Medical Oncology

Tian Zhang, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
Campus mail DUMC 103861, Durham, NC 27710
Phone (919) 668-4667
Email address tian.zhang2@duke.edu

Education and Training

  • Fellowship in Hematology-Oncology, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, 2012 - 2015
  • Internal Medicine Residency, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, 2009 - 2012
  • M.H.S., Duke University School of Medicine, 2019
  • M.D., Harvard Medical School, 2009

Grants

Publications

Bu, Jiyoon, Ashita Nair, Luke J. Kubiatowicz, Michael J. Poellmann, Woo-Jin Jeong, Marco Reyes-Martinez, Andrew J. Armstrong, et al. “Surface engineering for efficient capture of circulating tumor cells in renal cell carcinoma: From nanoscale analysis to clinical application.” Biosens Bioelectron 162 (August 15, 2020): 112250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2020.112250.

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Zhang, Tian, Michael R. Harrison, Peter H. O’Donnell, Ajjai S. Alva, Noah M. Hahn, Leonard J. Appleman, Jeremy Cetnar, et al. “A randomized phase 2 trial of pembrolizumab versus pembrolizumab and acalabrutinib in patients with platinum-resistant metastatic urothelial cancer.” Cancer, August 5, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.33067.

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Zhang, Tian, Sarabjot Pabla, Felicia L. Lenzo, Jeffrey M. Conroy, Mary K. Nesline, Sean T. Glenn, Antonios Papanicolau-Sengos, et al. “Proliferative potential and response to nivolumab in clear cell renal cell carcinoma patients.” Oncoimmunology 9, no. 1 (June 10, 2020): 1773200. https://doi.org/10.1080/2162402X.2020.1773200.

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Bakthavatsalam, Subha, Petpailin Wiangnak, Daniel J. George, Tian Zhang, and Katherine J. Franz. “Dithiocarbamate prodrugs activated by prostate specific antigen to target prostate cancer.” Bioorg Med Chem Lett 30, no. 11 (June 1, 2020): 127148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2020.127148.

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Brady-Nicholls, Renee, John D. Nagy, Travis A. Gerke, Tian Zhang, Andrew Z. Wang, Jingsong Zhang, Robert A. Gatenby, and Heiko Enderling. “Prostate-specific antigen dynamics predict individual responses to intermittent androgen deprivation.” Nat Commun 11, no. 1 (April 9, 2020): 1750. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15424-4.

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Zhang, Tian, and Daniel J. George. “Choosing the best approach for patients with favorable-risk metastatic renal cell carcinoma.” Clin Adv Hematol Oncol 18, no. 4 (April 2020): 204–7.

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Scholars@Duke

Labriola, Matthew Kyle, Jason Zhu, Rajan Gupta, Shannon McCall, Jennifer Jackson, Eric F. Kong, James R. White, et al. “Characterization of tumor mutation burden, PD-L1 and DNA repair genes to assess relationship to immune checkpoint inhibitors response in metastatic renal cell carcinoma.” J Immunother Cancer 8, no. 1 (March 2020). https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2019-000319.

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32221016
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Zhang, Tian, Karla V. Ballman, Atish Dipankar Choudhury, Ronald C. Chen, Colleen Watt, Yujia Wen, Tyler Zemla, et al. “PDIGREE: An adaptive phase III trial of PD-inhibitor nivolumab and ipilimumab (IPI-NIVO) with VEGF TKI cabozantinib (CABO) in metastatic untreated renal cell cancer (Alliance A031704).” In Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 38. AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 2020.

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Zhang, Tian, Julie Kephart, Elizabeth Bronson, Monika Anand, Christine Daly, Ivan Spasojevic, Hannah Berg, et al. “Disulfiram (DSF) pharmacokinetics (PK) and copper PET imaging in a phase Ib study of intravenous (IV) copper loading with oral DSF for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).” In Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 38. AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 2020.

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Zhang, Tian, Yuan Wu, Anika Agarwal, Mark D. Starr, Marco Reyes-Martinez, Monika Anand, Daniella Runyambo, et al. “Longitudinal multiplex cytokine analysis for patients (pts) with metastatic renalcell carcinoma (mRCC) treated with ipilimumab/nivolumab (I plus N).” In Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 38. AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, 2020.

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