RESEARCH

Immunometabolic profiling of pancreatic cancer patients
Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive cancer with harmful metabolic consequences. Nearly 80% of patients with pancreatic cancer experience significant weight loss and cachexia, which is a complex metabolic syndrome of muscle loss and dysregulated metabolism despite adequate nutritional intake. My research focuses on using human tissue samples to characterize the patient immunometabolic response to pancreatic cancer and develop novel therapies.
Translational immunology in colorectal liver metastases
Colorectal cancer is the 3rd most common cancer in the U.S, and many patients with colorectal cancer will eventually develop metastatic disease in their liver. Perhaps more importantly, the development of liver metastases is associated with an immunosuppressive response that renders immunotherapy less effective in these patients. My research focuses on studying human liver tumors and adjacent normal liver tissue to find ways to make immunotherapy more effective for patients with colorectal liver metastases.
Dr. Vitiello is currently conducting research in the Janowitz Lab at Cold Spring Harbor. For more details, see the Janowitz Lab website.

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Perioperative chemotherapy vs preoperative chemoradiation for GEJ adenocarcinoma

Highlighted Publications
2022
Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans: What Is This?
Gerardo A Vitiello, Ann Y Lee, Russell S Berman
Surg Clin North Am. 2022 Aug;102(4):657-665. doi: 10.1016/j.suc.2022.05.004.
2020
Targeting the interleukin-17 immune axis for cancer immunotherapy.
Gerardo A Vitiello, George Miller
J Exp Med. 2020 Jan 6;217(1):e20190456. doi: 10.1084/jem.20190456.
2019
Harnessing the Microbiome for Pancreatic Cancer Immunotherapy.
Gerardo A Vitiello, Deirdre J Cohen, George Miller
Trends Cancer. 2019 Nov;5(11):670-676. doi: 10.1016/j.trecan.2019.10.005.
Differential immune profiles distinguish the mutational subtypes of gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
Gerardo A Vitiello, Timothy G Bowler, Mengyuan Liu, Benjamin D Medina, Jennifer Q Zhang, Nesteene J Param, Jennifer K Loo, Rachel L Goldfeder, Frederic Chibon, Ferdinand Rossi, Shan Zeng, Ronald P DeMatteo.
J Clin Invest. 2019 May 1;129(5):1863-1877. doi: 10.1172/JCI124108.
2018
Mitochondrial Inhibition Augments the Efficacy of Imatinib by Resetting the Metabolic Phenotype of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor.
Gerardo A Vitiello, Benjamin D Medina, Shan Zeng, Timothy G Bowler, Jennifer Q Zhang, Jennifer K Loo, Nesteene J Param, Mengyuan Liu, Alec J Moral, Julia N Zhao, Ferdinand Rossi, Cristina R Antonescu, Vinod P Balachandran, Justin R Cross, Ronald P DeMatteo
Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Feb 15;24(4):972-984. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-17-2697.