Amit K. Verma
<p>https://einsteinmed.edu/labs/amit-verma/</p>
<p><strong style="text-align: justify;">Targeting signal transduction in hematologic malignancies</strong><span style="text-align: justify;">: <br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;">Cytokines play important roles in the regulation of normal hematopoiesis and a balance between the actions of hematopoietic growth factors and myelosuppressive factors is required for optimal production of different hematopoietic cell lineages. The myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are collections of heterogeneous hematologic diseases characterized by refractory cytopenias due to ineffective hematopoiesis. These preleukemic disorders are common causes of anemia in the elderly and are rapidly increasing in incidence. We have also demonstrated that the TGF-beta superfamily/smad, IRAK and MAP kinase pathways is overactivated in MDS. Our work has led to clinical trials with Luspatercept, Galunisertib, CA4948, ARRY-614 and various other promising agents in MDS. We are trying to study the molecular mechanisms that lead to the activation of these pathways in MDS and are using small molecule inhibitors in mouse models to target these pathways. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Targeting aberrant stem and progenitor cells in myelodysplastic neoplasms: <br /></strong>We have demonstrated that aberrant stem cells persist during morphological remissions and are involved in relapse. We have identified novel targets against MDS/AML stem cells that are being tested in various studies. We are also conducting sequencing/epigenetic analysis of highly purified human stem cells and evaluating the role of these alterations in transformation of MDS to AML. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Epigenomic analysis of tumors</strong>: <br />We are using high throughput assays to analyze DNA methylation across the genome and have optimized these assays to work with low amounts of DNA. We have successfully used these assays in conducting an integrative analysis of epigenetic and genetic alterations in various tumor models, including MDS, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer and renal cell cancer.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Clinical studies in Myelodysplastic syndromes</strong>: <br />We have a “center of excellence” clinic for patients with Myelodysplatic syndromes. We offer a variety of clinical trials for these patients.</p>
<p>Dr. Verma is a blood cancer expert, who specializes in the research and treatment of blood cancers.</p>
Dr. Verma conducts clinical studies for patients with MDS and leukemia and offers a variety of clinical trials for these patients.
Dr. Verma conducts laboratory research aimed at discovering new treatments for myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and leukemias, and his research has shown that the TGF-beta superfamily/smad, IRAK and MAP kinase pathways are overactivated in MDS. His work has led to clinical trials with Luspatercept, Galunisertib, CA4948, ARRY-614 and various other promising agents in MDS. DR. Verma’s research has shown that MDS and leukemias are caused by aberrant leukemic stem cells and has identified novel targets against MDS/AML stem cells that are being tested in various studies.
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<li> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39316768/" target="_blank">A Weekly Low-Dose Regimen of Decitabine and Venetoclax is Efficacious and Less Myelotoxic in a Racially Diverse Cohort.</a><br />
Goldfinger M, Mantzaris I, Shastri A, Saunthararajah Y, Gritsman K, Sica A, Kornblum N, Shah N, Levitz D, Rockwell B, Shapiro LC, Gupta R, Pradhan K, Xue X, Munoz A, Dhawan A, Fehn K, Comas M, Verceles JA, Jonas BA, Kambhampati S, Shi Y, Braunschweig I, Cooper DL, Konopleva MY, Feldman EJ, <strong>Verma A. <br />
<em>Blood</em></strong>. 2024 Sep 24.PMID: 39316768 </li>
<li> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39300320/" target="_blank">Glutaminase inhibition in combination with azacytidine in myelodysplastic syndromes: a phase 1b/2 clinical trial and correlative analyses.</a><br />
DiNardo CD, Verma D, Baran N, Bhagat TD, Skwarska A, Lodi A, Saxena K, Cai T, Su X, Guerra VA, Poigaialwar G, Kuruvilla VM, Konoplev S, Gordon-Mitchell S, Pradhan K, Aluri S, Hackman GL, Chaudhry S, Collins M, Sweeney SR, Busquets J, Rathore AS, Deng Q, Green MR, Grant S, Demo S, Choudhary GS, Sahu S, Agarwal B, Spodek M, Thiruthuvanathan V, Will B, Steidl U, Tippett GD, Burger J, Borthakur G, Jabbour E, Pemmaraju N, Kadia T, Kornblau S, Daver NG, Naqvi K, Short NJ, Garcia-Manero G, Tiziani S, <strong>Verma A*</strong>, Konopleva M*.<br />
<strong><em>Nat Cancer</em></strong>. 2024 Sep 19. PMID: 39300320 <br />
*CoCorresponding </li>
<li> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39294495/" target="_blank">Pharmacological restriction of genomic binding sites redirects PU.1 pioneer transcription factor activity.</a><br />
Taylor SJ, Stauber J, Bohorquez O, Tatsumi G, Kumari R, Chakraborty J, Bartholdy BA, Schwenger E, Sundaravel S, Farahat AA, Wheat JC, Goldfinger M, <strong>Verma A</strong>, Kumar A, Boykin DW, Stengel KR, Poon GMK, Steidl U.<br />
<strong><em>Nat Genet</em></strong>. 2024 Sep 18. PMID: 39294495 </li>
<li> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38521065/" target="_blank">Transcription elongation defects link oncogenic SF3B1 mutations to targetable alterations in chromatin landscape.</a><br />
Boddu PC, Gupta AK, Roy R, De La Peña Avalos B, Olazabal-Herrero A, Neuenkirchen N, Zimmer JT, Chandhok NS, King D, Nannya Y, Ogawa S, Lin H, Simon MD, Dray E, Kupfer GM, <strong>Verma A</strong>, Neugebauer KM, Pillai MM. <strong><em>Mol Cell</em></strong>. 2024 Apr 18;84(8):1475-1495.e18.PMID: 38521065 </li>
<li> Aminov S*, Giricz O*, Melnekoff DT*, Sica RA*, Polishchuk V, Papazoglu C, Yates B, Wang HW, Sahu S, Wang Y, Gordon-Mitchell S, Leshchenko VV, Schinke C, Pradhan K, Aluri S, Sohn M, Barta SK, Agarwal B, Goldfinger M, Mantzaris I, Shastri A, Matsui W, Steidl U, Brody JD, Shah NN^, Parekh S^, <strong>Verma A</strong>^ Immunotherapy-resistant acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells exhibit reduced CD19 and CD22 expression and BTK pathway dependency <em><strong>JCI</strong></em>, 2024 Feb 20 PMID: 38376944 </li>
<li> Thakkar A, Pradhan K, Duva B, Carreño JM, Sahu S, Thiruthuvanathan V, Campbel S, Gallego S, Bhagat TD, Rivera J, Choudhary G, Olea R, Sabalza M, Shapiro LC, Lee M, Quinn R, Mantzaris I, Chu E, Will B, Pirofski LA, Krammer F, <strong>Verma A</strong>*, Halmos B* Study of efficacy and longevity of immune response to 3rd and 4th doses of COVID-19 vaccines in patients with cancer: a single arm clinical trial <em><strong>Elife</strong></em> 2023, Mar 28;12:e83694. PMID: 36975207 </li>
<li> Levitz D, Saunthararajah Y, Fedorov K, Shapiro LC, Mantzaris I, Shastri A, Kornblum N, Sica RA, Shah N, Konopleva M, Gritsman K, Braunschweig I, Cooper DL, Pradhan K, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Feldman EJ, Goldfinger M. A Metabolically Optimized, Noncytotoxic Low-Dose Weekly Decitabine/Venetoclax in MDS and AML. <em><strong>Clin Cancer Res.</strong></em> 2023 Aug 1;29(15):2774-2780. PMID: 37341641. </li>
<li> Choudhary GS, Pellagatti A, Agianian B, Smith MA, Bhagat TD, Gordon-Mitchell S, Sahu S, Pandey S, Shah N, Aluri S, Aggarwal R, Aminov S, Schwartz L, Steeples V, Booher RN, Ramachandra M, Samson M, Carbajal M, Pradhan K, Bowman TV, Pillai MM, Will B, Wickrema A, Shastri A, Bradley RK, Martell RE, Steidl UG, Gavathiotis E, Boultwood J, Starczynowski DT*, <strong>Verma A</strong>*. Activation of targetable inflammatory immune signaling is seen in myelodysplastic syndromes with SF3B1 mutations. <strong>Elife</strong></em>. 2022 Aug 30;11:e78136. PMID: 36040792; PMCID: PMC9427103. </li>
<li>Jasra S, Giricz O, Zeig-Owens R, Pradhan K, Goldfarb DG, Barreto-Galvez A, Silver AJ, Chen J, Sahu S, Gordon-Mitchell S, Choudhary GS, Aluri S, Bhagat TD, Shastri A, Bejan CA, Stockton SS, Spaulding TP, Thiruthuvanathan V, Goto H, Gerhardt J, Haider SH, Veerappan A, Bartenstein M, Nwankwo G, Landgren O, Weiden MD, Lekostaj J, Bender R, Fletcher F, Greenberger L, Ebert BL, Steidl U, Will B, Nolan A, Madireddy A, Savona MR, Prezant DJ, <strong>Verma A</strong>. High burden of clonal hematopoiesis in first responders exposed to the World Trade Center disaster. <strong><em>Nat Med</em></strong>. 2022 Mar 7. PMID: 35256801.</li>
<li>Lee M, Quinn R, Pradhan K, Fedorov K, Levitz D, Fromowitz A, Thakkar A, Shapiro LC, Kabarriti R, Ruiz RE, Andrews EM, Thota R, Chu E, Kalnicki S, Goldstein Y, Loeb D, Racine A, Halmos B, Mehta V, <strong>Verma A</strong>. Impact of COVID-19 on case fatality rate of patients with cancer during the Omicron wave. <strong><em>Cancer Cell.</em></strong> 2022 Feb 22: PMID: 35219358; PMCID: PMC8860706</li>
<li>Shapiro LC, Thakkar A, Campbell ST, Forest SK, Pradhan K, Gonzalez-Lugo JD, Quinn R, Bhagat TD, Choudhary GS, McCort M, Sica RA, Goldfinger M, Goel S, Anampa JD, Levitz D, Fromowitz A, Shah AP, Sklow C, Alfieri G, Racine A, Wolgast L, Greenberger L, <strong>Verma A</strong>*, Halmos B*. *Co-Corresponding Efficacy of booster doses in augmenting waning immune responses to COVID-19 vaccine in patients with cancer. <strong><em>Cancer Cell</em></strong>. 2022 Jan 10;40(1):3-5. PMID: 34838186; PMCID: PMC8595142.</li>
<li>Komrokji RS, Platzbecker U, Fenaux P, Zeidan AM, Garcia-Manero G, Mufti GJ, Santini V, Díez-Campelo M, Finelli C, Jurcic JG, Greenberg PL, Sekeres MA, DeZern AE, Savona MR, Shetty JK, Ito R, Zhang G, Ha X, Backstrom JT, <strong>Verma A</strong>. Luspatercept for myelodysplastic syndromes/myeloproliferative neoplasm with ring sideroblasts and thrombocytosis. <strong><em>Leukemia.</em></strong> 2022 Feb 26. PMID: 35220402.</li>
<li>Pinho S, Wei Q, Maryanovich M, Zhang D, Balandrán JC, Pierce H, Nakahara F, Di Staulo A, Bartholdy BA, Xu J, Borger DK,<strong> Verma A</strong>, Frenette PS. VCAM1 confers innate immune tolerance on haematopoietic and leukaemic stem cells. <strong><em>Nat Cell Biol</em></strong>. 2022 Feb 24. PMID: 35210567.</li>
<li>Myer PA, Lee JK, Madison RW, Pradhan K, Newberg JY, Isasi CR, Klempner SJ, Frampton GM, Ross JS, Venstrom JM, Schrock AB, Das S, Augenlicht L, <strong>Verma A</strong>, Greally JM, Raj SM, Goel S, Ali SM. The Genomics of Colorectal Cancer in Populations with African and European Ancestry. <strong><em>Cancer Discov.</em></strong> 2022 Feb 17: PMID: 35176763.</li>
<li>Su H, Jiang M, Senevirathne C, Aluri S, Zhang T, Guo H, Xavier-Ferrucio J, Jin S, Tran NT, Liu SM, Sun CW, Zhu Y, Zhao Q, Chen Y, Cable L, Shen Y, Liu J, Qu CK, Han X, Klug CA, Bhatia R, Chen Y, Nimer SD, Zheng YG, Iancu-Rubin C, Jin J, Deng H, Krause DS, Xiang J, <strong>Verma A*</strong>, Luo M*, Zhao X*. Methylation of dual-specificity phosphatase 4 controls cell differentiation. <em><strong>Cell Rep.</strong></em> 2021 Jul 27;36(4):109421. PMID: 34320342. *Co-Corresponding.</li>
<li>Thakkar A, Gonzalez-Lugo JD, Goradia N, Gali R, Shapiro LC, Pradhan K, Rahman S, Kim SY, Ko B, Sica RA, Kornblum N, Bachier-Rodriguez L, McCort M, Goel S, Perez-Soler R, Packer S, Sparano J, Gartrell B, Makower D, Goldstein YD, Wolgast L, <strong>Verma A*</strong>, Halmos B*. Seroconversion rates following COVID-19 vaccination among patients with cancer. <em><strong>Cancer Cell</strong></em>. 2021 Jun 5: PMID: 34133951; PMCID: PMC8179248. *Co-Corresponding</li>
<li>Ueda K, Kumari R, Schwenger E, Wheat JC, Bohorquez O, Narayanagari SR, Taylor SJ, Carvajal LA, Pradhan K, Bartholdy B, Todorova TI, Goto H, Sun D, Chen J, Shan J, Song Y, Montagna C, Pellagatti A, Boultwood J, Xiong S, Lozano G, <strong>Verma A</strong>, Steidl U. MDMX acts as a pervasive preleukemic-to-acute myeloid leukemia transition mechanism. <em><strong>Cancer Cell</strong></em>. 2021 Apr 12;39(4):529-547.e7. PMID: 33667384.</li>
<li>Weinreb JT, Ghazale N, Pradhan K, Gupta V, Potts KS, Tricomi B, Daniels NJ, Padgett RA, Oliveira SD, <strong>Verma A</strong>, Bowman TV Excessive R-loops Trigger an Inflammatory Cascade Leading to Increased HSPC Production <em><strong>Dev Cell</strong></em>, 2021, Mar 8;56(5):627-640. PMID: 33651979.</li>
<li>Shapiro LC, Mustafa J, Lombardo A, Khatun F, Joseph F, Gillick K, Naik A, Elkind R, Abreu M, Fehn K, de Castro A, Pradhan K, Binakaj D, Nelson R, Paroder M, Uehlinger J, Gritsman K, Alejandro Sica R, Kornblum N, Shastri A, Mantzaris I, Bachier-Rodriguez L, <strong>Verma A</strong>, Braunschweig I, Goldfinger M. Safety of axicabtagene ciloleucel for relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma in an elderly intercity population. <em><strong>Bone Marrow Transplant</strong></em>. 2021 Jul;56(7):1761-1763. PMID: 33846558.</li>
<li>Thakkar A, Pradhan K, Jindal S, Cui Z, Rockwell B, Shah AP, Packer S, Sica RA, Sparano J, Goldstein DY, <strong>Verma A</strong>, Goel S, Halmos B Patterns of seroconversion for SARS-CoV2-IgG in patients with malignant disease and association with anti-cancer therapy <em><strong>Nature Cancer</strong></em>, 2021, 2: 392–399.</li>
<li>Mehta V*, Goel S*, Kabarriti R*, Cole D, Goldfinger M, Acuna-Villaorduna A, Pradhan K, Thota R, Reissman S, Sparano JA, Gartrell BA, Smith RV, Ohri N, Garg M, Racine AD, Kalnicki S, Perez-Soler R, Halmos B*, <strong>Verma A*</strong>. Case Fatality Rate of Cancer Patients with COVID-19 in a New York Hospital System. <em><strong>Cancer Discov</strong></em>. 2020 Jul;10(7):935-941. PMID: 32357994; PMCID: PMC7334098.</li>
<li>List AF, Sun Z, <strong>Verma A*</strong>, Bennett JM, Komrokji RS, McGraw K, Maciejewski J, Altman J, Cheema PS, Claxton DF, Luger SM, Mattison RJ, Wassenaar T, Artz AA, Schiffer CA, Litzow MR, Tallman MS Lenalidomide-Epoetin Alfa versus Lenalidomide-monotherapy in Myelodysplastic Syndromes Refractory to Recombinant Erythropoietin <em><strong>JCO</strong></em>, 2021, Jan 13: PMID: 33439748 *Corresponding.</li>
<li>COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. A Systematic Framework to Rapidly Obtain Data on Patients with Cancer and COVID-19: CCC19 Governance, Protocol, and Quality Assurance. <em><strong>Cancer Cell</strong></em>. 2020 Dec 14;38(6):761-766. PMID: 33176160; PMCID: PMC7598547.</li>
<li>Kuderer NM, Choueiri TK, et al. Mishra S, Lyman GH, Rini BI, Warner JL; COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium. Clinical impact of COVID-19 on patients with cancer (CCC19): a cohort study. <em><strong>Lancet</strong></em>. 2020 Jun 20;395(10241):1907-1918. PMID: 32473681; PMCID: PMC7255743.</li>
<li><strong>Verma A</strong>, Suragani RN, Aluri S, Shah N, Bhagat TD, Alexander MJ, Komrokji R, Kumar R. Biological basis for efficacy of activing receptor ligand traps in myelodysplastic syndromes. <strong>J Clin Invest.</strong> 2020 Feb 3;130(2):582-589. doi: 10.1172/JCI133678. Review. PMID: 31961337</li>
<li>Fenaux P, Platzbecker U, Mufti GJ, Garcia-Manero G, Buckstein R, Santini V, Díez-Campelo M, Finelli C, Cazzola M, Ilhan O, Sekeres MA, Falantes JF, Arrizabalaga B, Salvi F, Giai V, Vyas P, Bowen D, Selleslag D, DeZern AE, Jurcic JG, Germing U, Götze KS, Quesnel B, Beyne-Rauzy O, Cluzeau T, Voso MT, Mazure D, Vellenga E, Greenberg PL, Hellström-Lindberg E, Zeidan AM, Adès L, <strong>Verma A</strong>, Savona MR, Laadem A, Benzohra A, Zhang J, Rampersad A, Dunshee DR, Linde PG, Sherman ML, Komrokji RS, List AF. Luspatercept in Patients with Lower-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes. <strong>N Engl J Med.</strong> 2020 Jan 9;382(2):140-151. PMID: 31914241</li>
<li>Bhagat TD, Ahrens DV, Dawlaty M, Zou Y, Baddour J, Achreja A, Zhao H, Yang L, Patel N, Kwak C, Choudhary G, Gordon-Mitchell S, Alluri S, Bhattacharyya S, Yu Y, Bartenstein M, Giricz O, Suzuki M, Sohal D, Gupta S, Batra S, Goggins M, Steidl U, Greally J, Agarwal B, Pradhan K, Banerjee D, Nagrath D*, Maitra A*, <strong>Verma A*.</strong> Lactate-mediated Epigenetic Reprogramming Regulates Formation of Pancreatic Cancer-associated Fibroblasts <strong>Elife,</strong> Oct 30;8, 2019, (In Press)* Equal Contribution PMID: 31663852</li>
<li>Santini V, Valcárcel D, Platzbecker U, Komrokji RS, Cleverly AL, Lahn MM, Janssen J, Zhao Y, Chiang A, Giagounidis A, Guba SC, Gueorguieva I, Girvan AC, da Silva Ferreira M, Bhagat TD, Pradhan K, Steidl U, Sridharan A, Will B, <strong>Verma A</strong>. Phase II Study of the ALK5 Inhibitor Galunisertib in Very Low-, Low-, and Intermediate-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes. <strong>Clin Cancer Res</strong>. 2019 Sep 3. PMID: 31481511</li>
<li>Smith M*, Choudhary GS*, Pellagatti A, Choi K, Bhagat TD, Gordon-Mitchell S, Von Ahrens D, Pradhan K, Steeples V , Kim S, Steidl U , Salomonis N , Walter M, Komurov K, Boultwood J*, <strong>Verma A</strong>*, Starczynowski D*<br />
U2AF1 mutations induce oncogenic innate immune pathways by regulating the expression of active IRAK4 isoforms in hematologic malignancies. <strong>Nature Cell Bio</strong> 2019 May;21(5):640-650 * Equal Contribution </li>
<li>Jeong JJ, Gu X, Nie J, Sundaravel S, Liu H, Kuo W, Bhagat TD, Pradhan K, Cao J, Nischal S, McGraw K, Bhattacharyya S, Bishop M, Artz A, Thirman M, Moliterno AR, Ji P, Levine RL, Godley LA, Steidl U, Beiker J, List AF, Saunthararajah Y, He C, <strong>Verma A</strong>,* Wickrema A*<br />
Cytokine regulated phosphorylation and activation of TET2 by JAK2 in hematopoiesis <strong>Cancer Discovery</strong> 2019 Jun;9(6):778-795 * Equal Contribution</li>
<li>Bhagat TD, Ahrens DV, Dawlaty M, Zou Y, Baddour J, Achreja A, Zhao H, Yang L, Patel N, Kwak C, Choudhary G, Gordon-Mitchell S, Alluri S, Bhattacharyya S, Yu Y, Bartenstein M, Giricz O, Suzuki M, Sohal D, Gupta S, Batra S, Goggins M, Steidl U, Greally J, Agarwal B, Pradhan K, Banerjee D, Nagrath D*, Maitra A*, <strong>Verma A*.</strong> Lactate-mediated Epigenetic Reprogramming Regulates Formation of Pancreatic Cancer-associated Fibroblasts <strong>Elife,</strong> Oct 30;8, 2019, (In Press)* Equal Contribution PMID: 31663852</li>
<li>Santini V, Valcárcel D, Platzbecker U, Komrokji RS, Cleverly AL, Lahn MM, Janssen J, Zhao Y, Chiang A, Giagounidis A, Guba SC, Gueorguieva I, Girvan AC, da Silva Ferreira M, Bhagat TD, Pradhan K, Steidl U, Sridharan A, Will B, <strong>Verma A</strong>. Phase II Study of the ALK5 Inhibitor Galunisertib in Very Low-, Low-, and Intermediate-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes. <strong>Clin Cancer Res</strong>. 2019 Sep 3. PMID: 31481511</li>
<li>Smith M*, Choudhary GS*, Pellagatti A, Choi K, Bhagat TD, Gordon-Mitchell S, Von Ahrens D, Pradhan K, Steeples V , Kim S, Steidl U , Salomonis N , Walter M, Komurov K, Boultwood J*, <strong>Verma A</strong>*, Starczynowski D*<br />
U2AF1 mutations induce oncogenic innate immune pathways by regulating the expression of active IRAK4 isoforms in hematologic malignancies. <strong>Nature Cell Bio</strong> 2019 May;21(5):640-650 * Equal Contribution </li>
<li>Jeong JJ, Gu X, Nie J, Sundaravel S, Liu H, Kuo W, Bhagat TD, Pradhan K, Cao J, Nischal S, McGraw K, Bhattacharyya S, Bishop M, Artz A, Thirman M, Moliterno AR, Ji P, Levine RL, Godley LA, Steidl U, Beiker J, List AF, Saunthararajah Y, He C, <strong>Verma A</strong>,* Wickrema A*<br />
Cytokine regulated phosphorylation and activation of TET2 by JAK2 in hematopoiesis<br />
<strong>Cancer Discovery</strong> 2019 Jun;9(6):778-795 * Equal Contribution</li>
<li>Chen J, Kao Y, Sun D, Todorova T, Reynolds D, Narayanagari SR, Montagna C, Will B, <strong>Verma A</strong>*, Steidl U*Myelodysplastic Syndrome Progression to Acute Myeloid Leukemia at the Stem Cell Level <strong>Nature Medicine</strong> 2018, Jan;25(1):103-110 * Equal Contribution</li>
<li>Shastri A, Choudhary G, Teixeira M, Gordon-Mitchell S, Ramachandra N, Bernard L, Bhattacharyya, S. Lopez, R. Pradhan, K. Giricz, O. Ravipati, G. Wong, L. F. Cole, S. Bhagat, T. D. Feld, J. Dhar, Y. Bartenstein, M. Thiruthuvanathan, V. J. Wickrema, A. Ye, B. H. Frank, D. A. Pellagatti, A. Boultwood, J. Zhou, T. Kim, Y. MacLeod, A. R. Epling-Burnette, P. K. Ye, M. McCoon, P. Woessner, R. Steidl, U. Will, B. <strong>Verma, A. </strong>Antisense STAT3 inhibitor decreases viability of myelodysplastic and leukemic stem cells. <strong>J Clin Invest</strong>. 2018 Sep 25. PMID: 30252677</li>
<li>Shah UA, Chung EY, Giricz O, Pradhan K, Kataoka K, Gordon-Mitchell S, Bhagat TD, Mai Y, Wei Y, Ishida E, Choudhary GS, Joseph A, Rice R, Gitego N, Parrish C, Bartenstein M, Goel S, Mantzaris I, Shastri A, Derman O, Binder A, Gritsman K, Kornblum N, Braunschweig I, Bhagat C, Hall J, Graber A, Ratner L, Wang Y, Ogawa S, <strong>Verma A*</strong>, Ye BH*, Janakiram M.* North American ATLL has a distinct mutational and transcriptional profile and responds to epigenetic therapies. <strong>Blood.</strong> 2018 Aug 13. PMID: 30104217 * Equal Contribution</li>
<li>Landgren O*, Zeig-Owens R*, Giricz O*, Goldfarb D, Murata K, Thoren K, Ramanathan L, Hultcrantz M, Dogan A, Nwankwo G, Steidl S, Pradhan K, Hall C, Cohen HW, Jaber N, Schwartz T, Crowley L, Crane M, Irby S, Webber MP, <strong>Verma A*</strong>, Prezant DJ* Multiple Myeloma and Its Precursor Disease among Firefighters Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster <strong>JAMA Onc</strong>, 2018 Jun 1;4(6):821-827. PMID: 29710195 * Equal Contribution</li>
<li>Kao YR, Chen J, Narayanagari SR, Todorova TI, Aivalioti MM, Ferreira M, Ramos PM, Pallaud C, Mantzaris I, Shastri A, Bussel JB, <strong>Verma A</strong>, Steidl U, Will B. Thrombopoietin receptor-independent stimulation of hematopoietic stem cells by eltrombopag. <strong>Sci Transl Med</strong>. 2018 Sep 12;10(458). PMID: 30209246</li>
<li>Giricz O, Mo Y, Dahlman KB, Cotto-Rios XM, Vardabasso C, Nguyen H, Matusow B, Bartenstein M, Polishchuk V, Johnson DB, Bhagat TD, Shellooe R, Burton E, Tsai J, Zhang C, Habets G, Greally JM, Yu Y, Kenny PA, Fields GB, Pradhan K, Stanley ER, Bernstein E, Bollag G, Gavathiotis E, West BL, Sosman JA, <strong>Verma AK </strong>The RUNX1/IL-34/CSF-1R axis is an autocrinally regulated modulator of resistance to BRAF-V600E inhibition in melanoma. <strong>JCI Insight</strong>. 2018 Jul 25;3(14). PMID: 30046005</li>
<li>Carvajal LA, Ben-Neriah D, Senecal A, Benard L, Thiruthuvanathan V, Yatsenko T, Narayanagari SR, Wheat JC, Todorova TI, Mitchell KM, Kenworthy C, Guerlavais V, Annis DA, Bartholdy B, Will B, Anampa JD, Mantzaris I, Aivado M, Singer RH, Coleman RA, <strong>Verma A</strong>, Steidl U. Dual inhibition of MDMX and MDM2 as a Therapeutic Strategy in Leukemia. <strong>Sci Transl Med</strong>. 2018, Apr 11;10(436). PMID: 29643228</li>
<li>Mitchell K, Barreyro L, Todorova TI, Taylor SJ, Antony-Debré I, Narayanagari SR, Carvajal LA, Leite J, Piperdi Z, Pendurti G, Mantzaris I, Paietta E, <strong>Verma A</strong>, Gritsman K, Steidl U. IL1RAP potentiates multiple oncogenic signaling pathways in AML. <strong>J Exp Med.</strong> 2018 Jun 4;215(6):1709-1727 PMID: 29773641</li>
<li>Bhattacharyya S, Pradhan K, Campbell N, Mazdo J, Vasantkumar A, Maqbool S, Bhagat TD, Gupta S, Suzuki M, Yu Y, Greally JM, Steidl U, Bradner J, Dawlaty M, Godley L, Maitra A, <strong>Verma A, </strong>“Altered hydroxymethylation is seen at regulatory regions in pancreatic cancer and regulates oncogenic pathways,” <strong>Genome Res</strong>, 2017, Oct 6. PMID: 28986391</li>
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<li>Cabrero M, Yu Y, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Yang H, Colla S, Jia Y, Zheng H, Bohannan Z, Ganan-Gomez I, Futreal A, Takahashi K, Chin L, Kantarjian H, Pellagatti A, Bowman T, Boultwood J, Garcia-Manero G, Wei Y, “Downregulation of Protection of Telomeres 1 expression in myelodysplastic syndromes with 7q deletion.” <strong>Br J Haematol.</strong> 2015 Jun 24. PMID: 26105212</li>
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<li>Sassano A, Mavrommatis E, Arslan AD, Kroczynska B, Beauchamp EM, Khuon S, Chew TL, Green KJ, Munshi HG, <strong>Verma AK,</strong> Platanias LC, “Human Schlafen 5 (SLFN5) is a Regulator of Motility and Invasiveness of Renal Cell Carcinoma Cells.” <strong>Mol Cell Biol.</strong> 2015 May 26. PMID: 26012550</li>
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<li>Cimmino L, Dawlaty MM, Ndiaye-Lobry D, Yap YS, Bakogianni S, Yu Y, Bhattacharyya S, Shaknovich R, Geng H, Lobry C, Mullenders J, King B, Trimarchi T, Aranda-Orgilles B, Liu C, Shen S, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Jaenisch R, Aifantis I, “TET1 is a tumor suppressor of hematopoietic malignancy.” <strong>Nat Immunol.</strong> 2015 Apr 13. PMID: 25867473</li>
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<li>Gerstung M, Pellagatti A, Malcovati L, Giagounidis A, Porta MG, Jädersten M, Dolatshad H, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Cross NC, Vyas P, Killick S, Hellström-Lindberg E, Cazzola M, Papaemmanuil E, Campbell PJ, Boultwood J, “Combining gene mutation with gene expression data improves outcome prediction in myelodysplastic Syndromes.” <strong>Nat Commun.</strong> 2015 Jan 9;6:5901. PMID: 25574665 </li>
<li>Caescu CI, Guo X, Tesfa L, Bhagat TD, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Zheng D, Stanley ER, “Colony stimulating factor-1 receptor signaling networks inhibit mouse macrophage inflammatory responses by induction of microRNA-21.” <strong>Blood.</strong> 2015 Jan 8. PMID: 25573988</li>
<li>Will B, Vogler TO, Narayanagari S, Bartholdy B, Todorova TI, Ferreira M, Chen J, Yu Y, Mayer J, Barreyro L, Carvajal L, Ben Neriah D, Roth M, van Oers J, Schaetzlein S, McMahon C, Edelmann W, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Steidl U, “Minimal reduction of PU.1 is sufficient to induce a preleukemic state and promote development of acute myeloid leukemia.” <strong>Nature Medicine,</strong> 2015 (In Print)</li>
<li>Shrivastava MS, Hussain Z, Giricz O, Shenoy N, Polineni R, Maitra A, <strong>Verma A,</strong> “Targeting chemokine pathways in esophageal adenocarcinoma.” <strong>Cell Cycle.</strong> 2014 Nov 1;13(21):3320-7. PMID: 25485576</li>
<li>Hu C, Mohtat D, Yu Y, Ko YA, Shenoy N, Bhattacharyya S, Izquierdo MC, Park AS, Giricz O, Vallumsetla N, Gundabolu K, Ware K, Bhagat T, Suzuki M, Pullman J, Liu SX, Greally J, Susztak K, <strong>Verma A,</strong> “Kidney cancer is characterized by aberrant methylation of tissue specific enhancers that are prognostic for overall survival.” <strong>Clin Cancer Res.</strong> 2014 Jun 10. PMID: 24916699</li>
<li>Mariani CJ, Vasanthakumar A, Madzo J, Yesilkanal A, Bhagat T, Yu Y, Bhattacharyya S, Wenger R, Cohn S, Nanduri J, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Prabhakar N, Godley LA, “TET1-Mediated Hydroxymethylation Facilitates Hypoxic Gene Induction in Neuroblastoma.” <strong>Cell Rep.</strong> 2014 May 14. PMID: 24835990</li>
<li>Keerthivasan G, Mei Y, Zhao B, Zhang L, Harris CE, Gao J, Basiorka AA, Schipma MJ, McElherne J, Yang J, <strong>Verma AK,</strong> Pellagatti A, Boultwood J, List AF, Williams DA, Ji P., “Aberrant overexpression of CD14 on granulocytes sensitizes the innate immune response in mDia1 heterozygous del(5q) myelodysplastic syndromes.” <strong>Blood.</strong> 2014 Jun 2. PMID: 24891322</li>
<li>Tamari R, Schinke C, Bhagat T, Roth M, Braunschweig I, Will B, Steidl U, <strong>Verma A,</strong> “Eltrombopag can overcome the anti-megakaryopoietic effects of lenalidomide without increasing proliferation of the malignant myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myelogenous leukemia clone.” <strong>Leuk Lymphoma,</strong> 2014 Dec;55(12):2901-6.PMID: 24650011</li>
<li>Bartholdy B, Christopeit M, Will B, Mo Y, Barreyro L, Yu Y, Bhagat T, Okoye-Okafor U, Todorova T, Greally J, Levine RL, Melnick A, <strong>Verma A*,</strong> Steidl U, *Co-Corresponding, “A human hematopoietic stem cell-commitment related DNA cytosine methylation signature is prognostic for overall survival in acute myeloid leukemia.” <strong>Journal of Clinical Investigation</strong> 2014 Feb 3 PMID: 24487588</li>
<li>Kuo P, Leshchenko V, Fazzari M, Gellen T, Iqbal J, Baumgartner-Wennerholm S, Nygren L, Zhang F, Zhang W, Suh K, Goy A, Yang D, Chan W, Kahl B, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Gascoyne R, Kimby E, Sander B, Ye BH, Melnick A, Perumal D, He T, Parekh S, “High resolution Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) sequencing reveals novel bindings targets and prognostic role for SOX11 in Mantle cell lymphoma.”<strong> Oncogene,</strong> 2014 Mar 31 PMID: 24681958</li>
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<li>Madzo J, Liu H, Rodriguez A, Vasanthakumar A, Sundaravel S, Caces DB, Looney TJ, Zhang L, Lepore JB, Macrae T, Duszynski R, Shih AH, Song CX, Yu M, Yu Y, Grossman R, Raumann B, <strong>Verma A,</strong> He C, Levine RL, Lavelle D, Lahn BT, Wickrema A, Godley LA, “Hydroxymethylation at Gene Regulatory Regions Directs Stem/Early Progenitor Cell Commitment during Erythropoiesis.” <strong>Cell Reports</strong> 2013 Dec 24 PMID: 24373966</li>
<li>Ko YA, Mohtat D, Suzuki M, Park AS, Izquierdo MC, Han SY, Kang HM, Si H, Hostetter T, Pullman JM, Fazzari M, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Zheng D, Greally JM, Susztak K, “Cytosine methylation changes in enhancer regions of core pro-fibrotic genes characterize kidney fibrosis development.” <strong>Genome Biol.</strong> 2013 Oct 7;14(10):R108. PMID: 24098934</li>
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<li>Lam AP, Gundabolu K, Sridharan A, Jain R, Msaouel P, Chrysofakis G, Yu Y, Friedman E, Price E, Schrier S, <strong>Verma AK, </strong> “Multiplicative interaction between mean corpuscular volume and red cell distribution width in predicting mortality of elderly patients with and without anemia.” <strong>Am J Hematol.</strong> 2013 Nov;88(11):E245-9. PMID: 23828763</li>
<li>Yang X, Song JH, Cheng Y, Wu W, Bhagat T, Yu Y, Abraham JM, Ibrahim S, Ravich Roland W, Khashab M, Singh VK, Shin EJ, Yang X, Verma <strong>A,</strong> Meltzer SJ, Mori Y, “Long Noncoding RNA HNF1A-AS1 Regulates Proliferation and Migration in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Cells.” <strong>Gut</strong> 2013 Sep 2. PMID: 24000294 </li>
<li>Bajpai M, Kessel R, Bhagat T, Nischal S, Yu Y, <strong>Verma A*,</strong> Das K, *Co-Corresponding, “High resolution integrative analysis reveals widespread genetic and epigenetic changes after chronic in-vitro acid and bile exposure in Barrett's epithelium cells.” <strong>Genes Chromosome Cancer</strong> 2013 Oct 3. PMID: 24123713</li>
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<li>Will B, Vogler TO, Bartholdy B, Garrett-Bakelman F, Mayer J, Barreyro L, Pandolfi A, Todorova TI, Okoye-Okafor UC, Stanley RF, Bhagat TD, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Figueroa ME, Melnick A, Roth M, Steidl U, “Satb1 regulates the self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells by promoting quiescence and repressing differentiation commitment.” <strong>Nat Immunol.</strong> 2013 May;14(5):437-45. PMID: 23563689</li>
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<li>Yu Y, Mo Y, Liu H, Bhattacharyya S, Ebenezer D, Sundaravel S, Caces B, Ulaszek J, Artz A, Nischal S, Bhagat T, Bathon K, Maqbool S, Suzuki M, Steidl U, Godley L, Skoultchi A, Greally J, Wickrema A, <strong>Verma A,</strong> “High resolution methylome analysis reveals widespread hypomethylation during human erythroid differentiation.” <strong>JBC</strong> 2013 Mar 29;288(13):8805-14. PMID: 23306203</li>
<li>Heuck C, Mehta J, Bhagat T, Gundabolu K, Yu Y, Khan S, Chrysofakis G, Schinke C, Tariman J, Vickrey E, Pulliam N, Nischal S, Zhou L, Bhattacharya S, Meagher R, Hu C, Maqbool S, Suzuki M, Parekh S, Reu F, Steidl U, Greally J,<strong> Verma A*,</strong> Singhal S,* Co-Corresponding, “Myeloma is characterized by stage specific alterations in DNA methylation that occur early during myelomagenesis.” <strong>Journal of Immunology</strong> 2013 Mar 15;190(6):2966-75. PMID: 23408834</li>
<li>Wu W, Bhagat T, Yang X, Song J, Cheng Y, Agarwal R, Abraham J, Ibrahim S, Bartenstein M, Hussain Z, Suzuki M, Yu Y, Eng C, Greally J, <strong>Verma A*,</strong> Meltzer SJ*, Co-Corresponding, “Hypomethylation of Noncoding DNA Regions and Overexpression of the Long Noncoding RNA, AFAP1-AS1, in Barrett’s Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma.” <strong>Gastroenterology</strong> 2013 May;144(5):956-966. PMID: 23333711</li>
<li>Nischal S, Bhattacharyya S, Christopeit N, Yu Y, Zhou L, Bhagat T, Sohal S, Will B, Mo Y, Suzuki M, Pardanani A, McDevitt M, Maciejewski J, Melnick A, Greally J, Steidl U, Moliterno A, <strong>Verma A, </strong> “Methylome profiling reveals distinct alterations in phenotypic and mutational subgroups of myeloproliferative neoplasms.” <strong>Cancer Res,</strong> 2012 Dec 27. PMID: 23066032</li>
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<li>Stein BL, Williams DM, O'Keefe C, Rogers O, Ingersoll RG, Spivak JL,<strong> Verma A,</strong> Maciejewski JP, McDevitt MA, Moliterno AR, “Disruption of the ASXL1 gene is frequent in primary, post-essential thrombocytosis and post-polycythemia vera myelofibrosis, but not essential thrombocytosis or polycythemia vera: analysis of molecular genetics and clinical phenotypes.” <strong>Haematologica.</strong> 2011 Oct;96(10):1462-9. Epub 2011 Jun 28. PMID: 21712540</li>
<li>Sharma B, Altman JK, Goussetis DJ, <strong>Verma AK,</strong> Platanias LC, “Protein kinase R as mediator of the effects of interferon (IFN) gamma and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha on normal and dysplastic hematopoiesis.” <strong>J Biol Chem.</strong> 2011 Aug 5;286(31):27506-14. Epub 2011 Jun 9. PMID:1659535</li>
<li>Zhou L, Opalinska J, Sohal D, Yu Y, Mo Y, Bhagat T, Abdel-Wahab O, Fazzari M, Figueroa M, Alencar C, Zhang J, Kanbhampati S, Parmar S, Nischal S, Heuck C, Suzuki M, Friedman E, Pellagatti A, Boultwood J, Steidl U, Sauthararajah Y, Yajnik V, Gore SD, Platanias LC, Levine R, Melnick A, Wickrema A, Greally JM, <strong>Verma A, </strong> “Aberrant epigenetic and genetic marks are seen in myelodysplastic leucocytes and reveal DOCK4 as a candidate pathogenic gene on chr7q.” <strong>J Biol Chem.</strong> 2011 Apr 30. PMID: 21532034 </li>
<li>Alvarez H, Opalinska J, Zhou L, Sohal D, Fazzari M, Yu Y, Montagna C, Montgomery E, Canto M, Dunbar K, Wang J, Roa J, Mo Y, Bhagat T, Ramesh K, Cannizzaro L, Mollenhauer J, Thompson R, Suzuki M, Meltzer S, Melnick A, Greally JM, Maitra A, <strong>Verma A,</strong> “Widespread hypomethylation occurs early and synergizes with gene amplification during esophageal carcinogenesis.” <strong>PLOS Genetics</strong> 2011 Mar;7(3) PMID: 21483804</li>
<li>L Zhou, C McMahon, T Bhagat, C Alencar, Y Yu, M Fazzari, D Sohal, C Heuck, K Gundabolu, C Ng, Y Mo, W Shen, A Wickrema, G Kong, E Friedman, L Sokol, G Mantzaris, A Pellagatti , J Boultwood, LC Platanias, U Steidl, L Yan, JM Yingling, MM Lahn, A List, M Bitzer and <strong>A Verma,</strong> “Reduced SMAD7 leads to overactivation of TGF-beta signaling in MDS that can be reversed by a specific inhibitor of TGF-beta receptor I kinase.” <strong>Cancer Research</strong> 2011 Feb 1;71(3):955-63.PMID: 21189329</li>
<li>Joshi S, Sharma B, Kaur S, Majchrzak B, Ueda T, Fukunaga R,<strong> Verma AK,</strong> Fish EN, Platanias LC, “Essential role for Mnk kinases in type II interferon (IFNgamma) signaling and its suppressive effects on normal hematopoiesis.” <br />
<strong>J Biol Chem.</strong> 2011 Feb 25;286(8):6017-26.PMID: 21149447</li>
<li>Kroczynska B, Joshi S, Eklund EA, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Kotenko SV, Fish EN, Platanias LC, “Regulatory effects of ribosomal S6 kinase 1 (RSK1) in IFNλ signaling.” <strong>J Biol Chem.</strong> 2011 Jan 14;286(2):1147-56. Epub 2010 Nov 12.</li>
<li>Schinke C, Goel S, Bhagat TD, Zhou L, Mo Y, Gallagher R, Kabalka GW, Platanias LC, <strong>Verma A*,</strong> Das B, “Design and synthesis of novel derivatives of all-trans retinoic acid demonstrate the combined importance of acid moiety and conjugated double bonds in its binding to PML-RAR-alpha oncogene in acute promyelocytic leukemia.” <br />
<strong>Leuk Lymphoma.</strong> 2010 Jun;51(6):1108-14. PMID: 20536349</li>
<li>Huh J, Tiu RV, Gondek LP, O'Keefe CL, Jasek M, Makishima H, Jankowska AM, Jiang Y, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Theil KS, McDevitt MA, Maciejewski JP, “Characterization of chromosome arm 20q abnormalities in myeloid malignancies using genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism array analysis.” <strong>Genes Chromosomes Cancer.</strong> 2010 Apr;49(4):390-9. PMID: 20095039</li>
<li>Pellagatti A, Cazzola M, Giagounidis A, Perry J, Malcovati L, Della Porta MG, Jädersten M, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Norbury C Hellström-Lindberg E, Wainscoat JS, Boultwood J, “Deregulated gene expression pathways in myelodysplastic syndrome hematopoietic stem cells.” <strong>Leukemia.</strong> 2010 Apr;24(4):756-64. PMID: 20220779</li>
<li>Einstein F, Thompson RF, Bhagat TD, Fazzari MJ, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Barzilai N, Greally JM, “Cytosine methylation dysregulation in neonates following intrauterine growth restriction.” <strong>PLoS One.</strong> 2010 Jan 26;5(1):e8887 PMID: 20126273</li>
<li>Oda M., Glass J.L., Thompson R.F., Mo Y., Olivier E., Figueroa M.E., Selzer R.R., Richmond T.A., Zhang X., Dannenberg L., Green R., Melnick A., Hatchwell E., Bouhassira E., <strong>Verma A.,</strong> Suzuki M., Greally J.M., “High-resolution genome-wide cytosine methylation profiling with simultaneous copy number analysis and optimization for limited cell numbers.” <strong>Nucleic Acids Res.</strong> 2009 Jul;37(12):3829-39. PMID: 19386619</li>
<li>Sohal D, Yeatts A, Ye K, Pellagatti A, Zhou L, Pahanish P, Mo Y, Bhagat T, Mariadason J, Boultwood J, Melnick A, Greally JM, <strong>Verma A,</strong> “Meta-analysis of microarray studies reveals a novel hematopoietic progenitor cell signature and demonstrates feasibility of inter-platform data integration.” <strong>PLOS One</strong> 2008 Aug 13;3(8):e2965 PMID: 18698424</li>
<li>Zhou L, Nguyen AN, Sohal D, Ma JY, Pahanish P, Gundabolu K, Hayman J, Chubak A, Mo Y, Bhagat T, Das B, Haghnazari E, Navas T, Parmar S, Kambhampati S, Pellagati A, Braunchweig I, Zhang YE, Wickrema A, Boultwood J, Platanias LC, Higgins LS, List A, Bitzer M, <strong>Verma A,</strong> “Inhibition of Transforming Growth Factor beta receptor I kinase can stimulate hematopoiesis in Myelodysplasia.” <strong>Blood</strong> 2008 Oct 15;112(8):3434-43 PMID: 18474728</li>
<li>Navas T, Zhou L, Estes M, Haghnazari E, Nguyen A, Mo Y, Pahanish P, Mohindru M, Cao T, Higgins L, Platanias LC, List A, <strong>Verma A,</strong> “Inhibition of p38a MAPK disrupts the pathological loop of proinflammatory factor production in the Myelodysplastic Syndrome bone marrow microenvironment.” <strong>Leukemia and Lymphoma</strong> 2008 Oct;49(10):1963-75</li>
<li>Zhou L, Opalinska J, <strong>Verma A,</strong> “p38 MAP kinase regulates stem cell apoptosis in human hematopoietic failure.” <strong>Cell Cycle </strong>2007<strong>,</strong> 1;6(5):534</li>
<li>Navas T, Mohindru M, Estes M, Ma JY, Sokol L, Pahanish P, Parmar S, Haghnazari E, Zhou L, Collins RC, Kerr I, Nguyen A, Xu Y, Platanias LC, List AA, Higgins LS, <strong>Verma A,</strong> “Inhibition of overactivated p38 MAPK can restore hematopoiesis in myelodysplastic syndrome progenitors.” <strong>Blood </strong>2006, 15;108(13):4170-7</li>
<li><strong>Verma A,</strong> and List A, “Cytokine Targets in Myelodysplastic syndromes.” <strong>Current Hematology Reports</strong> 2005 Nov;4(6):429-35</li>
<li>Deonarain R, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Porter AC, Gewert DR, Platanias LC, Fish EN, “Critical roles for IFN-beta in lymphoid development, myelopoiesis, and tumor development: links to tumor necrosis factor alpha.” <strong>Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.</strong> 2003 Nov 11;100(23):13453-8</li>
<li><strong>Verma A,</strong> Devine S, Morrow M, Chen YH, Mihalov M, Peace D, Stock W, Pursell K, Wickrema A, Yassine M, Jessop E, Van Besien K, “Low incidence of CMV viremia and disease after allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. Role of pretransplant ganciclovir and post-transplant acyclovir.” <strong>Bone Marrow Transplant.</strong> 2003 May;31(9):813-6.</li>
<li><strong>Verma A.,</strong> Mohindru M., Deb D., Sassano A., Kambhampati S., Minucci S., Ravandi F., Kovakanalu D, Platanias L., “Activation of the Rac1 and p38 MAP kinase pathway in response to Arsenic trioxide.” <strong>Journal of Biological Chemistry</strong> 22;277(47):44988-95</li>
<li><strong>Verma A,</strong> Sassano A, Deb D, Wickrema, A., VanBesien K., and Platanias L., “Blockade of p38 MAP kinase reverses cytokine mediated inhibition in aplastic anemia.” <strong>Journal of Immunology</strong> 2002, 168 (12) (Cutting edge section)</li>
<li><strong>Verma A,</strong> Deb D.K., Sassano A., Uddine S., Wickrema A., Varga and Platanias LC, “Activation of the p38 mitogen activated protein kinase mediates suppressive effects of Type I interferons and transforming growth factor-b on normal hematopoiesis.” <strong>Journal of Biological Chemistry</strong> 2002, 277(10):7726-35</li>
<li>Devine S, Hoffman R, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Shah R, Bradlow B, Stock W and Van Besien K, “Allogeneic blood cell transplantation following reduced intensity conditioning is effective therapy for older patients with myelofibrosis.”<strong> Blood </strong> 2002, 99(6):2255-8</li>
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<p><strong>Review articles</strong></p>
<ol start="1" type="1">
<li>Li W, Morrone K, Kambhampati S, Will B, Steidl U, <strong>Verma A, </strong>“Thrombocytopenia in MDS: epidemiology, mechanisms, clinical consequences and novel therapeutic strategies.” <strong>Leukemia, </strong>2015 (In Press)</li>
<li>Shenoy N, Vallumsetla N, Zou Y, Galeas JN, Shrivastava M, Hu C, Susztak K, <strong>Verma A., </strong>"Role of DNA methylation in renal cell carcinoma." <strong>J Hematol Oncol.</strong> 2015 Jul 22;8(1):88. PMID: 26198328</li>
<li><strong>Verma A,</strong> Steidl U., “A synthetic lethal approach targeting mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase in acute myeloid leukemia.” <br />
<strong>Nat Med.</strong> 2015;21:113-4. PMID: 25654599</li>
<li>Gañán-Gómez I, Wei Y, Starczynowski DT, Colla S, Yang H, Cabrero-Calvo M, Bohannan ZS, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Steidl U, Garcia-Manero G, "Deregulation of innate immune and inflammatory signaling in myelodysplastic syndromes." <strong>Leukemia.</strong> 2015 Mar 12. PMID: 25761935</li>
<li>Shenoy N, Vallumsetla N, Rachmilewitz E, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Ginzburg Y., "Impact of iron overload and potential benefit from iron chelation in low-risk myelodysplastic syndrome." <strong>Blood,</strong> 2014 Aug 7;124(6):873-81. PMID: 24923296</li>
<li>Das BC, Thapa P, Karki R, Das S, Mahapatra S, Liu TC, Torregroza I, Wallace DP, Kambhampati S, Van Veldhuizen P, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Ray SK, Evans T., "Retinoic acid signaling pathways in development and diseases."<br />
<strong>Bioorg Med Chem.</strong> 2014 Jan 15;22(2):673-83. PMID: 24393720</li>
<li>Elias HK, Schinke C, Bhattacharyya S, Will B*, <strong>Verma A*, </strong> Steidl U* *CoCorresponding, “Stem cell origin of myelodysplastic syndromes.” <strong>Oncogene</strong> 2013 Dec 16. PMID: 24336326</li>
<li>Pathak S, Roth M, <strong>Verma A*,</strong> Steidl U*. *CoCorresponding, “Eltrombopag for the treatment of thrombocytopenia in patients with malignant and non-malignant hematologic disorders.”<br />
<strong>Expert Opin Drug Metab Toxicol.</strong> 2013 Dec;9(12):1667-75. PMID: 24215532</li>
<li>Feld J, Barta SK, Schinke C, Braunschweig I, Zhou Y, <strong>Verma AK, </strong>“Linked-in: design and efficacy of antibody drug conjugates in oncology.” <strong>Oncotarget</strong> 2013 Mar;4(3):397-412. PMID: 23651630</li>
<li>Khan H, Vale C, Bhagat T, <strong>Verma A., </strong>“Role of DNA methylation in the pathogenesis and treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes.”<br />
<strong>Semin Hematol.</strong> 2013 Jan;50(1):16-37. PMID: 23507481</li>
<li>Elias H, <strong>Verma A, </strong>“Activation of hypoxia signaling is marker of poor prognosis in myelodysplasia.”<br />
<strong>Leuk Lymphoma.</strong> 2012 Dec;53(12):2337-8. PMID: 22897726</li>
<li>Shenoy N, Kessel R, Bhagat TD, Bhattacharyya S, Yu Y, McMahon C, <strong>Verma A., </strong>“Alterations in the ribosomal machinery in cancer and hematologic disorders.” <strong>J Hematol Oncol.</strong> 2012 Jun 18;5:32. PMID: 22709827</li>
<li>Agarwal A, Polineni R, Hussein Z, Vigoda I, Bhagat TD, Bhattacharyya S, Maitra A, <strong>Verma A., </strong>“Role of epigenetic alterations in the pathogenesis of Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma.” <strong>Int J Clin Exp Pathol.</strong> 2012;5(5):382-96. PMID: 22808291</li>
<li>Sharma A, Heuck C, Fazzari M, Mehta J, Singhal S, Greally JM, <strong>Verma A, </strong>“DNA methylation alterations seen in myeloma as a model of epigenetic changes in cancer.” <strong>WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine</strong> 2010 Nov-Dec;2(6):654-69. PMID: 20890963</li>
<li>Schinke C, Mo Y, Yu Y, Amiri K, Sosman J, Greally JM, <strong>Verma A, “</strong>Aberrant DNA methylation in malignant melanoma.” <strong>Melanoma Research</strong> 2010, Aug; 20(4):253-65 PMID: 20418788</li>
<li>Kotla V, Goel S, Nischal S, Heuck C, Vivek K, Das B, <strong>Verma A., </strong>“Mechanism of action of lenalidomide in hematological malignancies.”<br />
<strong>J Hematol Oncol.</strong> 2009 Aug 12;2:36</li>
<li>Opalinska J, Zhou L, <strong>Verma A., </strong>“A new PML-RARs fusion transcript hints at the important role of PML dysregulation in the pathogenesis of APL.” <strong>Leukemia Research (Commentary)</strong> 2007, 48(3):443</li>
<li>Isufi I, Seetharam M, Sohal D, Zhou L, Opalinska J, Pahanish P, <strong>Verma A., “</strong>Transforming Growth Factor-beta Signaling in Normal and Malignant Hematopoiesis.” <strong>Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research</strong> 2007, 27(7):543</li>
<li>Mohindru M, <strong>Verma A, </strong>“Engineered antibodies act as targeted therapies in cancer treatment.” <strong>Indian Journal of Pediatrics,</strong> 2005 Nov;72(11):943-7</li>
<li>Sassano A, <strong>Verma A,</strong> Platanias LC, "Mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways in interferon signaling." <strong>Methods Molecular Medicine,</strong> 2005;116:135-50.</li>
<li>Mohindru M, <strong>Verma A, </strong>"Kinase inhibitors translate lab discoveries into exciting new cures for cancers." <strong>Indian Journal of Pediatrics,</strong> 2004 Aug;71(8):713-8.</li>
<li><strong>Verma A,</strong> Kambhampati S, Parmar S, Platanias LC, “Jak family of kinases in cancer.” <strong>Cancer Metastasis Rev.</strong> 2003 Dec;22(4):423-34.(rev)</li>
<li><strong>Verma A,</strong> and Platanias LC, “Signaling via the interferon-a receptor in chronic myelogenous leukemia cells.” <strong>Leukemia and Lymphoma </strong> 2002, 44:703-709</li>
<li><strong>Verma A,</strong> and Stock W, “Management of adult lymphoblastic leukemia: moving toward a risk-adapted approach.” <strong>Current Opinion in Oncology,</strong> 2001, 13:14-20</li>
<li><strong>Verma A,</strong> and Gupta YK, “The search for a super oral rehydration solution (0RS).” <strong>Drugs: News and Views,</strong> 1995, 3(2):129-132. </li>
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<p>Amit K. Verma, MD, is Interim Chair, Department of Oncology, Associate Director of Translational Science, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center, Professor, Medical Oncology and Professor, Developmental & Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.</p><p>Dr. Verma earned his Doctor of Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1995 and finished his training in internal medicine, hematology oncology and stem cell transplantation at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University in 2003.</p><p>Dr. Verma conducts clinical studies for patients with MDS and leukemia and offers a variety of clinical trials for these patients. He conducts laboratory research aimed at discovering new treatments for myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and leukemias, and his research has shown that the TGF-beta superfamily/smad, IRAK and MAP kinase pathways are overactivated in MDS. His work has led to clinical trials with Luspatercept, Galunisertib, CA4948, ARRY-614 and various other promising agents in MDS. DR. Verma’s research has shown that MDS and leukemias are caused by aberrant leukemic stem cells and has identified novel targets against MDS/AML stem cells that are being tested in various studies.</p><p>Dr. Verma is a scholar of the Leukemia and Lymphoma society, elected member of American society of clinical investigation and his research is funded by the NIH, Department of Defense, American Cancer Society, Edward P. Evans Foundation and various other private foundations.</p>