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Principal Investigator
Oliver John Semmes
Awardee Organization

Eastern Virginia Medical School
United States

Fiscal Year
2021
Activity Code
U01
Project End Date

Development of Protein Biomarkers in Post-DRE Urine for use in Liquid Biopsy of Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer (PCa) remains the most common non-skin malignancy afflicting men in the United states. It is the second leading cause of cancer-related death. The clinical diversity of PCa is dramatic, ranging from asymptomatic disease to metastatic and fatal malignancy. One cause of this clinical diversity is the remarkable intra- and inter-tumoural heterogeneity in disease genomics. As a result, currently clinically-used risk-stratification strategies do not robustly discriminate aggressive from indolent diseases, leading to systemic over- and undertreatment. Approximately 40% of men diagnosed with PCa who seek curative treatment undergo surgical removal of their prostate (radical prostatectomy, RP). Of these, approximately 30% are found at surgery to have disease outside their prostate (non-organ-confined, non-OC). These men are candidates for multi-modal adjuvant treatment with chemo- and hormonetherapy to improve outcomes. We therefore propose to tackle this problem, using fluid biomarkers to circumvent the molecular heterogeneity of the disease. Our proposal leverages an active and productive multi-investigator, multi-institutional proteomic collaboration to develop biomarkers for the early detection of locally aggressive non-organ-confined disease. Our two lead biomarkers are 1) A multiple peptide panel that discriminates OC from non-OC in EDRN phase 2 equivalent validation (Nature Communications, in press). 2) Surface expression of CUB Domain Containing Protein 1 on exosomes differentiates PCa aggressiveness (EDRN Phase 1 equivalent discovery, Oncotarget, 2016). We propose both validation of these targets in a globally-unique biobank of expressed prostatic secretions, as well as novel biomarker discovery/development strategies to extend them in the same clinical context and sample matrix. Successful completion of our proposed studies will result in validation of at least two biomarkers for clinical utility in separation of OC vs. non-OC disease, helping to personalize therapy for a tumour type that afflicts 1 in 7 North American men.

Publications

  • Zeltser N, Zhu C, Oh J, Li CH, Boutros PC. Sex Differences in Cancer Functional Genomics: Gene Dependency and Drug Sensitivity. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. 2025 Mar 21. PMID: 39975298
  • Liss MA, Zeltser N, Zheng Y, Lopez C, Liu M, Patel Y, Yamaguchi TN, Eng SE, Tian M, Semmes OJ, Lin DW, Brooks JD, Wei JT, Klein EA, Tewari AK, Mosquera JM, Khani F, Robinson BD, Aasad M, Troyer DA, Kagan J, Sanda MG, Thompson IM, Boutros PC, Leach RJ. Upgrading of Grade Group 1 Prostate Cancer at Prostatectomy: Germline Risk Factors in a Prospective Cohort. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2024 Nov 1;33(11):1500-1511. PMID: 39158404
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