Brad Zacharia, MD, MS - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile
Brad Zacharia, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Penn State Neuroscience Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Penn State Neuroscience Institute
Scientific Program:Next-Generation Therapies
Disease Teams:
Cancer Institute, Brain and Central Nervous System Cancer Team
Clinical Trials
NRG-BN013:Phase III Trial of Single Fraction Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) Versus Fractionated SRS (FSRS) for Intact Brain Metastases
Integration of CSF proteogenomics in the diagnosis and management of diffuse gliomas
Phase II Pilot RCT to assess feasibility of supra-marginal surgical resection of malignant glioma (G-SUMIT: Glioma Supra Marginal Incision Trial)
NRG-BN012: A Randomized Phase III Trial of Pre-Operative Compared to Post-Operative Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Patients With Resectable Brain Metastases
A Randomized, Open-label, Multicentric, Two-arm Pivotal Trial of SonoCloud-9 Combined With Carboplatin (CBDCA) vs Standard of Care Lomustine (CCNU) or Temozolomide (TMZ) in Patients Undergoing Planned Resection for First Recurrence Glioblastoma
3D-PREDICT Registry: 3D Prediction of patient-specific Response using ex vivo Interrogation of live cells from tumors
Recent Publications
2024
Shenoy, G, Slagle-Webb, B, Khunsriraksakul, C, Pandya Shesh, B, Luo, J, Khristov, V, Smith, N, Mansouri, A, Zacharia, BE, Holder, S, Lathia, JD, Barnholtz-Sloan, JS & Connor, JR 2024, 'Analysis of anemia and iron supplementation among glioblastoma patients reveals sex-biased association between anemia and survival', Scientific reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 2389. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52492-8
Lee, IY, Hanft, S, Schulder, M, Judy, KD, Wong, ET, Elder, JB, Evans, LT, Zuccarello, M, Wu, J, Aulakh, S, Agarwal, V, Ramakrishna, R, Gill, BJ, Quiñones-Hinojosa, A, Brennan, C, Zacharia, BE, Silva Correia, CE, Diwanji, M, Pennock, GK, Scott, C, Perez-Olle, R, Andrews, DW & Boockvar, JA 2024, 'Autologous cell immunotherapy (IGV-001) with IGF-1R antisense oligonucleotide in newly diagnosed glioblastoma patients', Future Oncology, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 579-591. https://doi.org/10.2217/fon-2023-0702
Miccio, JA, Tian, Z, Mahase, SS, Lin, C, Choi, S, Zacharia, B, Sheehan, JP, Brown, PD, Trifiletti, DM, Palmer, JD, Wang, M & Zaorsky, N 2024, 'Estimating the risk of brain metastasis for patients newly diagnosed with cancer', Communications Medicine, vol. 4, no. 1, 27. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-024-00445-7
Ledford, A, Rodriguez, A, Lipinski, L, Abad, A, Fenstermaker, R, Edenfield, J, Kanos, C, Redjal, N, Mansouri, SA, Zacharia, B, Butowski, N, Liu, J, Han, SJ, Ziu, M, Cohen, AL, Fabiano, AJ, Miles, K, Rayner, M, Thompson, J, Tollison, K, Azimzadeh, P, Holmes, L, Gevaert, M & DesRochers, TM 2024, 'Functional prediction of response to therapy prior to therapeutic intervention is associated with improved survival in patients with high-grade glioma', Scientific reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 19474. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68801-0
Lu, T, Yee, PP, Chih, SY, Tang, M, Chen, H, Aregawi, DG, Glantz, MJ, Zacharia, BE, Wang, H-G & Li, W 2024, 'LC3-associated phagocytosis of neutrophils triggers tumor ferroptotic cell death in glioblastoma', EMBO Journal, vol. 43, no. 13, pp. 2582-2605. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44318-024-00130-4
Düzkalir, AH, Samanci, Y, Lee, CC, Yang, HC, Niranjan, A, Lunsford, LD, Wei, Z, Srinivasan, PN, Dayawansa, S, Sheehan, JP, Patel, S, Mathieu, D, Zacharia, BE, Santhumayor, B, Kondziolka, D & Peker, S 2024, 'Stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastasis from cholangiocarcinoma', Journal of neurosurgery, vol. 141, no. 5, pp. 1324-1331. https://doi.org/10.3171/2024.2.JNS2483
Mikolajewicz, N, Yee, PP, Bhanja, D, Trifoi, M, Miller, AM, Metellus, P, Bagley, SJ, Balaj, L, De MacEdo Filho, LJM, Zacharia, BE, Aregawi, D, Glantz, M, Weller, M, Ahluwalia, MS, Kislinger, T & Mansouri, SA 2024, 'Systematic Review of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Discovery in Neuro-Oncology: A Roadmap to Standardization and Clinical Application', Journal of Clinical Oncology, vol. 42, no. 16, pp. 1961-1974. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.23.01621
2023
Zuccato, JA, Patil, V, Mansouri, S, Voisin, M, Chakravarthy, A, Yi Shen, S, Nassiri, F, Mikolajewicz, N, Trifoi, M, Skakodub, A, Zacharia, B, Glantz, M, De Carvalho, DD, Mansouri, A & Zadeh, G 2023, 'Cerebrospinal fluid methylome-based liquid biopsies for accurate malignant brain neoplasm classification', Neuro-oncology, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 1452-1460. https://doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noac264
Rusthoven, CG, Staley, AW, Gao, D, Yomo, S, Bernhardt, D, Wandrey, N, El Shafie, R, Kraemer, A, Padilla, O, Chiang, V, Faramand, AM, Palmer, JD, Zacharia, BE, Wegner, RE, Hattangadi-Gluth, JA, Levy, A, Bernstein, K, Mathieu, D, Cagney, DN, Chan, MD, Grills, IS, Braunstein, S, Lee, CC, Sheehan, JP, Kluwe, C, Patel, S, Halasz, LM, Andratschke, N, Deibert, CP, Verma, V, Trifiletti, DM, Cifarelli, CP, Debus, J, Combs, SE, Sato, Y, Higuchi, Y, Aoyagi, K, Brown, PD, Alami, V, Niranjan, A, Lunsford, LD, Kondziolka, D, Camidge, DR, Kavanagh, BD, Robin, TP, Serizawa, T & Yamamoto, M 2023, 'Comparison of first-line radiosurgery for small-cell and non-small cell lung cancer brain metastases (CROSS-FIRE)', Journal of the National Cancer Institute, vol. 115, no. 8, pp. 926-936. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djad073
Lad, Y, Jangam, A, Carlton, H, Abu-Ayyad, MM, Hadjipanayis, C, Ivkov, R, Zacharia, BE & Attaluri, A 2023, 'Development of a Treatment Planning Framework for Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT)', Cancers, vol. 15, no. 18, 4554. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15184554
Ironside, N, Chen, CJ, Xu, Z, Schlesinger, D, Lee Vance, M, Hong, GK, Jane, JA, Patel, S, Bindal, SK, Niranjan, A, Lunsford, LD, Liscak, R, Chytka, T, Jezkova, J, Saifi, O, Trifiletti, DM, Berger, A, Alzate, J, Bernstein, K, Kondziolka, D, Speckter, H, Hernandez, W, Lazo, E, Peker, S, Samanci, Y, Zacharia, BE, Mau, C, Wegner, RE, Shepard, MJ, Mathieu, D, Maillet, M & Sheehan, JP 2023, 'Effects of Neuroanatomic Structural Distances on Pituitary Function After Stereotactic Radiosurgery: A Multicenter Study', Neurosurgery, vol. 92, no. 5, pp. 1035-1042. https://doi.org/10.1227/neu.0000000000002347
Koga, SF, Hodges, WB, Adamyan, H, Hayes, T, Fecci, PE, Tsvankin, V, Pradilla, G, Hoang, KB, Lee, IY, Sankey, EW, Codd, PJ, Huie, D, Zacharia, BE, Verma, R & Baboyan, VG 2023, 'Preoperative validation of edema-corrected tractography in neurosurgical practice: translating surgeon insights into novel software implementation', Frontiers in Neurology, vol. 14, 1322815. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.1322815
Pikis, S, Mantziaris, G, Anand, RK, Nabeel, AM, Sheehan, D, Sheehan, K, Reda, WA, Tawadros, SR, Abdelkarim, K, El-Shehaby, AMN, Eldin, RE, Peker, S, Samanci, Y, Kaisman-Elbaz, T, Speckter, H, Hernández, W, Isidor, J, Tripathi, M, Madan, R, Zacharia, BE, Daggubati, LC, Moreno, NM, Álvarez, RM, Langlois, AM, Mathieu, D, Deibert, CP, Sudhakar, VR, Cifarelli, CP, Icaza, DA, Cifarelli, DT, Wei, Z, Niranjan, A, Barnett, GH, Lunsford, LD, Bowden, GN & Sheehan, JP 2023, 'Stereotactic radiosurgery for Koos grade IV vestibular schwannoma: a multi-institutional study', Journal of neurosurgery, vol. 138, no. 2, pp. 405-412. https://doi.org/10.3171/2022.4.JNS22203
Dumot, C, Pikis, S, Mantziaris, G, Xu, Z, Dayawansa, S, Anand, RK, Nabeel, AM, Sheehan, D, Sheehan, K, Reda, WA, Tawadros, SR, Karim, KA, El-Shehaby, AMN, Eldin, RME, Peker, S, Samanci, Y, Kaisman-Elbaz, T, Speckter, H, Hernández, W, Isidor, J, Tripathi, M, Madan, R, Zacharia, BE, Daggubati, LC, Moreno, NM, Álvarez, RM, Langlois, AM, Mathieu, D, Deibert, CP, Sudhakar, VR, Cifarelli, CP, Icaza, DA, Cifarelli, DT, Wei, Z, Niranjan, A, Barnett, GH, Lunsford, LD, Bowden, GN & Sheehan, JP 2023, 'Stereotactic radiosurgery for Koos grade IV vestibular schwannoma in patients ≥ 65 years old: a multi-institutional retrospective study', Acta Neurochirurgica, vol. 165, no. 1, pp. 211-220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-022-05454-w
Pandya Shesh, B, Slagle-Webb, B, Shenoy, G, Khristov, V, Zacharia, BE & Connor, JR 2023, 'Uptake of H-ferritin by Glioblastoma stem cells and its impact on their invasion capacity', Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, vol. 149, no. 12, pp. 9691-9703. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-023-04864-2
2022
Schupper, AJ, Baron, RB, Cheung, W, Rodriguez, J, Kalkanis, SN, Chohan, MO, Andersen, BJ, Chamoun, R, Nahed, BV, Zacharia, BE, Kennedy, J, Moulding, HD, Zucker, L, Chicoine, MR, Olson, JJ, Jensen, RL, Sherman, JH, Zhang, X, Price, G, Fowkes, M, Germano, IM, Carter, BS, Hadjipanayis, CG & Yong, RL 2022, '5-Aminolevulinic acid for enhanced surgical visualization of high-grade gliomas: a prospective, multicenter study', Journal of neurosurgery, vol. 136, no. 6, pp. 1525-1534. https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.5.JNS21310
Bhanja, D, Ba, D, Tuohy, K, Wilding, H, Trifoi, M, Padmanaban, V, Liu, G, Sughrue, M, Zacharia, B, Leslie, D & Mansouri, A 2022, 'Association of Low-Grade Glioma Diagnosis and Management Approach with Mental Health Disorders: A MarketScan Analysis 2005–2014', Cancers, vol. 14, no. 6, 1376. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14061376
Pomeraniec, IJ, Xu, Z, Lee, CC, Yang, HC, Chytka, T, Liscak, R, Martinez-Alvarez, R, Martinez-Moreno, N, Attuati, L, Picozzi, P, Kondziolka, D, Mureb, M, Bernstein, K, Mathieu, D, Maillet, M, Ogino, A, Long, H, Kano, H, Lunsford, LD, Zacharia, BE, Mau, C, Tuanquin, LC, Cifarelli, C, Arsanious, D, Hack, J, Warnick, RE, Strickland, BA, Zada, G, Chang, EL, Speckter, H, Patel, S, Ding, D, Sheehan, D, Sheehan, K, Kvint, S, Buch, LY, Haber, AR, Shteinhart, J, Vance, ML & Sheehan, JP 2022, 'Dose to neuroanatomical structures surrounding pituitary adenomas and the effect of stereotactic radiosurgery on neuroendocrine function: an international multicenter study', Journal of neurosurgery, vol. 136, no. 3, pp. 813-821. https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.3.JNS203812
Hamidi, N, Karmur, B, Sperrazza, S, Alexieva, J, Salmi, L, Zacharia, BE, Nduom, EK, Cohen-Gadol, AA, Rutka, JT & Mansouri, A 2022, 'Guidelines for optimal utilization of social media for brain tumor stakeholders', Journal of neurosurgery, vol. 136, no. 2, pp. 335-342. https://doi.org/10.3171/2020.11.JNS203226
Asher, AL, Khalafallah, AM, Mukherjee, D, Alvi, MA, Yolcu, YU, Khan, I, Pennings, JS, Davidson, CA, Archer, KR, Moshel, YA, Knightly, J, Roguski, M, Zacharia, BE, Harbaugh, RE, Kalkanis, SN & Bydon, M 2022, 'Launching the Quality Outcomes Database Tumor Registry: rationale, development, and pilot data', Journal of neurosurgery, vol. 136, no. 2, pp. 369-378. https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.1.JNS201115
Mikolajewicz, N, Khan, S, Trifoi, M, Skakdoub, A, Ignatchenko, V, Mansouri, S, Zuccatto, J, Zacharia, BE, Glantz, M, Zadeh, G, Moffat, J, Kislinger, T & Mansouri, A 2022, 'Leveraging the CSF proteome toward minimally-invasive diagnostics surveillance of brain malignancies', Neuro-Oncology Advances, vol. 4, no. 1, vdac161. https://doi.org/10.1093/noajnl/vdac161
Khristov, V, Nesterova, D, Trifoi, M, Clegg, T, Daya, A, Barrett, T, Tufano, E, Shenoy, G, Pandya, B, Beselia, G, Smith, N, Mrowczynski, O, Zacharia, B, Waite, K, Lathia, J, Barnholtz-Sloan, J & Connor, J 2022, 'Plasma IL13Rα2 as a novel liquid biopsy biomarker for glioblastoma', Journal of neuro-oncology, vol. 160, no. 3, pp. 743-752. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-022-04196-0
Saleh, S, Sullivan, SE, Bellile, E, Roxbury, C, Das, P, Hachem, RA, Ackall, F, Jang, D, Celtikci, E, Sahin, MM, D'Souza, G, Evans, JJ, Nyquist, G, Khalafallah, A, Mukherjee, D, Rowan, NR, Camp, S, Choby, G, Gompel, JJV, Ghiam, MK, Levine, CG, Field, M, Adappa, N, Locke, TB, Rassekh, C, Sweis, AM, Goyal, N, Zacharia, B, Wilson, MN, Patel, S, Gardner, PA, Snyderman, CH, Wang, EW, Glancz, LJ, Bagchi, A, Dow, G, Robertson, I, Rangarajan, SV, Michael, LM & McKean, EL 2022, 'Retrospective Review of Surgical Site Infections after Endoscopic Endonasal Sellar and Parasellar Surgery: Multicenter Quality Data from the North American Skull Base Society', Journal of Neurological Surgery, Part B: Skull Base, vol. 83, no. 6, pp. 579-588. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1865-3202
Dumot, C, Pikis, S, Mantziaris, G, Xu, Z, Anand, RK, Nabeel, AM, Sheehan, D, Sheehan, K, Reda, WA, Tawadros, SR, Abdel Karim, K, El-Shehaby, AMN, Emad Eldin, RM, Peker, S, Samanci, Y, Kaisman-Elbaz, T, Speckter, H, Hernández, W, Isidor, J, Tripathi, M, Madan, R, Zacharia, BE, Daggubati, LC, Moreno, NM, Álvarez, RM, Langlois, AM, Mathieu, D, Deibert, CP, Sudhakar, VR, Cifarelli, CP, Icaza, DA, Cifarelli, DT, Wei, Z, Niranjan, A, Barnett, GH, Lunsford, LD, Bowden, GN & Sheehan, JP 2022, 'Stereotactic radiosurgery for Koos grade IV vestibular schwannoma in young patients: a multi-institutional study', Journal of neuro-oncology, vol. 160, no. 1, pp. 201-208. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-022-04134-0
Pikis, S, Bunevicius, A, Lee, CC, Yang, HC, Zacharia, BE, Liščák, R, Simonova, G, Tripathi, M, Kumar, N, Mathieu, D, Perron, R, Peker, S, Samanci, Y, Gurewitz, J, Bernstein, K, Kondziolka, D, Niranjan, A, Lunsford, LD, Mantziaris, N & Sheehan, JP 2022, 'Stereotactic radiosurgery for prostate cancer cerebral metastases: An international multicenter study', Journal of neurosurgery, vol. 136, no. 5, pp. 1307-1313. https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.4.JNS21246
Yee, PP, Wang, J, Chih, SY, Aregawi, DG, Glantz, MJ, Zacharia, BE, Thamburaj, K & Li, W 2022, 'Temporal radiographic and histological study of necrosis development in a mouse glioblastoma model', Frontiers in Oncology, vol. 12, 993649. https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.993649
Ziai, K, Daggubati, LC, Zacharia, BE & Lighthall, JG 2022, 'The Supraorbital Approach via an Eyebrow Incision: Analysis of Cosmetic Outcomes Using the Scar Cosmesis Assessment Rating Scale', Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 307-311. https://doi.org/10.1097/SCS.0000000000008071
Khristov, V, Lin, A, Freedman, Z, Staub, J, Shenoy, G, Mrowczynski, O, Rizk, E, Zacharia, B & Connor, J 2023, 'Tumor-Derived Biomarkers in Liquid Biopsy of Glioblastoma', World neurosurgery, vol. 170, pp. 182-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2022.11.012
2021
Daggubati, LC, Ryan, CA, Brandon, C, Madden, DB, Farou, N, Mansouri, A & Zacharia, BE 2021, '#Neurosurgery: A Temporal and Content Analysis of Academic Neurosurgery on Twitter', World neurosurgery, vol. 153, pp. e481-e487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2021.06.150
Khalafallah, AM, Rakovec, M, Bettegowda, C, Jackson, CM, Gallia, GL, Weingart, JD, Lim, M, Esquenazi, Y, Zacharia, BE, Goldschmidt, E, Ziu, M, Ivan, ME, Venteicher, AS, Nduom, EK, Mamelak, AN, Chu, RM, Yu, JS, Sheehan, JP, Nahed, BV, Carter, BS, Berger, MS, Sawaya, R & Mukherjee, D 2021, 'A crowdsourced consensus on supratotal resection versus gross total resection for anatomically distinct primary glioblastoma', Neurosurgery, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 712-719. https://doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyab257
Taslimi, S, Brar, K, Ellenbogen, Y, Deng, J, Hou, W, Moraes, FY, Glantz, M, Zacharia, BE, Tan, A, Ahluwalia, MS, Khasraw, M, Zadeh, G & Mansouri, A 2021, 'Comparative Efficacy of Systemic Agents for Brain Metastases From Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer With an EGFR Mutation/ALK Rearrangement: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis', Frontiers in Oncology, vol. 11, 739765. https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.739765
Brar, K, Taslimi, S, Ellenbogen, Y, Deng, J, Hou, W, Moraes, FY, Glantz, M, Zacharia, BE, Tan, A, Ahluwalia, MS, Khasraw, M, Zadeh, G & Mansouri, A 2022, 'Comparative Efficacy of Treatments for Brain Metastases from Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer without an EGFR-Mutation/ALK-Rearrangement: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis', World neurosurgery, vol. 158, pp. e87-e102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2021.10.113
Kanekar, S & Zacharia, BE 2021, 'Imaging Findings of New Entities and Patterns in Brain Tumor: Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Mutant, Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Wild-Type, Codeletion, and MGMT Methylation', Radiologic Clinics of North America, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 305-322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcl.2021.01.001
Maurer, R, McNutt, S, Daggubati, LC, Ba, DM, Liu, G, Leslie, D, Goyal, N & Zacharia, BE 2022, 'Mental health disorders in newly diagnosed non-functional pitutary adenoma under initial observation: an observational cohort study using the nationwide MarketScan database', Pituitary, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 85-91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11102-021-01172-1
Bunevicius, A, Suleiman, M, Patel, S, Álvarez, RM, Moreno, NEM, Liscak, R, Hanuska, J, Langlois, AM, Mathieu, D, Mau, C, Caldwell, C, Tuanquin, LC, Zacharia, BE, McInerney, J, Lee, CC, Yang, HC, Peterson, JL, Trifiletti, DM, Ogino, A, Kano, H, Warnick, RE, Saylany, A, Buch, LY, Lee, JYK, Strickland, BA, Zada, G, Chang, EL, Lunsford, LD & Sheehan, J 2021, 'Stereotactic radiosurgery for treatment of radiation-induced meningiomas: A multiinstitutional study', Journal of neurosurgery, vol. 135, no. 3, pp. 862-870. https://doi.org/10.3171/2020.7.JNS202064