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Avantika Gupta
@avantikagupta.bsky.social
Postdoc @MSKCC studying mutagenesis and resistance mechanisms in cancer
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So excited to share our latest work with @saratchandarlapaty.bsky.social, Antonio Marra, Andrea Gazzo @mskcancercenter.bsky.social out today in @natgenet.nature.com! We uncover the function and mechanism of APOBEC3-driven therapy resistance in breast cancer. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
APOBEC3 mutagenesis drives therapy resistance in breast cancer - Nature Genetics
Analysis of a large cohort of metastatic breast cancer samples shows that APOBEC mutational signatures are enriched in post-treatment samples. APOBEC activity was also associated with mutations known ...
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More mechanisms of resistance to anti-HER2 ADCs, this time with a focus on loss of target interaction!
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Reposted by Avantika Gupta
Now online in Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social: Trastuzumab Deruxtecan (T-DXd) Resistance via Loss of HER2 Expression and Binding - by Wanyi Chen, @joshdragomd.bsky.social, @saratchandarlapaty.bsky.social, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159... @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Amazing to have our work featured on the cover of the latest issue of @natgenet.nature.com! The artwork, like the science, is a collaborative creation with everyone’s fingerprints 🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
💫The June issue of @natgenet.nature.com is live!

Featuring:

✅APOBEC3 mutagenesis in #breastcancer
✅GWAS of long #COVID
✅snRNA gene mutations in neurodevelopmental disorders
✅NLR genes in wheat resistance to pathogens

And much more!

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www.nature.com/ng/volumes/5...
June 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Reposted by Avantika Gupta
Published online today - work led by Yanyan Cai: Inhibition of NR2F2 restores hormone therapy response to endocrine refractory breast cancers | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Inhibition of NR2F2 restores hormone therapy response to endocrine refractory breast cancers
NR2F2 modulates the ER cistrome, coregulator interactions, and chromatin accessibility to promote endocrine resistance in ER+ breast cancer.
www.science.org
June 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Reposted by Avantika Gupta
Published online today - work from our team led by Avantika Gupta, revealing how APOBEC3 mutagenesis promotes resistance to several targeted therapies in breast cancer. Check it out!

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APOBEC3 mutagenesis drives therapy resistance in breast cancer
Nature Genetics - Analysis of a large cohort of metastatic breast cancer samples shows that APOBEC mutational signatures are enriched in post-treatment samples. APOBEC activity was also associated...
urldefense.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
So excited to share our latest work with @saratchandarlapaty.bsky.social, Antonio Marra, Andrea Gazzo @mskcancercenter.bsky.social out today in @natgenet.nature.com! We uncover the function and mechanism of APOBEC3-driven therapy resistance in breast cancer. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
APOBEC3 mutagenesis drives therapy resistance in breast cancer - Nature Genetics
Analysis of a large cohort of metastatic breast cancer samples shows that APOBEC mutational signatures are enriched in post-treatment samples. APOBEC activity was also associated with mutations known ...
www.nature.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
@saratchandarlapaty.bsky.social expertly summarizing our work on how underlying genomic instability in breast cancer leads to therapy resistance leaving with key ideas on how we might target them! Come see me expand on the role of APOBEC3 mutagenesis in these processes tomorrow morning at #AACR25!
April 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Congratulations to @reikudo.bsky.social for the beautiful work inspiring current+future studies! #SABCS24
December 14, 2024 at 3:58 AM
So honored to have gotten the opportunity to present our work showing a prevalent role of APOBEC3 mutagenesis in driving therapy resistance in breast cancer at #SABCS24!
December 13, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Reposted by Avantika Gupta
Great work from Dr Avantika Gupta in @saratchandarlapaty.bsky.social lab, linking APOBEC mutagenesis to facilitating therapy resistance in HR+ breast cancer. Lots of intriguing vulnerabilities to target that would be relevant in a lot of breast cancers! #SABCS24

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
APOBEC3 mutagenesis drives therapy resistance in breast cancer
Acquired genetic alterations commonly drive resistance to endocrine and targeted therapies in metastatic breast cancer[1][1]–[7][2], however the underlying processes engendering these diverse alterati...
www.biorxiv.org
December 12, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Reposted by Avantika Gupta
Fantastic presentation #SABCS by @avantikagupta.bsky.social on apobec3 in breast cancer. Demonstrating the role of this process in promoting therapy resistance.
December 12, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Congratulations to @caiy0219.bsky.social for an excellent poster presentation today! 👏🏽
Also, so happy to be reunited with @reikudo.bsky.social to represent the translational team in @saratchandarlapaty.bsky.social’s lab at #SABCS2024!
December 12, 2024 at 3:47 AM
@marie-will.bsky.social expertly setting up a major research focus and our latest work identifying a new resistance mechanism and a rational strategy to improve the efficacy of the HER2 #ADC T-DXd.
Please check it out here: www.cell.com/cell-reports...
November 23, 2024 at 1:58 PM