Collin Blakely, MD, PhD

Education
Fellowship, 2011 - Medical Oncology, UCSF
Residency, 2009 - Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System
M.D., 2007 - Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., 2006 - Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Pennsylvania
B.S., 1997 - Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington
Honors and Awards
  • Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, 2018-2021
  • V Scholar Award, V Foundation, 2018-2020
  • Clinical Scientist Award, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2018-2012
  • AACR BioOncology Fellowship, AACR, 2014-2016
  • Legacy Award, Uniting Against Lung Cancer, 2014-2016
  • Research Grant, Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, 2013
Websites
Publications
  1. Lara MS, Blakely CM, Riess JW. Targeting MEK in non-small cell lung cancer. Current problems in cancer 2024. PMID: 38341356


  2. Caswell DR, Gui P, Mayekar MK, Law EK, Pich O, Bailey C, Boumelha J, Kerr DL, Blakely CM, Manabe T, Martinez-Ruiz C, Bakker B, De Dios Palomino Villcas J, I Vokes N, Dietzen M, Angelova M, Gini B, Tamaki W, Allegakoen P, Wu W, Humpton TJ, Hill W, Tomaschko M, Lu WT, Haderk F, Al Bakir M, Nagano A, Gimeno-Valiente F, de Carné Trécesson S, Vendramin R, Barbè V, Mugabo M, Weeden CE, Rowan A, McCoach CE, Almeida B, Green M, Gomez C, Nanjo S, Barbosa D, Moore C, Przewrocka J, Black JRM, Grönroos E, Suarez-Bonnet A, Priestnall SL, Zverev C, Lighterness S, Cormack J, Olivas V, Cech L, Andrews T, Rule B, Jiao Y, Zhang X, Ashford P, Durfee C, Venkatesan S, Temiz NA, Tan L, Larson LK, Argyris PP, Brown WL, Yu EA, Rotow JK, Guha U, Roper N, Yu J, Vogel RI, Thomas NJ, Marra A, Selenica P, Yu H, Bakhoum SF, Chew SK, Reis-Filho JS, Jamal-Hanjani M, Vousden KH, McGranahan N, Van Allen EM, Kanu N, Harris RS, Downward J, Bivona TG, Swanton C. The role of APOBEC3B in lung tumor evolution and targeted cancer therapy resistance. Nature genetics 2023. PMID: 38049664


  3. Negrao MV, Araujo HA, Lamberti G, Cooper AJ, Akhave NS, Zhou T, Delasos L, Hicks JK, Aldea M, Minuti G, Hines J, Aredo JV, Dennis MJ, Chakrabarti T, Scott SC, Bironzo P, Scheffler M, Christopoulos P, Stenzinger A, Riess JW, Kim SY, Goldberg SB, Li M, Wang Q, Qing Y, Ni Y, Do MT, Lee R, Ricciuti B, Alessi JV, Wang J, Resuli B, Landi L, Tseng SC, Nishino M, Digumarthy SR, Rinsurongkawong W, Rinsurongkawong V, Vaporciyan AA, Blumenschein GR, Zhang J, Owen DH, Blakely CM, Mountzios G, Shu CA, Bestvina CM, Garassino MC, Marrone KA, Gray JE, Patel SP, Cummings AL, Wakelee HA, Wolf J, Scagliotti GV, Cappuzzo F, Barlesi F, Patil PD, Drusbosky L, Gibbons DL, Meric-Bernstam F, Lee JJ, Heymach JV, Hong DS, Heist RS, Awad MM, Skoulidis F. Co-mutations and KRAS G12C inhibitor efficacy in advanced NSCLC. Cancer discovery 2023. PMID: 37068173


  4. Douglas MP, Ragavan MV, Chen C, Kumar A, Gray SW, Blakely CM, Phillips KA. Private Payer and Medicare Coverage Policies for Use of Circulating Tumor DNA Tests in Cancer Diagnostics and Treatment. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2023. PMID: 37308126


  5. He K, Berz D, Gadgeel SM, Iams WT, Bruno DS, Blakely CM, Spira AI, Patel MR, Waterhouse DM, Richards DA, Pham A, Jotte R, Hong DS, Garon EB, Traynor A, Olson P, Latven L, Yan X, Shazer R, Leal TA. MRTX-500 Phase 2 Trial: Sitravatinib With Nivolumab in Patients With Non-Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Progressing On/After Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy or Chemotherapy. Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2023. PMID: 36842467


  6. Kim DW, Kim SW, Camidge DR, Shu CA, Marrone KA, Le X, Blakely CM, Park K, Chang GC, Patel SP, Kar G, Cooper ZA, Samadani R, Pluta M, Kumar R, Ramalingam S. CD73 Inhibitor Oleclumab Plus Osimertinib in Previously Treated Patients With Advanced T790M-Negative EGFR-Mutated NSCLC: A Brief Report. Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2023. PMID: 36641093


  7. Ji J, Aredo JV, Piper-Vallillo A, Huppert L, Rotow JK, Husain H, Stewart S, Cobb R, Wakelee HA, Blakely CM, Wong ML, Gubens MA, Madani MH, Digumarthy SR, McCoach C, Piotrowska Z, Neal JW, Riess JW. Osimertinib in NSCLC With Atypical EGFR-Activating Mutations: A Retrospective Multicenter Study. JTO clinical and research reports 2023. PMID: 36879929


  8. Blakely CM, Weder W, Bubendorf L, He J, Majem M, Shyr Y, Chaft JE. Primary endpoints to assess the efficacy of novel therapeutic approaches in epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated, surgically resectable non-small cell lung cancer: A review. Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023. PMID: 36736076


  9. Lara MS, Gubens MA, Bacaltos B, Daran L, Lim SL, Li T, Gandara DR, Bivona TG, Riess JW, Blakely CM. Phase 1 Study of Ceritinib Combined With Trametinib in Patients With Advanced ALK- or ROS1-Positive NSCLC. JTO clinical and research reports 2022. PMID: 36545322


  10. Noronha A, Belugali Nataraj N, Sang Lee J, Zhitomirsky B, Oren Y, Oster S, Lindzen M, Mukherjee S, Will R, Ghosh S, Simoni-Nieves A, Verma A, Chatterjee R, Borgoni S, Robinson W, Sinha S, Brandis A, Kerr DL, Wu W, Sekar A, Giri S, Chung Y, Drago-Garcia D, Danysh BP, Lauriola M, Fiorentino M, Ardizzoni A, Oren M, Blakely CM, Ezike J, Wiemann S, Parida L, Bivona TG, Aqeilan RI, Brugge JS, Regev A, Getz G, Ruppin E, Yarden Y. AXL and error-prone DNA replication confer drug resistance and offer strategies to treat EGFR-mutant lung cancer. Cancer discovery 2022. PMID: 35895872


  11. Nanjo S, Wu W, Karachaliou N, Blakely CM, Suzuki J, Chou YT, Ali SM, Kerr DL, Olivas VR, Shue J, Rotow J, Mayekar MK, Haderk F, Chatterjee N, Urisman A, Yeo JC, Skanderup AJ, Tan AC, Tam WL, Arrieta O, Hosomichi K, Nishiyama A, Yano S, Kirichok Y, Tan DS, Rosell R, Okimoto RA, Bivona TG. Deficiency of the splicing factor RBM10 limits EGFR inhibitor response in EGFR-mutant lung cancer. The Journal of clinical investigation 2022. PMID: 35579943


  12. Ali M, Lu M, Ang HX, Soderquist RS, Eyler CE, Hutchinson HM, Glass C, Bassil CF, Lopez OM, Kerr DL, Falcon CJ, Yu HA, Hata AN, Blakely CM, McCoach CE, Bivona TG, Wood KC. Small-molecule targeted therapies induce dependence on DNA double-strand break repair in residual tumor cells. Science translational medicine 2022. PMID: 35353542


  13. Ganti AKP, Loo BW, Bassetti M, Blakely C, Chiang A, D'Amico TA, D'Avella C, Dowlati A, Downey RJ, Edelman M, Florsheim C, Gold KA, Goldman JW, Grecula JC, Hann C, Iams W, Iyengar P, Kelly K, Khalil M, Koczywas M, Merritt RE, Mohindra N, Molina J, Moran C, Pokharel S, Puri S, Qin A, Rusthoven C, Sands J, Santana-Davila R, Shafique M, Waqar SN, Gregory KM, Hughes M. Small Cell Lung Cancer, Version 2.2022, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2021. PMID: 34902832


  14. Barbosa Rabago D, Blakely CM, Haderk F, Bivona TG. Profiling Sensitivity to Targeted Therapies in EGFR-Mutant NSCLC Patient-Derived Organoids. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE 2021. PMID: 34866626


  15. Wong ML, Shi Y, Smith AK, Miaskowski C, Boscardin WJ, Cohen HJ, Lam V, Mazor M, Metzger L, Presley CJ, Williams GR, Loh KP, Ursem CJ, Friedlander TW, Blakely CM, Gubens MA, Allen G, Shumay D, Walter LC. Changes in older adults' life space during lung cancer treatment: A mixed methods cohort study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021. PMID: 34611887


  16. Tsuboi M, Weder W, Escriu C, Blakely C, He J, Dacic S, Yatabe Y, Zeng L, Walding A, Chaft JE. Neoadjuvant osimertinib with/without chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone for EGFR-mutated resectable non-small-cell lung cancer: NeoADAURA. Future oncology (London, England) 2021. PMID: 34278827


  17. Yang JC, Reckamp KL, Kim YC, Novello S, Smit EF, Lee JS, Su WC, Akerley WL, Blakely CM, Groen HJM, Bazhenova L, Carcereny Costa E, Chiari R, Hsia TC, Golsorkhi T, Despain D, Shih D, Popat S, Wakelee H. Efficacy and Safety of Rociletinib Versus Chemotherapy in Patients With EGFR-Mutated NSCLC: The Results of TIGER-3, a Phase 3 Randomized Study. JTO clinical and research reports 2020. PMID: 34589984


  18. Wu SY, Lazar AA, Gubens MA, Blakely CM, Gottschalk AR, Jablons DM, Jahan TM, Wang VEH, Dunbar TL, Wong ML, Chan JW, Guthrie W, Belkora J, Yom SS. Evaluation of a National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guidelines-Based Decision Support Tool in Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial. JAMA network open 2020. PMID: 32997124


  19. Maynard A, McCoach CE, Rotow JK, Harris L, Haderk F, Kerr DL, Yu EA, Schenk EL, Tan W, Zee A, Tan M, Gui P, Lea T, Wu W, Urisman A, Jones K, Sit R, Kolli PK, Seeley E, Gesthalter Y, Le DD, Yamauchi KA, Naeger DM, Bandyopadhyay S, Shah K, Cech L, Thomas NJ, Gupta A, Gonzalez M, Do H, Tan L, Bacaltos B, Gomez-Sjoberg R, Gubens M, Jahan T, Kratz JR, Jablons D, Neff N, Doebele RC, Weissman J, Blakely CM, Darmanis S, Bivona TG. Therapy-Induced Evolution of Human Lung Cancer Revealed by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing. Cell 2020. PMID: 32822576


  20. Blakely CM, McCoach CE. Role of MPR as an Early Signal for Efficacy in Neoadjuvant Studies. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2020. PMID: 32366673


  21. Gini B, Thomas N, Blakely CM. Impact of concurrent genomic alterations in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutated lung cancer. Journal of thoracic disease 2020. PMID: 32642201


  22. Doebele RC, Drilon A, Paz-Ares L, Siena S, Shaw AT, Farago AF, Blakely CM, Seto T, Cho BC, Tosi D, Besse B, Chawla SP, Bazhenova L, Krauss JC, Chae YK, Barve M, Garrido-Laguna I, Liu SV, Conkling P, John T, Fakih M, Sigal D, Loong HH, Buchschacher GL, Garrido P, Nieva J, Steuer C, Overbeck TR, Bowles DW, Fox E, Riehl T, Chow-Maneval E, Simmons B, Cui N, Johnson A, Eng S, Wilson TR, Demetri GD, trial investigators. Entrectinib in patients with advanced or metastatic NTRK fusion-positive solid tumours: integrated analysis of three phase 1-2 trials. The Lancet. Oncology 2019. PMID: 31838007


  23. Blakely CM, Riess JW. Interpretation of ceritinib clinical trial results and future combination therapy strategies for ALK-rearranged NSCLC. Expert review of anticancer therapy 2019. PMID: 31809604


  24. Blakely CM. A New Pathway Emerges to Interpret Lung Cancer Genomic Alterations. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2019. PMID: 31611281


  25. Rotow JK, Gui P, Wu W, Raymond VM, Lanman RB, Kaye FJ, Peled N, Fece de la Cruz F, Nadres B, Corcoran RB, Yeh I, Bastian BC, Starostik P, Newsom K, Olivas VR, Wolff AM, Fraser JS, Collisson EA, McCoach CE, Camidge DR, Pacheco J, Bazhenova L, Li T, Bivona TG, Blakely CM. Co-occurring Alterations in the RAS-MAPK Pathway Limit Response to MET Inhibitor Treatment in MET Exon 14 Skipping Mutation-Positive Lung Cancer. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2019. PMID: 31548343


  26. Halliday PR, Blakely CM, Bivona TG. Emerging Targeted Therapies for the Treatment of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. Current oncology reports 2019. PMID: 30806814


  27. Neel DS, Allegakoen DV, Olivas V, Mayekar MK, Hemmati G, Chatterjee N, Blakely CM, McCoach CE, Rotow JK, Le A, Karachaliou N, Rosell R, Riess JW, Nichols R, Doebele RC, Bivona TG. Differential Subcellular Localization Regulates Oncogenic Signaling by ROS1 Kinase Fusion Proteins. Cancer research 2018. PMID: 30538120


  28. Shah KN, Bhatt R, Rotow J, Rohrberg J, Olivas V, Wang VE, Hemmati G, Martins MM, Maynard A, Kuhn J, Galeas J, Donnella HJ, Kaushik S, Ku A, Dumont S, Krings G, Haringsma HJ, Robillard L, Simmons AD, Harding TC, McCormick F, Goga A, Blakely CM, Bivona TG, Bandyopadhyay S. Aurora kinase A drives the evolution of resistance to third-generation EGFR inhibitors in lung cancer. Nature medicine 2018. PMID: 30478424


  29. Rotow JK, Woodard GA, Urisman A, McCoach CE, Bivona TG, Elicker BM, Jablons DM, Blakely CM. Pathologic Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Crizotinib in a Lung Adenocarcinoma Patient With a MET Exon 14 Skipping Mutation. Clinical lung cancer 2018. PMID: 30553716


  30. Blumenthal GM, Bunn PA, Chaft JE, McCoach CE, Perez EA, Scagliotti GV, Carbone DP, Aerts HJWL, Aisner DL, Bergh J, Berry DA, Jarkowski A, Botwood N, Cross DAE, Diehn M, Drezner NL, Doebele RC, Blakely CM, Eberhardt WEE, Felip E, Gianni L, Keller SP, Leavey PJ, Malik S, Pignatti F, Prowell TM, Redman MW, Rizvi NA, Rosell R, Rusch V, de Ruysscher D, Schwartz LH, Sridhara R, Stahel RA, Swisher S, Taube JM, Travis WD, Keegan P, Wiens JR, Wistuba II, Wynes MW, Hirsch FR, Kris MG. Current Status and Future Perspectives on Neoadjuvant Therapy in Lung Cancer. Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2018. PMID: 30268698


  31. Nichols RJ, Haderk F, Stahlhut C, Schulze CJ, Hemmati G, Wildes D, Tzitzilonis C, Mordec K, Marquez A, Romero J, Hsieh T, Zaman A, Olivas V, McCoach C, Blakely CM, Wang Z, Kiss G, Koltun ES, Gill AL, Singh M, Goldsmith MA, Smith JAM, Bivona TG. RAS nucleotide cycling underlies the SHP2 phosphatase dependence of mutant BRAF-, NF1- and RAS-driven cancers. Nature cell biology 2018. PMID: 30104724


  32. McCoach CE, Blakely CM, Banks KC, Levy B, Chue BM, Raymond VM, Le AT, Lee CE, Diaz J, Waqar SN, Purcell WT, Aisner DL, Davies KD, Lanman RB, Shaw AT, Doebele RC. Clinical Utility of Cell-Free DNA for the Detection of ALK Fusions and Genomic Mechanisms of ALK Inhibitor Resistance in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2018. PMID: 29599410


  33. Truillet C, Oh HLJ, Yeo SP, Lee CY, Huynh LT, Wei J, Parker MFL, Blakely C, Sevillano N, Wang YH, Shen YS, Olivas V, Jami KM, Moroz A, Jego B, Jaumain E, Fong L, Craik CS, Chang AJ, Bivona TG, Wang CI, Evans MJ. Imaging PD-L1 Expression with ImmunoPET. Bioconjugate chemistry 2017. PMID: 29125731


  34. Blakely CM, Watkins TBK, Wu W, Gini B, Chabon JJ, McCoach CE, McGranahan N, Wilson GA, Birkbak NJ, Olivas VR, Rotow J, Maynard A, Wang V, Gubens MA, Banks KC, Lanman RB, Caulin AF, St John J, Cordero AR, Giannikopoulos P, Simmons AD, Mack PC, Gandara DR, Husain H, Doebele RC, Riess JW, Diehn M, Swanton C, Bivona TG. Evolution and clinical impact of co-occurring genetic alterations in advanced-stage EGFR-mutant lung cancers. Nature genetics 2017. PMID: 29106415


  35. Woodard GA, Wang SX, Kratz JR, Zoon-Besselink CT, Chiang CY, Gubens MA, Jahan TM, Blakely CM, Jones KD, Mann MJ, Jablons DM. Adjuvant Chemotherapy Guided by Molecular Profiling and Improved Outcomes in Early Stage, Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Clinical lung cancer 2017. PMID: 28645632


  36. Jonsson VD, Blakely CM, Lin L, Asthana S, Matni N, Olivas V, Pazarentzos E, Gubens MA, Bastian BC, Taylor BS, Doyle JC, Bivona TG. Novel computational method for predicting polytherapy switching strategies to overcome tumor heterogeneity and evolution. Scientific Reports 2017. PMID: 28287179


  37. Okimoto RA, Breitenbuecher F, Olivas VR, Wu W, Gini B, Hofree M, Asthana S, Hrustanovic G, Flanagan J, Tulpule A, Blakely CM, Haringsma HJ, Simmons AD, Gowen K, Suh J, Miller VA, Ali S, Schuler M, Bivona TG. Inactivation of Capicua drives cancer metastasis. Nature genetics 2016. PMID: 27869830


  38. Hrustanovic G, Olivas V, Pazarentzos E, Tulpule A, Asthana S, Blakely CM, Okimoto RA, Lin L, Neel DS, Sabnis A, Flanagan J, Chan E, Varella-Garcia M, Aisner DL, Vaishnavi A, Ou SH, Collisson EA, Ichihara E, Mack PC, Lovly CM, Karachaliou N, Rosell R, Riess JW, Doebele RC, Bivona TG. RAS-MAPK dependence underlies a rational polytherapy strategy in EML4-ALK-positive lung cancer. Nature medicine 2015. PMID: 26301689


  39. Blakely CM, Pazarentzos E, Olivas V, Asthana S, Yan JJ, Tan I, Hrustanovic G, Chan E, Lin L, Neel DS, Newton W, Bobb KL, Fouts TR, Meshulam J, Gubens MA, Jablons DM, Johnson JR, Bandyopadhyay S, Krogan NJ, Bivona TG. NF-κB-activating complex engaged in response to EGFR oncogene inhibition drives tumor cell survival and residual disease in lung cancer. Cell reports 2015. PMID: 25843712


  40. Blakely C, Jahan T. Emerging antiangiogenic therapies for non-small-cell lung cancer. Expert review of anticancer therapy 2011. PMID: 21999134


  41. Blakely CM, Stoddard AJ, Belka GK, Dugan KD, Notarfrancesco KL, Moody SE, D'Cruz CM, Chodosh LA. Hormone-induced protection against mammary tumorigenesis is conserved in multiple rat strains and identifies a core gene expression signature induced by pregnancy. Cancer research 2006. PMID: 16778221


  42. Blakely CM, Sintasath L, D'Cruz CM, Hahn KT, Dugan KD, Belka GK, Chodosh LA. Developmental stage determines the effects of MYC in the mammary epithelium. Development (Cambridge, England) 2005. PMID: 15689376


  43. Katze MG, Kwieciszewski B, Goodlett DR, Blakely CM, Neddermann P, Tan SL, Aebersold R. Ser(2194) is a highly conserved major phosphorylation site of the hepatitis C virus nonstructural protein NS5A. Virology 2000. PMID: 11118372


  44. Ladiges W, Morton J, Blakely C, Gale M. Tissue specific expression of PKR protein kinase in aging B6D2F1 mice. Mechanisms of ageing and development 2000. PMID: 10799709


  45. Gale M, Blakely CM, Kwieciszewski B, Tan SL, Dossett M, Tang NM, Korth MJ, Polyak SJ, Gretch DR, Katze MG. Control of PKR protein kinase by hepatitis C virus nonstructural 5A protein: molecular mechanisms of kinase regulation. Molecular and cellular biology 1998. PMID: 9710605


  46. Gale M, Blakely CM, Hopkins DA, Melville MW, Wambach M, Romano PR, Katze MG. Regulation of interferon-induced protein kinase PKR: modulation of P58IPK inhibitory function by a novel protein, P52rIPK. Molecular and cellular biology 1998. PMID: 9447982