Molecular Pharmacology Program

The Neal Rosen Lab

Research

Neal Rosen, MD, PhD

The main goal of our laboratory is the identification and characterization of signal transduction pathways that cause the dysregulation of growth and inhibition of apoptosis that characterize advanced human cancer. Our laboratory is dedicated to understanding the consequences of activation of these pathways and to using this information to develop mechanism-based therapeutic strategies.

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Research Projects

Kinase Inhibitors

Featured News

In the Clinic

Piro Lito, Bob Li, and Neal Rosen in the lab

Promising Results from the First-Ever Trial of a Drug that Blocks Cancer Gene KRAS

The drug, sotorasib, is targeted against a cancer-causing protein that has long been considered an “undruggable” target.

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Knocking Out KRAS-Mutant Cancers with a One-Two Punch

A new approach aims to combine two existing targeted therapy drugs to attack lung cancer and pancreatic cancer with mutations in the hard-to-target gene KRAS.

In the Lab

New Lung Cancer Therapy May Target Previously Untreatable Tumors

Researchers are developing uses for a drug that could benefit many people with lung cancer.

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Publications Highlights

Lee BJ, Boyer JA, Burnett GL, Thottumkara AP, Tibrewal N, Wilson SL, Hsieh T, Marquez A, Lorenzana EG, Evans JW, Hulea L, Kiss G, Liu H, Lee D, Larsson O, McLaughlan S, Topisirovic I, Wang Z, Wang Z, Zhao Y, Wildes D, Aggen JB, Singh M, Gill AL, Smith JAM, Rosen N. Selective inhibitors of mTORC1 activate 4EBP1 and suppress tumor growth. Nat Chem Biol. 2021 Oct;17(10):1065-1074. doi: 10.1038/s41589-021-00813-7. Epub 2021 Jun 24. Erratum in: Nat Chem Biol. 2021 Jun 29;: Erratum in: Nat Chem Biol. 2021 Nov;17(11):1209. PMID: 34168367.

Mukherjee R, Vanaja KG, Boyer JA, Gadal S, Solomon H, Chandarlapaty S, Levchenko A, Rosen N. Regulation of PTEN translation by PI3K signaling maintains pathway homeostasis. Mol Cell. 2021 Feb 18;81(4):708-723.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.01.033. PMID: 33606974; PMCID: PMC8384339.

Yao, Z., Gao, Y., Su, W., Yaeger, R., Tao, J., Na, N., Zhang, Y., Zhang, C., Rymar, A., Tao, A., Timaul, N. M., Mcgriskin, R., Outmezguine, N. A., Zhao, H., Chang, Q., Qeriqi, B., Barbacid, M., de Stanchina, E., Hyman, D. M., Bollag, G., … Rosen, N. (2019). RAF inhibitor PLX8394 selectively disrupts BRAF dimers and RAS-independent BRAF-mutant-driven signaling. Nature medicine, 25(2), 284–291. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-018-0274-5

Gao, Y., Chang, M. T., McKay, D., Na, N., Zhou, B., Yaeger, R., Torres, N. M., Muniz, K., Drosten, M., Barbacid, M., Caponigro, G., Stuart, D., Moebitz, H., Solit, D. B., Abdel-Wahab, O., Taylor, B. S., Yao, Z., & Rosen, N. (2018). Allele-Specific Mechanisms of Activation of MEK1 Mutants Determine Their Properties. Cancer discovery, 8(5), 648–661. https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-17-1452

Yaeger, R., Chatila, W. K., Lipsyc, M. D., Hechtman, J. F., Cercek, A., Sanchez-Vega, F., Jayakumaran, G., Middha, S., Zehir, A., Donoghue, M., You, D., Viale, A., Kemeny, N., Segal, N. H., Stadler, Z. K., Varghese, A. M., Kundra, R., Gao, J., Syed, A., Hyman, D. M., … Schultz, N. (2018). Clinical Sequencing Defines the Genomic Landscape of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. Cancer cell, 33(1), 125–136.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2017.12.004

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People

Neal Rosen, MD, PhD

Pharmacologist Neal Rosen focuses on understanding biochemical mechanisms underlying phenotypes caused by tyrosine kinase activation in epithelial tumors and developing new therapeutic strategies.
MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

rosenn@mskcc.org: Email Address
646-888-2075: Office Phone
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Members

Jacob A. Boyer

Ludwig Princeton Scholar in Cancer Metabolism at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Philip Choi

Instructor

Sunyana Gadal

Research Fellow

Esther Kaplun

Research Technician

Michelangelo Marasco

Research Fellow

Sandra Misale

Research Associate

Radha Mukherjee

Research Fellow

Priya Pancholi

Research Assistant

Malvika Sharma

Research Fellow

Hilla Solomon

Research Associate

N. Merna Timaul

Lab Manager

Liqun Cai

Former Research Technician

Sarat Chandarlapaty

Assistant Member, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program; Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Poulikos Poulikakos

Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai

Andreja Jovic

Research Fellow

Qing-Bai She

Faculty, University of Kentucky

Piro Lito

Enid A. Haupt Chair in Therapeutic Research

David Solit

Director, Developmental Therapeutics; Associate Professor of Medicine; Cell and Developmental Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Oren Litvin

Former Graduate Student

Christine A. Pratilas

Assistant Attending, Department of Pediatrics

Sarit Schwartz

Research Fellow

Martha Solomon

Research Technician

Sharmeen Uddin

Former Research Technician

Marie Will

Former Graduate Student

Paige Yellen

Research Fellow

Jingyin Yue

Former Research Fellow

Arpitha Banaji

Research Technician

Yu Bian

Former Research Technician

Laura Desrochers

Research Fellow

Yijun Gao

Research Associate

Alessandria Greco

Research Technician

Hidenori Kitai

Visiting Investigator

Rory Mcgriskin

Medical Lab Assistant

Keven Muniz

Lab Technician

Na Na

Research Technician

Virginia Ojeda Seijas

Research Fellow

Jason Reiter

Research Technician

Vanessa Rodrik-Outmezguine

Senior Scientist

Wenjing Su

Research Associate

Claire Thant

Senior Research Technician

Alberto Vides

Research Technician

Adele Whaley

Associate Medical Writer, Apollo Medical Communications, Inc

Jianing Xu

Research Associate

Rona Yaeger

Assistant Attending Physician, Department of Medicine

Zhan Yao

Assistant Lab member

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Disclosures

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Neal Rosen discloses the following relationships and financial interests:

Araxes Pharma LLC
Professional Services and Activities
AstraZeneca
Professional Services and Activities
BeiGene, Ltd.
Equity; Professional Services and Activities
Fortress Biotech Inc
Equity

Jubilant Therapeutics Inc.
Professional Services and Activities
Kura Oncology
Equity
Lutris Pharma Ltd.
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