Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, B.S., 5/1989, Zoology
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, M.A.T., 5/1990, Biology
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, Ph.D., 5/1999, Cell & Molec Biology
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, M.D., 5/2001, Medicine

• 7/01 - 7/02
  Resident, Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• 3/03 - 7/02
  Chief Resident, Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• 7/04 - 7/02
  Clinical Fellow, Harvard Medical School Joint Program of Transfusion Medicine
• 8/02 - 12/02
  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research
• 12/05 - present
  Assistant Professor, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program, Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco

• 1982
  Summer Research Fellowship, Worcester Foundation for Experimental biology
• 1982
  Deborah Susan Steer Scholarship - full tuition for summer term at Duke University Marine Laboratory
• 1982
  Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Duke University
• 1982
  Master of Arts in Teaching Departmental Scholarship - full tuition and stipend
• 1992
  Medical Student Association Leadership Award, University of Wisconsin Medical School
• 1992
  Youmans Award in Medical Physiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School
• 1992
  Cell and Molecular Biology Preliminary Exam Honors
• 1994-1992
  NIH Molecular Biosciences Training Grant - full tuition and stipend
• 1999-2002
  NIH Medical Scientist Training Program Grant - full tuition and stipend
• 2000-2002
  Rath Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellow - full tuition and stipend
• 2002
  GATE Pharmaceuticals Outstanding Medical Student Award
• 2002
  Alpha Omega Alpha, Senior Year (Medical Student Honor Society)
• 2002
  University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement Student Speaker
• 2002
  Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award with Distinction

• Reznikoff C, Belair C, Yeager T, Savelieva L, Blelloch R, Pathenveettil J, Cuthill S. A molecular genetic model of human bladder cancer pathogenesis. Seminars in Oncology 1996;23:571-584.
• Belair CD, Blelloch R, Reznikoff CA. Immortalization of human uroepithelial cells by human papillomavirus 16 E6 or E7. Radiation Oncology Investigations 1996;3:368-376.
• Roehl H, Bosenberg M, Blelloch R, Kimble J. Roles of the RAM and ANK domains in signaling by the C. elegans GLP1 receptor. EMBO J 1996;15:7002-7112.
• Blelloch R, Newman C, Kimble J. Controls of cell migration during C. elegans development. Current Opin Cell Biol 1999;11:608-613.
• Blelloch R, Santa Anna-Arriola S, Li Y, Gao D, Hodgkin J, Kimble J. Control of gonadal morphogenesis by the gon-1 gene in C. elegans. Dev Biol 1999;216:382-393.
• Blelloch R, Kimble J. Control of organ shape by a secreted metalloprotease in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 1999;399:586-590.
• Mathies LD, Schvarzstein M, Blelloch R, Spence AM, Kimble J. tra-1/GLI controls development of somatic gonadal precursors in C. elegans. Development 2004: 131: 4333-4343.
• Blelloch R.*, Hochedlinger K.*, Yamado Y., Brennan C., Mintz B., Chin L., Jaenisch R. Nuclear Cloning of Embryonal Carcinoma Cells. PNAS 2004:101: 13985-90.
• Hochedlinger K.*, Blelloch R.*, Brennan C., Yamado Y., Kim, M., Chin L., Jaenisch R. Reprogramming of a Melanoma Genome by Nuclear Transplantation. Genes and Development 2004: 18: 1875-1885.
• Jaenisch R, Hochedlinger K, Blelloch R. Yamada Y. Baldwin K. Eggan K. Nuclear cloning, epigenetic reprogramming, and cellular differentiation. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 2004: 69:19-27.
• *Authors Contributed Equally