SunilHAbhyankarMD

Professor, Internal Medicine, Division of Hematological Malignancy and Cellular therapy, University Kansas School of Medicine

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Office
3901 Rainbow Blvd
Kansas City, KS 66160
Phone+1 913-588-9821

Fax+1 913-588-8930
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Education & Training

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityFellowship, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 1987 - 1989
Seth G.S. Medical CollegeClass of 1981

Certifications & Licensure

MO State Medical License 2000 - 2025
KS State Medical License 2002 - 2024
SC State Medical License 1994 - 2021
KY State Medical License 1992 - 2001
NY State Medical License 1999 - 2001
WI State Medical License 1989 - 1991
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Clinical Trials

Peripheral Blood Stem Cell (PBSC) Mobilization in Patients With Relapsed Lymphoma Treated With Bendamustine Start of enrollment: 2010 Jan 01
Completed
Early Phase 1
Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease Treatment (BMT CTN 0801) Start of enrollment: 2010 Apr 01
Completed
Phase 2, Phase 3
A Safety Study Looking at the Combination of Velcade and G-CSF in Patients With Myeloma or Lymphoma Start of enrollment: 2010 Sep 01
Completed
Early Phase 1
Pilot Study: Patients With Chronic Active Graft Versus Host Disease That Have Failed or Not Tolerated Standard Therapy. Start of enrollment: 2010 Aug 01
Completed
Test Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) Treatment Before/After Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) or Peripheral Blood Stem Cell (PBSC) Transplant to Prevent Graft Versus Host Disease Start of enrollment: 2010 Jun 01
Completed
Early Phase 1
Reduced Intensity Regimen vs Myeloablative Regimen for Myeloid Leukemia or Myelodysplastic Syndrome (BMT CTN 0901) Start of enrollment: 2011 Jun 01
Terminated
Phase 3
Study of KW-0761 Versus Vorinostat in Relapsed/Refractory CTCL Start of enrollment: 2012 Nov 01
Completed
Phase 3
Prospective Outcomes of Second-Line Therapy in Acute Graft-Versus-Host Study Including ECP (POSTAGE) Start of enrollment: 2014 Aug 29
Terminated
Novel Approaches for Graft-versus-Host Disease Prevention Compared to Contemporary Controls (BMT CTN 1203) Start of enrollment: 2014 Aug 01
Completed
Phase 2
Study of Crenolanib vs Midostaurin Following Induction Chemotherapy and Consolidation Therapy in Newly Diagnosed FLT3 Mutated AML Start of enrollment: 2018 Aug 15
Recruiting
Phase 3
Roles: Contact
DALY 2.0 USA/ MB-CART2019.1 for DLBCL Start of enrollment: 2021 May 25
Recruiting
Phase 2
Roles: Contact
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Use of Endpoints in Phase III Randomized Controlled Trials for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Over the Last 15 Years: A Systematic Review.
Muhammad Fareed Khalid, Muhammad Kashif Amin, Ali H Mushtaq, Atif Butt, Iqra Anwar, Moazzam Shahzad, Mohammad Ammad-Ud-Din, Usman Ilyas, Sibgha Gull Chaudhary, Naushee...> ;Hematology/oncology and Stem Cell Therapy. 2024 Mar 22
1 citations
Outcomes with HLA-matched unrelated donor versus haploidentical hematopoietic cell transplantation.
Amin, M., DeJarnette, S., Li, K., Mushtaq, M., Shahzad, M., Lutfi, F., Al-Ramahi, J., Ahmed, N., Bansal, R., Abdelhakim, H., Shune, L., Abdallah, A., Abhyankar, S., Mc...> ;Leukemia & Lymphoma. 2024 Apr 1
Favorable outcomes following CD34-selected stem cell boost for poor graft function after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Amin, M., Mushtaq, M., Joe S Al-Ramahi, Moazzam Shahzad, Andrea Nguyen, Kevin Li, Muhammad Kashif Amin, Nausheen Ahmed, Forat Lutfi, Shaun DeJarnette, Sibgha Gull Chau...> ;Bone Marrow Transplantation. 2024 Jan 1
Early intervention of extracorporeal photopheresis for advancing/progressing cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Daniel Aires, Sunil Abhyankar> ;Hematological Oncology. 2023 Dec 1
3 citations
Outcomes of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Maintenance Therapy with or without Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Philadelphia Chromosome Positive Acute...
Moazzam Shahzad, Ali Hussain, Ezza Tariq, Iqra Anwar, Muhammad S Faisal, Leena Syed, Alvina Karam, Sibgha Gull Chaudhary, Nausheen Ahmed, Rajat Bansal, Sharad Khurana,...> ;Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia. 2023 Mar 1
5 citations
Human Wharton's Jelly-derived mesenchymal stem cells prevent acetaminophen-induced liver injury in a mouse model unlike human dermal fibroblasts.
David S Umbaugh, Rupal P Soder, Nga T Nguyen, Olamide Adelusi, Dakota R Robarts, Ben Woolbright, Luqi Duan, Sunil Abhyankar, Buddhadeb Dawn, Udayan Apte, Hartmut Jaesc...> ;Archives of Toxicology. 2022 Dec 1
5 citations
Gender disparities in the National Institutes of Health funding for hematologic malignancies and cellular therapies.
Raheel Sufian Siddiqui, Sibgha Gull Chaudhary, Moazzam Shahzad, Iqra Anwar, Ali Hussain, Nausheen Ahmed, Sunil Hari Abhyankar, Leyla Shune, Peiman Hematti, Heather Mal...> ;Leukemia & Lymphoma. 2022 Jul 1
16 citations
Age is no barrier for adults undergoing HCT for AML in CR1: contemporary CIBMTR analysis.
Joseph E Maakaron, Mei-Jie Zhang, Karen Chen, Sunil Abhyankar, Vijaya Raj Bhatt, Saurabh Chhabra, Najla El Jurdi, Sherif S Farag, Fiona He, Mark Juckett, Marcos de Lim...> ;Bone Marrow Transplantation. 2022 Jun 1
24 citations
Impact of COVID-19 in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Moazzam Shahzad, Sibgha Gull Chaudhary, Muhammad U Zafar, Maha A Hassan, Ali Hussain, Fatima Ali, Iqra Anwar, Mamoon Ahmed, Nausheen Ahmed, Sharad Khurana, Muhammad A ...> ;Transplant Infectious Disease. 2022 Apr 1
2 citations
Functional characterization of NPM1-TYK2 fusion oncogene.
Sudhakiranmayi Kuravi, Riley W Baker, Muhammad Umair Mushtaq, Irfan Saadi, Tara L Lin, Carolyn J Vivian, Anusha Valluripalli, Sunil Abhyankar, Siddhartha Ganguly, Wei ...> ;NPJ Precision Oncology. 2022 Jan 18
1 citations
Impact of natural killer cells on outcomes after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Muhammad Umair Mushtaq, Moazzam Shahzad, Amna Y Shah, Sibgha Gull Chaudhary, Muhammad U Zafar, Iqra Anwar, Karun Neupane, Ayesha Khalid, Nausheen Ahmed, Rajat Bansal, ...> ;Frontiers in Immunology. 2022 Jan 1
21 citations
Efficacy and safety of itacitinib versus placebo in combination with corticosteroids for initial treatment of acute graft-versus-host disease (GRAVITAS-301): a randomi...
Robert Zeiser, Gérard Socié, Mark A Schroeder, Sunil Abhyankar, Carlos Pinho Vaz, Mi Kwon, Johannes Clausen, Leonid Volodin, Sebastian Giebel, Manuel Jurado Chacon, Ga...> ;The Lancet. Haematology. 2022 Jan 1
1 citations
Top 100 Cited Articles on Clinical Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Bibliometric Analysis.
Moazzam Shahzad, Sibgha Gull Chaudhary, Iqra Anwar, Muhammad Arslan, Zehra Naseem, Naira T Fatima, Sakina Abbas, Tayyaba Ali, Raheel S Siddiqui, Peiman Hematti, Sunil ...> ;Frontiers in Medicine. 2022 Jan 1
5 citations
Outcomes with mismatched unrelated donor allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Muhammad Umair Mushtaq, Moazzam Shahzad, Ezza Tariq, Qamar Iqbal, Sibgha Gull Chaudhary, Muhammad U Zafar, Iqra Anwar, Nausheen Ahmed, Rajat Bansal, Anurag K Singh, Su...> ;Frontiers in Oncology. 2022 Jan 1
14 citations
Outcomes with CD34-Selected Stem Cell Boost for Poor Graft Function after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Moazzam Shahzad, Raheel S Siddiqui, Iqra Anwar, Sibgha Gull Chaudhary, Tayyaba Ali, Masooma Naseem, Tehniat F. Ahmed, Zahoor Ahmed, Sharad Khurana, Nausheen Ahmed, Ram...> ;Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. 2021 Oct 1
36 citations
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy Recipients.
Muhammad Umair Mushtaq, Moazzam Shahzad, Sibgha Gull Chaudhary, Mary Luder, Nausheen Ahmed, Haitham Abdelhakim, Rajat Bansal, Ramesh Balusu, Shaun DeJarnette, Clint Di...> ;Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. 2021 Sep 1
8 citations
High‐level MYC expression associates with poor survival in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and collaborates with overexpressed p53 in leukemic transformation in p...
Linlin Gao, Azhar Saeed, Shivani Golem, Da Zhang, Janet Woodroof, Joseph P. McGuirk, Siddhartha Ganguly, Sunil Abhyankar, Tara L. Lin, Wei Cui> ;International Journal of Laboratory Hematology. 2021 Feb 1
37 citations
WJMSC-derived small extracellular vesicle enhance T cell suppression through PD-L1
Meizhang Li, Rupal Soder, Sunil Abhyankar, Haitham Abdelhakim, Mitchell W. Braun, Camille V. Trinidad, Harsh B. Pathak, Ziyan Y. Pessetto, Clayton Deighan, Siddhartha ...> ;Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. 2021 Feb 1
7 citations
Clostridioides difficile Infection and Risk of Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease among Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Recipients
Ra'ed Jabr, Wissam El Atrouni, Leyla Shune, Mohammad Telfah, Guangyi Gao, Jianghua He, Sunil Abhyankar, Joseph P. McGuirk, Lisa A. Clough> ;Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. 2021 Feb 1
2 citations
Preclinical Evaluation of Gilteritinib on NPM1-ALK-Driven Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma Cells.
Sudhakiranmayi Kuravi, Janice Cheng, Gabrielle Fangman, Kishore Polireddy, Sophia McCormick, Tara L. Lin, Anurag K. Singh, Sunil Abhyankar, Siddhartha Ganguly, Danny R...> ;Molecular Cancer Research. 2021 Jan 29
3 citations
Peri-transplant extracorporeal photopheresis to mitigate GVHD- a pilot clinical trial.
Haitham Abdelhakim, Anthony Accurso, Dean Merkel, Shaun DeJarnette, Omar S. Aljitawi, Thomas M. Yankee, Jianghua He, Siddhartha Ganguly, Joseph P. McGuirk, Sunil Abhya...> ;Bone Marrow Transplantation. 2021 Apr 1
106 citations
Belumosudil for Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease (cGVHD) After 2 or More Prior Lines of Therapy: The ROCKstar Study
Corey Cutler, Stephanie J. Lee, Sally Arai, Marcello Rotta, Behyar Zoghi, Aleksandr Lazaryan, Aravind Ramakrishnan, Zachariah DeFilipp, Amandeep Salhotra, Wanxing Chai...> ;Blood. 2020 Nov 5
21 citations
A Phase I Study to Evaluate Two Doses of Wharton’s Jelly-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for the Treatment of De Novo High-Risk or Steroid-Refractory Acute Graft Ver...
Rupal Soder, Buddhadeb Dawn, Mark L. Weiss, Neil Dunavin, Scott Weir, James W Mitchell, Meizhang Li, Leyla Shune, Anurag K. Singh, Siddhartha Ganguly, Marc Morrison, H...> ;Stem Cell Reviews and Reports. 2020 Oct 1
12 citations
Acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome with chromosome 17 abnormalities and long-term outcomes with or without hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Alec Britt, Ghulam Rehman Mohyuddin, Brian McClune, Anurag K. Singh, Tara L. Lin, Siddhartha Ganguly, Sunil Abhyankar, Leyla Shune, Joseph P. McGuirk, Barry S. Skikne,...> ;Leukemia Research. 2020 Aug 1
21 citations
Ruxolitinib is an effective steroid sparing agent in bronchiolitis obliterans due to chronic graft-versus-host-disease.
Christopher Streiler, Faizan Shaikh, Christian Davis, Sunil Abhyankar, Kyle R. Brownback> ;Bone Marrow Transplantation. 2020 Jun 1
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Journal Articles

A Phase II/III Randomized, Multicenter Trial of Prednisone /Sirolimus vs Prednisone/Sirolimus/Calcineurin Inhibitor for Treatment of Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease:...
Amin M Alousi, Mukta Arora, Luciano J Costa, Aleksandr Lazaryan, Daniel J Weisdorf, Sunil Abhyankar, Eneida R Nemecek, Haematologica

Press Mentions

Cancer Center Is a Contributor to 49 Research Studies at the 62nd American Society of Hematology Annual MeetingDecember 4th, 2020
Overland Park Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient Meets Donor in New YorkFebruary 21st, 2020
Optimizing the Immune System to Beat CancerJune 1st, 2023