Latest Research

GCRF is grateful for the assistance of members of our medical advisory board. This page is their forum to communicate to you late-breaking news, important links, white papers, or simply opinions that are of interest to those involved with GIST.

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March 2010:

Update in GIST Research Antonescu’ Lab, MSKCC

GIST research in the DeMatteo Laboratory

Update in GIST Research Antonescu’ Lab, MSKCC
  1. IGF1R targeting in pediatric and wild-type GIST

  2. Drug testing in short-term culture of WT GIST, using KIT and downstream targets inhibitors.

  3. SDH screening in pediatric and Wild-type GIST (collaborative effort with Su Kim and Constantine Stratakis, from NIH), including MSKCC samples as well as NIH pediatric clinic cases

January 2010:
White Paper:  PATHOGENESIS AND MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY OF GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS (GISTS)

Andrew Godwin, Ph.D.

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Fox Chase Cancer Center: Link

Member, Medical Science Division

GIST Research: Genetic Susceptibility to Cancer and Molecular-Targeted Therapies (pdf)

Additional information on GIST Research: Click here to download

PATHOGENESIS AND MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY OF GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS (GISTS)

Anette Duensing, M.D.

University of Pittsburgh

Cancer Institute: Link

Research Assistant Professor of Pathology

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Proapoptotic Activity of Bortezomib in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Cells

Duensing Lab

Cristina Antonescu, M.D.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Link

Physician, Anatomical Pathology

GIST Research: Soft Tissue Sarcoma, GIST

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Update in GIST Research March, 2010

Update in GIST Research February, 2010

Christopher L. Corless, M.D., Ph.D.

Oregon Health & Science University:

Professor of Medicine, Anatomic Pathology

GIST Research: Gastrointestinal Pathology, Molecular Testing

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Margaret von Mehren, M.D.

Fox Chase Cancer Center:

Link

Director, Sarcoma Oncology – GIST Research:

Sarcoma Program – Research Studies (pdf)

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Ronald DeMatteo, M.D.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Link

Physician

GIST Research: Soft Tissue Sarcoma, GIST

GIST research in the DeMatteo Laboratory

Michael C. Heinrich, M.D.

Michael Heinrich M.D. is currently a Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health & Sciences University. He earned his medical degree in 1984 from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore and completed both his residency training and Hematology and Medical Oncology fellowship at OHSU.

George D. Demetri, M.D

Dana Farber Cancer Institute: Link

Director, Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

GIST Research: Sarcoma and Bone Oncology, Sarcoma.net Abstracts by Dr. Demetri, M.D.

Jonathan A. Fletcher, M.D.

Dana Farber Cancer Institute: Link

Physician, Cytogenetics

Katherine (”Katie”) Janeway, M.D.

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Katie is an attending physician in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Children’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute and a Harvard Medical School Instructor of Pediatrics. She splits her time between pediatric oncology clinical care and research.

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