Farhad Khimani, MD

Cancer Focus:
Hodgkin Lymphoma, Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS), Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Dr. Khimani’s Clinical interest is specifically in Blood and Marrow transplantation. His area of focus is Lymphoma and Acute Leukemia.  He routinely takes care of patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Acute Myeloid leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome etc. who require autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation as a curative treatment option for their malignancy.

Education & Training

Board Certification:

• Internal Medicine - Hematology
• Internal Medicine - Medical Oncology

Fellowship:

• West Virginia University - Hematology/Oncology
• Moffitt Cancer Center - Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Residency:

• West Virginia University - Internal Medicine

Medical School:

• Aga Khan University Medical College - MD

• Faramand RG, Lee SB, Jain MD, Cao B, Wang X, Rejeski K, Subklewe M, Fahrmann JF, Saini NY, Hanash SM, Kang YP, Chang D, Rodriguez PC, Dean EA, Nishihori T, Shah BD, Lazaryan A, Chavez J, Khimani F, Pinilla-Ibarz JA, Dam M, Reid KM, Corallo SA, Menges M, Hidalgo Vargas M, Mandula JK, Holliday BA, Bachmeier CA, Speth K, Song Q, Mattie M, Locke FL, Davila ML. Baseline Serum Inflammatory Proteins Predict Poor CAR T Outcomes in Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma. Blood Cancer Discov. 2024 Mar.5(2):106-113. Pubmedid: 38194367. Pmcid: PMC10905320.
• Caprice T, Fan W, Kim J, Faramand R, Mishra A, Perez L, Khimani F, Lazar-Yan A, Ochoa-Bayona JL, Liu H, Jain MD, Nieder M, Anasetti C, Nishihori T, Pidala JA, Bejanyan N, Elmariah H. Mismatched donor allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation with post-transplant cyclophosphamide achieves comparable outcomes between racially and ethnically diverse patient populations. Am J Hematol. 2024 Mar. Pubmedid: 38546371.
• Elmariah H, Otoukesh S, Kumar A, Ali H, Arslan S, Shouse G, Pourhassan H, Nishihori T, Faramand R, Mishra A, Khimani F, Fernandez H, Lazaryan A, Nieder M, Perez L, Liu H, Nakamura R, Pidala J, Marcucci G, Forman SJ, Anasetti C, Locke F, Bejanyan N, Al Malki MM. Sirolimus Is an Acceptable Alternative to Tacrolimus for Graft-versus-Host Disease Prophylaxis after Haploidentical Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation with Post-Transplantation Cyclophosphamide. Transplant Cell Ther. 2024 Feb.30(2):229.e1-229.e11. Pubmedid: 37952648.
• Roman Diaz JL, Vazquez Martinez M, Khimani F. New Approaches for the Treatment of AML beyond the 7+3 Regimen: Current Concepts and New Approaches. Cancers (Basel). 2024 Feb.16(3). Pubmedid: 38339429. Pmcid: PMC10854755.
• Ionescu F, David JC, Ravichandran A, Sallman DA, Sweet K, Komrokji RS, Chan O, Kuykendall A, Padron E, Faramand R, Bejanyan N, Khimani F, Elmariah H, Pidala J, Mishra A, Perez L, Nishihori T, Lancet JE. Hypomethylating Agents and Venetoclax for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Relapsed After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2024 Feb. Pubmedid: 38429222.
• Moustafa MA, Ramdial JL, Tsalatsanis A, Khimani F, Dholaria B, Bojanini L, Brooks T, Zain J, Bennani NN, Braunstein Z, Brammer JE, Beitinjaneh A, Jagadeesh D, Weng WK, Kumar A, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Ahmed S, Murthy HS. A US Multicenter Collaborative Study on Outcomes of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Hepatosplenic T-Cell Lymphoma. Transplant Cell Ther. 2024 Feb. Pubmedid: 38431075.
• Sauls R, Crowder SL, James C, Khimani F, Stern M. Quality of life in the digital age: young adult hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients and healthcare providers' views of telehealth. Support Care Cancer. 2024 Apr.32(4):270. Pubmedid: 38578444.
• Gonzalez R, Gaskill E, Padilla M, Pidala J, Lazaryan A, Perez L, Khimani F, Faramand R. Belumosudil Impacts Immunosuppression Pharmacokinetics in Patients with Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease. Transplant Cell Ther. 2023 Sep.29(9):577.e1-577.e9. Pubmedid: 37355201.
• Ibrahim U, Bassil C, Chavez JC, Khimani F, Jain MD, Locke FL, Lazaryan A, Osman K. CAR T Cell Therapy for Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder After Solid Organ Transplantation: A Safe and Feasible Therapy for an Orphan Disease. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2023 Oct.23(10):772-778. Pubmedid: 37263876.
• Shaw BE, Jimenez-Jimenez AM, Burns LJ, Logan BR, Khimani F, Shaffer BC, Shah NN, Mussetter A, Tang XY, McCarty JM, Alavi A, Farhadfar N, Jamieson K, Hardy NM, Choe H, Ambinder RF, Anasetti C, Perales MA, Spellman SR, Howard A, Komanduri KV, Luznik L, Norkin M, Pidala JA, Ratanatharathorn V, Confer DL, Devine SM, Horowitz MM, Bolaños-Meade J. Three-Year Outcomes in Recipients of Mismatched Unrelated Bone Marrow Donor Transplants Using Post-Transplantation Cyclophosphamide: Follow-Up from a National Marrow Donor Program-Sponsored Prospective Clinical Trial. Transplant Cell Ther. 2023 Mar.29(3):208.e1-208.e6. Pubmedid: 36584941. Pmcid: PMC9992261.
• Dong N, Lopes-Garcia LR, Viñal D, Bachmeier C, Shah BD, Nishihori T, Khimani F, Davila ML, Lazaryan A, Pinilla-Ibarz J, Locke FL, Jain MD, Chavez JC. Outcomes of CD19-Directed Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy for Transformed Nonfollicular Lymphoma. Transplant Cell Ther. 2023 Jun.29(6):349.e1-349.e8. Pubmedid: 36878427.
• Keit E, Liveringhouse C, Figura N, Weygand J, Sandoval ML, Garcia G, Peters J, Nieder M, Faramand R, Khimani F, Kim S, Robinson TJ, Johnstone PAS, Penagaricano J, Latifi K. Feasibility and Toxicity of Full-Body Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Technique for High-Dose Total Body Irradiation. Technol Cancer Res Treat. 2023 Jan.22. Pubmedid: 37287260. Pmcid: PMC10272663.
• Sauls R, Buro AW, Montgomery L, Stern M, Khimani F, Crowder SL. Nutritional status and body mass index before hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and associated outcomes: a rapid review. Support Care Cancer. 2023 Dec.32(1):50. Pubmedid: 38129689.
• Lee DH, Kumar A, Mohammed T, Peres LC, Alsina M, Bachmeier CA, Blue B, Brayer J, Chandrasekhar S, Grajales-Cruz AF, De Avila G, Elmariah H, Faramand RG, Freeman CL, Jain MD, Khadka S, Khimani F, Liu H, Nishihori T, Oswald LB, Castaneda Puglianini OA, Shain KH, Smith E, Baz RC, Locke FL, Oliveira GH, Alomar M, Hansen DK. Cardiac events after standard of care idecabtagene vicleucel for relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma. Blood Adv. 2023 Aug.7(16):4247-4257. Pubmedid: 37307173. Pmcid: PMC10424134.
• Lee DH, Chandrasekhar S, Jain MD, Mhaskar R, Reid K, Lee SB, Corallo S, Hidalgo-Vargas MJ, Kumar A, Chavez J, Shah B, Lazaryan A, Khimani F, Nishihori T, Bachmeier C, Faramand R, Fradley MG, Jeong D, Oliveira GH, Locke FL, Davila ML, Alomar M. Cardiac and inflammatory biomarker differences in adverse cardiac events after chimeric antigen receptor T-Cell therapy: an exploratory study. Cardiooncology. 2023 Apr.9(1):18. Pubmedid: 37005652. Pmcid: PMC10067156.
• Shadman M, Pasquini MC, Ahn KW, Chen Y, Turtle CJ, Hematti P, Cohen JB, Khimani F, Ganguly S, Merryman RW, Yared JA, Locke FL, Ahmed N, Munshi P, Beitinjaneh A, Reagan P, Herrera AF, Sauter CS, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Hamadani M. Autologous transplant vs chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for relapsed DLBCL in partial remission. Blood. 2022 Mar.139(9):1330-1339. Pubmedid: 34570879. Pmcid: PMC8900276.
• Crowder SL, Sauls R, Redwine L, Nieder M, Albanyan O, Yasin H, Khimani F, Stern M. Mindfulness in Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT): A Qualitative Study. Cancers (Basel). 2022 Jun.14(11). Pubmedid: 35681740. Pmcid: PMC9179916.
• Perez A, Johnson G, Patel K, Arciola B, Wood A, Bachmeier CA, Chavez JC, Shah BD, Khimani F, Nishihori T, Lazaryan A, Davila ML, Mhaskar R, Locke FL, Gaballa S, Jain MD. Primary progression during frontline CIT associates with decreased efficacy of subsequent CD19 CAR T-cell therapy in LBCL. Blood Adv. 2022 Jul.6(13):3970-3973. Pubmedid: 35816359. Pmcid: PMC9278282.
• Lazaryan A, Lee SJ, Arora M, Kim J, Betts BC, Khimani F, Nishihori T, Bejanyan N, Liu H, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Locke FL, Gonzalez R, Jain MD, Davila ML, Perez LE, Mishra A, Perez Perez A, Balke K, Ayala E, Ochoa L, Castaneda Puglianini O, Faramand RG, Alsina M, Elmariah H, Nieder M, Fernandez H, Anasetti C, Pidala J. A phase 2 multicenter trial of ofatumumab and prednisone as initial therapy for chronic graft-versus-host disease. Blood Adv. 2022 Jan.6(1):259-269. Pubmedid: 34649279. Pmcid: PMC8753213.
• Menghrajani K, Gomez-Arteaga A, Madero-Marroquin R, Zhang MJ, Bo-Subait K, Sanchez J, Wang HL, Aljurf M, Assal A, Bacher U, Badawy SM, Bejanyan N, Bhatt VR, Bredeson CN, Byrne M, Castillo P, Cerny J, Chhabra S, Ciurea SO, DeFilipp Z, Farhadfar N, Gadalla SM, Gale RP, Ganguly S, Gowda L, Grunwald MR, Hashmi S, Hildebrandt GC, Kanakry CG, Kansagra A, Khimani F, Krem M, Lazarus HM, Liu H, Martino R, Michelis FV, Nathan S, Nishihori T, Olsson RF, Reshef R, Rizzieri D, Rowe JM, Savani BN, Seo S, Sharma A, Solh M, Ustun C, Verdonck LF, Hourigan CS, Sandmaier BM, Litzow MR, Kebriaei P, Weisdorf DJ, Zhang Y, Tallman MS, Saber W. Risk classification at diagnosis predicts post-HCT outcomes in intermediate-, adverse-risk, and KMT2A-rearranged AML. Blood Adv. 2022 Jan.6(3):828-847. Pubmedid: 34551064. Pmcid: PMC8945306.
• Hamadani M, Ngoya M, Sureda A, Bashir Q, Litovich CA, Finel H, Chen Y, Boumendil A, Zain J, Castagna L, Cashen AF, Blaise D, Shadman M, Pastano R, Khimani F, Arat M, Dietrich S, Schmitz N, Glass B, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Corradini P, Sauter CS, Montoto S, Kwon M, Herrera AF, Dreger P. Outcome of allogeneic transplantation for mature T-cell lymphomas: impact of donor source and disease characteristics. Blood Adv. 2022 Feb.6(3):920-930. Pubmedid: 34861680. Pmcid: PMC8945300.
• Wood AC, Perez AP, Arciola B, Patel K, Johnson G, DiMaggio E, Bachmeier CA, Reid K, Carallo S, Vargas MH, Faramand R, Chavez JC, Shah B, Gaballa S, Khimani F, Elmariah H, Nishihori T, Lazaryan A, Freeman C, Davila ML, Locke FL, Mhaskar R, Bassil C, Jain MD. Outcomes of CD19-Targeted Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy for Patients with Reduced Renal Function Including Dialysis. Transplant Cell Ther. 2022 Dec.28(12):829.e1-829.e8. Pubmedid: 36174934. Pmcid: PMC9791940.
• Logue JM, Peres LC, Hashmi H, Colin-Leitzinger C, Shrewsbury AM, Hosoya H, Gonzalez R, Copponex C, Kottra KH, Hovanky V, Sahaf B, Patil S, Lazaryan A, Jain MD, Baluch A, Klinkova O, Bejanyan N, Faramand RG, Elmariah H, Khimani F, Davila ML, Mishra A, Blue B, Grajales-Cruz AF, Castaneda Puglianini O, Liu H, Nishihori T, Freeman CL, Brayer J, Shain KH, Baz R, Locke FL, Alsina M, Sidana S, Hansen DK. Early cytopenias and infections after standard of care idecabtagene vicleucel in relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. Blood Adv. 2022 Dec.6(24):6109-6119. Pubmedid: 35939783. Pmcid: PMC9768247.
• Savani M, Ahn KW, Chen Y, Ahmed S, Cashen AF, Shadman M, Modi D, Khimani F, Cutler CS, Zain J, Brammer JE, Rezvani AR, Fenske TS, Sauter CS, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Herrera AF, Hamadani M. Impact of conditioning regimen intensity on the outcomes of peripheral T-cell lymphoma, anaplastic large cell lymphoma and angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma patients undergoing allogeneic transplant. Brit J Haematol. 2022 Apr.197(2):212-222. Pubmedid: 35106754. Pmcid: PMC9018546.
• Mirza AS, Tandon A, Jenneman D, Cao S, Brimer T, Kumar A, Kidd M, Khimani F, Faramand R, Mishra A, Liu H, Nishihori T, Perez L, Lazaryan A, Bejanyan N, Nieder M, Pidala J, Elmariah H. Outcomes Following Intolerance to Tacrolimus/Sirolimus Graft-versus-Host Disease Prophylaxis for Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Transplant Cell Ther. 2022 Apr.28(4):185.e1-185.e7. Pubmedid: 35017119.
• Lozano-Chinga M, Diaz-Cabrera N, Khimani F, Chen K, Bohnsack J, Walter JE, Tabatabaian F, Afify Z. Lymphoma in Partial DiGeorge Syndrome: Report of 2 Cases. J Pediat Hematol Onc. 2022 Apr.44(3):e819-e822. Pubmedid: 34966099.
• Cortes A, Perez A, Bachmeier C, Mhaskar R, Chavez JC, Shah B, Nishihori T, Khimani F, Lazaryan A, Davila ML, Locke FL, Jain MD. Outcomes of CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy in Patients with Gastrointestinal Tract Involvement of Large B Cell Lymphoma. Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 Sep.27(9):768.e1-768.e6. Pubmedid: 34077811. Pmcid: PMC8403629.
• Khimani F, Ranspach P, Elmariah H, Kim J, Whiting J, Nishihori T, Locke FL, Perez Perez A, Dean E, Mishra A, Perez L, Lazaryan A, Jain MD, Nieder M, Liu H, Faramand R, Hansen D, Alsina M, Ochoa L, Davila M, Anasetti C, Pidala J, Bejanyan N. Increased Infections and Delayed CD4+ T Cell but Faster B Cell Immune Reconstitution after Post-Transplantation Cyclophosphamide Compared to Conventional GVHD Prophylaxis in Allogeneic Transplantation. Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 Nov.27(11):940-948. Pubmedid: 34329754.
• Abedin S, Rashid N, Schroeder M, Romee R, Nauffal M, Alhaj Moustafa M, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Palmer J, Hogan W, Hefazi M, Larson S, Holtan S, DeFilipp Z, Jayani R, Dholaria B, Pidala J, Khimani F, Grunwald MR, Butler C, Hamadani M. Ruxolitinib resistance or intolerance in steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease - a real-world outcomes analysis. Brit J Haematol. 2021 Nov.195(3):429-432. Pubmedid: 34254289. Pmcid: PMC9293486.
• Pidala J, Walton K, Elmariah H, Kim J, Mishra A, Bejanyan N, Nishihori T, Khimani F, Perez L, Faramand RG, Davila ML, Nieder ML, Sagatys EM, Holtan SG, Lawrence NJ, Lawrence HR, Blazar BR, Anasetti C, Sebti SM, Betts BC. Pacritinib Combined with Sirolimus and Low-Dose Tacrolimus for GVHD Prevention after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Preclinical and Phase I Trial Results. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 May.27(10):2712-2722. Pubmedid: 33753457. Pmcid: PMC8127396.
• Hoogland AI, Jayani RV, Collier A, Irizarry-Arroyo N, Rodriguez Y, Jain MD, Booth-Jones M, Hyland KA, James BW, Barata A, Bachmeier CA, Chavez JC, Khimani F, Krivenko GS, Lazaryan A, Liu HD, Nishihori T, Pinilla-Ibarz J, Shah BD, Abidi M, Locke FL, Jim HSL. Acute patient-reported outcomes in B-cell malignancies treated with axicabtagene ciloleucel. Cancer Med. 2021 Mar.10(6):1936-1943. Pubmedid: 33641257. Pmcid: PMC7957158.
• Bejanyan N, Pidala JA, Wang X, Thapa R, Nishihori T, Elmariah H, Lazaryan A, Khimani F, Davila ML, Mishra A, Faramand R, Jain MD, Ochoa L, Perez LE, Liu H, Alsina M, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Fernandez H, Nieder ML, Locke FL, Anasetti C, Ayala E. A phase 2 trial of GVHD prophylaxis with PTCy, sirolimus, and MMF after peripheral blood haploidentical transplantation. Blood Adv. 2021 Mar.5(5):1154-1163. Pubmedid: 33635333. Pmcid: PMC7948297.
• Hansen DK, Kim J, Thompson Z, Hussaini M, Nishihori T, Ahmad A, Elmariah H, Faramand R, Mishra A, Davila ML, Khimani F, Lazaryan A, Sallman D, Liu H, Perez LE, Fernandez H, Nieder ML, Lancet JE, Pidala JA, Anasetti C, Bejanyan N. ELN 2017 Genetic Risk Stratification Predicts Survival of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients Receiving Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 Mar.27(3):256.e1-256.e7. Pubmedid: 33781526. Pmcid: PMC8711732.
• Mirza AS, Kumar A, Hashmi H, Garcia F, Logothetis CN, Darwin A, Faramand R, Reid K, Bachmeier C, Chavez JC, Shah B, Pinilla-Ibarz J, Khimani F, Lazaryan A, Liu H, Davila ML, Nishihori T, Locke FL, Jain MD. Incidence and Management of Effusions Before and After CD19-Directed Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cell Therapy in Large B Cell Lymphoma. Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 Mar.27(3):242.e1-242.e6. Pubmedid: 33781520.
• Shaw BE, Jimenez-Jimenez AM, Burns LJ, Logan BR, Khimani F, Shaffer BC, Shah NN, Mussetter A, Tang XY, McCarty JM, Alavi A, Farhadfar N, Jamieson K, Hardy NM, Choe H, Ambinder RF, Anasetti C, Perales MA, Spellman SR, Howard A, Komanduri KV, Luznik L, Norkin M, Pidala JA, Ratanatharathorn V, Confer DL, Devine SM, Horowitz MM, Bolaños-Meade J. National Marrow Donor Program-Sponsored Multicenter, Phase II Trial of HLA-Mismatched Unrelated Donor Bone Marrow Transplantation Using Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide. J Clin Oncol. 2021 Jun.39(18):1971-1982. Pubmedid: 33905264. Pmcid: PMC8260905.
• Khimani F, Dutta M, Faramand R, Nishihori T, Perez AP, Dean E, Nieder M, Perez L, Mishra A, Elmariah H, Davila M, Ochoa L, Alsina M, Lazaryan A, Bejanyan N, Hansen D, Jain M, Locke F, Liu H, Pidala J, Shah B, Mhaskar R. Impact of Total Body Irradiation-Based Myeloablative Conditioning Regimens in Patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 Jul.27(7):620.e1-620.e9. Pubmedid: 33798768.
• Perez L, Fernandez H, Kharfan-Dabaja M, Khimani F, Betts B, Mishra A, Ayala E, Locke FL, Ochoa-Bayona L, Nieder M, Pidala J, Achille A, Powers J, Sahakian E, Thapa R, Wang X, Anasetti C. A phase 2 trial of the histone deacetylase inhibitor panobinostat for graft-versus-host disease prevention. Blood Adv. 2021 Jul.5(13):2740-2750. Pubmedid: 34242388. Pmcid: PMC8288668.
• Elmariah H, Naqvi SMH, Kim J, Nishihori T, Mishra A, Perez L, Faramand R, Lazaryan A, Liu HD, Khimani F, Nieder M, Anasetti C, Pidala J, Bejanyan N. Impact of infused CD34+ stem cell dosing for allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation with post-transplant cyclophosphamide. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2021 Jul.56(7):1683-1690. Pubmedid: 33658647.
• Scordo M, Wang TP, Ahn KW, Chen Y, Ahmed S, Awan FT, Beitinjaneh A, Chen A, Chow VA, Dholaria B, Epperla N, Farooq U, Ghosh N, Grover N, Hamad N, Hildebrandt GC, Holmberg L, Hong S, Inwards DJ, Jimenez-Jimenez A, Karmali R, Kenkre VP, Khimani F, Klyuchnikov E, Krem MM, Munshi PN, Nieto Y, Prestidge T, Ramakrishnan Geethakumari P, Rezvani AR, Riedell PA, Seo S, Shah NN, Solh M, Yared JA, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Herrera A, Hamadani M, Sauter CS. Outcomes Associated With Thiotepa-Based Conditioning in Patients With Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma After Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplant. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Jul.7(7):993-1003. Pubmedid: 33956047. Pmcid: PMC8283558.
• Figura NB, Robinson TJ, Sim AJ, Wang X, Cao B, Chavez JC, Shah BD, Khimani F, Lazaryan A, Davila M, Bachmeier C, Nishihori T, Liu HD, Kim S, Locke FL, Jain MD. Patterns and Predictors of Failure in Recurrent or Refractory Large B-Cell Lymphomas After Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Dec.111(5):1145-1154. Pubmedid: 34242714. Pmcid: PMC9791939.
• Logue JM, Zucchetti E, Bachmeier CA, Krivenko GS, Larson V, Ninh D, Grillo G, Cao B, Kim J, Chavez JC, Baluch A, Khimani F, Lazaryan A, Nishihori T, Liu HD, Pinilla-Ibarz J, Shah BD, Faramand R, Coghill AE, Davila ML, Dholaria BR, Jain MD, Locke FL. Immune reconstitution and associated infections following axicabtagene ciloleucel in relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma. Haematologica. 2021 Apr.106(4):978-986. Pubmedid: 32327504. Pmcid: PMC8017820.
• Faramand R, Jain M, Staedtke V, Kotani H, Bai R, Reid K, Lee SB, Spitler K, Wang X, Cao B, Pinilla J, Lazaryan A, Khimani F, Shah B, Chavez JC, Nishihori T, Mishra A, Mullinax J, Gonzalez R, Hussaini M, Dam M, Brandjes BD, Bachmeier CA, Anasetti C, Locke FL, Davila ML. Tumor Microenvironment Composition and Severe Cytokine Release Syndrome (CRS) Influence Toxicity in Patients with Large B-Cell Lymphoma Treated with Axicabtagene Ciloleucel. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Sep.26(18):4823-4831. Pubmedid: 32669372. Pmcid: PMC7501265.
• Hashmi H, Mirza AS, Darwin A, Logothetis C, Garcia F, Kommalapati A, Mhaskar RS, Bachmeier C, Chavez JC, Shah B, Pinilla-Ibarz J, Khimani F, Lazaryan A, Liu H, Davila ML, Locke FL, Nishihori T, Jain MD. Venous thromboembolism associated with CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy in large B-cell lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2020 Sep.4(17):4086-4090. Pubmedid: 32877523. Pmcid: PMC7479945.
• Dean EA, Mhaskar RS, Lu H, Mousa MS, Krivenko GS, Lazaryan A, Bachmeier CA, Chavez JC, Nishihori T, Davila ML, Khimani F, Liu HD, Pinilla-Ibarz J, Shah BD, Jain MD, Balagurunathan Y, Locke FL. High metabolic tumor volume is associated with decreased efficacy of axicabtagene ciloleucel in large B-cell lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2020 Jul.4(14):3268-3276. Pubmedid: 32702097. Pmcid: PMC7391155.
• DiMaggio E, Zhou JM, Caddell R, Tombleson R, Perkins J, Anasetti C, Khimani F, Pidala J, Nishihori T, Perez L, Betts B, Fernandez HF, Mishra A. Reduced-intensity fludarabine/melphalan confers similar survival to busulfan/fludarabine myeloablative regimens for patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplasia. Leuk Lymphoma. 2020 Jul.61(7):1678-1687. Pubmedid: 32133897. Pmcid: PMC7771324.
• Khimani F, McDonald GB, Shulman HM, Betts B, Locke F, Fernandez H, Anasetti C, Pidala J. Hepatic veno-occlusive disease following sirolimus-based immune suppression. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2019 Jan.54(1):85-89. Pubmedid: 29895929.
• Epperla N, Ahn KW, Litovich C, Ahmed S, Battiwalla M, Cohen JB, Dahi P, Farhadfar N, Farooq U, Freytes CO, Ghosh N, Haverkos B, Herrera A, Hertzberg M, Hildebrandt G, Inwards D, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Khimani F, Lazarus H, Lazaryan A, Lekakis L, Murthy H, Nathan S, Nishihori T, Pawarode A, Prestidge T, Ramakrishnan P, Rezvani AR, Romee R, Shah NN, Sureda A, Fenske TS, Hamadani M. Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation provides effective salvage despite refractory disease or failed prior autologous transplant in angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma: a CIBMTR analysis. J Hematol Oncol. 2019 Jan.12(1):6. Pubmedid: 30630534. Pmcid: PMC6329157.
• Sim AJ, Jain MD, Figura N, Chavez JC, Shah BD, Khimani F, Lazarayan A, Krivenko G, Davila ML, Liu HD, Falchook AD, Dahiya S, Rapoport AP, Kim SU, Locke FL, Robinson TJ. Radiation Therapy as a Bridging Strategy for CAR T Cell Therapy With Axicabtagene Ciloleucel in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2019 Dec.105(5):1012-1021. Pubmedid: 31175906. Pmcid: PMC6872916.
• Pidala J, Beato F, Kim J, Betts B, Jim H, Sagatys E, Levine JE, Ferrara JL, Ozbek U, Ayala E, Davila M, Fernandez HF, Field T, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Khaira D, Khimani F, Locke FL, Mishra A, Nieder M, Nishihori T, Perez L, Riches M, Anasetti C. IL-12/IL-23p40 neutralization blocks Th1/Th17 response after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Haematologica. 2018 Mar.103(3):531-539. Pubmedid: 29242294. Pmcid: PMC5830373.
• Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Kumar A, Stingo FE, Khimani F, Hussaini M, Ayala E, Nishihori T, Shah B, Locke FL, Pinilla-Ibarz J, Chavez JC. Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Richter Syndrome: A Single-Center Experience. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2018 Jan.18(1):e35-e39. Pubmedid: 29126867. Pmcid: PMC6716154.
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