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Chantale Bernatchez is affiliated with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and immunology and microbiology. The scientist's work is extensively focused on oncology, immunology, molecular biology, cancer research, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The research topics they frequently explore include cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, CAR-T cell therapy research, immunotherapy and immune responses, cancer genomics and diagnostics, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, immune cell function and interaction, and cancer research and treatments.

The list of frequent co-authors in their publications includes Cara Haymaker, Marie-Andrée Forget, Ignacio I. Wistuba, Michael A. Davies, and Alexandre Reuben.

They have published numerous papers in notable scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are Cancer Research, Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, Clinical Cancer Research, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Recent significant papers by Chantale Bernatchez include:

  • Neoadjuvant nivolumab or nivolumab plus ipilimumab in operable non-small cell lung cancer: the phase 2 randomized NEOSTAR trial, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Identification of bacteria-derived HLA-bound peptides in melanoma, 2021, Nature
  • Deep learning-based prediction of the T cell receptor-antigen binding specificity, 2021, Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Multimodal pooled Perturb-CITE-seq screens in patient models define mechanisms of cancer immune evasion, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Bempegaldesleukin (NKTR-214) plus Nivolumab in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors: Phase I Dose-Escalation Study of Safety, Efficacy, and Immune Activation (PIVOT-02), 2020, Cancer Discovery

Best Publications

  • Loss of PTEN Promotes Resistance to T Cell–Mediated Immunotherapy

    Weiyi Peng;Jie Qing Chen;Chengwen Liu;Shruti Malu

  • A Cancer Cell Program Promotes T Cell Exclusion and Resistance to Checkpoint Blockade

    Livnat Jerby-Arnon;Parin Shah;Michael S. Cuoco;Christopher Rodman

  • Loss of IFN-γ Pathway Genes in Tumor Cells as a Mechanism of Resistance to Anti-CTLA-4 Therapy

    Jianjun Gao;Lewis Zhichang Shi;Hao Zhao;Jianfeng Chen

  • Increased Tumor Glycolysis Characterizes Immune Resistance to Adoptive T Cell Therapy.

    Tina Cascone;Jodi A. McKenzie;Rina M. Mbofung;Simone Punt

  • Neoadjuvant nivolumab or nivolumab plus ipilimumab in operable non-small cell lung cancer: the phase 2 randomized NEOSTAR trial.

    Tina Cascone;William N. William;Annikka Weissferdt;Cheuk H. Leung

  • Specific lymphocyte subsets predict response to adoptive cell therapy using expanded autologous tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in metastatic melanoma patients

    Laszlo G. Radvanyi;Chantale Bernatchez;Minying Zhang;Patricia S. Fox

  • Combining Immune Checkpoint Blockade and Tumor-Specific Vaccine for Patients With Incurable Human Papillomavirus 16-Related Cancer: A Phase 2 Clinical Trial.

    Erminia Massarelli;William William;Faye Johnson;Merrill Kies

  • Identification of bacteria-derived HLA-bound peptides in melanoma

    Shelly Kalaora;Adi Nagler;Deborah Nejman;Michal Alon

  • Oncogenic BRAF(V600E) Promotes Stromal Cell-Mediated Immunosuppression Via Induction of Interleukin-1 in Melanoma

    Jahan S. Khalili;Shujuan Liu;Tania G. Rodríguez-Cruz;Mayra Whittington

  • Adoptive T-cell therapy using autologous tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes for metastatic melanoma: current status and future outlook.

    Richard Wu;Marie Andrée Forget;Jessica Chacon;Jessica Chacon;Chantale Bernatchez

  • Comparison of immune infiltrates in melanoma and pancreatic cancer highlights VISTA as a potential target in pancreatic cancer.

    Jorge Blando;Anu Sharma;Maria Gisela Higa;Hao Zhao

  • Validation of multiplex immunofluorescence panels using multispectral microscopy for immune-profiling of formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded human tumor tissues.

    Edwin R. Parra;Naohiro Uraoka;Mei Jiang;Pamela Cook

  • Deep learning-based prediction of the T cell receptor–antigen binding specificity

    Tianshi Lu;Ze Zhang;James Zhu;Yunguan Wang

  • Bempegaldesleukin (NKTR-214) plus Nivolumab in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors: Phase I Dose-Escalation Study of Safety, Efficacy, and Immune Activation (PIVOT-02)

    Adi Diab;Nizar M. Tannir;Salah Eddine Bentebibel;Patrick Hwu

  • Multimodal pooled Perturb-CITE-seq screens in patient models define mechanisms of cancer immune evasion.

    Chris J. Frangieh;Johannes C. Melms;Pratiksha I. Thakore;Kathryn R. Geiger-Schuller;Kathryn R. Geiger-Schuller

  • A First-in-Human Study and Biomarker Analysis of NKTR-214, a Novel IL2Rβγ-Biased Cytokine, in Patients with Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors

    Salah Eddine Bentebibel;Michael E. Hurwitz;Chantale Bernatchez;Cara Haymaker

  • TCR Repertoire Intratumor Heterogeneity in Localized Lung Adenocarcinomas: An Association with Predicted Neoantigen Heterogeneity and Postsurgical Recurrence.

    Alexandre Reuben;Rachel Gittelman;Jianjun Gao;Jiexin Zhang

  • Comprehensive T cell repertoire characterization of non-small cell lung cancer

    Alexandre Reuben;Jiexin Zhang;Shin Heng Chiou;Rachel M. Gittelman

  • BRAFV600E Co-opts a Conserved MHC Class I Internalization Pathway to Diminish Antigen Presentation and CD8+ T-cell Recognition of Melanoma

    Sherille D. Bradley;Zeming Chen;Brenda Melendez;Amjad Talukder

  • Neoadjuvant nivolumab (N) or nivolumab plus ipilimumab (NI) for resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): Clinical and correlative results from the NEOSTAR study.

    Tina Cascone;William Nassib William;Annikka Weissferdt;Heather Y. Lin

  • Effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on the immune microenvironment in non-small cell lung carcinomas as determined by multiplex immunofluorescence and image analysis approaches.

    Edwin R. Parra;Pamela Villalobos;Carmen Behrens;Mei Jiang

  • Genomic and immune heterogeneity are associated with differential responses to therapy in melanoma

    Alexandre Reuben;Christine N. Spencer;Peter A. Prieto;Vancheswaran Gopalakrishnan

Frequent Co-Authors

Cara Haymaker
Cara Haymaker The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Patrick Hwu
Patrick Hwu The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Laszlo Radvanyi
Laszlo Radvanyi Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Adi Diab
Adi Diab The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Don L. Gibbons
Don L. Gibbons The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
John V. Heymach
John V. Heymach The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jennifer A. Wargo
Jennifer A. Wargo The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ignacio I. Wistuba
Ignacio I. Wistuba The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jason Roszik
Jason Roszik The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Michael A. Davies
Michael A. Davies The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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