Jean Mulcahy Levy, MD

Professional Titles

• Assistant Professor

Recognitions

• Outstanding Abstract Award, International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (2012)
  

Research Interests

My research interests focus on autophagy, a multi-step process that cancer can use to survive. It is possible to block this survival mechanism and hopefully make cancer easier to kill with other treatments like radiation and chemotherapy. My research has three goals to improve survival of kids with brain tumors. First, find which step of the process should be blocked to kill the most tumor cells. Second, to find which brain tumors depend most on autophagy to survive. And finally, to determine if a specific genetic mutation found in some pediatric brain tumors can identify patients who will most benefit from autophagy directed treatments.

Publications

• Levy JM, Tello T, Giller R, Wilkening G, Quinones R, Keating AK, Liu AK. Late effects of total body irradiation and hematopoietic stem cell transplant in children under 3 years of age. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2012 Jul 27. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 22848000
• Levy JM, Thorburn A. Modulation of pediatric brain tumor autophagy and chemosensitivity. J Neurooncol. 2012 Jan;106(2):281-90. PubMed PMID: 21842312
• Mulcahy Levy, JM., Tello, T., Lu, X., Gao, D., Wilkening, G., Donson, A., Foreman, N., Liu, AK. Genetic Predictors of Neurocognitive Outcomes in Survivors of Pediatric Brain Tumors. Neuro-Oncology. 2012 June; 14 (Suppl 1): i111.
• Amani V, Griesinger A, Donson AM, Harris PS , Thompson JC, Birks DK, Bemis LT, Rao KK, Morgan MJ, Thorburn A, Foreman NK, Mulcahy Levy JM. Targeting of BRAF V600E and autophagy in pediatric brain tumors.
• Mulcahy Levy, JM., Tello, T., Lu, X., Gao, D., Wilkening, G., Birks, DK., Donson, A., Foreman, N., Liu, AK. Genetic Predictors of Neurocognitive Outcomes in Survivors of Pediatric Brain Tumors.
• Donson AM, Kleinschmidt-Demasters BK, Aisner DL, Bemis LT, Birks DK, Levy JM, Smith AA, Handler MH, Foreman NK, Rush SZ. Pediatric Brainstem Gangliogliomas Show BRAF(V600E) Mutation in a High Percentage of Cases. Brain Pathol. 2013 Nov 18. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24238153
• Mulcahy Levy JM, Hunger SP. Brain size and neuropsychological functioning in long-term survivors of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Transl Pediatr 2013, 2 (4): 140-2
• Kulbe JR*, Mulcahy Levy JM*, Coultrap SJ, Thorburn A, Bayer KU. Excitotoxic glutamate insults block autophagic flux in hippocampal neurons. Brain Research 2013, 1542 (13) 12-19. *Authors with equal contribution
• Mulcahy Levy JM, Tello T, Giller R, Wilkening G, Quinones R, Keating AK, Liu AK. Late effects of total body irradiation and hematopoietic stem cell transplant in children under 3 years of age. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2013 Apr;60(4):700-4. PubMed PMID: 22848000
• Griesinger A, Donson A, Hoffman L, Amani V, Birks D, Handler M, Mulcahy Levy J, Foreman N. Rationale for Trastuzumab Therapeutic Antibody Treatment in Ependymoma. Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Basic and Translational Research Conference. May 2013. Neuro-Oncology 2013 15 (Suppl 1).
• Thompson, J. Griesinger A, Foreman N, Rush S, Mulcahy Levy J. Correlation of CSF and Serum Biomarkers of Oxidation in Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients. Pediatric Neruo-Oncology Basic and Translational Research Conference. May 2013. Neuro-Oncology 2013, 15 (Suppl 1).
• Levy JM, Foreman NK, Thorburn A. Using BRAF(V600E) as a marker of autophagy dependence in pediatric brain tumors. Autophagy. 2014 Nov 2;10(11):2077-8. PubMed PMID: 25484091
• Donson AM, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Aisner DL, Bemis LT, Birks DK, Levy JM, Smith AA, Handler MH, Foreman NK, Rush SZ. Pediatric brainstem gangliogliomas show BRAF(V600E) mutation in a high percentage of cases. Brain Pathol. 2014 Mar;24(2):173-83. PubMed PMID: 24238153
• Levy JM, Thompson JC, Griesinger AM, Amani V, Donson AM, Birks DK, Morgan MJ, Mirsky DM, Handler MH, Foreman NK, Thorburn A. Autophagy inhibition improves chemosensitivity in BRAF(V600E) brain tumors. Cancer Discov. 2014 Jul;4(7):773-80. PubMed PMID: 24823863
• Kulbe JR*, Mulcahy Levy JM*, Coultrap SJ, Thorburn A, Bayer KU. Excitotoxic glutamate insults block autophagic flux in hippocampal neurons. Brain Res. 2014 Jan 13;1542:12-9. PubMed PMID: 24505621
• Maycotte P, Gearheart CM, Barnard R, Aryal S, Mulcahy Levy JM, Fosmire SP, Hansen RJ, Morgan MJ, Porter CC, Gustafson DL, Thorburn A. STAT3-mediated autophagy dependence identifies subtypes of breast cancer where autophagy inhibition can be efficacious. Cancer Res. 2014 May 1;74(9):2579-90. PubMed PMID: 24590058
• Griesinger AM, Josephson RJ, Donson AM, Mulcahy Levy JM, Amani V, Birks DK, Hoffman LM, Furtek SL, Reigan P, Handler MH, Vibhakar R, Foreman NK. Interleukin-6/STAT3 Pathway Signaling Drives an Inflammatory Phenotype in Group A Ependymoma. Cancer Immunol Res. 2015 Oct;3(10):1165-74. PubMed PMID: 25968456
• Mulcahy Levy, JM; Zahedi, S; Griesinger, AM; Davies, KD; Aisner, DL; DeMasters, BK; Fitzwalter, BE; Goodall, ML; Amani, V; Donson, AM; Birks, DK; Mirsky, DM; Hankinson, TC; Handler, MH’ Foreman, NK; Thorburn, A. Autophagy Inhibition Overcomes Clinically Acquired Resistance to BRAF Inhibition in Brain Tumors. In revision, eLife.
• Koo GB, Morgan MJ, Lee DG, Kim WJ, Yoon JH, Koo JS, Kim SI, Kim SJ, Son MK, Hong SS, Levy JM, Pollyea DA, Jordan CT, Yan P, Frankhouser D, Nicolet D, Maharry K, Marcucci G, Choi KS, Cho H, Thorburn A, Kim YS. Methylation-dependent loss of RIP3 expression in cancer represses programmed necrosis in response to chemotherapeutics. Cell Res. 2015 Jun;25(6):707-25. PubMed PMID: 25952668
• Klionsky DJ, Abdelmohsen K, Abe A, Abedin MJ, Abeliovich H, Acevedo Arozena A, Adachi H, Adams CM, Adams PD, Adeli K, Adhihetty PJ, Adler SG, Agam G, Agarwal R, Aghi MK, Agnello M, Agostinis P, Aguilar PV, Aguirre-Ghiso J, Airoldi EM, Ait-Si-Ali S, Akematsu T, Akporiaye ET, Al-Rubeai M, Albaiceta GM, Albanese C, Albani D, Albert ML, Aldudo J, Algül H, Alirezaei M, Alloza I, Almasan A, Almonte-Beceril M, Alnemri ES, Alonso C, Altan-Bonnet N, Altieri DC, Alvarez S, Alvarez-Erviti L, Alves S, Amadoro G, Amano A, Amantini C, Ambrosio S, Amelio I, Amer AO, Amessou M, Amon A, An Z, Anania FA, Andersen SU, Andley UP, Andreadi CK, Andrieu-Abadie N, Anel A, Ann DK, Anoopkumar-Dukie S, Antonioli M, Aoki H, Apostolova N, Aquila S, Aquilano K, Araki K, Arama E, Aranda A, Araya J, Arcaro A, Arias E, Arimoto H, Ariosa AR, Armstrong JL, Arnould T, Arsov I, Asanuma K, Askanas V, Asselin E, Atarashi R, Atherton SS, Atkin JD, Attardi LD, Auberger P, Auburger G, Aurelian L, Autelli R, Avagliano L, Avantaggiati ML, Avrahami L, Awale S, Azad N, Bachetti T, Backer JM, Bae DH, Bae JS, Bae ON, Bae SH, Baehrecke EH, Baek SH, Baghdiguian S, Bagniewska-Zadworna A, Bai H, Bai J, Bai XY, Bailly Y, Balaji KN, Balduini W, Ballabio A, Balzan R, Banerjee R, Bánhegyi G, Bao H, Barbeau B, Barrachina MD, Barreiro E, Bartel B, Bartolomé A, Bassham DC, Bassi MT, Bast RC Jr, Basu A, Batista MT, Batoko H, Battino M, Bauckman K, Baumgarner BL, Bayer KU, Beale R, Beaulieu JF, Beck GR Jr, Becker C, Beckham JD, Bédard PA, Bednarski PJ, Begley TJ, Behl C, Behrends C, Behrens GM, Behrns KE, Bejarano E, Belaid A, Belleudi F, Bénard G, Berchem G, Bergamaschi D, Bergami M, Berkhout B, Berliocchi L, Bernard A, Bernard M, Bernassola F, Bertolotti A, Bess AS, Besteiro S, Bettuzzi S, Bhalla S, Bhattacharyya S, Bhutia SK, Biagosch C, Bianchi MW, Biard-Piechaczyk M, Billes V, Bincoletto C, Bingol B, Bird SW, Bitoun M, Bjedov I, Blackstone C, Blanc L, Blanco GA, Blomhoff HK, Boada-Romero E, Böckler S, Boes M, Boesze... Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition). Autophagy. 2016;12(1):1-222. PubMed PMID: 26799652
• Goodall ML, Fitzwalter BE, Zahedi S, Wu M, Rodriguez D, Mulcahy-Levy JM, Green DR, Morgan M, Cramer SD, Thorburn A. The Autophagy Machinery Controls Cell Death Switching between Apoptosis and Necroptosis. Dev Cell. 2016 May 23;37(4):337-49. PubMed PMID: 27219062
• Dudley RW, Torok MR, Gallegos DR, Mulcahy-Levy JM, Hoffman LM, Liu AK, Handler MH, Hankinson TC. Pediatric low-grade ganglioglioma: epidemiology, treatments, and outcome analysis on 348 children from the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results database. Neurosurgery. 2015 Mar;76(3):313-9; discussion 319; quiz 319-20. PubMed PMID: 25603107
• Prince EW, Balakrishnan I, Shah M, Mulcahy Levy JM, Griesinger AM, Alimova I, Harris PS, Birks DK, Donson AM, Davidson N, Remke M, Taylor MD, Handler MH, Foreman NK, Venkataraman S, Vibhakar R. Checkpoint kinase 1 expression is an adverse prognostic marker and therapeutic target in MYC-driven medulloblastoma. Oncotarget. 2016 Jul 19. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27449089
• Amani V, Prince EW, Alimova I, Balakrishnan I, Birks D, Donson AM, Harris P, Levy JM, Handler M, Foreman NK, Venkataraman S, Vibhakar R. Polo-like Kinase 1 as a potential therapeutic target in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. BMC Cancer. 2016 Aug 18;16:647. PubMed PMID: 27538997
• Grob ST, Levy JMM. Improving Diagnostic and Therapeutic Outcomes in Pediatric Brain Tumors. Mol Diagn Ther. 2017 Sep 12. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28900876
• Levy JMM, Towers CG, Thorburn A. Targeting autophagy in cancer. Nat Rev Cancer. 2017 Sep;17(9):528-542. PubMed PMID: 28751651
• Lassaletta A, Zapotocky M, Mistry M, Ramaswamy V, Honnorat M, Krishnatry R, Guerreiro Stucklin A, Zhukova N, Arnoldo A, Ryall S, Ling C, McKeown T, Loukides J, Cruz O, de Torres C, Ho CY, Packer RJ, Tatevossian R, Qaddoumi I, Harreld JH, Dalton JD, Mulcahy-Levy J, Foreman N, Karajannis MA, Wang S, Snuderl M, Nageswara Rao A, Giannini C, Kieran M, Ligon KL, Garre ML, Nozza P, Mascelli S, Raso A, Mueller S, Nicolaides T, Silva K, Perbet R, Vasiljevic A, Faure Conter C, Frappaz D, Leary S, Crane C, Chan A, Ng HK, Shi ZF, Mao Y, Finch E, Eisenstat D, Wilson B, Carret AS, Hauser P, Sumerauer D, Krskova L, Larouche V, Fleming A, Zelcer S, Jabado N, Rutka JT, Dirks P, Taylor MD, Chen S, Bartels U, Huang A, Ellison DW, Bouffet E, Hawkins C, Tabori U. Therapeutic and Prognostic Implications of BRAF V600E in Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas. J Clin Oncol. 2017 Sep 1;35(25):2934-2941. PubMed PMID: 28727518
• Green AL, Mulcahy Levy JM, Vibhakar R, Hemenway M, Madden J, Foreman N, Dorris K. Tumor treating fields in pediatric high-grade glioma. Childs Nerv Syst. 2017 Jul;33(7):1043-1045. PubMed PMID: 28470383
• Dahl NA, Luebbert T, Loi M, Neuberger I, Handler MH, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Mulcahy Levy JM. Chordoma Occurs in Young Children With Tuberous Sclerosis. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2017 Jun 1;76(6):418-423. PubMed PMID: 28498973
• Mulcahy Levy JM, Zahedi S, Griesinger AM, Morin A, Davies KD, Aisner DL, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Fitzwalter BE, Goodall ML, Thorburn J, Amani V, Donson AM, Birks DK, Mirsky DM, Hankinson TC, Handler MH, Green AL, Vibhakar R, Foreman NK, Thorburn A. Autophagy inhibition overcomes multiple mechanisms of resistance to BRAF inhibition in brain tumors. Elife. 2017 Jan 17;6. PubMed PMID: 28094001
• Michniacki TF, Mulcahy Levy JM, Quinones RR, Giller RH. Successful correction of familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis using prenatal genetic testing and preemptive hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2017 Oct 16. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29035396
• Marini BL, Benitez LL, Zureick AH, Salloum R, Gauthier AC, Brown J, Wu YM, Robinson DR, Kumar C, Lonigro R, Vats P, Cao X, Kasaian K, Anderson B, Mullan B, Chandler B, Linzey JR, Camelo-Piragua SI, Venneti S, McKeever PE, McFadden KA, Lieberman AP, Brown N, Shao L, Leonard MAS, Junck L, McKean E, Maher CO, Garton HJL, Muraszko KM, Hervey-Jumper S, Mulcahy-Levy JM, Green A, Hoffman LM, Dorris K, Vitanza NA, Wang J, Schwartz J, Lulla R, Smiley NP, Bornhorst M, Haas-Kogan DA, Robertson PL, Chinnaiyan AM, Mody R, Koschmann C. Blood-brain barrier-adapted precision medicine therapy for pediatric brain tumors. Transl Res. 2017 Oct;188:27.e1-27.e14. PubMed PMID: 28860053
• Griesinger AM, Witt DA, Grob ST, Georgio Westover SR, Donson AM, Sanford B, Mulcahy Levy JM, Wong R, Moreira DC, DeSisto JA, Balakrishnan I, Hoffman LM, Handler MH, Jones KL, Vibhakar R, Venkataraman S, Foreman NK. NF-?B upregulation through epigenetic silencing of LDOC1 drives tumor biology and specific immunophenotype in Group A ependymoma. Neuro Oncol. 2017 Oct 1;19(10):1350-1360. PubMed PMID: 28510691
• Mulcahy Levy JM, McMahon M. Linking brain tumors and epileptic seizures. Nat Med. 2018 Nov;24(11):1638-1639. PubMed PMID: 30374199
• Donson AM, Amani V, Warner EA, Griesinger AM, Witt DA, Levy JMM, Hoffman LM, Hankinson TC, Handler MH, Vibhakar R, Dorris K, Foreman NK. Identification of FDA-Approved Oncology Drugs with Selective Potency in High-Risk Childhood Ependymoma. Mol Cancer Ther. 2018 Sep;17(9):1984-1994. PubMed PMID: 29925527
• Nellan A, Rota C, Majzner R, Lester-McCully CM, Griesinger AM, Mulcahy Levy JM, Foreman NK, Warren KE, Lee DW. Durable regression of Medulloblastoma after regional and intravenous delivery of anti-HER2 chimeric antigen receptor T cells. J Immunother Cancer. 2018 Apr 30;6(1):30. PubMed PMID: 29712574
• Dudley RWR, Torok MR, Randall S, Béland B, Handler MH, Mulcahy-Levy JM, Liu AK, Hankinson TC. Pediatric versus adult meningioma: comparison of epidemiology, treatments, and outcomes using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. J Neurooncol. 2018 May;137(3):621-629. PubMed PMID: 29520612
• Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Mulcahy Levy JM. H3 K27M-mutant gliomas in adults vs. children share similar histological features and adverse prognosis. Clin Neuropathol. 2018 Mar Apr;37 (2018)(2):53-63. PubMed PMID: 29393845
• Witt DA, Donson AM, Amani V, Moreira DC, Sanford B, Hoffman LM, Handler MH, Levy JMM, Jones KL, Nellan A, Foreman NK, Griesinger AM. Specific expression of PD-L1 in RELA-fusion supratentorial ependymoma: Implications for PD-1-targeted therapy. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 May;65(5):e26960. PubMed PMID: 29350470
• Yang MJ, Whelan R, Madden J, Mulcahy Levy JM, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Hankinson TC, Foreman NK, Handler MH. Intracranial Ewing sarcoma: four pediatric examples. Childs Nerv Syst. 2018 Mar;34(3):441-448. PubMed PMID: 29285586
• Flannery PC, DeSisto JA, Amani V, Venkataraman S, Lemma RT, Prince EW, Donson A, Moroze EE, Hoffman L, Levy JMM, Foreman N, Vibhakar R, Green AL. Preclinical analysis of MTOR complex 1/2 inhibition in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. Oncol Rep. 2018 Feb;39(2):455-464. PubMed PMID: 29207163
• Michniacki TF, Mulcahy Levy JM, Quinones RR, Giller RH. Successful correction of familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis using prenatal genetic testing and preemptive hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2018 Feb;53(2):223-224. PubMed PMID: 29035396
• Grob ST, Levy JMM. Improving Diagnostic and Therapeutic Outcomes in Pediatric Brain Tumors. Mol Diagn Ther. 2018 Feb;22(1):25-39. PubMed PMID: 28900876
• Levy JMM, Towers CG, Thorburn A. Targeting autophagy in cancer. Nat Rev Cancer. 2017 Sep;17(9):528-542. PubMed PMID: 28751651
• Zahedi S, Fitzwalter BE, Morin A, Grob S, Desmarais M, Nellan A, Green AL, Vibhakar R, Hankinson TC, Foreman NK, Mulcahy Levy JM. Effect of early-stage autophagy inhibition in BRAF(V600E) autophagy-dependent brain tumor cells. Cell Death Dis. 2019 Sep 12;10(9):679. PubMed PMID: 31515514
• Grob S, Mirsky DM, Donson AM, Dahl N, Foreman NK, Hoffman LM, Hankinson TC, Mulcahy Levy JM. Targeting IL-6 Is a Potential Treatment for Primary Cystic Craniopharyngioma. Front Oncol. 2019;9:791. PubMed PMID: 31497533
• Sin-Chan P, Mumal I, Suwal T, Ho B, Fan X, Singh I, Du Y, Lu M, Patel N, Torchia J, Popovski D, Fouladi M, Guilhamon P, Hansford JR, Leary S, Hoffman LM, Mulcahy Levy JM, Lassaletta A, Solano-Paez P, Rivas E, Reddy A, Gillespie GY, Gupta N, Van Meter TE, Nakamura H, Wong TT, Ra YS, Kim SK, Massimi L, Grundy RG, Fangusaro J, Johnston D, Chan J, Lafay-Cousin L, Hwang EI, Wang Y, Catchpoole D, Michaud J, Ellezam B, Ramanujachar R, Lindsay H, Taylor MD, Hawkins CE, Bouffet E, Jabado N, Singh SK, Kleinman CL, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Li XN, Dirks PB, Lin CY, Mack SC, Rich JN, Huang A. A C19MC-LIN28A-MYCN Oncogenic Circuit Driven by Hijacked Super-enhancers Is a Distinct Therapeutic Vulnerability in ETMRs: A Lethal Brain Tumor. Cancer Cell. 2019 Jul 8;36(1):51-67.e7. PubMed PMID: 31287992
• Koo J, Silverman S, Nuechterlein B, Keating AK, Verneris MR, Foreman NK, Mulcahy Levy JM. Safety and feasibility of outpatient autologous stem cell transplantation in pediatric patients with primary central nervous system tumors. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2019 Oct;54(10):1605-1613. PubMed PMID: 30783209
• Mulcahy Levy JM, McMahon M. Linking brain tumors and epileptic seizures. Nat Med. 2018 Nov;24(11):1638-1639. PubMed PMID: 30374199
• Donson AM, Amani V, Warner EA, Griesinger AM, Witt DA, Levy JMM, Hoffman LM, Hankinson TC, Handler MH, Vibhakar R, Dorris K, Foreman NK. Identification of FDA-Approved Oncology Drugs with Selective Potency in High-Risk Childhood Ependymoma. Mol Cancer Ther. 2018 Sep;17(9):1984-1994. PubMed PMID: 29925527
• Lake JA, Donson AM, Prince E, Davies KD, Nellan A, Green AL, Mulcahy Levy J, Dorris K, Vibhakar R, Hankinson TC, Foreman NK, Ewalt MD, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Hoffman LM, Gilani A. Targeted fusion analysis can aid in the classification and treatment of pediatric glioma, ependymoma, and glioneuronal tumors. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2019 Oct 8;:e28028. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31595628
• Grob ST, Nobre L, Campbell KR, Davies KD, Ryall S, Aisner DL, Hoffman L, Zahedi S, Morin A, Crespo M, Nellan A, Green AL, Foreman N, Vibhakar R, Hankinson TC, Handler MH, Hawkins C, Tabori U, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Mulcahy Levy JM. Clinical and molecular characterization of a multi-institutional cohort of pediatric spinal cord low-grade gliomas. Neurooncol Adv. 2020 Jan-Dec;2(1):vdaa103. PubMed PMID: 33063010
• Nellan A, Bodlak A, Mirsky DM, Mulcahy Levy J, Garrington TP, Foreman NK, Gilani A, Hayashi M. ddPCR Analysis Reveals BRAF V600E Mutations Are Infrequent in Isolated Pituitary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Patients. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2020 Sep 15. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32930721
• Morin A, Soane C, Pierce A, Sanford B, Jones KL, Crespo M, Zahedi S, Vibhakar R, Mulcahy Levy JM. Proteasome inhibition as a therapeutic approach in atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors. Neurooncol Adv. 2020 Jan-Dec;2(1):vdaa051. PubMed PMID: 32642704
• Green AL, Flannery P, Hankinson TC, O'Neill B, Amani V, DeSisto J, Knox A, Chatwin H, Lemma R, Hoffman LM, Mulcahy Levy J, Raybin J, Hemenway M, Gilani A, Koschmann C, Dahl N, Handler M, Pierce A, Venkataraman S, Foreman N, Vibhakar R, Wempe MF, Dorris K. Preclinical and clinical investigation of intratumoral chemotherapy pharmacokinetics in DIPG using gemcitabine. Neurooncol Adv. 2020 Jan-Dec;2(1):vdaa021. PubMed PMID: 32642682
• Zahedi S, Mulcahy Levy JM. Autophagy: When to strike?. J Cancer Immunol (Wilmington). 2020;2(1):13-16. PubMed PMID: 32457939
• Mulcahy Levy JM, Thorburn A. Autophagy in cancer: moving from understanding mechanism to improving therapy responses in patients. Cell Death Differ. 2020 Mar;27(3):843-857. PubMed PMID: 31836831
• Lake JA, Donson AM, Prince E, Davies KD, Nellan A, Green AL, Mulcahy Levy J, Dorris K, Vibhakar R, Hankinson TC, Foreman NK, Ewalt MD, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Hoffman LM, Gilani A. Targeted fusion analysis can aid in the classification and treatment of pediatric glioma, ependymoma, and glioneuronal tumors. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2020 Jan;67(1):e28028. PubMed PMID: 31595628
• L'Hotta AJ, Thomas KM, Milgrom SA, Hemenway MS, Levy JMM. Medical and rehabilitation interventions in pediatric central nervous system radiation necrosis: A case report. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2020 Sep 28;:e28705. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32985070
• DeSisto J, Lucas JT Jr, Xu K, Donson A, Lin T, Sanford B, Wu G, Tran QT, Hedges D, Hsu CY, Armstrong GT, Arnold M, Bhatia S, Flannery P, Lemma R, Hardie L, Schüller U, Venkataraman S, Hoffman LM, Dorris K, Mulcahy Levy JM, Hankinson TC, Handler M, Liu AK, Foreman N, Vibhakar R, Jones K, Allen S, Zhang J, Baker SJ, Merchant TE, Orr BA, Green AL. Comprehensive molecular characterization of pediatric radiation-induced high-grade glioma. Nat Commun. 2021 Sep 20;12(1):5531. PubMed PMID: 34545084
• Schreck KC, Morin A, Zhao G, Allen AN, Flannery P, Glantz M, Green AL, Jones C, Jones KL, Kilburn LB, Nazemi KJ, Samuel D, Sanford B, Solomon DA, Wang J, Pratilas CA, Nicolaides T, Mulcahy Levy JM. Deconvoluting Mechanisms of Acquired Resistance to RAF Inhibitors in BRAF(V600E)-Mutant Human Glioma. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Aug 25. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34433654
• Klionsky DJ, Abdel-Aziz AK, Abdelfatah S, Abdellatif M, Abdoli A, Abel S, Abeliovich H, Abildgaard MH, Abudu YP, Acevedo-Arozena A, Adamopoulos IE, Adeli K, Adolph TE, Adornetto A, Aflaki E, Agam G, Agarwal A, Aggarwal BB, Agnello M, Agostinis P, Agrewala JN, Agrotis A, Aguilar PV, Ahmad ST, Ahmed ZM, Ahumada-Castro U, Aits S, Aizawa S, Akkoc Y, Akoumianaki T, Akpinar HA, Al-Abd AM, Al-Akra L, Al-Gharaibeh A, Alaoui-Jamali MA, Alberti S, Alcocer-Gómez E, Alessandri C, Ali M, Alim Al-Bari MA, Aliwaini S, Alizadeh J, Almacellas E, Almasan A, Alonso A, Alonso GD, Altan-Bonnet N, Altieri DC, Álvarez ÉMC, Alves S, Alves da Costa C, Alzaharna MM, Amadio M, Amantini C, Amaral C, Ambrosio S, Amer AO, Ammanathan V, An Z, Andersen SU, Andrabi SA, Andrade-Silva M, Andres AM, Angelini S, Ann D, Anozie UC, Ansari MY, Antas P, Antebi A, Antón Z, Anwar T, Apetoh L, Apostolova N, Araki T, Araki Y, Arasaki K, Araújo WL, Araya J, Arden C, Arévalo MA, Arguelles S, Arias E, Arikkath J, Arimoto H, Ariosa AR, Armstrong-James D, Arnauné-Pelloquin L, Aroca A, Arroyo DS, Arsov I, Artero R, Asaro DML, Aschner M, Ashrafizadeh M, Ashur-Fabian O, Atanasov AG, Au AK, Auberger P, Auner HW, Aurelian L, Autelli R, Avagliano L, Ávalos Y, Aveic S, Aveleira CA, Avin-Wittenberg T, Aydin Y, Ayton S, Ayyadevara S, Azzopardi M, Baba M, Backer JM, Backues SK, Bae DH, Bae ON, Bae SH, Baehrecke EH, Baek A, Baek SH, Baek SH, Bagetta G, Bagniewska-Zadworna A, Bai H, Bai J, Bai X, Bai Y, Bairagi N, Baksi S, Balbi T, Baldari CT, Balduini W, Ballabio A, Ballester M, Balazadeh S, Balzan R, Bandopadhyay R, Banerjee S, Banerjee S, Bánréti Á, Bao Y, Baptista MS, Baracca A, Barbati C, Bargiela A, Barilà D, Barlow PG, Barmada SJ, Barreiro E, Barreto GE, Bartek J, Bartel B, Bartolome A, Barve GR, Basagoudanavar SH, Bassham DC, Bast RC Jr, Basu A, Batoko H, Batten I, Baulieu EE, Baumgarner BL, Bayry J, Beale R, Beau I, Beaumatin F, Bechara LRG, Beck GR Jr, Beers MF, Begun J, Behrends C, Behrens GMN, Bei R, Bejarano ... Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)(1). Autophagy. 2021 Jan;17(1):1-382. PubMed PMID: 33634751
• L'Hotta AJ, Thomas KM, Milgrom SA, Hemenway MS, Levy JMM. Medical and rehabilitation interventions in pediatric central nervous system radiation necrosis: A case report. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2021 Jan;68(1):e28705. PubMed PMID: 32985070
• Dolan SA, Mulcahy Levy J, Moss A, Pearce K, Butler M, Jung S, Dominguez SR, Mwangi E, Maloney K, Rao S. SARS-CoV-2 persistence in immunocompromised children. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2021 Dec;68(12):e29277. PubMed PMID: 34453477
• Khan S, Solano-Paez P, Suwal T, Lu M, Al-Karmi S, Ho B, Mumal I, Shago M, Hoffman LM, Dodgshun A, Nobusawa S, Tabori U, Bartels U, Ziegler DS, Hansford JR, Ramaswamy V, Hawkins C, Dufour C, André N, Bouffet E, Huang A. Clinical phenotypes and prognostic features of embryonal tumours with multi-layered rosettes: a Rare Brain Tumor Registry study. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2021 Nov;5(11):800-813. PubMed PMID: 34599879
• Milgrom SA, Koo J, Foreman N, Liu AK, Campbell K, Dorris K, Green AL, Dahl N, Donson AM, Vibhakar R, Levy JMM. Radiation Therapy for Young Children Treated With High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplant for Primary Brain Tumors. Adv Radiat Oncol. 2022 Jul-Aug;7(4):100945. PubMed PMID: 35814855
• Grob ST, Nobre L, Campbell KR, Davies KD, Ryall S, Aisner DL, Hoffman L, Zahedi S, Morin A, Crespo M, Nellan A, Green AL, Foreman N, Vibhakar R, Hankinson TC, Handler MH, Hawkins C, Tabori U, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Mulcahy Levy JM. Clinical and molecular characterization of a multi-institutional cohort of pediatric spinal cord low-grade gliomas. Neurooncol Adv. 2020 Jan-Dec;2(1):vdaa103. PubMed PMID: 33063010
• Daniel EB, Ney DE, Levy JMM. MEK inhibition with trametinib is a successful therapy in ganglioglioma. Clin Case Rep Rev. 2020 Jun;6(2). PubMed PMID: 32999736
• Morin A, Soane C, Pierce A, Sanford B, Jones KL, Crespo M, Zahedi S, Vibhakar R, Mulcahy Levy JM. Proteasome inhibition as a therapeutic approach in atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors. Neurooncol Adv. 2020 Jan-Dec;2(1):vdaa051. PubMed PMID: 32642704
• Samples DC, Mulcahy Levy JM, Hankinson TC. Neurosurgery for Optic Pathway Glioma: Optimizing Multidisciplinary Management. Front Surg. 2022;9:884250. PubMed PMID: 35599811
• Green AL, DeSisto J, Flannery P, Lemma R, Knox A, Lemieux M, Sanford B, O'Rourke R, Ramkissoon S, Jones K, Perry J, Hui X, Moroze E, Balakrishnan I, O'Neill AF, Dunn K, DeRyckere D, Danis E, Safadi A, Gilani A, Hubbell-Engler B, Nuss Z, Levy JMM, Serkova N, Venkataraman S, Graham DK, Foreman N, Ligon K, Jones K, Kung AL, Vibhakar R. Correction: BPTF regulates growth of adult and pediatric high-grade glioma through the MYC pathway. Oncogene. 2020 Mar;39(12):2641. PubMed PMID: 31969682
• Lind KT, Chatwin HV, DeSisto J, Coleman P, Sanford B, Donson AM, Davies KD, Willard N, Ewing CA, Knox AJ, Mulcahy Levy JM, Gilani A, Green AL. Novel RAF Fusions in Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas Demonstrate MAPK Pathway Activation. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2021 Dec 29;80(12):1099-1107. PubMed PMID: 34850053
• Green AL, DeSisto J, Flannery P, Lemma R, Knox A, Lemieux M, Sanford B, O'Rourke R, Ramkissoon S, Jones K, Perry J, Hui X, Moroze E, Balakrishnan I, O'Neill AF, Dunn K, DeRyckere D, Danis E, Safadi A, Gilani A, Hubbell-Engler B, Nuss Z, Levy JMM, Serkova N, Venkataraman S, Graham DK, Foreman N, Ligon K, Jones K, Kung AL, Vibhakar R. BPTF regulates growth of adult and pediatric high-grade glioma through the MYC pathway. Oncogene. 2020 Mar;39(11):2305-2327. PubMed PMID: 31844250
• Grob ST, Miller KR, Sanford B, Donson AM, Jones K, Griesinger AM, Amani V, Foreman NK, Liu A, Handler M, Hankinson TC, Milgrom S, Levy JMM. Genetic predictors of neurocognitive outcomes in survivors of pediatric brain tumors. J Neurooncol. 2023 Oct 25. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37878192
• DeSisto J, Donson AM, Griesinger AM, Fu R, Riemondy K, Mulcahy Levy JM, Siegenthaler JA, Foreman NK, Vibhakar R, Green AL. Tumor and immune cell types interact to produce heterogeneous phenotypes of pediatric high grade glioma. Neuro-oncology. 2023.
• Zahedi, Z, Riemondy, K, Griesinger, AM, Donson, AM, Fu, R; Crespo, M, Desisto, J, Groat, M, Bratbak, E, Green, A, Hankinson, T, Handler, M, Vibhakar, R, Willard, N, Foreman, NK, Mulcahy Levy, JM. Multi-pronged analysis of pediatric low-grade glioma reveals a unique tumor microenvironment associated with BRAF alterations. Journal of Experimental Medicine. Under review.
• Zahedi S, Riemondy K, Griesinger AM, Donson AM, Fu R, Crespo M, DeSisto J, Groat MM, Bratbak E, Green A, Hankinson TC, Handler M, Vibhakar R, Willard N, Foreman NK, Levy JM. Multi-pronged analysis of pediatric low-grade glioma reveals a unique tumor microenvironment associated with BRAF alterations. bioRxiv. 2024 Apr 10. PubMed PMID: 38645202
• Grob ST, Miller KR, Sanford B, Donson AM, Jones K, Griesinger AM, Amani V, Foreman NK, Liu A, Handler M, Hankinson TC, Milgrom S, Levy JMM. Genetic predictors of neurocognitive outcomes in survivors of pediatric brain tumors. J Neurooncol. 2023 Oct;165(1):161-169. PubMed PMID: 37878192
• DeSisto J, Donson AM, Griesinger AM, Fu R, Riemondy K, Mulcahy Levy J, Siegenthaler JA, Foreman NK, Vibhakar R, Green AL. Tumor and immune cell types interact to produce heterogeneous phenotypes of pediatric high-grade glioma. Neuro Oncol. 2024 Mar 4;26(3):538-552. PubMed PMID: 37934854

Professional Memberships

• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Member
• American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Member
• American Society of Clinical Oncology, Member

Practice Locations

Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 East 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-777-1234

Hospital Affiliation

• Children's Hospital Colorado

Specialty Information

Specialties

• Pediatrics, Board Certification (2007, 2007)
• Pediatric Hematology / Oncology
• PALS Instructor, Certificate (2012)

Conditions & Treatments

• Blood / Lymphatic System
• Cancers - Brain Cancer
• Cancers - Leukemia (Childhood)
• Cancers - Pediatric Cancer
• Cancers