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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
NANCY J. BOUDREAU, PHD

Associate Professor, Surgery, UCSF

CONTACT

nancyjb@itsa.ucsf.edu
(415) 206-6951 (voice)
(415) 206-6997 (fax)

Box 1302, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-1302

EDUCATION

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B.Sc. (Hon), 1981, Biology
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, M.Sc., 1984, Pharmacology
University of Toronto, Ph.D., 1991, Pathology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

9/85-9/87

Research Assistant, Division of Cardiovascular Research, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Maintenance of vascular cell differentiated phenotype in culture

9/87-1/91

Graduate Student, Department of Pathology, University of Toronto; Extracellular matrix and vascular cell behavior.

7/91-9/95

Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology, LBL, University of California, Berkeley; Susceptibility of endothelium to transformation in the chick embryo: Apoptosis and the regulation of gene expression by the extracellular matrix.

9/95-11/96

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Vascular Biology and Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA; Extracellular matrix regulation of endothelial homeobox expression and regulation of endothelial integrin expression in angiogenesis.

12/96-6/98

Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA; Homeobox genes and angiogenesis and regulation of endothelial gene expression by the extracellular matrix

7/98-6/03

Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

7/02-present

Acting Director, Surgical Research Lab, San Francisco General Hospital

7/03-present

Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

HONORS & AWARDS

1989

Ontario Graduate Scholarship

1989

University of Toronto Open Graduate Fellowship

1989

Emmanuel Farber Award in Pathology

1990

Canadian Society of Clinical Investigation Trainee Award

1990

Medical Research Council of Canada Studentship

1992-1995

Medical Research Council of Canada Fellowship

1995-1996

Joseph Drown Foundation Fellowship

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Martins-Green, M., Boudreau, N. and Bissell, M.J. (1994) Inflammation is responsible for the development of wound-induced tumors in chickens infected with Rous sarcoma virus. Cancer Research 54:4334-4341.

Boudreau, N., Sympson, C., Werb, Z. and Bissell, M. (1995) Extracellular matrix suppresses apoptosis and expression of interleukin-1 converting enzyme (ICE) in mammary epithelial cells. Science 287:891-893.

Boudreau, N., Myers, C.A. and Bissell, M.J. (1995) From laminin to lamin: Regulation of tissue-specific gene expression by the ECM. Trends in Cell Biology 5:1-4.

Jones, P.L., Boudreau, N., Myers, C.A., Erikson, H. and Bissell, M. (1995) Tenascin-C inhibits extracellular matrix-dependent gene expression in mammary epithelial cells. J. Cell Science 108:519-527.

Boudreau, N., Reddy, S., Stoker, A., Fairman, C. and Bissell, M. (1995) The extracellular matrix attenuates v- src oncogenesis in chick chondroblasts. Molec. Cell Diff. 3:261-274.

Boudreau, N., Martins-Green, M. and Bissell, M.J. (1994) Oncogenic transformation in chick embryos correlates with cell differentiation. Molec. Biol. Cell 4, 355a.

Boudreau, N., Werb, Z., and Bissell, M.J. (1996) Suppression of apoptosis requires basement membrane induced three-dimensional tissue organization and cell cycle withdrawal. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93:3509-3513.

Boudreau, N., and Bissell, M.J. (1996) Regulation of Gene Expression by the Extracellular Matrix, In: Structure and Function of Extracellular Matrices of Connective Tissue, Comper, W., ed., Gordon and Breach, Volume 2.

Zhou, B., Boudreau, N., Hammabeck, J., Coulber, C. and Rabinovitch, M. (1997) Microtubule associated protein-1 light chain 3 is a fibronectin mRNA binding protein linked to mRNA translation. J. Clin. Invest. 100:3070-3082.

Boudreau, N., Andrews, C., Srebrow, A., Ravanpay, A., and Cheresh, D.A. (1997) Hox D3 mediates an angiogenic phenotype in endothelial cells. J. Cell Biol. 139:257-264.

Boudreau, N., and Bissell, M.J. (1998) Extracellular matrix signaling: Integration of form and function in normal and malignant cells. Curr. Op. Cell Biol. 10(5):640-646.

Boudreau, N., and Jones, P.L. (1999) Extracellular matrix and integrin signaling: The shape of things to come. Biochem. J. 339:481-488.

Myers, C.A., Charboneau, A. and Boudreau, N. (2000) Homeobox B3 promotes capillary morphogenesis and angiogenesis. J. Cell Biol. 148:348-351.

Boudreau, N. and Bissell, M.J. (2001) Extracellular Matrix: The Networking Solution. IN: The Cancer Handbook, Gullick, W. and Saloman, D., Eds., MacMillan Press. In Press.

Uyeno, L., Newman-Keagle, J., Cheung, I., Hunt, T.K., Young, D.M. and Boudreau, N. (2001) Homeobox D3 in normal and impaired wound healing. J. Surg. Res. 100:46-56.

Hashimoto, T., Lam, T. X., Boudreau, N., Bollen, A. and Young, W.L. (2001) Abnormal Balance in Angiopoietin-Tie-2 Signaling in Human Brain Arteriovenous Malformations. Circ. Res. 89:111-113.

Myers, C. A., Charboneau, A., Cheung, I. and Boudreau, N. (2002) Homeobox D10 inhibits VEGF-induced angiogenesis in vivo. Am. J. Pathol. 161:2099-2019.

Hashimoto T., Wen G.,Boudreau N., Lawson M.T. Yang G-Y.Barbaro N.M., Dowd C.F., Halbach V.V. and Yung W.L. (2002) Abnormal expresson of MMP and TIMPs in BAVMs. Stroke 34:925-931.

Boudreau, N. and C. Myers (2002) Angiogenesis in breast cancer- the role of the microenvironment Breast Cancer Res. 5:140-146.

Zhong, J., Zhu, Y., Elicieri, B., Stupack, D., Howell, G., Wilson, E., Penta, K., Sakamoto, G., Quertermous, T., Boudreau, N., Colemen, M. and Varner, J. (2002) Neovascularization of ischemic tissue by gene delivery of Del-1. J. Clin. Invest. 112:30-41.

Boudreau, N. (2003) Organized Living: From cell surfaces to basement membranes. Science STKE 196:34.

Hansen, S.L., Myers, C.A., Young, D.M. and Boudreau, N. (2003) Gene transfer of Hox D3 accelerates wound repair in diabetic (db/db) mice. Am. J. Pathology 163:1-11.

Hansen, S.L., Young, D. and Boudreau, N. (2003) Hox D3 and collagen expression in diabetic fibroblasts. Wound Rep. Regen. 11:474-480.

Boudreau, N., and Varner, J.A. (2004) The homeobox transcription factor Hox D3 directly regulates 3 and Alpha 5 integrin expression in angiogenic endothelium. J. Biol. Chem. 279(6):4862-8.

Chen Y, Xu B, Arderiu G, Hashimoto T, Young WL, Boudreau N, et al. Retroviral delivery of homeobox D3 gene induces cerebral angiogenesis in mice. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2004;24(11):1280-

Hashimoto, T., Wu, Y., Boudreau, N., Li, J., Matsumoto, M., and Young, W. (2004) Regulation of Tie2 expression by angiopoietin-potential feedback system. Endothelium 11(3-4):207-210.

Cambier, S., Gline, S.E., Araya, J, Collins, R., Einheber, S., Dolganov, G., Boudreau, N., Nishimura, S.L., Integrin avb8-mediated activation of TGF-b: an angiogenic control switch, Am. J. Path., 2005, In press.

Mace K.A. Hansen, S.L., Myers, C., Young, D. and Boudreau, N. (2004) Hox A3 induces angiogenesis and wound repair. In press Jan. 2005 J. Cell Sci. .

Carrio, M., Myers, C.A. and Boudreau, N. (2005) Hox D10 inhibits breast tumor cell migration and growth in vivo. Submitted Cancer Research, October 2004.Revised mansucript submitted Feb. 2005.

Charbonneau A., N . Malek , L. east , M. Rohde and N. Boudreau (2005). The co-factor Pbx-1 is required for Hox D3-dependent angiogenesis in vivo-revised manuscript in siubmitted Feb. 2005 Circ. Res.

10/27/05

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