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Overview

Maria R. Parkhurst is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Their research primarily focuses on Oncology and Immunology, with additional work in Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics covered in Parkhurst's research include:

  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches

Several frequent co-authors have collaborated with Parkhurst on multiple scientific publications, including:

  • Steven A. Rosenberg
  • Frank J. Lowery
  • Paul F. Robbins
  • Jared J. Gartner
  • Sri Krishna

Parkhurst's recent influential papers include:

  • Stem-like CD8 T cells mediate response of adoptive cell immunotherapy against human cancer, 2020, Science
  • Molecular signatures of antitumor neoantigen-reactive T cells from metastatic human cancers, 2022, Science
  • mRNA vaccine-induced neoantigen-specific T cell immunity in patients with gastrointestinal cancer, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • A phenotypic signature that identifies neoantigen-reactive T cells in fresh human lung cancers, 2022, Cancer Cell
  • Adoptive Cellular Therapy with Autologous Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes and T-cell Receptor-Engineered T Cells Targeting Common p53 Neoantigens in Human Solid Tumors, 2022, Cancer Immunology Research

Parkhurst's work has appeared prominently in several publication venues, notably:

  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts
  • Cancer Cell
  • Nature Medicine
  • Cancer Research
  • Science

Best Publications

  • Cancer Immunotherapy Based on Mutation-Specific CD4+ T Cells in a Patient with Epithelial Cancer

    Eric Tran;Simon Turcotte;Alena Gros;Paul F. Robbins

  • Immunologic and therapeutic evaluation of a synthetic peptide vaccine for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma

    Steven A. Rosenberg;James C. Yang;Douglas J. Schwartzentruber;Patrick Hwu

  • T Cells Targeting Carcinoembryonic Antigen Can Mediate Regression of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer but Induce Severe Transient Colitis

    Maria R. Parkhurst;James C. Yang;Russell C. Langan;Mark E. Dudley

  • Prospective identification of neoantigen-specific lymphocytes in the peripheral blood of melanoma patients

    Alena Gros;Maria R Parkhurst;Eric Tran;Anna Pasetto

  • Improved induction of melanoma-reactive CTL with peptides from the melanoma antigen gp100 modified at HLA-A*0201-binding residues.

    Maria R. Parkhurst;Michael L. Salgaller;Scott Southwood;Paul F. Robbins

  • GP100/PMEL 17 IS A MURINE TUMOR REJECTION ANTIGEN : INDUCTION OF SELF -REACTIVE, TUMORICIDAL T CELLS USING HIGH-AFFINITY, ALTERED PEPTIDE LIGAND

    Willem W. Overwijk;Allan Tsung;Kari R. Irvine;Maria R. Parkhurst

  • Adoptive Transfer of Autologous Natural Killer Cells Leads to High Levels of Circulating Natural Killer Cells but Does Not Mediate Tumor Regression

    Maria R. Parkhurst;John P. Riley;Mark E. Dudley;Steven A. Rosenberg

  • Molecular signatures of antitumor neoantigen-reactive T cells from metastatic human cancers

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  • Stem-like CD8 T cells mediate response of adoptive cell immunotherapy against human cancer

    Sri Krishna;Frank J. Lowery;Amy R. Copeland;Erol Bahadiroglu

  • Isolation of neoantigen-specific T cells from tumor and peripheral lymphocytes

    Cyrille J. Cohen;Cyrille J. Cohen;Jared J. Gartner;Miryam Horovitz-Fried;Katerina Shamalov

  • Utilization of an alternative open reading frame of a normal gene in generating a novel human cancer antigen.

    Rong Fu Wang;Maria R. Parkhurst;Yutaka Kawakami;Paul F. Robbins

  • Melanoma-specific CD4 + T Cells Recognize Nonmutated HLA-DR-restricted Tyrosinase Epitopes

    Suzanne L. Topalian;Monica I. Gonzales;Maria Parkhurst;Yong F. Li

  • mRNA vaccine–induced neoantigen-specific T cell immunity in patients with gastrointestinal cancer

    Gal Cafri;Jared J Gartner;Tal Zaks;Kristen Hopson

  • Identification of a Shared HLA-A*0201-restricted T-Cell Epitope from the Melanoma Antigen Tyrosinase-related Protein 2 (TRP2)

    Maria R. Parkhurst;Ellen B. Fitzgerald;Scott Southwood;Alessandro Sette

  • Unique Neoantigens Arise from Somatic Mutations in Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancers

    Maria R. Parkhurst;Paul F Robbins;Eric Tran;Todd D. Prickett

  • Neoantigen screening identifies broad TP53 mutant immunogenicity in patients with epithelial cancers

    Parisa Malekzadeh;Anna Pasetto;Paul F. Robbins;Maria R. Parkhurst

  • A phenotypic signature that identifies neoantigen-reactive T cells in fresh human lung cancers.

    Unknown

  • Enhanced detection of neoantigen-reactive T cells targeting unique and shared oncogenes for personalized cancer immunotherapy.

    Rami Yossef;Eric Tran;Drew C. Deniger;Alena Gros

  • A TCR Targeting the HLA-A*0201–Restricted Epitope of MAGE-A3 Recognizes Multiple Epitopes of the MAGE-A Antigen Superfamily in Several Types of Cancer

    Nachimuthu Chinnasamy;Jennifer A. Wargo;Zhiya Yu;Mahadev Rao

  • Tumor- and Neoantigen-Reactive T-cell Receptors Can Be Identified Based on Their Frequency in Fresh Tumor

    Anna Pasetto;Alena Gros;Paul F. Robbins;Drew C. Deniger

  • Isolation of T-Cell Receptors Specifically Reactive with Mutated Tumor-Associated Antigens from Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes Based on CD137 Expression

    Maria R. Parkhurst;Alena Gros;Anna Pasetto;Todd D. Prickett

  • Characterization of Genetically Modified T-Cell Receptors that Recognize the CEA:691-699 Peptide in the Context of HLA-A2.1 on Human Colorectal Cancer Cells

    Maria R. Parkhurst;Jayne S Joo;John P. Riley;Zhiya Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven A. Rosenberg
Steven A. Rosenberg National Institutes of Health
Paul F. Robbins
Paul F. Robbins National Cancer Institute
James Chih-Hsin Yang
James Chih-Hsin Yang National Taiwan University
Nicholas P. Restifo
Nicholas P. Restifo National Institutes of Health
Paul D. Robbins
Paul D. Robbins University of Minnesota
Zhiya Yu
Zhiya Yu National Institutes of Health
John R. Wunderlich
John R. Wunderlich National Institutes of Health
Yutaka Kawakami
Yutaka Kawakami International University Of Health And Welfare Atami Hospital
Richard A. Morgan
Richard A. Morgan University of California, Los Angeles
Mark E. Dudley
Mark E. Dudley Novartis (Switzerland)

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