Iwei Yeh , MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Dermatology and Pathology, UCSF
Cancer Center Program Memberships
Cancer GeneticsEducation
Harvard College, AB, 06/97, Summa Cum Laude, Biochemical Sciences
Stanford University, MD, 06/06
Stanford University, PhD, 06/06, Biomedical Informatics
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Intern, 06/07, Transitional Internship
University of Washington, Resident, 06/10, Dermatology
University of California, San Francisco, Fellow, 06/11, Dermatopathology
Professional Experience
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2011-2011
Assistant Member, Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center -
2011-2018
Assistant Professor, Dermatology and Pathology, University of California, San Francisco -
2018-present
Associate Professor, Dermatology and Pathology, University of California, San Francisco
Honors & Awards
- 1993
National Merit Scholar - 1994
Valedictorian, California High School; San Ramon, CA - 1996
Goldwater Scholarship for Scientific Excellence - 1997
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College Chapter, Cambridge, MA - 1998
Medical Scientist Training Program, Predoctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health - 2003
Graduate Fellowship, National Library of Medicine - 2006
Doctoral Commencement Speaker, Stanford Medical School
Selected Publications
- Houlier A, Pissaloux D, Masse I, Tirode F, Karanian M, Pincus LB, McCalmont TH, LeBoit PE, Bastian BC, Yeh I, de la Fouchardière A. Melanocytic tumors with MAP3K8 fusions: report of 33 cases with morphological-genetic correlations. Mod Pathol. 2019 Nov 12.
View on PubMed - Urtatiz O, Cook C, Huang JL, Yeh I, Van Raamsdonk CD. GNAQQ209L expression initiated in multipotent neural crest cells drives aggressive melanoma of the central nervous system. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res. 2019 Nov 04.
View on PubMed - Yeh I. New and evolving concepts of melanocytic nevi and melanocytomas. Mod Pathol. 2019 Oct 28.
View on PubMed - Botton T, Talevich E, Mishra VK, Zhang T, Shain AH, Berquet C, Gagnon A, Judson RL, Ballotti R, Ribas A, Herlyn M, Rocchi S, Brown KM, Hayward NK, Yeh I, Bastian BC. Genetic Heterogeneity of BRAF Fusion Kinases in Melanoma Affects Drug Responses. Cell Rep. 2019 Oct 15; 29(3):573-588.e7.
View on PubMed - Yeh I, Jorgenson E, Shen L, Xu M, North JP, Shain AH, Reuss D, Wu H, Robinson WA, Olshen A, von Deimling A, Kwok PY, Bastian BC, Asgari MM. Targeted Genomic Profiling of Acral Melanoma. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2019 Oct 01; 111(10):1068-1077.
View on PubMed - Rotow JK, Gui P, Wu W, Raymond VM, Lanman RB, Kaye FJ, Peled N, Fece de la Cruz F, Nadres B, Corcoran RB, Yeh I, Bastian BC, Starostik P, Newsom K, Olivas V, Wolff AM, Fraser JS, Collisson EA, McCoach CE, Camidge DR, Pacheco J, Bazhenova L, Li T, Bivona TG, Blakely CM. Co-occurring alterations in the RAS-MAPK pathway limit response to MET inhibitor treatment in MET exon 14 skipping mutation-positive lung cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Sep 23.
View on PubMed - Torres R, Lang UE, Hejna M, Shelton SJ, Joseph NM, Shain AH, Yeh I, Wei ML, Oldham MC, Bastian BC, Judson-Torres RL. MicroRNA ratios distinguish melanomas from nevi. J Invest Dermatol. 2019 Aug 22.
View on PubMed - Newell F, Kong Y, Wilmott JS, Johansson PA, Ferguson PM, Cui C, Li Z, Kazakoff SH, Burke H, Dodds TJ, Patch AM, Nones K, Tembe V, Shang P, van der Weyden L, Wong K, Holmes O, Lo S, Leonard C, Wood S, Xu Q, Rawson RV, Mukhopadhyay P, Dummer R, Levesque MP, Jönsson G, Wang X, Yeh I, Wu H, Joseph N, Bastian BC, Long GV, Spillane AJ, Shannon KF, Thompson JF, Saw RPM, Adams DJ, Si L, Pearson JV, Hayward NK, Waddell N, Mann GJ, Guo J, Scolyer RA. Whole-genome landscape of mucosal melanoma reveals diverse drivers and therapeutic targets. Nat Commun. 2019 Jul 18; 10(1):3163.
View on PubMed - Tsai KK, Khurana N, McCalmont T, Daud A, Bastian B, Yeh I. PTCH1 Mutation in a Patient With Metastatic Undifferentiated Carcinoma With Clear Cell Change. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2019 Jul 01; 17(7):778-783.
View on PubMed - Cohen JN, Yeh I, LeBoit PE. Melanotic Schwannoma of the Vulva: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Am J Dermatopathol. 2019 Jun 27.
View on PubMed - Yeh I, Busam KJ, McCalmont TH, LeBoit PE, Pissaloux D, Alberti L, de la Fouchardière A, Bastian BC. Filigree-like Rete Ridges, Lobulated Nests, Rosette-like Structures, and Exaggerated Maturation Characterize Spitz Tumors With NTRK1 Fusion. Am J Surg Pathol. 2019 Jun; 43(6):737-746.
View on PubMed - Wong K, van der Weyden L, Schott CR, Foote A, Constantino-Casas F, Smith S, Dobson JM, Murchison EP, Wu H, Yeh I, Fullen DR, Joseph N, Bastian BC, Patel RM, Martincorena I, Robles-Espinoza CD, Iyer V, Kuijjer ML, Arends MJ, Brenn T, Harms PW, Wood GA, Adams DJ. Cross-species genomic landscape comparison of human mucosal melanoma with canine oral and equine melanoma. Nat Commun. 2019 01 21; 10(1):353.
View on PubMed - Chan JW, Yeh I, El-Sayed IH, Algazi AP, Glastonbury CM, Ha PK, Yom SS, van Zante A. Ultraviolet light-related DNA damage mutation signature distinguishes cutaneous from mucosal or other origin for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma of unknown primary site. Head Neck. 2019 Jun; 41(6):E82-E85.
View on PubMed - Ablain J, Xu M, Rothschild H, Jordan RC, Mito JK, Daniels BH, Bell CF, Joseph NM, Wu H, Bastian BC, Zon LI, Yeh I. Human tumor genomics and zebrafish modeling identify SPRED1 loss as a driver of mucosal melanoma. Science. 2018 11 30; 362(6418):1055-1060.
View on PubMed - López GY, Van Ziffle J, Onodera C, Grenert JP, Yeh I, Bastian BC, Clarke J, Oberheim Bush NA, Taylor J, Chang S, Butowski N, Banerjee A, Mueller S, Kline C, Torkildson J, Samuel D, Siongco A, Raffel C, Gupta N, Kunwar S, Mummaneni P, Aghi M, Theodosopoulos P, Berger M, Phillips JJ, Pekmezci M, Tihan T, Bollen AW, Perry A, Solomon DA. The genetic landscape of gliomas arising after therapeutic radiation. Acta Neuropathol. 2019 Jan; 137(1):139-150.
View on PubMed - Cohen JN, Yeh I, Jordan RC, Wolsky RJ, Horvai AE, McCalmont TH, LeBoit PE. Cutaneous Non-Neural Granular Cell Tumors Harbor Recurrent ALK Gene Fusions. Am J Surg Pathol. 2018 09; 42(9):1133-1142.
View on PubMed - Stevers M, Rabban JT, Garg K, Van Ziffle J, Onodera C, Grenert JP, Yeh I, Bastian BC, Zaloudek C, Solomon DA. Well-differentiated papillary mesothelioma of the peritoneum is genetically defined by mutually exclusive mutations in TRAF7 and CDC42. Mod Pathol. 2019 01; 32(1):88-99.
View on PubMed - Zeng H, Jorapur A, Shain AH, Lang UE, Torres R, Zhang Y, McNeal AS, Botton T, Lin J, Donne M, Bastian IN, Yu R, North JP, Pincus L, Ruben BS, Joseph NM, Yeh I, Bastian BC, Judson RL. Bi-allelic Loss of CDKN2A Initiates Melanoma Invasion via BRN2 Activation. Cancer Cell. 2018 07 09; 34(1):56-68.e9.
View on PubMed - Shain AH, Joseph NM, Yu R, Benhamida J, Liu S, Prow T, Ruben B, North J, Pincus L, Yeh I, Judson R, Bastian BC. Genomic and Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Incremental Disruption of Key Signaling Pathways during Melanoma Evolution. Cancer Cell. 2018 07 09; 34(1):45-55.e4.
View on PubMed - Hussain SS, Huang SB, Bedolla RG, Rivas P, Basler JW, Swanson GP, Hui-Ming Huang T, Narayanasamy G, Papanikolaou N, Miyamoto H, Yeh IT, Reddick RL, Pollock BH, Ghosh R, Kumar AP. Suppression of ribosomal protein RPS6KB1 by Nexrutine increases sensitivity of prostate tumors to radiation. Cancer Lett. 2018 10 01; 433:232-241.
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