Publications

2023

Ryan, C.E., Brander, D.M., Barr, P.M. et al. A phase 1b study of ibrutinib in combination with obinutuzumab in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leukemia. 37, 835–842 (2023)
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Davids Lab Author(s): Christine Ryan, Liam Hackett, Mary Collins, Matthew Davids

Chong SJF, Zhu F, Dashevsky O, Mizuno R, Lai JX, Hackett L, Ryan CE, Collins MC, Iorgulescu JB, Guièze R, Penailillo J, Carrasco R, Hwang YC, Muñoz DP, Bouhaddou M, Lim YC, Wu CJ, Allan JN, Furman RR, Goh BC, Pervaiz S, Coppé JP, Mitsiades CS, Davids MS. Hyperphosphorylation of BCL-2 family proteins underlies functional resistance to venetoclax in lymphoid malignancies. J Clin Invest. 2023 Sep 26. PMID: 37751299.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Stephen Chong, Christine Ryan, Mary Collins, Liam Hackett, Fen Zhu, Matthew Davids

Zhu F, Crombie JL, Ni W, Hoang NM, Garg S, Hackett L, Chong SJF, Collins MC, Rui L, Griffin J, Davids MS. Hypomethylating agent decitabine sensitizes diffuse large B-cell lymphoma to venetoclax. Haematologica. 2023 Aug 03. PMID: 37534528.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Fen Zhu, Liam Hackett, Stephen Chong, Mary Collins, Matthew Davids

Ryan CE, Davids MS. Practical Management of Richter Transformation in 2023 and Beyond. Am Soc Clin Oncol Educ Book. 2023
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Davids Lab Author(s): Christine Ryan, Matthew Davids

2022

Ryan CE et al. Updated Results from a Multicenter, Phase 2 Study of Acalabrutinib, Venetoclax, Obinutuzumab (AVO) in a Population of Previously Untreated Patients with CLL Enriched for High-Risk Disease. Blood. 2022
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Davids Lab Author(s): Christine Ryan, Liam Hackett, Matthew Davids

2021

Ngoi NY, Liew AQ, Chong SJF, Davids MS, Clement MV, Pervaiz S. The redox-senescence axis and its therapeutic targeting. Redox Biol. 2021 09; 45:102032. PMID: 34147844.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Stephen Chong, Matthew Davids

Kornauth C, Herbaux C, Boidol B, Guillemette C, Caron P, Mayerhöfer ME, Poulain S, Tournilhac O, Pemovska T, Chong SJF, Van der Kouwe E, Kazianka L, Hopfinger G, Heintel D, Jäger R, Raderer M, Jäger U, Simonitsch-Klupp I, Sperr WR, Kubicek S, Davids MS, Staber PB. Rationale for the combination of venetoclax and ibrutinib in T-prolymphocytic leukemia. Haematologica. 2021 Feb 25
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Davids Lab Author(s): Charles Herbaux, Stephen Chong, Matthew Davids

Herbaux C, Kornauth C, Poulain S, Chong SJF, Collins MC, Valentin R, Hackett L, Tournilhac O, Lemonnier F, Dupuis J, Daniel A, Tomowiak C, Laribi K, Renaud L, Roos-Weil D, Rossi C, Van Den Neste EW, Leyronnas C, Merabet F, Malfuson JV, Tiab M, Ysebaert L, Ng SY, Morschhauser F, Staber PB, Davids MS. BH3 profiling identifies ruxolitinib as a promising partner for venetoclax to treat T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia. Blood. 2021 Feb 17:blood.2020007303.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Charles Herbaux, Stephen Chong, Mary Collins, Rebecca Valentin, Liam Hackett, Matthew Davids

2020

Chong SJF, Iskandar K, Lai JXH, Qu J, Raman D, Valentin R, Herbaux C, Collins M, Low ICC, Loh T, Davids M, Pervaiz S. Serine-70 phosphorylated Bcl-2 prevents oxidative stress-induced DNA damage by modulating the mitochondrial redox metabolism. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 Nov 27:gkaa1110.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Stephen Chong, Rebecca Valentin, Charles Herbaux, Mary Collins, Matthew Davids

Davids MS, Fisher DC, Tyekucheva S, McDonough M, Hanna J, Lee B, Francoeur K, Montegaard J, Odejide O, Armand P, Arnason J, Brown JR. A phase 1b/2 study of duvelisib in combination with FCR (DFCR) for frontline therapy for younger CLL patients. Leukemia. 2020 Aug 20.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Davids MS, Kim HT, Costello C, Herrera AF, Locke FL, Maegawa RO, Savell A, Mazzeo M, Anderson A, Boardman AP, Weber A, Avigan D, Chen YB, Nikiforow S, Ho VT, Cutler C, Alyea EP, Bachireddy P, Wu CJ, Ritz J, Streicher H, Ball ED, Bashey A, Soiffer RJ, Armand P. A multicenter phase 1 study of nivolumab for relapsed hematologic malignancies after allogeneic transplantation. Blood. 2020 Jun 11; 135(24):2182-2191.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Bedard PL, Hyman DM, Davids MS, Siu LL. Small molecules, big impact: 20 years of targeted therapy in oncology. Lancet. 2020 Mar 28; 395(10229): 1078-108 View in: PubMed
Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Chong SJF, Davids MS. Breaking through BCL-2 inhibition in CLL. Blood. 2020 Mar 05; 135(10):709-711.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Stephen Chong, Matthew Davids

2019

Ryan CE, Davids MS. BCL-2 Inhibitors, Present and Future. Cancer J. 2019 Nov/Dec; 25(6):401-409.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Lampson BL, Tyekucheva S, Crombie JL, Kim AI, Merryman RW, Lowney J, Montegaard J, Patterson V, Jacobson CA, Jacobsen ED, LaCasce AS, Arnason JE, Armand P, Fisher DC, Brown JR, Davids MS. Preliminary Safety and Efficacy Results from a Phase 2 Study of Acalabrutinib, Venetoclax and Obinutuzumab in Patients with Previously Untreated Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL). Blood. 2019 Nov 13; 134(Supplement_1):32.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Guièze R, Liu VM, Rosebrock D, Jourdain AA, Hernández-Sánchez M, Martinez Zurita A, Sun J, Ten Hacken E, Baranowski K, Thompson PA, Heo JM, Cartun Z, Aygün O, Iorgulescu JB, Zhang W, Notarangelo G, Livitz D, Li S, Davids MS, Biran A, Fernandes SM, Brown JR, Lako A, Ciantra ZB, Lawlor MA, Keskin DB, Udeshi ND, Wierda WG, Livak KJ, Letai AG, Neuberg D, Harper JW, Carr SA, Piccioni F, Ott CJ, Leshchiner I, Johannessen CM, Doench J, Mootha VK, Getz G, Wu CJ. Mitochondrial Reprogramming Underlies Resistance to BCL-2 Inhibition in Lymphoid Malignancies. Cancer Cell. 2019 Oct 14; 36(4):369-384.e13.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Davids MS, Brander DM, Kim HT, Tyekucheva S, Bsat J, Savell A, Hellman JM, Bazemore J, Francoeur K, Alencar A, Shune L, Omaira M, Jacobson CA, Armand P, Ng S, Crombie J, LaCasce AS, Arnason J, Hochberg EP, Takvorian RW, Abramson JS, Fisher DC, Brown JR. Ibrutinib plus fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab as initial treatment for younger patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: a single-arm, multicentre, phase 2 trial. Lancet Haematol. 2019 Aug; 6(8):e419-e428.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Roberts AW, Ma S, Kipps TJ, Coutre SE, Davids MS, Eichhorst B, Hallek M, Byrd JC, Humphrey K, Zhou L, Chyla B, Nielsen J, Potluri J, Kim SY, Verdugo M, Stilgenbauer S, Wierda WG, Seymour JF. Efficacy of venetoclax in relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia is influenced by disease and response variables. Blood. 2019 07 11; 134(2):111-122.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Herbaux C, Davids MS. Venetoclax: R-CHOP rocket booster? Blood. 2019 05 02; 133(18):1922-1924.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Charles Herbaux, Matthew Davids

Davids MS, Kim HT, Nicotra A, Savell A, Francoeur K, Hellman JM, Bazemore J, Miskin HP, Sportelli P, Stampleman L, Maegawa R, Rueter J, Boruchov AM, Arnason JE, Jacobson CA, Jacobsen ED, Fisher DC, Brown JR. Umbralisib in combination with ibrutinib in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia or mantle cell lymphoma: a multicentre phase 1-1b study. Lancet Haematol. 2019 Jan; 6(1):e38-e47.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

2018

Davids MS, von Keudell G, Portell CA, Cohen JB, Fisher DC, Foss F, Roberts AW, Seymour JF, Humerickhouse RA, Tam CS. Revised Dose Ramp-Up to Mitigate the Risk of Tumor Lysis Syndrome When Initiating Venetoclax in Patients With Mantle Cell Lymphoma. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Oct 25; JCO1800359.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Lampson BL, Davids MS. A new triple threat to CLL. Blood. 2018 10 11; 132(15):1547-1548.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Ten Hacken E, Valentin R, Regis FFD, Sun J, Yin S, Werner L, Deng J, Gruber M, Wong J, Zheng M, Gill AL, Seiler M, Smith P, Thomas M, Buonamici S, Ghia EM, Kim E, Rassenti LZ, Burger JA, Kipps TJ, Meyerson ML, Bachireddy P, Wang L, Reed R, Neuberg D, Carrasco RD, Brooks AN, Letai A, Davids MS, Wu CJ. Splicing modulation sensitizes chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells to venetoclax by remodeling mitochondrial apoptotic dependencies. JCI Insight. 2018 10 04; 3(19).
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Davids Lab Author(s): Rebecca Valentin, Matthew Davids

Valentin R, Grabow S, Davids MS. The rise of apoptosis: targeting apoptosis in hematologic malignancies. Blood. 2018 09 20; 132(12):1248-1264.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Rebecca Valentin, Stephanie Grabow, Matthew Davids

Davids MS, Hallek M, Wierda W, Roberts AW, Stilgenbauer S, Jones JA, Gerecitano JF, Kim SY, Potluri J, Busman T, Best A, Verdugo ME, Cerri E, Desai M, Hillmen P, Seymour JF. Comprehensive Safety Analysis of Venetoclax Monotherapy for Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 09 15; 24(18):4371-4379.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Lee JS, Roberts A, Juarez D, Vo TT, Bhatt S, Herzog LO, Mallya S, Bellin RJ, Agarwal SK, Salem AH, Xu T, Jia J, Li L, Hanna JR, Davids MS, Fleischman AG, O'Brien S, Lam LT, Leverson JD, Letai A, Schatz JH, Fruman DA. Statins enhance efficacy of venetoclax in blood cancers. Sci Transl Med. 2018 06 13; 10(445).
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Coutre S, Choi M, Furman RR, Eradat H, Heffner L, Jones JA, Chyla B, Zhou L, Agarwal S, Waskiewicz T, Verdugo M, Humerickhouse RA, Potluri J, Wierda WG, Davids MS. Venetoclax for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who progressed during or after idelalisib therapy. Blood. 2018 04 12; 131(15):1704-1711.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

2017

Deng J, Isik E, Fernandes SM, Brown JR, Letai A, Davids MS. Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibition increases BCL-2 dependence and enhances sensitivity to venetoclax in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leukemia. 2017 10; 31(10):2075-2084.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Davids MS. Targeting BCL-2 in B-cell lymphomas. Blood. 2017 08 31; 130(9):1081-1088.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Crombie J, Davids MS. Venetoclax for the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Future Oncol. 2017 Jun; 13(14):1223-1232.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Davids MS, Roberts AW, Seymour JF, Pagel JM, Kahl BS, Wierda WG, Puvvada S, Kipps TJ, Anderson MA, Salem AH, Dunbar M, Zhu M, Peale F, Ross JA, Gressick L, Desai M, Kim SY, Verdugo M, Humerickhouse RA, Gordon GB, Gerecitano JF. Phase I First-in-Human Study of Venetoclax in Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. J Clin Oncol. 2017 Mar 10; 35(8):826-833.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Lampson BL, Davids MS. The Development and Current Use of BCL-2 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Curr Hematol Malig Rep. 2017 02; 12(1):11-19.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

2016

Pavlasova G, Borsky M, Seda V, Cerna K, Osickova J, Doubek M, Mayer J, Calogero R, Trbusek M, Pospisilova S, Davids MS, Kipps TJ, Brown JR, Mraz M. Ibrutinib inhibits CD20 upregulation on CLL B cells mediated by the CXCR4/SDF-1 axis. Blood. 2016 09 22; 128(12):1609-13.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Davids MS, Kim HT, Bachireddy P, Costello C, Liguori R, Savell A, Lukez AP, Avigan D, Chen YB, McSweeney P, LeBoeuf NR, Rooney MS, Bowden M, Zhou CW, Granter SR, Hornick JL, Rodig SJ, Hirakawa M, Severgnini M, Hodi FS, Wu CJ, Ho VT, Cutler C, Koreth J, Alyea EP, Antin JH, Armand P, Streicher H, Ball ED, Ritz J, Bashey A, Soiffer RJ. Ipilimumab for Patients with Relapse after Allogeneic Transplantation. N Engl J Med. 2016 Jul 14; 375(2):143-53.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Townsend EC, Murakami MA, Christodoulou A, Christie AL, Köster J, DeSouza TA, Morgan EA, Kallgren SP, Liu H, Wu SC, Plana O, Montero J, Stevenson KE, Rao P, Vadhi R, Andreeff M, Armand P, Ballen KK, Barzaghi-Rinaudo P, Cahill S, Clark RA, Cooke VG, Davids MS, DeAngelo DJ, Dorfman DM, Eaton H, Ebert BL, Etchin J, Firestone B, Fisher DC, Freedman AS, Galinsky IA, Gao H, Garcia JS, Garnache-Ottou F, Graubert TA, Gutierrez A, Halilovic E, Harris MH, Herbert ZT, Horwitz SM, Inghirami G, Intlekofer AM, Ito M, Izraeli S, Jacobsen ED, Jacobson CA, Jeay S, Jeremias I, Kelliher MA, Koch R, Konopleva M, Kopp N, Kornblau SM, Kung AL, Kupper TS, LeBoeuf NR, LaCasce AS, Lees E, Li LS, Look AT, Murakami M, Muschen M, Neuberg D, Ng SY, Odejide OO, Orkin SH, Paquette RR, Place AE, Roderick JE, Ryan JA, Sallan SE, Shoji B, Silverman LB, Soiffer RJ, Steensma DP, Stegmaier K, Stone RM, Tamburini J, Thorner AR, van Hummelen P, Wadleigh M, Wiesmann M, Weng AP, Wuerthner JU, Williams DA, Wollison BM, Lane AA, Letai A, Bertagnolli MM, Ritz J, Brown M, Long H, Aster JC, Shipp MA, Griffin JD, Weinstock DM. The Public Repository of Xenografts Enables Discovery and Randomized Phase II-like Trials in Mice. Cancer Cell. 2016 07 11; 30(1):183.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Anderson MA, Deng J, Seymour JF, Tam C, Kim SY, Fein J, Yu L, Brown JR, Westerman D, Si EG, Majewski IJ, Segal D, Heitner Enschede SL, Huang DC, Davids MS, Letai A, Roberts AW. The BCL2 selective inhibitor venetoclax induces rapid onset apoptosis of CLL cells in patients via a TP53-independent mechanism. Blood. 2016 06 23; 127(25):3215-24.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Burger JA, Landau DA, Taylor-Weiner A, Bozic I, Zhang H, Sarosiek K, Wang L, Stewart C, Fan J, Hoellenriegel J, Sivina M, Dubuc AM, Fraser C, Han Y, Li S, Livak KJ, Zou L, Wan Y, Konoplev S, Sougnez C, Brown JR, Abruzzo LV, Carter SL, Keating MJ, Davids MS, Wierda WG, Cibulskis K, Zenz T, Werner L, Dal Cin P, Kharchencko P, Neuberg D, Kantarjian H, Lander E, Gabriel S, O'Brien S, Letai A, Weitz DA, Nowak MA, Getz G, Wu CJ. Clonal evolution in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia developing resistance to BTK inhibition. Nat Commun. 2016 05 20; 7:11589.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Roberts AW, Davids MS, Pagel JM, Kahl BS, Puvvada SD, Gerecitano JF, Kipps TJ, Anderson MA, Brown JR, Gressick L, Wong S, Dunbar M, Zhu M, Desai MB, Cerri E, Heitner Enschede S, Humerickhouse RA, Wierda WG, Seymour JF. Targeting BCL2 with Venetoclax in Relapsed Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. N Engl J Med. 2016 Jan 28; 374(4):311-22.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

2015

Davids MS, Vartanov A, Werner L, Neuberg D, Dal Cin P, Brown JR. Controversial fluorescence in situ hybridization cytogenetic abnormalities in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: new insights from a large cohort. Br J Haematol. 2015 Sep; 170(5):694-703.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Cao Y, Yang G, Hunter ZR, Liu X, Xu L, Chen J, Tsakmaklis N, Hatjiharissi E, Kanan S, Davids MS, Castillo JJ, Treon SP. The BCL2 antagonist ABT-199 triggers apoptosis, and augments ibrutinib and idelalisib mediated cytotoxicity in CXCR4 Wild-type and CXCR4 WHIM mutated Waldenstrom macroglobulinaemia cells. Br J Haematol. 2015 Jul; 170(1):134-8.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

2014

Murase K, Kim HT, Bascug OR, Kawano Y, Ryan J, Matsuoka K, Davids MS, Koreth J, Ho VT, Cutler C, Armand P, Alyea EP, Blazar BR, Antin JH, Soiffer RJ, Letai A, Ritz J. Increased mitochondrial apoptotic priming of human regulatory T cells after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Haematologica. 2014 Sep; 99(9):1499-508.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Davids MS. Boldly Targeting Kinases without mutations. Blood. 2014 Feb 20; 123(8):1119-21.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

2013

Davids MS, Letai A. ABT-199: taking dead aim at BCL-2. Cancer Cell. 2013 Feb 11; 23(2):139-41.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

2012

Davids MS, Brown JR. Targeting the B cell receptor pathway in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leuk Lymphoma. 2012 Dec; 53(12):2362-70.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Davids MS, Deng J, Wiestner A, Lannutti BJ, Wang L, Wu CJ, Wilson WH, Brown JR, Letai A. Decreased mitochondrial apoptotic priming underlies stroma-mediated treatment resistance in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Blood. 2012 Oct 25; 120(17):3501-9.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Davids MS, Letai A. Targeting the B-cell lymphoma/leukemia 2 family in cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2012 Sep 01; 30(25):3127-35.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Dutta C, Day T, Kopp N, van Bodegom D, Davids MS, Ryan J, Bird L, Kommajosyula N, Weigert O, Yoda A, Fung H, Brown JR, Shapiro GI, Letai A, Weinstock DM. BCL2 suppresses PARP1 function and nonapoptotic cell death. Cancer Res. 2012 Aug 15; 72(16):4193-203.
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids

Davids MS, Burger JA. Cell Trafficking in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Open J Hematol. 2012; 3(S1).
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Davids Lab Author(s): Matthew Davids