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Brian Czerniecki, MD, PhD

Chair, Department of Breast Oncology

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Specialty: Surgery
Sub Specialty: General Surgery
Program: Breast Oncology

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Cancer Focus: Breast Cancer, Ductal Carcinoma In Situ, Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Dr. Brian Czerniecki is Chair and Senior Member in the Moffitt Cancer Center Department of Breast Oncology. Dr. Czerniecki received his BS in Biochemistry from the University of Maine and his MD from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and his PhD from UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson and Rutgers University. Dr. Czerniecki completed his general surgical residency at The Ohio State University and was Surgical Oncology Fellow at the NCI with Dr. Steven Rosenberg prior to his position at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. While at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Czerniecki served as Professor of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine; Attending Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; and Co-Director of the Rena Rowan Breast Center–Recruitment and Center Expansion. His research interests focus on dendritic cell biology and interactions with T cells. He has developed dendritic cell vaccines for the treatment of cancer. He is involved with several clinical trials for treating patients with early breast cancer with dendritic cell vaccines. Dr. Czerniecki’s research goal is the development of vaccines for the prevention of breast and other solid-tumor cancers. Toward that end, he is working on identifying molecular targets in early breast cancer that can be used to prevent invasion and metastasis. Dr. Czerniecki has more than 100 publications and is recognized nationally for his contribution to the development of sentinel lymph node mapping, a procedure for determining the spread of cancer into lymph nodes that is less invasive than diagnostic surgery.  


Education & Training

Board Certification:

  • Surgery - General Surgery

Fellowship:

  • National Cancer Institute - Surgical Oncology

Residency:

  • Ohio State University Hospital - General Surgery

Medical School:

  • University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - MD
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Participating Trials

CLINICAL TRIAL 21452
Evaluating Gut Microbiome As A Biomarker Of Pathological Complete Response In Patients With Early Triple Negative Breast Cancer - A Pilot Study (TCC)
Condition: Breast
Intervention:
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If you believe you are eligible for one of these trials or studies, please call
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Publications

  • Soliman H, Hogue D, Han H, Mooney B, Costa R, Lee MC, Niell B, Williams A, Chau A, Falcon S, Soyano A, Armaghani A, Khakpour N, Weinfurtner RJ, Hoover S, Kiluk J, Laronga C, Rosa M, Khong H, Czerniecki B. Author Correction: Oncolytic T-VEC virotherapy plus neoadjuvant chemotherapy in nonmetastatic triple-negative breast cancer: a phase 2 trial. Nat Med. 2023 Mar. Pubmedid: 36932246.
  • Bari S, Li J, Kang D, Jameel Z, Czerniecki BJ, Costa RLB. A Real-World Data Retrospective Cohort Study of HER2-positive, Early-Stage Breast Cancer in Patients 70 Years of Age or Older: Natural History, Treatment Patterns, and Outcomes. Clin Breast Cancer. 2023 Jun.23(4):378-387. Pubmedid: 36805387.
  • Soliman H, Hogue D, Han H, Mooney B, Costa R, Lee MC, Niell B, Williams A, Chau A, Falcon S, Soyano A, Armaghani A, Khakpour N, Weinfurtner RJ, Hoover S, Kiluk J, Laronga C, Rosa M, Khong H, Czerniecki B. Oncolytic T-VEC virotherapy plus neoadjuvant chemotherapy in nonmetastatic triple-negative breast cancer: a phase 2 trial. Nat Med. 2023 Feb.29(2):450-457. Pubmedid: 36759673.
  • Liveringhouse CL, Mills MN, Ahmed KA, Washington IR, Lee MC, Khakpour N, Laronga C, Czerniecki B, Soliman H, Weinfurtner RJ, Rosa M, Kim Y, Stringfield O, Abdalah M, Diaz R, Montejo M. Phase 2 Study of Preoperative SABR for Early-Stage Breast Cancer: Introduction of a Novel Form of Accelerated Partial Breast Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2023 Feb. Pubmedid: 36796498.
  • Law V, Chen Z, Vena F, Smalley I, Macaulay R, Evernden BR, Tran N, Pina Y, Puskas J, Caceres G, Bayle S, Johnson J, Liu JKC, Etame A, Vogelbaum M, Rodriguez P, Duckett D, Czerniecki B, Chen A, Smalley KSM, Forsyth PA. A preclinical model of patient-derived cerebrospinal fluid circulating tumor cells for experimental therapeutics in leptomeningeal disease from melanoma. Neurooncol. 2022 Oct.24(10):1673-1686. Pubmedid: 35213727. Pmcid: PMC9527526.
  • Mandula JK, Chang S, Mohamed E, Jimenez R, Sierra-Mondragon RA, Chang DC, Obermayer AN, Moran-Segura CM, Das S, Vazquez-Martinez JA, Prieto K, Chen A, Smalley KSM, Czerniecki B, Forsyth P, Koya RC, Ruffell B, Cubillos-Ruiz JR, Munn DH, Shaw TI, Conejo-Garcia JR, Rodriguez PC. Ablation of the endoplasmic reticulum stress kinase PERK induces paraptosis and type I interferon to promote anti-tumor T cell responses. Cancer Cell. 2022 Oct.40(10):1145-1160.e9. Pubmedid: 36150390. Pmcid: PMC9561067.
  • Gallen C, Dukes CW, Aldrich A, Macaisa L, Mo Q, Cubitt CL, Pilon-Thomas S, Giuliano AR, Czerniecki BJ, Costa RLB. Long-Term CD4+ T-Cell and Immunoglobulin G Immune Responses in Oncology Workers following COVID-19 Vaccination: An Interim Analysis of a Prospective Cohort Study. Vaccines (Basel). 2022 Nov.10(11). Pubmedid: 36423026. Pmcid: PMC9696551.
  • Weinfurtner RJ, Abdalah M, Stringfield O, Ataya D, Williams A, Mooney B, Rosa M, Lee MC, Khakpour N, Laronga C, Czerniecki B, Diaz R, Ahmed K, Washington I, Latifi K, Niell B, Montejo M, Raghunand N. Quantitative Changes in Intratumoral Habitats on MRI Correlate With Pathologic Response in Early-stage ER/PR+ HER2− Breast Cancer Treated With Preoperative Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy. J Breast Imaging. 2022 May.4(3):273-284. Pubmedid: 36686407. Pmcid: PMC9851176.
  • Ramamoorthi G, Kodumudi K, Snyder C, Grover P, Zhang H, Greene MI, Basu A, Gallen C, Wiener D, Costa RLB, Han HS, Koski G, Czerniecki BJ. Intratumoral delivery of dendritic cells plus anti-HER2 therapy triggers both robust systemic antitumor immunity and complete regression in HER2 mammary carcinoma. J Immunother Cancer. 2022 Jun.10(6). Pubmedid: 35710296. Pmcid: PMC9204433.
  • Gautam N, Elleson KM, Ramamoorthi G, Czerniecki BJ. Current State of Cell Therapies for Breast Cancer. Cancer J. 2022 Jul.28(4):301-309. Pubmedid: 35880940. Pmcid: PMC9336570.
  • Ramamoorthi G, Kodumudi K, Gallen C, Zachariah NN, Basu A, Albert G, Beyer A, Snyder C, Wiener D, Costa RLB, Czerniecki BJ. Disseminated cancer cells in breast cancer: Mechanism of dissemination and dormancy and emerging insights on therapeutic opportunities. Semin Cancer Biol. 2022 Jan.78:78-89. Pubmedid: 33626407.
  • Mills MN, Potluri TK, Kawahara Y, Fahey M, Figura NB, Soyano AE, Washington IR, Diaz R, Oliver DE, Yu HM, Etame AB, Vogelbaum MA, Czerniecki BJ, Arrington JA, Sahebjam S, Forsyth PA, Soliman HH, Han HS, Ahmed KA. The presentation of brain metastases in melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer, and breast cancer and potential implications for screening brain MRIs. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2022 Jan.191(1):209-217. Pubmedid: 34669082.
  • Basu A, Albert GK, Awshah S, Datta J, Kodumudi KN, Gallen C, Beyer A, Smalley KSM, Rodriguez PC, Dukett DR, Forsyth PA, Soyano A, Koski GK, Lima Barros Costa R, Han H, Soliman H, Lee MC, Kalinski P, Czerniecki BJ. Identification of Immunogenic MHC Class II Human HER3 Peptides that Mediate Anti-HER3 CD4+ Th1 Responses and Potential Use as a Cancer Vaccine. Cancer Immunol Res. 2022 Jan.10(1):108-125. Pubmedid: 34785506. Pmcid: PMC9414303.
  • Weinfurtner RJ, Raghunand N, Stringfield O, Abdalah M, Niell BL, Ataya D, Williams A, Mooney B, Rosa M, Lee MC, Khakpour N, Laronga C, Czerniecki B, Diaz R, Ahmed K, Washington I, Montejo M. MRI Response to Pre-operative Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) in Early Stage ER/PR+ HER2- Breast Cancer correlates with Surgical Pathology Tumor Bed Cellularity. Clin Breast Cancer. 2022 Feb.22(2):e214-e223. Pubmedid: 34384695.
  • Selfridge JM, Sinner HF, Whiting J, Sun W, Mallory MA, Hoover SJ, Kiluk JV, Khakpour N, Czerniecki BJ, Laronga C, Mo Q, Lee MC. Effect of Microporous Polysaccharide Particles in Patients Undergoing Mastectomy. Clin Breast Cancer. 2022 Dec.22(8):e922-e927. Pubmedid: 36055918.
  • Bari S, Boulware D, Li J, Loftus L, Soyano Muller A, Jameel Z, Khong H, Czerniecki BJ, Costa RLB. A Real-World Data Retrospective Cohort Study of Low Estrogen Receptor-Positive Early Breast Cancer: Natural History and Treatment Outcomes. Breast Cancer (Dove Med Press). 2022 Aug.14:199-210. Pubmedid: 35967746. Pmcid: PMC9365325.
  • Mills MN, King W, Soyano A, Pina Y, Czerniecki BJ, Forsyth PA, Soliman H, Han HS, Ahmed KA. Evolving management of HER2+ breast cancer brain metastases and leptomeningeal disease. J Neurooncol. 2022 Apr.157(2):249-269. Pubmedid: 35244835.
  • Jonczyk MM, Fisher CS, Babbitt R, Paulus JK, Freund KM, Czerniecki B, Margenthaler JA, Losken A, Chatterjee A. Surgical Predictive Model for Breast Cancer Patients Assessing Acute Postoperative Complications: The Breast Cancer Surgery Risk Calculator. Ann Surg Oncol. 2021 Sep.28(9):5121-5131. Pubmedid: 33616770. Pmcid: PMC8355048.
  • Showalter LE, Czerniecki BJ, Kodumudi K, Koski GK. Murine Dendritic Cells Grown in Serum-Free Culture Show Potent Therapeutic Activity when Loaded with Novel Th Epitopes in an Orthotopic Model of HER2pos Breast Cancer. Vaccines (Basel). 2021 Sep.9(9). Pubmedid: 34579275. Pmcid: PMC8473293.
  • Ahmed KA, Kim Y, Arrington JA, Kim S, DeJesus M, Soyano AE, Armaghani AJ, Costa RLB, Khong HT, Loftus LS, Rosa M, Caudell JJ, Diaz R, Robinson TJ, Etame AB, Tran ND, Sahebjam S, Soliman HH, Czerniecki BJ, Forsyth PA, Yu HM, Han HS. Nivolumab and Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Patients With Breast Cancer Brain Metastases: A Nonrandomized, Open-Label Phase 1b Study. Adv Radiat Oncol. 2021 Sep.6(6):100798. Pubmedid: 34934864. Pmcid: PMC8655428.
  • Sun J, Zhong X, Ma J, Sun W, Han HS, Soliman HH, Loftus LS, Costa RLB, Armaghani AJ, Soyano-Muller AE, Czerniecki BJ, Lee MC, Kiluk JV, Khakpour N, Hoover SJ, Laronga C, Khong HT. Real-world benefit of combination palbociclib and endocrine therapy for metastatic breast cancer and correlation with neutropenia. Cancer Med. 2021 Nov.10(21):7665-7672. Pubmedid: 34590788. Pmcid: PMC8559460.
  • Zachariah NN, Basu A, Gautam N, Ramamoorthi G, Kodumudi KN, Kumar NB, Loftus L, Czerniecki BJ. Intercepting Premalignant, Preinvasive Breast Lesions Through Vaccination. Front Immunol. 2021 Nov.12:786286. Pubmedid: 34899753. Pmcid: PMC8652247.
  • Phadke MS, Chen Z, Li J, Mohamed E, Davies MA, Smalley I, Duckett D, Palve V, Czerniecki BJ, Forsyth PA, Noyes D, Adeegbe DO, Eroglu Z, Nguyen KT, Tsai KY, Rix U, Burd CE, Chen YA, Rodriguez PC, Smalley KSM. Targeted Therapy Given after Anti-PD-1 Leads to Prolonged Responses in Mouse Melanoma Models through Sustained Antitumor Immunity. Cancer Immunol Res. 2021 May.9(5):554-567. Pubmedid: 33653716. Pmcid: PMC8102376.
  • Mills MN, Thawani C, Figura NB, Oliver DE, Soyano AE, Etame A, Robinson TJ, Liu JK, Vogelbaum MA, Forsyth PA, Czerniecki BJ, Soliman HH, Han HS, Yu HM, Ahmed KA. Breast cancer subtype predicts clinical outcomes after stereotactic radiation for brain metastases. J Neurooncol. 2021 May.152(3):591-601. Pubmedid: 33742358.
  • Mills MN, Naz A, Thawani C, Walker C, Figura NB, Kushchayev S, Oliver DE, Etame AB, Yu HM, Robinson TJ, Liu JKC, Vogelbaum MA, Forsyth PA, Czerniecki BJ, Soliman HH, Han HS, Ahmed KA. Capecitabine and stereotactic radiation in the management of breast cancer brain metastases. BMC Cancer. 2021 May.21(1):552. Pubmedid: 33992087. Pmcid: PMC8126143.
  • Basu A, Ramamoorthi G, Albert G, Gallen C, Beyer A, Snyder C, Koski G, Disis ML, Czerniecki BJ, Kodumudi K. Differentiation and Regulation of TH Cells: A Balancing Act for Cancer Immunotherapy. Front Immunol. 2021 May.12:669474. Pubmedid: 34012451. Pmcid: PMC8126720.
  • Mills MN, Walker C, Thawani C, Naz A, Figura NB, Kushchayev S, Etame A, Yu HM, Robinson TJ, Liu J, Vogelbaum MA, Forsyth PA, Czerniecki BJ, Soliman HH, Han HS, Ahmed KA. Trastuzumab Emtansine (T-DM1) and stereotactic radiation in the management of HER2+ breast cancer brain metastases. BMC Cancer. 2021 Mar.21(1):223. Pubmedid: 33663447. Pmcid: PMC7934378.
  • Artzy-Randrup Y, Epstein T, Brown JS, Costa RLB, Czerniecki BJ, Gatenby RA. Novel evolutionary dynamics of small populations in breast cancer adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapy. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2021 Mar.7(1):26. Pubmedid: 33707440. Pmcid: PMC7952601.
  • Sun J, Henry DA, Carr MJ, Yazdankhahkenary A, Laronga C, Lee MC, Hoover SJ, Sun W, Czerniecki BJ, Khakpour N, Kiluk JV. Feasibility of Axillary Lymph Node Localization and Excision Using Radar Reflector Localization. Clin Breast Cancer. 2021 Jun.21(3):e189-e193. Pubmedid: 32893094.
  • Law V, Baldwin M, Ramamoorthi G, Kodumudi K, Tran N, Smalley I, Duckett D, Kalinski P, Czerniecki B, Smalley KSM, Forsyth PA. A Murine Ommaya Xenograft Model to Study Direct-Targeted Therapy of Leptomeningeal Disease. J Vis Exp. 2021 Jan.(167). Pubmedid: 33586709. Pmcid: PMC9014476.
  • Soliman H, Hogue D, Han HS, Mooney B, Lima Barros Costa R, Lee MC, Niell B, Williams A, Chau A, Falcon S, Khakpour N, Weinfurtner RJ, Hoover S, Kiluk J, Rosa M, Khong H, Czerniecki BJ. A Phase I Trial of Talimogene Laherparepvec in Combination with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Nonmetastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Feb.27(4):1012-1018. Pubmedid: 33219014.
  • Jia Y, Kodumudi KN, Ramamoorthi G, Basu A, Snyder C, Wiener D, Pilon-Thomas S, Grover P, Zhang H, Greene MI, Mo Q, Tong Z, Chen YZ, Costa RLB, Han H, Lee C, Soliman H, Conejo-Garcia JR, Koski G, Czerniecki BJ. Th1 cytokine interferon gamma improves response in HER2 breast cancer by modulating the ubiquitin proteasomal pathway. Mol Ther. 2021 Apr.29(4):1541-1556. Pubmedid: 33412308. Pmcid: PMC8058490.
  • Ghimirey N, Steele C, Czerniecki BJ, Koski GK, Showalter LE. Sunitinib Combined with Th1 Cytokines Potentiates Apoptosis in Human Breast Cancer Cells and Suppresses Tumor Growth in a Murine Model of HER-2pos Breast Cancer. Int J Breast Cancer. 2021 Apr.2021:8818393. Pubmedid: 33936816. Pmcid: PMC8062178.
  • Costa RLB, Czerniecki BJ. Clinical development of immunotherapies for HER2+ breast cancer: a review of HER2-directed monoclonal antibodies and beyond. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2020 Mar.6:10. Pubmedid: 32195333. Pmcid: PMC7067811.
  • Costa RLB, Czerniecki BJ. Clinical development of immunotherapies for HER2+ breast cancer: a review of HER2-directed monoclonal antibodies and beyond. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2020 Mar.6(1):10. Pubmedid: 33574294.
  • Showalter L, Czerniecki BJ, Koski GK. Th1 cytokines in conjunction with pharmacological Akt inhibition potentiate apoptosis of breast cancer cells in vitro and suppress tumor growth in vivo. Oncotarget. 2020 Jul.11(30):2873-2888. Pubmedid: 32774769. Pmcid: PMC7392628.
  • Rajarajan N, Mariotti V, Basu A, Kodumudi K, Han H, Czerniecki B, Hoover S. Strategies to Combat Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2) Resistance in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer. Crit Rev Oncog. 2020 Jul.25(3):209-231. Pubmedid: 33463942.
  • Burke EE, Laronga C, Sun W, DeBiase S, Naqvi SMH, Fridley B, Czerniecki BJ, Hoover SJ, Khakpour N, Kiluk JV, Lee MC. Implant-sparing Mastectomy: An Alternative for Women Undergoing Mastectomy With Retropectoral Implants. Clin Breast Cancer. 2020 Feb.20(1):e14-e19. Pubmedid: 31780380. Pmcid: PMC7771331.
  • Oechsle CM, Showalter LE, Novak CM, Czerniecki BJ, Koski GK. Statin Drugs Plus Th1 Cytokines Potentiate Apoptosis and Ras Delocalization in Human Breast Cancer Lines and Combine with Dendritic Cell-Based Immunotherapy to Suppress Tumor Growth in a Mouse Model of HER-2pos Disease. Vaccines (Basel). 2020 Feb.8(1). Pubmedid: 32041347. Pmcid: PMC7157728.
  • Mills MN, Figura NB, Arrington JA, Yu HM, Etame AB, Vogelbaum MA, Soliman H, Czerniecki BJ, Forsyth PA, Han HS, Ahmed KA. Management of brain metastases in breast cancer: a review of current practices and emerging treatments. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Apr.180(2):279-300. Pubmedid: 32030570.
  • Chatterjee A, Asban A, Jonczyk M, Chen L, Czerniecki B, Fisher CS. A cost-utility analysis comparing large volume displacement oncoplastic surgery to mastectomy with free flap reconstruction in the treatment of breast cancer. Am J Surg. 2019 Sep.218(3):597-604. Pubmedid: 30739739.
  • Figura NB, Rizk VT, Armaghani AJ, Arrington JA, Etame AB, Han HS, Czerniecki BJ, Forsyth PA, Ahmed KA. Breast leptomeningeal disease: a review of current practices and updates on management. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2019 Sep.177(2):277-294. Pubmedid: 31209686.
  • Namjoshi P, Showalter L, Czerniecki BJ, Koski GK. T-helper 1-type cytokines induce apoptosis and loss of HER-family oncodriver expression in murine and human breast cancer cells. Oncotarget. 2019 Oct.10(57):6006-6020. Pubmedid: 31666931. Pmcid: PMC6800266.
  • Lowenfeld L, Xu S, Czerniecki BJ. CD4+ Th1 to the rescue in HER-2+ breast cancer. Oncoimmunology. 2019 May.8(10):e1078062. Pubmedid: 31646065. Pmcid: PMC6791441.
  • Figura NB, Rizk VT, Mohammadi H, Evernden B, Mokhtari S, Yu HM, Robinson TJ, Etame AB, Tran ND, Liu J, Washington I, Diaz R, Czerniecki BJ, Soliman H, Han HS, Sahebjam S, Forsyth PA, Ahmed KA. Clinical outcomes of breast leptomeningeal disease treated with intrathecal trastuzumab, intrathecal chemotherapy, or whole brain radiation therapy. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2019 Jun.175(3):781-788. Pubmedid: 30859348.
  • Basu A, Ramamoorthi G, Jia Y, Faughn J, Wiener D, Awshah S, Kodumudi K, Czerniecki BJ. Immunotherapy in breast cancer: Current status and future directions. Adv Cancer Res. 2019 Jun.143:295-349. Pubmedid: 31202361.
  • Burke EE, Kodumudi K, Ramamoorthi G, Czerniecki BJ. Vaccine Therapies for Breast Cancer. Surg Oncol Clin N Am. 2019 Jul.28(3):353-367. Pubmedid: 31079793.
  • Showalter LE, Oechsle C, Ghimirey N, Steele C, Czerniecki BJ, Koski GK. Th1 cytokines sensitize HER-expressing breast cancer cells to lapatinib. PLoS One. 2019 Jan.14(1):e0210209. Pubmedid: 30657766. Pmcid: PMC6338365.
  • Costa R, Zaman S, Sharpe S, Helenowski I, Shaw C, Han H, Soliman H, Czerniecki B. A brief report of toxicity end points of HER2 vaccines for the treatment of patients with HER2+ breast cancer. Drug Des Devel Ther. 2019 Jan.13:309-316. Pubmedid: 30679903. Pmcid: PMC6338114.
  • Ahmed KA, Liveringhouse CL, Mills MN, Figura NB, Grass GD, Washington IR, Harris EE, Czerniecki BJ, Blumencranz PW, Eschrich SA, Scott JG, Diaz R, Torres-Roca JF. Utilizing the genomically adjusted radiation dose (GARD) to personalize adjuvant radiotherapy in triple negative breast cancer management. EBioMedicine. 2019 Aug.47:163-169. Pubmedid: 31416721. Pmcid: PMC6796536.
  • Kodumudi KN, Ramamoorthi G, Snyder C, Basu A, Jia Y, Awshah S, Beyer AP, Wiener D, Lam L, Zhang H, Greene MI, Costa RLB, Czerniecki BJ. Sequential Anti-PD1 Therapy Following Dendritic Cell Vaccination Improves Survival in a HER2 Mammary Carcinoma Model and Identifies a Critical Role for CD4 T Cells in Mediating the Response. Front Immunol. 2019 Aug.10:1939. Pubmedid: 31475002. Pmcid: PMC6702967.
  • López Alfonso JC, Poleszczuk J, Walker R, Kim S, Pilon-Thomas S, Conejo-Garcia JJ, Soliman H, Czerniecki B, Harrison LB, Enderling H. Immunologic Consequences of Sequencing Cancer Radiotherapy and Surgery. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2019 Apr.3:1-16. Pubmedid: 30964698. Pmcid: PMC6661069.
  • De La Cruz LM, Czerniecki BJ. Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer is Finally at the Doorstep: Immunotherapy in Breast Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 2018 Oct.25(10):2852-2857. Pubmedid: 30014455.
  • Rosemblit C, Datta J, Lowenfeld L, Xu S, Basu A, Kodumudi K, Wiener D, Czerniecki BJ. Oncodriver inhibition and CD4+ Th1 cytokines cooperate through Stat1 activation to induce tumor senescence and apoptosis in HER2+ and triple negative breast cancer: implications for combining immune and targeted therapies. Oncotarget. 2018 May.9(33):23058-23077. Pubmedid: 29796172. Pmcid: PMC5955413.
  • So A, De La Cruz LM, Williams AD, Bahng J, Liao G, McDonald ES, Fisher CS, Czerniecki BJ, Sataloff D, Tchou J. The impact of preoperative magnetic resonance imaging and lumpectomy cavity shavings on re-excision rate in pure ductal carcinoma in situ-A single institution's experience. J Surg Oncol. 2018 Mar.117(4):558-566. Pubmedid: 29127721.
  • Herbert G, Karakousis GC, Bartlett EK, Zaheer S, Graham D, Czerniecki BJ, Fraker DL, Ariyan C, Coit DG, Brady MS. Transected thin melanoma: Implications for sentinel lymph node staging. J Surg Oncol. 2018 Mar.117(4):567-571. Pubmedid: 29194673. Pmcid: PMC5878707.
  • Abbott J, Buckley M, Taylor LA, Xu G, Karakousis G, Czerniecki BJ, Gimotty PA, Zhang PJ. Histological immune response patterns in sentinel lymph nodes involved by metastatic melanoma and prognostic significance. J Cutan Pathol. 2018 Jun.45(6):377-386. Pubmedid: 29446846.
  • Walker R, Poleszczuk J, Pilon-Thomas S, Kim S, Anderson AARA, Czerniecki BJ, Harrison LB, Moros EG, Enderling H. Immune interconnectivity of anatomically distant tumors as a potential mediator of systemic responses to local therapy. Sci Rep. 2018 Jun.8(1):9474. Pubmedid: 29930290. Pmcid: PMC6013469.
  • Ahmed KA, Grass GD, Orman AG, Liveringhouse C, Montejo ME, Soliman HH, Han HS, Czerniecki BJ, Torres-Roca JF, Diaz R. Personalizing Radiation Treatment Delivery in the Management of Breast Cancer. Int J Breast Cancer. 2018 Jun.2018:6729802. Pubmedid: 29984003. Pmcid: PMC6015692.
  • Tanyi JL, Bobisse S, Ophir E, Tuyaerts S, Roberti A, Genolet R, Baumgartner P, Stevenson BJ, Iseli C, Dangaj D, Czerniecki B, Semilietof A, Racle J, Michel A, Xenarios I, Chiang C, Monos DS, Torigian DA, Nisenbaum HL, Michielin O, June CH, Levine BL, Powell DJ, Gfeller D, Mick R, Dafni U, Zoete V, Harari A, Coukos G, Kandalaft LE. Personalized cancer vaccine effectively mobilizes antitumor T cell immunity in ovarian cancer. Sci Transl Med. 2018 Apr.10(436). Pubmedid: 29643231.
  • Somasundaram R, Zhang G, Fukunaga-Kalabis M, Perego M, Krepler C, Xu X, Wagner C, Hristova D, Zhang J, Tian T, Wei Z, Liu Q, Garg K, Griss J, Hards R, Maurer M, Hafner C, Mayerhöfer M, Karanikas G, Jalili A, Bauer-Pohl V, Weihsengruber F, Rappersberger K, Koller J, Lang R, Hudgens C, Chen G, Tetzlaff M, Wu L, Frederick DT, Scolyer RA, Long GV, Damle M, Ellingsworth C, Grinman L, Choi H, Gavin BJ, Dunagin M, Raj A, Scholler N, Gross L, Beqiri M, Bennett K, Watson I, Schaider H, Davies MA, Wargo J, Czerniecki BJ, Schuchter L, Herlyn D, Flaherty K, Herlyn M, Wagner SN. Tumor-associated B-cells induce tumor heterogeneity and therapy resistance. Nat Commun. 2017 Sep.8(1):607. Pubmedid: 28928360. Pmcid: PMC5605714.
  • Mustafa RE, DeStefano LM, Bahng J, Yoon-Flannery K, Fisher CS, Zhang PJ, Tchou J, Czerniecki BJ, De La Cruz LM. Evaluating the Risk of Upstaging HER2-Positive DCIS to Invasive Breast Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 2017 Oct.24(10):2999-3003. Pubmedid: 28766212.
  • Costa RLB, Costa-Filho RB, Rosa M, Czerniecki BJ. Occult Breast Carcinoma Presenting as Scalp Metastasis. Case Rep Oncol. 2017 Nov.10(3):992-997. Pubmedid: 29279704. Pmcid: PMC5731106.
  • Poleszczuk J, Luddy K, Chen L, Lee JK, Harrison LB, Czerniecki BJ, Soliman H, Enderling H. Neoadjuvant radiotherapy of early-stage breast cancer and long-term disease-free survival. Breast Cancer Res. 2017 Jun.19(1):75. Pubmedid: 28666457. Pmcid: PMC5493088.
  • Nocera NF, Lee MC, Czerniecki BJ. Boosting anti-HER2 CD4 T-helper responses in HER2 expressing ductal carcinoma in situ. Future Oncol. 2017 Jul.13(17):1459-1462. Pubmedid: 28766964.
  • Fracol M, Datta J, Lowenfeld L, Xu S, Zhang PJ, Fisher CS, Czerniecki BJ. Loss of Anti-HER-3 CD4+ T-Helper Type 1 Immunity Occurs in Breast Tumorigenesis and is Negatively Associated with Outcomes. Ann Surg Oncol. 2017 Feb.24(2):407-417. Pubmedid: 27663569.
  • Sinnamon AJ, Neuwirth MG, Bartlett EK, Zaheer S, Etherington MS, Xu X, Elder DE, Czerniecki BJ, Fraker DL, Karakousis GC. Predictors of false negative sentinel lymph node biopsy in trunk and extremity melanoma. J Surg Oncol. 2017 Dec.116(7):848-855. Pubmedid: 28650537.
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Grants

Title: Evaluating Gut Microbiome and Microbial Derived Metabolites as a Biomarker of Pathological Complete Response in Patients with Early Triple Negative Breast Cancer- A Pilot Study
Sponsor: Moffitt Cancer Center
PI: Czerniecki, B.
Title: Expansion, Enrichment, and Confirmation of Neoantigen Reactive Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TIL) from Breast Tumors
Sponsor: Turnstone Biologics
PI: Czerniecki, B.
Title: Overcoming Resistance in HER2 Breast Cancer through a Novel Immunotherapy Approach
Sponsor: Florida Biomedical Research Program (FBRP)
PI: Czerniecki, B.
Title: Correcting the Anti-HER-2 CD4 Th1 Response in Breast Cancer Therapy to Prevent Recurrence
Sponsor: US Army
PI: Czerniecki, B., CO-PI: Soliman, H.
Title: Novel Immunotherapy for Brain-Metastatic Breast Cancer
Sponsor: US Army
PI: Czerniecki, B.

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