Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Hematology-Oncology Fellowship, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2015 - 2018
  • Internal Medicine Internship and Residency, Tufts University School of Medicine 2012 - 2015
  • M.D., University of South Florida College of Medicine 2012
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Investigating the Role of EMT-mediated Dendritic Cell Tolerization in Checkpoint Inhibitor Resistance awarded by Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation 2018 - 2019
  • Investigating Oncogenic Signaling Pathways that Drive Wnt Ligand-mediated Immune Tolerance in Melanoma awarded by Conquer Cancer Foundation 2017 - 2018
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Grant, MJ, DeVito, N, and Salama, AKS. "Checkpoint inhibitor use in two heart transplant patients with metastatic melanoma and review of high-risk populations." Melanoma Management 5, no. 4 (December 2018): MMT10-null. (Review)  Full Text
    • Zhao, F, Evans, K, Xiao, C, DeVito, N, Theivanthiran, B, Holtzhausen, A, Siska, PJ, Blobe, GC, and Hanks, BA. "Stromal Fibroblasts Mediate Anti-PD-1 Resistance via MMP-9 and Dictate TGFβ Inhibitor Sequencing in Melanoma." Cancer Immunology Research (September 12, 2018).  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Zhao, F, Xiao, C, Evans, KS, Theivanthiran, T, DeVito, N, Holtzhausen, A, Liu, J, Liu, X, Boczkowski, D, Nair, S, Locasale, JW, and Hanks, BA. "Paracrine Wnt5a-β-Catenin Signaling Triggers a Metabolic Program that Drives Dendritic Cell Tolerization." Immunity 48, no. 1 (January 2018): 147-160.e7.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Kinsey, EN, DeVito, N, Barrow, W, Myers, SA, and Salama, AK. "Paraneoplastic Production of Granulocyte-macrophage Colony-stimulating Factor and Granulocyte Colony-stimulating Factor in a Case of Rapidly Progressing Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma." Clinical Skin Cancer 1, no. 1 (January 2016): 20-22.  Full Text
    • DeVito, N, Henderson, E, Han, G, Reed, D, Bui, MM, Lavey, R, Robinson, L, Zager, JS, Gonzalez, RJ, Sondak, VK, Letson, GD, and Conley, A. "Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes for Solitary Fibrous Tumor (SFT): A Single Center Experience." Plos One 10, no. 10 (January 2015): e0140362-null.  Full Text
    • DeVito, N, Mui, K, Jassam, Y, Taylor, L, Pilichowska, M, and Cossor, F. "Small lymphocytic lymphoma presenting as a paraneoplastic syndrome with acute central nervous system demyelination." Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia 14, no. 4 (August 2014): e131-e135.  Full Text
    • DeVito, NC, and Saif, MW. "Advances in immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer: 2013." Jop : Journal of the Pancreas 14, no. 4 (July 10, 2013): 347-353.  Full Text
    • Devito, N, Yu, M, Chen, R, and Pan, E. "Retrospective study of patients with brain metastases from melanoma receiving concurrent whole-brain radiation and temozolomide." Anticancer Research 31, no. 12 (December 2011): 4537-4543.
    • Assudani, D, Cho, H-I, DeVito, N, Bradley, N, and Celis, E. "In vivo expansion, persistence, and function of peptide vaccine-induced CD8 T cells occur independently of CD4 T cells." Cancer Research 68, no. 23 (December 2008): 9892-9899.  Full Text

  • Conference Papers

    • DeVito, N. "LITTLE KNOWN LYMPHOMA: SMALL LYMPHOCYTIC LYMPHOMA PRESENTING AS A PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME WITH ACUTE CNS DEMYELINATION." 37th Annual Meeting of the Society-General-Internal-Medicine. San Diego, CA. April 23, 2014 - April 26, 2014.: SPRINGER, April 1, 2014.  Link to Item
    • Thievanthiran, B, DeVito, N, Evans, K, and Hanks, BA. "Inflammasome-Wnt Ligand Signaling Axis Promotes Immune Escape During Anti-PD-1 Antibody Immunotherapy." 2018 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. November 7, 2018 - November 11, 2018.: BioMed Central,.

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