Email mirandm4@sloankettering.edu Dissertation Overcoming Resistance to MEK Inhibitor Treatment in NF1-Deficient MPNST Mentor Ping Chi, MD, PhD Start Year 2015 End Year 2023 Education BS, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras; Cancer Biology Fellowships Beatrice P.K. Palestin Fellowship (2016-2017) DoD Peer Reviewed Cancer Horizon Award (2019-21) Publications Yan J, Chen Y, Patel AJ, Warda S, Lee CJ, Nixon BG, Wong EW, Miranda-Román MA, Yang N, Wang Y, Pachai MR, Sher J, Giff E, Tang F, Khurana E, Singer S, Liu Y, Galbo PM Jr, Maag JL, Koche RP, Zheng D, Antonescu C, Deng L, Li M, Chen Y, Chi P. Tumor-intrinsic PRC2 inactivation drives a context-dependent immune-desert microenvironment and is sensitized by immunogenic therapeutic viruses. J Clin Invest. (2022)Patel AJ, Warda S, Maag JLV, Misra R, Miranda-Roman MA, Pachai MR, Lee CJ, Li D, Wang N, Bayshtok G, Fishinevich E, Meng Y, Wong EWP, Yan J, Giff E, Pappalardi MB, McCabe MT, Fletcher JA, Rudin CM, Chandarlapaty S, Scandura JM, Koche RP, Glass JL, Antonescu CR, Zheng D, Chen Y, Chi P. PRC2 Inactivating Mutations in Cancer Enhance Cytotoxic Response to DNMT1 Targeted Therapy via Enhanced Viral Mimicry. Cancer Discov. (2022)Lopez A, Reyna DE, Gitego N, Kopp F, Zhou H, Miranda-Roman MA. Nordstrøm LU, Narayanagari SR, Chi P, Vilar E, Tsirigos A, Gavathiotis E. (2022) Co-targeting of BAX and BCL-XL proteins broadly overcomes resistance to apoptosis in cancer. Nat Commun. 13Rivera-Díaz M, Miranda-Román MA, Soto D, Quintero-Aguilo M, Ortiz-Zuazaga H, Marcos-Martinez MJ, Vivas-Mejía PE. (2014) MicroRNA-27a distinguishes glioblastoma multiforme from diffuse and anaplastic astrocytomas and has prognostic value. Am J Cancer Res., 5, 201-18. PMCID: PMC4300691. View a full listing of Miguel A. Miranda-Roman’s journal articles.