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Robert L. Ferris is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of medicine, with a focus on oncology, otorhinolaryngology, immunology, surgery, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine. The scientist's work spans over 477 publications, with a significant concentration in these specialized subfields.

Their research covers a variety of topics, extensively dealing with head and neck cancer studies, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, CAR-T cell therapy research, immunotherapy and immune responses, lung cancer treatments and mutations, cancer genomics and diagnostics, as well as colorectal and anal carcinomas.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert L. Ferris include:

  • "Immune Landscape of Viral- and Carcinogen-Driven Head and Neck Cancer," 2020, Immunity
  • "Avelumab plus standard-of-care chemoradiotherapy versus chemoradiotherapy alone in patients with locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre, phase 3 trial," 2021, The Lancet Oncology
  • "Durvalumab with or without tremelimumab in patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: EAGLE, a randomized, open-label phase III study," 2020, Annals of Oncology
  • "B cell signatures and tertiary lymphoid structures contribute to outcome in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Investigating immune and non-immune cell interactions in head and neck tumors by single-cell RNA sequencing," 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert L. Ferris include:

  • Dan P. Zandberg
  • Umamaheswar Duvvuri
  • Seungwon Kim
  • Heath D. Skinner
  • Lazar Vujanović

The scientist's work is commonly published in several key venues within oncology and immunotherapy research, such as:

  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Clinical Cancer Research
  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts
  • Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

This substantial contribution to medical science, particularly in head and neck cancer and immunotherapy, reflects a broad and diverse research portfolio. The integration of clinical trials, translational studies, and single-cell analyses marks their work across multiple frontiers of oncology research.

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

    Michael S. Lawrence;Carrie Sougnez;Lee Lichtenstein;Kristian Cibulskis

  • Nivolumab for Recurrent Squamous-Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck

    Robert L. Ferris;George Blumenschein;Jerome Fayette;Joel Guigay

  • Integrated Genomic Characterization of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

    Nishant Agrawal;Rehan Akbani;B. Arman Aksoy;Adrian Ally

  • Head and neck cancer

    Athanassios Argiris;Michalis V Karamouzis;David Raben;Robert L Ferris

  • Impact of Mutational Testing on the Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Cytologically Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules: A Prospective Analysis of 1056 FNA Samples

    Yuri E. Nikiforov;N. Paul Ohori;Steven P. Hodak;Sally E. Carty

  • Nivolumab vs investigator's choice in recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: 2-year long-term survival update of CheckMate 141 with analyses by tumor PD-L1 expression.

    Robert L. Ferris;George Blumenschein;Jerome Fayette;Joel Guigay

  • The Tumor Microenvironment Represses T Cell Mitochondrial Biogenesis to Drive Intratumoral T Cell Metabolic Insufficiency and Dysfunction

    Nicole E. Scharping;Ashley V. Menk;Rebecca S. Moreci;Ryan D. Whetstone

  • Lipid accumulation and dendritic cell dysfunction in cancer

    Donna L. Herber;Wei Cao;Yulia Nefedova;Sergey V. Novitskiy

  • Immunology and Immunotherapy of Head and Neck Cancer

    Robert L. Ferris

  • Immune Landscape of Viral- and Carcinogen-Driven Head and Neck Cancer

    Anthony R. Cillo;Cornelius H.L. Kürten;Cornelius H.L. Kürten;Tracy Tabib;Zengbiao Qi

  • Interferon-γ Drives Treg Fragility to Promote Anti-tumor Immunity

    Abigail E. Overacre-Delgoffe;Abigail E. Overacre-Delgoffe;Maria Chikina;Rebekah E. Dadey;Hiroshi Yano

  • Frequent mutation of the PI3K pathway in head and neck cancer defines predictive biomarkers

    Vivian W.Y. Lui;Matthew L. Hedberg;Hua Li;Bhavana S. Vangara

  • The changing therapeutic landscape of head and neck cancer.

    John D Cramer;Barbara Burtness;Quynh Thu Le;Robert L Ferris

  • The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer consensus statement on immunotherapy for the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (HNSCC)

    Ezra E.W. Cohen;R. Bryan Bell;Carlo B. Bifulco;Barbara Burtness

  • Highly accurate diagnosis of cancer in thyroid nodules with follicular neoplasm/suspicious for a follicular neoplasm cytology by ThyroSeq v2 next-generation sequencing assay.

    Yuri E. Nikiforov;Sally E. Carty;Simon I. Chiosea;Christopher Coyne

  • E1308: Phase II Trial of Induction Chemotherapy Followed by Reduced-Dose Radiation and Weekly Cetuximab in Patients With HPV-Associated Resectable Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oropharynx- ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group.

    Shanthi Marur;Shuli Li;Anthony J. Cmelak;Maura L. Gillison

  • The Mutational Landscape of Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma

    Allen S Ho;Kasthuri Kannan;David M Roy;Luc G T Morris

  • Characterization of HPV and host genome interactions in primary head and neck cancers.

    Michael Parfenov;Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu;Nils Gehlenborg;Nils Gehlenborg;Samuel S. Freeman

  • Nivolumab versus standard, single-agent therapy of investigator's choice in recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (CheckMate 141): health-related quality-of-life results from a randomised, phase 3 trial

    Kevin J Harrington;Robert L Ferris;George Blumenschein;A Dimitrios Colevas

  • Impact of the Multi-Gene ThyroSeq Next-Generation Sequencing Assay on Cancer Diagnosis in Thyroid Nodules with Atypia of Undetermined Significance/Follicular Lesion of Undetermined Significance Cytology

    Yuri E. Nikiforov;Sally E. Carty;Simon I. Chiosea;Christopher Coyne

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonas T. Johnson
Jonas T. Johnson University of Pittsburgh
William E. Gooding
William E. Gooding University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer R. Grandis
Jennifer R. Grandis University of California, San Francisco
Raja R. Seethala
Raja R. Seethala University of Pittsburgh
Robert I. Haddad
Robert I. Haddad Harvard University
Soldano Ferrone
Soldano Ferrone Harvard University
Kevin J. Harrington
Kevin J. Harrington Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Theresa L. Whiteside
Theresa L. Whiteside University of Pittsburgh
Lisa Licitra
Lisa Licitra University of Milan
Maura L. Gillison
Maura L. Gillison The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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