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.

March 2010:

Update in GIST Research Antonescu’ Lab, MSKCC

IGF1R targeting in pediatric and wild-type GIST
Drug testing in short-term culture of WT GIST, using KIT and downstream targets inhibitors.
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.

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

Anette Duensing, M.D.

University of Pittsburgh
Cancer Institute: Link
Research Lab: Link
Research Assistant Professor of Pathology

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Cristina Antonescu, M.D.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Link
Physician, Anatomical Pathology
GIST Research: Soft Tissue Sarcoma, GIST

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

Oregon Health & Science University:
Professor of Medicine, Anatomic Pathology
GIST Research: Gastrointestinal Pathology, Molecular Testing

Margaret VonMehren, 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

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

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