People

Principal Investigator
Professor of Neurological Surgery
Suzanne Marie and Robert Vincent Haderle Endowed Chair in Molecular Neuro-Oncology
Director of Basic Science, Brain Tumor Research Center

Jean Nakamura MD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Amith Panner PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow

Changjiang Weng PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow

Alberto Felletti MD
Visiting Fellow

Lingjie Guan PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow

Publications

Journal Articles

Affiliations

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Funding

• RO1 CA100011 – Russell O. Pieper. P.I.
Award Period 12/01/03 to 11/30/08
Total Direct Costs $1,250,000
Funding Agency: National Cancer Institute
Title: p38, G2 arrest, and temozolomide resistance in gliomas.

• RO1 CA 115638 – Russell O. Pieper, P.I.
Award Period 4/1/06 to 3/31/11
Total Direct Costs $835,000
Funding Agency: National Cancer Institute
Title: Understanding TRAIL Sensitivity in Gliomas

• P50 CA097257 - Mitchel S. Berger, PI, Michael Prados and Russell O. Pieper Co-PI
Award Period 6/1/07 to 5/31/12
Total Direct Costs $7,728,349
Funding Agency: National Cancer Institute
Title : Brain Tumor SPORE Grant

• P50 CA097257 - Mitchel S. Berger, PI, Michael Prados and Russell O. Pieper Co-PI
Project 5: Parsa and Pieper, PIs: Heat shock protein vaccine development: glioma immunoresistance and P1(3)K/Akt/mTOR pathway activation.
Award Period 6/1/07 to 5/31/12
Total Direct Costs $7,728,349
Funding Agency: National Cancer Institute
Title : Brain Tumor SPORE Grant

Tissue Bank

Research Core Facility

Guidelines on Research Data and Reports

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Publications

1. Nakamura, JN, Garcia, E., Pieper, RO. S6K1 plays a key role in glial transformation. Cancer Res 68(16):6516-23, 2008.

2. Parsa A.T., Waldron J.S., Panner A., Parney I.F., Stokoe D., Tihan T., Jensen M.C., Mischel P.S., Cachola K., Murray J.C., Sison C.E., and Pieper R.O. A novel link between PTEN loss and cancer immunoresistance. Nature Medicine 13:84-88, 2007.

3. Panner, A., Murray, J.C., Berger, M.S., and Pieper, R.O. HSP90a recruits FLIPs to the death-inducing signaling complex and contributes to TRAIL resistance in human glioma. Cancer Res. 67(19): 9482-9, 2007.

4. Kanamori, M, Kawaguchi, T., Berger, M.S., and Pieper, R.O. Intracranial microenvironment reveals independent opposing functions of host alphaV beta3 expression on glioma growth and angiogenesis. J. Biol. Chem. 281:37256-64, 2006.

5. Katayama, M., Kawaguchi, T., Berger, M.S., and Pieper, R.O. DNA damaging agent-induced autophagy produces a cytoprotective adenosine triphosphate surge in malignant glioma cells. Cell Death and Differentiation 14(3):548-58, 2007.

6. Panner, A, Nakamura, J, Parsa, AT, Rodriguez-Viciana, P, Berger, MS, Stokoe, D, and Pieper, RO mTOR-independent translational control of the extrinsic cell death pathway by RalA. Mol. Cell Biol. 26: 7345-57, 2006.