Dr. Sankin is an academic surgeon in the Department of Urology, at Montefiore Medical Center with a clinical focus on surgical approaches to the management of urologic malignancies of the upper urinary tract and bladder. His academic focus is divided between clinical and translational research studying emerging treatments and techniques central to the surgical care of patients with urologic cancers. 

Dr. Sankin is the site-Principal Investigator for multiple clinical trials studying novel therapeutics for patients with bladder cancer who wish to avoid radical cystectomy. As an active member of multiple clinical trial consortiums including Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and the Society of Urologic Oncology Clinical Trials Consortium, Dr. Sankin speardeaded the development of a bladder cancer clinical trials program at Einstein. 

His translational research focuses on characterizing the tumor immune microenvironment of bladder tumors and the role of novel checkpoint molecules as relevant therpeutic targets.  

Clark TW, Sankin A, Becske T, Nelson PK, Fox M.  Stent-assisted Gugliemi detachable coil repair of wide-necked renal artery aneurysm using 3-D angiography.  Vasc Endovascular Surg 2008 Jan; 41(6):528-32

Tareen B, Sankin A, Godoy G, Temkin S, Lepor H, Taneja SS. Appropriate candidates for hemiablative focal therapy are infrequently encountered among men selected for radical prostatectomy in contemporary cohort. Urology.  2009 Feb;73(2):351-4

Tareen B, Godoy G, Sankin A, Temkin S, Lepor H, Taneja SS.  Laterality alone should not drive selection of candidates for hemi-ablative focal therapy. J Urol.  2009 Mar;181(3):1082-9

Tareen B, Godoy G, Sankin A, Temkin S, Lepor H, Taneja SS.  Can contemporary transrectal prostate biopsy accurately select candidates for hemi-ablative focal therapy of prostate cancer?  BJU Int. 2009 Jul;104(2):195-9

Marien T, Sankin A, Lepor H.  Factors predicting preservation of erectile function in men undergoing open radical retropubic prostatectomy.  J Urol.  2009 Apr;181(4):1817-22

Sankin A, Tareen B, Lepor H.  Side-specific factors associated with extracapsular extension and seminal vesicular invasion in men undergoing open radical retropubic prostatectomy.  Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis.  2009;12(2):204-8

Mufarrij P, Sankin A, Godoy G, Lepor H. Pathologic outcomes of candidates for active surveillance undergoing radical prostatectomy.  Urology.  2010 Sep;76(3):689-92

Sankin A, Cohen J, Wang H, Macchia RJ, Karanikolas N.  Rate of renal cell carcinoma subtypes in different races.  Int Braz J Urol.  2011 Feb;37(1):29-32

Sankin A, Sfakianos J, Schiff J, Sjoberg D, Coleman J. Assessing renal function following partial nephrectomy using renal nuclear scintigraphy and eGFR.  Urology.  2012 Aug;80(2):343-6

Ghavamian R, Hakimi AA, Williams SK, Kim PH, Chen L, Sfakianos JP, Keren-Paz GE, Sankin A, Ginzburg N, Coleman JA.  Factors affecting proportional glomerular filtration rate following minimally invasive partial nephrectomy.  J Endourology  2013 Nov;27(11):1371-5

Sankin A, Hakimi AA, Mikkilineni N, Ostrovnaya I, Silk MT, Liang Y, Mano R, Chevinsky M, Motzer RJ, Solomon SB, Cheng EH, Durack JC, Coleman JA, Russo P, Hsieh JJ.  The impact of genetic heterogeneity on biomarker development in kidney cancer assessed by multiregional sampling.  Cancer Medicine 2014 Dec;3(6):1485-92

Mano R, Vertosick E, Sankin A, Chevinsky M, Larish Y, Jakubowski CD, Hotker AM, Sjoberg D, Akin O, Russo P.  The clinical significance of indeterminate pulmonary nodules in patients with renal cell carcinoma.  J Urol 2014 Mar;193(3):776-82

Chevinsky M, Imnadze M, Sankin A, Winer A, Mano R, Jakubowski C, Mashni J, Sjoberg DD, Chen YB, Tickoo SK, Reuter VE, Hakimi AA, Russo P. Pathologic stage T3a significantly increases disease recurrence across all tumor sizes in renal cell carcinoma. J Urol 2015 Aug;194(2):310-5

Hakimi AA, Tickoo S, Jacobsen A, Sarungbam J, Sfakianos J, Sato Y, Morikawa T, Kume H, Fukayama M, Homma Y, Chen YB, Sankin A, Mano R, Coleman JA, Russo P, Ogawa S, Sander C, Hsieh JJ, Reuter VE. TCEB1-mutated renal cell carcinoma: a distinct genomic and morphologic subtype.  Mod Pathol 2015 June;28(6):845-53

Sankin A, Hakimi AA, Hsieh JJ, Molina AM.  Metastatic non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma: an evidence based review of current treatment strategies.  Front Oncol 2015 Apr 8;5:67

Hakimi AA, Ostrovnaya I, Jacobsen A, Susztak K, Coleman JA, Russo P, Winer AG, Mano R, Sankin A, Motzer RJ, Voss MH, Offit K, Purdue M, Pomerantz M, Freedman M, Choueiri TK, Hsieh JJ, Klein RJ.  Validation and genomic interrogation of the MET variant rs11762213 as a predictor of adverse outcomes in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.  Cancer 2016 Feb 1;122(3):402-10

Sankin A. Discovering biomarkers within the genomic landscape of renal cell carcinoma.  J Kidney 2016 Feb 2(1) 

Sankin A, Tin A, Mano R, Chevinsky M, Jakubowski C, Cha E, Yee A, Friedman F, Sjoberg D, Ehdaie B, Coleman J.  Impact of ureteroscopy prior to nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma on oncologic outcomes.  Urology 2016 Aug; 94:148-53

Mano R, Hakimi AA, Sankin AI, Sternberg IA, Chevinsky MS, Russo P.  Surgical treatment of tumors involving kidneys with fusion anomalies – a contemporary series.  Urology 2016 Aug; 98:97-102

Zhou TC, Sankin A, Porcelli SA, Perlin DS, Schoenberg MP, Zang XX.  A review of the PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint in bladder cancer: from mediator of immune escape, to target for treatment.  Urol Oncol 2017 Jan;35(1):14-20 

Winer AG, Vertosick EA, Ghanaat M, Corradi RB, Carlsson S, Sjoberg DD, Sankin AI, Sfakianos JP, Cha EK, Dalbagni G, Coleman JA. Prognostic value of lymph node yield during nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma.  Urol Oncol 2017 April;35(4):151

Sankin A, Narasimhulu D, John P, Gartrell B, Schoenberg M, Zang XX.  The expanding repertoire of targets for immune checkpoint inhibition in bladder cancer: what lies beneath the tip of the iceberg, PD-L1.  Urol Onc 2017 (Epub ahead of print)

Milbar N, Kates M, Chappidi MR, Pederzoli F, Yoshida T, Sankin A, Pierorazio PM, Schoenberg MP, Bivalacqua TJ. Oncological outcomes of sequential intravesical gemcitabine and docetaxel in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.  Bladder Cancer 2017 Oct 27;3(4):293-303

Daneshmand S, Patel s, Lotan Y, Pohar K, Trabulsi E, Woods M, Downs T, Huang W, Jones J, O’Donnell M, Bivalacqua T, DeCastro J, Steinberg G, Kamat A, Resnick M, Konety B, Schoenberg M, Jones JS, Flexible Blue Light Study Group Collaborators. Efficacy and Safety of Blue Light Flexible Cystoscopy with Hexaminolevulinate in the Surveillance of Bladder Cancer: A Phase III, Comparative, Multicenter Study.  J Urol 2018 May;199(5):1158-65

Fridman D, Abeshouse M, Sankin A. Paraurethral Leiomyoma as an Incidental Finding in a Patient with Fibroid Uterus. Case Rep Obstet Gynecol 2018 Feb 7;2018

Adrianzen Hererra DA, Goldberg-Stein S, Sankin A, Sarungbam J, Sharma J, Gartrell BA. Synchronous Bone Metastasis From Multiple Myeloma and Prostate Adenocarcinoma as Initial Presentation of Coexistent Malignancies. Front Oncol, 2018 Apr 30;8:137

Berstein A, Fram EB, Sankin A, Kovac E, Srivastava A, DiVito J, Stern JM. A Comparison of Perinephric Fat Surface Area and Mayo Adhesive Probability Score in Predicting Malignancy in T1 Renal Masses.  Urol Onc 2018 Nov; 36(11):499

Sun Y, Reuter VE, Magi-Galluzzi C, Sankin A, Epstein JI. Granular Cell Tumor of the Bladder: A Report of Six Cases.  Urology 2018 Nov; 121:203 

Leow JJ, Bedke J, Chamie K, Collins JW, Daneshmand S, Grivas P, Heidenreich A, Messing EM, Royce TJ, Sankin A, Schoenberg MP, Shipley WU, Villers A, Efstathiou J, Bellmunt J, Stenzl A.  Recommendations From Joint SIU-ICUD Consultation On Bladder Cancer: Muscle-Invasive Presumably Regional Tumor.  World J Urol 2019, Jan;37(1): 61-83

Chand D, Dhawan D, Sankin A, Ren X, Lin J, Schoenberg M, Knapp DW, Zang X. Immune checkpoint B7x (B7-H4/B7S1/VtCN1) is overexpressed in spontaneous canine bladder cancer: the first report and its implications in a preclinical model. Bladder Cancer 2019, Jan 31;5(1)63-71

Bernstein A, Barry E, Fram EB, Sankin A, Kovac E, Stern JM. Does Glomerular Filtration Rate at Discharge After Partial Nephrectomy Predict Long-Term Glomwerular Filtration Rate Stability?. J Endourol 2019, Jun;33(6):488-491

Lotan Y, Bivalacqua TJ, Downs T, Huang W, Jones J, Kamat A, Konety B, Malmstrom PU, McKiernan J, O’Donnell M, Patel S, Pohar K, Resnick M, Sankin A, Smith A, Steinberg G, Trabulsi E, Woods M, Daneshmand S.  Blue light flexible cystoscopy with hexaminolevulinate in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer: review of the clinical evidence and consensus statement on optimal use in the USA – update 2018. Nat Rev Urol 2019, Jun;16(6):377-386

Sankin A, Chand D, Schoenberg M, Zang X.  Human urothelial bladder cancer generates a clonal immune response: the results of T-cell receptor sequencing.  Urol Oncol 2019, May 15 (epub ahead of print).

Wang H, Kaur G, Sankin A, Chen F, Guan F, Zang X. Immune checkpoint blockade and CAR-T cell therapy in hematologic malignancies.  J Hematol Oncol 2019, Jun 11;12(1):59

Daniels MJ, Barry E, Schoenberg M, Lamm DL, Bivalacqua TJ, Sankin A, Kates M.  Contemporary oncologic outcomes of second induction course BCG in patients with nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer. Urol Oncol 2019, Jun 26 (epub ahead of print)

Daniels MJ, Barry E, Milbar N, Schoenberg M, Bivalacqua TJ, Sankin A, Kates M. An evaluation of monthly maintenance therapy among patients receiving intravesical combination gemcitabine/docetaxel for nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer.  Urol Oncol 2019, Aug 28 (epub ahead of print)

Khaki AR, Li A, Diamantopoulos LN, Bilen MA, Santos V, Esther J, Morales-Barrera R, Devitt M, Nelson A, Holmes CJ, Shreck E, Assi H, Gartrell BA, Sankin A, Rodriguez-Vida A, Lythgoe M, Pinato DJ, Drakaki A, Joshi M, Isaacsson Velho P, Hahn N, Liu S, Alonso Buznego L, Duran I, Moses M, Jain J, Murgic J, Baratam P, Barata P, Tripathi A, Zakharia Y, Galsky MD, Sonpavde G, Yu EY, Shankaran V, Lyman GH, Grivas P.  Impact of performance status on treatment outcomes: A real-world study of advanced urothelial cancer treated with checkpoint inhibitors.  Cancer 2019, Dec 12 (epub ahead of print)