Beth Apsel Winger, MD, PhD

Dr. Winger’s research is focused on advancing precision medicine to improve therapeutics and outcomes for patients with cancer and other blood diseases. Her research has two main focuses: 1) understanding mutations in kinases so that we can expand the use of targeted therapies and match the right drug to the right patient, and 2) developing precision dosing strategies to give every patient the right amount of drug for their body.
  1. Paolino J, Dimitrov B, Apsel Winger B, Sandoval-Perez A, Rangarajan AV, Ocasio-Martinez N, Tsai HK, Li Y, Robichaud AL, Khalid D, Hatton C, Gillani R, Polonen P, Dilig A, Gotti G, Kavanagh J, Adhav AA, Gow S, Tsai J, Li Y, Ebert BL, Van Allen EM, Bledsoe J, Kim AS, Tasian SK, Cooper SL, Cooper TM, Hijiya N, Sulis ML, Shukla NN, Magee JA, Mullighan CG, Burke MJ, Luskin MR, Mar BG, Jacobson MP, Harris MH, Stegmaier K, Place AE, Pikman Y. Integration of Genomic Sequencing Drives Therapeutic Targeting of PDGFRA in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoblastic Lymphoma. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2023. PMID: 37725576


  2. Apsel Winger B, Devine WP, Hsiao EC, Zapala M, Van Ziffle J, Gupta N, Frieden IJ, Shimano KA. EML4::ALK fusions in complex lymphatic malformations. Pediatric blood & cancer 2023. PMID: 37377128





  3. Li S, Dvorak CC, Lu Y, Chan D, Gobburu JVS, Long-Boyle J, Winger BA. Population Pharmacokinetics of Melphalan for Pediatric Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. 2022. PMID: 35048362



  4. Pikman Y, Tasian SK, Sulis ML, Stevenson K, Blonquist TM, Apsel Winger B, Cooper TM, Pauly M, Maloney KW, Burke MJ, Brown PA, Gossai N, McNeer JL, Shukla NN, Cole PD, Kahn JM, Chen J, Barth MJ, Magee JA, Gennarini L, Adhav AA, Clinton CM, Ocasio-Martinez N, Gotti G, Li Y, Lin S, Imamovic A, Tognon CE, Patel T, Faust HL, Contreras CF, Cremer A, Cortopassi WA, Garrido Ruiz D, Jacobson MP, Dharia NV, Su A, Robichaud AL, Saur Conway A, Tarlock K, Stieglitz E, Place AE, Puissant A, Hunger SP, Kim AS, Lindeman NI, Gore L, Janeway KA, Silverman LB, Tyner JW, Harris MH, Loh ML, Stegmaier K. Matched Targeted Therapy for Pediatric Patients with Relapsed, Refractory, or High-Risk Leukemias: A Report from the LEAP Consortium. Cancer discovery 2021. PMID: 33563661


  5. Apsel Winger B, Shukla P, Kharbanda S, Keizer RJ, Goswami S, Cowan MJ, Dvorak CC, Long-Boyle J. The Relationship Between Busulfan Exposure and Achievement of Sustained Donor Myeloid Chimerism in Patients with Non-Malignant Disorders. Transplantation and cellular therapy 2020. PMID: 33781528



  6. Wang H, Long-Boyle J, Winger BA, Nicolaides T, Mueller S, Prados M, Ivaturi V. Population Pharmacokinetics of Vemurafenib in Children With Recurrent/Refractory BRAF Gene V600E-Mutant Astrocytomas. Journal of clinical pharmacology 2020. PMID: 32476174


  7. Apsel Winger B, Cortopassi WA, Garrido Ruiz D, Ding L, Jang K, Leyte-Vidal A, Zhang N, Esteve-Puig R, Jacobson MP, Shah NP. ATP-Competitive Inhibitors Midostaurin and Avapritinib Have Distinct Resistance Profiles in Exon 17-Mutant KIT. Cancer research 2019. PMID: 31270078


  8. Winger BA, Foy E, Sud SR, MacKenzie JD, Pua HH, Lau AH, Heyman MB, Laszik Z, Tureen J. Mycobacterium bovis Enterocolitis in an Immunocompromised Host. Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2016. PMID: 26020480


  9. Apsel Winger B, Shah NP. PPAR?: Welcoming the New Kid on the CML Stem Cell Block. Cancer cell 2015. PMID: 26461088


  10. Feldman ME, Apsel B, Uotila A, Loewith R, Knight ZA, Ruggero D, Shokat KM. Active-site inhibitors of mTOR target rapamycin-resistant outputs of mTORC1 and mTORC2. PLoS biology 2009. PMID: 19209957


  11. Apsel B, Blair JA, Gonzalez B, Nazif TM, Feldman ME, Aizenstein B, Hoffman R, Williams RL, Shokat KM, Knight ZA. Targeted polypharmacology: discovery of dual inhibitors of tyrosine and phosphoinositide kinases. Nature chemical biology 2008. PMID: 18849971


  12. Zunder ER, Knight ZA, Houseman BT, Apsel B, Shokat KM. Discovery of drug-resistant and drug-sensitizing mutations in the oncogenic PI3K isoform p110 alpha. Cancer cell 2008. PMID: 18691552


  13. Mackey ZB, Baca AM, Mallari JP, Apsel B, Shelat A, Hansell EJ, Chiang PK, Wolff B, Guy KR, Williams J, McKerrow JH. Discovery of trypanocidal compounds by whole cell HTS of Trypanosoma brucei. Chemical biology & drug design 2006. PMID: 16784460


  14. Pillinger MH, Dinsell V, Apsel B, Tolani SN, Marjanovic N, Chan ES, Gomez P, Clancy R, Chang LF, Abramson SB. Regulation of metalloproteinases and NF-kappaB activation in rabbit synovial fibroblasts via E prostaglandins and Erk: contrasting effects of nabumetone and 6MNA. British journal of pharmacology 2004. PMID: 15210577