Dr. Cristiano is developing bioinformatic pipelines for liquid biopsy-based data which will allow data from various sources to be combined and improve the statistical models that detect early-stage cancer.
PUBLISHED RESEARCH
van ‘t Erve I, Alipanahi B, Lumbard K, Skidmore ZL, Rinaldi L, Millberg LK, Carey J, Chesnick B, Cristiano S, Portwood C, Wu T, Peters E, Bolhuis K, Punt CJA, Tom J, Bach PB, Dracopoli NC, Meijer GA, Scharpf RB, Velculescu VE, Fijneman RJA, Leal A. Cancer treatment monitoring using cell-free DNA fragmentomes. Nat Commun. 2024.
Medina JE, Annapragada AV, Lof P, Short S, Bartolomucci AL, Mathios D, Koul S, Niknafs N, Noe M, Foda ZH, Bruhm DC, Hruban C, Vulpescu NA, Jung E, Dua R, Canzoniero JV, Cristiano S, Adleff V, Symecko H, van den Broek D, Sokoll LJ, Baylin SB, Press MF, Slamon DJ, Konecny GE, Therkildsen C, Carvalho B, Meijer GA, Andersen CL, Domchek SM, Drapkin R, Scharpf RB, Phallen J, Lok CAR, Velculescu VE. Early detection of ovarian cancer using cell-free DNA fragmentomes and protein biomarkers. Cancer Discov. 2024.
Bruhm DC, Mathios D, Foda ZH, Annapragada AV, Medina JE, Adleff V, Chiao EJ, Ferreira L, Cristiano S, White JR, Mazzilli SA, Billatos E, Spira A, Zaidi AH, Mueller J, Kim AK, Anagnostou V, Phallen J, Scharpf RB, Velculescu VE. Single-molecule genome-wide mutation profiles of cell-free DNA for non-invasive detection of cancer. Nat Genet. 2023.
Foda ZH, Annapragada AV, Boyapati K, Bruhm DC, Vulpescu NA, Medina JE, Mathios D, Cristiano S, Niknafs N, Luu HT, Goggins MG, Anders RA, Sun J, Mehta SH, Thomas DL, Kirk GD, Adleff V, Phallen J, Scharpf RB, Kim AK, Velculescu VE. Detecting liver cancer using cell-free DNA fragmentomes. Cancer Discov. 2022.
Mathios D, Johansen JS, Cristiano S, Medina JE, Phallen J, Larsen KR, Bruhm DC, Niknafs N, Ferreira L, Adleff V, Chiao JY, Leal A, Noe M, White JR, Arun AS, Hruban C, Annapragada AV, Jensen SØ, Ørntoft MW, Madsen AH, Carvalho B, de Wit M, Carey J, Dracopoli NC, Maddala T, Fang KC, Hartman AR, Forde PM , Anagnostou V, Brahmer JR, Fijneman RJA, Nielsen HJ, Meijer GA, Andersen CL, Mellemgaard A, Bojesen SE, Scharpf RB, Velculescu VE. Detection and Characterization of Lung Cancer Using Cell-Free DNA Fragmentomes. Nat Commun. 2021.