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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
JOE W. GRAY, PHD

Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Radiation Oncology, UCSF; Director, Division of Life Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL); Associate Director, Biosciences, LBNL
Member, Herbert Boyer Program in Biological Sciences (PIBS), Program in Biological and Medical Informatics (BMI), and Graduate Group in Biophysics, UCSF
Co-Leader, Breast Oncology Program, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; Principal Investigator, UCSF Breast SPORE

CONTACT

jgray@cc.ucsf.edu or JWGray@lbl.gov
(415) 476-3461, (510) 495-2438 (voice)
(415) 502-2773, (510) 495-2535

Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Laboratory, Life Sciences Division, One Cyclotron Road, 977-225A, Berkeley, CA 94720

additional websites:

Gray Lab Website at LBNL

EDUCATION

Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, Prof. Eng., 1968, Physics
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, Ph.D., 1972, Physics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1972-1991

Biomedical Scientist, Biomedical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), University of California, Livermore, CA.

1982-1991

Cytophysics Section Leader, Biomedical Sciences Division, LLNL, Livermore, CA.

1984-1991

Adjunct Professor of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA.

1990-1995

Member, National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research

1991-Present

Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Radiation Oncology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA

1991-1997

Director; Division of Molecular Cytometry, Dept. of Lab. Med. UCSF, San Francisco. CA

1992-1998

Senior Scientist (faculty), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA

1992-1998

Director, Resource for Molecular Cytogenetics, LBNL, Berkeley, CA

1995-1997

Interim Director, UCSF Cancer Center, UCSF, San Francisco, CA

1997-2002

Science Council; Radiation Effects Research Foundation

1997-Present

Program Leader; Breast Oncology and Cancer Genetics Research Programs

1999-Present

Member, Genome Study Section

2003 - Present

Director, Division of Life Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

2003 - Present

Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

2004-present

Member, Board of Scientific Advisors National Institutes of Health

2005-present

Translational Research Working Group, National Cancer Institute, NIH

HONORS & AWARDS

1985

13th Radiation Research Society, Research Award

1986

U.S. Department of Energy, E.O. Lawrence Award

1996

Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science

1997

Exceptional Service Award: U.S. Department of Energy

1999

Schiffer Award; Cell proliferation Society

2000

Boerhave Professor, Leiden University, the Netherlands

2001

Curt Stern Award, American Society for Human Genetics

2003

SPORE Leadership Award, National SPORE Program Office

2005

Alumni Fellow, Kansas State University

2005

Distinguished Achievement Award, Colorado School of Mines

2005

Doctor of Medicine, Honoris Causa, Tampere University

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(Selected from 329 total)

Kallioniemi A, Kallioniemi O-P, Sudar D, Rutovitz D, Gray J, Waldman F, Pinkel D. (1992) Comparative genomic hybridization for molecular cytogenetic analysis of solid tumors. Science 258:818-821.

Pinkel D, Segraves R, Sudar D, Clark S, Poole I, Kowbel D, Collins C, Kuo WL, Chen C, Zhai Y, Dairkee SH, Ljung BM, Gray JW, Albertson DG. (1998) Quantitative high resolution analysis of DNA copy number variation in breast cancer using comparative genomic hybridization to DNA microarrays. Nat. Genet. 20:207-211.

Shayesteh L, Lu Y, Kuo WL, Baldocchi R, Godfrey T, Collins C, Pinkel D, Powell B, Mills GB, Gray JW. (1999) PIK3CA is implicated as an oncogene in ovarian cancer. Nat. Genet. 21:99-102.

Albertson DG, Ylstra B, Segraves R, Collins C, Dairkee SH, Kowbel D, Kuo WL, Gray JW, Pinkel D. (2000) Quantitative mapping of amplicon structure by array CGH identifies CYP24 as a candidate oncogene. Nat. Genet. 25:144-146.

Jain AN, Chin K, Borresen-Dale AL, Erikstein BK, Eynstein Lonning P, Kaaresen R, Gray JW. (2001) Quantitative analysis of chromosomal CGH in human breast tumors associates copy number abnormalities with p53 status and patient survival. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98:7952-7957.

Hodgson G, Hager JH, Volik S, Hariono S, Wernick M, Moore D, Nowak N, Albertson DG, Pinkel D, Collins C, Hanahan D, Gray JW. (2001) Genome scanning with array CGH delineates regional alterations in murine islet carcinomas. Nat. Genet. 29:459-64.

Albertson DG, Collins C, McCormick F, Gray JW. (2003) Chromosome aberrations in solid tumors. Nat. Genet. 34:369-76.

Volik S, Zhao S, Chin K, Brebner JH, Herndon DR, Tao Q, Kowbel D, Huang G, Lapuk A, Kuo WL, Magrane G, De Jong P, Gray JW, Collins C. (2003) End sequence profiling: Sequence-based analysis of aberrant genomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:7696-701.

Chin K, de Solorzano CO, Knowles D, Jones A, Chou W, Rodriguez EG, Kuo WL, Ljung BM, Chew K, Myambo K, Miranda M, Krig S, Garbe J, Stampfer M, Yaswen P, Gray JW, Lockett SJ. (2004) In situ analyses of genome instability in breast cancer. Nat. Genet., 36:984-988.

Cheng KW, Lahad JP, Kuo WL, Lapuk A, Yamada K, Auersperg N, Liu J, Smith-McCune K, Lu KH, Fishman D, Gray JW, Mills GB. (2004) The RAB25 small GTPase determines aggressiveness of ovarian and breast cancers. Nat. Med. 10:1251-11256

Macrae M, Neve RM, Rodriguez-Viciana P, Haqq C, Yeh J, Chen C, Gray JW, McCormick F. (2005) A conditional feedback loop regulates Ras activity through EphA2. Cancer Cell. 8:111-8.

Hodgson JG, Malek T, Bornstein S, Hariono S, Ginzinger DG, Muller WJ, Gray JW. (2005) Copy number aberrations in mouse breast tumors reveal loci and genes important in tumorigenic receptor tyrosine kinase signaling. Cancer Res. 65:9695-704.

Bussey KJ, Chin, K, Lababidi S, Reimers M, Reinhold WC, Kuo W-L, Gwadry F, Ajay Kouros-Mehr H, Fridlyand J, Jain A, Collins C, Nishizuka S, Tonon G, Roschke A, Gehlhaus K, Kirsch I, Scudiero DA, Gray JW, Weinstein JN. (2006) Integrating data on DNA copy number with gene expression levels and drug sensitivities in the NCI-60 cell line panel. Mol Cancer Ther. 5:853-67.

Cheng, K.W, Lahad, J.P, Kuo, W.-L, Lapuk, A, Yamada, K, Auersperg, N, Liu, J, Smith-McCune, K, Lu, K.H, Fishman, D, Gray, J.W, Mills, G.B. (2004) The RAB25 small GTPase determines aggressiveness of ovarian and breast cancers. Nat. Med. 10:1251-11256

Chin K, DeVries, S Fridlyand J, Spellman, P, Roydasgupta R, Kuo,W.-L, Lapuk A, Neve R, Qian Z, Ryder T, Chen, F, Feiler, H, Tokuyasu, T, Kingsley, C, Dairkee, S, Meng, Z, Chew, K, Pinkel, D, Jain A, Ljung B Esserman L, Albertson D, Waldman F, Gray JW. (2006) Genomic and transcriptional aberrations linked to breast cancer pathophysiologies. Cancer Cell 10:529-41.

Neve RM, Chin K, Fridlyand J, Yeh J, Baehner F, Fevr T, Clark L, Bayani N, Coppe J, Tong F, Speed T, Spellman PT, Devries S, Lapuk A, Wang NJ, Kuo WL, Stilwell JL, Pinkel D, Albertson DG, Waldman FM, McCormick F, Dickson RB, Johnson MD, Lippman M, Ethier S, Gazdar A, Gray JW. (2006). A collection of breast cancer cell lines for the study of functionally distinct cancer subtypes. Cancer Cell 10:515-27.

PATENTS
(Selected from 59 total)

Dolbeare, F. and Gray, J.W. Flow cytometric measurement of total DNA and incorporated halodeoxyuridine US Patent #4,585,736 (1986); #4,780,406 (1988); #4,812,394 (1989).

Gray, J.W. and Pinkel, D. Methods for chromosome-specific staining US Patent #5,447,841 (1995).

Pinkel, D., Gray, J.W., Kallioniemi, A., Kallioniemi, O.-P., Sakamoto, M., Waldman, F. Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) US Patent #5,665,549 (1997), #5,721,098 (1998), .#5,965,362 (1999), #5,976,790 (1999), #6,335,167 (2002).

Shayesth, L. and Gray, J.W. Genetic alterations associated with cancer. U.S. Patent #6,277,563 (2001), #6,475,732 B1 (2002).

Gray, J.W., Pinkel, D., Albertson, D., Collins, C., Baldocchi, R. Comparative fluorescence hybridization to oligonucleotide microarrays. U.S. Patent #6,465,182 B1 (2002).

Collins, C., Volik, S., Gray, J.W. End sequence profiling. U.S. Patent #6,785,614 (2004).

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