Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD
Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD
Maud T Lane Professor of Surgical Immunology
Professor of Surgery
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Co-Leader Signaling and Tumor Microenvironment Program
Co-Director of the Rogel and Blondy Center for Pancreatic Cancer
Rogel Cancer Center
Medical School
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Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD
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Qualifications
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Embryonic signaling pathways in pancreatic cancerUniversity of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
2002 - 2008
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Center Memberships
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Center MemberCenter for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
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Center MemberCenter for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design
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Center MemberRogel Cancer Center
Recent Publications
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Iyer MK, Fletcher AA, Okoye JO, Shi C, Chen F, Kanu EN, Eckhoff AM, Bao M, Pasca di Magliano M, Frankel TL, Chinnaiyan AM, Nussbaum DP, Allen PJ. 2026 Jun 17;Additional ScholarshipSupplementary Figures S1-S15 from Spatial Transcriptomics of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms Reveals Divergent Indolent and Malignant States
DOI:10.1158/1078-0432.32709068 -
Iyer MK, Fletcher AA, Okoye JO, Shi C, Chen F, Kanu EN, Eckhoff AM, Bao M, Pasca di Magliano M, Frankel TL, Chinnaiyan AM, Nussbaum DP, Allen PJ. 2026 Jun 17;Additional ScholarshipSupplementary Tables S1-S9 from Spatial Transcriptomics of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms Reveals Divergent Indolent and Malignant States
DOI:10.1158/1078-0432.32709065 -
Zhang Y, Kadiyala P, Yan W, Brown K, Avritt FR, Donahue KL, Procario MC, Okoye JO, Giridharan T, Elhossiny AM, Espinoza CE, Awad D, Lasse Opsahl EL, Medina-Cabrera PI, Velez-Delgado A, Menjivar RE, Yang OA, Yang S, He X, Gupta S, Tariq R, Brandt AR, Wang X, denDekker A, Nwosu ZC, Carpenter ES, Courtney AH, Bednar F, Frankel TL, Lyssiotis CA, Zheng B, Kryczek I, Pasca di Magliano M. Cancer Immunol Res, 2026 May 28;Journal ArticleTargeting CCR1 remodels the tumor microenvironment and relieves immune suppression in pancreatic cancer.
DOI:10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-25-1300 PMID: 42207977 -
Elhossiny AM, Kadiyala P, Okoye JO, Hiraki HL, Procario MC, Giridharan T, Watkoske HR, Tannus Ruckert M, Wang J, Griffith BD, Bray AW, Mills JN, Espinoza CE, Zeller J, Peterson N, Bednar F, Zhang Y, Rao A, Lyssiotis CA, Szczepanski JM, Shi J, Deshpande A, Maitra A, Fertig EJ, Carpenter ES, Frankel TL, Pasca di Magliano M. Cancer Discov, 2026 May 21;Journal ArticleAsynchronous evolution of epithelium and stroma differentiates precursor lesions from pancreatic cancer.
DOI:10.1158/2159-8290.CD-25-2001 PMID: 42165710 -
Mello AM, Pasca di Magliano M, Lee KE. Cancers, 2026 May 13; 18 (10): 1508 - 1508.Journal ArticleHypoxia Impairs CD8+ T Cell Fitness and Is Associated with a Dysfunctional CD8+ T Cell State in Pancreatic Cancer
DOI:10.3390/cancers18101508 -
Reyes J, Del Priore I, Chaikovsky AC, Pasnuri N, Elhossiny AM, Park J, Weiler P, Krause T, Moorman A, Snopkowski C, Takizawa M, Burdziak C, Ratnayeke N, Masilionis I, Ho Y-J, Chaligné R, Romesser PB, Filliol A, Nawy T, Morris JP, Zhao Z, Pasca Di Magliano M, Alonso-Curbelo D, Pe'er D, Lowe SW. Cell, 2026 Apr 15;Journal ArticleOncogenic and tumor-suppressive forces converge on a progenitor niche at the benign-to-malignant transition.
DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2026.03.032 PMID: 41990751 -
Hannifin S, Mello AM, Ngodup T, Kim NH, Pasca di Magliano M, Lee KE. Cells, 2026 Apr 15; 15 (8): 683 - 683.Journal ArticleHypoxia-Induced Fibroblast IL-6 Promotes Immunosuppressive Macrophage Phenotypes in Pancreatic Cancer
DOI:10.3390/cells15080683 -
Mbah NE, Sutton D, Hong HS, Singhal R, Menjivar RE, Perricone MD, Giza H, Sajjakulnukit P, Myers AL, Nwosu ZC, Alektiar JM, Lin J, Long D, Andren AC, Zhang L, Crawford HC, Frankel TL, Pasca di Magliano M, Franchi L, Shah YM, Lyssiotis CA. Cancer Metab, 2026 Apr 4; 14 (1):Journal ArticleTumor cell death by ferroptosis contributes to an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in syngeneic murine models of cancer.
DOI:10.1186/s40170-026-00428-3 PMID: PMC13072669
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Congratulations to Marina Pasca di Magliano
Marina has been inducted as a 2022 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).