Francesco Hofmann
Novartis
102 Papers
610 Citations
Francesco Hofmann is an academic researcher from Novartis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Biology. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 98 publications.
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Papers
mTOR Inhibition Induces Upstream Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling and Activates Akt
Kathryn E. O'Reilly,Fredi Rojo,Qing-Bai She,David B. Solit,Gordon B. Mills,Debra G. Smith,Heidi Lane,Francesco Hofmann,Daniel J. Hicklin,Dale L. Ludwig,José Baselga,Neal Rosen +11 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that feedback down-regulation of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling is a frequent event in tumor cells with constitutive mTOR activation, and reversal of this feedback loop by rapamycin may attenuate its therapeutic effects, whereas combination therapy that ablates mTOR function and prevents Akt activation may have improved antitumor activity.
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High-throughput screening using patient-derived tumor xenografts to predict clinical trial drug response
Hui Gao,Joshua M. Korn,Stephane Ferretti,John Monahan,Youzhen Wang,Mallika Singh,Mallika Singh,Chao Zhang,Chao Zhang,Christian Schnell,Guizhi Yang,Yun Zhang,O. Alejandro Balbin,Stephanie Barbe,Hongbo Cai,Fergal Casey,Susmita Chatterjee,Derek Y. Chiang,Shannon Chuai,Shawn Cogan,Scott D. Collins,Ernesta Dammassa,Nicolas Ebel,Millicent Embry,John Green,Audrey Kauffmann,Colleen Kowal,Rebecca Leary,Joseph Lehar,Ying Liang,Alice Loo,Edward Lorenzana,E. Robert McDonald,Margaret E. McLaughlin,Jason Merkin,Ronald Meyer,Tara L. Naylor,Montesa Patawaran,Anupama Reddy,Anupama Reddy,Claudia Roelli,David A. Ruddy,Fernando Salangsang,Francesca Santacroce,Angad P Singh,Yan Tang,Walter Tinetto,Sonja Tobler,Roberto Velazquez,Kavitha Venkatesan,Fabian Von Arx,Hui Qin Wang,Zongyao Wang,Marion Wiesmann,Daniel Wyss,Fiona Xu,Hans Bitter,Peter Atadja,Emma Lees,Francesco Hofmann,En Li,Nicholas Keen,Robert Cozens,Michael Rugaard Jensen,Nancy Pryer,Nancy Pryer,Juliet Williams,William R. Sellers +67 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that PCTs may represent a more accurate approach than cell line models for assessing the clinical potential of some therapeutic modalities and could potentially improve preclinical evaluation of treatmentmodalities and enhance the ability to predict clinical trial responses.
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Inhibition of the insulin-like growth factor receptor-1 tyrosine kinase activity as a therapeutic strategy for multiple myeloma, other hematologic malignancies, and solid tumors.
Constantine S. Mitsiades,Nicholas Mitsiades,Nicholas Mitsiades,Ciaran J. McMullan,Vassiliki Poulaki,Vassiliki Poulaki,Reshma Shringarpure,Masaharu Akiyama,Teru Hideshima,Dharminder Chauhan,Marie Joseph,Marie Joseph,Towia A. Libermann,Towia A. Libermann,Carlos Garcia-Echeverria,Mark A. Pearson,Francesco Hofmann,Kenneth C. Anderson,Andrew L. Kung +18 more
TL;DR: NVP-ADW742 monotherapy or its combination with cytotoxic chemotherapy had significant antitumor activity in an orthotopic xenograft MM model, providing in vivo proof of principle for therapeutic use of selective IGF-1R inhibitors in cancer.
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Project DRIVE: A Compendium of Cancer Dependencies and Synthetic Lethal Relationships Uncovered by Large-Scale, Deep RNAi Screening
E. Robert McDonald,Antoine de Weck,Michael R. Schlabach,Eric Billy,Konstantinos J. Mavrakis,Gregory R. Hoffman,Dhiren Belur,Deborah Castelletti,Elizabeth Frias,Kalyani Gampa,Javad Golji,Iris Kao,Li Li,Philippe Megel,Thomas A. Perkins,Nadire Ramadan,David A. Ruddy,Serena J. Silver,Sosathya Sovath,Mark Stump,Odile Weber,Roland Widmer,Jianjun Yu,Kristine Yu,Yingzi Yue,Dorothee Abramowski,Elizabeth Ackley,Rosemary Barrett,Joel Berger,Julie L. Bernard,Rebecca Billig,Saskia M. Brachmann,Frank Buxton,Roger Caothien,Justina X. Caushi,Franklin Chung,Marta Cortes-Cros,Rosalie deBeaumont,Clara Delaunay,Aurore Desplat,William Duong,Donald A. Dwoske,Richard S. Eldridge,Ali Farsidjani,Fei Feng,JiaJia Feng,Daisy Flemming,William C. Forrester,Giorgio G. Galli,Zhenhai Gao,François Gauter,Veronica Gibaja,Kristy Haas,Marc Hattenberger,Tami Hood,Kristen Hurov,Zainab Jagani,Mathias Jenal,Jennifer Johnson,Michael D. Jones,Avnish Kapoor,Joshua M. Korn,Jilin Liu,Qiumei Liu,Shumei Liu,Yue Liu,Alice T. Loo,Kaitlin J. Macchi,Typhaine Martin,Gregory McAllister,A. B. Meyer,Sandra Mollé,Raymond Pagliarini,Tanushree Phadke,Brian Repko,Tanja Schouwey,Frances Shanahan,Qiong Shen,Christelle Stamm,Christine Stephan,Volker M. Stucke,Ralph Tiedt,Malini Varadarajan,Kavitha Venkatesan,Alberto C. Vitari,Marco Wallroth,Jan Weiler,Jing Zhang,Craig Mickanin,Vic E. Myer,Jeffery A. Porter,Albert Lai,Hans Bitter,Emma Lees,Nicholas Keen,Audrey Kauffmann,Frank Stegmeier,Francesco Hofmann,Tobias Schmelzle,William R. Sellers +99 more
TL;DR: A large-scale RNAi screen is conducted in which viability effects of mRNA knockdown were assessed for 7,837 genes using an average of 20 shRNAs per gene in 398 cancer cell lines, outlining the classes of cancer dependency genes and their relationships to genetic, expression, and lineage features.
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Identification and Characterization of NVP-BKM120, an Orally Available Pan-Class I PI3-Kinase Inhibitor
Sauveur-Michel Maira,Sabina Pecchi,Alan Huang,Matthew Burger,Mark Knapp,Dario Sterker,Christian Schnell,Daniel Guthy,Tobi Nagel,Marion Wiesmann,Saskia M. Brachmann,Christine Fritsch,Marion Dorsch,Patrick Chène,Kevin Shoemaker,Alain De Pover,Daniel Menezes,Georg Martiny-Baron,Doriano Fabbro,Christine D. Wilson,Robert Schlegel,Francesco Hofmann,Carlos Garcia-Echeverria,William R. Sellers,Charles Voliva +24 more
TL;DR: The biologic characterization of the 2-morpholino pyrimidine derivative pan-PI3K inhibitor NVP-BKM120 shows dose-dependent in vivo pharmacodynamic activity as measured by significant inhibition of p-Akt and tumor growth inhibition in mechanistic xenograft models and behaves synergistically when combined with either targeted agentssuch as MEK or HER2 inhibitors or with cytotoxic agents such as docetaxel or temozolomide.
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