Assistant Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Pathology, UCSF
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tetsu@cc.ucsf.edu Box 0128, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0128 |
| EDUCATION | |
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Chiba University, School of Medicine, M.D., 1989, Medicine
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| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
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1990-1997 |
Resident, Department of Surgery, Chiba University Hospital |
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1997-1999 |
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Frank McCormick Lab, Cancer Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco |
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1999-2002 |
Assistant Research Biochemist, Dr. Frank McCormick Lab, Cancer Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco |
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2002-2005 |
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Cancer Research Institute and Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco |
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2005-present |
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco |
| HONORS & AWARDS | |
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1990 |
Chiba University Hospital, 6th Isono Prize (1st place) for the Best Resident's Presentation |
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1993-1997 |
The Japan Scholarship Foundation, Graduate School Student Fellowship |
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2000 |
The Uehara Memorial Foundation, Research Fellowship Award |
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2003 |
American Cancer Society, Institutional Individual Research Award |
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2004 |
UCSF Research-Evaluation and Allocation Committee (REAC), New Junior Faculty Award |
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2004 |
Chiba University School of Medicine Alumni Association, Outstanding Academic Achievement Award |
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2004 |
The Concern Foundation, Young Investigator Award |
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2005 |
The V Foundation for Cancer Research, V Scholar Award |
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS | |
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Furukawa H, Hara T, Taniguchi T, Tetsu O. A case of spontaneous intramural hematoma of the esophagus. Gastroenterol Jpn. 1993;28:81-7. | |
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Tetsu O, Kanno R, Isono K, Taniguchi M, Kanno M. Cloning and characterization of two transcripts generated from the mel-13 gene positioned adjacent to the mammalian Polycomb group-related gene mel-18. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1996;1305:109-12. | |
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Akasaka T, Tsuji K, Kawahira H, Kanno M, Harigaya K, Hu L, Ebihara Y, Nakahata T, Tetsu O, Taniguchi M, Koseki H. The role of mel-18, a mammalian Polycomb group gene, during IL-7-dependent proliferation of lymphocyte precursors. Immunity. 1997;7:135-46. | |
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Kenmochi T, Asano T, Nakagori T, Kaneko K, Nakajima K, Tetsu O, Jingu K, Iwashita C, Kainuma O, Tokoro Y, Sugamoto Y, Sakamoto K, Hatakeyama E, Yamada K, Isono K. Successful gene transfer into murine pancreatic islets using polyamine transfection reagents. Transplant Proc. 1998;30:470-2. | |
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Hasegawa M, Tetsu O, Kanno R, Inoue H, Ishihara H, Kamiyasu M, Taniguchi M, Kanno M. Mammalian Polycomb group genes are categorized as a new type of early response gene induced by B-cell receptor cross-linking. Mol Immunol. 1998;35:559-63. | |
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Tetsu O, Ishihara H, Kanno R, Kamiyasu M, Inoue H, Tokuhisa T, Taniguchi M, Kanno M. mel-18 negatively regulates cell cycle progression upon B cell antigen receptor stimulation through a cascade leading to c-myc/cdc25. Immunity. 1998;9:439-48. | |
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Tetsu O, McCormick F. Beta-catenin regulates expression of cyclin D1 in colon carcinoma cells. Nature. 1999;398:422-6. | |
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Wakita K, Tetsu O, McCormick F. A mammalian two-hybrid system for adenomatous polyposis coli-mutated colon cancer therapeutics. Cancer Res. 2001;61:854-8. | |
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Wakita K, McCormick F, Tetsu O. Method for screening ecdysone-inducible stable cell lines. Biotechniques. 2001;31:414-8. | |
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Tetsu O, McCormick F. Proliferation of cancer cells despite CDK2 inhibition. Cancer Cell. 2003;3:233-45. | |
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Rodriguez-Viciana P*, Tetsu O*, Tidyman WE, Estep AL, Conger BA, Santa Cruz M, McCormick F, Rauen KA. Germline Mutations in Genes within the MAPK Pathway Cause Cardio-facio-cutaneous Syndrome. Science. 2006 Jan 26; [Epub ahead of print] (*co-first author) |
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2/1/06 |
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