Matt Witkowski, PhD

Professional Titles

• Assistant Professor

Publications

• Witkowski MT, Lee S, Wang E, Lee AK, Talbot A, Ma C, Tsopoulidis N, Brumbaugh J, Zhao Y, Roberts KG, Hogg SJ, Nomikou S, Ghebrechristos YE, Thandapani P, Mullighan CG, Hochedlinger K, Chen W, Abdel-Wahab O, Eyquem J, Aifantis I. NUDT21 limits CD19 levels through alternative mRNA polyadenylation in B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Nat Immunol. 2022 Sep 22. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36138187
• Iacobucci I, Witkowski MT, Mullighan CG. Single-cell analysis of acute lymphoblastic and lineage ambiguous leukemia - approaches and molecular insights. Blood. 2022 Aug 4. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 35926109
• Wang E, Mi X, Thompson MC, Montoya S, Notti RQ, Afaghani J, Durham BH, Penson A, Witkowski MT, Lu SX, Bourcier J, Hogg SJ, Erickson C, Cui D, Cho H, Singer M, Totiger TM, Chaudhry S, Geyer M, Alencar A, Linley AJ, Palomba ML, Coombs CC, Park JH, Zelenetz A, Roeker L, Rosendahl M, Tsai DE, Ebata K, Brandhuber B, Hyman DM, Aifantis I, Mato A, Taylor J, Abdel-Wahab O. Mechanisms of Resistance to Noncovalent Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors. N Engl J Med. 2022 Feb 24;386(8):735-743. PubMed PMID: 35196427
• Thandapani P, Kloetgen A, Witkowski MT, Glytsou C, Lee AK, Wang E, Wang J, LeBoeuf SE, Avrampou K, Papagiannakopoulos T, Tsirigos A, Aifantis I. Valine tRNA levels and availability regulate complex I assembly in leukaemia. Nature. 2022 Jan;601(7893):428-433. PubMed PMID: 34937946
• Wang E, Zhou H, Nadorp B, Cayanan G, Chen X, Yeaton AH, Nomikou S, Witkowski MT, Narang S, Kloetgen A, Thandapani P, Ravn-Boess N, Tsirigos A, Aifantis I. Surface antigen-guided CRISPR screens identify regulators of myeloid leukemia differentiation. Cell Stem Cell. 2021 Apr 1;28(4):718-731.e6. PubMed PMID: 33450187
• Ma C, Witkowski MT, Harris J, Dolgalev I, Sreeram S, Qian W, Tong J, Chen X, Aifantis I, Chen W. Leukemia-on-a-chip: Dissecting the chemoresistance mechanisms in B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia bone marrow niche. Sci Adv. 2020 Oct;6(44). PubMed PMID: 33127669
• Witkowski MT, Dolgalev I, Evensen NA, Ma C, Chambers T, Roberts KG, Sreeram S, Dai Y, Tikhonova AN, Lasry A, Qu C, Pei D, Cheng C, Robbins GA, Pierro J, Selvaraj S, Mezzano V, Daves M, Lupo PJ, Scheurer ME, Loomis CA, Mullighan CG, Chen W, Rabin KR, Tsirigos A, Carroll WL, Aifantis I. Extensive Remodeling of the Immune Microenvironment in B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Cancer Cell. 2020 Jun 8;37(6):867-882.e12. PubMed PMID: 32470390
• Witkowski MT, Kousteni S, Aifantis I. Mapping and targeting of the leukemic microenvironment. J Exp Med. 2020 Feb 3;217(2). PubMed PMID: 31873722
• Witkowski MT, Lasry A, Carroll WL, Aifantis I. Immune-Based Therapies in Acute Leukemia. Trends Cancer. 2019 Oct;5(10):604-618. PubMed PMID: 31706508
• Tikhonova AN, Dolgalev I, Hu H, Sivaraj KK, Hoxha E, Cuesta-Domínguez Á, Pinho S, Akhmetzyanova I, Gao J, Witkowski M, Guillamot M, Gutkin MC, Zhang Y, Marier C, Diefenbach C, Kousteni S, Heguy A, Zhong H, Fooksman DR, Butler JM, Economides A, Frenette PS, Adams RH, Satija R, Tsirigos A, Aifantis I. The bone marrow microenvironment at single-cell resolution. Nature. 2019 May;569(7755):222-228. PubMed PMID: 30971824
• McKenzie MD, Ghisi M, Oxley EP, Ngo S, Cimmino L, Esnault C, Liu R, Salmon JM, Bell CC, Ahmed N, Erlichster M, Witkowski MT, Liu GJ, Chopin M, Dakic A, Simankowicz E, Pomilio G, Vu T, Krsmanovic P, Su S, Tian L, Baldwin TM, Zalcenstein DA, DiRago L, Wang S, Metcalf D, Johnstone RW, Croker BA, Lancaster GI, Murphy AJ, Naik SH, Nutt SL, Pospisil V, Schroeder T, Wall M, Dawson MA, Wei AH, de Thé H, Ritchie ME, Zuber J, Dickins RA. Interconversion between Tumorigenic and Differentiated States in Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Cell Stem Cell. 2019 Aug 1;25(2):258-272.e9. PubMed PMID: 31374198
• Tikhonova AN, Dolgalev I, Hu H, Sivaraj KK, Hoxha E, Cuesta-Domínguez Á, Pinho S, Akhmetzyanova I, Gao J, Witkowski M, Guillamot M, Gutkin MC, Zhang Y, Marier C, Diefenbach C, Kousteni S, Heguy A, Zhong H, Fooksman DR, Butler JM, Economides A, Frenette PS, Adams RH, Satija R, Tsirigos A, Aifantis I. Author Correction: The bone marrow microenvironment at single-cell resolution. Nature. 2019 Aug;572(7767):E6. PubMed PMID: 31296938
• McRae HM, Garnham AL, Hu Y, Witkowski MT, Corbett MA, Dixon MP, May RE, Sheikh BN, Chiang W, Kueh AJ, Nguyen TA, Man K, Gloury R, Aubrey BJ, Policheni A, Di Rago L, Alexander WS, Gray DHD, Strasser A, Hawkins ED, Wilcox S, Gécz J, Kallies A, McCormack MP, Smyth GK, Voss AK, Thomas T. PHF6 regulates hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells and its loss synergizes with expression of TLX3 to cause leukemia. Blood. 2019 Apr 18;133(16):1729-1741. PubMed PMID: 30755422
• Cimmino L, Dolgalev I, Wang Y, Yoshimi A, Martin GH, Wang J, Ng V, Xia B, Witkowski MT, Mitchell-Flack M, Grillo I, Bakogianni S, Ndiaye-Lobry D, Martín MT, Guillamot M, Banh RS, Xu M, Figueroa ME, Dickins RA, Abdel-Wahab O, Park CY, Tsirigos A, Neel BG, Aifantis I. Restoration of TET2 Function Blocks Aberrant Self-Renewal and Leukemia Progression. Cell. 2017 Sep 7;170(6):1079-1095.e20. PubMed PMID: 28823558
• Contreras Yametti GP, Evensen NA, Schloss JM, Aldebert C, Duan E, Zhang Y, Hu J, Chambers TM, Scheurer ME, Teachey DT, Rabin KR, Raetz EA, Aifantis I, Carroll WL, Witkowski MT. Flow cytometric assessment of leukemia-associated monocytes in childhood B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia outcome. Blood Adv. 2023 Aug 8;7(15):3928-3931. PubMed PMID: 37196626
• Ma C, Wang H, Liu L, Tong J, Witkowski MT, Aifantis I, Ghassemi S, Chen W. A bioengineered immunocompetent human leukemia chip for preclinical screening of CAR T cell immunotherapy. Res Sq. 2023 Apr 21. PubMed PMID: 37131801
• Austin RJ, Straube J, Halder R, Janardhanan Y, Bruedigam C, Witkowski M, Cooper L, Porter A, Braun M, Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes F, Minnie SA, Cooper E, Jacquelin S, Song A, Bald T, Nakamura K, Hill GR, Aifantis I, Lane SW, Bywater MJ. Oncogenic drivers dictate immune control of acute myeloid leukemia. Nat Commun. 2023 Apr 14;14(1):2155. PubMed PMID: 37059710
• Battistello E, Hixon KA, Comstock DE, Collings CK, Chen X, Rodriguez Hernaez J, Lee S, Cervantes KS, Hinkley MM, Ntatsoulis K, Cesarano A, Hockemeyer K, Haining WN, Witkowski MT, Qi J, Tsirigos A, Perna F, Aifantis I, Kadoch C. Stepwise activities of mSWI/SNF family chromatin remodeling complexes direct T cell activation and exhaustion. Mol Cell. 2023 Apr 20;83(8):1216-1236.e12. PubMed PMID: 36944333
• Lasry A, Nadorp B, Fornerod M, Nicolet D, Wu H, Walker CJ, Sun Z, Witkowski MT, Tikhonova AN, Guillamot-Ruano M, Cayanan G, Yeaton A, Robbins G, Obeng EA, Tsirigos A, Stone RM, Byrd JC, Pounds S, Carroll WL, Gruber TA, Eisfeld AK, Aifantis I. Author Correction: An inflammatory state remodels the immune microenvironment and improves risk stratification in acute myeloid leukemia. Nat Cancer. 2023 Jan;4(1):149. PubMed PMID: 36658429
• Witkowski MT, Hu Y, Roberts KG, Boer JM, McKenzie MD, Liu GJ, Le Grice OD, Tremblay CS, Ghisi M, Willson TA, Horstmann MA, Aifantis I, Cimmino L, Frietze S, den Boer ML, Mullighan CG, Smyth GK, Dickins RA. Conserved IKAROS-regulated genes associated with B-progenitor acute lymphoblastic leukemia outcome. J Exp Med. 2017 Mar 6;214(3):773-791. PubMed PMID: 28190000
• Lee EF, Grabow S, Chappaz S, Dewson G, Hockings C, Kluck RM, Debrincat MA, Gray DH, Witkowski MT, Evangelista M, Pettikiriarachchi A, Bouillet P, Lane RM, Czabotar PE, Colman PM, Smith BJ, Kile BT, Fairlie WD. Physiological restraint of Bak by Bcl-xL is essential for cell survival. Genes Dev. 2016 May 15;30(10):1240-50. PubMed PMID: 27198225
• Liu GJ, Cimmino L, Jude JG, Hu Y, Witkowski MT, McKenzie MD, Kartal-Kaess M, Best SA, Tuohey L, Liao Y, Shi W, Mullighan CG, Farrar MA, Nutt SL, Smyth GK, Zuber J, Dickins RA. Pax5 loss imposes a reversible differentiation block in B-progenitor acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Genes Dev. 2014 Jun 15;28(12):1337-50. PubMed PMID: 24939936
• Liu L, Ma C, Zhang Z, Witkowski MT, Aifantis I, Ghassemi S, Chen W. Computational model of CAR T-cell immunotherapy dissects and predicts leukemia patient responses at remission, resistance, and relapse. J Immunother Cancer. 2022 Dec;10(12). PubMed PMID: 36600553
• Lasry A, Nadorp B, Fornerod M, Nicolet D, Wu H, Walker CJ, Sun Z, Witkowski MT, Tikhonova AN, Guillamot-Ruano M, Cayanan G, Yeaton A, Robbins G, Obeng EA, Tsirigos A, Stone RM, Byrd JC, Pounds S, Carroll WL, Gruber TA, Eisfeld AK, Aifantis I. An inflammatory state remodels the immune microenvironment and improves risk stratification in acute myeloid leukemia. Nat Cancer. 2023 Jan;4(1):27-42. PubMed PMID: 36581735
• Witkowski MT, Lee S, Wang E, Lee AK, Talbot A, Ma C, Tsopoulidis N, Brumbaugh J, Zhao Y, Roberts KG, Hogg SJ, Nomikou S, Ghebrechristos YE, Thandapani P, Mullighan CG, Hochedlinger K, Chen W, Abdel-Wahab O, Eyquem J, Aifantis I. NUDT21 limits CD19 levels through alternative mRNA polyadenylation in B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Nat Immunol. 2022 Oct;23(10):1424-1432. PubMed PMID: 36138187
• Iacobucci I, Witkowski MT, Mullighan CG. Single-cell analysis of acute lymphoblastic and lineage-ambiguous leukemia: approaches and molecular insights. Blood. 2023 Jan 26;141(4):356-368. PubMed PMID: 35926109
• Wang E, Mi X, Thompson MC, Montoya S, Notti RQ, Afaghani J, Durham BH, Penson A, Witkowski MT, Lu SX, Bourcier J, Hogg SJ, Erickson C, Cui D, Cho H, Singer M, Totiger TM, Chaudhry S, Geyer M, Alencar A, Linley AJ, Palomba ML, Coombs CC, Park JH, Zelenetz A, Roeker L, Rosendahl M, Tsai DE, Ebata K, Brandhuber B, Hyman DM, Aifantis I, Mato A, Taylor J, Abdel-Wahab O. Mechanisms of Resistance to Noncovalent Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors. N Engl J Med. 2022 Feb 24;386(8):735-743. PubMed PMID: 35196427
• Thandapani P, Kloetgen A, Witkowski MT, Glytsou C, Lee AK, Wang E, Wang J, LeBoeuf SE, Avrampou K, Papagiannakopoulos T, Tsirigos A, Aifantis I. Valine tRNA levels and availability regulate complex I assembly in leukaemia. Nature. 2022 Jan;601(7893):428-433. PubMed PMID: 34937946
• Garcia C, Miller-Awe MD, Witkowski MT. Concepts in B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Pathogenesis. J Leukoc Biol. 2024 Jan 18. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38243586
• Iacobucci I, Zeng AGX, Gao Q, Garcia-Prat L, Baviskar P, Shah S, Murison A, Voisin V, Chan-Seng-Yue M, Cheng C, Qu C, Bailey C, Lear M, Witkowski MT, Zhou X, Peraza AZ, Gangwani K, Advani AS, Luger SM, Litzow MR, Rowe JM, Paietta EM, Stock W, Dick JE, Mullighan CG. SINGLE CELL DISSECTION OF DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS AND TRANSCRIPTIONAL HETEROGENEITY IN B-CELL ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA. bioRxiv. 2023 Dec 9. PubMed PMID: 38106088
• Narang S, Ghebrechristos Y, Evensen NA, Murrell N, Jasinski S, Ostrow TH, Teachey DT, Raetz EA, Lionnet T, Witkowski M, Aifantis I, Tsirigos A, Carroll WL. Clonal evolution of the 3D chromatin landscape in patients with relapsed pediatric B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Nat Commun. 2024 Aug 28;15(1):7425. PubMed PMID: 39198446
• Garcia C, Miller-Awe MD, Witkowski MT. Concepts in B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia pathogenesis. J Leukoc Biol. 2024 Jun 28;116(1):18-32. PubMed PMID: 38243586
• Iacobucci I, Zeng AGX, Gao Q, Garcia-Prat L, Baviskar P, Shah S, Murison A, Voisin V, Chan-Seng-Yue M, Cheng C, Qu C, Bailey C, Lear M, Witkowski MT, Zhou X, Peraza AZ, Gangwani K, Advani AS, Luger SM, Litzow MR, Rowe JM, Paietta EM, Stock W, Dick JE, Mullighan CG. SINGLE CELL DISSECTION OF DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS AND TRANSCRIPTIONAL HETEROGENEITY IN B-CELL ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA. bioRxiv. 2023 Dec 9. PubMed PMID: 38106088
• Contreras Yametti GP, Evensen NA, Schloss JM, Aldebert C, Duan E, Zhang Y, Hu J, Chambers TM, Scheurer ME, Teachey DT, Rabin KR, Raetz EA, Aifantis I, Carroll WL, Witkowski MT. Flow cytometric assessment of leukemia-associated monocytes in childhood B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia outcome. Blood Adv. 2023 Aug 8;7(15):3928-3931. PubMed PMID: 37196626
• Ma C, Wang H, Liu L, Tong J, Witkowski MT, Aifantis I, Ghassemi S, Chen W. A bioengineered immunocompetent human leukemia chip for preclinical screening of CAR T cell immunotherapy. Res Sq. 2023 Apr 21. PubMed PMID: 37131801
• Austin RJ, Straube J, Halder R, Janardhanan Y, Bruedigam C, Witkowski M, Cooper L, Porter A, Braun M, Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes F, Minnie SA, Cooper E, Jacquelin S, Song A, Bald T, Nakamura K, Hill GR, Aifantis I, Lane SW, Bywater MJ. Oncogenic drivers dictate immune control of acute myeloid leukemia. Nat Commun. 2023 Apr 14;14(1):2155. PubMed PMID: 37059710
• Battistello E, Hixon KA, Comstock DE, Collings CK, Chen X, Rodriguez Hernaez J, Lee S, Cervantes KS, Hinkley MM, Ntatsoulis K, Cesarano A, Hockemeyer K, Haining WN, Witkowski MT, Qi J, Tsirigos A, Perna F, Aifantis I, Kadoch C. Stepwise activities of mSWI/SNF family chromatin remodeling complexes direct T cell activation and exhaustion. Mol Cell. 2023 Apr 20;83(8):1216-1236.e12. PubMed PMID: 36944333
• Lasry A, Nadorp B, Fornerod M, Nicolet D, Wu H, Walker CJ, Sun Z, Witkowski MT, Tikhonova AN, Guillamot-Ruano M, Cayanan G, Yeaton A, Robbins G, Obeng EA, Tsirigos A, Stone RM, Byrd JC, Pounds S, Carroll WL, Gruber TA, Eisfeld AK, Aifantis I. Author Correction: An inflammatory state remodels the immune microenvironment and improves risk stratification in acute myeloid leukemia. Nat Cancer. 2023 Jan;4(1):149. PubMed PMID: 36658429
• Lasry A, Nadorp B, Fornerod M, Nicolet D, Wu H, Walker CJ, Sun Z, Witkowski MT, Tikhonova AN, Guillamot-Ruano M, Cayanan G, Yeaton A, Robbins G, Obeng EA, Tsirigos A, Stone RM, Byrd JC, Pounds S, Carroll WL, Gruber TA, Eisfeld AK, Aifantis I. An inflammatory state remodels the immune microenvironment and improves risk stratification in acute myeloid leukemia. Nat Cancer. 2023 Jan;4(1):27-42. PubMed PMID: 36581735
• Iacobucci I, Witkowski MT, Mullighan CG. Single-cell analysis of acute lymphoblastic and lineage-ambiguous leukemia: approaches and molecular insights. Blood. 2023 Jan 26;141(4):356-368. PubMed PMID: 35926109

Professional Memberships

• American Society of Hematology, Active Member
• Children's Oncology Group, Active Member
• International Society of Experimental Hematology, Active Member

Practice Locations