Boris C. Bastian, MD, PhD
Gerson and Barbara Bass Bakar Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research, UCSF
Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, University of California, San Francisco
Gerson and Barbara Bass Bakar Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research, UCSF
Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, University of California, San Francisco
I am a dermatologist and dermatopathologistwith expertise in diagnosing and treating patients with cutaneous neoplasms. I have expertise in molecular cancer genetics and molecular pathology and lead a research laboratory at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Since 1997 my research has focused on the molecular pathogenesis of melanoma and revealed the existence of distinct disease subtypes that differ in their underlying genetic alterations, epidemiology, anatomic distribution, clinical and microscopic appearance, evolution from precursor lesions, role of UV radiation, and cell of origin. The Bastian Lab also has contributed to the discovery of oncogenic alterations such as mutations in KIT, GNAQ, GNA11, HRAS, and a whole panel of oncogenic fusion genes of various receptor tyrosine and threonine kinases in various melanocytic neoplasms. I have developed clinical tests to assist pathologists with the diagnosis of histologically ambiguous lesions, which have been adopted word-wide. I have proposed a two-dimensional taxonomy of melanocytic neoplasia that has been adopted as the framework for the revised WHO Classification of Skin Tumors. I founded and direct the Clinical Cancer Genomics Laboratory at UCSF, which performs genomic analyses of tumor samples of patients seen at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and have additional clinical responsibilities in the in the Dermatopathology Section of the Departments of Dermatology and Pathology.
Humboldt-Gymnasium, Solingen, Germany, Baccalaureate, 1980
University of Munich, Germany, M.D., 1988, Medicine
University of Munich, Germany, Dr. med., 1989, Laboratory Medicine
University of Wurzburg, Germany, Residency, 1994, Dermatology
University of California, San Francisco, Postdoctoral, 1999, Cancer Genetics