Neeha Zaidi, MD

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Oncology

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
• Pancreatic Cancer Precision Medicine Center of Excellence
• Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Skip Viragh Center for Pancreatic Cancer

PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=neeha+zaidi

Selected Publications

• Zaidi N, Quezada S, Kuroiwa JM, Zhang L, Jaffee EM, Steinman RM, Wang B (2019) Anti-CTLA-4 therapy synergizes with dendritic cell targeting vaccines to promote effector T cell infiltration in an IL-3–dependent manner.  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1445: 62-73. PMID: 30954313

• Zaidi N, Soban M, Chen F, Mathew J, Kinkead, HL, Armstrong TA, Haider S, Jaffee EM (2020) Role of in silico structural modeling in predicting immunogenic neoepitopes for cancer vaccine development. (2020) JCI Insight 5(17): 136911. PMID: 32879142

• Kinkead HL, Hopkins A, Lutz E, Wu AA, Yarchoan M, Cruz K, Woolman S, Vithayathil T, Glickman LH, Ndubaku CO, McWhirter SM, Dubensky TW Jr, Armstrong TD, Jaffee EM*, Zaidi N*. (2018) Combining STING–based neoantigen–targeted vaccine with checkpoint modulators enhances anti–tumor immunity in murine pancreatic cancer.  JCI Insight 3 (20): pii: 122857. PMID: 30333318. [*EMJ and NZ Corresponding Authors].

• Lynn  GM, Sedlik C, Baharom F, Zhu Y, Ramirez-Valdez RA, Coble VL, Tobin K, Nichols SR, Itzkowitz Y, Zaidi N, Gammon JM, Blobel NJ, Denizeau J, de la Rochere P, Francica BJ, Decker B, Maciejewski M, Cheung J, Yamane H, Smelkinson MG, Francica JR, Laga R, Bernstock JD, Seymour LW, Drake CG, Jewell CM, Lantz O, Piaggio E, Ishizuka AS, Seder RA. (2020) Peptide-TLR-7/8a conjugate vaccines chemically programmed for nanoparticle self-assembly enhance CD8 T-cell immunity to tumor antigens. Nature Biotechnology 38: 320-332.  PMID: 31932728

• Sohal DPS, Kennedy EB, Cinar P, Conroy T, Copur MS, Crane CH, Garrido-Laguna I, Lau MW, Johnson T, Krishnamurthi S, Moravek C, O’Reilly EM, Philip PA, Pant S, Shah MA, Sahai V, Uronis HE, Zaidi N, Laheru D. Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer: ASCO Guideline Update. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2020. PMID: 32755482

Honors

• Career Development Award, ASCO
• NCI K08 Career Development Award
• Career Enhancement Award, GI SPORE, 11/1/19
• Young Investigator Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology, 7/1/18
• The Linda Rubin Fellowship in Pancreatic Cancer Research and Patient Care (2nd recipient), Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, 7/1/18
• Member of ASCO Expert Panel for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Guidelines, American Society of Clinical Oncology, 7/1/18
• Young Investigator, Stand Up 2 Cancer, 9/1/17
• Inaugural PSTP Scholar, Physician-Scientist Training Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 7/1/17
• Intramural Research Training Award, National Institute of Health, 7/1/15
• Distinction in Research, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 5/1/15
• Jeffrey Modell Clinical Immunology Prize, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 5/1/12
• American Physician-Scientist Association (APSA) Annual Meeting Travel Award, Joint ASCI-AAP-APSA Meeting, 4/1/12
• Howard Hughes Medical Research Fellow, HHMI, 7/1/11
• Magna Cum Laude, Cornell University, 5/1/07
• Dean's List, Cornell University, 7/1/05

Memberships

• American Society of Cancer Oncology,

  Member

• American Association of Cancer Research,

  Member

• American Physician‚ÄìScientist Association,

  Member