Theodore Nowicki

Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles

Assistant Professor-in-Residence, MIMG, University of California Los Angeles

Publications

  1. Nowicki TS, Peters CW, Quiros C, Kidd CK, Kawakami M, Klomhaus AM, Baselga-Carretero I, Kaplan-Lefko P, Macabali MH, Perez Garcilazo I, Berent-Maoz B, Comin-Anduix B, Ribas A. Infusion Product TNFα, Th2, and STAT3 Activities Are Associated with Clinical Responses to Transgenic T-cell Receptor Cell Therapy.. Cancer immunology research, 2023.
  2. Nguyen VP, Campbell KM, Nowicki TS, Elumalai N, Medina E, Baselga-Carretero I, DiNome ML, Chang HR, Oseguera DK, Ribas A, Glaspy JA. A Pilot Study of Neoadjuvant Nivolumab, Ipilimumab, and Intralesional Oncolytic Virotherapy for HER2-negative Breast Cancer.. Cancer research communications, 2023.
  3. Peng K, Nowicki TS, Campbell K, Vahed M, Peng D, Meng Y, Nagareddy A, Huang YN, Karlsberg A, Miller Z, Brito J, Nadel B, Pak VM, Abedalthagafi MS, Burkhardt AM, Alachkar H, Ribas A, Mangul S. Rigorous benchmarking of T-cell receptor repertoire profiling methods for cancer RNA sequencing.. Briefings in bioinformatics, 2023.
  4. Zarrabi M, Hamilton C, French SW, Federman N, Nowicki TS. Successful treatment of severe immune checkpoint inhibitor associated autoimmune hepatitis with basiliximab: a case report.. Frontiers in immunology, 2023.
  5. Frankiw L, Singh A, Peters C, Comin-Anduix B, Berent-Maoz B, Macabali M, Shammaie K, Quiros C, Kaplan-Lefko P, Baselga Carretero I, Ribas A, Nowicki TS. Immunotherapy resistance driven by loss of NY-ESO-1 expression in response to transgenic adoptive cellular therapy with PD-1 blockade.. Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2023.
  6. Hahn AW, Menk AV, Rivadeneira DB, Augustin RC, Xu M, Li J, Wu X, Mishra AK, Gide TN, Quek C, Zang Y, Spencer CN, Menzies AM, Daniel CR, Hudgens CW, Nowicki T, Haydu LE, Khan MAW, Gopalakrishnan V, Burton EM, Malke J, Simon JM, Bernatchez C, Putluri N, Woodman SE, Vashisht Gopal YN, Guerrieri R, Fischer GM, Wang J, Wani KM, Thompson JF, Lee JE, Hwu P, Ajami N, Gershenwald JE, Long GV, Scolyer RA, Tetzlaff MT, Lazar AJ, Schadendorf D, Wargo JA, Kirkwood JM, DeBerardinis RJ, Liang H, Futreal A, Zhang J, Wilmott JS, Peng W, Davies MA, Delgoffe GM, Najjar YG, McQuade JL. Obesity Is Associated with Altered Tumor Metabolism in Metastatic Melanoma.. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2023.
  7. Tang JP, Peters CW, Quiros C, Wang X, Klomhaus AM, Yamada RE, Timmerman JM, Moore TB, Nowicki TS. Hypophosphatemia Due to Increased Effector Cell Metabolic Activity Is Associated with Neurotoxicity Symptoms in CD19-Targeted CAR T-cell Therapy.. Cancer immunology research, 2022.
  8. Campbell KM, Thaker M, Medina E, Kalbasi A, Singh A, Ribas A, Nowicki TS. Spatial profiling reveals association between WNT pathway activation and T-cell exclusion in acquired resistance of synovial sarcoma to NY-ESO-1 transgenic T-cell therapy.. Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2022.
  9. Ferrian S, Liu CC, McCaffrey EF, Kumar R, Nowicki TS, Dawson DW, Baranski A, Glaspy JA, Ribas A, Bendall SC, Angelo M. Multiplexed imaging reveals an IFN-γ-driven inflammatory state in nivolumab-associated gastritis.. Cell reports. Medicine, 2021.
  10. Huang YN, Peng K, Popejoy AB, Hu J, Nowicki TS, Gold SM, Quintana-Murci L, Fuentes-Guajardo M, Shugay M, Greiff V, Burkhardt AM, Alachkar H, Mangul S. Ancestral diversity is limited in published T cell receptor sequencing studies.. Immunity, 2021.
  11. Kohli K, Yao L, Nowicki TS, Zhang S, Black RG, Schroeder BA, Farrar EA, Cao J, Sloan H, Stief D, Cranmer LD, Wagner MJ, Hawkins DS, Pillarisetty VG, Ribas A, Campbell J, Pierce RH, Kim EY, Jones RL, Riddell SR, Yee C, Pollack SM. IL-15 mediated expansion of rare durable memory T cells following adoptive cellular therapy.. Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2021.
  12. Nowicki TS, Farrell C, Morselli M, Rubbi L, Campbell KM, Macabali MH, Berent-Maoz B, Comin-Anduix B, Pellegrini M, Ribas A. Epigenetic Suppression of Transgenic T-cell Receptor Expression via Gamma-Retroviral Vector Methylation in Adoptive Cell Transfer Therapy.. Cancer discovery, 2020.
  13. Abril-Rodriguez G, Torrejon DY, Liu W, Zaretsky JM, Nowicki TS, Tsoi J, Puig-Saus C, Baselga-Carretero I, Medina E, Quist MJ, Garcia AJ, Senapedis W, Baloglu E, Kalbasi A, Cheung-Lau G, Berent-Maoz B, Comin-Anduix B, Hu-Lieskovan S, Wang CY, Grasso CS, Ribas A. Publisher Correction: PAK4 inhibition improves PD-1 blockade immunotherapy.. Nature cancer, 2020.
  14. Abril-Rodriguez G, Torrejon DY, Liu W, Zaretsky JM, Nowicki TS, Tsoi J, Puig-Saus C, Baselga-Carretero I, Medina E, Quist MJ, Garcia AJ, Senapedis W, Baloglu E, Kalbasi A, Cheung-Lau G, Berent-Maoz B, Comin-Anduix B, Hu-Lieskovan S, Wang CY, Grasso CS, Ribas A. PAK4 inhibition improves PD-1 blockade immunotherapy.. Nature cancer, 2019.
  15. Nowicki TS, Berent-Maoz B, Cheung-Lau G, Huang RR, Wang X, Tsoi J, Kaplan-Lefko P, Cabrera P, Tran J, Pang J, Macabali M, Garcilazo IP, Carretero IB, Kalbasi A, Cochran AJ, Grasso CS, Hu-Lieskovan S, Chmielowski B, Comin-Anduix B, Singh A, Ribas A. A Pilot Trial of the Combination of Transgenic NY-ESO-1-reactive Adoptive Cellular Therapy with Dendritic Cell Vaccination with or without Ipilimumab.. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2018.
  16. Kugel CH, Douglass SM, Webster MR, Kaur A, Liu Q, Yin X, Weiss SA, Darvishian F, Al-Rohil RN, Ndoye A, Behera R, Alicea GM, Ecker BL, Fane M, Allegrezza MJ, Svoronos N, Kumar V, Wang DY, Somasundaram R, Hu-Lieskovan S, Ozgun A, Herlyn M, Conejo-Garcia JR, Gabrilovich D, Stone EL, Nowicki TS, Sosman J, Rai R, Carlino MS, Long GV, Marais R, Ribas A, Eroglu Z, Davies MA, Schilling B, Schadendorf D, Xu W, Amaravadi RK, Menzies AM, McQuade JL, Johnson DB, Osman I, Weeraratna AT. Age Correlates with Response to Anti-PD1, Reflecting Age-Related Differences in Intratumoral Effector and Regulatory T-Cell Populations.. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2018.
  17. Nowicki TS, Escuin-Ordinas H, Avramis E, Chmielowski B, Chodon T, Berent-Maoz B, Wang X, Kaplan-Lefko P, Yang L, Baltimore D, Economou JS, Ribas A, Comin-Anduix B. Characterization of Postinfusion Phenotypic Differences in Fresh Versus Cryopreserved TCR Engineered Adoptive Cell Therapy Products.. Journal of immunotherapy (Hagerstown, Md. : 1997), 2018.
  18. McQuade JL, Daniel CR, Hess KR, Mak C, Wang DY, Rai RR, Park JJ, Haydu LE, Spencer C, Wongchenko M, Lane S, Lee DY, Kaper M, McKean M, Beckermann KE, Rubinstein SM, Rooney I, Musib L, Budha N, Hsu J, Nowicki TS, Avila A, Haas T, Puligandla M, Lee S, Fang S, Wargo JA, Gershenwald JE, Lee JE, Hwu P, Chapman PB, Sosman JA, Schadendorf D, Grob JJ, Flaherty KT, Walker D, Yan Y, McKenna E, Legos JJ, Carlino MS, Ribas A, Kirkwood JM, Long GV, Johnson DB, Menzies AM, Davies MA. Association of body-mass index and outcomes in patients with metastatic melanoma treated with targeted therapy, immunotherapy, or chemotherapy: a retrospective, multicohort analysis.. The Lancet. Oncology, 2018.
  19. Nowicki TS, Hu-Lieskovan S, Ribas A. Mechanisms of Resistance to PD-1 and PD-L1 Blockade.. Cancer journal (Sudbury, Mass.), 2018.
  20. Nowicki TS, Akiyama R, Huang RR, Shintaku IP, Wang X, Tumeh PC, Singh A, Chmielowski B, Denny C, Federman N, Ribas A. Infiltration of CD8 T Cells and Expression of PD-1 and PD-L1 in Synovial Sarcoma.. Cancer immunology research, 2016.
  21. Nowicki TS, Anderson JL, Federman N. Prospective immunotherapies in childhood sarcomas: PD1/PDL1 blockade in combination with tumor vaccines.. Pediatric research, 2015.
  22. Jayabose S, Nowicki TS, Dunbar J, Levendoglu-Tugal O, Ozkaynak MF, Sandoval C. Acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in children: a single institution experience.. Indian journal of pediatrics, 2012.
  23. Kummer NT, Nowicki TS, Azzi JP, Reyes I, Iacob C, Xie S, Swati I, Darzynkiewicz Z, Gotlinger KH, Suslina N, Schantz S, Tiwari RK, Geliebter J. Arachidonate 5 lipoxygenase expression in papillary thyroid carcinoma promotes invasion via MMP-9 induction.. Journal of cellular biochemistry, 2012.
  24. Nowicki TS, Moscatello AL, Shin E, Schantz S, Tiwari RK, Geliebter J. The urokinase plasminogen activator system in metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma: a potential therapeutic target.. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 2011.
  25. Nowicki TS, Zhao H, Darzynkiewicz Z, Moscatello A, Shin E, Schantz S, Tiwari RK, Geliebter J. Downregulation of uPAR inhibits migration, invasion, proliferation, FAK/PI3K/Akt signaling and induces senescence in papillary thyroid carcinoma cells.. Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.), 2011.
  26. Nowicki TS, Kummer NT, Iacob C, Suslina N, Schaefer S, Schantz S, Shin E, Moscatello AL, Tiwari RK, Geliebter J. Inhibition of uPAR and uPA reduces invasion in papillary thyroid carcinoma cells.. The Laryngoscope, 2010.
  27. Hu Y, Osuna-Highley E, Hua J, Nowicki TS, Stolz R, McKayle C, Murphy RF. Automated analysis of protein subcellular location in time series images.. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2010.
  28. Jayabose S, Dunbar J, Nowicki TS, Tugal O, Ozkaynak MF, Sandoval C. Rituximab therapy to prevent relapse in chronic relapsing thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) in a child.. Pediatric hematology and oncology, 2010.
  29. Nowicki TS, Bjornard K, Kudlowitz D, Sandoval C, Jayabose S. Early recognition of renal toxicity of high-dose methotrexate therapy: a case report.. Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology, 2008.
  30. Tenderenda M, Berner J, Pasz S, Berner A, Nowicki T. [Reconstruction methods for the continuous digestive tract using surgical stapling after gastrectomy with lymphadenectomy in patients undergoing surgery for stomach cancer. Personal evaluation].. Wiadomosci lekarskie (Warsaw, Poland : 1960), 1997.