Skip to main content
Elizabeth A. Stewart, MD
Elizabeth A.  Stewart, MD

Education

BS – University of Missouri, Columbia
MD – Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine, Springfield
Resident – Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona
Fellow – St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee

Honors and Awards

  • 2016-2019 St. Baldrick’s Scholar Award
  • 2014 Melissa Helm Young Investigator Award, Pediatric Cancer Foundation
  • 2012 Tri Delta National Woman of Achievement Award, Delta Delta Delta Sorority

Research Interests

  • High risk pediatric solid tumors
  • Development of patient-derived orthotopic solid tumor xenografts
  • Translational preclinical testing of novel therapeutics for pediatric solid tumors

Selected Publications

Furman WL, Federico SM, McCarville MB, Shulkin BL, Davidoff AM, Krasin MJ, Sahr N, Sykes A, Wu J, Brennan RC, Bishop MW, Helmig S, Stewart E, Navid F, Triplett B, Santana VM, Bahrami A, Anthony G, Yu AL, Hank J, Gillies SD, Sondel PM, Leung WH, Pappo AS. A phase II trial of Hu14.18K322A in combination with induction chemotherapy in children with newly diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma. Clin Cancer Res,  2019 Nov 1;25(21):6320-6328.  2019.

Qadeer ZA, Valle-Garcia D, Hasson D, Sun Z, Cook A, Nguyen C, Soriano A, Ma A, Griffiths LM, Zeineldin M, Filipescu D, Jubierre L, Chowdhury A, Deevy O, Chen X, Finkelstein DB, Bahrami A, Stewart E, Federico S, Gallego S, Dekio F, Fowkes M, Meni D, Maris JM, Weiss WA, Roberts SS, Cheung NV, Jin J, Segura MF, Dyer MA, Bernstein E. ATRX in-frame fusion neuroblastoma is sensitive to EZH2 inhibition via modulation of neuronal gene signatures. Cancer Cell pii: S1535-6108(19)30385-X  2019.

Yohe ME, Heske CM, Stewart E, Adamson PC, Ahmed N, Antonescu CR, Chen E, Collins N, Ehrlich A, Galindo RL, Gryder BE, Hahn H, Hammond S, Hatley ME, Hawkins DS, Hayes MN, Hayes-Jordan A, Helman LJ, Hettmer S, Ignatius MS, Keller C, Khan J, Kirsch DG, Linardic CM, Lupo PJ, Rota R, Shern JF, Shipley J, Sindiri S, Tapscott SJ, Vakoc CR, Wexler LH, Langenau DM. Insights into pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma research: Challenges and goals. Pediatr Blood Cancer 66:e27869, 2019.

Oberlick EM, Rees MG, Seashore-Ludlow B, Vazquez F, Nelson GM, Dharia NV, Weir BA, Tsherniak A, Ghandi M, Krill-Burger JM, Meyers RM, Wang X, Montgomery P, Root DE, Bieber JM, Radko S, Cheah JH, Hon CS, Shamji AF, Clemons PA, Park PJ, Dyer MA, Golub TR, Stegmaier K, Hahn WC, Stewart EA, Schreiber SL, Roberts CWM. Small-molecule and CRISPR screening converge to reveal receptor tyrosine kinase dependencies in pediatric rhabdoid tumors. Cell Rep 28:2331-2344.e8, 2019.

Butch ER, Mead PE, Amador Diaz V, Tillman H, Stewart E, Mishra JK, Kim J, Bahrami A, Dearling JLJ, Packard AB, Stoddard SV, Vavere AL, Han Y, Shulkin BL, Snyder SE. Positron emission tomography detects in vivo expression of disialoganglioside GD2 in mouse models of primary and metastatic osteosarcoma. Cancer Res 79:3112-3124, 2019.

Bailey K, Cost C, Davis I, Glade-Bender J, Grohar P, Houghton P, Isakoff M, Stewart E, Laack N, Yustein J, Reed D, Janeway K, Gorlick R, Lessnick S, DuBois S, Hingorani P. Emerging novel agents for patients with advanced Ewing sarcoma: A report from the Children's Oncology Group (COG) New Agents for Ewing Sarcoma Task Force. F1000Res 8:493-, 2019.

Loh AHP, Stewart E, Bradley CL, Chen X, Daryani V, Stewart CF, Calabrese C, Funk A, Miller G, Karlstrom A, Krafcik F, Goshorn DR, Vogel P, Bahrami A, Shelat A, Dyer MA. Combinatorial screening using orthotopic patient derived xenograft-expanded early phase cultures of osteosarcoma identify novel therapeutic drug combinations. Cancer Lett  442:262-270, 2019.

Stewart E, McEvoy J, Wang H, Chen X, Honnell V, Ocarz M, Gordon B, Dapper J, Blankenship K, Yang Y, Li Y, Shaw TI, Cho JH, Wang X, Xu B, Gupta P, Fan Y, Liu Y, Rusch M, Griffiths L, Jeon J, Freeman BB 3rd, Clay MR, Pappo A, Easton J, Shurtleff S, Shelat A, Zhou X, Boggs K, Mulder H, Yergeau D, Bahrami A, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Zhang J, Peng J, Downing JR, Dyer MA. Identification of therapeutic targets in rhabdomyosarcoma through integrated genomic, epigenomic, and proteomic analyses. Cancer Cell 34:411-426.e19, 2018.

Stewart E, Federico SM, Chen X, Shelat AA, Bradley C, Gordon B, Karlstrom A, Twarog NR, Clay MR, Bahrami A, Freeman BB 3rd, Xu B, Zhou X, Wu J, Honnell V, Ocarz M, Blankenship K, Dapper J, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Downing J, Zhang J, Easton J, Pappo A, Dyer MA. Orthotopic patient-derived xenografts of paediatric solid tumours. Nature 549:96-100, 2017.

Twarog NR, Stewart E, Hammill CV, A Shelat A. BRAID: A unifying paradigm for the analysis of combined drug action. Sci Rep 6:25523-, 2016.

Stewart E, Federico S, Karlstrom A, Shelat A, Sablauer A, Pappo A, Dyer MA. The Childhood Solid Tumor Network: A new resource for the developmental biology and oncology research communities. Dev Biol 411:287-293, 2016.

Kovar H, Amatruda J, Brunet E, Burdach S, Cidre-Aranaz F, de Alava E, Dirksen U, van der Ent W, Grohar P, Grunewald TG, Helman L, Houghton P, Iljin K, Korsching E, Ladanyi M, Lawlor E, Lessnick S, Ludwig J, Meltzer P, Metzler M, Mora J, Moriggl R, Nakamura T, Papamarkou T, Radic Sarikas B, Redini F, Richter GH, Rossig C, Schadler K, Schafer BW, Scotlandi K, Sheffield NC, Shelat A, Snaar-Jagalska E, Sorensen P, Stegmaier K, Stewart E, Sweet-Cordero A, Szuhai K, Tirado OM, Tirode F, Toretsky J, Tsafou K, Uren A, Zinovyev A, Delattre O. The second European interdisciplinary Ewing sarcoma research summit--A joint effort to deconstructing the multiple layers of a complex disease. Oncotarget 7:8613-8624, 2016.

Stewart E, Shelat A, Bradley C, Chen X, Federico S, Thiagarajan S, Shirinifard A, Bahrami A, Pappo A, Qu C, Finkelstein D, Sablauer A, Dyer MA. Development and characterization of a human orthotopic neuroblastoma xenograft. Dev Biol 407:344-355, 2015.

Sadighi Z, Sabin ND, Hayden R, Stewart E, Pillai A. Diagnostic clues to human herpesvirus 6 encephalitis and Wernicke encephalopathy after pediatric hematopoietic cell transplantation. J Child Neurol 30:1307-1314, 2015.

Gupte A, Baker EK, Wan SS, Stewart E, Loh A, Shelat AA, Gould CM, Chalk AM, Taylor S, Lackovic K, Karlstrom A, Mutsaers AJ, Desai J, Madhamshettiwar PB, Zannettino AC, Burns C, Huang DC, Dyer MA, Simpson KJ, Walkley CR. Systematic screening identifies dual PI3K and mTOR inhibition as a conserved therapeutic vulnerability in osteosarcoma. Clin Cancer Res 21:3216-3229, 2015.

Stewart E, Goshorn R, Bradley C, Griffiths LM, Benavente C, Twarog NR, Miller GM, Caufield W, Freeman BB 3rd, Bahrami A, Pappo A, Wu J, Loh A, Karlstrom A, Calabrese C, Gordon B, Tsurkan L, Hatfield MJ, Potter PM, Snyder SE, Thiagarajan S, Shirinifard A, Sablauer A, Shelat AA, Dyer MA. Targeting the DNA repair pathway in Ewing sarcoma. Cell Rep 9:829-841, 2014.

Pritchard EM, Stewart E, Zhu F, Bradley C, Griffiths L, Yang L, Suryadevara PK, Zhang J, Freeman BB 3rd, Guy RK, Dyer MA. Pharmacokinetics and efficacy of the spleen tyrosine kinase inhibitor r406 after ocular delivery for retinoblastoma. Pharm Res  31:3060-3072, 2014.

Fernandez CA, Stewart E, Panetta JC, Wilkinson MR, Morrison AR, Finkelman FD, Sandlund JT, Pui CH, Jeha S, Relling MV, Campbell PK. Successful challenges using native E. coli asparaginase after hypersensitivity reactions to PEGylated E. coli asparaginase. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 73:1307-1313, 2014.

Chen X, Stewart E, Shelat AA, Qu C, Bahrami A, Hatley M, Wu G, Bradley C, McEvoy J, Pappo A, Spunt S, Valentine MB, Valentine V, Krafcik F, Lang WH, Wierdl M, Tsurkan L, Tolleman V, Federico SM, Morton C, Lu C, Ding L, Easton J, Rusch M, Nagahawatte P, Wang J, Parker M, Wei L, Hedlund E, Finkelstein D, Edmonson M, Shurtleff S, Boggs K, Mulder H, Yergeau D, Skapek S, Hawkins DS, Ramirez N, Potter PM, Sandoval JA, Davidoff AM, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Zhang J, Downing JR, Dyer MA. Targeting oxidative stress in embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma. Cancer Cell 24:710-724, 2013.

Yang JJ, Lim JY, Huang J, Bass J, Wu J, Wang C, Fang J, Stewart E, Harstead EH, E S, Robinson GW, Evans WE, Pappo A, Zuo J, Relling MV, Onar-Thomas A, Gajjar A, Stewart CF. The role of inherited TPMT and COMT genetic variation in cisplatin-induced ototoxicity in children with cancer. Clin Pharmacol Ther  94:252-259, 2013.

Last update: November 2019

Close