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 - 7/10
  Assistant Professor, Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Departments of Urology and Pathology, University of California, San Francisco
• 7/10 - present
  Associate Professor, UCSF
• 7/10 - present
  Chair, UCSF Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Admissions Committee

• 2000-2001
  Rath Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellow
• 2001
  GATE Pharmaceuticals Outstanding Medical Student Award
• 2001
  Alpha Omega Alpha (Medical Student Honor Society)
• 2001
  University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement Student Speaker
• 2004
  Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award with Distinction
• 2006-
  Peter Carroll Endowed Chair
• 2007-2011
  Pew Scholar
• 2009
  Kavli Fellow (National Academy of Sciences
• 2011
  International Society of Stem Cell Research Outstanding Young Investigator Award.

• Wang Y, Medvid R, Melton C, Jaenisch R, Blelloch R. DGCR8 is Essential for MicroRNA Biogenesis an Efficient Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation. Nature Genetics, 2007: 39:380-5. Epub 2007 Jan 28.
• Babiarz J, Ruby G, Wang Y, Bartel D, Blelloch R. Mouse ES Cells Express Endogenous shRNAs, siRNAs, and Other Microprocessor-independent, Dicer-dependent Small RNAs. Genes and Development, 2008: 22:2773-85.
• Wang Y, Baskerville S, Shenoy A, Babiarz JE, Baehner L, Blelloch R. Embryonic Stem Cell Specific MicroRNAs Regulate the G1/S Transition and Promote Rapid Proliferation. Nature Genetics, 2008: 40:1478-83. Epub Nov 2. 2008
• Judson RL, Babiarz JE, Venere M, Blelloch R. Embryonic stem cell-specific microRNAs promote induced pluripotency. Nature Biotechnology, 2009: 27:459-61 Epub April, 12, 2009.
• Melton C, Judson R, Blelloch R. Opposing microRNA families regulate self-renewal in mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature, 2010, 463: 621-6. Epub 2010 Jan 6
• Suh N, Baehner L, Moltzhan F, Melton C, Shenoy A, Chen, Blelloch R. MicroRNA function is globally suppressed in mouse oocytes and early embryos. Current Biology, 2010, 20: 271-277. Epub 2010 Jan 28.
• Subramanyam D, Belair CD, Barry-Holson KQ, Lin H, Kogan SC, Passegue, E, Blelloch R. PML-RARα and Dnmt3a1 cooperate in vivo to promote acute promyelocytic leukemia. Cancer Res. 2010, 70: 8792-801. Epub 2010 Sep 21
• Moltzahn F, Olshen AB, Baehner L, Peek A, Fong L, Stöppler H, Simko J, Hilton JF, Carroll P, Blelloch R. Microfluidic-based multiplex qRT-PCR identifies diagnostic and prognostic microRNA signatures in the sera of prostate cancer patients. Cancer Res. 2011, 71:550-60. Epub 2010 Nov 22
• Subramanyam D, Lamouille S, Judson RL, Liu JY, Bucay N, Derynck R, Blelloch R. Multiple targets of miR-302 and miR-372 promote human induced pluripotency. Nature Biotechnology. 2011. 29:443-8. Epub 2011 Apr 13.
• Babiarz JE, Hsu R, Melton C, Thomas M, Ullian EM, Blelloch R. A role for non-canconical microRNAs in the mammalian brain revealed by phenotypic differences in Dgcr8 versus Dicer1 knockouts and small RNA sequencing. RNA. 2011 Jun 28. [Epub ahead of print]