Dr. Jingsong Zhang is a genitourinary oncologist at Moffitt Cancer Center and an assistant professor of oncology and internal medicine at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. His primary interest is in developing new treatments for prostate cancer.
As a member of the Moffitt experimental therapeutics program, Dr. Zhang is researching novel agents that might inhibit the repair pathway that allows cancer cells to survive despite DNA damaging chemotherapy treatment. He is a principal investigator in an American Society of Clinical Oncology grant to target DNA damage repair pathways in metastatic prostate cancer.
Dr. Zhang received his medical degree from Peking Union Medical College in China, followed by a Ph.D. in pathology from the University of Southern California. He served as a post-doctoral research fellow at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, before pursuing a residency in internal medicine at New York Downtown Hospital and fellowship in hematology/oncology at University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. Zhang has been published in numerous medical journals and is board certified in both medical oncology and internal medicine. He is fluent in English and Chinese.
Education & Training
Fellowship:
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center - Hematology-Oncology
CLINICAL TRIAL 19137
A Randomized Phase II Trial of Abiraterone, Olaparib, or Abiraterone + Olaparib in Patients with Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer with DNA Repair Defects
Condition: Genitourinary
Intervention: Abiraterone acetate (); Olaparib (Lynparza); Zytiga (Abiraterone acetate); prednisone ()
Open
CLINICAL TRIAL 20628
A Phase II, Open-Label, Study to Assess the Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of AZD4635 in Combination with Durvalumab and in Combination with Cabazitaxel and Durvalumab in Patients Who Have Progressive Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer (AARDVARC)
Condition: Genitourinary
Intervention: AMP-514 (Durvalumab); AZD4635 (); Cabazitaxel (); Durvalumab (); Jevtana (Cabazitaxel); MEDI4736 (Durvalumab)
Open
CLINICAL TRIAL 20898
A Modular Phase 2a Multicentre Open-Label Study to Investigate DNA-damage Response Agents (or Combinations) in Patients With Advanced Cancer Whose Tumours Contain Molecular Alterations (PLANETTE)
Condition: Genitourinary
Intervention: Ceralasertib ()
Open
CLINICAL TRIAL 20534
A Phase 1b Dose-Escalation Study of Cabozantinib (XL184) Administered Alone or in Combination with Atezolizumab to Subjects with Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors
Condition: Genitourinary
Intervention: Atezolizumab (Tecentriq); Cabozantinib (XL 184)
Open
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Rubino S, Kim Y, Zhou J, Dhillon J, Li R, Spiess P, Poch M, Manley BJ, Pow-Sang J, Gilbert S, Sexton W, Zhang J. Positive Ki-67 and PD-L1 expression in post-neoadjuvant chemotherapy muscle-invasive bladder cancer is associated with shorter overall survival: a retrospective study. World J Urol. 2021 May.39(5):1539-1547. Pubmedid: 32656671.
Chakiryan NH, Jiang DD, Gillis KA, Green E, Hajiran A, Hugar L, Zemp L, Zhang J, Jain RK, Chahoud J, Spiess PE, Sexton W, Gilbert SM, Manley BJ. Real-World Survival Outcomes Associated With First-Line Immunotherapy, Targeted Therapy, and Combination Therapy for Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 May.4(5):e2111329. Pubmedid: 34032854. Pmcid: PMC8150693.
Chakiryan NH, Jiang DD, Gillis KA, Green E, Hajiran A, Hugar L, Zemp L, Zhang J, Jain R, Chahoud J, Poch M, Manley BJ, Li R, Sexton W, Gilbert SM. Pathological Downstaging and Survival Outcomes Associated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Variant Histology Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer. J Urol. 2021 May.101097JU0000000000001855. Pubmedid: 34032503.
Yuan Z, Fernandez D, Dhillon J, Abraham-Miranda J, Awasthi S, Kim Y, Zhang J, Jain R, Serna A, Pow-Sang JM, Poch M, Li R, Manley B, Fink A, Naghavi A, Torres-Roca JF, Grass GD, Kim S, Latifi K, Hunt D, Johnstone PAS, Yamoah K. Proof-of-principle Phase I results of combining nivolumab with brachytherapy and external beam radiation therapy for Grade Group 5 prostate cancer: safety, feasibility, and exploratory analysis. Prostate Cancer P D. 2021 Mar.24(1):140-149. Pubmedid: 32651467. Pmcid: PMC7882397.
Mason NT, Burkett JM, Nelson RS, Pow-Sang JM, Gatenby RA, Kubal T, Peabody JW, Letson GD, McLeod HL, Zhang J. Budget Impact of Adaptive Abiraterone Therapy for Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Am Health Drug Benefits. 2021 Mar.14(1):15-20. Pubmedid: 33841621. Pmcid: PMC8025923.
Li R, Zhang J, Gilbert SM, Conejo-Garcia J, Mulé JJ. Using oncolytic viruses to ignite the tumour immune microenvironment in bladder cancer. Nat Rev Urol. 2021 Jun. Pubmedid: 34183833.
Zhang J, Cunningham JJ, Brown JS, Gatenby RA. Response to Mistry. Nat Commun. 2021 Jan.12(1):329. Pubmedid: 33436553. Pmcid: PMC7804311.
Li R, Sundi D, Zhang J, Kim Y, Sylvester RJ, Spiess PE, Poch MA, Sexton WJ, Black PC, McKiernan JM, Steinberg GD, Kamat AM, Gilbert SM. Systematic Review of the Therapeutic Efficacy of Bladder-preserving Treatments for Non-muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer Following Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin. Eur Urol. 2020 Sep.78(3):387-399. Pubmedid: 32143924. Pmcid: PMC7771323.
Jain RK, Skelton WP, Zhang J. Emerging Treatment Options for the Treatment of Metastatic Urothelial Cancer: Therapeutic Potential of Enfortumab Vedotin. Cancer Manag Res. 2020 Sep.12:8379-8386. Pubmedid: 32982431. Pmcid: PMC7494003.
Abida W, Patnaik A, Campbell D, Shapiro J, Bryce AH, McDermott R, Sautois B, Vogelzang NJ, Bambury RM, Voog E, Zhang J, Piulats JM, Ryan CJ, Merseburger AS, Daugaard G, Heidenreich A, Fizazi K, Higano CS, Krieger LE, Sternberg CN, Watkins SP, Despain D, Simmons AD, Loehr A, Dowson M, Golsorkhi T, Chowdhury S. Rucaparib in Men With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Harboring a BRCA1 or BRCA2 Gene Alteration. J Clin Oncol. 2020 Nov.38(32):3763-3772. Pubmedid: 32795228. Pmcid: PMC7655021.
Abida W, Campbell D, Patnaik A, Shapiro JD, Sautois B, Vogelzang NJ, Voog EG, Bryce AH, McDermott R, Ricci F, Rowe J, Zhang J, Piulats JM, Fizazi K, Merseburger AS, Higano CS, Krieger LE, Ryan CJ, Feng FY, Simmons AD, Loehr A, Despain D, Dowson M, Green F, Watkins SP, Golsorkhi T, Chowdhury S. Non-BRCA DNA Damage Repair Gene Alterations and Response to the PARP Inhibitor Rucaparib in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Analysis From the Phase II TRITON2 Study. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Jun.26(11):2487-2496. Pubmedid: 32086346.
O'Donnell PH, Arkenau HT, Sridhar SS, Ong M, Drakaki A, Spira AI, Zhang J, Gordon MS, Degboe AN, Gupta AK, Mukhopadhyay P, Huang W, Abdullah SE, Angra N, Roskos LK, Guo X, Friedlander T. Patient-reported outcomes and inflammatory biomarkers in patients with locally advanced/metastatic urothelial carcinoma treated with durvalumab in phase 1/2 dose-escalation study 1108. Cancer. 2020 Jan.126(2):432-443. Pubmedid: 31581306.
West J, You L, Zhang J, Gatenby RA, Brown JS, Newton PK, Anderson ARA. Towards Multidrug Adaptive Therapy. Cancer Res. 2020 Apr.80(7):1578-1589. Pubmedid: 31948939. Pmcid: PMC7307613.
Rosenberg J, Sridhar SS, Zhang J, Smith D, Ruether D, Flaig TW, Baranda J, Lang J, Plimack ER, Sangha R, Heath EI, Merchan J, Quinn DI, Srinivas S, Milowsky M, Wu C, Gartner EM, Zuo P, Melhem-Bertrandt A, Petrylak DP. EV-101: A Phase I Study of Single-Agent Enfortumab Vedotin in Patients With Nectin-4-Positive Solid Tumors, Including Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma. J Clin Oncol. 2020 Apr.38(10):1041-1049. Pubmedid: 32031899. Pmcid: PMC7106979.
Brady-Nicholls R, Nagy JD, Gerke TA, Zhang T, Wang AZ, Zhang J, Gatenby RA, Enderling H. Prostate-specific antigen dynamics predict individual responses to intermittent androgen deprivation. Nat Commun. 2020 Apr.11(1):1750. Pubmedid: 32273504. Pmcid: PMC7145869.
West JB, Dinh MN, Brown JS, Zhang J, Anderson AR, Gatenby RA. Multidrug Cancer Therapy in Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer: An Evolution-Based Strategy. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Jul.25(14):4413-4421. Pubmedid: 30992299. Pmcid: PMC6665681.
Gatenby RA, Zhang J, Brown JS. First Strike-Second Strike Strategies in Metastatic Cancer: Lessons from the Evolutionary Dynamics of Extinction. Cancer Res. 2019 Jul.79(13):3174-3177. Pubmedid: 31221821. Pmcid: PMC6606376.
Yao J, Chen Y, Nguyen DT, Thompson ZJ, Eroshkin AM, Nerlakanti N, Patel AK, Agarwal N, Teer JK, Dhillon J, Coppola D, Zhang J, Perera R, Kim Y, Mahajan K. The Homeobox gene, HOXB13, Regulates a Mitotic Protein-Kinase Interaction Network in Metastatic Prostate Cancers. Sci Rep. 2019 Jul.9(1):9715. Pubmedid: 31273254. Pmcid: PMC6609629.
Chatzkel J, Mocha J, Smith J, Zhou JM, Kim Y, El-Haddad G, Zhang J. Circulating tumor cells and γH2AX as biomarkers for responsiveness to radium-223 in advanced prostate cancer patients. Future Sci OA. 2019 Dec.6(1):FSO437. Pubmedid: 31915536. Pmcid: PMC6920735.
Adashek JJ, Jain RK, Zhang J. Clinical Development of PARP Inhibitors in Treating Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Cells. 2019 Aug.8(8). Pubmedid: 31404966. Pmcid: PMC6721701.
Mei L, Zhang J, He K, Zhang J. Ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related inhibitors and cancer therapy: where we stand. J Hematol Oncol. 2019 Apr.12(1):43. Pubmedid: 31018854. Pmcid: PMC6482552.
Gupta S, Nordquist LT, Fleming MT, Berry WR, Zhang J, Ervin SL, Eisner JR, Baskin-Bey ES, Shore ND. Phase I Study of Seviteronel, a Selective CYP17 Lyase and Androgen Receptor Inhibitor, in Men with Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Nov.24(21):5225-5232. Pubmedid: 30012563.
Peyton CC, Tang D, Reich RR, Azizi M, Chipollini J, Pow-Sang JM, Manley B, Spiess PE, Poch MA, Sexton WJ, Fishman M, Zhang J, Gilbert SM. Downstaging and Survival Outcomes Associated With Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Regimens Among Patients Treated With Cystectomy for Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer. JAMA Oncol. 2018 Nov.4(11):1535-1542. Pubmedid: 30178038. Pmcid: PMC6248089.
Poch M, Hall M, Joerger A, Kodumudi K, Beatty M, Innamarato PP, Bunch BL, Fishman MN, Zhang J, Sexton WJ, Pow-Sang JM, Gilbert SM, Spiess PE, Dhillon J, Kelley L, Mullinax J, Sarnaik AA, Pilon-Thomas S. Expansion of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) from bladder cancer. Oncoimmunology. 2018 Jul.7(9):e1476816. Pubmedid: 30228944. Pmcid: PMC6140546.
Nerlakanti N, Yao J, Nguyen DT, Patel AK, Eroshkin AM, Lawrence HR, Ayaz M, Kuenzi BM, Agarwal N, Chen Y, Gunawan S, Karim RM, Berndt N, Puskas J, Magliocco AM, Coppola D, Dhillon J, Zhang J, Shymalagovindarajan S, Rix U, Kim Y, Perera R, Lawrence NJ, Schonbrunn E, Mahajan K. Targeting the BRD4-HOXB13 Coregulated Transcriptional Networks with Bromodomain-Kinase Inhibitors to Suppress Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Mol Cancer Ther. 2018 Dec.17(12):2796-2810. Pubmedid: 30242092. Pmcid: PMC6528782.
Powles T, O'Donnell PH, Massard C, Arkenau HT, Friedlander TW, Hoimes CJ, Lee JL, Ong M, Sridhar SS, Vogelzang NJ, Fishman MN, Zhang J, Srinivas S, Parikh J, Antal J, Jin X, Gupta AK, Ben Y, Hahn NM. Efficacy and Safety of Durvalumab in Locally Advanced or Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma: Updated Results From a Phase 1/2 Open-label Study. JAMA Oncol. 2017 Sep.3(9):e172411. Pubmedid: 28817753. Pmcid: PMC5824288.
Zhang J, Cunningham JJ, Brown JS, Gatenby RA. Integrating evolutionary dynamics into treatment of metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. Nat Commun. 2017 Nov.8(1):1816. Pubmedid: 29180633. Pmcid: PMC5703947.
You L, Brown JS, Thuijsman F, Cunningham JJ, Gatenby RA, Zhang J, Staňková K. Spatial vs. non-spatial eco-evolutionary dynamics in a tumor growth model. J Theor Biol. 2017 Dec.435:78-97. Pubmedid: 28870617.
Leone AR, Zargar-Shoshtari K, Diorio GJ, Sharma P, Boulware D, Gilbert SM, Powsang JM, Zhang J, Sexton WJ, Spiess PE, Poch MA. Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Elderly Patients With Bladder Cancer: Oncologic Outcomes From a Single Institution Experience. Clin Genitourin Cancer. 2017 Aug.15(4):e583-e589. Pubmedid: 28410909. Pmcid: PMC7771283.
Zargar-Shoshtari K, Kongnyuy M, Sharma P, Fishman MN, Gilbert SM, Poch MA, Pow-Sang JM, Spiess PE, Zhang J, Sexton WJ. Clinical role of additional adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced urothelial carcinoma following neoadjuvant chemotherapy and cystectomy. World J Urol. 2016 Nov.34(11):1567-1573. Pubmedid: 27072536.
Wu M, Seto E, Zhang J. E2F1 enhances glycolysis through suppressing Sirt6 transcription in cancer cells. Oncotarget. 2015 May.6(13):11252-11263. Pubmedid: 25816777. Pmcid: PMC4484454.
Wu M, Dickinson SI, Wang X, Zhang J. Expression and function of SIRT6 in muscle invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder. Int J Clin Exp Pathol. 2014 Sep.7(10):6504-6513. Pubmedid: 25400728. Pmcid: PMC4230126.
Wu M, Wang X, McGregor N, Pienta K, Zhang J. Dynamic regulation of Rad51 by E2F1 and p53 in prostate cancer cells upon drug-induced DNA damage under hypoxia. Mol Pharmacol. 2014 Jun.85(6):866-876. Pubmedid: 24627085. Pmcid: PMC4014666.
Liu JJ, Zhang J. Sequencing systemic therapies in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Cancer Control. 2013 Jul.20(3):181-187. Pubmedid: 23811702.
Henderson-Jackson E, Sexton W, Zhang J, Hakam A, Petrovskyy VS, Bui MM, Chuang ST. Cystic prostatic ductal adenocarcinoma: an unusual presentation and cytological diagnosis. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2012.42(1):81-88. Pubmedid: 22371914.
Zhang J, Lee J, Urba S, Foster J, Worden F. A phase II trial evaluating weekly docetaxel and capecitabine in patients with metastatic or advanced, locally recurrent head and neck cancers. Cancer Invest. 2010 Nov.28(9):910-916. Pubmedid: 20590443.
Kang HG, Jenabi JM, Zhang J, Keshelava N, Shimada H, May WA, Ng T, Reynolds CP, Triche TJ, Sorensen PH. E-cadherin cell-cell adhesion in ewing tumor cells mediates suppression of anoikis through activation of the ErbB4 tyrosine kinase. Cancer Res. 2007 Apr.67(7):3094-3105. Pubmedid: 17409416. Pmcid: PMC3906735.
Hu-Lieskovan S, Zhang J, Wu L, Shimada H, Schofield DE, Triche TJ. EWS-FLI1 fusion protein up-regulates critical genes in neural crest development and is responsible for the observed phenotype of Ewing's family of tumors. Cancer Res. 2005 Jun.65(11):4633-4644. Pubmedid: 15930281.
Zhang J, Hu S, Schofield DE, Sorensen PH, Triche TJ. Selective usage of D-Type cyclins by Ewing's tumors and rhabdomyosarcomas. Cancer Res. 2004 Sep.64(17):6026-6034. Pubmedid: 15342383.
Tsao JL, Zhang J, Salovaara R, Li ZH, Järvinen HJ, Mecklin JP, Aaltonen LA, Shibata D. Tracing cell fates in human colorectal tumors from somatic microsatellite mutations: evidence of adenomas with stem cell architecture. Am J Pathol. 1998 Oct.153(4):1189-1200. Pubmedid: 9777950. Pmcid: PMC1853055.
Zhang J. Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor: an evolving paradigm in the treatment of prostate cancer. Asian J Androl. 16(3):401-406. Pubmedid: 24589464. Pmcid: PMC4023365.
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