Carlos Arteaga, M.D. Professor & Director Endowed Title Annette Simmons Distinguished University Chair in Breast Cancer Research School Medical School Department Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center | Internal Medicine | Medical School Dean's Office Graduate Programs Cancer Biology Biography Download Curriculum Vitae Carlos L. Arteaga, M.D., was appointed Director of the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and Associate Dean of Oncology Programs at UT Southwestern Medical Center in September 2017. He holds the Lisa K. Simmons Distinguished Chair in Comprehensive Oncology and brings translational research and cancer center leadership experience to the Simmons Cancer Center. He earned his medical degree at the University of Guayaquil in Ecuador and trained in internal medicine and medical oncology at Emory University and the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, respectively. He joined Vanderbilt University in 1989, where he held the Donna S. Hall Chair in Breast Cancer Research and served as Director of the Center for Cancer Targeted Therapies, Director of the Breast Cancer Program, and Associate Director for Translational/Clinical Research at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center prior to UT Southwestern. Dr. Arteaga is an internationally recognized expert in breast cancer with more than 350 publications in the areas of oncogenes and breast tumor initiation and progression, targeted therapies and biomarkers of drug action and resistance, and investigator-initiated clinical trials in breast cancer. His research is or has been continuously funded by the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society (ACS), Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, Stand Up 2 Cancer (SU2C), Susan G. Komen and Breast Cancer Research foundations, Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas, and industry. His contributions have been published in Nature Medicine, Cancer Cell, Cancer Discovery, Science Translational Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cell Metabolism, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of American, and Journal of the National Cancer Institute. During his career, he has received several awards, including the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Award, the ACS Clinical Research Professor Award (2007-2017), the Gianni Bonadonna Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2009), the Brinker Award from the Susan G. Komen Foundation (2011), the Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine from the American-Italian Cancer Foundation (2015), and the Clinical Investigator Award from the Department of Veteran Affairs. Dr. Arteaga is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013) and Fellow of the AACR Academy (2015). He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (1998) and the Association of American Physicians (2005). He served on the NCI Board of Scientific Counselors (1999-2004) and NCI Subcommittee A (2004-2008). Dr. Arteaga also serves on the advisory boards of several academic breast cancer programs, SU2C, Susan G. Komen Foundation, and five NCI-designated cancer centers. Since 2009, he has co-chaired the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. In 2019, he was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Cancer Institutes (AACI). He was elected and served as the 2014-15 President of AACR, the largest cancer research organization in the world. Education Medical School Universidad de Guayaquil, Ecuador (1980) Residency Emory University School of Medicine (1984), Internal Medicine Fellowship University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio (1988), Hematology Oncology Publications Featured Publications A randomized phase III double-blind placebo-controlled trial of first-line chemotherapy and trastuzumab with or without bevacizumab for patients with HER2/neu-positive metastatic breast cancer: a trial of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (E1105). Mezzanotte-Sharpe J, ONeill A, Mayer IA, Arteaga CL, Yang XJ, Wagner LI, Cella D, Meropol NJ, Alpaugh RK, Saphner TJ, Swaney RE, Hoelzer KL, Gradishar WJ, Abramson VG, Sundaram PK, Jilani SZ, Perez EA, Lin NU, Jahanzeb M, Wolff AC, Sledge GW, Reid SA, Breast Cancer Res Treat 2024 Jul Phase II Trial of Afatinib in Patients With EGFR-Mutated Solid Tumors Excluding Lung Cancer: Results From NCI-MATCH ECOG-ACRIN Trial (EAY131) Subprotocol A. Gettinger SN, Song Z, Reckamp KL, Moscow JA, Gray RJ, Wang V, McShane LM, Rubinstein LV, Patton DR, Williams PM, Hamilton SR, Kong XT, Tricoli JV, Conley BA, Arteaga CL, Harris LN, O'Dwyer PJ, Chen AP, Flaherty KT, JCO Precis Oncol 2024 Jul 8 e2300725 Trastuzumab and Pertuzumab in Patients with Non-Breast/Gastroesophageal HER2-Amplified Tumors: Results from the NCI-MATCH ECOG-ACRIN Trial (EAY131) Subprotocol J. Connolly RM, Wang V, Hyman DM, Grivas P, Mitchell EP, Wright JJ, Sharon E, Gray RJ, McShane LM, Rubinstein LV, Patton DR, Williams PM, Hamilton SR, Wang J, Wisinski KB, Tricoli JV, Conley BA, Harris LN, Arteaga CL, O'Dwyer PJ, Chen AP, Flaherty KT, Clin Cancer Res 2024 Apr 30 7 1273-1280 ZNF397 Deficiency Triggers TET2-driven Lineage Plasticity and AR-Targeted Therapy Resistance in Prostate Cancer. Xu Y, Yang Y, Wang Z, Sjostrom M, Jiang Y, Tang Y, Cheng S, Deng S, Wang C, Gonzalez J, Johnson NA, Li X, Li X, Metang LA, Mukherji A, Xu Q, Tirado CR, Wainwright G, Yu X, Barnes S, Hofstad M, Chen Y, Zhu H, Hanker AB, Raj GV, Zhu G, He HH, Wang Z, Arteaga CL, Liang H, Feng FY, Wang Y, Wang T, Mu P, Cancer Discov 2024 Apr Phase II Study of Erdafitinib in Patients With Tumors With FGFR Amplifications: Results From the NCI-MATCH ECOG-ACRIN Trial (EAY131) Subprotocol K1. Gong J, Mita AC, Wei Z, Cheng HH, Mitchell EP, Wright JJ, Ivy SP, Wang V, Gray RC, McShane LM, Rubinstein LV, Patton DR, Williams PM, Hamilton SR, Alva AS, Tricoli JV, Conley BA, Arteaga CL, Harris LN, O'Dwyer PJ, Chen AP, Flaherty KT, JCO Precis Oncol 2024 Apr 8 e2300406 Phase II Study of Erdafitinib in Patients With Tumors With Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Mutations or Fusions: Results From the NCI-MATCH ECOG-ACRIN Trial (EAY131) Subprotocol K2. Gong J, Mita AC, Wei Z, Cheng HH, Mitchell EP, Wright JJ, Ivy SP, Wang V, Gray RC, McShane LM, Rubinstein LV, Patton DR, Williams PM, Hamilton SR, Tricoli JV, Conley BA, Arteaga CL, Harris LN, O'Dwyer PJ, Chen AP, Flaherty KT, JCO Precis Oncol 2024 Apr 8 e2300407 Phase II Study of Osimertinib in Patients With Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutations: Results From the NCI-MATCH ECOG-ACRIN (EAY131) Trial Subprotocol E. Chen MF, Song Z, Yu HA, Sequist LV, Lovly CM, Mitchell EP, Moscow JA, Gray RJ, Wang V, McShane LM, Rubinstein LV, Patton DR, Williams PM, Hamilton SR, Umemura Y, Tricoli JV, Conley BA, Arteaga CL, Harris LN, O'Dwyer PJ, Chen AP, Flaherty KT, JCO Precis Oncol 2024 Apr 8 e2300454 A randomized phase III double-blind placebo-controlled trial of first line chemotherapy and trastuzumab with or without bevacizumab for patients with HER2/neu-positive metastatic breast cancer: a trial of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (E1105). Mezzanotte-Sharpe J, ONeill A, Mayer IA, Arteaga CL, Yang XJ, Wagner LI, Cella D, Meropol NJ, Alpaugh RK, Saphner TJ, Swaney RE, Hoelzer KL, Gradishar WJ, Abramson VG, Sundaram PK, Jilani SZ, Perez EA, Lin NU, Jahanzeb M, Wolff AC, Sledge GW, Reid SA, Res Sq 2024 Apr PRMT5 is an actionable therapeutic target in CDK4/6 inhibitor-resistant ER+/RB-deficient breast cancer. Lin CC, Chang TC, Wang Y, Guo L, Gao Y, Bikorimana E, Lemoff A, Fang YV, Zhang H, Zhang Y, Ye D, Soria-Bretones I, Servetto A, Lee KM, Luo X, Otto JJ, Akamatsu H, Napolitano F, Mani R, Cescon DW, Xu L, Xie Y, Mendell JT, Hanker AB, Arteaga CL, Nat Commun 2024 Mar 15 1 2287 HER2 heterogeneity and treatment response-associated profiles in HER2-positive breast cancer in the NCT02326974 clinical trial. Li Z, Metzger Filho O, Viale G, dell'Orto P, Russo L, Goyette MA, Kamat A, Yardley DA, Gupta Abramson V, Arteaga CL, Spring LM, Chiotti K, Halsey C, Waks AG, King TA, Lester SC, Bellon JR, Winer EP, Spellman PT, Krop IE, Polyak K, J Clin Invest 2024 Feb Results 1-10 of 174 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last