & cancer 2017. PMID: 28423236


  45. Vallejo A, Perurena N, Guruceaga E, Mazur PK, Martinez-Canarias S, Zandueta C, Valencia K, Arricibita A, Gwinn D, Sayles LC, Chuang CH, Guembe L, Bailey P, Chang DK, Biankin A, Ponz-Sarvise M, Andersen JB, Khatri P, Bozec A, Sweet-Cordero EA, Sage J, Lecanda F, Vicent S. An integrative approach unveils FOSL1 as an oncogene vulnerability in KRAS-driven lung and pancreatic cancer. Nature communications 2017. PMID: 28220783


  46. Chuang CH, Greenside PG, Rogers ZN, Brady JJ, Yang D, Ma RK, Caswell DR, Chiou SH, Winters AF, Grüner BM, Ramaswami G, Spencley AL, Kopecky KE, Sayles LC, Sweet-Cordero EA, Li JB, Kundaje A, Winslow MM. Molecular definition of a metastatic lung cancer state reveals a targetable CD109-Janus kinase-Stat axis. Nature medicine 2017. PMID: 28191885


  47. Brady JJ, Chuang CH, Greenside PG, Rogers ZN, Murray CW, Caswell DR, Hartmann U, Connolly AJ, Sweet-Cordero EA, Kundaje A, Winslow MM. An Arntl2-Driven Secretome Enables Lung Adenocarcinoma Metastatic Self-Sufficiency. Cancer cell 2016. PMID: 27150038


  48. Mazur PK, Herner A, Mello SS, Wirth M, Hausmann S, Sánchez-Rivera FJ, Lofgren SM, Kuschma T, Hahn SA, Vangala D, Trajkovic-Arsic M, Gupta A, Heid I, Noël PB, Braren R, Erkan M, Kleeff J, Sipos B, Sayles LC, Heikenwalder M, Heßmann E, Ellenrieder V, Esposito I, Jacks T, Bradner JE, Khatri P, Sweet-Cordero EA, Attardi LD, Schmid RM, Schneider G, Sage J, Siveke JT. Combined inhibition of BET family proteins and histone deacetylases as a potential epigenetics-based therapy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Nature medicine 2015. PMID: 26390243


  49. Marques Howarth M, Simpson D, Ngok SP, Nieves B, Chen R, Siprashvili Z, Vaka D, Breese MR, Crompton BD, Alexe G, Hawkins DS, Jacobson D, Brunner AL, West R, Mora J, Stegmaier K, Khavari P, Sweet-Cordero EA. Long noncoding RNA EWSAT1-mediated gene repression facilitates Ewing sarcoma oncogenesis. The Journal of clinical investigation 2014. PMID: 25401475


  50. Chen R, Khatri P, Mazur PK, Polin M, Zheng Y, Vaka D, Hoang CD, Shrager J, Xu Y, Vicent S, Butte AJ, Sweet-Cordero EA. A meta-analysis of lung cancer gene expression identifies PTK7 as a survival gene in lung adenocarcinoma. Cancer research 2014. PMID: 24654231


  51. Valdmanis PN, Roy-Chaudhuri B, Kim HK, Sayles LC, Zheng Y, Chuang CH, Caswell DR, Chu K, Zhang Y, Winslow MM, Sweet-Cordero EA, Kay MA. Upregulation of the microRNA cluster at the Dlk1-Dio3 locus in lung adenocarcinoma. Oncogene 2013. PMID: 24317514


  52. Zheng Y, de la Cruz CC, Sayles LC, Alleyne-Chin C, Vaka D, Knaak TD, Bigos M, Xu Y, Hoang CD, Shrager JB, Fehling HJ, French D, Forrest W, Jiang Z, Carano RA, Barck KH, Jackson EL, Sweet-Cordero EA. A rare population of CD24(+)ITGB4(+)Notch(hi) cells drives tumor propagation in NSCLC and requires Notch3 for self-renewal. Cancer cell 2013. PMID: 23845442


  53. Chen R, Sweet-Cordero EA. Two is better than one: combining IGF1R and MEK blockade as a promising novel treatment strategy against KRAS-mutant lung cancer. Cancer discovery 2013. PMID: 23658296


  54. Gwinn D, Sweet-Cordero EA. The phosphatase PP2A links glutamine to the tumor suppressor p53. Molecular cell 2013. PMID: 23622513


  55. Zheng Y, Moore H, Piryatinska A, Solis T, Sweet-Cordero EA. Mathematical modeling of tumor cell proliferation kinetics and label retention in a mouse model of lung cancer. Cancer research 2013. PMID: 23576555


  56. Hegde GV, de la Cruz CC, Chiu C, Alag N, Schaefer G, Crocker L, Ross S, Goldenberg D, Merchant M, Tien J, Shao L, Roth L, Tsai SP, Stawicki S, Jin Z, Wyatt SK, Carano RA, Zheng Y, Sweet-Cordero EA, Wu Y, Jackson EL. Blocking NRG1 and other ligand-mediated Her4 signaling enhances the magnitude and duration of the chemotherapeutic response of non-small cell lung cancer. Science translational medicine 2013. PMID: 23390248


  57. Hegde GV, de la Cruz C, Eastham-Anderson J, Zheng Y, Sweet-Cordero EA, Jackson EL. Residual tumor cells that drive disease relapse after chemotherapy do not have enhanced tumor initiating capacity. PloS one 2012. PMID: 23115623


  58. Vicent S, Sayles LC, Vaka D, Khatri P, Gevaert O, Chen R, Zheng Y, Gillespie AK, Clarke N, Xu Y, Shrager J, Hoang CD, Plevritis S, Butte AJ, Sweet-Cordero EA. Cross-species functional analysis of cancer-associated fibroblasts identifies a critical role for CLCF1 and IL-6 in non-small cell lung cancer in vivo. Cancer research 2012. PMID: 22962265


  59. Vicent S, Chen R, Sayles LC, Lin C, Walker RG, Gillespie AK, Subramanian A, Hinkle G, Yang X, Saif S, Root DE, Huff V, Hahn WC, Sweet-Cordero EA. Wilms tumor 1 (WT1) regulates KRAS-driven oncogenesis and senescence in mouse and human models. The Journal of clinical investigation 2010. PMID: 20972333


  60. Schaffer BE, Park KS, Yiu G, Conklin JF, Lin C, Burkhart DL, Karnezis AN, Sweet-Cordero EA, Sage J. Loss of p130 accelerates tumor development in a mouse model for human small-cell lung carcinoma. Cancer research 2010. PMID: 20406986


  61. Oliver TG, Mercer KL, Sayles LC, Burke JR, Mendus D, Lovejoy KS, Cheng MH, Subramanian A, Mu D, Powers S, Crowley D, Bronson RT, Whittaker CA, Bhutkar A, Lippard SJ, Golub T, Thomale J, Jacks T, Sweet-Cordero EA. Chronic cisplatin treatment promotes enhanced damage repair and tumor progression in a mouse model of lung cancer. Genes & development 2010. PMID: 20395368


  62. Sweet-Cordero A, Tseng GC, You H, Douglass M, Huey B, Albertson D, Jacks T. Comparison of gene expression and DNA copy number changes in a murine model of lung cancer. Genes, chromosomes & cancer 2006. PMID: 16323170


  63. Sweet-Cordero A, Mukherjee S, Subramanian A, You H, Roix JJ, Ladd-Acosta C, Mesirov J, Golub TR, Jacks T. An oncogenic KRAS2 expression signature identified by cross-species gene-expression analysis. Nature genetics 2004. PMID: 15608639