Select Peer-Reviewed Publications (N=44)
1. Daver N, Shastri A, Kadia T, Quintas-Cardama A, Jabbour E, Konopleva M, O'Brien S, Pierce S, Zhou L, Cortes J, Kantarjian H, Verstovsek S. Modest activity of pomalidomide in patients with myelofibrosis and significant anemia. Leukemia Research. 2013 Jul 24, PMID: 2389052
2. Daver N,* Shastri A,* Kadia T, Quintas-Cardama A, Pemmaraju N, Jabbour E, Konopleva M, O’Brien S, Pierce S, Cortes J, Kantarjan H, Verstovsek S. Phase II study of pomalidomide in combination with prednisone in patients with myelofibrosis and significant anemia.
Leukemia Research 2014 Jul, PMID: 25047979 * Equally Contributed
3. Shastri A, Shastri SS. Cancer screening and prevention in low-resource environments.
Nature Reviews Cancer, 2014 Dec; PMID: 25355377
4. Schinke, C, Giricz O, Li W, Shastri A, Gordon S, Barreyro L, Bhagat T, Bhattacharya S, Will B, Steidl U, Verma A. IL-8/CXCR2 pathway inhibition as a therapeutic strategy against MDS and AML stem cells, Blood, 2015 Mar, PMID: 25810490
5. Shastri A, Msaouel P, Montagna C, White S, Delio M, Patel K, Alexis K, Strakhan M, Elrafei T, Reed LJ. Primary hepatic small cell carcinoma: two case reports, molecular characterization and a pooled analysis of known clinical data. Anticancer Res. 2016 Jan, PMID: 26722053
6. Bachegowda L, Morrone K, Winski SL, Mantzaris I, Bartenstein M, Ramachandra N, Giricz O, Sukrithan V, Nwankwo G, Shahnaz S, Bhagat TD, Bhattacharyya S, Assal A, Shastri A, Gordon-Mitchell S, Pellagatti A, Boultwood J, Schinke C, Yu Y, Guha C, Rizzi J, Garrus J, Brown S, Wollenberg L, Hogeland G, Wright D, Munson M, Rodriguez M, Gross S, Chantry D, Zou Y, Platanias LC, Burgess LE, Pradhan K, Steidl U, Verma A. Pexmetinib : A Novel Dual Inhibitor of Tie2 and p38MAPK with Efficacy in Preclinical Models of Myelodysplastic Syndromes & Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Cancer Res. 2016 Aug 15. PMID : 27287719
7. Goel S, Hall J, Pradhan K, Hirsch C, Przychodzen B, Shastri A, Mantzaris I, Janakiram M, Battini R, Kornblum N, Derman O, Gritsman K, Al-Hafidh J, Wang Y, Halmos B, Steidl U, Maciejewski JP, Braunschweig I, Verma A. High prevalence and allele burden-independent prognostic importance of p53 mutations in an inner-city MDS/AML cohort. Leukemia. 2016 Aug;30. PMID :27125205
8. Shastri A; Will B; Steidl U; Verma A. Stem Cell Alterations In Myelodysplastic Syndromes. Blood, 2017 Feb, PMID: 28159737
9. Shastri A; Budhathoki A; Barta S; Kornblum N; Derman O; Battini R; Raghupathy R; Verma A; Frenette P; Braunschweig I; Janakiram M. Stimulation of Adrenergic Activity by Desipramine Enhances Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Mobilization along with G-CSF in Multiple Myeloma. Am J Hematol. 2017 Jul 4. PMID: 28675459
10. Shastri A; Mantaris I; Yu Y; Janakiram M; Verma A; Barta SK. Sites of Extranodal Invovlement Are Prognostic I n Patients with Stage 1 Follicular Lymphoma: An Analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Database. Oncotarget. 2017 Jul 14. PMID: 29108238
11. Darbinyan K*; Shastri, A*; Budhathoki, A*; Helbig, D; Pradhan K et all. Hispanic Ethnicity is Associated with Younger Age at Presentation and Worse Survival in Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Blood Advances. * Equally Contributed 2017 Oct. PMID: 29296859
12. Kanna S; Choudhary G; Ramachandran N; Steidl U; Verma AK; Shastri A. STAT3 inhibition as a therapeutic strategy for leukemia. Leuk Lymphoma. 2017 Nov 22. PMID : 2916499
13. Shastri A; Verma A; Eltrombopag reduces clinically relevant thrombocytopenic events in higher risk MDS and AML. Lancet Haematology. Jan 2018, PMID : 29241763
14. Snyder R, Libby T, Raciti P, Amin B, Jacobson M, Rakheja D, Fleming K, Bartenstein M, Zhu C, Goel S, Verma AK, Shastri A. Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Sweets Syndrome Are Associated with a Mutation in Isocitrate Dehydrogenase 1. Anticancer Research. April 2018, PMID : 29599340
15. Shah UA, Chung EY, Giricz O, Pradhan K, Kataoka K, Gordon-Mitchell S, Bhagat TD, Mai Y, Wei Y, Ishida E, Choudhary GS, Joseph A, Rice R, Gitego N, Parrish C, Bartenstein M, Goel S, Mantzaris I, Shastri A, Derman O, Binder A, Gritsman K, Kornblum N, Braunschweig I, Bhagat C, Hall J, Graber A, Ratner L, Wang Y, Ogawa S, Verma A, Ye BH, Janakiram M. North American ATLL has a distinct mutational and transcriptional profile and responds to epigenetic therapies. Blood, Aug 2018, PMID: 30104217
16. Kao YR, Chen J, Narayanagari SR, Todorova TI, Aivalioti MM, Ferreira M, Ramos PM, Pallaud C, Mantzaris I, Shastri A, Bussel JB, Verma A, Steidl U, Will B. Thrombopoietin receptor-independent stimulation of hematopoietic stem cells by eltrombopag. Science Translational Medicine. Sept 2018. PMID : 30209246
17. Shastri A, Choudhary G, Teixeira M, Gordon-Mitchell S, Ramachandra N, Bernard L, Bhattacharyya S, Lopez R, Pradhan K, Giricz O, Ravipati G, Wong L, Cole S, Bhagat T, Feld J, Dhar Y, Bartenstein M, Thiruthuvanathan V, Wickrema A, Ye H, Frank D, Pellagatti A, Boultwood J, Zhou T, Kim Y, MacLeod R,Epling-Burnette PK, Ye M, McCoon P, Woessner R, Steidl U, Will B and Verma A. Antisense STAT3 Inhibitor Decreases Viability of Myelodysplastic and Leukemic Stem Cells. Journal of Clinical Investigation, Dec 2018, PMID : 30252677
18. Kaner JD, Thibaud S, Jasra S, Wang Y, Janakiram M, Sharma A, Sridharan A, Elias H, Polineni R, Assal A, Weiss L, Braunschweig I, Steidl U, Pradhan K, Shastri A, Chaitowitz M, Zingman B, Will B, Mantzaris I, Verma A. HIV portends a poor prognosis in myelodysplastic syndromes. Leukemia Lymphoma. 2019 Dec. PMID : 3128224Adrianzen Herrera D, Pradhan K, Snyder R, Karanth S, Janakiram M, Mantzaris I, Braunschweig I, Budhathoki A, Shah UA, Verma AK, Murthy SB, Shastri A. Myelodysplastic syndromes and the risk of cardiovascular disease in older adults: A SEER-medicare analysis. Leukemia. 2019 Dec 16. PMID : 31844145
19. Gonzalez-Lugo JD, Bachier-Rodriguez L, Goldfinger M, Shastri A, Sica RA, Gritsman K, Mehta V, Kabarriti R, Goel S, Verma A, Braunschweig I, Kornblum N, Mantzaris I. A case series of Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance and COVID-19. Br J Haematol. 2020 Aug; PMID: 32479664
20. Shah N, Rockwell B, Kazemi M, Peeke S, Bachier-Rodriguez L, Sica RA, Goldfinger M, Kornblum N, Braunschweig I, Shastri A, Verma A, Mantzaris I. Ethnic disparities in survival of adult B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in modern era - a SEER analysis. Leuk Lymphoma. 2020. PMID: 32960113
21. Shastri A, Lugo-Gonzalez J, Verma A. Understanding FLT3 Inhibitor Resistance to Rationalize Combinatorial AML Therapies. Blood Cancer Discovery. Dec 2020.
22. Lugo-Gonzalez J, Chakraborty S, Verma A, Shastri A. The Evolution of Epigenetic Therapy in Myelodysplastic Syndromes & Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Seminars in Hematology. Dec 2020. PMID : 33509444
23. Shapiro LC, Mustafa J, Lombardo A, Khatun F, Joseph F, Gillick K, Naik A, Elkind R, Abreu M, Fehn K, de Castro A, Pradhan K, Binakaj D, Nelson R, Paroder M, Uehlinger J, Gritsman K, Alejandro Sica R, Kornblum N, Shastri A, Mantzaris I, Bachier-Rodriguez L, Verma A, Braunschweig I, Goldfinger M. Safety of axicabtagene ciloleucel for relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma in an elderly intercity population. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2021 Jul. PMID : 33846558