Research Summary

Dr. Michael Prados has over 35 years' experience at UCSF in treating both adults and children who have brain tumors. His current research interest is translational and clinical research in pediatric neuro-oncology. He is co-Project Leader of the Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium (PNOC) and co-Scientific Chair of the Children's Brain Tumor Network (CBTN).

Dr. Prados has participated in over 120 clinical research protocols from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), UCSF, and Industry studies -- including 22 early phase trials for children with brain tumors in the last 10 years. He has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles and has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1990. He is currently Professor Emeritus and holds the Charles B. Wilson Endowed Chair of Neurosurgery. In 2014 he was awarded the Victor Levin Award for lifetime clinical research excellence from the Society of Neuro-Oncology.

Research Funding

  • September 20, 2002 - August 31, 2018 - Brain Tumor SPORE Grant , Administrative Core D co-leader . Sponsor: NIH/NCI, Sponsor Award ID: 2 P50 CA097257-11A1
  • September 20, 2002 - August 31, 2018 - Novel Approaches for Improving Pediatric BRAFv600e Glioma Patient Outcomes , Project Co-Leader . Sponsor: NIH/NCI, Sponsor Award ID: 2 P50 CA097257-11A1
  • August 5, 1999 - May 31, 2017 - The Cancer Center Support Grant , Neurological Surgery Project Leader . Sponsor: NIH/NCI, Sponsor Award ID: P30 CA 82103-15
  • December 1, 2009 - December 31, 2016 - Ivy Foundation Early Phase Clinical Trials Consortium , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: Ivy Foundation, Sponsor Award ID:

Education

Mississippi State University, Starkville, 1966-1969, Biology
University of New Orleans, BS, 1969-1970, Biology
LSU School of Medicine, MD, 1970-1974, Medicine
LSU Charity Hospital, New Orleans, LA, Internship, 1974-1975, Medicine
LSU Earl K Long Hospital, Baton Rouge, LA, Residency, 1975-1977, Internal Medicine

Honors & Awards

  • Victor Levin Award for Clinical Excellence, Society of Neuro-Oncology, 2014
  • President, Society of Neuro-Oncology, 2003-2005
  • Clinical Excellence Award 1997, National Brain Tumor Foundation, 1997
  • Vice-President, Society of Neuro-Oncology, 1995-1997

Selected Publications

  1. Kazerooni AF, Arif S, Madhogarhia R, Khalili N, Haldar D, Bagheri S, Familiar AM, Anderson H, Haldar S, Tu W, Kim MC, Viswanathan K, Muller S, Prados M, Kline C, Vidal L, Aboian M, Storm PB, Resnick AC, Ware JB, Vossough A, Davatzikos C, Nabavizadeh A. Automated Tumor Segmentation and Brain Tissue Extraction from Multiparametric MRI of Pediatric Brain Tumors: A Multi-Institutional Study. medRxiv. 2023 Jan 11.  View on PubMed
  2. Budhraja KK, McDonald BR, Stephens MD, Contente-Cuomo T, Markus H, Farooq M, Favaro PF, Connor S, Byron SA, Egan JB, Ernst B, McDaniel TK, Sekulic A, Tran NL, Prados MD, Borad MJ, Berens ME, Pockaj BA, LoRusso PM, Bryce A, Trent JM, Murtaza M. Genome-wide analysis of aberrant position and sequence of plasma DNA fragment ends in patients with cancer. Sci Transl Med. 2023 Jan 11; 15(678):eabm6863.  View on PubMed
  3. Sloan AE, Nock CJ, Ye X, Buerki R, Chang S, Lesser G, Norden A, Cloughesy T, Olson J, Kerstetter-Fogle A, Rich J, Fisher J, Desideri S, Takebe N, Timmer W, Grossman S, Prados M. ABTC-0904: targeting glioma stem cells in GBM: a phase 0/II study of hedgehog pathway inhibitor GDC-0449. J Neurooncol. 2023 Jan; 161(1):33-43.  View on PubMed
  4. Lilly JV, Rokita JL, Mason JL, Patton T, Stefankiewiz S, Higgins D, Trooskin G, Larouci CA, Arya K, Appert E, Heath AP, Zhu Y, Brown MA, Zhang B, Farrow BK, Robins S, Morgan AM, Nguyen TQ, Frenkel E, Lehmann K, Drake E, Sullivan C, Plisiewicz A, Coleman N, Patterson L, Koptyra M, Helili Z, Van Kuren N, Young N, Kim MC, Friedman C, Lubneuski A, Blackden C, Williams M, Baubet V, Tauhid L, Galanaugh J, Boucher K, Ijaz H, Cole KA, Choudhari N, Santi M, Moulder RW, Waller J, Rife W, Diskin SJ, Mateos M, Parsons DW, Pollack IF, Goldman S, Leary S, Caporalini C, Buccoliero AM, Scagnet M, Haussler D, Hanson D, Firestein R, Cain J, Phillips JJ, Gupta N, Mueller S, Grant G, Monje-Deisseroth M, Partap S, Greenfield JP, Hashizume R, Smith A, Zhu S, Johnston JM, Fangusaro JR, Miller M, Wood MD, Gardner S, Carter CL, Prolo LM, Pisapia J, Pehlivan K, Franson A, Niazi T, Rubin J, Abdelbaki M, Ziegler DS, Lindsay HB, Stucklin AG, Gerber N, Vaske OM, Quinsey C, Rood BR, Nazarian J, Raabe E, Jackson EM, Stapleton S, Lober RM, Kram DE, Koschmann C, Storm PB, Lulla RR, Prados M, Resnick AC, Waanders AJ. The children's brain tumor network (CBTN) - Accelerating research in pediatric central nervous system tumors through collaboration and open science. Neoplasia. 2023 01; 35:100846.  View on PubMed
  5. Kline C, Jain P, Kilburn L, Bonner ER, Gupta N, Crawford JR, Banerjee A, Packer RJ, Villanueva-Meyer J, Luks T, Zhang Y, Kambhampati M, Zhang J, Yadavilli S, Zhang B, Gaonkar KS, Rokita JL, Kraya A, Kuhn J, Liang W, Byron S, Berens M, Molinaro A, Prados M, Resnick A, Waszak SM, Nazarian J, Mueller S. Upfront Biology-Guided Therapy in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma: Therapeutic, Molecular, and Biomarker Outcomes from PNOC003. Clin Cancer Res. 2022 09 15; 28(18):3965-3978.  View on PubMed
  6. Mueller S, Taitt JM, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Bonner ER, Nejo T, Lulla RR, Goldman S, Banerjee A, Chi SN, Whipple NS, Crawford JR, Gauvain K, Nazemi KJ, Watchmaker PB, Almeida ND, Okada K, Salazar AM, Gilbert RD, Nazarian J, Molinaro AM, Butterfield LH, Prados MD, Okada H. Mass cytometry detects H3.3K27M-specific vaccine responses in diffuse midline glioma. J Clin Invest. 2022 06 15; 132(12).  View on PubMed
  7. Bush NAO, Young JS, Zhang Y, Dalle Ore CL, Molinaro AM, Taylor J, Clarke J, Prados M, Braunstein SE, Raleigh DR, Chang SM, Berger MS, Butowski NA. A single institution retrospective analysis on survival based on treatment paradigms for patients with anaplastic oligodendroglioma. J Neurooncol. 2021 Jul; 153(3):447-454.  View on PubMed
  8. Vassilakopoulou M, Won M, Curran WJ, Souhami L, Prados MD, Langer CJ, Rimm DL, Hanna JA, Neumeister VM, Melian E, Diaz AZ, Atkins JN, Komarnicky LT, Schultz CJ, Howard SP, Zhang P, Dicker AP, Knisely JPS. BRCA1 Protein Expression Predicts Survival in Glioblastoma Patients from an NRG Oncology RTOG Cohort. Oncology. 2021; 99(9):580-588.  View on PubMed
  9. Mueller S, Taitt JM, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Bonner ER, Nejo T, Lulla RR, Goldman S, Banerjee A, Chi SN, Whipple NS, Crawford JR, Gauvain K, Nazemi KJ, Watchmaker PB, Almeida ND, Okada K, Salazar AM, Gilbert RD, Nazarian J, Molinaro AM, Butterfield LH, Prados MD, Okada H. Mass cytometry detects H3.3K27M-specific vaccine responses in diffuse midline glioma. J Clin Invest. 2020 12 01; 130(12):6325-6337.  View on PubMed
  10. Chen H, Kuhn J, Lamborn KR, Abrey LE, DeAngelis LM, Lieberman F, Robins HI, Chang SM, Yung WKA, Drappatz J, Mehta MP, Levin VA, Aldape K, Dancey JE, Wright JJ, Prados MD, Cloughesy TF, Wen PY, Gilbert MR. Phase I/II study of sorafenib in combination with erlotinib for recurrent glioblastoma as part of a 3-arm sequential accrual clinical trial: NABTC 05-02. Neurooncol Adv. 2020 Jan-Dec; 2(1):vdaa124.  View on PubMed
  11. Erker C, Tamrazi B, Poussaint TY, Mueller S, Mata-Mbemba D, Franceschi E, Brandes AA, Rao A, Haworth KB, Wen PY, Goldman S, Vezina G, MacDonald TJ, Dunkel IJ, Morgan PS, Jaspan T, Prados MD, Warren KE. Response assessment in paediatric high-grade glioma: recommendations from the Response Assessment in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (RAPNO) working group. Lancet Oncol. 2020 06; 21(6):e317-e329.  View on PubMed
  12. Wang H, Long-Boyle J, Winger BA, Nicolaides T, Mueller S, Prados M, Ivaturi V. Population Pharmacokinetics of Vemurafenib in Children With Recurrent/Refractory BRAF Gene V600E-Mutant Astrocytomas. J Clin Pharmacol. 2020 09; 60(9):1209-1219.  View on PubMed
  13. Nicolaides T, Nazemi KJ, Crawford J, Kilburn L, Minturn J, Gajjar A, Gauvain K, Leary S, Dhall G, Aboian M, Robinson G, Long-Boyle J, Wang H, Molinaro AM, Mueller S, Prados M. Phase I study of vemurafenib in children with recurrent or progressive BRAFV600E mutant brain tumors: Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium study (PNOC-002). Oncotarget. 2020 May 26; 11(21):1942-1952.  View on PubMed
  14. Molinaro AM, Hervey-Jumper S, Morshed RA, Young J, Han SJ, Chunduru P, Zhang Y, Phillips JJ, Shai A, Lafontaine M, Crane J, Chandra A, Flanigan P, Jahangiri A, Cioffi G, Ostrom Q, Anderson JE, Badve C, Barnholtz-Sloan J, Sloan AE, Erickson BJ, Decker PA, Kosel ML, LaChance D, Eckel-Passow J, Jenkins R, Villanueva-Meyer J, Rice T, Wrensch M, Wiencke JK, Oberheim Bush NA, Taylor J, Butowski N, Prados M, Clarke J, Chang S, Chang E, Aghi M, Theodosopoulos P, McDermott M, Berger MS. Association of Maximal Extent of Resection of Contrast-Enhanced and Non-Contrast-Enhanced Tumor With Survival Within Molecular Subgroups of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma. JAMA Oncol. 2020 04 01; 6(4):495-503.  View on PubMed
  15. Berens ME, Sood A, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Graf JF, Cho S, Kim S, Kiefer J, Byron SA, Halperin RF, Nasser S, Adkins J, Cuyugan L, Devine K, Ostrom Q, Couce M, Wolansky L, McDonough E, Schyberg S, Dinn S, Sloan AE, Prados M, Phillips JJ, Nelson SJ, Liang WS, Al-Kofahi Y, Rusu M, Zavodszky MI, Ginty F. Multiscale, multimodal analysis of tumor heterogeneity in IDH1 mutant vs wild-type diffuse gliomas. PLoS One. 2019; 14(12):e0219724.  View on PubMed
  16. Cooney T, Yeo KK, Kline C, Prados M, Haas-Kogan D, Chi S, Mueller S. Neuro-Oncology Practice Clinical Debate: targeted therapy vs conventional chemotherapy in pediatric low-grade glioma. Neurooncol Pract. 2020 Jan; 7(1):4-10.  View on PubMed
  17. McKinney A, Lindberg OR, Engler JR, Chen KY, Kumar A, Gong H, Lu KV, Simonds EF, Cloughesy TF, Liau LM, Prados M, Bollen AW, Berger MS, Shieh JTC, James CD, Nicolaides TP, Yong WH, Lai A, Hegi ME, Weiss WA, Phillips JJ. Mechanisms of Resistance to EGFR Inhibition Reveal Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Human GBM. Mol Cancer Ther. 2019 09; 18(9):1565-1576.  View on PubMed
  18. Mueller S, Jain P, Liang WS, Kilburn L, Kline C, Gupta N, Panditharatna E, Magge SN, Zhang B, Zhu Y, Crawford JR, Banerjee A, Nazemi K, Packer RJ, Petritsch CK, Truffaux N, Roos A, Nasser S, Phillips JJ, Solomon D, Molinaro A, Waanders AJ, Byron SA, Berens ME, Kuhn J, Nazarian J, Prados M, Resnick AC. A pilot precision medicine trial for children with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma-PNOC003: A report from the Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium. Int J Cancer. 2019 10 01; 145(7):1889-1901.  View on PubMed
  19. Wen PY, Touat M, Alexander BM, Mellinghoff IK, Ramkissoon S, McCluskey CS, Pelton K, Haidar S, Basu SS, Gaffey SC, Brown LE, Martinez-Ledesma JE, Wu S, Kim J, Wei W, Park MA, Huse JT, Kuhn JG, Rinne ML, Colman H, Agar NYR, Omuro AM, DeAngelis LM, Gilbert MR, de Groot JF, Cloughesy TF, Chi AS, Roberts TM, Zhao JJ, Lee EQ, Nayak L, Heath JR, Horky LL, Batchelor TT, Beroukhim R, Chang SM, Ligon AH, Dunn IF, Koul D, Young GS, Prados MD, Reardon DA, Yung WKA, Ligon KL. Buparlisib in Patients With Recurrent Glioblastoma Harboring Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Pathway Activation: An Open-Label, Multicenter, Multi-Arm, Phase II Trial. J Clin Oncol. 2019 03 20; 37(9):741-750.  View on PubMed
  20. Panditharatna E, Kilburn LB, Aboian MS, Kambhampati M, Gordish-Dressman H, Magge SN, Gupta N, Myseros JS, Hwang EI, Kline C, Crawford JR, Warren KE, Cha S, Liang WS, Berens ME, Packer RJ, Resnick AC, Prados M, Mueller S, Nazarian J. Clinically Relevant and Minimally Invasive Tumor Surveillance of Pediatric Diffuse Midline Gliomas Using Patient-Derived Liquid Biopsy. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 12 01; 24(23):5850-5859.  View on PubMed

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