Mark Magbanua, PhD
Professional Researcher
Laboratory Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• • ASCO Foundation Merit Award, Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, 2012
• • ASCO Foundation Merit Award, Breast Cancer Symposium, 2011
• • AACR Minority Scholar Award in Cancer Research, SABCS, 2010
• • ASCO Foundation Merit Award, Breast Cancer Symposium, 2009
• • ASCO Foundation Merit Award, Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, 2009
• • Best Scientific Poster Award, Breast Oncology Program, UC San Francisco, 2008
• • Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, UC Davis, 2003
• • Professors for the Future Fellowship, 2002

Education & Training

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• MSc Plant Pathology Kansas State University
• MSc International Agricultural Development University of California Davis
• PhD Plant Biology University of California Davis
• Postdoctoral Reseacher Hematology Oncology University of California San Francisco
• BSc Biology/Genetics Institute of Biological Sciences University of the Philippines at Los Banos

Grants and Projects

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• Strategy for combining circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures of tumor burden for prediction of response and outcome in neoadjuvant-treated early breast cancer, NIH, 2020-2025

Publications (53)

Top publication keywords:
Biomarkers, TumorBone MarrowGene Expression ProfilingFlow CytometryCell CountEpithelial Cell Adhesion MoleculeCell SeparationCirculating Tumor DNANeoplastic Cells, CirculatingImmunomagnetic SeparationNeoadjuvant TherapyCell-Free Nucleic AcidsMagnetite NanoparticlesTriple Negative Breast NeoplasmsBreast Neoplasms

• Implantation of engineered adipocytes suppresses tumor progression in cancer models.
  Nature biotechnology 2025 Nguyen HP, An K, Ito Y, Kharbikar BN, Sheng R, Paredes B, Murray E, Pham K, Bruck M, Zhou X, Biellak C, Ushiki A, Nobuhara M, Fong SL, Bernards DA, Lynce F, Dillon DA, Magbanua MJM, Huppert LA, …
• Tumor Morphology for Prediction of Poor Responses Early in Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: A Multicenter Retrospective Study.
  Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 2024 Li W, Le NN, Nadkarni R, Onishi N, Wilmes LJ, Gibbs JE, Price ER, Joe BN, Mukhtar RA, Gennatas ED, Kornak J, Magbanua MJM, Van't Veer LJ, LeStage B, Esserman LJ, Hylton NM
• Association between tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and survival in patients with metastatic breast cancer receiving first-line chemotherapy: analysis of CALGB 40502.
  NPJ breast cancer 2024 Stover DG, Salgado R, Savenkov O, Ballman K, Mayer EL, Magbanua MJM, Loi S, Vater M, Glover K, Watson M, Wen Y, Symmans WF, Perou C, Carey LA, Partridge AH, Rugo HS
• Cell-free DNA Concentration as a Biomarker of Response and Recurrence in HER2-Negative Breast Cancer Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy.
  Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2024 Magbanua MJM, Ahmed Z, Sayaman RW, Brown Swigart L, Hirst GL, Yau C, Wolf DM, Li W, Delson AL, Perlmutter J, Pohlmann P, Symmans WF, Yee D, Hylton NM, Esserman LJ, DeMichele AM, Rugo HS, van 't Veer …
• Integrating Imaging and Circulating Tumor DNA Features for Predicting Patient Outcomes.
  Cancers 2024 Magbanua MJM, Li W, van 't Veer LJ

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• Circulating tumor cells in early lobular versus ductal breast cancer and their associations with prognosis.
  NPJ breast cancer 2024 Alkhafaji S, Wolf DM, Magbanua MJM, J van 't Veer L, Park JW, Esserman L, Mukhtar RA
• Protein signaling and drug target activation signatures to guide therapy prioritization: Therapeutic resistance and sensitivity in the I-SPY 2 Trial.
  Cell reports. Medicine 2023 Gallagher RI, Wulfkuhle J, Wolf DM, Brown-Swigart L, Yau C, O'Grady N, Basu A, Lu R, Campbell MJ, Magbanua MJ, Coppé JP, I-SPY 2 Investigators, Asare SM, Sit L, Matthews JB, Perlmutter J, Hylton N, …
• A phase Ib/II study of eribulin in combination with cyclophosphamide in patients with advanced breast cancer.
  Breast cancer research and treatment 2023 Gumusay O, Huppert LA, Magbanua MJM, Wabl CA, Assefa M, Chien AJ, Melisko ME, Majure MC, Moasser M, Park J, Rugo HS
• Clinical significance and biology of circulating tumor DNA in high-risk early-stage HER2-negative breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
  Cancer cell 2023 Magbanua MJM, Brown Swigart L, Ahmed Z, Sayaman RW, Renner D, Kalashnikova E, Hirst GL, Yau C, Wolf DM, Li W, Delson AL, Asare S, Liu MC, Albain K, Chien AJ, Forero-Torres A, Isaacs C, Nanda R, …
• Implantation of engineered adipocytes that outcompete tumors for resources suppresses cancer progression.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Nguyen HP, Sheng R, Murray E, Ito Y, Bruck M, Biellak C, An K, Lynce F, Dillon DA, Magbanua MJM, Huppert LA, Hammerlindl H, Esserman L, Rosenbluth JM, Ahituv N
• Outcomes and clinicopathologic characteristics associated with disseminated tumor cells in bone marrow after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in high-risk early stage breast cancer: the I-SPY SURMOUNT study.
  Breast cancer research and treatment 2023 Magbanua MJM, van 't Veer L, Clark AS, Chien AJ, Boughey JC, Han HS, Wallace A, Beckwith H, Liu MC, Yau C, Wileyto EP, Ordonez A, Solanki TI, Hsiao F, Lee JC, Basu A, Brown Swigart L, Perlmutter J, …
• Circulating tumor nucleic acids: biology, release mechanisms, and clinical relevance.
  Molecular cancer 2023 Stejskal P, Goodarzi H, Srovnal J, Hajdúch M, van 't Veer LJ, Magbanua MJM
• Diffusion-Weighted MRI for Predicting Pathologic Complete Response in Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy.
  Cancers 2022 Li W, Le NN, Onishi N, Newitt DC, Wilmes LJ, Gibbs JE, Carmona-Bozo J, Liang J, Partridge SC, Price ER, Joe BN, Kornak J, Magbanua MJM, Nanda R, LeStage B, Esserman LJ, Van't Veer LJ, Hylton NM
• Redefining breast cancer subtypes to guide treatment prioritization and maximize response: Predictive biomarkers across 10 cancer therapies.
  Cancer cell 2022 Wolf DM, Yau C, Wulfkuhle J, Brown-Swigart L, Gallagher RI, Lee PRE, Zhu Z, Magbanua MJ, Sayaman R, O'Grady N, Basu A, Delson A, Coppé JP, Lu R, Braun J, I-SPY2 Investigators, Asare SM, Sit L, …
• Immunotherapy in Breast Cancer and the Potential Role of Liquid Biopsy.
  Frontiers in oncology 2022 Magbanua MJM, Gumusay O, Kurzrock R, van 't Veer LJ, Rugo HS
• Evaluation of disseminated tumor cells and circulating tumor cells in patients with breast cancer receiving adjuvant zoledronic acid.
  NPJ breast cancer 2021 Vidula N, Greenberg S, Petrillo L, Hwang J, Melisko M, Goga A, Moasser M, Magbanua M, Park JW, Rugo HS
• Serial Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells in Metastatic Breast Cancer Receiving First-Line Chemotherapy.
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2021 Magbanua MJM, Hendrix LH, Hyslop T, Barry WT, Winer EP, Hudis C, Toppmeyer D, Carey LA, Partridge AH, Pierga JY, Fehm T, Vidal-Martínez J, Mavroudis D, Garcia-Saenz JA, Stebbing J, Gazzaniga P, Manso …
• Circulating tumor DNA and magnetic resonance imaging to predict neoadjuvant chemotherapy response and recurrence risk.
  NPJ breast cancer 2021 Magbanua MJM, Li W, Wolf DM, Yau C, Hirst GL, Swigart LB, Newitt DC, Gibbs J, Delson AL, Kalashnikova E, Aleshin A, Zimmermann B, Chien AJ, Tripathy D, Esserman L, Hylton N, van 't Veer L
• Circulating tumor DNA in neoadjuvant-treated breast cancer reflects response and survival.
  Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology 2020 Magbanua MJM, Swigart LB, Wu HT, Hirst GL, Yau C, Wolf DM, Tin A, Salari R, Shchegrova S, Pawar H, Delson AL, DeMichele A, Liu MC, Chien AJ, Tripathy D, Asare S, Lin CJ, Billings P, Aleshin A, Sethi H…
• Mechanism of action biomarkers predicting response to AKT inhibition in the I-SPY 2 breast cancer trial.
  NPJ breast cancer 2020 Wolf DM, Yau C, Wulfkuhle J, Brown-Swigart L, Gallagher RI, Magbanua MJM, O'Grady N, Hirst G, I-SPY 2 TRIAL Investigators, Asare S, Tripathy D, Berry D, Esserman L, Chien AJ, Petricoin EF, van 't Veer…
• Clinical Significance of Circulating Tumor Cells in Hormone Receptor-positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients who Received Letrozole with or Without Bevacizumab.
  Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2020 Magbanua MJM, Savenkov O, Asmus EJ, Ballman KV, Scott JH, Park JW, Dickler M, Partridge A, Carey LA, Winer EP, Rugo HS
• Synchronous Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells in Blood and Disseminated Tumor Cells in Bone Marrow Predicts Adverse Outcome in Early Breast Cancer.
  Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2019 Magbanua MJM, Yau C, Wolf DM, Lee JS, Chattopadhyay A, Scott JH, Bowlby-Yoder E, Hwang ES, Alvarado M, Ewing CA, Delson AL, Van't Veer LJ, Esserman L, Park JW
• Genomic and expression profiling reveal molecular heterogeneity of disseminated tumor cells in bone marrow of early breast cancer.
  NPJ breast cancer 2018 Magbanua MJM, Rugo HS, Hauranieh L, Roy R, Scott JH, Lee JC, Hsiao F, Sosa EV, Van't Veer L, Esserman LJ, Park JW
• Circulating Tumor Cells in Breast Cancer Patients Treated by Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: A Meta-analysis.
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2018 Bidard FC, Michiels S, Riethdorf S, Mueller V, Esserman LJ, Lucci A, Naume B, Horiguchi J, Gisbert-Criado R, Sleijfer S, Toi M, Garcia-Saenz JA, Hartkopf A, Generali D, Rothé F, Smerage J, Muinelo-…
• Expanded Genomic Profiling of Circulating Tumor Cells in Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients to Assess Biomarker Status and Biology Over Time (CALGB 40502 and CALGB 40503, Alliance).
  Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2018 Magbanua MJM, Rugo HS, Wolf DM, Hauranieh L, Roy R, Pendyala P, Sosa EV, Scott JH, Lee JS, Pitcher B, Hyslop T, Barry WT, Isakoff SJ, Dickler M, Van't Veer L, Park JW
• Quantitative Whole Genome Sequencing of Circulating Tumor Cells Enables Personalized Combination Therapy of Metastatic Cancer.
  Cancer research 2017 Gulbahce N, Magbanua MJM, Chin R, Agarwal MR, Luo X, Liu J, Hayden DM, Mao Q, Ciotlos S, Li Z, Chen Y, Chen X, Li Y, Zhang RY, Lee K, Tearle R, Park E, Drmanac S, Rugo HS, Park JW, Drmanac R, Peters …
• Automated Microfluidic Filtration and Immunocytochemistry Detection System for Capture and Enumeration of Circulating Tumor Cells and Other Rare Cell Populations in Blood.
  Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2017 Pugia M, Magbanua MJM, Park JW
• Enrichment and Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells and Other Rare Cell Populations by Microfluidic Filtration.
  Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2017 Pugia M, Magbanua MJM, Park JW
• Enumeration of Circulating Tumor Cells and Disseminated Tumor Cells in Blood and Bone Marrow by Immunomagnetic Enrichment and Flow Cytometry (IE/FC).
  Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2017 Magbanua MJM, Solanki TI, Ordonez AD, Hsiao F, Park JW
• Circulating tumor cells in breast cancer: applications in personalized medicine.
  Breast cancer research and treatment 2016 Lee JS, Magbanua MJM, Park JW
• Detection of cerebrospinal fluid tumor cells and its clinical relevance in leptomeningeal metastasis of breast cancer.
  Breast cancer research and treatment 2015 Lee JS, Melisko ME, Magbanua MJ, Kablanian AT, Scott JH, Rugo HS, Park JW
• A Novel Strategy for Detection and Enumeration of Circulating Rare Cell Populations in Metastatic Cancer Patients Using Automated Microfluidic Filtration and Multiplex Immunoassay.
  PloS one 2015 Magbanua MJ, Pugia M, Lee JS, Jabon M, Wang V, Gubens M, Marfurt K, Pence J, Sidhu H, Uzgiris A, Rugo HS, Park JW
• Approaches to isolation and molecular characterization of disseminated tumor cells.
  Oncotarget 2015 Magbanua MJ, Das R, Polavarapu P, Park JW
• Serial expression analysis of breast tumors during neoadjuvant chemotherapy reveals changes in cell cycle and immune pathways associated with recurrence and response.
  Breast cancer research : BCR 2015 Magbanua MJ, Wolf DM, Yau C, Davis SE, Crothers J, Au A, Haqq CM, Livasy C, Rugo HS, I-SPY 1 TRIAL Investigators, Esserman L, Park JW, van 't Veer LJ
• Circulating tumor cells in hepatocellular carcinoma: a pilot study of detection, enumeration, and next-generation sequencing in cases and controls.
  BMC cancer 2015 Kelley RK, Magbanua MJ, Butler TM, Collisson EA, Hwang J, Sidiropoulos N, Evason K, McWhirter RM, Hameed B, Wayne EM, Yao FY, Venook AP, Park JW
• Circulating tumor cell analysis in metastatic triple-negative breast cancers.
  Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2014 Magbanua MJ, Carey LA, DeLuca A, Hwang J, Scott JH, Rimawi MF, Mayer EL, Marcom PK, Liu MC, Esteva FJ, Park JW, Rugo HS, Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium
• Expression profiling of circulating tumor cells in metastatic breast cancer.
  Breast cancer research and treatment 2014 Lang JE, Scott JH, Wolf DM, Novak P, Punj V, Magbanua MJ, Zhu W, Mineyev N, Haqq CM, Crothers JR, Esserman LJ, Tripathy D, van 't Veer L, Park JW
• Advances in genomic characterization of circulating tumor cells.
  Cancer metastasis reviews 2014 Magbanua MJ, Park JW
• The cancer glycocalyx mechanically primes integrin-mediated growth and survival.
  Nature 2014 Paszek MJ, DuFort CC, Rossier O, Bainer R, Mouw JK, Godula K, Hudak JE, Lakins JN, Wijekoon AC, Cassereau L, Rubashkin MG, Magbanua MJ, Thorn KS, Davidson MW, Rugo HS, Park JW, Hammer DA, Giannone G, …
• Genome-wide copy number analysis of cerebrospinal fluid tumor cells and their corresponding archival primary tumors.
  Genomics data 2014 Magbanua MJ, Roy R, Sosa EV, Hauranieh L, Kablanian A, Eisenbud LE, Ryazantsev A, Au A, Scott JH, Melisko M, Park JW
• Physical activity and prostate gene expression in men with low-risk prostate cancer.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2014 Magbanua MJ, Richman EL, Sosa EV, Jones LW, Simko J, Shinohara K, Haqq CM, Carroll PR, Chan JM
• Molecular profiling of tumor cells in cerebrospinal fluid and matched primary tumors from metastatic breast cancer patients with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.
  Cancer research 2013 Magbanua MJ, Melisko M, Roy R, Sosa EV, Hauranieh L, Kablanian A, Eisenbud LE, Ryazantsev A, Au A, Scott JH, Park JW
• Effect of comprehensive lifestyle changes on telomerase activity and telomere length in men with biopsy-proven low-risk prostate cancer: 5-year follow-up of a descriptive pilot study.
  The Lancet. Oncology 2013 Ornish D, Lin J, Chan JM, Epel E, Kemp C, Weidner G, Marlin R, Frenda SJ, Magbanua MJM, Daubenmier J, Estay I, Hills NK, Chainani-Wu N, Carroll PR, Blackburn EH
• A phase 1 trial of imatinib, bevacizumab, and metronomic cyclophosphamide in advanced colorectal cancer.
  British journal of cancer 2013 Kelley RK, Hwang J, Magbanua MJ, Watt L, Beumer JH, Christner SM, Baruchel S, Wu B, Fong L, Yeh BM, Moore AP, Ko AH, Korn WM, Rajpal S, Park JW, Tempero MA, Venook AP, Bergsland EK
• Isolation of circulating tumor cells by immunomagnetic enrichment and fluorescence-activated cell sorting (IE/FACS) for molecular profiling.
  Methods (San Diego, Calif.) 2013 Magbanua MJ, Park JW
• Genomic profiling of isolated circulating tumor cells from metastatic breast cancer patients.
  Cancer research 2012 Magbanua MJ, Sosa EV, Roy R, Eisenbud LE, Scott JH, Olshen A, Pinkel D, Rugo HS, Park JW
• Isolation and genomic analysis of circulating tumor cells from castration resistant metastatic prostate cancer.
  BMC cancer 2012 Magbanua MJ, Sosa EV, Scott JH, Simko J, Collins C, Pinkel D, Ryan CJ, Park JW
• Gene expression and biological pathways in tissue of men with prostate cancer in a randomized clinical trial of lycopene and fish oil supplementation.
  PloS one 2011 Magbanua MJ, Roy R, Sosa EV, Weinberg V, Federman S, Mattie MD, Hughes-Fulford M, Simko J, Shinohara K, Haqq CM, Carroll PR, Chan JM
• Differential expression of thrombospondin (THBS1) in tumorigenic and nontumorigenic prostate epithelial cells in response to a chromatin-binding soy peptide.
  Nutrition and cancer 2011 Galvez AF, Huang L, Magbanua MM, Dawson K, Rodriguez RL
• Nutritional supplements, COX-2 and IGF-1 expression in men on active surveillance for prostate cancer.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2010 Chan JM, Weinberg V, Magbanua MJ, Sosa E, Simko J, Shinohara K, Federman S, Mattie M, Hughes-Fulford M, Haqq C, Carroll PR
• A comparison of RNA amplification techniques at sub-nanogram input concentration.
  BMC genomics 2009 Lang JE, Magbanua MJ, Scott JH, Makrigiorgos GM, Wang G, Federman S, Esserman LJ, Park JW, Haqq CM
• Increased telomerase activity and comprehensive lifestyle changes: a pilot study.
  The Lancet. Oncology 2008 Ornish D, Lin J, Daubenmier J, Weidner G, Epel E, Kemp C, Magbanua MJ, Marlin R, Yglecias L, Carroll PR, Blackburn EH
• Changes in prostate gene expression in men undergoing an intensive nutrition and lifestyle intervention.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2008 Ornish D, Magbanua MJ, Weidner G, Weinberg V, Kemp C, Green C, Mattie MD, Marlin R, Simko J, Shinohara K, Haqq CM, Carroll PR