Education

University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Ph.D., 1997, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, M.S., 1994, Biostatistics
University of California, Berkeley, CA, M.A., 1992, Statistics
University of California, Berkeley, CA, B.A., 1990, Statistic

Selected Publications

  1. Meyer JA, Xirenayi S, Werner J, Turakulov R, Hechmer A, Abdullaev Z, Hamdy N, Olshen A, Stieglitz E, Hammad M, Elhaddad A Clinical and molecular characterization of patients with juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia.  View on PubMed
  2. Grandis JR, Skorupski KA, Cheng N, Cui Z, Li H, Woerner LC, Gencel-Augusto J, Zeng Y, Shiah JV, Bhola NE, Sen M, Blum K, Kim MO, York D, Rebhun RB, Chang H, Murad NF, Olshen AB, Sparger EE, Johnson DE Safety and efficacy of a STAT3-targeted cyclic oligonucleotide: From murine models to a phase 1 clinical trial in pet cats with oral cancer.  View on PubMed
  3. Le C, Lewis M, Harris CS, Berger L, Chavez-Iglesias E, Morse L, Sucher A, Roy R, Olshen A, Hammer MJ, Paul S, Wallhagen M, Chan R, Sayer M, Yom S, Cho NW, Chan A, Levine J, Dhruva A, Miaskowski C, Conley YP, Kober KM A Data-Driven Epigenetic Characterization of Morning Fatigue Severity in Oncology Patients Receiving Chemotherapy: Associations With Epigenetic Age Acceleration, Blood Cell Types, and Expression-Associated Methylation.  View on PubMed
  4. Kennedy VE, Roy R, Peretz CAC, Koh A, Tran E, Smith CC, Olshen AB SNACS: a tool for demultiplexing single-cell DNA sequencing data.  View on PubMed
  5. Hunt PW, Olshen AB, Murad N, Ambayec GC, Sezgin E, Schneider MF, Jabs DA Plasma Proteomic Markers of Interleukin-1β Pathway Associated with Incident Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Persons with AIDS.  View on PubMed
  6. Beddows I, Djirackor S, Omran DK, Jung E, Shih NN, Roy R, Hechmer A, Olshen A, Adelmant G, Tom A, Morrison J, Adams M, Rohrer DC, Schwartz LE, Pearce CL, Auman H, Marto JA, Drescher CW, Drapkin R, Shen H. Impact of BRCA mutations, age, surgical indication, and hormone status on the molecular phenotype of the human Fallopian tube. Nat Commun. 2025 Mar 26; 16(1):2981.  View on PubMed
  7. Chan RJ, Walker A, Vardy J, Chan A, Oppegaard K, Conley YP, Paul SM, Kober KM, Harris C, Shin J, Morse L, Roy R, Olshen A, Hammer MJ, Levine JD, Miaskowski C. Perturbations in the neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction and renin angiotensin system pathways are associated with cancer-related cognitive impairment. Support Care Cancer. 2025 Mar 06; 33(4):254.  View on PubMed
  8. Marinoff AE, Thrall A, Aaronson K, Braun BS, Castellanos M, Chu J, Hermiston M, Huang BJ, Levinson A, Southworth E, Winger BA, Olshen A, Stieglitz E. Thrombopoietin Receptor Agonists for Thrombocytopenia in Pediatric Hematologic Malignancies. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2025 Mar; 72(3):e31528.  View on PubMed
  9. Peretz CAC, Kennedy VE, Walia A, Delley CL, Koh A, Tran E, Clark IC, Hayford CE, D'Amato C, Xue Y, Fontanez KM, May-Zhang AA, Smithers T, Agam Y, Wang Q, Dai HP, Roy R, Logan AC, Perl AE, Abate A, Olshen A, Smith CC. Multiomic single cell sequencing identifies stemlike nature of mixed phenotype acute leukemia. Nat Commun. 2024 Sep 18; 15(1):8191.  View on PubMed
  10. Gerami P, Tandukar B, Deivendran D, Olivares S, Chen L, Tang J, Tan T, Sharma H, Bandari AK, Cruz-Pacheco N, Chang D, Marty A, Olshen A, Murad NF, Song J, Lee J, Yeh I, Hunter Shain A. Molecular effects of indoor tanning. bioRxiv. 2024 Jun 05.  View on PubMed
  11. Oppegaard KR, Mayo SJ, Armstrong TS, Dokiparthi V, Melisko M, Levine JD, Olshen AB, Anguera JA, Roy R, Paul S, Cooper B, Conley YP, Hammer MJ, Miaskowski C, Kober KM. Neurodegenerative disease pathways are perturbed in patients with cancer who self-report cognitive changes and anxiety: A pathway impact analysis. Cancer. 2024 Aug 15; 130(16):2834-2847.  View on PubMed
  12. Shin J, Miaskowski C, Wong ML, Yates P, Olshen AB, Roy R, Dokiparthi V, Cooper B, Paul S, Conley YP, Levine JD, Hammer MJ, Kober K. Perturbations in inflammatory pathways are associated with shortness of breath profiles in oncology patients receiving chemotherapy. Support Care Cancer. 2024 Mar 26; 32(4):250.  View on PubMed
  13. Kober KM, Berger L, Roy R, Olshen A. Torch-eCpG: a fast and scalable eQTM mapper for thousands of molecular phenotypes with graphical processing units. BMC Bioinformatics. 2024 Feb 14; 25(1):71.  View on PubMed
  14. Ve K, R R, Cac P, A K, E T, Cc S, Ab O. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) and Antibody-based Cell Sorting (SNACS): A tool for demultiplexing single-cell DNA sequencing data. bioRxiv. 2024 Feb 10.  View on PubMed
  15. Van Blarigan EL, Kenfield SA, Olshen A, Panchal N, Encabo K, Tenggara I, Graff RE, Bang AS, Shinohara K, Cooperberg MR, Carroll PR, Jones LW, Winters-Stone K, Luke A, Chan JM. Effect of a Home-based Walking Intervention on Cardiopulmonary Fitness and Quality of Life Among Men with Prostate Cancer on Active Surveillance: The Active Surveillance Exercise Randomized Controlled Trial. Eur Urol Oncol. 2024 Jun; 7(3):519-526.  View on PubMed
  16. Peretz CAC, Kennedy VE, Walia A, Delley CL, Koh A, Tran E, Clark IC, Hayford CE, D'Amato C, Xue Y, Fontanez KM, Roy R, Logan AC, Perl AE, Abate A, Olshen A, Smith CC. Multiomic Single Cell Sequencing Identifies Stemlike Nature of Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia and Provides Novel Risk Stratification. bioRxiv. 2023 May 18.  View on PubMed
  17. Pariury H, Fandel J, Bachl S, Ang KK, Markossian S, Wilson CG, Braun BS, Popescu B, Wohlfeil M, Beckman K, Xirenayi S, Roy RP, Olshen AB, Smith C, Arkin MR, Loh ML, Diaz-Flores E. Venetoclax and dinaciclib elicit synergistic preclinical efficacy against hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Haematologica. 2023 05 01; 108(5):1272-1283.  View on PubMed
  18. Kober KM, Roy R, Conley Y, Dhruva A, Hammer MJ, Levine J, Olshen A, Miaskowski C. Prediction of morning fatigue severity in outpatients receiving chemotherapy: less may still be more. Support Care Cancer. 2023 Apr 11; 31(5):253.  View on PubMed
  19. Harris CS, Miaskowski CA, Conley YP, Hammer MJ, Dunn LB, Dhruva AA, Levine JD, Olshen AB, Kober KM. Epigenetic Regulation of Inflammatory Mechanisms and a Psychological Symptom Cluster in Patients Receiving Chemotherapy. Nurs Res. 2023 May-Jun 01; 72(3):200-210.  View on PubMed
  20. Kober KM, Berger L, Roy R, Olshen A. Torch-eCpG: A fast and scalable eQTM mapper for thousands of molecular phenotypes with graphical processing units. bioRxiv. 2023 Mar 10.  View on PubMed

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