Jennifer Diamond, MD

Associate Professor, Medicine-Medical Oncology


FacultyPhoto
Medical School
  • MD, University of Arizona College of Medicine (2004)
Undergraduate School
  • BA, University of Arizona (AZ) (2000)
Internship
  • University of Colorado (University Hospital) Program (2005)
Residency
  • University of Colorado (University Hospital) Program, Internal Medicine (2007)
Fellowships
  • University of Colorado (University Hospital) Program, Hematology and Oncology (2010)
Languages
English
Department
Medicine-Medical Oncology

Research Interests

My research interests are in the new development of targeted agents for the treatment of breast cancer with innovative biomarker selection strategies.

Publications

  • Kounalakis N, Diamond J, Rusthoven K, Horn W, Jindal S, Wisell J, Klein C, Elias A, Finlayson C, Borges VF. A young women presenting with pleomorphic lobular carcinoma in situ on core biopsy is subsequently diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma. Oncology 2011: 25;351-356.
  • Harry BL, Smith ML, Burton JR, Dasari A, Eckhardt SG, Diamond JR. Medullary thyroid cancer and pseudocirrhosis: case report and literature review. Current Oncology 2012 in press
  • Diamond JR, Bastos BR, Hansen RJ, Gustafson DL, Eckhardt SG, Kwak E, Pandya SS, Fletcher GC, Pitts TM, Kulikowski GN, Morrow M, Arnott J, Bray MR, Sidor CF, Messersmith WA, Shapiro GI. Phase I safety, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic study of ENMD-2076, a novel angiogenic and aurora kinase inhibitor, in patients with advanced solid tumors. Clin Cancer Res 2011:17;849-860.
  • Diamond JR, Eckhardt SG, Tan AC, Selby HM, Newton TP, Pitts TM, Bray MR, Fletcher GC, Tentler JJ. In vitro and in vivo antitumor activity of the Aurora and angiogenic kinase inhibitor ENMD-2076 in triple-negative breast cancer models. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) poster presentation. 2011, San Antonio, TX.
  • Predictive biomarkers of sensitivity to the aurora and angiogenic kinase inhibitor ENMD-2076 in preclinical breast cancer models. Diamond JR, Eckhardt SG, Tan AC, Newton TP, Selby HM, Brunkow KL, Kachaeva MI, Varella-Garcia M, Pitts TM, Bray MR, Fletcher GC, Tentler JJ. Clin Cancer Res. 2013 Jan 1;19(1):291-303. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-12-1611. Epub 2012 Nov 7. PMID:23136197[PubMed - in process]
  • TAT abstract - presented 3/2013 - publication pending
  • accepted JCO - publication pending. Diamond et al. Cmet in papillary renal cell carcinoma
  • A pharmacokinetic and dose escalating study of paclitaxel injection concentrate for Nano-Dispersion (PICN) alone and with carboplatin in advanced solid tumor patients Authors:Wen Wee Ma1, Elaine Lam2, Grace K. Dy1, Jennifer Diamond2, Yujie Zhao1, Lynne Bui3, Gerald Fetterly1, W Abramowitz3, Ronald Harning3, Pepi Pencheva4, Shravanti Bhowmik3, Ganesh Divekar3, Ann Marie DiRaddo1,S. Gail Eckhardt2, Alex A. Adjei1, Antonio Jimeno2
  • Lieu CH, Tan AC, Leong S, Diamond JR, Eckhardt SG. From bench to bedside: lessons learned in translating preclinical studies in cancer drug development. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2013 Oct 2;105(19):1441-56. PubMed PMID: 24052618
  • A phase I first-in-human study of REGN421 (R)/SAR153192, a fully-human Delta-like Ligand 4 (Dll4) monoclonal antibody, in patients with advanced solid tumors A. Jimeno 1, P. LoRusso2, A. Younger3, J. Diamond1, L. Plato2, R. M. Stroher3, W. A. Messersmith1, D.B. Sawyer4, L. Adriaens5, L. Liu5, R. Kao5, A.T. DiCioccio5, C. Brownstein5, I. Lowy5, P Trail5, and E.G. Chiorean3
  • Paragazole in TNBC - AACR abstract - citation pending
  • p53 based biomarker in TNBC
  • Kim Y, Guntupalli SR, Lee SJ, Behbakht K, Theodorescu D, Lee JK, Diamond JR. Retrospective analysis of survival improvement by molecular biomarker-based personalized chemotherapy for recurrent ovarian cancer. PLoS One. 2014;9(2):e86532. PubMed PMID: 24505259
  • Carlson JA, Nooruddin Z, Rusthoven C, Elias A, Borges VF, Diamond JR, Kavanagh B, Kabos P. Trastuzumab emtansine and stereotactic radiosurgery: an unexpected increase in clinically significant brain edema. Neuro Oncol. 2014 Feb 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24497407
  • Bowles DW, Diamond JR, Lam ET, Weekes CD, Astling DP, Anderson RT, Leong S, Gore L, Varella-Garcia M, Vogler BW, Keysar SB, Freas E, Aisner DL, Ren C, Tan AC, Wilhelm F, Maniar M, Eckhardt SG, Messersmith WA, Jimeno A. Phase 1 study of oral rigosertib (ON 01910.Na), a dual inhibitor of the PI3K and Plk1 pathways, in adult patients with advanced solid malignancies. Clin Cancer Res. 2014 Feb 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24493827
  • Diamond JR, Salgia R, Varella-Garcia M, Kanteti R, LoRusso PM, Clark JW, Xu LG, Wilner K, Eckhardt SG, Ching KA, Lira ME, Schoenmakers EF, Christensen JG, Camidge DR. Initial clinical sensitivity and acquired resistance to MET inhibition in MET-mutated papillary renal cell carcinoma. J Clin Oncol. 2013 Jun 1;31(16):e254-8. PubMed PMID: 23610116
  • Diamond JR, Eckhardt SG, Tan AC, Newton TP, Selby HM, Brunkow KL, Kachaeva MI, Varella-Garcia M, Pitts TM, Bray MR, Fletcher GC, Tentler JJ. Predictive biomarkers of sensitivity to the aurora and angiogenic kinase inhibitor ENMD-2076 in preclinical breast cancer models. Clin Cancer Res. 2013 Jan 1;19(1):291-303. PubMed PMID: 23136197
  • 4. Diamond JR, Elias AD. The development of targeted therapies for triple-negative breast cancer: Can we harness tumor heterogeneity to improve patient outcomes. Breast Cancer Management 2013: 2;175-178.
  • 6. Davis SL, Eckhardt SG, Tentler JJ, Diamond JR. Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Bridging the Gap from Cancer Genomics to Predictive Biomarkers. Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology 2014, accepted, in press.
  • 7. Fisher C, Diamond JR, Kounalakis N, Kabos P, Mayordomo J, Rabinovitch R, Murphy C, Finlayson C, Borges VF, Elias AD. The integration of locoregional with systemic adjuvant therapy for early stage breast cancer: the shifting sands of decision making. Breast Cancer Management 2014, accepted, in press
  • Davis SL, Eckhardt SG, Tentler JJ, Diamond JR. Triple-negative breast cancer: bridging the gap from cancer genomics to predictive biomarkers. Ther Adv Med Oncol. 2014 May;6(3):88-100. PubMed PMID: 24790649
  • Kim Y, Guntupalli SR, Lee SJ, Behbakht K, Theodorescu D, Lee JK, Diamond JR. Retrospective analysis of survival improvement by molecular biomarker-based personalized chemotherapy for recurrent ovarian cancer. PLoS One. 2014;9(2):e86532. PubMed PMID: 24505259
  • Carlson JA, Nooruddin Z, Rusthoven C, Elias A, Borges VF, Diamond JR, Kavanagh B, Kabos P. Trastuzumab emtansine and stereotactic radiosurgery: an unexpected increase in clinically significant brain edema. Neuro Oncol. 2014 Jul;16(7):1006-9. PubMed PMID: 24497407
  • Bowles DW, Diamond JR, Lam ET, Weekes CD, Astling DP, Anderson RT, Leong S, Gore L, Varella-Garcia M, Vogler BW, Keysar SB, Freas E, Aisner DL, Ren C, Tan AC, Wilhelm F, Maniar M, Eckhardt SG, Messersmith WA, Jimeno A. Phase I study of oral rigosertib (ON 01910.Na), a dual inhibitor of the PI3K and Plk1 pathways, in adult patients with advanced solid malignancies. Clin Cancer Res. 2014 Mar 15;20(6):1656-65. PubMed PMID: 24493827
  • Weekes CD, Lamberts LE, Borad MJ, Voortman J, McWilliams RR, Diamond JR, de Vries EG, Verheul HM, Lieu CH, Kim GP, Wang Y, Scales SJ, Samineni D, Brunstein F, Choi Y, Maslyar DJ, Colon-Otero G. Phase I Study of DMOT4039A, an Antibody-Drug Conjugate Targeting Mesothelin, in Patients with Unresectable Pancreatic or Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer. Mol Cancer Ther. 2016 Jan 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26823490
  • Ryall KA, Kim J, Klauck PJ, Shin J, Yoo M, Ionkina A, Pitts TM, Tentler JJ, Diamond JR, Eckhardt S, Heasley LE, Kang J, Tan AC. An integrated bioinformatics analysis to dissect kinase dependency in triple negative breast cancer. BMC Genomics. 2015 Dec 9;16 Suppl 12:S2. PubMed PMID: 26681397
  • Jimeno A, Sharma MR, Szyldergemajn S, Gore L, Geary D, Diamond JR, Fernandez Teruel C, Soto Matos-Pita A, Iglesias JL, Cullell-Young M, Ratain MJ. Phase I study of lurbinectedin, a synthetic tetrahydroisoquinoline that inhibits activated transcription, induces DNA single- and double-strand breaks, on a weekly × 2 every-3-week schedule. Invest New Drugs. 2017 Jan 20. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28105566
  • Pitts TM, Bradshaw-Pierce EL, Bagby SM, Hyatt SL, Selby HM, Spreafico A, Tentler JJ, McPhillips K, Klauck PJ, Capasso A, Diamond JR, Davis SL, Tan AC, Arcaroli JJ, Purkey A, Messersmith WA, Ecsedy JA, Eckhardt SG. Antitumor activity of the aurora a selective kinase inhibitor, alisertib, against preclinical models of colorectal cancer. Oncotarget. 2016 Aug 2;7(31):50290-50301. PubMed PMID: 27385211
  • Owsley J, Jimeno A, Diamond JR. Palbociclib:CDK4/6 inhibition in the treatment of ER-positive breast cancer. Drugs Today (Barc). 2016 Feb;52(2):119-29. PubMed PMID: 27092341
  • Diamond JR, Wu B, Agarwal N, Bowles DW, Lam ET, Werner TL, Rasmussen E, Gamelin E, Soto F, Friberg G, Sun YN, Sharma S. Pharmacokinetic drug-drug interaction study of the angiopoietin-1/angiopoietin-2-inhibiting peptibody trebananib (AMG 386) and paclitaxel in patients with advanced solid tumors. Invest New Drugs. 2015 Jun;33(3):691-9. PubMed PMID: 25895965
  • Weekes CD, Lamberts LE, Borad MJ, Voortman J, McWilliams RR, Diamond JR, de Vries EG, Verheul HM, Lieu CH, Kim GP, Wang Y, Scales SJ, Samineni D, Brunstein F, Choi Y, Maslyar DJ, Colon-Otero G. Phase I Study of DMOT4039A, an Antibody-Drug Conjugate Targeting Mesothelin, in Patients with Unresectable Pancreatic or Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer. Mol Cancer Ther. 2016 Mar;15(3):439-47. PubMed PMID: 26823490
  • Tentler JJ, Ionkina AA, Tan AC, Newton TP, Pitts TM, Glogowska MJ, Kabos P, Sartorius CA, Sullivan KD, Espinosa JM, Eckhardt SG, Diamond JR. p53 Family Members Regulate Phenotypic Response to Aurora Kinase A Inhibition in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Mol Cancer Ther. 2015 May;14(5):1117-29. PubMed PMID: 25758253
  • Overholser L, Shagisultanova E, Rabinovitch RA, Kounalakis N, Diamond J, Finlayson CA, Fisher CM, Kabos P, Elias AD, Borges VF, Mayordomo J. Breast Cancer Following Radiation for Hodgkin Lymphoma: Clinical Scenarios and Risk-Reducing Strategies. Oncology (Williston Park). 2016 Dec 15;30(12). PubMed PMID: 27987198
  • Chiorean EG, LoRusso P, Strother RM, Diamond JR, Younger A, Messersmith WA, Adriaens L, Liu L, Kao RJ, DiCioccio AT, Kostic A, Leek R, Harris A, Jimeno A. A Phase I First-in-Human Study of Enoticumab (REGN421), a Fully Human Delta-like Ligand 4 (Dll4) Monoclonal Antibody in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors. Clin Cancer Res. 2015 Jun 15;21(12):2695-703. PubMed PMID: 25724527
  • Park JW, Liu MC, Yee D, Yau C, van 't Veer LJ, Symmans WF, Paoloni M, Perlmutter J, Hylton NM, Hogarth M, DeMichele A, Buxton MB, Chien AJ, Wallace AM, Boughey JC, Haddad TC, Chui SY, Kemmer KA, Kaplan HG, Isaacs C, Nanda R, Tripathy D, Albain KS, Edmiston KK, Elias AD, Northfelt DW, Pusztai L, Moulder SL, Lang JE, Viscusi RK, Euhus DM, Haley BB, Khan QJ, Wood WC, Melisko M, Schwab R, Helsten T, Lyandres J, Davis SE, Hirst GL, Sanil A, Esserman LJ, Berry DA. Adaptive Randomization of Neratinib in Early Breast Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2016 Jul 7;375(1):11-22. PubMed PMID: 27406346
  • Rugo HS, Olopade OI, DeMichele A, Yau C, van 't Veer LJ, Buxton MB, Hogarth M, Hylton NM, Paoloni M, Perlmutter J, Symmans WF, Yee D, Chien AJ, Wallace AM, Kaplan HG, Boughey JC, Haddad TC, Albain KS, Liu MC, Isaacs C, Khan QJ, Lang JE, Viscusi RK, Pusztai L, Moulder SL, Chui SY, Kemmer KA, Elias AD, Edmiston KK, Euhus DM, Haley BB, Nanda R, Northfelt DW, Tripathy D, Wood WC, Ewing C, Schwab R, Lyandres J, Davis SE, Hirst GL, Sanil A, Berry DA, Esserman LJ. Adaptive Randomization of Veliparib-Carboplatin Treatment in Breast Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2016 Jul 7;375(1):23-34. PubMed PMID: 27406347
  • Ionkina AA, Tentler JJ, Kim J, Capasso A, Pitts TM, Ryall KA, Howison RR, Kabos P, Sartorius CA, Tan AC, Eckhardt SG, Diamond JR. Efficacy and Molecular Mechanisms of Differentiated Response to the Aurora and Angiogenic Kinase Inhibitor ENMD-2076 in Preclinical Models of p53-Mutated Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Front Oncol. 2017;7:94. PubMed PMID: 28555173
  • Bardia A, Mayer IA, Diamond JR, Moroose RL, Isakoff SJ, Starodub AN, Shah NC, O'Shaughnessy J, Kalinsky K, Guarino M, Abramson V, Juric D, Tolaney SM, Berlin J, Messersmith WA, Ocean AJ, Wegener WA, Maliakal P, Sharkey RM, Govindan SV, Goldenberg DM, Vahdat LT. Efficacy and Safety of Anti-Trop-2 Antibody Drug Conjugate Sacituzumab Govitecan (IMMU-132) in Heavily Pretreated Patients With Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2017 Jul 1;35(19):2141-2148. PubMed PMID: 28291390
  • Diamond JR, Goff B, Forster MD, Bendell JC, Britten CD, Gordon MS, Gabra H, Waterhouse DM, Poole M, Ross Camidge D, Hamilton E, Moore KM. Phase Ib study of the mitochondrial inhibitor ME-344 plus topotecan in patients with previously treated, locally advanced or metastatic small cell lung, ovarian and cervical cancers. Invest New Drugs. 2017 Oct;35(5):627-633. PubMed PMID: 28283779
  • Jimeno A, Sharma MR, Szyldergemajn S, Gore L, Geary D, Diamond JR, Fernandez Teruel C, Soto Matos-Pita A, Iglesias JL, Cullell-Young M, Ratain MJ. Phase I study of lurbinectedin, a synthetic tetrahydroisoquinoline that inhibits activated transcription, induces DNA single- and double-strand breaks, on a weekly × 2 every-3-week schedule. Invest New Drugs. 2017 Aug;35(4):471-477. PubMed PMID: 28105566
  • Adams S, Diamond JR, Hamilton E, Pohlmann PR, Tolaney SM, Chang CW, Zhang W, Iizuka K, Foster PG, Molinero L, Funke R, Powderly J. Atezolizumab Plus nab-Paclitaxel in the Treatment of Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer With 2-Year Survival Follow-up: A Phase 1b Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2018 Oct 19. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30347025
  • Weiss J, Afghahi A, Shagisultanova E, Diamond JR. Approaching Use of CDK4/6 Inhibitors in Metastatic HR , HER2- Breast Cancer. Oncology (Williston Park). 2018 Oct 15;32(10):513-5. PubMed PMID: 30334242
  • Jimeno A, Moore KN, Gordon M, Chugh R, Diamond JR, Aljumaily R, Mendelson D, Kapoun AM, Xu L, Stagg R, Smith DC. A first-in-human phase 1a study of the bispecific anti-DLL4/anti-VEGF antibody navicixizumab (OMP-305B83) in patients with previously treated solid tumors. Invest New Drugs. 2018 Sep 19. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30229512
  • Davis SL, Eckhardt SG, Diamond JR, Messersmith WA, Dasari A, Weekes CD, Lieu CH, Kane M, Choon Tan A, Pitts TM, Leong S. A Phase I Dose-Escalation Study of Linsitinib (OSI-906), a Small-Molecule Dual Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Receptor/Insulin Receptor Kinase Inhibitor, in Combination with Irinotecan in Patients with Advanced Cancer. Oncologist. 2018 Aug 23. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30139840
  • Diamond JR, Eckhardt SG, Pitts TM, van Bokhoven A, Aisner D, Gustafson DL, Capasso A, Sams S, Kabos P, Zolman K, Colvin T, Elias AD, Storniolo AM, Schneider BP, Gao D, Tentler JJ, Borges VF, Miller KD. A phase II clinical trial of the Aurora and angiogenic kinase inhibitor ENMD-2076 for previously treated, advanced, or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res. 2018 Aug 2;20(1):82. PubMed PMID: 30071865
  • Capasso A, Pitts TM, Klauck PJ, Bagby SM, Westbrook L, Kaplan J, Soleimani M, Spreafico A, Tentler JJ, Diamond JR, Arcaroli JJ, Messersmith WA, Eckhardt SG, Leong S. Dual compartmental targeting of cell cycle and angiogenic kinases in colorectal cancer models. Anticancer Drugs. 2018 Oct;29(9):827-838. PubMed PMID: 30048249
  • Stoen E, Kabos P, Borden KC, Brown RJ, Borges VF, Diamond JR. A 35-Year-Old Woman With a Change in HER2 Expression Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Invasive Breast Cancer. Oncology (Williston Park). 2018 Jun;32(6):298-302. PubMed PMID: 29940061
  • Capasso A, Bagby SM, Dailey KL, Currimjee N, Yacob BW, Ionkina A, Frank JG, Kim DJ, George C, Lee YB, Benaim E, Gittleman B, Hartman SJ, Tan AC, Kim J, Pitts TM, Eckhardt SG, Tentler JJ, Diamond JR. First-in-Class Phosphorylated-p68 Inhibitor RX-5902 Inhibits ß-Catenin Signaling and Demonstrates Antitumor Activity in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Mol Cancer Ther. 2019 Nov;18(11):1916-1925. PubMed PMID: 31488700
  • Weiss J, Glode A, Messersmith WA, Diamond J. Sacituzumab govitecan: breakthrough targeted therapy for triple-negative breast cancer. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2019 Aug;19(8):673-679. PubMed PMID: 31398063
  • Stumpf PK, Cittelly DM, Robin TP, Carlson JA, Stuhr KA, Contreras-Zarate MJ, Lai S, Ormond DR, Rusthoven CG, Gaspar LE, Rabinovitch R, Kavanagh BD, Liu A, Diamond JR, Kabos P, Fisher CM. Combination of Trastuzumab Emtansine and Stereotactic Radiosurgery Results in High Rates of Clinically Significant Radionecrosis and Dysregulation of Aquaporin-4. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Jul 1;25(13):3946-3953. PubMed PMID: 30940654
  • Bardia A, Mayer IA, Vahdat LT, Tolaney SM, Isakoff SJ, Diamond JR, O'Shaughnessy J, Moroose RL, Santin AD, Abramson VG, Shah NC, Rugo HS, Goldenberg DM, Sweidan AM, Iannone R, Washkowitz S, Sharkey RM, Wegener WA, Kalinsky K. Sacituzumab Govitecan-hziy in Refractory Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2019 Feb 21;380(8):741-751. PubMed PMID: 30786188
  • Capasso A, Lang J, Pitts TM, Jordan KR, Lieu CH, Davis SL, Diamond JR, Kopetz S, Barbee J, Peterson J, Freed BM, Yacob BW, Bagby SM, Messersmith WA, Slansky JE, Pelanda R, Eckhardt SG. Characterization of immune responses to anti-PD-1 mono and combination immunotherapy in hematopoietic humanized mice implanted with tumor xenografts. J Immunother Cancer. 2019 Feb 8;7(1):37. PubMed PMID: 30736857
  • Adams S, Diamond JR, Hamilton E, Pohlmann PR, Tolaney SM, Chang CW, Zhang W, Iizuka K, Foster PG, Molinero L, Funke R, Powderly J. Atezolizumab Plus nab-Paclitaxel in the Treatment of Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer With 2-Year Survival Follow-up: A Phase 1b Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2019 Mar 1;5(3):334-342. PubMed PMID: 30347025
  • Jimeno A, Moore KN, Gordon M, Chugh R, Diamond JR, Aljumaily R, Mendelson D, Kapoun AM, Xu L, Stagg R, Smith DC. A first-in-human phase 1a study of the bispecific anti-DLL4/anti-VEGF antibody navicixizumab (OMP-305B83) in patients with previously treated solid tumors. Invest New Drugs. 2019 Jun;37(3):461-472. PubMed PMID: 30229512
  • Tentler JJ, Lang J, Capasso A, Kim DJ, Benaim E, Lee YB, Eisen A, Bagby SM, Hartman SJ, Yacob BW, Gittleman B, Pitts TM, Pelanda R, Eckhardt SG, Diamond JR. RX-5902, a novel ß-catenin modulator, potentiates the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in preclinical models of triple-negative breast Cancer. BMC Cancer. 2020 Nov 4;20(1):1063. PubMed PMID: 33148223
  • Weiss JA, Nicklawsky A, Kagihara JA, Gao D, Fisher C, Elias A, Borges VF, Kabos P, Davis SL, Leong S, Eckhardt SG, Diamond JR. Clinical outcomes of breast cancer patients treated in phase I clinical trials at University of Colorado Cancer Center. Cancer Med. 2020 Oct 16. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33063469
  • Kalinsky K, Diamond JR, Vahdat LT, Tolaney SM, Juric D, O'Shaughnessy J, Moroose RL, Mayer IA, Abramson VG, Goldenberg DM, Sharkey RM, Maliakal P, Hong Q, Goswami T, Wegener WA, Bardia A. Sacituzumab govitecan in previously treated hormone receptor-positive/HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer: final results from a phase I/II, single-arm, basket trial. Ann Oncol. 2020 Dec;31(12):1709-1718. PubMed PMID: 32946924
  • Diamond JR, Becerra C, Richards D, Mita A, Osborne C, O'Shaughnessy J, Zhang C, Henner R, Kapoun AM, Xu L, Stagg B, Uttamsingh S, Brachmann RK, Farooki A, Mita M. Phase Ib clinical trial of the anti-frizzled antibody vantictumab (OMP-18R5) plus paclitaxel in patients with locally advanced or metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Nov;184(1):53-62. PubMed PMID: 32803633
  • Corr BR, Moroney M, Sheeder J, Eckhardt SG, Sawyer B, Behbakht K, Diamond JR. Survival and clinical outcomes of patients with ovarian cancer who were treated on phase 1 clinical trials. Cancer. 2020 Oct 1;126(19):4289-4293. PubMed PMID: 32697381
  • Davis SL, Ionkina AA, Bagby SM, Orth JD, Gittleman B, Marcus JM, Lam ET, Corr BR, O'Bryant CL, Glode AE, Tan AC, Kim J, Tentler JJ, Capasso A, Lopez KL, Gustafson DL, Messersmith WA, Leong S, Eckhardt SG, Pitts TM, Diamond JR. Preclinical and Dose-Finding Phase I Trial Results of Combined Treatment with a TORC1/2 Inhibitor (TAK-228) and Aurora A Kinase Inhibitor (Alisertib) in Solid Tumors. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Sep 1;26(17):4633-4642. PubMed PMID: 32414750
  • Pitts TM, Simmons DM, Bagby SM, Hartman SJ, Yacob BW, Gittleman B, Tentler JJ, Cittelly D, Ormond DR, Messersmith WA, Eckhardt SG, Diamond JR. Wee1 Inhibition Enhances the Anti-Tumor Effects of Capecitabine in Preclinical Models of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Cancers (Basel). 2020 Mar 19;12(3). PubMed PMID: 32204315
  • Kagihara JA, Andress M, Diamond JR. Nab-paclitaxel and atezolizumab for the treatment of PD-L1-positive, metastatic triple-negative breast cancer: review and future directions. Expert Rev Precis Med Drug Dev. 2020;5(2):59-65. PubMed PMID: 32190733
  • Capasso A, Bagby SM, Dailey KL, Currimjee N, Yacob BW, Ionkina A, Frank JG, Kim DJ, George C, Lee YB, Benaim E, Gittleman B, Hartman SJ, Tan AC, Kim J, Pitts TM, Eckhardt SG, Tentler JJ, Diamond JR. First-in-Class Phosphorylated-p68 Inhibitor RX-5902 Inhibits ß-Catenin Signaling and Demonstrates Antitumor Activity in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Mol Cancer Ther. 2019 Nov;18(11):1916-1925. PubMed PMID: 31488700
  • Weiss J, Glode A, Messersmith WA, Diamond J. Sacituzumab govitecan: breakthrough targeted therapy for triple-negative breast cancer. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2019 Aug;19(8):673-679. PubMed PMID: 31398063
  • Stumpf PK, Cittelly DM, Robin TP, Carlson JA, Stuhr KA, Contreras-Zarate MJ, Lai S, Ormond DR, Rusthoven CG, Gaspar LE, Rabinovitch R, Kavanagh BD, Liu A, Diamond JR, Kabos P, Fisher CM. Combination of Trastuzumab Emtansine and Stereotactic Radiosurgery Results in High Rates of Clinically Significant Radionecrosis and Dysregulation of Aquaporin-4. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Jul 1;25(13):3946-3953. PubMed PMID: 30940654
  • Bardia A, Mayer IA, Vahdat LT, Tolaney SM, Isakoff SJ, Diamond JR, O'Shaughnessy J, Moroose RL, Santin AD, Abramson VG, Shah NC, Rugo HS, Goldenberg DM, Sweidan AM, Iannone R, Washkowitz S, Sharkey RM, Wegener WA, Kalinsky K. Sacituzumab Govitecan-hziy in Refractory Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2019 Feb 21;380(8):741-751. PubMed PMID: 30786188
  • Capasso A, Lang J, Pitts TM, Jordan KR, Lieu CH, Davis SL, Diamond JR, Kopetz S, Barbee J, Peterson J, Freed BM, Yacob BW, Bagby SM, Messersmith WA, Slansky JE, Pelanda R, Eckhardt SG. Characterization of immune responses to anti-PD-1 mono and combination immunotherapy in hematopoietic humanized mice implanted with tumor xenografts. J Immunother Cancer. 2019 Feb 8;7(1):37. PubMed PMID: 30736857
  • Adams S, Diamond JR, Hamilton E, Pohlmann PR, Tolaney SM, Chang CW, Zhang W, Iizuka K, Foster PG, Molinero L, Funke R, Powderly J. Atezolizumab Plus nab-Paclitaxel in the Treatment of Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer With 2-Year Survival Follow-up: A Phase 1b Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2019 Mar 1;5(3):334-342. PubMed PMID: 30347025
  • Jimeno A, Moore KN, Gordon M, Chugh R, Diamond JR, Aljumaily R, Mendelson D, Kapoun AM, Xu L, Stagg R, Smith DC. A first-in-human phase 1a study of the bispecific anti-DLL4/anti-VEGF antibody navicixizumab (OMP-305B83) in patients with previously treated solid tumors. Invest New Drugs. 2019 Jun;37(3):461-472. PubMed PMID: 30229512
  • Diamond JR, Pitts TM, Ungermannova D, Nasveschuk CG, Zhang G, Phillips AJ, Bagby SM, Pafford J, Yacob BW, Newton TP, Tentler JJ, Gittleman B, Hartman SJ, DeMattei JA, Winkler JD, Wendt MK, Schiemann WP, Eckhardt SG, Liu X, Piscopio AD. Preclinical development of the class I selective histone deacetylase inhibitor OKI-179 for the treatment of solid tumors. Mol Cancer Ther. 2021 Dec 29. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34965958
  • Schreiber AR, Kagihara J, Eguchi M, Kabos P, Fisher CM, Meyer E, Molina E, Kondapalli L, Bradley CJ, Diamond JR. Evaluating anthracycline? ?taxane versus taxane-based chemotherapy in older women with node-negative triple-negative breast cancer: a SEER-Medicare study. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2021 Oct 27. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34705147
  • Schreiber AR, Andress M, Diamond JR. Tackling metastatic triple-negative breast cancer with sacituzumab govitecan. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2021 Dec;21(12):1303-1311. PubMed PMID: 34651524
  • Atrafi F, Boix O, Subbiah V, Diamond JR, Chawla SP, Tolcher AW, LoRusso PM, Eder JP, Gutierrez M, Sankhala K, Rajagopalan P, Genvresse I, Langer S, Mathijssen RHJ, Verweij J, Bruns I, Lolkema MP. A Phase I Study of an MPS1 Inhibitor (BAY 1217389) in Combination with Paclitaxel Using a Novel Randomized Continual Reassessment Method for Dose Escalation. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Dec 1;27(23):6366-6375. PubMed PMID: 34518310
  • Kagihara JA, Shagisultanova E, Afghahi A, Diamond JR. Moving Towards Targeted Therapies for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Curr Breast Cancer Rep. 2021 Sep;13(3):216-226. PubMed PMID: 34457184
  • Hartman SJ, Bagby SM, Yacob BW, Simmons DM, MacBeth M, Lieu CH, Davis SL, Leal AD, Tentler JJ, Diamond JR, Eckhardt SG, Messersmith WA, Pitts TM. WEE1 Inhibition in Combination With Targeted Agents and Standard Chemotherapy in Preclinical Models of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma. Front Oncol. 2021;11:642328. PubMed PMID: 33869031
  • Marín-Jiménez JA, Capasso A, Lewis MS, Bagby SM, Hartman SJ, Shulman J, Navarro NM, Yu H, Rivard CJ, Wang X, Barkow JC, Geng D, Kar A, Yingst A, Tufa DM, Dolan JT, Blatchford PJ, Freed BM, Torres RM, Davila E, Slansky JE, Pelanda R, Eckhardt SG, Messersmith WA, Diamond JR, Lieu CH, Verneris MR, Wang JH, Kiseljak-Vassiliades K, Pitts TM, Lang J. Testing Cancer Immunotherapy in a Human Immune System Mouse Model: Correlating Treatment Responses to Human Chimerism, Therapeutic Variables and Immune Cell Phenotypes. Front Immunol. 2021;12:607282. PubMed PMID: 33854497
  • Lim B, Potter DA, Salkeni MA, Silverman P, Haddad TC, Forget F, Awada A, Canon JL, Danso M, Lortholary A, Bourgeois H, Tan-Chiu E, Vincent S, Bahamon B, Galinsky KJ, Patel C, Neuwirth R, Leonard EJ, Diamond JR. Sapanisertib Plus Exemestane or Fulvestrant in Women with Hormone Receptor-Positive/HER2-Negative Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Jun 15;27(12):3329-3338. PubMed PMID: 33820779
  • Schreiber AR, Kagihara JA, Weiss JA, Nicklawsky A, Gao D, Borges VF, Kabos P, Diamond JR. Clinical Outcomes for Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer Treated With Immunotherapy Agents in Phase I Clinical Trials. Front Oncol. 2021;11:640690. PubMed PMID: 33816286
  • Shay RC, Diamond JR, Kagihara JA, Sams SB. Paraneoplastic Encephalitis Associated with Locally Advanced Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Positive Breast Cancer. J Breast Cancer. 2021 Feb;24(1):106-116. PubMed PMID: 33634625
  • Ma WW, Zhu M, Lam ET, Diamond JR, Dy GK, Fisher GA, Goff LW, Alberts S, Bui LA, Sanghal A, Kothekar M, Khopade A, Chimote G, Faulkner R, Eckhardt SG, Adjei AA, Jimeno A. A phase I pharmacokinetic and safety study of Paclitaxel Injection Concentrate for Nano-dispersion (PICN) alone and in combination with carboplatin in patients with advanced solid malignancies and biliary tract cancers. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2021 Jun;87(6):779-788. PubMed PMID: 33634324
  • Stoen E, Kagihara J, Shagisultanova E, Fisher CM, Nicklawsky A, Kabos P, Borges VF, Diamond JR. Real-world evidence from a University Hospital system regarding the uptake of adjuvant pertuzumab and/or neratinib before and after their FDA approval. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2021 Jun;187(3):883-891. PubMed PMID: 33625615
  • Sakamoto MR, Eguchi M, Azelby CM, Diamond JR, Fisher CM, Borges VF, Bradley CJ, Kabos P. New Persistent Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use After Curative-Intent Treatment in Patients With Breast Cancer. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2021 Jan 6;19(1):29-38. PubMed PMID: 33406490
  • Davis SL, Hartman SJ, Bagby SM, Schlaepfer M, Yacob BW, Tse T, Simmons DM, Diamond JR, Lieu CH, Leal AD, Cadogan EB, Hughes GD, Durant ST, Messersmith WA, Pitts TM. ATM kinase inhibitor AZD0156 in combination with irinotecan and 5-fluorouracil in preclinical models of colorectal cancer. BMC Cancer. 2022 Oct 29;22(1):1107. PubMed PMID: 36309653
  • Hilton J, Cristea M, Postel-Vinay S, Baldini C, Voskoboynik M, Edenfield W, Shapiro GI, Cheng ML, Vuky J, Corr B, Das S, Apfel A, Xu K, Kozicki M, Ünsal-Kaçmaz K, Hammell A, Wang G, Ravindran P, Kollia G, Esposito O, Coker S, Diamond JR. BMS-986158, a Small Molecule Inhibitor of the Bromodomain and Extraterminal Domain Proteins, in Patients with Selected Advanced Solid Tumors: Results from a Phase 1/2a Trial. Cancers (Basel). 2022 Aug 23;14(17). PubMed PMID: 36077617
  • Boland PM, Fountzilas C, Fakih M, Opyrchal M, Diamond JR, Corr B, Ma WW, Redman M, Chan WK, Wang H, Kramer D, Kwan R, Cutler D, Zhi J, Jimeno A. A dose regimen-finding study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and activity of oratecan in subjects with advanced malignancies. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2022 Aug;90(2):175-187. PubMed PMID: 35904620
  • Atrafi F, Boix O, Subbiah V, Diamond JR, Chawla SP, Tolcher AW, LoRusso PM, Eder JP, Gutierrez M, Sankhala K, Rajagopalan P, Genvresse I, Langer S, Mathijssen RHJ, Verweij J, Bruns I, Lolkema MP. Correction: A Phase I Study of an MPS1 Inhibitor (BAY 1217389) in Combination with Paclitaxel Using a Novel Randomized Continual Reassessment Method for Dose Escalation. Clin Cancer Res. 2022 Jul 1;28(13):2969. PubMed PMID: 35775194
  • Ma WW, Li JJ, Azad NS, Lam ET, Diamond JR, Dy GK, Opyrchal M, Zhi J, Kramer D, Chan WK, Cutler D, Kwan R, Adjei AA, Jimeno A. A phase Ib study of Oraxol (oral paclitaxel and encequidar) in patients with advanced malignancies. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2022 Jul;90(1):7-17. PubMed PMID: 35731258
  • Carey LA, Loirat D, Punie K, Bardia A, Diéras V, Dalenc F, Diamond JR, Fontaine C, Wang G, Rugo HS, Hurvitz SA, Kalinsky K, O'Shaughnessy J, Loibl S, Gianni L, Piccart M, Zhu Y, Delaney R, Phan S, Cortés J. Sacituzumab govitecan as second-line treatment for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer-phase 3 ASCENT study subanalysis. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2022 Jun 9;8(1):72. PubMed PMID: 35680967
  • Diamond JR, Boni V, Lim E, Nowakowski G, Cordoba R, Morillo D, Valencia R, Genvresse I, Merz C, Boix O, Frigault MM, Greer JM, Hamdy AM, Huang X, Izumi R, Wong H, Moreno V. First-in-Human Dose-Escalation Study of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 9 Inhibitor VIP152 in Patients with Advanced Malignancies Shows Early Signs of Clinical Efficacy. Clin Cancer Res. 2022 Apr 1;28(7):1285-1293. PubMed PMID: 35046056
  • Diamond JR, Pitts TM, Ungermannova D, Nasveschuk CG, Zhang G, Phillips AJ, Bagby SM, Pafford J, Yacob BW, Newton TP, Tentler JJ, Gittleman B, Hartman SJ, DeMattei JA, Winkler JD, Wendt MK, Schiemann WP, Eckhardt SG, Liu X, Piscopio AD. Preclinical Development of the Class-I-Selective Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor OKI-179 for the Treatment of Solid Tumors. Mol Cancer Ther. 2022 Mar 1;21(3):397-406. PubMed PMID: 34965958
  • Schreiber AR, Kagihara J, Eguchi M, Kabos P, Fisher CM, Meyer E, Molina E, Kondapalli L, Bradley CJ, Diamond JR. Evaluating anthracycline? ?taxane versus taxane-based chemotherapy in older women with node-negative triple-negative breast cancer: a SEER-Medicare study. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2022 Jan;191(2):389-399. PubMed PMID: 34705147
  • Schreiber AR, Kagihara JA, Corr BR, Davis SL, Lieu C, Kim SS, Jimeno A, Camidge DR, Williams J, Heim AM, Martin A, DeMattei JA, Holay N, Triplett TA, Eckhardt SG, Litwiler K, Winkler J, Piscopio AD, Diamond JR. First-in-Human Dose-Escalation Study of the Novel Oral Depsipeptide Class I-Targeting HDAC Inhibitor Bocodepsin (OKI-179) in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors. Cancers (Basel). 2023 Dec 23;16(1). PubMed PMID: 38201519
  • Roy S, Lakritz S, Schreiber AR, Kuna EM, Bradley CJ, Kondapalli L, Diamond JR. Major cardiovascular adverse events in older adults with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer treated with adjuvant taxane anthracycline versus taxane-based chemotherapy regimens: A SEER-medicare study. Eur J Cancer. 2024 Jan;196:113426. PubMed PMID: 38000217
  • Holay N, Somma A, Duchow M, Soleimani M, Capasso A, Kottapalli S, Rios J, Giri U, Diamond J, Schreiber A, Piscopio AD, Van Den Berg C, Eckhardt SG, Triplett TA. Elucidating the direct effects of the novel HDAC inhibitor bocodepsin (OKI-179) on T cells to rationally design regimens for combining with immunotherapy. Front Immunol. 2023;14:1260545. PubMed PMID: 37744352
  • Schreiber AR, O'Bryant CL, Kabos P, Diamond JR. The emergence of targeted therapy for HER2-low triple-negative breast cancer: a review of fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2023 Jul-Dec;23(10):1061-1069. PubMed PMID: 37742278
  • Cheng ML, Huang Y, Luong N, LoPiccolo J, Nishino M, Sholl LM, Chirieac LR, Santucci AD, Rabin MS, Jänne PA, Coker S, Diamond JR, Hilton J, Shapiro GI, French CA. Exceptional Response to Bromodomain and Extraterminal Domain Inhibitor Therapy With BMS-986158 in BRD4-NUTM1 NUT Carcinoma Harboring a BRD4 Splice Site Mutation. JCO Precis Oncol. 2023 Jun;7:e2200633. PubMed PMID: 37384867
  • Shagisultanova E, Gradishar W, Brown-Glaberman U, Chalasani P, Brenner AJ, Stopeck A, Parris H, Gao D, McSpadden T, Mayordomo J, Diamond JR, Kabos P, Borges VF. Safety and Efficacy of Tucatinib, Letrozole, and Palbociclib in Patients with Previously Treated HR /HER2 Breast Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Dec 15;29(24):5021-5030. PubMed PMID: 37363965
  • Elias AD, Spoelstra NS, Staley AW, Sams S, Crump LS, Vidal GA, Borges VF, Kabos P, Diamond JR, Shagisultanova E, Afghahi A, Mayordomo J, McSpadden T, Crawford G, D'Alessandro A, Zolman KL, van Bokhoven A, Zhuang Y, Gallagher RI, Wulfkuhle JD, Petricoin Iii EF, Gao D, Richer JK. Phase II trial of fulvestrant plus enzalutamide in ER /HER2- advanced breast cancer. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2023 May 20;9(1):41. PubMed PMID: 37210417
  • Roy S, Lakritz S, Schreiber AR, Molina E, Kabos P, Wood M, Elias A, Kondapalli L, Bradley CJ, Diamond JR. Clinical outcomes of adjuvant taxane plus anthracycline versus taxane-based chemotherapy regimens in older adults with node-positive, triple-negative breast cancer: A SEER-Medicare study. Eur J Cancer. 2023 May;185:69-82. PubMed PMID: 36965330

Professional Memberships

  • American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Member
  • American Association for Cancer Research, Associate Member

Practice Locations

UCHealth Diane O'Connor Thompson Breast Center - Anschutz
1635 Aurora Ct
3rd Floor
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-1030

UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH)
12605 E. 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-0000

University of Colorado Cancer Center - Anschutz Medical Campus
1665 Aurora Ct
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-0300

Hospital Affiliation
  • University of Colorado Hospital

Center Affiliations

Specialty Information

Specialties
  • Internal Medicine, Board Certification (2007)
  • Medical Oncology, Board Certification (2010)
Conditions & Treatments
  • Cancers - Breast Cancer
  • Cancers
Clinical Interests
I treat patients with breast cancer at all stages with both conventional and clinical trial treatment options. I have a subspecialty interest in early phase clinical trials for patients with breast cancer and gynecologic cancers.