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Overview

Craig L. Slingluff is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, particularly focusing on oncology and immunology. Their work spans several fields of study including immunology and microbiology, as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's research prominently addresses topics related to immunotherapy and immune responses, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, and cutaneous melanoma detection and management. Additional areas of study include CAR-T cell therapy research, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, immune cell function and interaction, and T-cell and B-cell immunology.

Craig L. Slingluff has published frequently in the following academic venues:

  • Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts
  • Annals of Surgical Oncology
  • Journal of Surgical Oncology

Notable recent publications by Slingluff include:

  • Conserved Interferon-γ Signaling Drives Clinical Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapy in Melanoma, 2020, Cancer Cell
  • Immune mechanisms orchestrate tertiary lymphoid structures in tumors via cancer-associated fibroblasts, 2021, Cell Reports
  • Dissecting the treatment-naive ecosystem of human melanoma brain metastasis, 2022, Cell
  • Barriers to immune cell infiltration in tumors, 2023, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • Heterogeneity in tertiary lymphoid structure B-cells correlates with patient survival in metastatic melanoma, 2021, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Throughout their career, Slingluff has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Kevin Lynch
  • Max O. Meneveau
  • Ileana S. Mauldin
  • Elizabeth Gaughan
  • Walter C. Olson

Best Publications

  • Tumor and Microenvironment Evolution during Immunotherapy with Nivolumab.

    Nadeem Riaz;Jonathan J. Havel;Vladimir Makarov;Alexis Desrichard

  • Potential Regulatory Function of Human Dendritic Cells Expressing Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase

    David H. Munn;Madhav D. Sharma;Jeffrey R. Lee;Kanchan G. Jhaver

  • Chemokine Expression in Melanoma Metastases Associated with CD8+ T-Cell Recruitment

    Helena Harlin;Yuru Meng;Amy C. Peterson;Yuanyuan Zha

  • Identification of a peptide recognized by five melanoma-specific human cytotoxic T cell lines

    Andrea L. Cox;Jonathan Skipper;Ye Chen;Robert A. Henderson

  • Immunotype and Immunohistologic Characteristics of Tumor Infiltrating Immune Cells are Associated with Clinical Outcome in Metastatic Melanoma

    Gulsun Erdag;Jochen T. Schaefer;Jochen T. Schaefer;Mark E. Smolkin;Donna H. Deacon

  • An HLA-A2-restricted tyrosinase antigen on melanoma cells results from posttranslational modification and suggests a novel pathway for processing of membrane proteins.

    J C Skipper;R C Hendrickson;P H Gulden;V Brichard

  • Clinical and Immunologic Results of a Randomized Phase II Trial of Vaccination Using Four Melanoma Peptides Either Administered in Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor in Adjuvant or Pulsed on Dendritic Cells

    Craig L. Slingluff;Gina R. Petroni;Galina V. Yamshchikov;Donna L. Barnd

  • The present and future of peptide vaccines for cancer: single or multiple, long or short, alone or in combination?

    Craig L. Slingluff

  • Sequential administration of nivolumab and ipilimumab with a planned switch in patients with advanced melanoma (CheckMate 064): an open-label, randomised, phase 2 trial

    Jeffrey S Weber;Geoff Gibney;Ryan J Sullivan;Jeffrey A Sosman

  • Conserved Interferon-γ Signaling Drives Clinical Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapy in Melanoma

    Catherine S. Grasso;Catherine S. Grasso;Jennifer Tsoi;Mykola Onyshchenko;Gabriel Abril-Rodriguez

  • Impact of Patient Distance to Radiation Therapy on Mastectomy Use in Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients

    Anneke T. Schroen;David R. Brenin;Maria D. Kelly;William A. Knaus

  • Autologous Human Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells Genetically Modified to Express Melanoma Antigens Elicit Primary Cytotoxic T Cell Responses In Vitro: Enhancement by Cotransfection of Genes Encoding the Th1-Biasing Cytokines IL-12 and IFN-α

    Thomas Tüting;Cara C. Wilson;Dina M. Martin;Yvette L. Kasamon

  • The role of HLA class I antigens in recognition of melanoma cells by tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Evidence for shared tumor antigens.

    T L Darrow;C L Slingluff;H F Seigler

  • Phase I trial of a melanoma vaccine with gp100(280-288) peptide and tetanus helper peptide in adjuvant: immunologic and clinical outcomes.

    Craig L. Slingluff;Galina Yamshchikov;Patrice Neese;Holly Galavotti

  • Current status of granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating factor in the immunotherapy of melanoma

    Howard L Kaufman;Carl E Ruby;Tasha Hughes;Craig L Slingluff

  • Terminal modifications inhibit proteolytic degradation of an immunogenic mart-127–35 peptide: Implications for peptide vaccines

    Laurence H. Brinckerhoff;Vladimir V. Kalashnikov;Lee W. Thompson;Galina V. Yamshchikov

  • Lethal "thin" malignant melanoma. Identifying patients at risk.

    Craig L. Slingluff;Robin T. Vollmer;Douglas S. Reintgen;Hilliard F. Seigler

  • Immune Cell Infiltration and Tertiary Lymphoid Structures as Determinants of Antitumor Immunity.

    Victor H. Engelhard;Anthony B. Rodriguez;Ileana S. Mauldin;Amber N. Woods

  • Surgical Management of Regional Lymph Nodes in Patients with Melanoma Experience with 4682 Patients

    Craig L. Slingluff;Katrina R. Stidham;William M. Ricci;Wilma E. Stanley

  • Effect of Granulocyte/Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor on Circulating CD8+ and CD4+ T-Cell Responses to a Multipeptide Melanoma Vaccine: Outcome of a Multicenter Randomized Trial

    Craig L. Slingluff;Gina R. Petroni;Walter C. Olson;Mark E. Smolkin

  • Overexpression of Collagenase 1 (MMP-1) Is Mediated by the ERK Pathway in Invasive Melanoma Cells ROLE OF BRAF MUTATION AND FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR SIGNALING

    Jonathan T. Huntington;Janiel M. Shields;Channing J. Der;Colby A. Wyatt

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor H. Engelhard
Victor H. Engelhard University of Virginia
Hilliard F. Seigler
Hilliard F. Seigler Duke University
Donald F. Hunt
Donald F. Hunt University of Virginia
John M. Kirkwood
John M. Kirkwood University of Pittsburgh
Jeffrey Shabanowitz
Jeffrey Shabanowitz University of Virginia
Thomas F. Gajewski
Thomas F. Gajewski University of Chicago
Ena Wang
Ena Wang Toro bio
Jedd D. Wolchok
Jedd D. Wolchok Cornell University
F. Stephen Hodi
F. Stephen Hodi Harvard University
Walter J. Urba
Walter J. Urba Providence Portland Medical Center

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