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Ryan B. Corcoran
Worked out why BRAF inhibitors fail in colorectal cancer and how to combine drugs to overcome it.
Physician-scientist whose laboratory defined EGFR-mediated feedback in BRAF-mutant colorectal cancer, leading to the BRAF-EGFR combinations now approved, and who uses ctDNA to track clonal resistance.
Role
Director, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center; Scientific Director, Termeer Center for Targeted Therapy
Institution
Specialisms
Colorectal cancerBRAF and KRAS resistanceLiquid biopsyTargeted therapy combinations
Profiles
| Title | Journal | Year |
|---|---|---|
| EGFR-mediated re-activation of MAPK signaling contributes to insensitivity of BRAF mutant colorectal cancers to RAF inhibition with vemurafenib | Cancer Discovery | 2012 |