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Theresa  Boyle

Theresa Boyle, MD, PhD

Program: Pathology

Research Program: Molecular Medicine Program

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  • Overview

    Dr. Boyle's clinical work focuses on interpretation of molecular results to guide patient therapy. She also acts as a consult for both physicians and patients to improve their understanding of molecular results.

    Associations

    • Pathology
    • Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis
    • Molecular Medicine Program
    • Lung Cancer Center of Excellence

    Education & Training

    Graduate:

    • University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, PhD - Human Medical Genetics

    Internship:

    • Georgetown University Hospital - Internship - Pediatrics

    Board Certification:

      Fellowship:

      • Stanford University, Palo Alto - Molecular Genetic Patholoy

      Residency:

      • University of Colorado at Denver - Clinical and Anatomic Pathology

      Medical School:

      • Howard University College of Medicine - MD
    • Research Interest

      Research Interests: To develop assays, such as the proximity ligation assay (PLA) to visualize cancer signaling pathway response to drug therapy. To investigate tumor biomarkers that predicts response to therapy, such as those that identify patients with tumors that will most likely to respond to immunotherapy. To develop resources, such as tumor microarrays (TMAs), to facilitate research and clinical assay development.

    • Publications

      • Furlan KC, Saeed-Vafa D, Mathew TM, Saller JJ, Tabbara SO, Boyle TA, Wenig BM, Hernandez-Prera JC. Utility of UV Signature Mutations in the Diagnostic Assessment of Metastatic Head and Neck Carcinomas of Unknown Primary. Head Neck Pathol. 2024 Feb.18(1):11. Pubmedid: 38393464. Pmcid: PMC10891032.
      • Saltos AN, Creelan BC, Tanvetyanon T, Chiappori AA, Antonia SJ, Shafique MR, Ugrenovic-Petrovic M, Sansil S, Neuger A, Ozakinci H, Boyle TA, Kim J, Haura EB, Gray JE. A phase I/IB trial of binimetinib in combination with erlotinib in NSCLC harboring activating KRAS or EGFR mutations. Lung Cancer. 2023 Sep.183:107313. Pubmedid: 37499521.
      • Putty Reddy S, Alontaga AY, Welsh EA, Haura EB, Boyle TA, Eschrich SA, Koomen JM. Deciphering Phenotypes from Protein Biomarkers for Translational Research with PIPER. J Proteome Res. 2023 Jun.22(6):2055-2066. Pubmedid: 37171072.
      • Lockhart JH, Ackerman HD, Lee K, Abdalah M, Davis AJ, Hackel N, Boyle TA, Saller J, Keske A, Hänggi K, Ruffell B, Stringfield O, Cress WD, Tan AC, Flores ER. Grading of lung adenocarcinomas with simultaneous segmentation by artificial intelligence (GLASS-AI). NPJ Precis Oncol. 2023 Jul.7(1):68. Pubmedid: 37464050. Pmcid: PMC10354042.
      • Knepper TC, Boyle TA, Hicks JK, Walko CM. Pharmacist-Driven Precision Medicine: A Ferry to Cross the Chasm of Interpreting Biomarker Testing Reports. JCO Oncol Pract. 2023 Aug.19(8):679-680. Pubmedid: 37335971.
      • Boyle TA, Bossler AD. RNA sequencing steps toward the first line. Cancer. 2023 Aug.129(15):2294-2296. Pubmedid: 37096746.
      • Zheng H, Yu X, Ibrahim ML, Foresman D, Xie M, Johnson JO, Boyle TA, Ruffell B, Perez BA, Antonia SJ, Ready N, Saltos AN, Cantwell MJ, Beg AA. Combination IFNβ and Membrane-Stable CD40L Maximize Tumor Dendritic Cell Activation and Lymph Node Trafficking to Elicit Systemic T-cell Immunity. Cancer Immunol Res. 2023 Apr.11(4):466-485. Pubmedid: 36757308. Pmcid: PMC10165690.
      • Saller JJ, Boyle TA. Molecular Pathology of Lung Cancer. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med. 2022 Mar.12(3). Pubmedid: 34751163. Pmcid: PMC8886739.
      • Chiappori AA, Creelan B, Tanvetyanon T, Gray JE, Haura EB, Thapa R, Barlow ML, Chen Z, Chen DT, Beg AA, Boyle TA, Castro J, Morgan L, Morris E, Aregay M, Hurtado FK, Manenti L, Antonia S. Phase I Study of Taminadenant (PBF509/NIR178), an Adenosine 2A Receptor Antagonist, with or without Spartalizumab (PDR001), in Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2022 Jun.28(11):2313-2320. Pubmedid: 35254415. Pmcid: PMC9167697.
      • Majumder A, Hosseinian S, Stroud M, Adhikari E, Saller JJ, Smith MA, Zhang G, Agarwal S, Creixell M, Meyer BS, Kinose F, Bowers K, Fang B, Stewart PA, Welsh EA, Boyle TA, Meyer AS, Koomen JM, Haura EB. Integrated Proteomics-Based Physical and Functional Mapping of AXL Kinase Signaling Pathways and Inhibitors Define Its Role in Cell Migration. Mol Cancer Res. 2022 Apr.20(4):542-555. Pubmedid: 35022314. Pmcid: PMC8983558.
      • Boyle TA, Mondal AK, Saeed-Vafa D, Ananth S, Ahluwalia P, Kothapalli R, Chaubey A, Roberts E, Qin D, Magliocco AM, Rojiani AM, Kolhe R. Guideline-Adherent Clinical Validation of a Comprehensive 170-Gene DNA/RNA Panel for Determination of Small Variants, Copy Number Variations, Splice Variants, and Fusions on a Next-Generation Sequencing Platform in the CLIA Setting. Front Genet. 2021 May.12:503830. Pubmedid: 34093633. Pmcid: PMC8172991.
      • Zaman S, Hajiran A, Coba GA, Robinson T, Madanayake TW, Segarra DT, Chobrutskiy BI, Boyle TA, Zhou JM, Kim Y, Mulé JJ, Teer JK, Manley BJ. Aberrant Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor RNA Splice Products Are Among the Most Frequent Somatic Alterations in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma and Are Associated with a Poor Response to Immunotherapy. Eur Urol Focus. 2021 Mar.7(2):373-380. Pubmedid: 31901438. Pmcid: PMC7771328.
      • Shields MD, Hicks JK, Boyle TA, Haura EB, Creelan BC. Selpercatinib Overcomes CCDC6-RET-Mediated Resistance to Osimertinib. J Thorac Oncol. 2021 Mar.16(3):e15-e17. Pubmedid: 33641722.
      • Bindal P, Gray JE, Boyle TA, Florou V, Puri S. Biomarkers of therapeutic response with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Ann Transl Med. 2021 Jun.9(12):1040. Pubmedid: 34277840. Pmcid: PMC8267267.
      • Fusco MJ, Saeed-Vafa D, Carballido EM, Boyle TA, Malafa M, Blue KL, Teer JK, Walko CM, McLeod HL, Hicks JK, Extermann M, Fleming JB, Knepper TC, Kim DW. Identification of Targetable Gene Fusions and Structural Rearrangements to Foster Precision Medicine in KRAS Wild-Type Pancreatic Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol. 2021 Jan.5. Pubmedid: 34250383. Pmcid: PMC8232071.
      • Perez BA, Kim S, Wang M, Karimi AM, Powell C, Li J, Dilling TJ, Chiappori A, Latifi K, Rose T, Lannon A, MacMillan G, Saller J, Grass GD, Rosenberg S, Gray J, Haura E, Creelan B, Tanvetyanon T, Saltos A, Shafique M, Boyle TA, Schell MJ, Conejo-Garcia JR, Antonia SJ. Prospective Single-Arm Phase 1 and 2 Study: Ipilimumab and Nivolumab With Thoracic Radiation Therapy After Platinum Chemotherapy in Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Feb.109(2):425-435. Pubmedid: 33002543. Pmcid: PMC8465780.
      • Tunali I, Tan Y, Gray JE, Katsoulakis E, Eschrich SA, Saller J, Aerts HJWL, Boyle T, Qi J, Guvenis A, Gillies RJ, Schabath MB. Hypoxia-Related Radiomics and Immunotherapy Response: A Multicohort Study of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2021 Aug.5(4). Pubmedid: 34409252. Pmcid: PMC8363765.
      • Sahebjam S, Forsyth PA, Tran ND, Arrington JA, Macaulay R, Etame AB, Walko CM, Boyle T, Peguero EN, Jaglal M, Mokhtari S, Enderling H, Raghunand N, Gatewood T, Long W, Dzierzeski JL, Evernden B, Robinson T, Wicklund MC, Kim S, Thompson ZJ, Chen DT, Chinnaiyan P, Yu HM. Hypofractionated stereotactic re-irradiation with pembrolizumab and bevacizumab in patients with recurrent high-grade gliomas: results from a phase I study. Neurooncol. 2021 Apr.23(4):677-686. Pubmedid: 33173935. Pmcid: PMC8041351.
      • Stewart PA, Welsh EA, Fang B, Izumi V, Mesa T, Zhang C, Yoder S, Zhang G, Cen L, Pettersson F, Zhang Y, Chen Z, Cheng CH, Thapa R, Thompson Z, Avedon M, Wloch M, Fournier M, Fellows KM, Francis JM, Saller JJ, Boyle TA, Chen YA, Haura EB, Teer JK, Eschrich SA, Koomen JM. Managing a Large-Scale Multiomics Project: A Team Science Case Study in Proteogenomics. Methods Mol Biol. 2020 Sep.2194:187-221. Pubmedid: 32926368. Pmcid: PMC7771375.
      • Haura EB, Hicks JK, Boyle TA. Erdafitinib Overcomes FGFR3-TACC3-Mediated Resistance to Osimertinib. J Thorac Oncol. 2020 Sep.15(9):e154-e156. Pubmedid: 32854916.
      • Boyle TA, Khalil FK, Mino-Kenudson M, Sica GL, Moreira AL, Sholl LM, Knight MZ, Zhang L, Saller J, Varella-Garcia M, Berry LD, Chen H, Ellison KE, Rivard CJ, Kugler K, Wistuba II, Fujimoto J, Kwiatkowski DJ, Bunn PA, Kris MG, Haura EB, Hirsch FR. Round Robin Evaluation of MET Protein Expression in Lung Adenocarcinomas Improves Interobserver Concordance. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol. 2020 Oct.28(9):669-677. Pubmedid: 31876606. Pmcid: PMC7242128.
      • Ward NP, Kang YP, Falzone A, Boyle TA, DeNicola GM. Nicotinamide nucleotide transhydrogenase regulates mitochondrial metabolism in NSCLC through maintenance of Fe-S protein function. J Exp Med. 2020 Jun.217(6). Pubmedid: 32196080. Pmcid: PMC7971138.
      • Boyle TA, Quinn GP, Schabath MB, Muñoz-Antonia T, Saller JJ, Duarte LF, Hair LS, Teer JK, Chiang DY, Leary R, Wong CC, Savchenko A, Singh AP, Charette L, Mendell K, Gorgun G, Antonia SJ, Chiappori AA, Creelan BC, Gray JE, Haura EB. A community-based lung cancer rapid tissue donation protocol provides high-quality drug-resistant specimens for proteogenomic analyses. Cancer Med. 2020 Jan.9(1):225-237. Pubmedid: 31747139. Pmcid: PMC6943158.
      • Guo R, Berry LD, Aisner DL, Sheren J, Boyle T, Bunn PA, Johnson BE, Kwiatkowski DJ, Drilon A, Sholl LM, Kris MG. MET IHC Is a Poor Screen for MET Amplification or MET Exon 14 Mutations in Lung Adenocarcinomas: Data from a Tri-Institutional Cohort of the Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium. J Thorac Oncol. 2019 Sep.14(9):1666-1671. Pubmedid: 31228623. Pmcid: PMC6708730.
      • Gray JE, Saltos AN, Tanvetyanon T, Haura EB, Creelan BC, Antonia SJ, Shafique M, Zheng H, Dai W, Saller JJ, Chen Z, Tchekmedyian N, Goas K, Thapa R, Boyle TA, Chen DT, Beg AA. Phase I/Ib Study of Pembrolizumab Plus Vorinostat in Advanced/Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Nov.25(22):6623-6632. Pubmedid: 31409616. Pmcid: PMC7234799.
      • Ng TL, Yu H, Smith DE, Boyle TA, York ER, Leedy S, Gao D, Aisner DL, Van Bokhoven A, Heasley LE, Hirsch FR, Camidge DR. Preselection of Lung Cancer Cases Using FGFR1 mRNA and Gene Copy Number for Treatment With Ponatinib. Clin Lung Cancer. 2019 Jan.20(1):e39-e51. Pubmedid: 30297175. Pmcid: PMC6339510.
      • Stewart PA, Welsh EA, Slebos RJC, Fang B, Izumi V, Chambers M, Zhang G, Cen L, Pettersson F, Zhang Y, Chen Z, Cheng CH, Thapa R, Thompson Z, Fellows KM, Francis JM, Saller JJ, Mesa T, Zhang C, Yoder S, DeNicola GM, Beg AA, Boyle TA, Teer JK, Ann Chen Y, Koomen JM, Eschrich SA, Haura EB. Proteogenomic landscape of squamous cell lung cancer. Nat Commun. 2019 Aug.10(1):3578. Pubmedid: 31395880. Pmcid: PMC6687710.
      • Kellish P, Shabashvili D, Rahman MM, Nawab A, Guijarro MV, Zhang M, Cao C, Moussatche N, Boyle T, Antonia S, Reinhard M, Hartzell C, Jantz M, Mehta HJ, McFadden G, Kaye FJ, Zajac-Kaye M. Oncolytic virotherapy for small-cell lung cancer induces immune infiltration and prolongs survival. J Clin Invest. 2019 Apr.129(6):2279-2292. Pubmedid: 31033480. Pmcid: PMC6546459.
      • Farago AF, Taylor MS, Doebele RC, Zhu VW, Kummar S, Spira AI, Boyle TA, Haura EB, Arcila ME, Benayed R, Aisner DL, Horick NK, Lennerz JK, Le LP, Iafrate AJ, Ou SI, Shaw AT, Mino-Kenudson M, Drilon A. Clinicopathologic Features of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Harboring an NTRK Gene Fusion. JCO Precis Oncol. 2018 Sep.2018. Pubmedid: 30215037. Pmcid: PMC6132056.
      • Nichols D, Boyle TA, Noyes D, Latifi K, Feygelman V, Jackson I, Vujaskovic Z, Antonia S, Perez BA. Evaluation of combined anti-PD-1 immunotherapy and radiation therapy in a preclinical mouse model of pneumonitis and fibrosis. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Nov.10(11):6254-6260. Pubmedid: 30622798. Pmcid: PMC6297393.
      • Pérez-Morales J, Mejías-Morales D, Rivera-Rivera S, González-Flores J, González-Loperena M, Cordero-Báez FY, Pedreira-García WM, Chardón-Colón C, Cabán-Rivera J, Cress WD, Gordian ER, Muñoz-Antonia T, Cabrera-Ríos M, Isidro A, Coppola D, Rosa M, Boyle TA, Izumi V, Koomen JM, Santiago-Cardona PG. Hyper-phosphorylation of Rb S249 together with CDK5R2/p39 overexpression are associated with impaired cell adhesion and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition: Implications as a potential lung cancer grading and staging biomarker. PLoS One. 2018 Nov.13(11):e0207483. Pubmedid: 30452490. Pmcid: PMC6242691.
      • Gray JE, Chiappori A, Williams CC, Tanvetyanon T, Haura EB, Creelan BC, Kim J, Boyle TA, Pinder-Schenck M, Khalil F, Altiok S, Devane R, Noyes D, Mediavilla-Varela M, Smilee R, Hopewell EL, Kelley L, Antonia SJ. A phase I/randomized phase II study of GM.CD40L vaccine in combination with CCL21 in patients with advanced lung adenocarcinoma. Cancer Immunol Immun. 2018 Dec.67(12):1853-1862. Pubmedid: 30209589. Pmcid: PMC6244998.
      • Le X, Puri S, Negrao MV, Nilsson M, Robichaux JP, Boyle TA, Hicks JK, Lovinger K, Roarty EB, Rinsurongkawong W, Tang M, Sun H, Elamin YY, Lacerda L, Lewis J, Lee JJ, Roth JA, Swisher SG, Zhang J, William WN, Glisson BS, Papadimitrakopoulou VA, Gray JE, Heymach JV. Landscape of EGFR-Dependent and -Independent Resistance Mechanisms to Osimertinib and Continuation Therapy Beyond Progression in EGFR-Mutant NSCLC. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Dec.24(24):6195-6203. Pubmedid: 30228210. Pmcid: PMC6295279.
      • Hicks JK, Boyle T, Albacker LA, Madison R, Frampton G, Creelan BC. Clinical Activity of Crizotinib in Lung Adenocarcinoma Harboring a Rare ZCCHC8-ROS1 Fusion. J Thorac Oncol. 2018 Aug.13(8):e148-e150. Pubmedid: 30049378.
      • Quinn G, Pentz RD, Muñoz-Antonia T, Boyle TA, Schabath MB, Pratt C, Shaffer A, Duarte L, Bowman-Curci M, Antonia S, Chiappori A, Creelan B, Gray JE, Williams C, Haura E. Patient, caregiver and physician perspectives on participating in a thoracic rapid tissue donation program. Patient Educ Couns. 2018 Apr.101(4):703-710. Pubmedid: 29195718. Pmcid: PMC5878993.
      • Hicks JK, Saller J, Wang E, Boyle T, Gray JE. Cell-free circulating tumor DNA supplementing tissue biopsies for identification of targetable mutations: Implications for precision medicine and considerations for reconciling results. Lung Cancer. 2017 Sep.111:135-138. Pubmedid: 28838384.
      • Smith MA, Licata T, Lakhani A, Varella-Garcia M, Schildhaus HU, Vuaroqueaux V, Halmos B, Borczuk A, Chen YA, Creelan BC, Boyle TA, Haura EB. MET-GRB2 Signaling-Associated Complexes Correlate with Oncogenic MET Signaling and Sensitivity to MET Kinase Inhibitors. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Nov.23(22):7084-7096. Pubmedid: 28855353. Pmcid: PMC5833309.
      • Yu H, Batenchuk C, Badzio A, Boyle TA, Czapiewski P, Chan DC, Lu X, Gao D, Ellison K, Kowalewski AA, Rivard CJ, Dziadziuszko R, Zhou C, Hussein M, Richards D, Wilks S, Monte M, Edenfield W, Goldschmidt J, Page R, Ulrich B, Waterhouse D, Close S, Jassem J, Kulig K, Hirsch FR. PD-L1 Expression by Two Complementary Diagnostic Assays and mRNA In Situ Hybridization in Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2017 Jan.12(1):110-120. Pubmedid: 27639678. Pmcid: PMC5353355.
      • Kuenzi BM, Remsing Rix LL, Stewart PA, Fang B, Kinose F, Bryant AT, Boyle TA, Koomen JM, Haura EB, Rix U. Polypharmacology-based ceritinib repurposing using integrated functional proteomics. Nat Chem Biol. 2017 Dec.13(12):1222-1231. Pubmedid: 28991240. Pmcid: PMC5909815.
      • Yu H, Boyle TA, Zhou C, Rimm D, Hirsch FR. PD-L1 Expression in Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2016 Jul.11(7):964-975. Pubmedid: 27117833. Pmcid: PMC5353357.
      • Bishop AC, Boyle TA. The Role of Safety Culture in Influencing Provider Perceptions of Patient Safety. J Patient Saf. 2016 Dec.12(4):204-209. Pubmedid: 24618647.
      • Tanvetyanon T, Boyle TA. Clinical implications of genetic heterogeneity in multifocal pulmonary adenocarcinomas. J Thorac Dis. 2016 Dec.8(12):E1734-E1738. Pubmedid: 28149626. Pmcid: PMC5227290.
      • Boyle TA, Masago K, Ellison KE, Yatabe Y, Hirsch FR. ROS1 immunohistochemistry among major genotypes of non-small-cell lung cancer. Clin Lung Cancer. 2015 Mar.16(2):106-111. Pubmedid: 25467930. Pmcid: PMC4770803.
      • Pekar-Zlotin M, Hirsch FR, Soussan-Gutman L, Ilouze M, Dvir A, Boyle T, Wynes M, Miller VA, Lipson D, Palmer GA, Ali SM, Dekel S, Brenner R, Bunn PA, Peled N. Fluorescence in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, and next-generation sequencing for detection of EML4-ALK rearrangement in lung cancer. Oncologist. 2015 Mar.20(3):316-322. Pubmedid: 25721120. Pmcid: PMC4350802.
      • Zhang L, Yu H, Badzio A, Boyle TA, Schildhaus HU, Lu X, Dziadziuszko R, Jassem J, Varella-Garcia M, Heasley LE, Kowalewski AA, Ellison K, Chen G, Zhou C, Hirsch FR. Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 and Related Ligands in Small-Cell Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2015 Jul.10(7):1083-1090. Pubmedid: 26020126. Pmcid: PMC4467588.
      • Bishop AC, Baker GR, Boyle TA, MacKinnon NJ. Using the Health Belief Model to explain patient involvement in patient safety. Health Expect. 2015 Dec.18(6):3019-3033. Pubmedid: 25303173. Pmcid: PMC5810747.
      • Ren S, Hirsch FR, Varella-Garcia M, Aisner DL, Boyle T, Zhou C, Camidge DR. Atypical negative ALK break-apart FISH harboring a crizotinib-responsive ALK rearrangement in non-small-cell lung cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2014 Mar.9(3):e21-e23. Pubmedid: 24518095. Pmcid: PMC4117236.
      • Aherne CM, Collins CB, Masterson JC, Tizzano M, Boyle TA, Westrich JA, Parnes JA, Furuta GT, Rivera-Nieves J, Eltzschig HK. Neuronal guidance molecule netrin-1 attenuates inflammatory cell trafficking during acute experimental colitis. Gut. 2012 May.61(5):695-705. Pubmedid: 21813473. Pmcid: PMC3322588.
      • Baschal EE, Jasinski JM, Boyle TA, Fain PR, Eisenbarth GS, Siebert JC. Congruence as a measurement of extended haplotype structure across the genome. J Transl Med. 2012 Feb.10:32. Pubmedid: 22369243. Pmcid: PMC3310717.
      • Baschal EE, Sarkar SA, Boyle TA, Siebert JC, Jasinski JM, Grabek KR, Armstrong TK, Babu SR, Fain PR, Steck AK, Rewers MJ, Eisenbarth GS. Replication and further characterization of a Type 1 diabetes-associated locus at the telomeric end of the major histocompatibility complex. J Diabetes. 2011 Sep.3(3):238-247. Pubmedid: 21631897. Pmcid: PMC3610173.
      • Symonds JM, Ohm AM, Carter CJ, Heasley LE, Boyle TA, Franklin WA, Reyland ME. Protein kinase C δ is a downstream effector of oncogenic K-ras in lung tumors. Cancer Res. 2011 Mar.71(6):2087-2097. Pubmedid: 21335545. Pmcid: PMC3271733.

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