Shailender Bhatia, M.D.
Shailender Bhatia, M.D.
Associate Professor
Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutch
Dr. Shailender Bhatia aims to improve outcomes for people with kidney cancers and skin cancers, especially melanoma and Merkel cell carcinoma. He leads clinical trials of new immunotherapies and targeted, less-toxic therapies for patients with these diseases.
Research Interests
Dr. Bhatia’s research efforts are mostly focused on clinical trials that aim at improving outcomes in skin cancers (especially Melanoma and Merkel cell carcinoma). He is especially interested in those novel therapeutic approaches that stimulate the immune system against cancer and those that target therapy to the tumors in order to spare unnecessary toxicity.
Active Clinical Trials
Adjuvant Avelumab in Merkel Cell Cancer (ADAM)
Study Number: 9820
Phase: III
Safety and Efficacy of Pembrolizumab Compared to Placebo in Resected High-risk Stage II Melanoma (MK-3475-716/KEYNOTE-716)
Study Number: RG1718055
Phase: III
A Phase 1/2a Dose Escalation and Cohort Expansion Study of the Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of Anti-LAG-3 Monoclonal Antibody Administered Alone and in Combination with Nivolumab in Advanced Solid Tumors
Study Number: UW15057
Phase: I/IIa
A Study of NKTR-262 in Combination With NKTR-214 and With NKTR-214 Plus Nivolumab in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumor Malignancies (REVEAL)
Study Number: RG1004346
Phase: 1/11
Intratumoral AST-008 Combined With Pembrolizumab in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors
Study Number: RG1005415
Phase: I/II
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