Alexis Melton, MD, PhD

  1. Cisneros GS, Dvorak CC, Long-Boyle J, Kharbanda S, Shimano KA, Melton A, Chu J, Winestone LE, Dara J, Huang JN, Hermiston ML, Zinter M, Higham CS. Diagnosing and Grading of Sinusoidal Obstructive Syndrome after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant of Children, Adolescent and Young Adults treated in a Pediatric Institution with Pediatric Protocols. Transplantation and cellular therapy 2024. PMID: 38631464


  2. Cuvelier GDE, Ng B, Abdossamadi S, Nemecek ER, Melton A, Kitko CL, Lewis VA, Schechter T, Jacobsohn DA, Harris AC, Pulsipher MA, Bittencourt H, Choi SW, Caywood EH, Kasow KA, Bhatia M, Oshrine BR, Chaudhury S, Coulter D, Chewning JH, Joyce M, Savasan S, Pawlowska AB, Megason GC, Mitchell D, Cheerva AC, Lawitschka A, Ostroumov E, Schultz KR. A diagnostic classifier for pediatric chronic graft-versus-host disease: results of the ABLE/PBMTC 1202 study. Blood advances 2023. PMID: 36219586


  3. Higham CS, Shimano KA, Melton A, Kharbanda S, Chu J, Dara J, Winestone LE, Hermiston ML, Huang JN, Dvorak CC. A pilot trial of prophylactic defibrotide to prevent serious thrombotic microangiopathy in high-risk pediatric patients. 2022. PMID: 35253361


  4. Forlanini F, Zinter MS, Dvorak CC, Bailey-Olson M, Winestone LE, Shimano KA, Higham CS, Melton A, Chu J, Kharbanda S. Hematopoietic Cell Transplant-Comorbidity Index Score is Correlated with Treatment Related Mortality and Overall Survival following Second Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant in Children. 2021. PMID: 34848362


  5. Higham CS, Collins G, Shimano KA, Melton A, Kharbanda S, Winestone LE, Huang JN, Dara J, Long-Boyle JR, Dvorak CC. Transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy in pediatric patients: pre-HSCT risk stratification and prophylaxis. Blood advances 2021. PMID: 33877298


  6. Christine S Higham, Alexis Melton, Sandhya Kharbanda, Jasmeen Dara, Lena E. Winestone, James N Huang, Kristin A. Shimano. A Pilot Trial of Pre-Transplant Risk Stratification and Prophylactic Defibrotide to Prevent Serious Thrombotic Microangiopathy in High-Risk Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients. Blood 2020. PMID:


  7. Contreras CF, Long-Boyle JR, Shimano KA, Melton A, Kharbanda S, Dara J, Higham C, Huang JN, Cowan MJ, Dvorak CC. Reduced Toxicity Conditioning for Nonmalignant Hematopoietic Cell Transplants. Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2020. PMID: 32534101


  8. Friend BD, Bailey-Olson M, Melton A, Shimano KA, Kharbanda S, Higham C, Winestone LE, Huang J, Stieglitz E, Dvorak CC. The impact of total body irradiation-based regimens on outcomes in children and young adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Pediatric blood & cancer 2019. PMID: 31724815


  9. Cristina F Contreras, Janel R Long-Boyle, Kristin A. Shimano, Jasmeen Dara, James N Huang, Sandhya Kharbanda, Alexis Melton, Christine Higham, Morton J Cowan, Christopher C. Dvorak. Reduced Toxicity Conditioning for Non-Malignant Hematopoietic Cell Transplants. Blood 2019. PMID:


  10. Aleksandra S. Dain, Michelle L. Hermiston, Kristin A. Shimano, Sandhya Kharbanda, Alexis Melton, Jasmeen Dara, James N Huang, Christopher C. Dvorak. Role of Disease Mechanism in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Outcomes for Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis. Blood 2019. PMID:


  11. Lown EA, Banerjee A, Vittinghoff E, Dvorak CC, Hartogensis W, Melton A, Mangurian C, Hu H, Shear D, Adcock R, Morgan M, Golden C, Hecht FM. Acupressure to Reduce Treatment-Related Symptoms for Children With Cancer and Recipients of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. Global advances in health and medicine 2019. PMID: 31453017


  12. Zinter MS, Dvorak CC, Mayday MY, Iwanaga K, Ly NP, McGarry ME, Church GD, Faricy LE, Rowan CM, Hume JR, Steiner ME, Crawford ED, Langelier C, Kalantar K, Chow ED, Miller S, Shimano K, Melton A, Yanik GA, Sapru A, DeRisi JL. Pulmonary Metagenomic Sequencing Suggests Missed Infections in Immunocompromised Children. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2019. PMID: 30239621


  13. Neely JA, Dvorak CC, Pantell MS, Melton A, Huang JN, Shimano KA. Autoimmune Cytopenias in Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Patients. Frontiers in pediatrics 2019. PMID: 31131266



  14. Brian D. Friend, Mara Bailey-Olson, Christine Higham, Jasmeen Dara, Alexis Melton, Kristin A. Shimano, James Huang, Sandhya Kharbanda, Christopher C. Dvorak. The Impact of Total Body Irradiation-Based Regimens on Outcomes in Children and Young Adults with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2019. PMID:


  15. Matt S Zinter, Christopher C Dvorak, Madeline Y Mayday, Kensho Iwanaga, Ngoc P Ly, Meghan E McGarry, Gwynne D Church, Lauren E Faricy, Courtney M Rowan, Janet R Hume, Marie E Steiner, Emily D Crawford, Charles Langelier, Katrina Kalantar, Eric D Chow, Steve Miller, Kristin Shimano, Alexis Melton, Greg A Yanik, Anil Sapru, Joseph L DeRisi. Pulmonary Metagenomic Sequencing Suggests Missed Infections in Immunocompromised Children. bioRxiv 2018. PMID:


  16. Dvorak CC, Puck JM, Wahlstrom JT, Dorsey M, Melton A, Cowan MJ. Neurologic event-free survival demonstrates a benefit for SCID patients diagnosed by newborn screening. Blood advances 2017. PMID: 29296816



  17. Horn B, Wahlstrom JT, Melton A, Liou A, Ouachee-Chardin M, Sunkersett G, Willert J, Hwang J, Expose-Spencer J, Cowan MC, Facchino J, Dvorak CC. Early mixed chimerism-based preemptive immunotherapy in children undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for acute leukemia. Pediatric blood & cancer 2017. PMID: 28205327


  18. Justin T. Wahlstrom, Biljana N. Horn, Carol Fraser-Browne, Rebecca Hoeweler, Ying Lu, Alexis Melton, Jennifer Willert, Christopher C. Dvorak. Azacitidine Administration Following Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Is Safe and Feasible in Children with Acute Leukemia. Blood 2016. PMID:


  19. Vanessa P. Tolbert, Robert Goldsby, James Huang, Kristin Shimano, Alexis Melton, Jennifer Willert, Biljana N. Horn, Christopher C. Dvorak, Justin T. Wahlstrom. Daratumumab Is Effective in the Treatment of Refractory Post-Transplant Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia: A Pediatric Case Report. Blood 2016. PMID:


  20. Biljana Horn, Sara O'Kane, Rachel Wattier, Justin T. Wahlstrom, Alexis Melton, Morton J. Cowan, Christopher C. Dvorak. Serotherapy-Related Fevers, Blood Stream Infections (BSI), and Antibiotic Use in Pediatric Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant (HCT) Recipients. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2016. PMID:


  21. Ksionda O, Melton AA, Bache J, Tenhagen M, Bakker J, Harvey R, Winter SS, Rubio I, Roose JP. RasGRP1 overexpression in T-ALL increases basal nucleotide exchange on Ras rendering the Ras/PI3K/Akt pathway responsive to protumorigenic cytokines. Oncogene 2015. PMID: 26549032