UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD

Peter R. Carroll, MD, Endowed Chair, UCSF
Member, UCSF Biomedical Sciences Program (BMS)

CONTACT

blellochr@stemcell.ucsf.edu
(415) 476-2838 (voice)
(415) 514-2346 (fax)

Box 0525, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0525

EDUCATION

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

7/01 - 7/04

Resident, Pathology, Brigham and WomenÕs Hospital

3/03 - 7/03

Chief Resident, Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

7/04 - 7/05

Clinical Fellow, Harvard Medical School Joint Program of Transfusion Medicine

8/02 - 12/05

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

HONORS & AWARDS

1986

Summer Research Fellowship, Worcester Foundation for Experimental biology

1986

Deborah Susan Steer Scholarship - full tuition for summer term at Duke University Marine Laboratory

1989

Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Duke University

1989

Master of Arts in Teaching Departmental Scholarship - full tuition and stipend

1994

Medical Student Association Leadership Award, University of Wisconsin Medical School

1994

Youmans Award in Medical Physiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School

1995

Cell and Molecular Biology Preliminary Exam Honors

1994-1997

NIH Molecular Biosciences Training Grant - full tuition and stipend

1999-2000

NIH Medical Scientist Training Program Grant - full tuition and stipend

2000-2001

Rath Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellow - full tuition and stipend

2001

GATE Pharmaceuticals Outstanding Medical Student Award

2001

Alpha Omega Alpha, Senior Year (Medical Student Honor Society)

2001

University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement Student Speaker

2004

Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award with Distinction

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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

5/18/06

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