Felix Y. Feng, MD

Felix Y. Feng, MD

George and Judy Marcus Distinguished Professor, UCSF

Professor of Radiation Oncology, Urology and Medicine; Vice Chair for Translational Research, Department of Radiation Oncology, UCSF; Director, Benioff Initiative for Prostate Cancer Research, UCSF; Associate Director for Translational Clinical Research and Co-Leader, Prostate Cancer Program, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Cancer Center Program Membership

Prostate Cancer

Box 3110, UCSF
San Francisco, CA 94143

Physician Biography

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Research Summary

I am a physician-scientist focused on clinical and translational research aimed at improving outcomes for patients with prostate cancer. My research interests include 1) the discovery of prognostic/predictive biomarkers in prostate cancer and 2) the development of rational approaches of targeted treatment for therapy-resistant disease. My laboratory focuses on sequencing and microarray-based approaches to identify molecular determinants of response from samples from prostate cancer patients treated on clinical trials. In addition, I am co-principal investigator of one of the first biomarker-driven clinical trials for patients with metastatic prostate cancer (NCI 9012; NCT01576172) and oversee a clinic focused on prostate cancer patients.

Research Funding

  • July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2025 - Biomarker Approaches to Individualizing Systemic Therapy for High Risk Prostate Cancer , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01CA240582
  • July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2025 - MELT: Modulation of PSMA Expression for Lutetium Therapy , Co-Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01CA235741
  • December 14, 2018 - November 30, 2023 - Molecular Mechanisms of Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer Recurrence & Therapeutic Strategies , Co-Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01CA227025
  • September 1, 2018 - August 31, 2023 - DNA repair alterations in metastatic prostate cancer: functional and therapeutic implications , Co-Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01CA230516

Education

Stanford University, B.S., 06/1998, Biological Studies
Washington University School of Medicine, M.D., 06/2002, Medicine

Honors & Awards

  • 1997
    Barry M. Goldwater Fellowship for Excellence in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering
  • 1998-2002
    Dr. Philip Majerus Distinguished Alumni Scholarship
  • 2002
    Dr. Richard S. Brookings Medical School Prize
  • 2008
    American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Resident Clinical Research Award
  • 2010
    Radiological Society of North America Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award
  • 2012
    American Society of Radiation Oncology Basic Science Award
  • 2014
    Radiobiology Teacher of the Year, Dept of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan
  • 2016
    American Society of Radiation Oncology Clinical Science Award
  • 2020
    George and Judy Marcus Distinguished Professorship

Selected Publications

  1. Nguyen T, Sridaran D, Chouhan S, Weimholt C, Wilson A, Luo J, Li T, Koomen J, Fang B, Putluri N, Sreekumar A, Feng FY, Mahajan K, Mahajan NP. Author Correction: Histone H2A Lys130 acetylation epigenetically regulates androgen production in prostate cancer. Nat Commun. 2023 Sep 27; 14(1):6022.  View on PubMed
  2. Hosono Y, Niknafs YS, Prensner JR, Iyer MK, Dhanasekaran SM, Mehra R, Pitchiaya S, Tien J, Escara-Wilke J, Poliakov A, Chu SC, Saleh S, Sankar K, Su F, Guo S, Qiao Y, Freier SM, Bui HH, Cao X, Malik R, Johnson TM, Beer DG, Feng FY, Zhou W, Chinnaiyan AM. Oncogenic Role of THOR, a Conserved Cancer/Testis Long Non-coding RNA. Cell. 2023 Sep 14; 186(19):4254-4255.  View on PubMed
  3. Roy S, Romero T, Michalski JM, Feng FY, Efstathiou JA, Lawton CAF, Bolla M, Maingon P, de Reijke T, Joseph D, Ong WL, Sydes MR, Dearnaley DP, Tree AC, Carrier N, Nabid A, Souhami L, Incrocci L, Heemsbergen WD, Pos FJ, Zapatero A, Guerrero A, Alvarez A, San-Segundo CG, Maldonado X, Reiter RE, Rettig MB, Nickols NG, Steinberg ML, Valle LF, Ma TM, Farrell MJ, Neilsen BK, Juarez JE, Deng J, Vangala S, Avril N, Jia AY, Zaorsky NG, Sun Y, Spratt D, Kishan AU, Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials in Cancer of the Prostate (MARCAP) Consortium Investigators. Biochemical Recurrence Surrogacy for Clinical Outcomes After Radiotherapy for Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate. J Clin Oncol. 2023 Aug 28; JCO2300617.  View on PubMed
  4. Zivanovic A, Miller JT, Munro SA, Knutson TP, Li Y, Passow CN, Simonaitis P, Lynch M, Oseth L, Zhao SG, Feng FY, Wikström P, Corey E, Morrissey C, Henzler C, Raphael BJ, Dehm SM. Co-evolution of AR gene copy number and structural complexity in endocrine therapy resistant prostate cancer. NAR Cancer. 2023 Sep; 5(3):zcad045.  View on PubMed
  5. Lundberg A, Zhang M, Aggarwal R, Li H, Zhang L, Foye A, Sjöström M, Chou J, Chang K, Moreno-Rodriguez T, Shrestha R, Baskin A, Zhu X, Weinstein AS, Younger N, Alumkal JJ, Beer TM, Chi KN, Evans CP, Gleave M, Lara PN, Reiter RE, Rettig MB, Witte ON, Wyatt AW, Feng FY, Small EJ, Quigley DA. The Genomic and Epigenomic Landscape of Double-Negative Metastatic Prostate Cancer. Cancer Res. 2023 08 15; 83(16):2763-2774.  View on PubMed
  6. Sutera P, Shetty AC, Song Y, Hodges T, Hoang T, Rana Z, Pienta K, Feng F, Song DY, DeWeese T, Gillessen S, Sweeney C, James N, Attard G, Deek M, Tran PT. Identification of a Predictive Genomic Biomarker for Prostate-directed Therapy in Synchronous Low-volume Metastatic Castration-sensitive Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol Oncol. 2023 Aug 08.  View on PubMed
  7. Sabbagh A, Tilki D, Feng J, Huland H, Graefen M, Wiegel T, Böhmer D, Hong JC, Valdes G, Cowan JE, Cooperberg M, Feng FY, Mohammad T, Shelan M, D'Amico AV, Carroll PR, Mohamad O. Multi-institutional Development and External Validation of a Machine Learning Model for the Prediction of Distant Metastasis in Patients Treated by Salvage Radiotherapy for Biochemical Failure After Radical Prostatectomy. Eur Urol Focus. 2023 Jul 26.  View on PubMed
  8. Chappidi MR, Sjöström M, Greenland NY, Cowan JE, Baskin AS, Shee K, Simko JP, Chan E, Stohr BA, Washington SL, Nguyen HG, Quigley DA, Davicioni E, Feng FY, Carroll PR, Cooperberg MR. Transcriptomic Heterogeneity of Expansile Cribriform and Other Gleason Pattern 4 Prostate Cancer Subtypes. Eur Urol Oncol. 2023 Jul 18.  View on PubMed
  9. Li M, Xu G, Cui Y, Wang M, Wang H, Xu X, Duan S, Shi J, Feng F. CT-based radiomics nomogram for the preoperative prediction of microsatellite instability and clinical outcomes in colorectal cancer: a multicentre study. Clin Radiol. 2023 Oct; 78(10):e741-e751.  View on PubMed
  10. Dahl DM, Karrison TG, Michaelson MD, Pham HT, Wu CL, Swanson GP, Shipley WU, Vuky J, Lee RJ, Zietman AL, Souhami L, Chang BK, Deming RL, Ellerton JA, Sandler HM, Rodgers JP, Feng FY, Efstathiou JA. Long-term Outcomes of Chemoradiation for Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer in Noncystectomy Candidates. Final Results of NRG Oncology RTOG 0524-A Phase 1/2 Trial of Paclitaxel + Trastuzumab with Daily Radiation or Paclitaxel Alone with Daily Irradiation. Eur Urol Oncol. 2023 Jul 11.  View on PubMed
  11. Sood A, Kishan AU, Evans CP, Feng FY, Morgan TM, Murphy DG, Padhani AR, Pinto P, Van der Poel HG, Tilki D, Briganti A, Abdollah F. The Impact of Positron Emission Tomography Imaging and Tumor Molecular Profiling on Risk Stratification, Treatment Choice, and Oncological Outcomes of Patients with Primary or Relapsed Prostate Cancer: An International Collaborative Review of the Existing Literature. Eur Urol Oncol. 2023 Jul 07.  View on PubMed
  12. Sutera P, Skinner H, Witek M, Mishra M, Kwok Y, Davicioni E, Feng F, Song D, Nichols E, Tran PT, Bergom C. Histology Specific Molecular Biomarkers: Ushering in a New Era of Precision Radiation Oncology. Semin Radiat Oncol. 2023 07; 33(3):232-242.  View on PubMed
  13. Feng F, Miladinovic B, Zhang K, Dignam JJ, Wang D, Yu M, Sandler H. Early Endpoints in High-risk Localized Prostate Cancer: Exploratory Analysis of Three Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Phase 3 Studies. Eur Urol. 2023 09; 84(3):331-340.  View on PubMed
  14. Helzer KT, Sharifi MN, Sperger JM, Shi Y, Annala M, Bootsma ML, Reese SR, Taylor A, Kaufmann KR, Krause HK, Schehr JL, Sethakorn N, Kosoff D, Kyriakopoulos C, Burkard ME, Rydzewski NR, Yu M, Harari PM, Bassetti M, Blitzer G, Floberg J, Sjöström M, Quigley DA, Dehm SM, Armstrong AJ, Beltran H, McKay RR, Feng FY, O'Regan R, Wisinski KB, Emamekhoo H, Wyatt AW, Lang JM, Zhao SG. Fragmentomic analysis of circulating tumor DNA-targeted cancer panels. Ann Oncol. 2023 09; 34(9):813-825.  View on PubMed
  15. Nguyen T, Sridaran D, Chouhan S, Weimholt C, Wilson A, Luo J, Li T, Koomen J, Fang B, Putluri N, Sreekumar A, Feng FY, Mahajan K, Mahajan NP. Histone H2A Lys130 acetylation epigenetically regulates androgen production in prostate cancer. Nat Commun. 2023 Jun 09; 14(1):3357.  View on PubMed
  16. Sjöström M, Fyles A, Liu FF, McCready D, Feng FY, Speers CW, Pierce LJ, Holmberg E, Fernö M, Malmström P, Karlsson P. Reply to V. Nardone et al. J Clin Oncol. 2023 Aug 10; 41(23):3959-3960.  View on PubMed
  17. Woo BJ, Moussavi-Baygi R, Karner H, Karimzadeh M, Garcia K, Joshi T, Yin K, Navickas A, Gilbert LA, Wang B, Asgharian H, Feng FY, Goodarzi H. Integrative identification of non-coding regulatory regions driving metastatic prostate cancer. bioRxiv. 2023 Jun 02.  View on PubMed
  18. Sartor O, Karrison TG, Sandler HM, Gomella LG, Amin MB, Purdy J, Michalski JM, Garzotto MG, Pervez N, Balogh AG, Rodrigues GB, Souhami L, Reaume MN, Williams SG, Hannan R, Jones CU, Horwitz EM, Rodgers JP, Feng FY, Rosenthal SA. Androgen Deprivation and Radiotherapy with or Without Docetaxel for Localized High-risk Prostate Cancer: Long-term Follow-up from the Randomized NRG Oncology RTOG 0521 Trial. Eur Urol. 2023 Aug; 84(2):156-163.  View on PubMed
  19. Sutera P, Song Y, Van der Eecken K, Shetty AC, English K, Hodges T, Chang J, Fonteyne V, Rana Z, Ren L, Mendes AA, Lumen N, Delrue L, Verbeke S, De Man K, Song DY, Pienta K, Feng FY, Joniau S, Lotan T, Lane B, Kiess A, Rowe S, Pomper M, DeWeese T, Deek M, Sweeney C, Ost P, Tran PT. Clinical and Genomic Differences Between Advanced Molecular Imaging-detected and Conventional Imaging-detected Metachronous Oligometastatic Castration-sensitive Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol. 2023 May 10.  View on PubMed
  20. Sutera PA, Shetty AC, Hakansson A, Van der Eecken K, Song Y, Liu Y, Chang J, Fonteyne V, Mendes AA, Lumen N, Delrue L, Verbeke S, De Man K, Rana Z, Hodges T, Hamid A, Roberts N, Song DY, Pienta K, Ross AE, Feng F, Joniau S, Spratt D, Gillessen S, Attard G, James ND, Lotan T, Davicioni E, Sweeney C, Tran PT, Deek MP, Ost P. Transcriptomic and clinical heterogeneity of metastatic disease timing within metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer. Ann Oncol. 2023 Jul; 34(7):605-614.  View on PubMed

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