Kurtis Davies, PhD

Publications

• Cummings CT, Linger RM, Cohen RA, Sather S, Kirkpatrick GD, Davies KD, DeRyckere D, Earp HS, Graham DK. (2014) Mer590, a novel monoclonal antibody targeting MER receptor tyrosine kinase, decreases colony formation and increases chemosensitivity in non-small cell lung cancer. Oncotarget 15;5(21): 10434-45
• Graham DK, DeRyckere D, Davies KD, Earp HS. (2014) The TAM Family: Phosphatidyl Serine Sensing Receptor Tyrosine Kinases Gone Awry in Cancer. Nat Rev Cancer 14(12): 769-785
• Davies KD, Doebele RC, Aisner DL. Rearranging Detection of Gene Rearrangements. J Thorac Oncol. 2015 Aug;10(8):1129-30. PubMed PMID: 26200265
• Cummings CT, Zhang W, Davies KD, Kirkpatrick GD, Zhang D, DeRyckere D, Wang X, Frye SV, Earp HS, Graham DK. Small Molecule Inhibition of MERTK Is Efficacious in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Models Independent of Driver Oncogene Status. Mol Cancer Ther. 2015 Sep;14(9):2014-22. PubMed PMID: 26162689
• 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
• Greer A, Foreman NK, Donson A, Davies KD, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK. Desmoplastic infantile astrocytoma/ganglioglioma with rare BRAF V600D mutation. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2016 Nov 10. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27860162
• Davies KD, Farooqi MS, Gruidl M, Hill CE, Woolworth-Hirschhorn J, Jones H, Jones KL, Magliocco A, Mitui M, O'Neill PH, O'Rourke R, Patel NM, Qin D, Ramos E, Rossi MR, Schneider TM, Smith GH, Zhang L, Park JY, Aisner DL. Multi-Institutional FASTQ File Exchange as a Means of Proficiency Testing for Next-Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics and Variant Interpretation. J Mol Diagn. 2016 Jul;18(4):572-9. PubMed PMID: 27155050
• Bastman JJ, Serracino HS, Zhu Y, Koenig MR, Mateescu V, Sams SB, Davies KD, Raeburn CD, McIntyre RC Jr, Haugen BR, French JD. Tumor-Infiltrating T Cells and the PD-1 Checkpoint Pathway in Advanced Differentiated and Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2016 Jul;101(7):2863-73. PubMed PMID: 27045886
• Pathology, Biomarkers, and Molecular Diagnostics (chapter for Abeloff Clinical Oncology 6th Edition)
• TT07. Detection of a Complex EML4-ALK Fusion Transcript via Anchored Multiplex PCR and de novo Assembly of Next-Generation Sequencing Reads (Association for Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting)
• Reeser JW, Martin D, Miya J, Kautto EA, Lyon E, Zhu E, Wing MR, Smith A, Reeder M, Samorodnitsky E, Parks H, Naik KR, Gozgit J, Nowacki N, Davies KD, Varella-Garcia M, Yu L, Freud AG, Coleman J, Aisner DL, Roychowdhury S. Validation of a Targeted RNA Sequencing Assay for Kinase Fusion Detection in Solid Tumors. J Mol Diagn. 2017 Sep;19(5):682-696. PubMed PMID: 28802831
• Vaishnavi A, Schubert L, Rix U, Marek LA, Le AT, Keysar SB, Glogowska MJ, Smith MA, Kako S, Sumi NJ, Davies KD, Ware KE, Varella-Garcia M, Haura EB, Jimeno A, Heasley LE, Aisner DL, Doebele RC. EGFR Mediates Responses to Small-Molecule Drugs Targeting Oncogenic Fusion Kinases. Cancer Res. 2017 Jul 1;77(13):3551-3563. PubMed PMID: 28428274
• 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
• Greer A, Foreman NK, Donson A, Davies KD, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK. Desmoplastic infantile astrocytoma/ganglioglioma with rare BRAF V600D mutation. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Jun;64(6). PubMed PMID: 27860162
• Davies KD, Ng TL, Estrada-Bernal A, Le AT, Ennever PR, Camidge DR, Doebele RC, Aisner DL. Dramatic Response to Crizotinib in a Patient With Lung Cancer Positive for an HLA-DRB1-MET Gene Fusion. JCO Precision Oncology 2017: 1, 1-6
• Davies KD, Aisner DL, Le AT, Sheren J, Nijmeh H, Varella-Garcia M, Doebele RC. Comparison of Molecular Testing Modalities for Detection of ROS1 Rearrangements in a Cohort of Positive Patient Samples. World Conference for Lung Cancer Meeting 2017. Abs. 10110
• Davies KD, Haney J, Seager M, Aisner DL. Validation of an Anchored Multiplex PCR-Based Next Generation Sequencing Assay for the Detection of MET Exon 14 Skipping. Association for Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting 2017. Abs ST43
• Vanderbilt C, Yourshaw M, Aisner DL, Davies KD. Overlapping Variants Lead to Potential for Missed Calls in Custom Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Pipeline. Association for Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting 2017. Abs. I13
• McDaniel NK, Cummings CT, Iida M, Hülse J, Pearson HE, Vasileiadi E, Parker RE, Orbuch RA, Ondracek OJ, Welke NB, Kang GH, Davies KD, Wang X, Frye SV, Earp HS, Harari PM, Kimple RJ, DeRyckere D, Graham DK, Wheeler DL. MERTK Mediates Intrinsic and Adaptive Resistance to AXL-targeting Agents. Mol Cancer Ther. 2018 Nov;17(11):2297-2308. PubMed PMID: 30093568
• Karam SD, Reddy K, Blatchford PJ, Waxweiler T, DeLouize AM, Oweida A, Somerset H, Marshall C, Young C, Davies KD, Kane M, Tan AC, Wang XJ, Jimeno A, Aisner DL, Bowles DW, Raben D. Final Report of a Phase I Trial of Olaparib with Cetuximab and Radiation for Heavy Smoker Patients with Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Oct 15;24(20):4949-4959. PubMed PMID: 30084837
• Davies KD, Le AT, Sheren J, Nijmeh H, Gowan K, Jones KL, Varella-Garcia M, Aisner DL, Doebele RC. Comparison of Molecular Testing Modalities for Detection of ROS1 Rearrangements in a Cohort of Positive Patient Samples. J Thorac Oncol. 2018 Oct;13(10):1474-1482. PubMed PMID: 29935306
• McCoach CE, Le AT, Gowan K, Jones K, Schubert L, Doak A, Estrada-Bernal A, Davies KD, Merrick DT, Bunn PA Jr, Purcell WT, Dziadziuszko R, Varella-Garcia M, Aisner DL, Camidge DR, Doebele RC. Resistance Mechanisms to Targeted Therapies in ROS1 ( ) and ALK ( ) Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Jul 15;24(14):3334-3347. PubMed PMID: 29636358
• McCoach CE, Blakely CM, Banks KC, Levy B, Chue BM, Raymond VM, Le AT, Lee CE, Diaz J, Waqar SN, Purcell WT, Aisner DL, Davies KD, Lanman RB, Shaw AT, Doebele RC. Clinical Utility of Cell-Free DNA for the Detection of ALK Fusions and Genomic Mechanisms of ALK Inhibitor Resistance in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Jun 15;24(12):2758-2770. PubMed PMID: 29599410
• Seager M, Aisner DL, Davies KD. Oncogenic Gene Fusion Detection Using Anchored Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Followed by Next Generation Sequencing. J Vis Exp. 2019 Jul 5;(149). PubMed PMID: 31329176
• Davies KD, Aisner DL. Wake Up and Smell the Fusions: Single-Modality Molecular Testing Misses Drivers. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Aug 1;25(15):4586-4588. PubMed PMID: 31160470
• Davies KD, Villalobos VM, Aisner DL. Ready or Not, Here I Come: Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumors With Kinase Alterations Revealed Through Molecular Hide and Seek. J Thorac Oncol. 2019 May;14(5):758-760. PubMed PMID: 31027738
• Moroney MR, Davies KD, Wilberger AC, Sheeder J, Post MD, Berning AA, Fisher C, Lefkowits C, Guntupalli SR, Behbakht K, Corr BR. Molecular markers in recurrent stage I, grade 1 endometrioid endometrial cancers. Gynecol Oncol. 2019 Jun;153(3):517-520. PubMed PMID: 30910249
• Camidge DR, Davies KD. MET Copy Number as a Secondary Driver of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Resistance in EGFR-Mutant Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Apr 10;37(11):855-857. PubMed PMID: 30811294
• Davies KD, Lomboy A, Lawrence CA, Yourshaw M, Bocsi GT, Camidge DR, Aisner DL. DNA-Based versus RNA-Based Detection of MET Exon 14 Skipping Events in Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2019 Apr;14(4):737-741. PubMed PMID: 30639620
• Gilani A, Donson A, Davies KD, Whiteway SL, Lake J, DeSisto J, Hoffman L, Foreman NK, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Green AL. Targetable molecular alterations in congenital glioblastoma. J Neurooncol. 2019 Dec 24. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31875306
• Patil T, Mushtaq R, Marsh S, Azelby C, Pujara M, Davies KD, Aisner DL, Purcell WT, Schenk EL, Pacheco JM, Bunn PA, Camidge DR, Doebele RC. Clinicopathologic Characteristics, Treatment Outcomes, and Acquired Resistance Patterns of Atypical EGFR Mutations and HER2 Alterations in Stage IV Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Lung Cancer. 2019 Nov 21. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31859066
• Holman BN, Van Gulick RJ, Amato CM, MacBeth ML, Davies KD, Aisner DL, Robinson WA, Couts KL. Clinical and molecular features of subungual melanomas are site-specific and distinct from acral melanomas. Melanoma Res. 2020 Dec;30(6):562-573. PubMed PMID: 33156595
• 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
• Tsongalis GJ, Al Turkmani MR, Suriawinata M, Babcock MJ, Mitchell K, Ding Y, Scicchitano L, Tira A, Buckingham L, Atkinson S, Lax A, Aisner DL, Davies KD, Wood HN, O'Neill SS, Levine EA, Sequeira J, Harada S, DeFrank G, Paluri R, Tan BA, Colabella H, Snead C, Cruz-Correa M, Ramirez V, Rojas A, Huang H, Mackinnon AC, Garcia FU, Cavone SM, Elfahal M, Abel G, Vasef MA, Judd A, Linder MW, Alkhateeb K, Skinner WL, Boccia R, Patel K. Comparison of Tissue Molecular Biomarker Testing Turnaround Times and Concordance Between Standard of Care and the Biocartis Idylla Platform in Patients With Colorectal Cancer. Am J Clin Pathol. 2020 Jul 7;154(2):266-276. PubMed PMID: 32525522
• 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 Nov 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34850053
• Barker LP, Ritterhouse LL, Snow AN, Davies KD. Molecular Pathology Education: An Association for Molecular Pathology Webinar Series on Emerging and Evolving Biomarkers Structured for Specific Audiences. J Mol Diagn. 2021 Nov 24. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34838775
• Peters TL, Patil T, Le AT, Davies KD, Brzeskiewicz PM, Nijmeh H, Bao L, Camidge DR, Aisner DL, Doebele RC. Evolution of MET and NRAS gene amplification as acquired resistance mechanisms in EGFR mutant NSCLC. NPJ Precis Oncol. 2021 Oct 12;5(1):91. PubMed PMID: 34642436
• Socinski MA, Pennell NA, Davies KD. MET Exon 14 Skipping Mutations in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: An Overview of Biology, Clinical Outcomes, and Testing Considerations. JCO Precis Oncol. 2021;5. PubMed PMID: 34036238
• Gilani A, Davies KD, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK. Can adult IDH -wildtype glioblastomas with FGFR3:TACC3 fusions be reliably predicted by histological features?. Clin Neuropathol. 2021 May-Jun;40(3):165-167. PubMed PMID: 33769273
• Roy-Chowdhuri S, Davies KD, Ritterhouse LL, Snow AN. ERBB2 (HER2) Alterations in Colorectal Cancer. J Mol Diagn. 2022 Oct;24(10):1064-1066. PubMed PMID: 35944596
• Davies KD, Ritterhouse LL, Snow AN, Sidiropoulos N. MET Exon 14 Skipping Mutations: Essential Considerations for Current Management of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. J Mol Diagn. 2022 Aug;24(8):841-843. PubMed PMID: 35550186
• Barker LP, Ritterhouse LL, Snow AN, Davies KD. Molecular Pathology Education: An Association for Molecular Pathology Webinar Series on Emerging and Evolving Biomarkers Structured for Specific Audiences. J Mol Diagn. 2022 Feb;24(2):105-106. PubMed PMID: 34838775
• Nellan A, Wright E, Campbell K, Davies KD, Donson AM, Amani V, Judd A, Hemenway MS, Raybin J, Foreman NK, Rush S, Dorris K. Retrospective analysis of combination carboplatin and vinblastine for pediatric low-grade glioma. J Neurooncol. 2020 Jul;148(3):569-575. PubMed PMID: 32506370
• Gilani A, Donson A, Davies KD, Whiteway SL, Lake J, DeSisto J, Hoffman L, Foreman NK, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Green AL. Targetable molecular alterations in congenital glioblastoma. J Neurooncol. 2020 Jan;146(2):247-252. PubMed PMID: 31875306
• Davies KD, Smith LP, Guimaraes-Young A, Corr BR, Fisher CM, Guntupalli SR, Berning AA, Post MD, Pino D, Aisner DL, Wolsky RJ. Prospective Clinical Prognostication of Endometrial Carcinomas Based on Next-Generation Sequencing and Immunohistochemistry-Real-World Implementation and Results at a Tertiary Care Center. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 2023 Oct 4. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37922951
• Chen N, Tyler LC, Le AT, Welsh EA, Fang B, Elliott A, Davies KD, Danhorn T, Riely GJ, Ladanyi M, Haura EB, Doebele RC. MIG6 mediates adaptive and acquired resistance to ALK/ROS1 fusion kinase inhibition through EGFR bypass signaling. Mol Cancer Ther. 2023 Sep 26. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37748191
• Davies KD, Merrick DT. Skipping Expected Mechanisms of MET-Mediated Oncogenesis. J Thorac Oncol. 2020 Jan;15(1):9-11. PubMed PMID: 31864551
• Dong F, Davies KD. Mutational Signatures in Cancer: Laboratory Considerations and Emerging Applications. J Mol Diagn. 2023 Aug 24. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37633594
• Priest K, Le A, Gebregzabheir A, Nijmeh H, Reis GB, Mandell M, Davies KD, Lawrence C, O'Donnell E, Doebele RC, Bao L, Aisner DL, Schenk EL. Evolution of acquired resistance in a ROS1( ) KRAS G12C( ) NSCLC through the MAPK pathway. NPJ Precis Oncol. 2023 Jan 23;7(1):9. PubMed PMID: 36690705
• Patil T, Mushtaq R, Marsh S, Azelby C, Pujara M, Davies KD, Aisner DL, Purcell WT, Schenk EL, Pacheco JM, Bunn PA, Camidge DR, Doebele RC. Clinicopathologic Characteristics, Treatment Outcomes, and Acquired Resistance Patterns of Atypical EGFR Mutations and HER2 Alterations in Stage IV Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Lung Cancer. 2020 May;21(3):e191-e204. PubMed PMID: 31859066
• 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