Nirmish Singla, MD, MSc

Professional Titles

• Director of Translational Research in GU Oncology
• Director, Kidney Cancer Program
• Co-Director, Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer (UTUC) Program
• Vice Chair and Physician Advisor for Quality, Safety, & Service, Brady Urological Institute

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Urology

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
• Brady Urological Institute
• Comprehensive Adrenal Center
• Hopkins Business of Health Initiative
• Johns Hopkins Greenberg Bladder Cancer Institute
• Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
• The Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center of Excellence for Prostate Cancer
• Von Hippel-Lindau Clinical Care Center

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirmish-singla-md-mscs-922603100/

X Profile

https://twitter.com/nirmishsingla

Find a Clinical Trial

Videos

• Nirmish Singla, M.D., M.Sc. | Urologic Oncologist

• Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute's Kidney Cancer Program

• Kidney Cancer FAQ

• Testicular Cancer Q&A

• Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute's Testicular Cancer Program

• JHGBCI Virtual Grand Rounds | It's All Related: Kidney Health for Bladder Cancer Patients

• JHGBCI Virtual Grand Rounds | Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer: It's a Team Effort

Recent News Articles and Media Coverage

• Germline Testing in Kidney Cancer: BackTable Urology Podcast, YouTube

Additional Academic Titles

Associate Professor of Oncology

Research Interests

Biomarker Discovery, Clinical Trials, Kidney Cancer, Multimodal Treatment, Precision Oncology, Renal Cell Carcinoma, Testicular Cancer, Translational Research, Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma, Urologic Malignancies

Lab Website

Singla Research Program - Lab Website

Research Summary

Learn more about the Singla Research Program: "Learn more about the Singla Research Program: Clinical and Translational Research in Genitourinary Oncology"

Google Scholar - Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pojH8o4AAAAJ&hl=en

PubMed - Publications

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=NIRMISH%20SINGLA

Research Gate - Research Profile

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nirmish_Singla

Selected Publications

• Singla N, Margulis V, on behalf of ECOG-ACRIN 8141 Investigators. A new standard for a rare disease? Optimizing the timing of chemotherapy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma. “Re: Alison Birtle, Mark Johnson, John Chester, et al. Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma (the POUT Trial): A Phase 3, Open-label, Randomised Controlled Trial. Lancet 2020;395:1268-77.” In press, European Urology

• Singla N, Xie Z, Zhang Z, Gao M, Yousuf Q, Onabolu O, McKenzie T, Tcheuyap VT, Ma Y, Choi J, McKay R, Christie A, Torras OR, Bowman IA, Margulis V, Pedrosa I, Przybycin C, Wang T, Kapur P, Rini B, Brugarolas J. Pancreatic tropism in metastatic renal cell carcinoma. JCI Insight 5(7): e134564, 2020

• Singla N. A new therapeutic era for metastatic renal cell carcinoma: Call for a new prognostic model. In press, JAMA Oncology

• Singla N. Progress toward precision medicine in frontline treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma. In press, JAMA Oncology

• Lafin JT*, Singla N*, Woldu SL, Lotan Y, Lewis CM, Majmudar K, Savelyeva A, Kapur P, Margulis V, Strand DW, Murray MJ, Amatruda JF, Bagrodia A. Serum microRNA-371a-3p levels predict viable germ cell tumor in chemotherapy-naïve patients undergoing retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. European Urology 77(2): 290-292, 2020

  *Co-first authors

Honors

• American Urological Association (AUA) / Japanese Urological Association (AUA) Academic Exchange Program (2024)
• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (Inducted 2023)
• Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) - European Association of Urology (EAU) Exchange Program Scholarship (2023)
• The Carolyn and Bill Stutt Scholar, Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Award (2022-2024)
• American Urological Association (AUA) Urology Care Foundation Research Scholar Award (2022-2024)
• Kidney Cancer Association (KCA) Young Investigator Award (YIA) (2021-2022)
• 1st Place, Resident Essay Competition. 95th Annual Meeting of South Central Section (SCS) American Urological Association (AUA) (2016)
• Best poster in session, European Association of Urology (EAU) 31st Annual Congress. Munich, Germany (2016)
• Merit Award, Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO): "Serum microRNA-371a-3p levels predict viable germ cell tumor in chemotherapy-na√Øve patients undergoing retroperitoneal lymph node dissection" (2020), 1/1/20
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/Science Program for Excellence in Science (2020), 1/1/20
• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Scholar-in-Training Award: "Comprehensive molecular and genomic characterization of pancreatic tropism in metastatic renal cell carcinoma" (2019), 1/1/19
• AVENIO Oncology Research Grant for ctDNA Competition (Roche): "Evaluating the prognostic utility of circulating tumor DNA profiling in metastatic and clinically localized clear cell renal cell carcinoma" (2019), 1/1/19
• American Urological Association (AUA) Early-Career Investigators Workshop Travel Award: "Evaluating the prognostic utility of circulating tumor DNA profiling in metastatic and clinically localized clear cell renal cell carcinoma" (2019), 1/1/19
• National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (T32 Physician Scientist Oncology Training Program Research Grant) (2018-2019), 1/1/18
• Rising Star in Oncology, Society for Translational Oncology Fellows' Forum (STOFF) (2018), 1/1/18
• John Quale Travel Fellowship Award, Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN) Bladder Cancer Think Tank (2018), 1/1/18
• Best Reviewer in 2017 Award, Elsevier (Journal of Urology), 1/1/18
• Winner, 6th Annual American Urological Association (AUA) National Chief Resident Debate (2018), 1/1/18
• Recognized Reviewer, Elsevier (Clinical Genitourinary Cancer (2015), Urologic Oncology (2018-2020), European Urology (2019), European Urology Oncology (2019), Urology Case Reports (2020)), 1/1/15
• Dean's Award for Graduation with Distinction in (1) Research, (2) Medical Education, and (3) Service, University of Michigan Medical School (2013), 1/1/13
• Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) Student Research Award. "White matter hyperintensities and atrophy on MRI as a predictor of short term cognitive change following deep brain stimulation surgery in patients with Parkinson's disease." (2013), 1/1/13
• Full-Tuition Dean's Merit Scholarship, University of Michigan Medical School (2009-2013), 1/1/09

Memberships

• American Urological Association (AUA)
• Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO),Young Urologic Oncologists Section (YUO), SUO-Clinical Trials Consortium (CTC)
• American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
• Kidney Cancer Association (KCA)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Soci√©t√© Internationale d‚ÄôUrologie (SIU)
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• Indian American Urological Association (IAUA)
• American Association of Clinical Urologists (AACU)
• University of Michigan Department of Urology Reed Nesbit Society
• International Young Urological Association (IYUA)
• Association for Academic Surgery (AAS)
• American College of Surgeons