Marja T. Nevalainen, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Cancer Biology
Contact
Bluemle Life Sciences Building
233 S. 10th Street
1006 BLSB
Philadelphia, PA 19107
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Marja T. Nevalainen, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Cancer Biology
Expertise and Research Interests
Research in the Nevalainen laboratory focuses on therapy development for prostate cancer which is the most common non-skin cancer in men in Western countries with the prevalence of more than 3 million currently in the US. Localized prostate cancer is typically treated by surgery or radiation therapy. However, approximately 30% of prostate cancers treated with curative intent recur – often as systemic (metastatic) disease. If prostate cancer has metastasized at the time of diagnosis, the treatment options often focus on hormone therapy (androgen deprivation) or chemotherapy as palliative treatment strategies. Therapy resistance develops relatively rapidly through multiple complex molecular mechanisms leading to a lethal disease. Our work is focused on understanding mechanisms underlying resistance to hormone therapy and radiation therapy with particular interest in Jak-Stat5 signaling with the goal of development of secondary therapies for recurrent prostate cancer after the initial treatment strategies fail.
Publications
- Changes in Daily Apparent Diffusion Coefficient on Fully Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Correlate With Established Genomic Pathways of Radiation Sensitivity and Reveal Novel Biologic Associations
- Stat5 induces androgen receptor (AR) gene transcription in prostate cancer and offers a druggable pathway to target AR signaling
- High PD-L2 Predicts Early Recurrence of ER-Positive Breast Cancer
- Multi-Site Concordance of Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Quantification for Assessing Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness
- Spatial Metrics of Interaction between CD163-Positive Macrophages and Cancer Cells and Progression-Free Survival in Chemo-Treated Breast Cancer