Program

Developmental Therapeutics Program

The Developmental Therapeutics (DT) Program focuses on the earliest phases of bench-to-bedside preclinical and clinical evaluation of promising new anti-cancer drugs from the NCI, from HCC research laboratories, and from industry.  

Recent, High-Impact Publications

  • An enantioselective covalent inhibitor of BAX confers cytoprotection in vivo.

    Shi P, Melillo B, McHenry MW, Camara CM, Yang K, Njomen E, Godes M, Pazyra-Murphy MF, Branch MR, Tesar B, Segal RA, Rubin LL, Cameron MD, Bird GH, Wales TE, Gygi SP, Cravatt BF, Walensky LD

    Nature chemical biology 2026.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • ERK1/2 Inhibitor Ulixertinib in Pan-cancer Patients with BRAF Fusions or Non-V600E/K Mutations: Results from the NCI-MATCH ECOG-ACRIN Trial (EAY131) Subprotocol Z1L.

    Subbiah V, Zhao F, Kudchadkar RR, Sullivan RJ, Chen HX, Gray RJ, Wang V, McShane LM, Rubinstein LV, Patton D, Williams PM, Hamilton SR, Sundaresan TK, Conley BA, Tricoli JV, Arteaga CL, Wright JJ, Harris LN, O'Dwyer PJ, Chen AP, Flaherty KT

    Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2026.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • Defective microhomology-mediated end joining in -deficient tumors.

    Zhu G, Asada S, Nguyen H, Hirohashi Y, Sun L, Saravanapavan A, Rahmani E, Hrynashka M, Mukkavalli S, Batish M, Shapiro GI, D'Andrea AD

    Science Advances 2026; 12(33):eaed7743.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • Avatrombopag Versus Placebo for Persistent Chemotherapy-Induced Thrombocytopenia in GI Cancers: The Phase II ACT-GI Trial.

    Al-Samkari H, Shatzel JJ, Panch SR, Keating JH, Walsh EP, Weekes CD, Kardosh A, Cohen SA, Cohen JJ, Hodges PG, Dhaver SE, Strojny N, Donovan C, Belibasakis C, Soff GA

    Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2026; JCO2600568.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • PTEN deficiency confers sensitivity to ATR inhibitor-based treatment in high-grade serous ovarian cancer.

    Hao J, Kochupurakkal B, Branigan TB, Somuncu OS, Liu R, Jadhav H, da Costa AAB, Jiao Y, Yu JZ, Martignetti DB, Sadatrezaei G, Mukkavalli S, Gokhale PC, Cheng SC, Skates SJ, Nasioudis D, Konstantinopoulos PA, Liu JF, Gaillard SL, Giuntoli Ii RL, Martin LP, Tanyi JL, Latif N, Heller IS, Simpkins F, Parmar K, D'Andrea AD, Shapiro GI

    The Journal of clinical investigation 2026.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • Phase 1b trial of Bavdegalutamide (ARV-110) in combination with Abiraterone for metastatic prostate cancer.

    Smoragiewicz M, Bernard-Tessier A, Linch M, Shen J, Shore ND, Parikh O, Chi KN, Sokolova AO, Culine S, McKean M, Gleave M, Devitt ME, Zhi E, Gong J, Landrette S, Colasanto M, Patel V, Gao X

    Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2026.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • Real-world effectiveness of palbociclib plus an aromatase inhibitor in HR+/HER2- MBC patients living in disadvantaged neighborhoods.

    Lynce F, Liu X, Li B, McRoy L, Chen C, Liu R, Rugo HS

    Npj Breast Cancer 2025; 11(1):75.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • First-line zolbetuximab plus mFOLFOX6 and nivolumab in unresectable CLDN18.2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma: a phase 2 trial.

    Shitara K, Shoji H, Fazio N, Lonardi S, Lee KW, Bai LY, Yamaguchi K, Metges JP, Masi G, Smith D, Kim TY, Matsangou M, Shrivastava A, Zhou M, Hill J, Guerrero A, Wang X, Zaanan A, Klempner SJ

    Nature medicine 2026.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • Romiplostim versus Placebo for Chemotherapy-Induced Thrombocytopenia.

    Al-Samkari H, Muñoz C, Geredeli Ç, Korantzis I, González Astorga B, Arslan C, Cordeiro Camargo JF, Scotté F, Borges G, Wang K, Eisen M, Kuter DJ, Soff GA

    The New England journal of medicine 2026; 394(11):1061-1073.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • Systematic cysteine scanning identifies a druggable pocket in oncogenic KRAS.

    van Tienen LM, Bayoumi S, Muneeruddin K, Leymarie N, Popa A, Shekhar M, Mueller M, Li R, Zak KM, Chilukuri H, Kornfilt DJP, Atack TC, Kesar D, Bian Y, Shaw KL, Jandova Z, Trollmann P, Geist L, Stolt-Bergner P, Rumpel K, Kessler D, Sellers WR

    Cell Chemical Biology 2026; 33(2):241-255.e8.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • Crizotinib in Patients with Tumors with MET Amplification or Exon 14 Deletion: Results from the NCI-MATCH ECOG-ACRIN Trial (EAY131) Subprotocols C1 and C2.

    Coleman N, Wei Z, Iafrate AJ, Zwiebel JA, Sharon E, Gray RJ, Wang V, McShane LM, Rubinstein LV, Patton DR, Williams PM, Hamilton SR, Takebe N, Williams T, Croley JJ, Onitilo AA, Tricoli JV, Cheng J, Karlovich C, Conley BA, Arteaga CL, Harris L, O'Dwyer PJ, Hong DS, Chen AP, Flaherty KT

    Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2026.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • Acquired on-target alterations drive clinical resistance to p53-Y220C reactivators.

    Fece de la Cruz F, Varkaris A, Patel PS, Kushner EW, Morales-Giron AA, Lee SS, Singh A, Kim CT, Norden BL, Ehnstrom S, Riedl JM, Curtis JM, Barnes H, Kehlmann AM, Chevalier NJ, Okuma HS, Patel M, Wirth LJ, Connell B, Nugent F, Pappas L, Lau K, Juric D, Hopkins JL, Guiley KZ, Shokat KM, Gulhan DC, Parikh AR, Corcoran RB

    Cancer Discovery 2026.PubMed(opens in new window)

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