Benjamin Mizukawa

Benjamin E. Mizukawa, MD


  • Research Director, Pediatric Cancer Avatar Program
  • Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

About

MD: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 2004.

Residency: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

Fellowship: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2008; Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 2011.

Interests

Pediatric leukemia and lymphoma; investigation of the role of small Rho GTPases in leukemogenesis and leukemic stem cell biology and their potential as therapeutic targets in acute myeloid leukemia; development of xenograft models for use in testing novel therapeutics.

Services and Specialties

Cancer and Blood Diseases, Leukemia

Research Areas

Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Oncology, Cancer and Blood Diseases

Additional Languages

French, Japanese

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Publications

Clinical outcomes of hypomethylating agents and venetoclax in newly diagnosed unfit and relapsed/refractory paediatric, adolescent and young adult acute myeloid leukaemia patients. LeBlanc, FR; Breese, EH; Burns, KC; Chang, EK; Jones, LQ M; Lee, L; Mizukawa, B; Norris, RE; O'Brien, MM; Phillips, CL; Perentesis, JP; Rubinstein, J; Pommert, L. British Journal of Haematology. 2024; 205:1055-1066.

SETDB1 suppresses NK cell-mediated immunosurveillance in acute myeloid leukemia with granulo-monocytic differentiation. Chang, YH; Yamamoto, K; Fujino, T; Wang, TW; Sugimoto, E; Zhang, W; Yabushita, T; Suzaki, K; Pietsch, EC; Weir, BA; Enomoto, Y; Imai, Y; Kitamura, T; Goyama, S. Cell Reports. 2024; 43:114536.

P676: UPDATED RESULTS FROM THE TRIAL ITCC‐054/COG‐AAML1921: BOSUTINIB IN NEWLY DIAGNOSED AND RESISTANT/INTOLERANT PEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA. Brivio, E; Pennesi, E; Willemse, M; Jiang, Y; van der Velden, V; Beverloo, B; Hudson, C; Kuttschreuter, L; van der Sluis, I; Brethon, B; Locatelli, F; Roth, M; Hijiya, N; Zwaan, M. HemaSphere. 2023; 7:e506783a.

The Choice of Either Conventional Chemotherapy or Inotuzumab Ozogamicin as Bridging Regimen Does Not Appear To Impact Clinical Response to CD19-Directed CAR-T Therapy in Pediatric B-ALL. Rubinstein, JD; Breese, EH; Krupski, MC; O'Brien, MM; Dandoy, CE; Mizukawa, B; Khoury, R; Norris, RE; Davies, SM; Phillips, CL. Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. 2023; 29:311.e1-311.e7.

Use of gemcitabine, oxaliplatin, and anti-CD20 therapy in children and adolescents with non-Hodgkin lymphoma unfit for intensive therapy. Bender, JD; Rubinstein, JD; Mizukawa, B; Perentesis, JP; Pommert, L. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 2023; 70:e30214.

IMPDH inhibition activates TLR-VCAM1 pathway and suppresses the development of MLL-fusion leukemia. Liu, X; Sato, N; Yabushita, T; Li, J; Jia, Y; Tamura, M; Asada, S; Fujino, T; Fukushima, T; Yonezawa, T; Shibata, T; Miyake, K; Kitamura, T; Goyama, S. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 2023; 15:e15631.

Nuclear Vav3 is required for polycomb repression complex-1 activity in B-cell lymphoblastic leukemogenesis. Nayak, RC; Chang, KH; Singh, AK; Kotliar, M; Desai, M; Wellendorf, AM; Wunderlich, M; Bartram, J; Mizukawa, B; Cuadrado, M; Dexheimer, P; Barski, A; Bustelo, XR; Nassar, NN; Cancelas, JA. Nature Communications. 2022; 13:3056.

Inhibition of the RacGEF VAV3 by the small molecule IODVA1 impedes RAC signaling and overcomes resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibition in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Hegde, S; Gasilina, A; Wunderlich, M; Lin, Y; Buchholzer, M; Krumbach, OH F; Akbarzadeh, M; Ahmadian, MR; Seibel, W; Zheng, Y; Perentesis, JP; Mizukawa, BE; Vinnedge, LP; Cancelas, JA; Nassar, NN. Leukemia. 2022; 36:637-647.

PDX models of relapsed pediatric AML preserve global gene expression patterns and reveal therapeutic targets. Wunderlich, M; Chen, J; Sexton, C; Manning, N; Byerly, L; O’Brien, E; Perentesis, J; Mulloy, J; Mizukawa, B. 2022; 2022.01.31.478534.

Multicenter Analysis of Genomically Targeted Single Patient Use Requests for Pediatric Neoplasms. Sabnis, HS; Shulman, DS; Mizukawa, B; Bouvier, N; Zehir, A; Fangusaro, J; Fabrizio, VA; Whitlow, C; Winchester, M; Agresta, L; DuBois, SG; Glade-Bender, J; Castellino, SM; Shukla, N. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2021; 39:3822-3828.

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