
Taofeek Owonikoko
Executive Director, UMGCCC · University of Maryland, Baltimore
Credentials: · · · · · · ·
History
PresentUMGCCC · University of Maryland, Baltimore
PresentCancer Programs · University of Maryland, Baltimore
PresentCancer Programs · Univ of Maryland Sch of Med
- 2002–2005
Graduate Hospital
- 2002–2005
- 1999–2002
Heinrich Heine University Medical School
- 1995–1998
- 1991–1992
Research
PD-1 Blockade with Cemiplimab in Advanced Cutaneous Squamous-Cell Carcinoma
New England Journal of Medicine · 2018 · 1,114 citations
Rescue of exhausted CD8 T cells by PD-1-targeted therapies is CD28-dependent
Science · 2017 · 844 citations
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017 · 728 citations

124 papers
- FK
87 papers

35 papers · 7 as a fellow

Gabriel Sica
35 papers

35 papers

33 papers
- RP
31 papers · 2 as a fellow

31 papers
Grants
- 2025–2030
Advancing Oncologic Research Communities in Health Equity (ARCH) K12 Program
National Cancer Institute · K12
Contact PI · $865.2K · University of Maryland Baltimore
- 2022–2027
Targeting Polo-Like Kinase 1 (PLK1) for Treatment of Small Cell Lung Cancer
National Cancer Institute · R01
Contact PI · $2.5M · University of Maryland Baltimore
- 2008–2027
University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Centersupport Grant
National Cancer Institute · P30
Contact PI · $10.4M · University of Maryland Baltimore
- 2020–2023
The Johns Hopkins Translational Science Team and Consortium for ETCTN Studies
National Cancer Institute · UM1
PI · $224.8K · Johns Hopkins University
Clinical trials
- 2027–2028
Adaptive SBRT Plus Chemoimmunotherapy for ES-SCLC
Principal investigator · Suspended · Phase 1
University of Maryland, Baltimore
- 2022–2026
GD2-SADA:177Lu-DOTA Complex in Patients With Solid Tumors Known to Express GD2
Principal investigator · Terminated · Phase 1
Y-mAbs Therapeutics
- 2022–2027
Study of PLK1 Inhibitor, Onvansertib, in Relapsed Small Cell Lung Cancer
Principal investigator · Recruiting · Phase 2
University of Maryland, Baltimore
- 2019–2021
Principal investigator · Terminated · Phase 2
Emory University

