- Yale Therapeutic RadiologySmilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven35 Park StreetNew Haven, CT 06511
Ranjit S. Bindra, MD, PhD
Biography
Ranjit S. Bindra, MD, PHD, is therapeutic radiologist who specializes in the treatment of adult and pediatric primary brain tumors and brain metastases. He is the co-director of the Yale Brain Tumor Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital.
Dr. Bindra became a therapeutic radiologist to help patients with cancer and to translate work he was doing in the research laboratory into the clinic. As an oncology resident, he had met a number of young patients with brain cancer that couldn’t be cured, so doctors could only offer them palliative care. He wanted to do more. There are always examples in the medical literature where incurable cancers were cured, or overall survival was doubled, Dr. Bindra says.
In his research laboratory, Dr. Bindra is involved in the development and implementation of several precision medicine-based clinical trials for gliomas and other central nervous system tumors. He has led basic science studies and received international attention for a recent publication that showed a profound DNA repair defect in what are known as IDH1/2-mutant tumors that renders them exquisitely sensitive to drugs called PARP inhibitors—a result that has important clinical implications.
As a biotech entrepreneur, Dr. Bindra co-founded Cybrexa Therapeutics, a company focused on developing an entirely new class of small molecule DNA repair inhibitors, which directly target the tumor microenvironment.
Titles
- Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Professor of Pathology
- Vice Chair for Translational Research, Therapeutic Radiology
- Scientific Director, Chênevert Family Brain Tumor Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center
- Chief, Pediatrics Central Nervous System Radiotherapy Program, Therapeutic Radiology
- Chief, Central Nervous System Radiotherapy Program, Therapeutic Radiology
Education & Training
- ResidentMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2012)
- InternMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2008)
- MDYale University School of Medicine (2007)
- PhDYale University Graduate School (2005)
- BSYale University (1998)
Additional Information
- AB of Radiology, Radiation Oncology (2013)
- Noronha K, Lucas K, Paradkar S, Edmonds J, Friedman S, Murray M, Liu S, Sajed D, Sachs C, Spurrier J, Raponi M, Liang J, Zeng H, Sundaram R, Shuch B, Vasquez J, Bindra R. NAPRT Silencing in FH-Deficient Renal Cell Carcinoma Confers Therapeutic Vulnerabilities via NAD+ Depletion. Molecular Cancer Research 2024, of1-of16. PMID: 38949523, DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-23-1003.
- Huseman E, Lo A, Fedorova O, Elia J, Gueble S, Lin K, Sundaram R, Oh J, Liu J, Menges F, Rees M, Ronan M, Roth J, Batista V, Crawford J, Pyle A, Bindra R, Herzon S. Mechanism of Action of KL-50, a Candidate Imidazotetrazine for the Treatment of Drug-Resistant Brain Cancers. Journal Of The American Chemical Society 2024, 146: 18241-18252. PMID: 38815248, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c06483.
- Murray M, Noronha K, Wang Y, Friedman A, Paradkar S, Suh H, Sundaram R, Brenner C, Saltzman W, Bindra R. Exploiting Metabolic Defects in Glioma with Nanoparticle-Encapsulated NAMPT Inhibitors. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 2024, 23: 1176-1187. PMID: 38691846, PMCID: PMC11292319, DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-24-0012.
- Rahman R, Shi D, Reitman Z, Hamerlik P, de Groot J, Haas-Kogan D, D’Andrea A, Sulman E, Tanner K, Agar N, Sarkaria J, Tinkle C, Bindra R, Mehta M, Wen P. DNA damage response in brain tumors: A Society for Neuro-Oncology consensus review on mechanisms and translational efforts in neuro-oncology. Neuro-Oncology 2024, 26: 1367-1387. PMID: 38770568, PMCID: PMC11300028, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noae072.
- Lee T, Bhatt D, Sundaram R, Saltzman W, Bindra R, Vasquez J. MODL-02. DEVELOPMENT OF RODENT GLIOBLASTOMA MODELS OF MGMT-MEDIATED TEMOZOLOMIDE RESISTANCE. Neuro-Oncology 2023, 25: v298-v298. PMCID: PMC10640218, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noad179.1153.
- Schiff D, Bindra R, Li J, Ye X, Ellingson B, Walbert T, Campian J, Nabors B, Lieberman F, Ozer B, Desai A, Omuro A, Wen P, Desideri S, Danda N, Grossman S. CTNI-41. PHASE II AND PHASE 0 RESULTS OF ABTC 1801: A MULTI-ARM CLINICAL TRIAL OF THE PARP INHIBITOR PAMIPARIB WITH VERY LOW DOSE METRONOMIC TEMOZOLOMIDE IN RECURRENT IDH MUTANT GLIOMAS. Neuro-Oncology 2023, 25: v84-v84. PMCID: PMC10639307, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noad179.0323.
- Grossman SA, Romo CG, Rudek MA, Supko J, Fisher J, Nabors LB, Wen PY, Peereboom DM, Ellingson BM, Elmquist W, Barker FG, Kamson D, Sarkaria JN, Timmer W, Bindra RS, Ye X. Baseline requirements for novel agents being considered for phase II/III brain cancer efficacy trials: conclusions from the Adult Brain Tumor Consortium’s first workshop on CNS drug delivery. Neuro-Oncology 2020, 22: 1422-1424. PMID: 32506123, PMCID: PMC7566550, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa142.
- Sulkowski PL, Oeck S, Dow J, Economos NG, Mirfakhraie L, Liu Y, Noronha K, Bao X, Li J, Shuch BM, King MC, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Oncometabolites suppress DNA repair by disrupting local chromatin signalling. Nature 2020, 582: 586-591. PMID: 32494005, PMCID: PMC7319896, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2363-0.
- Hong CS, Vasquez JC, Kundishora AJ, Elsamadicy AA, Beckta JM, Sule A, Marks AM, Leelatian N, Huttner A, Bindra RS, DiLuna ML, Kahle KT, Erson-Omay EZ. Persistent STAG2 mutation despite multimodal therapy in recurrent pediatric glioblastoma. Npj Genomic Medicine 2020, 5: 23. PMID: 32528726, PMCID: PMC7264170, DOI: 10.1038/s41525-020-0130-7.
- Shuch B, Li S, Risch H, Bindra RS, McGillivray PD, Gerstein M. Estimation of the carrier frequency of fumarate hydratase alterations and implications for kidney cancer risk in hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cancer. Cancer 2020, 126: 3657-3666. PMID: 32413184, PMCID: PMC10316675, DOI: 10.1002/cncr.32914.
- van den Bent MJ, Mellinghoff IK, Bindra RS. Gray Areas in the Gray Matter: IDH1/2 Mutations in Glioma. American Society Of Clinical Oncology Educational Book 2020, 40: 1-8. PMID: 32186930, PMCID: PMC7673204, DOI: 10.1200/edbk_280967.
- Wen PY, Weller M, Lee EQ, Alexander BM, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Barthel FP, Batchelor TT, Bindra RS, Chang SM, Chiocca EA, Cloughesy TF, DeGroot JF, Galanis E, Gilbert MR, Hegi ME, Horbinski C, Huang RY, Lassman AB, Le Rhun E, Lim M, Mehta MP, Mellinghoff IK, Minniti G, Nathanson D, Platten M, Preusser M, Roth P, Sanson M, Schiff D, Short SC, Taphoorn MJB, Tonn JC, Tsang J, Verhaak RGW, von Deimling A, Wick W, Zadeh G, Reardon DA, Aldape KD, van den Bent MJ. Glioblastoma in adults: a Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) and European Society of Neuro-Oncology (EANO) consensus review on current management and future directions. Neuro-Oncology 2020, 22: 1073-1113. PMID: 32328653, PMCID: PMC7594557, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa106.
- Beckta JM, Bindra RS, Chalmers AJ. Targeting DNA repair in gliomas. Current Opinion In Neurology 2019, 32: 878-885. PMID: 31592790, DOI: 10.1097/wco.0000000000000760.
- Jackson CB, Noorbakhsh SI, Sundaram RK, Kalathil AN, Ganesa S, Jia L, Breslin H, Burgenske DM, Gilad O, Sarkaria JN, Bindra RS. Temozolomide Sensitizes MGMT-Deficient Tumor Cells to ATR Inhibitors. Cancer Research 2019, 79: 4331-4338. PMID: 31273061, PMCID: PMC6810597, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-18-3394.
- Fons NR, Sundaram RK, Breuer GA, Peng S, McLean RL, Kalathil AN, Schmidt MS, Carvalho DM, Mackay A, Jones C, Carcaboso ÁM, Nazarian J, Berens ME, Brenner C, Bindra RS. PPM1D mutations silence NAPRT gene expression and confer NAMPT inhibitor sensitivity in glioma. Nature Communications 2019, 10: 3790. PMID: 31439867, PMCID: PMC6706443, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11732-6.
- Bao X, Wu J, Shuch B, LoRusso P, Bindra RS, Li J. Quantitative Profiling of Oncometabolites in Frozen and Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tissue Specimens by Liquid Chromatography Coupled with Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Scientific Reports 2019, 9: 11238. PMID: 31375752, PMCID: PMC6677826, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47669-5.
- Fomchenko EI, Erson-Omay EZ, Zhao A, Bindra RS, Huttner A, Fulbright RK, Moliterno J. DNMT3A co-mutation in an IDH1-mutant glioblastoma. Molecular Case Studies 2019, 5: a004119. PMID: 31371348, PMCID: PMC6672028, DOI: 10.1101/mcs.a004119.
- JAIRAM V, KANN BH, PARK HS, MICCIO JA, BECKTA JM, YU JB, PRABHU RS, GAO SJ, MEHTA MP, CURRAN WJ, BINDRA RS, CONTESSA JN, PATEL KR. Defining an Intermediate-risk Group for Low-grade Glioma: A National Cancer Database Analysis. Anticancer Research 2019, 39: 2911-2918. PMID: 31177129, DOI: 10.21873/anticanres.13420.
- Ludmir EB, Mahajan A, Ahern V, Ajithkumar T, Alapetite C, Bernier-Chastagner V, Bindra RS, Bishop AJ, Bolle S, Brown PD, Carrie C, Chalmers AJ, Chang EL, Chung C, Dieckmann K, Esiashvili N, Gandola L, Ghia AJ, Gondi V, Grosshans DR, Harrabi SB, Horan G, Indelicato DJ, Jalali R, Janssens GO, Krause M, Laack NN, Laperriere N, Laprie A, Li J, Marcus KJ, McGovern SL, Merchant TE, Merrell KW, Padovani L, Parkes J, Paulino AC, Schwarz R, Shih HA, Souhami L, Sulman EP, Taylor RE, Thorp N, Timmermann B, Wheeler G, Wolden SL, Woodhouse KD, Yeboa DN, Yock TI, Kortmann RD, McAleer MF. Assembling the brain trust: the multidisciplinary imperative in neuro-oncology. Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology 2019, 16: 521-522. PMID: 31150024, DOI: 10.1038/s41571-019-0235-z.
- Liang J, Beckta JM, Bindra RS. Re: Catherine H. Marshall, Alexandra O. Sokolova, Andrea L. McNatty, et al. Differential Response to Olaparib Treatment Among Men with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer Harboring BRCA1 or BRCA2 Versus ATM Mutations. Eur Urol 2019;76:452–8. European Urology 2019, 76: e109-e110. PMID: 31080125, DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2019.04.041.
- Role of Radiation Therapy in the Management of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma: A Systematic ReviewGallitto M, Lazarev S, Wasserman I, Stafford JM, Wolden SL, Terezakis SA, Bindra RS, Bakst RL. Role of Radiation Therapy in the Management of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma: A Systematic Review. Advances In Radiation Oncology 2019, 4: 520-531. PMID: 31360809, PMCID: PMC6639749, DOI: 10.1016/j.adro.2019.03.009.
- Seo YE, Suh HW, Bahal R, Josowitz A, Zhang J, Song E, Cui J, Noorbakhsh S, Jackson C, Bu T, Piotrowski-Daspit A, Bindra R, Saltzman WM. Nanoparticle-mediated intratumoral inhibition of miR-21 for improved survival in glioblastoma. Biomaterials 2019, 201: 87-98. PMID: 30802686, PMCID: PMC6451656, DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.02.016.
- Xu Y, Taylor P, Andrade J, Ueberheide B, Shuch B, Glazer PM, Bindra RS, Moran MF, Linehan WM, Neel BG. Pathologic Oxidation of PTPN12 Underlies ABL1 Phosphorylation in Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Research 2018, 78: 6539-6548. PMID: 30297534, PMCID: PMC6279512, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-18-0901.
- Beckta JM, Bindra RS. The Higher the Grade, the Bigger the Field. International Journal Of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics 2018, 102: 488-489. PMID: 30238899, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.08.019.
- Sulkowski PL, Sundaram RK, Oeck S, Corso CD, Liu Y, Noorbakhsh S, Niger M, Boeke M, Ueno D, Kalathil AN, Bao X, Li J, Shuch B, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Krebs-cycle-deficient hereditary cancer syndromes are defined by defects in homologous-recombination DNA repair. Nature Genetics 2018, 50: 1086-1092. PMID: 30013182, PMCID: PMC6072579, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0170-4.
- Chen EM, Quijano AR, Seo YE, Jackson C, Josowitz AD, Noorbakhsh S, Merlettini A, Sundaram RK, Focarete ML, Jiang Z, Bindra RS, Saltzman WM. Biodegradable PEG-poly(ω-pentadecalactone-co-p-dioxanone) nanoparticles for enhanced and sustained drug delivery to treat brain tumors. Biomaterials 2018, 178: 193-203. PMID: 29936153, PMCID: PMC6082184, DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2018.06.024.
- Chen WS, Bindra RS, Mo A, Hayman T, Husain Z, Contessa JN, Gaffney SG, Townsend JP, Yu JB. CDKN2A Copy Number Loss Is an Independent Prognostic Factor in HPV-Negative Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Frontiers In Oncology 2018, 8: 95. PMID: 29670856, PMCID: PMC5893829, DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2018.00095.
- Chang K, Bai HX, Zhou H, Su C, Bi WL, Agbodza E, Kavouridis VK, Senders JT, Boaro A, Beers A, Zhang B, Capellini A, Liao W, Shen Q, Li X, Xiao B, Cryan J, Ramkissoon S, Ramkissoon L, Ligon K, Wen PY, Bindra RS, Woo J, Arnaout O, Gerstner ER, Zhang PJ, Rosen BR, Yang L, Huang RY, Kalpathy-Cramer J. Residual Convolutional Neural Network for Determination of IDH Status in Low- and High-grade Gliomas from MR Imaging. Clinical Cancer Research 2018, 24: clincanres.2236.2017. PMID: 29167275, PMCID: PMC6051535, DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-17-2236.
- Marks AM, Bindra RS, DiLuna ML, Huttner A, Jairam V, Kahle KT, Kieran MW. Response to the BRAF/MEK inhibitors dabrafenib/trametinib in an adolescent with a BRAF V600E mutated anaplastic ganglioglioma intolerant to vemurafenib. Pediatric Blood & Cancer 2018, 65: e26969. PMID: 29380516, DOI: 10.1002/pbc.26969.
- Cecchini M, Walther Z, Sklar JL, Bindra RS, Petrylak DP, Eder JP, Goldberg SB. Introduction to the Yale Precision Medicine Tumor Board. The Lancet Oncology 2018, 19: 19-20. PMID: 29304351, DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(17)30919-1.
- Cecchini M, Walther Z, Sklar JL, Bindra RS, Petrylak DP, Eder JP, Goldberg SB. Yale Cancer Center Precision Medicine Tumor Board: two patients, one targeted therapy, different outcomes. The Lancet Oncology 2018, 19: 23-24. PMID: 29304353, DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(17)30916-6.
- Ray S, Breuer G, DeVeaux M, Zelterman D, Bindra R, Sweasy JB. DNA polymerase beta participates in DNA End-joining. Nucleic Acids Research 2017, 46: 242-255. PMID: 29161447, PMCID: PMC5758893, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx1147.
- Chowdhary M, Okwan-Duodu D, Switchenko JM, Press RH, Jhaveri J, Buchwald ZS, Zhong J, Chapman BV, Bindra RS, Contessa JN, Park HS, Yu JB, Decker RH, Olson JJ, Oyesiku NM, Abrams RA, Shu HG, Curran WJ, Crocker IR, Patel KR. Angiotensin receptor blockade: a novel approach for symptomatic radiation necrosis after stereotactic radiosurgery. Journal Of Neuro-Oncology 2017, 136: 289-298. PMID: 29124649, PMCID: PMC5784434, DOI: 10.1007/s11060-017-2652-0.
- Yeboa DN, Rutter CE, Park HS, Lester-Coll NH, Corso CD, Mancini BR, Bindra RS, Contessa J, Yu JB. Patterns of care and outcomes for use of concurrent chemoradiotherapy over radiotherapy alone for anaplastic gliomas. Radiotherapy And Oncology 2017, 125: 258-265. PMID: 29054377, DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2017.09.027.
- Bindra RS, Galanis E, Mehta MP. State of the art: the evolving role of RT in combined modality therapy for GBM. Journal Of Neuro-Oncology 2017, 134: 477-478. PMID: 28913783, PMCID: PMC5866384, DOI: 10.1007/s11060-017-2596-4.
- Daddacha W, Koyen AE, Bastien AJ, Head PE, Dhere VR, Nabeta GN, Connolly EC, Werner E, Madden MZ, Daly MB, Minten EV, Whelan DR, Schlafstein AJ, Zhang H, Anand R, Doronio C, Withers AE, Shepard C, Sundaram RK, Deng X, Dynan WS, Wang Y, Bindra RS, Cejka P, Rothenberg E, Doetsch PW, Kim B, Yu DS. SAMHD1 Promotes DNA End Resection to Facilitate DNA Repair by Homologous Recombination. Cell Reports 2017, 20: 1921-1935. PMID: 28834754, PMCID: PMC5576576, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.08.008.
- King AR, Corso CD, Chen EM, Song E, Bongiorni P, Chen Z, Sundaram RK, Bindra RS, Saltzman WM. Local DNA Repair Inhibition for Sustained Radiosensitization of High-Grade Gliomas. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 2017, 16: 1456-1469. PMID: 28566437, PMCID: PMC5545124, DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-16-0788.
- Bindra RS, Chalmers AJ, Evans S, Dewhirst M. GBM radiosensitizers: dead in the water…or just the beginning? Journal Of Neuro-Oncology 2017, 134: 513-521. PMID: 28762004, DOI: 10.1007/s11060-017-2427-7.
- Mutter RW, Riaz N, Ng CK, Delsite R, Piscuoglio S, Edelweiss M, Martelotto LG, Sakr RA, King TA, Giri DD, Drobnjak M, Brogi E, Bindra R, Bernheim G, Lim RS, Blecua P, Desrichard A, Higginson D, Towers R, Jiang R, Lee W, Weigelt B, Reis‐Filho J, Powell SN. Bi‐allelic alterations in DNA repair genes underpin homologous recombination DNA repair defects in breast cancer. The Journal Of Pathology 2017, 242: 165-177. PMID: 28299801, PMCID: PMC5516531, DOI: 10.1002/path.4890.
- Braunstein S, Raleigh D, Bindra R, Mueller S, Haas-Kogan D. Pediatric high-grade glioma: current molecular landscape and therapeutic approaches. Journal Of Neuro-Oncology 2017, 134: 541-549. PMID: 28357536, DOI: 10.1007/s11060-017-2393-0.
- Corso CD, Bindra RS, Mehta MP. The role of radiation in treating glioblastoma: here to stay. Journal Of Neuro-Oncology 2017, 134: 479-485. PMID: 28271281, DOI: 10.1007/s11060-016-2348-x.
- Sulkowski PL, Corso CD, Robinson ND, Scanlon SE, Purshouse KR, Bai H, Liu Y, Sundaram RK, Hegan DC, Fons NR, Breuer GA, Song Y, Mishra-Gorur K, De Feyter HM, de Graaf RA, Surovtseva YV, Kachman M, Halene S, Günel M, Glazer PM, Bindra RS. 2-Hydroxyglutarate produced by neomorphic IDH mutations suppresses homologous recombination and induces PARP inhibitor sensitivity. Science Translational Medicine 2017, 9 PMID: 28148839, PMCID: PMC5435119, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aal2463.
- Kann BH, Park HS, Lester-Coll NH, Yeboa DN, Benitez V, Khan AJ, Bindra RS, Marks AM, Roberts KB. Postoperative Radiotherapy Patterns of Care and Survival Implications for Medulloblastoma in Young Children. JAMA Oncology 2016, 2: 1574-1581. PMID: 27491009, DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.2547.
- Kann BH, Yu JB, Stahl JM, Bond JE, Loiselle C, Chiang VL, Bindra RS, Gerrard JL, Carlson DJ. The impact of cobalt-60 source age on biologically effective dose in high-dose functional Gamma Knife radiosurgery. Journal Of Neurosurgery 2016, 125: 154-159. PMID: 27903196, DOI: 10.3171/2016.6.gks161497.
- Kann BH, Lester-Coll NH, Park HS, Yeboa DN, Kelly JR, Baehring JM, Becker KP, Yu JB, Bindra RS, Roberts KB. Adjuvant chemotherapy and overall survival in adult medulloblastoma. Neuro-Oncology 2016, 19: 259-269. PMID: 27540083, PMCID: PMC5464064, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/now150.
- Gaudin A, Song E, King AR, Saucier-Sawyer JK, Bindra R, Desmaële D, Couvreur P, Saltzman WM. PEGylated squalenoyl-gemcitabine nanoparticles for the treatment of glioblastoma. Biomaterials 2016, 105: 136-144. PMID: 27521616, PMCID: PMC5072177, DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2016.07.037.
- Janssen A, Breuer GA, Brinkman EK, van der Meulen AI, Borden SV, van Steensel B, Bindra RS, LaRocque JR, Karpen GH. A single double-strand break system reveals repair dynamics and mechanisms in heterochromatin and euchromatin. Genes & Development 2016, 30: 1645-1657. PMID: 27474442, PMCID: PMC4973294, DOI: 10.1101/gad.283028.116.
- Corso CD, Bindra RS. Success and Failures of Combined Modalities in Glioblastoma Multiforme: Old Problems and New Directions. Seminars In Radiation Oncology 2016, 26: 281-298. PMID: 27619250, DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2016.06.003.
- Surovtseva YV, Jairam V, Salem AF, Sundaram RK, Bindra RS, Herzon SB. Characterization of Cardiac Glycoside Natural Products as Potent Inhibitors of DNA Double-Strand Break Repair by a Whole-Cell Double Immunofluorescence Assay. Journal Of The American Chemical Society 2016, 138: 3844-3855. PMID: 26927829, PMCID: PMC5530877, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b00162.
- Rutter CE, Johung KL, Yao X, Lu AY, Jilaveanu LB, Yu JB, Contessa JN, Kluger HM, Chiang VLS, Bindra RS. Demonstration of differential radiosensitivity based upon mutation profile in metastatic melanoma treated with stereotactic radiosurgery. Journal Of Radiosurgery And SBRT 2016, 4: 97-106. PMID: 29296434, PMCID: PMC5658871.
- Colaco RJ, Yu JB, Bond JS, Bindra RS, Contessa JN, Knisely JPS, Chiang VL. A contemporary dose selection algorithm for stereotactic radiosurgery in the treatment of brain metastases - An initial report. Journal Of Radiosurgery And SBRT 2016, 4: 43-52. PMID: 29296425, PMCID: PMC5658834.
- van Dams R, Park HS, Alomari AK, Ricciardi AS, Rao H, McNamara J, DiLuna ML, Bindra RS. Adjuvant hypofractionated partial-brain radiation therapy for pediatric Ewing sarcoma brain metastases: case report. Journal Of Neurosurgery Pediatrics 2015, 17: 434-8. PMID: 26636250, DOI: 10.3171/2015.8.peds15313.
- Bindra RS, Wolden SL. Advances in Radiation Therapy in Pediatric Neuro-oncology. Journal Of Child Neurology 2015, 31: 506-516. PMID: 26271789, DOI: 10.1177/0883073815597758.
- Goglia AG, Delsite R, Luz AN, Shahbazian D, Salem AF, Sundaram RK, Chiaravalli J, Hendrikx PJ, Wilshire JA, Jasin M, Kluger HM, Glickman JF, Powell SN, Bindra RS. Identification of Novel Radiosensitizers in a High-Throughput, Cell-Based Screen for DSB Repair Inhibitors. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 2015, 14: 326-342. PMID: 25512618, PMCID: PMC4326563, DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-14-0765.
- Soong CP, Breuer GA, Hannon RA, Kim SD, Salem AF, Wang G, Yu R, Carriero NJ, Bjornson R, Sundaram RK, Bindra RS. Development of a novel method to create double-strand break repair fingerprints using next-generation sequencing. DNA Repair 2014, 26: 44-53. PMID: 25547252, DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.12.002.
- Wang C, Roberts KB, Bindra RS, Chiang VL, Yu JB. Delayed Cerebral Vasculopathy Following Cranial Radiation Therapy for Pediatric Tumors. Pediatric Neurology 2014, 50: 549-556. PMID: 24739378, DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2013.09.018.
- Rutter CE, Yu JB, Carlson DJ, Husain ZA, Zhao S, Picone J, Bindra RS. In regards to decision making for reirradiation of a recurrent intramedullary spinal cord metastasis. Journal Of Radiosurgery And SBRT 2014, 3: 165-168. PMID: 29296397, PMCID: PMC5675488.
- Shahbazian D, Bindra RS, Kluger HM, Glazer PM. Radiation sensitivity and sensitization in melanoma. Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research 2013, 26: 928-930. PMID: 23870422, PMCID: PMC3866027, DOI: 10.1111/pcmr.12147.
- Bindra RS, Goglia AG, Jasin M, Powell SN. Development of an assay to measure mutagenic non-homologous end-joining repair activity in mammalian cells. Nucleic Acids Research 2013, 41: e115-e115. PMID: 23585275, PMCID: PMC3675474, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt255.
- Schleifman EB, Bindra R, Leif J, del Campo J, Rogers FA, Uchil P, Kutsch O, Shultz LD, Kumar P, Greiner DL, Glazer PM. Targeted Disruption of the CCR5 Gene in Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells Stimulated by Peptide Nucleic Acids. Cell Chemical Biology 2011, 18: 1189-1198. PMID: 21944757, PMCID: PMC3183429, DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2011.07.010.
- Bindra RS, Yahalom J. The important role of radiation therapy in early-stage diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: time to review the evidence once again. Expert Review Of Anticancer Therapy 2011, 11: 1367-1378. PMID: 21929311, DOI: 10.1586/era.11.88.
- Hegan DC, Lu Y, Stachelek GC, Crosby ME, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase down-regulates BRCA1 and RAD51 in a pathway mediated by E2F4 and p130. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2010, 107: 2201-2206. PMID: 20133863, PMCID: PMC2836641, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904783107.
- Powell SN, Bindra RS. Targeting the DNA damage response for cancer therapy. DNA Repair 2009, 8: 1153-1165. PMID: 19501553, DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2009.04.011.
- Glazer PM, Bindra RS. Introduction: the evolving picture of the hypoxic tumour microenvironment. 2009, 9: 399-400. PMID: 19519396, DOI: 10.2174/156652409788167069.
- Chan N, Koritzinsky M, Zhao H, Bindra R, Glazer PM, Powell S, Belmaaza A, Wouters B, Bristow RG. Chronic Hypoxia Decreases Synthesis of Homologous Recombination Proteins to Offset Chemoresistance and Radioresistance. Cancer Research 2008, 68: 605-614. PMID: 18199558, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-07-5472.
- Bindra RS, Crosby ME, Glazer PM. Regulation of DNA repair in hypoxic cancer cells. Cancer And Metastasis Reviews 2007, 26: 249-260. PMID: 17415527, DOI: 10.1007/s10555-007-9061-3.
- Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Co-repression of mismatch repair gene expression by hypoxia in cancer cells: Role of the Myc/Max network. Cancer Letters 2007, 252: 93-103. PMID: 17275176, DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2006.12.011.
- Huang LE, Bindra RS, Glazer PM, Harris AL. Hypoxia-induced genetic instability—a calculated mechanism underlying tumor progression. Journal Of Molecular Medicine 2006, 85: 139-148. PMID: 17180667, DOI: 10.1007/s00109-006-0133-6.
- Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Basal repression of BRCA1 by multiple E2Fs and pocket proteins at adjacent E2F sites. Cancer Biology & Therapy 2006, 5: 1400-1407. PMID: 17106239, DOI: 10.4161/cbt.5.10.3454.
- Gibson SL, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. CHK2-Dependent Phosphorylation of BRCA1 in Hypoxia. Radiation Research 2006, 166: 646-651. PMID: 17007555, DOI: 10.1667/rr0660.1.
- Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Repression of RAD51 gene expression by E2F4/p130 complexes in hypoxia. Oncogene 2006, 26: 2048-2057. PMID: 17001309, DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1210001.
- Bindra RS, Gibson SL, Meng A, Westermark U, Jasin M, Pierce AJ, Bristow RG, Classon MK, Glazer PM. Hypoxia-Induced Down-regulation of BRCA1 Expression by E2Fs. Cancer Research 2005, 65: 11597-11604. PMID: 16357170, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-05-2119.
- Gibson SL, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Hypoxia-Induced Phosphorylation of Chk2 in an Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated–Dependent Manner. Cancer Research 2005, 65: 10734-10741. PMID: 16322218, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-05-1160.
- BINDRA RS, SCHAFFER PJ, MENG A, WOO J, MÅSEIDE K, ROTH ME, LIZARDI P, HEDLEY DW, BRISTOW RG, GLAZER PM. Alterations in DNA Repair Gene Expression under Hypoxia: Elucidating the Mechanisms of Hypoxia‐Induced Genetic Instability. Annals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences 2005, 1059: 184-195. PMID: 16382054, DOI: 10.1196/annals.1339.049.
- Meng AX, Jalali F, Cuddihy A, Chan N, Bindra RS, Glazer PM, Bristow RG. Hypoxia down-regulates DNA double strand break repair gene expression in prostate cancer cells. Radiotherapy And Oncology 2005, 76: 168-176. PMID: 16026872, DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.06.025.
- Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Genetic instability and the tumor microenvironment: towards the concept of microenvironment-induced mutagenesis. Mutation Research/Fundamental And Molecular Mechanisms Of Mutagenesis 2005, 569: 75-85. PMID: 15603753, DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2004.03.013.
- Bindra RS, Schaffer PJ, Meng A, Woo J, Måseide K, Roth ME, Lizardi P, Hedley DW, Bristow RG, Glazer PM. Down-Regulation of Rad51 and Decreased Homologous Recombination in Hypoxic Cancer Cells. Molecular And Cellular Biology 2004, 24: 8504-8518. PMID: 15367671, PMCID: PMC516750, DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.19.8504-8518.2004.
- Mihaylova VT, Bindra RS, Yuan J, Campisi D, Narayanan L, Jensen R, Giordano F, Johnson RS, Rockwell S, Glazer PM. Decreased Expression of the DNA Mismatch Repair Gene Mlh1 under Hypoxic Stress in Mammalian Cells. Molecular And Cellular Biology 2003, 23: 3265-3273. PMID: 12697826, PMCID: PMC153206, DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.9.3265-3273.2003.
- Bindra RS, Vasselli JR, Stearman R, Linehan WM, Klausner RD. VHL-mediated hypoxia regulation of cyclin D1 in renal carcinoma cells. Cancer Research 2002, 62: 3014-9. PMID: 12036906.
- Yale Therapeutic RadiologySmilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven35 Park StreetNew Haven, CT 06511
Biography
Ranjit S. Bindra, MD, PHD, is therapeutic radiologist who specializes in the treatment of adult and pediatric primary brain tumors and brain metastases. He is the co-director of the Yale Brain Tumor Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital.
Dr. Bindra became a therapeutic radiologist to help patients with cancer and to translate work he was doing in the research laboratory into the clinic. As an oncology resident, he had met a number of young patients with brain cancer that couldn’t be cured, so doctors could only offer them palliative care. He wanted to do more. There are always examples in the medical literature where incurable cancers were cured, or overall survival was doubled, Dr. Bindra says.
In his research laboratory, Dr. Bindra is involved in the development and implementation of several precision medicine-based clinical trials for gliomas and other central nervous system tumors. He has led basic science studies and received international attention for a recent publication that showed a profound DNA repair defect in what are known as IDH1/2-mutant tumors that renders them exquisitely sensitive to drugs called PARP inhibitors—a result that has important clinical implications.
As a biotech entrepreneur, Dr. Bindra co-founded Cybrexa Therapeutics, a company focused on developing an entirely new class of small molecule DNA repair inhibitors, which directly target the tumor microenvironment.
Titles
- Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Professor of Pathology
- Vice Chair for Translational Research, Therapeutic Radiology
- Scientific Director, Chênevert Family Brain Tumor Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center
- Chief, Pediatrics Central Nervous System Radiotherapy Program, Therapeutic Radiology
- Chief, Central Nervous System Radiotherapy Program, Therapeutic Radiology
Education & Training
- ResidentMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2012)
- InternMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2008)
- MDYale University School of Medicine (2007)
- PhDYale University Graduate School (2005)
- BSYale University (1998)
Additional Information
- AB of Radiology, Radiation Oncology (2013)
- Noronha K, Lucas K, Paradkar S, Edmonds J, Friedman S, Murray M, Liu S, Sajed D, Sachs C, Spurrier J, Raponi M, Liang J, Zeng H, Sundaram R, Shuch B, Vasquez J, Bindra R. NAPRT Silencing in FH-Deficient Renal Cell Carcinoma Confers Therapeutic Vulnerabilities via NAD+ Depletion. Molecular Cancer Research 2024, of1-of16. PMID: 38949523, DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-23-1003.
- Huseman E, Lo A, Fedorova O, Elia J, Gueble S, Lin K, Sundaram R, Oh J, Liu J, Menges F, Rees M, Ronan M, Roth J, Batista V, Crawford J, Pyle A, Bindra R, Herzon S. Mechanism of Action of KL-50, a Candidate Imidazotetrazine for the Treatment of Drug-Resistant Brain Cancers. Journal Of The American Chemical Society 2024, 146: 18241-18252. PMID: 38815248, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c06483.
- Murray M, Noronha K, Wang Y, Friedman A, Paradkar S, Suh H, Sundaram R, Brenner C, Saltzman W, Bindra R. Exploiting Metabolic Defects in Glioma with Nanoparticle-Encapsulated NAMPT Inhibitors. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 2024, 23: 1176-1187. PMID: 38691846, PMCID: PMC11292319, DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-24-0012.
- Rahman R, Shi D, Reitman Z, Hamerlik P, de Groot J, Haas-Kogan D, D’Andrea A, Sulman E, Tanner K, Agar N, Sarkaria J, Tinkle C, Bindra R, Mehta M, Wen P. DNA damage response in brain tumors: A Society for Neuro-Oncology consensus review on mechanisms and translational efforts in neuro-oncology. Neuro-Oncology 2024, 26: 1367-1387. PMID: 38770568, PMCID: PMC11300028, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noae072.
- Lee T, Bhatt D, Sundaram R, Saltzman W, Bindra R, Vasquez J. MODL-02. DEVELOPMENT OF RODENT GLIOBLASTOMA MODELS OF MGMT-MEDIATED TEMOZOLOMIDE RESISTANCE. Neuro-Oncology 2023, 25: v298-v298. PMCID: PMC10640218, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noad179.1153.
- Schiff D, Bindra R, Li J, Ye X, Ellingson B, Walbert T, Campian J, Nabors B, Lieberman F, Ozer B, Desai A, Omuro A, Wen P, Desideri S, Danda N, Grossman S. CTNI-41. PHASE II AND PHASE 0 RESULTS OF ABTC 1801: A MULTI-ARM CLINICAL TRIAL OF THE PARP INHIBITOR PAMIPARIB WITH VERY LOW DOSE METRONOMIC TEMOZOLOMIDE IN RECURRENT IDH MUTANT GLIOMAS. Neuro-Oncology 2023, 25: v84-v84. PMCID: PMC10639307, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noad179.0323.
- Grossman SA, Romo CG, Rudek MA, Supko J, Fisher J, Nabors LB, Wen PY, Peereboom DM, Ellingson BM, Elmquist W, Barker FG, Kamson D, Sarkaria JN, Timmer W, Bindra RS, Ye X. Baseline requirements for novel agents being considered for phase II/III brain cancer efficacy trials: conclusions from the Adult Brain Tumor Consortium’s first workshop on CNS drug delivery. Neuro-Oncology 2020, 22: 1422-1424. PMID: 32506123, PMCID: PMC7566550, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa142.
- Sulkowski PL, Oeck S, Dow J, Economos NG, Mirfakhraie L, Liu Y, Noronha K, Bao X, Li J, Shuch BM, King MC, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Oncometabolites suppress DNA repair by disrupting local chromatin signalling. Nature 2020, 582: 586-591. PMID: 32494005, PMCID: PMC7319896, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2363-0.
- Hong CS, Vasquez JC, Kundishora AJ, Elsamadicy AA, Beckta JM, Sule A, Marks AM, Leelatian N, Huttner A, Bindra RS, DiLuna ML, Kahle KT, Erson-Omay EZ. Persistent STAG2 mutation despite multimodal therapy in recurrent pediatric glioblastoma. Npj Genomic Medicine 2020, 5: 23. PMID: 32528726, PMCID: PMC7264170, DOI: 10.1038/s41525-020-0130-7.
- Shuch B, Li S, Risch H, Bindra RS, McGillivray PD, Gerstein M. Estimation of the carrier frequency of fumarate hydratase alterations and implications for kidney cancer risk in hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cancer. Cancer 2020, 126: 3657-3666. PMID: 32413184, PMCID: PMC10316675, DOI: 10.1002/cncr.32914.
- van den Bent MJ, Mellinghoff IK, Bindra RS. Gray Areas in the Gray Matter: IDH1/2 Mutations in Glioma. American Society Of Clinical Oncology Educational Book 2020, 40: 1-8. PMID: 32186930, PMCID: PMC7673204, DOI: 10.1200/edbk_280967.
- Wen PY, Weller M, Lee EQ, Alexander BM, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Barthel FP, Batchelor TT, Bindra RS, Chang SM, Chiocca EA, Cloughesy TF, DeGroot JF, Galanis E, Gilbert MR, Hegi ME, Horbinski C, Huang RY, Lassman AB, Le Rhun E, Lim M, Mehta MP, Mellinghoff IK, Minniti G, Nathanson D, Platten M, Preusser M, Roth P, Sanson M, Schiff D, Short SC, Taphoorn MJB, Tonn JC, Tsang J, Verhaak RGW, von Deimling A, Wick W, Zadeh G, Reardon DA, Aldape KD, van den Bent MJ. Glioblastoma in adults: a Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) and European Society of Neuro-Oncology (EANO) consensus review on current management and future directions. Neuro-Oncology 2020, 22: 1073-1113. PMID: 32328653, PMCID: PMC7594557, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa106.
- Beckta JM, Bindra RS, Chalmers AJ. Targeting DNA repair in gliomas. Current Opinion In Neurology 2019, 32: 878-885. PMID: 31592790, DOI: 10.1097/wco.0000000000000760.
- Jackson CB, Noorbakhsh SI, Sundaram RK, Kalathil AN, Ganesa S, Jia L, Breslin H, Burgenske DM, Gilad O, Sarkaria JN, Bindra RS. Temozolomide Sensitizes MGMT-Deficient Tumor Cells to ATR Inhibitors. Cancer Research 2019, 79: 4331-4338. PMID: 31273061, PMCID: PMC6810597, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-18-3394.
- Fons NR, Sundaram RK, Breuer GA, Peng S, McLean RL, Kalathil AN, Schmidt MS, Carvalho DM, Mackay A, Jones C, Carcaboso ÁM, Nazarian J, Berens ME, Brenner C, Bindra RS. PPM1D mutations silence NAPRT gene expression and confer NAMPT inhibitor sensitivity in glioma. Nature Communications 2019, 10: 3790. PMID: 31439867, PMCID: PMC6706443, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11732-6.
- Bao X, Wu J, Shuch B, LoRusso P, Bindra RS, Li J. Quantitative Profiling of Oncometabolites in Frozen and Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tissue Specimens by Liquid Chromatography Coupled with Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Scientific Reports 2019, 9: 11238. PMID: 31375752, PMCID: PMC6677826, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47669-5.
- Fomchenko EI, Erson-Omay EZ, Zhao A, Bindra RS, Huttner A, Fulbright RK, Moliterno J. DNMT3A co-mutation in an IDH1-mutant glioblastoma. Molecular Case Studies 2019, 5: a004119. PMID: 31371348, PMCID: PMC6672028, DOI: 10.1101/mcs.a004119.
- JAIRAM V, KANN BH, PARK HS, MICCIO JA, BECKTA JM, YU JB, PRABHU RS, GAO SJ, MEHTA MP, CURRAN WJ, BINDRA RS, CONTESSA JN, PATEL KR. Defining an Intermediate-risk Group for Low-grade Glioma: A National Cancer Database Analysis. Anticancer Research 2019, 39: 2911-2918. PMID: 31177129, DOI: 10.21873/anticanres.13420.
- Ludmir EB, Mahajan A, Ahern V, Ajithkumar T, Alapetite C, Bernier-Chastagner V, Bindra RS, Bishop AJ, Bolle S, Brown PD, Carrie C, Chalmers AJ, Chang EL, Chung C, Dieckmann K, Esiashvili N, Gandola L, Ghia AJ, Gondi V, Grosshans DR, Harrabi SB, Horan G, Indelicato DJ, Jalali R, Janssens GO, Krause M, Laack NN, Laperriere N, Laprie A, Li J, Marcus KJ, McGovern SL, Merchant TE, Merrell KW, Padovani L, Parkes J, Paulino AC, Schwarz R, Shih HA, Souhami L, Sulman EP, Taylor RE, Thorp N, Timmermann B, Wheeler G, Wolden SL, Woodhouse KD, Yeboa DN, Yock TI, Kortmann RD, McAleer MF. Assembling the brain trust: the multidisciplinary imperative in neuro-oncology. Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology 2019, 16: 521-522. PMID: 31150024, DOI: 10.1038/s41571-019-0235-z.
- Liang J, Beckta JM, Bindra RS. Re: Catherine H. Marshall, Alexandra O. Sokolova, Andrea L. McNatty, et al. Differential Response to Olaparib Treatment Among Men with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer Harboring BRCA1 or BRCA2 Versus ATM Mutations. Eur Urol 2019;76:452–8. European Urology 2019, 76: e109-e110. PMID: 31080125, DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2019.04.041.
- Role of Radiation Therapy in the Management of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma: A Systematic ReviewGallitto M, Lazarev S, Wasserman I, Stafford JM, Wolden SL, Terezakis SA, Bindra RS, Bakst RL. Role of Radiation Therapy in the Management of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma: A Systematic Review. Advances In Radiation Oncology 2019, 4: 520-531. PMID: 31360809, PMCID: PMC6639749, DOI: 10.1016/j.adro.2019.03.009.
- Seo YE, Suh HW, Bahal R, Josowitz A, Zhang J, Song E, Cui J, Noorbakhsh S, Jackson C, Bu T, Piotrowski-Daspit A, Bindra R, Saltzman WM. Nanoparticle-mediated intratumoral inhibition of miR-21 for improved survival in glioblastoma. Biomaterials 2019, 201: 87-98. PMID: 30802686, PMCID: PMC6451656, DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.02.016.
- Xu Y, Taylor P, Andrade J, Ueberheide B, Shuch B, Glazer PM, Bindra RS, Moran MF, Linehan WM, Neel BG. Pathologic Oxidation of PTPN12 Underlies ABL1 Phosphorylation in Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Research 2018, 78: 6539-6548. PMID: 30297534, PMCID: PMC6279512, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-18-0901.
- Beckta JM, Bindra RS. The Higher the Grade, the Bigger the Field. International Journal Of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics 2018, 102: 488-489. PMID: 30238899, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.08.019.
- Sulkowski PL, Sundaram RK, Oeck S, Corso CD, Liu Y, Noorbakhsh S, Niger M, Boeke M, Ueno D, Kalathil AN, Bao X, Li J, Shuch B, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Krebs-cycle-deficient hereditary cancer syndromes are defined by defects in homologous-recombination DNA repair. Nature Genetics 2018, 50: 1086-1092. PMID: 30013182, PMCID: PMC6072579, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0170-4.
- Chen EM, Quijano AR, Seo YE, Jackson C, Josowitz AD, Noorbakhsh S, Merlettini A, Sundaram RK, Focarete ML, Jiang Z, Bindra RS, Saltzman WM. Biodegradable PEG-poly(ω-pentadecalactone-co-p-dioxanone) nanoparticles for enhanced and sustained drug delivery to treat brain tumors. Biomaterials 2018, 178: 193-203. PMID: 29936153, PMCID: PMC6082184, DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2018.06.024.
- Chen WS, Bindra RS, Mo A, Hayman T, Husain Z, Contessa JN, Gaffney SG, Townsend JP, Yu JB. CDKN2A Copy Number Loss Is an Independent Prognostic Factor in HPV-Negative Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Frontiers In Oncology 2018, 8: 95. PMID: 29670856, PMCID: PMC5893829, DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2018.00095.
- Chang K, Bai HX, Zhou H, Su C, Bi WL, Agbodza E, Kavouridis VK, Senders JT, Boaro A, Beers A, Zhang B, Capellini A, Liao W, Shen Q, Li X, Xiao B, Cryan J, Ramkissoon S, Ramkissoon L, Ligon K, Wen PY, Bindra RS, Woo J, Arnaout O, Gerstner ER, Zhang PJ, Rosen BR, Yang L, Huang RY, Kalpathy-Cramer J. Residual Convolutional Neural Network for Determination of IDH Status in Low- and High-grade Gliomas from MR Imaging. Clinical Cancer Research 2018, 24: clincanres.2236.2017. PMID: 29167275, PMCID: PMC6051535, DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-17-2236.
- Marks AM, Bindra RS, DiLuna ML, Huttner A, Jairam V, Kahle KT, Kieran MW. Response to the BRAF/MEK inhibitors dabrafenib/trametinib in an adolescent with a BRAF V600E mutated anaplastic ganglioglioma intolerant to vemurafenib. Pediatric Blood & Cancer 2018, 65: e26969. PMID: 29380516, DOI: 10.1002/pbc.26969.
- Cecchini M, Walther Z, Sklar JL, Bindra RS, Petrylak DP, Eder JP, Goldberg SB. Introduction to the Yale Precision Medicine Tumor Board. The Lancet Oncology 2018, 19: 19-20. PMID: 29304351, DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(17)30919-1.
- Cecchini M, Walther Z, Sklar JL, Bindra RS, Petrylak DP, Eder JP, Goldberg SB. Yale Cancer Center Precision Medicine Tumor Board: two patients, one targeted therapy, different outcomes. The Lancet Oncology 2018, 19: 23-24. PMID: 29304353, DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(17)30916-6.
- Ray S, Breuer G, DeVeaux M, Zelterman D, Bindra R, Sweasy JB. DNA polymerase beta participates in DNA End-joining. Nucleic Acids Research 2017, 46: 242-255. PMID: 29161447, PMCID: PMC5758893, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx1147.
- Chowdhary M, Okwan-Duodu D, Switchenko JM, Press RH, Jhaveri J, Buchwald ZS, Zhong J, Chapman BV, Bindra RS, Contessa JN, Park HS, Yu JB, Decker RH, Olson JJ, Oyesiku NM, Abrams RA, Shu HG, Curran WJ, Crocker IR, Patel KR. Angiotensin receptor blockade: a novel approach for symptomatic radiation necrosis after stereotactic radiosurgery. Journal Of Neuro-Oncology 2017, 136: 289-298. PMID: 29124649, PMCID: PMC5784434, DOI: 10.1007/s11060-017-2652-0.
- Yeboa DN, Rutter CE, Park HS, Lester-Coll NH, Corso CD, Mancini BR, Bindra RS, Contessa J, Yu JB. Patterns of care and outcomes for use of concurrent chemoradiotherapy over radiotherapy alone for anaplastic gliomas. Radiotherapy And Oncology 2017, 125: 258-265. PMID: 29054377, DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2017.09.027.
- Bindra RS, Galanis E, Mehta MP. State of the art: the evolving role of RT in combined modality therapy for GBM. Journal Of Neuro-Oncology 2017, 134: 477-478. PMID: 28913783, PMCID: PMC5866384, DOI: 10.1007/s11060-017-2596-4.
- Daddacha W, Koyen AE, Bastien AJ, Head PE, Dhere VR, Nabeta GN, Connolly EC, Werner E, Madden MZ, Daly MB, Minten EV, Whelan DR, Schlafstein AJ, Zhang H, Anand R, Doronio C, Withers AE, Shepard C, Sundaram RK, Deng X, Dynan WS, Wang Y, Bindra RS, Cejka P, Rothenberg E, Doetsch PW, Kim B, Yu DS. SAMHD1 Promotes DNA End Resection to Facilitate DNA Repair by Homologous Recombination. Cell Reports 2017, 20: 1921-1935. PMID: 28834754, PMCID: PMC5576576, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.08.008.
- King AR, Corso CD, Chen EM, Song E, Bongiorni P, Chen Z, Sundaram RK, Bindra RS, Saltzman WM. Local DNA Repair Inhibition for Sustained Radiosensitization of High-Grade Gliomas. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 2017, 16: 1456-1469. PMID: 28566437, PMCID: PMC5545124, DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-16-0788.
- Bindra RS, Chalmers AJ, Evans S, Dewhirst M. GBM radiosensitizers: dead in the water…or just the beginning? Journal Of Neuro-Oncology 2017, 134: 513-521. PMID: 28762004, DOI: 10.1007/s11060-017-2427-7.
- Mutter RW, Riaz N, Ng CK, Delsite R, Piscuoglio S, Edelweiss M, Martelotto LG, Sakr RA, King TA, Giri DD, Drobnjak M, Brogi E, Bindra R, Bernheim G, Lim RS, Blecua P, Desrichard A, Higginson D, Towers R, Jiang R, Lee W, Weigelt B, Reis‐Filho J, Powell SN. Bi‐allelic alterations in DNA repair genes underpin homologous recombination DNA repair defects in breast cancer. The Journal Of Pathology 2017, 242: 165-177. PMID: 28299801, PMCID: PMC5516531, DOI: 10.1002/path.4890.
- Braunstein S, Raleigh D, Bindra R, Mueller S, Haas-Kogan D. Pediatric high-grade glioma: current molecular landscape and therapeutic approaches. Journal Of Neuro-Oncology 2017, 134: 541-549. PMID: 28357536, DOI: 10.1007/s11060-017-2393-0.
- Corso CD, Bindra RS, Mehta MP. The role of radiation in treating glioblastoma: here to stay. Journal Of Neuro-Oncology 2017, 134: 479-485. PMID: 28271281, DOI: 10.1007/s11060-016-2348-x.
- Sulkowski PL, Corso CD, Robinson ND, Scanlon SE, Purshouse KR, Bai H, Liu Y, Sundaram RK, Hegan DC, Fons NR, Breuer GA, Song Y, Mishra-Gorur K, De Feyter HM, de Graaf RA, Surovtseva YV, Kachman M, Halene S, Günel M, Glazer PM, Bindra RS. 2-Hydroxyglutarate produced by neomorphic IDH mutations suppresses homologous recombination and induces PARP inhibitor sensitivity. Science Translational Medicine 2017, 9 PMID: 28148839, PMCID: PMC5435119, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aal2463.
- Kann BH, Park HS, Lester-Coll NH, Yeboa DN, Benitez V, Khan AJ, Bindra RS, Marks AM, Roberts KB. Postoperative Radiotherapy Patterns of Care and Survival Implications for Medulloblastoma in Young Children. JAMA Oncology 2016, 2: 1574-1581. PMID: 27491009, DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.2547.
- Kann BH, Yu JB, Stahl JM, Bond JE, Loiselle C, Chiang VL, Bindra RS, Gerrard JL, Carlson DJ. The impact of cobalt-60 source age on biologically effective dose in high-dose functional Gamma Knife radiosurgery. Journal Of Neurosurgery 2016, 125: 154-159. PMID: 27903196, DOI: 10.3171/2016.6.gks161497.
- Kann BH, Lester-Coll NH, Park HS, Yeboa DN, Kelly JR, Baehring JM, Becker KP, Yu JB, Bindra RS, Roberts KB. Adjuvant chemotherapy and overall survival in adult medulloblastoma. Neuro-Oncology 2016, 19: 259-269. PMID: 27540083, PMCID: PMC5464064, DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/now150.
- Gaudin A, Song E, King AR, Saucier-Sawyer JK, Bindra R, Desmaële D, Couvreur P, Saltzman WM. PEGylated squalenoyl-gemcitabine nanoparticles for the treatment of glioblastoma. Biomaterials 2016, 105: 136-144. PMID: 27521616, PMCID: PMC5072177, DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2016.07.037.
- Janssen A, Breuer GA, Brinkman EK, van der Meulen AI, Borden SV, van Steensel B, Bindra RS, LaRocque JR, Karpen GH. A single double-strand break system reveals repair dynamics and mechanisms in heterochromatin and euchromatin. Genes & Development 2016, 30: 1645-1657. PMID: 27474442, PMCID: PMC4973294, DOI: 10.1101/gad.283028.116.
- Corso CD, Bindra RS. Success and Failures of Combined Modalities in Glioblastoma Multiforme: Old Problems and New Directions. Seminars In Radiation Oncology 2016, 26: 281-298. PMID: 27619250, DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2016.06.003.
- Surovtseva YV, Jairam V, Salem AF, Sundaram RK, Bindra RS, Herzon SB. Characterization of Cardiac Glycoside Natural Products as Potent Inhibitors of DNA Double-Strand Break Repair by a Whole-Cell Double Immunofluorescence Assay. Journal Of The American Chemical Society 2016, 138: 3844-3855. PMID: 26927829, PMCID: PMC5530877, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b00162.
- Rutter CE, Johung KL, Yao X, Lu AY, Jilaveanu LB, Yu JB, Contessa JN, Kluger HM, Chiang VLS, Bindra RS. Demonstration of differential radiosensitivity based upon mutation profile in metastatic melanoma treated with stereotactic radiosurgery. Journal Of Radiosurgery And SBRT 2016, 4: 97-106. PMID: 29296434, PMCID: PMC5658871.
- Colaco RJ, Yu JB, Bond JS, Bindra RS, Contessa JN, Knisely JPS, Chiang VL. A contemporary dose selection algorithm for stereotactic radiosurgery in the treatment of brain metastases - An initial report. Journal Of Radiosurgery And SBRT 2016, 4: 43-52. PMID: 29296425, PMCID: PMC5658834.
- van Dams R, Park HS, Alomari AK, Ricciardi AS, Rao H, McNamara J, DiLuna ML, Bindra RS. Adjuvant hypofractionated partial-brain radiation therapy for pediatric Ewing sarcoma brain metastases: case report. Journal Of Neurosurgery Pediatrics 2015, 17: 434-8. PMID: 26636250, DOI: 10.3171/2015.8.peds15313.
- Bindra RS, Wolden SL. Advances in Radiation Therapy in Pediatric Neuro-oncology. Journal Of Child Neurology 2015, 31: 506-516. PMID: 26271789, DOI: 10.1177/0883073815597758.
- Goglia AG, Delsite R, Luz AN, Shahbazian D, Salem AF, Sundaram RK, Chiaravalli J, Hendrikx PJ, Wilshire JA, Jasin M, Kluger HM, Glickman JF, Powell SN, Bindra RS. Identification of Novel Radiosensitizers in a High-Throughput, Cell-Based Screen for DSB Repair Inhibitors. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 2015, 14: 326-342. PMID: 25512618, PMCID: PMC4326563, DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-14-0765.
- Soong CP, Breuer GA, Hannon RA, Kim SD, Salem AF, Wang G, Yu R, Carriero NJ, Bjornson R, Sundaram RK, Bindra RS. Development of a novel method to create double-strand break repair fingerprints using next-generation sequencing. DNA Repair 2014, 26: 44-53. PMID: 25547252, DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.12.002.
- Wang C, Roberts KB, Bindra RS, Chiang VL, Yu JB. Delayed Cerebral Vasculopathy Following Cranial Radiation Therapy for Pediatric Tumors. Pediatric Neurology 2014, 50: 549-556. PMID: 24739378, DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2013.09.018.
- Rutter CE, Yu JB, Carlson DJ, Husain ZA, Zhao S, Picone J, Bindra RS. In regards to decision making for reirradiation of a recurrent intramedullary spinal cord metastasis. Journal Of Radiosurgery And SBRT 2014, 3: 165-168. PMID: 29296397, PMCID: PMC5675488.
- Shahbazian D, Bindra RS, Kluger HM, Glazer PM. Radiation sensitivity and sensitization in melanoma. Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research 2013, 26: 928-930. PMID: 23870422, PMCID: PMC3866027, DOI: 10.1111/pcmr.12147.
- Bindra RS, Goglia AG, Jasin M, Powell SN. Development of an assay to measure mutagenic non-homologous end-joining repair activity in mammalian cells. Nucleic Acids Research 2013, 41: e115-e115. PMID: 23585275, PMCID: PMC3675474, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt255.
- Schleifman EB, Bindra R, Leif J, del Campo J, Rogers FA, Uchil P, Kutsch O, Shultz LD, Kumar P, Greiner DL, Glazer PM. Targeted Disruption of the CCR5 Gene in Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells Stimulated by Peptide Nucleic Acids. Cell Chemical Biology 2011, 18: 1189-1198. PMID: 21944757, PMCID: PMC3183429, DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2011.07.010.
- Bindra RS, Yahalom J. The important role of radiation therapy in early-stage diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: time to review the evidence once again. Expert Review Of Anticancer Therapy 2011, 11: 1367-1378. PMID: 21929311, DOI: 10.1586/era.11.88.
- Hegan DC, Lu Y, Stachelek GC, Crosby ME, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase down-regulates BRCA1 and RAD51 in a pathway mediated by E2F4 and p130. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2010, 107: 2201-2206. PMID: 20133863, PMCID: PMC2836641, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904783107.
- Powell SN, Bindra RS. Targeting the DNA damage response for cancer therapy. DNA Repair 2009, 8: 1153-1165. PMID: 19501553, DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2009.04.011.
- Glazer PM, Bindra RS. Introduction: the evolving picture of the hypoxic tumour microenvironment. 2009, 9: 399-400. PMID: 19519396, DOI: 10.2174/156652409788167069.
- Chan N, Koritzinsky M, Zhao H, Bindra R, Glazer PM, Powell S, Belmaaza A, Wouters B, Bristow RG. Chronic Hypoxia Decreases Synthesis of Homologous Recombination Proteins to Offset Chemoresistance and Radioresistance. Cancer Research 2008, 68: 605-614. PMID: 18199558, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-07-5472.
- Bindra RS, Crosby ME, Glazer PM. Regulation of DNA repair in hypoxic cancer cells. Cancer And Metastasis Reviews 2007, 26: 249-260. PMID: 17415527, DOI: 10.1007/s10555-007-9061-3.
- Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Co-repression of mismatch repair gene expression by hypoxia in cancer cells: Role of the Myc/Max network. Cancer Letters 2007, 252: 93-103. PMID: 17275176, DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2006.12.011.
- Huang LE, Bindra RS, Glazer PM, Harris AL. Hypoxia-induced genetic instability—a calculated mechanism underlying tumor progression. Journal Of Molecular Medicine 2006, 85: 139-148. PMID: 17180667, DOI: 10.1007/s00109-006-0133-6.
- Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Basal repression of BRCA1 by multiple E2Fs and pocket proteins at adjacent E2F sites. Cancer Biology & Therapy 2006, 5: 1400-1407. PMID: 17106239, DOI: 10.4161/cbt.5.10.3454.
- Gibson SL, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. CHK2-Dependent Phosphorylation of BRCA1 in Hypoxia. Radiation Research 2006, 166: 646-651. PMID: 17007555, DOI: 10.1667/rr0660.1.
- Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Repression of RAD51 gene expression by E2F4/p130 complexes in hypoxia. Oncogene 2006, 26: 2048-2057. PMID: 17001309, DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1210001.
- Bindra RS, Gibson SL, Meng A, Westermark U, Jasin M, Pierce AJ, Bristow RG, Classon MK, Glazer PM. Hypoxia-Induced Down-regulation of BRCA1 Expression by E2Fs. Cancer Research 2005, 65: 11597-11604. PMID: 16357170, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-05-2119.
- Gibson SL, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Hypoxia-Induced Phosphorylation of Chk2 in an Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated–Dependent Manner. Cancer Research 2005, 65: 10734-10741. PMID: 16322218, DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-05-1160.
- BINDRA RS, SCHAFFER PJ, MENG A, WOO J, MÅSEIDE K, ROTH ME, LIZARDI P, HEDLEY DW, BRISTOW RG, GLAZER PM. Alterations in DNA Repair Gene Expression under Hypoxia: Elucidating the Mechanisms of Hypoxia‐Induced Genetic Instability. Annals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences 2005, 1059: 184-195. PMID: 16382054, DOI: 10.1196/annals.1339.049.
- Meng AX, Jalali F, Cuddihy A, Chan N, Bindra RS, Glazer PM, Bristow RG. Hypoxia down-regulates DNA double strand break repair gene expression in prostate cancer cells. Radiotherapy And Oncology 2005, 76: 168-176. PMID: 16026872, DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.06.025.
- Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Genetic instability and the tumor microenvironment: towards the concept of microenvironment-induced mutagenesis. Mutation Research/Fundamental And Molecular Mechanisms Of Mutagenesis 2005, 569: 75-85. PMID: 15603753, DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2004.03.013.
- Bindra RS, Schaffer PJ, Meng A, Woo J, Måseide K, Roth ME, Lizardi P, Hedley DW, Bristow RG, Glazer PM. Down-Regulation of Rad51 and Decreased Homologous Recombination in Hypoxic Cancer Cells. Molecular And Cellular Biology 2004, 24: 8504-8518. PMID: 15367671, PMCID: PMC516750, DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.19.8504-8518.2004.
- Mihaylova VT, Bindra RS, Yuan J, Campisi D, Narayanan L, Jensen R, Giordano F, Johnson RS, Rockwell S, Glazer PM. Decreased Expression of the DNA Mismatch Repair Gene Mlh1 under Hypoxic Stress in Mammalian Cells. Molecular And Cellular Biology 2003, 23: 3265-3273. PMID: 12697826, PMCID: PMC153206, DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.9.3265-3273.2003.
- Bindra RS, Vasselli JR, Stearman R, Linehan WM, Klausner RD. VHL-mediated hypoxia regulation of cyclin D1 in renal carcinoma cells. Cancer Research 2002, 62: 3014-9. PMID: 12036906.
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