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Zachary Conrad Hartman, PhD

Assistant Professor in Surgery
Assistant Professor in Pathology
Division: 
Surgical Sciences
Faculty Lab: 
Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapeutics Laboratory
Office: Research Drive, Msrbi Rm 414, Durham, NC 27710
Campus Mail: DUMC Box 2606 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710

My research interests encompass studies of immunity and inflammation in the context of developing and established cancers. These research interests involve studies of inflammation in the genesis and maintenance of specific cancer types (principally breast and ovarian), as well as the impact of inflammation on tumor metastasis and the tumor microenvironment.  My group is also involved in strategies to modulate the immune response to tumors, which involves the use of novel immunotherapeutic strategies and development of vaccines to specific oncogenic targets.  The major focus of my lab is in uncovering strategies to modulate tumor-derived inflammation and tumor-specific immunity that will translate into clinically efficacious therapies in patients.

Education and Training

  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Md Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, 2010 - 2012
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Duke University, 2006 - 2010
  • Ph.D., Duke University, 2006

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Crosby, Erika J., H Kim Lyerly, and Zachary C. Hartman. “Cancer vaccines: the importance of targeting oncogenic drivers and the utility of combinations with immune checkpoint inhibitors.” Oncotarget 12, no. 1 (January 5, 2021): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.27861.

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Crosby, Erika J., Amy C. Hobeika, Donna Niedzwiecki, Christel Rushing, David Hsu, Peter Berglund, Jonathan Smith, et al. “Long-term survival of patients with stage III colon cancer treated with VRP-CEA(6D), an alphavirus vector that increases the CD8+ effector memory T cell to Treg ratio.” J Immunother Cancer 8, no. 2 (November 2020). https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2020-001662.

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Crosby, Erika J., Chaitanya R. Acharya, Anthony-Fayez Haddad, Christopher A. Rabiola, Gangjun Lei, Jun-Ping Wei, Xiao-Yi Yang, et al. “Stimulation of Oncogene-Specific Tumor-Infiltrating T Cells through Combined Vaccine and αPD-1 Enable Sustained Antitumor Responses against Established HER2 Breast Cancer.” Clin Cancer Res 26, no. 17 (September 1, 2020): 4670–81. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-0389.

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Crosby, Erika J., Chaitanya Acharya, Christopher Rabiola, William J. Muller, Lewis A. Chodosh, Gloria Broadwater, Jonathan Shepherd, et al. “Abstract 904: Stimulation and expansion of oncogene-reactive tumor infiltrating T cells through combined Ad-HER2Δ16 vaccination and anti-PD1 enable anti-tumor responses against established HER2 BC.” In Immunology. American Association for Cancer Research, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2020-904.

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Trotter, Timothy N., Casey W. Shuptrine, Li-Chung Tsao, Robert D. Marek, Chaitanya Acharya, Jun-Ping Wei, Xiao-Yi Yang, et al. “IL26, a Noncanonical Mediator of DNA Inflammatory Stimulation, Promotes TNBC Engraftment and Progression in Association with Neutrophils.” Cancer Res 80, no. 15 (August 1, 2020): 3088–3100. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-3825.

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Chen, Alan Chen, Renhuan Xu, Tao Wang, Junping Wei, Xiao-Yi Yang, Cong-Xiao Liu, Gangjun Lei, Herbert Kim Lyerly, Teri Heiland, and Zachary Conrad Hartman. “HER2-LAMP vaccines effectively traffic to endolysosomal compartments and generate enhanced polyfunctional T cell responses that induce complete tumor regression.” J Immunother Cancer 8, no. 1 (June 2020). https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2019-000258.

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Trotter, Timothy N., Cong-Xiao Liu, Tao Wang, H Kim Lyerly, and Zachary C. Hartman. “Dormant breast tumor cells avoid the adaptive immune system through regulation of the immune and tumor microenvironment.” In Cancer Immunology Research, 8:139–40. AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH, 2020.

Scholars@Duke

Hwang, Bin-Jin, Li-Chung Tsao, Gabriel DeLeon, Junping Wei, Xiao-Yi Yang, Gangjun Lei, Tao Wang, Michael M. Morse, Herbert Kim Lyerly, and Zachary Conrad Hartman. “Overexpression of MAVS stimulates antitumor immunity and significantly reduces tumor growth of immune-insensitive colorectal cancer in vivo.” In Cancer Immunology Research, 8:24–25. AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH, 2020.

Scholars@Duke

Tsao, Li-Chung, Erika J. Crosby, Timothy N. Trotter, Pankaj Agarwal, Bin-Jin Hwang, Chaitanya Acharya, Casey W. Shuptrine, et al. “CD47 blockade augmentation of trastuzumab antitumor efficacy dependent on antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis.” Jci Insight 4, no. 24 (December 19, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.131882.

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Kula, Tomasz, Mohammad H. Dezfulian, Charlotte I. Wang, Nouran S. Abdelfattah, Zachary C. Hartman, Kai W. Wucherpfennig, Herbert Kim Lyerly, and Stephen J. Elledge. “T-Scan: A Genome-wide Method for the Systematic Discovery of T Cell Epitopes.” Cell 178, no. 4 (August 8, 2019): 1016-1028.e13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.07.009.

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