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Linda Liau

Professor & Chair of Neurosurgery, UCLA
Verified email at mednet.ucla.edu
Cited by 35634

Neoadjuvant anti-PD-1 immunotherapy promotes a survival benefit with intratumoral and systemic immune responses in recurrent glioblastoma

…, H Colman, TJ Kaley, JF De Groot, LM Liau… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Glioblastoma is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults and is associated
with poor survival. The Ivy Foundation Early Phase Clinical Trials Consortium conducted a …

Dendritic cell vaccination in glioblastoma patients induces systemic and intracranial T-cell responses modulated by the local central nervous system tumor …

LM Liau, RM Prins, SM Kiertscher, SK Odesa… - Clinical Cancer …, 2005 - AACR
Purpose: We previously reported that autologous dendritic cells pulsed with acid-eluted tumor
peptides can stimulate T cell–mediated antitumor immune responses against brain tumors …

Cancer-associated IDH1 mutations produce 2-hydroxyglutarate

…, KM Marks, RM Prins, PS Ward, KE Yen, LM Liau… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Mutations in the enzyme cytosolic isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) are a common feature
of a major subset of primary human brain cancers. These mutations occur at a single amino …

Unique challenges for glioblastoma immunotherapy—discussions across neuro-oncology and non-neuro-oncology experts in cancer immunology. Meeting Report …

…, PE Fecci, DA Reardon, GP Dunn, LM Liau… - Neuro …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cancer immunotherapy has made remarkable advances with over 50 separate Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) approvals as first- or second-line indications since 2015. These …

Management of low-grade glioma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

…, PD Brown, E Maher, D Aregawi, LM Liau… - Neuro-oncology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Optimum management of low-grade gliomas remains controversial, and widespread
practice variation exists. This evidence-based meta-analysis evaluates the association …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular determinants of the response of glioblastomas to EGFR kinase inhibitors

…, DJ Chute, BL Riggs, S Horvath, LM Liau… - … England Journal of …, 2005 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is frequently amplified, overexpressed,
or mutated in glioblastomas, but only 10 to 20 percent of patients have a response to …

High-throughput oncogene mutation profiling in human cancer

…, PS Mischel, TF Cloughesy, SF Nelson, LM Liau… - Nature …, 2007 - nature.com
Systematic efforts are underway to decipher the genetic changes associated with tumor
initiation and progression 1 , 2 . However, widespread clinical application of this information is …

[PDF][PDF] Intertumoral heterogeneity within medulloblastoma subgroups

…, J Pimentel, CC Faria, AG Saad, L Massimi, LM Liau… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
While molecular subgrouping has revolutionized medulloblastoma classification, the extent
of heterogeneity within subgroups is unknown. Similarity network fusion (SNF) applied to …

Assessing the significance of chromosomal aberrations in cancer: methodology and application to glioma

…, LA Garraway, SF Nelson, L Liau… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Comprehensive knowledge of the genomic alterations that underlie cancer is a critical
foundation for diagnostics, prognostics, and targeted therapeutics. Systematic efforts to analyze …

[HTML][HTML] Subgroup-specific structural variation across 1,000 medulloblastoma genomes

…, SK Elbabaa, JR Leonard, JB Rubin, LM Liau… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma, the most common malignant paediatric brain tumour, is currently treated
with nonspecific cytotoxic therapies including surgery, whole-brain radiation, and aggressive …