Research Summary

Dr. Alyssa Reddy is a pediatric neurologist with expertise in treating children who have tumors of the central nervous system. She has more than 20 years of experience in diagnosing and managing brain tumors and other neurologic disorders. She cares for children and young adults in both the clinic and the hospital.

Reddy directs UCSF's program in neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder in which tumors form on nerves and can affect many elements of the body, including skin, bones and senses such as hearing. She aims to provide patients with compassionate care as well as access to cutting-edge treatment.

Reddy's research has focused mainly on improving long-term survival and quality of life for children with brain tumors. She believes these goals are best accomplished through a collaborative approach from a diverse team of scientists and health care providers with the ability to offer new therapies through clinical trials.

Education

  • Boston University, Boston, BS, 1986, Anatomy and Physiology
  • Boston Univeristy, Boston, 1986, Psychology
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham, MD, 1993, Medicine
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham, Resident, 1995, Pediatrics
  • Childrens National Medical Center, Washington DC, Fellow, 1998, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham, Fellow, 1998, Child Neurology

Honors & Awards

  • 2020
    San Francisco Top Doctors, San Francisco Magazine
  • 2016
    Exceptional Women in Medicine, Castle Connolly
  • 2014
    Top Doctor, Castle Connolly Top Doctor
  • 2006
    Women’s Sports Hall of Fame , HowardCounty, Maryland
  • 2005
    Best Doctors in America, Child Neurology and Neuro-Oncology
  • 1998
    Outstanding Junior Member/Resident Award, Child Neurology Society
  • 1990
    Medical Student Research Day: First Place, UAB School of Medicine

Selected Publications

  1. Williams EA, Ravindranathan A, Gupta R, Stevers NO, Suwala AK, Hong C, Kim S, Yuan JB, Wu J, Barreto J, Lucas CG, Chan E, Pekmezci M, LeBoit PE, Mully T, Perry A, Bollen A, Van Ziffle J, Devine WP, Reddy AT, Gupta N, Basnet KM, Macaulay RJB, Malafronte P, Lee H, Yong WH, Williams KJ, Juratli TA, Mata DA, Huang RSP, Hiemenz MC, Pavlick DC, Frampton GM, Janovitz T, Ross JS, Chang SM, Berger MS, Jacques L, Song JS, Costello JF, Solomon DA. Novel SOX10 indel mutations drive schwannomas through impaired transactivation of myelination gene programs. Neuro Oncol. 2023 Dec 08; 25(12):2221-2236.  View on PubMed
  2. Mueller S, Kline C, Stoller S, Lundy S, Christopher L, Reddy AT, Banerjee A, Cooney TM, Raber S, Hoffman C, Luks T, Wembacher-Schroeder E, Lummel N, Zhang Y, Bonner ER, Nazarian J, Molinaro AM, Prados M, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Gupta N. PNOC015: Repeated convection enhanced delivery (CED) of MTX110 (aqueous panobinostat) in children with newly diagnosed diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). Neuro Oncol. 2023 Jun 15.  View on PubMed
  3. Lucas CG, Sloan EA, Gupta R, Wu J, Pratt D, Vasudevan HN, Ravindranathan A, Barreto J, Williams EA, Shai A, Whipple NS, Bruggers CS, Maher O, Nabors B, Rodriguez M, Samuel D, Brown M, Carmichael J, Lu R, Mirchia K, Sullivan DV, Pekmezci M, Tihan T, Bollen AW, Perry A, Banerjee A, Mueller S, Gupta N, Hervey-Jumper SL, Oberheim Bush NA, Daras M, Taylor JW, Butowski NA, de Groot J, Clarke JL, Raleigh DR, Costello JF, Phillips JJ, Reddy AT, Chang SM, Berger MS, Solomon DA. Multiplatform molecular analyses refine classification of gliomas arising in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1. Acta Neuropathol. 2022 Oct; 144(4):747-765.  View on PubMed
  4. Yue JK, Chang D, Oh T, Winkler EA, Lu AY, Hetts SW, Young EP, Reddy AT, Fox CK, Abla AA, Roland JL. Multiple Tumor-Associated Intracranial Aneurysms Adjacent to a Suprasellar Germ Cell Tumor: Case Report and Review of Literature. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2021; 56(5):482-491.  View on PubMed
  5. Sloan EA, Chiang J, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Alexandrescu S, Eschbacher JM, Wang W, Mafra M, Ud Din N, Carr-Boyd E, Watson M, Punsoni M, Oviedo A, Gilani A, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Coss DJ, Lopes MB, Raffel C, Berger MS, Chang SM, Reddy A, Ramani B, Ferris SP, Lee JC, Hofmann JW, Cho SJ, Horvai AE, Pekmezci M, Tihan T, Bollen AW, Rodriguez FJ, Ellison DW, Perry A, Solomon DA. Intracranial mesenchymal tumor with FET-CREB fusion-A unifying diagnosis for the spectrum of intracranial myxoid mesenchymal tumors and angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma-like neoplasms. Brain Pathol. 2021 07; 31(4):e12918.  View on PubMed
  6. Chung J, Maruvka YE, Sudhaman S, Kelly J, Haradhvala NJ, Bianchi V, Edwards M, Forster VJ, Nunes NM, Galati MA, Komosa M, Deshmukh S, Cabric V, Davidson S, Zatzman M, Light N, Hayes R, Brunga L, Anderson ND, Ho B, Hodel KP, Siddaway R, Morrissy AS, Bowers DC, Larouche V, Bronsema A, Osborn M, Cole KA, Opocher E, Mason G, Thomas GA, George B, Ziegler DS, Lindhorst S, Vanan M, Yalon-Oren M, Reddy AT, Massimino M, Tomboc P, Van Damme A, Lossos A, Durno C, Aronson M, Morgenstern DA, Bouffet E, Huang A, Taylor MD, Villani A, Malkin D, Hawkins CE, Pursell ZF, Shlien A, Kunkel TA, Getz G, Tabori U. DNA Polymerase and Mismatch Repair Exert Distinct Microsatellite Instability Signatures in Normal and Malignant Human Cells. Cancer Discov. 2021 05; 11(5):1176-1191.  View on PubMed
  7. Ullrich NJ, Prabhu SP, Reddy AT, Fisher MJ, Packer R, Goldman S, Robison NJ, Gutmann DH, Viskochil DH, Allen JC, Korf B, Cantor A, Cutter G, Thomas C, Perentesis JP, Mizuno T, Vinks AA, Manley PE, Chi SN, Kieran MW. A phase II study of continuous oral mTOR inhibitor everolimus for recurrent, radiographic-progressive neurofibromatosis type 1-associated pediatric low-grade glioma: a Neurofibromatosis Clinical Trials Consortium study. Neuro Oncol. 2020 10 14; 22(10):1527-1535.  View on PubMed
  8. Lucas CG, Gupta R, Doo P, Lee JC, Cadwell CR, Ramani B, Hofmann JW, Sloan EA, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Lee HS, Wood MD, Grafe M, Born D, Vogel H, Salamat S, Puccetti D, Scharnhorst D, Samuel D, Cooney T, Cham E, Jin LW, Khatib Z, Maher O, Chamyan G, Brathwaite C, Bannykh S, Mueller S, Kline CN, Banerjee A, Reddy A, Taylor JW, Clarke JL, Oberheim Bush NA, Butowski N, Gupta N, Auguste KI, Sun PP, Roland JL, Raffel C, Aghi MK, Theodosopoulos P, Chang E, Hervey-Jumper S, Phillips JJ, Pekmezci M, Bollen AW, Tihan T, Chang S, Berger MS, Perry A, Solomon DA. Comprehensive analysis of diverse low-grade neuroepithelial tumors with FGFR1 alterations reveals a distinct molecular signature of rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2020 08 28; 8(1):151.  View on PubMed
  9. Reddy AT, Krailo MD, Buxton AB, Strother DR, Huang A, Zhou T, Judkins AR, Burger PC, Pollack IF, Williams-Hughes C, Fouladi M, Ho B, Mazewski CM, Lewis VA, Vezina LG, Booth TN, Mahajan A. Reply to S.A. Upadhyaya. J Clin Oncol. 2020 10 01; 38(28):3353-3354.  View on PubMed
  10. Reddy AT, Strother DR, Judkins AR, Burger PC, Pollack IF, Krailo MD, Buxton AB, Williams-Hughes C, Fouladi M, Mahajan A, Merchant TE, Ho B, Mazewski CM, Lewis VA, Gajjar A, Vezina LG, Booth TN, Parsons KW, Poss VL, Zhou T, Biegel JA, Huang A. Efficacy of High-Dose Chemotherapy and Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiation for Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group Trial ACNS0333. J Clin Oncol. 2020 04 10; 38(11):1175-1185.  View on PubMed
  11. Bernstock JD, Alva E, Cohen JL, Lobbous M, Chagoya G, Elsayed GA, Orr BA, Rozzelle C, Rocque B, Blount J, Johnston JM, Li R, Fiveash JB, Dhall G, Reddy AT, Friedman GK. Treatment of pediatric high-grade central nervous system tumors with high-dose methotrexate in combination with multiagent chemotherapy: A single-institution experience. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2020 03; 67(3):e28119.  View on PubMed
  12. Sorge C, Li R, Singh S, Reddy AT, Solomon DA, Perry A, Friedman GK. Complete durable response of a pediatric anaplastic oligodendroglioma to temozolomide alone: Case report and review of literature. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Dec; 64(12).  View on PubMed
  13. Waters AM, Johnston JM, Reddy AT, Fiveash J, Madan-Swain A, Kachurak K, Bag AK, Gillespie GY, Markert JM, Friedman GK. Rationale and Design of a Phase 1 Clinical Trial to Evaluate HSV G207 Alone or with a Single Radiation Dose in Children with Progressive or Recurrent Malignant Supratentorial Brain Tumors. Hum Gene Ther Clin Dev. 2017 03; 28(1):7-16.  View on PubMed
  14. Torchia J, Golbourn B, Feng S, Ho KC, Sin-Chan P, Vasiljevic A, Norman JD, Guilhamon P, Garzia L, Agamez NR, Lu M, Chan TS, Picard D, de Antonellis P, Khuong-Quang DA, Planello AC, Zeller C, Barsyte-Lovejoy D, Lafay-Cousin L, Letourneau L, Bourgey M, Yu M, Gendoo DMA, Dzamba M, Barszczyk M, Medina T, Riemenschneider AN, Morrissy AS, Ra YS, Ramaswamy V, Remke M, Dunham CP, Yip S, Ng HK, Lu JQ, Mehta V, Albrecht S, Pimentel J, Chan JA, Somers GR, Faria CC, Roque L, Fouladi M, Hoffman LM, Moore AS, Wang Y, Choi SA, Hansford JR, Catchpoole D, Birks DK, Foreman NK, Strother D, Klekner A, Bognár L, Garami M, Hauser P, Hortobágyi T, Wilson B, Hukin J, Carret AS, Van Meter TE, Hwang EI, Gajjar A, Chiou SH, Nakamura H, Toledano H, Fried I, Fults D, Wataya T, Fryer C, Eisenstat DD, Scheinemann K, Fleming AJ, Johnston DL, Michaud J, Zelcer S, Hammond R, Afzal S, Ramsay DA, Sirachainan N, Hongeng S, Larbcharoensub N, Grundy RG, Lulla RR, Fangusaro JR, Druker H, Bartels U, Grant R, Malkin D, McGlade CJ, Nicolaides T, Tihan T, Phillips J, Majewski J, Montpetit A, Bourque G, Bader GD, Reddy AT, Gillespie GY, Warmuth-Metz M, Rutkowski S, Tabori U, Lupien M, Brudno M, Schüller U, Pietsch T, Judkins AR, Hawkins CE, Bouffet E, Kim SK, Dirks PB, Taylor MD, Erdreich-Epstein A, Arrowsmith CH, De Carvalho DD, Rutka JT, Jabado N, Huang A. Integrated (epi)-Genomic Analyses Identify Subgroup-Specific Therapeutic Targets in CNS Rhabdoid Tumors. Cancer Cell. 2016 Dec 12; 30(6):891-908.  View on PubMed
  15. Friedman GK, Spiller SE, Harrison DK, Fiveash JB, Reddy AT. Treatment of children with glioblastoma with conformal radiation, temozolomide, and bevacizumab as adjuncts to surgical resection. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2013 Apr; 35(3):e123-6.  View on PubMed
  16. Wolfe KR, Madan-Swain A, Hunter GR, Reddy AT, Baños J, Kana RK. An fMRI investigation of working memory and its relationship with cardiorespiratory fitness in pediatric posterior fossa tumor survivors who received cranial radiation therapy. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2013 Apr; 60(4):669-75.  View on PubMed
  17. Wolfe KR, Hunter GR, Madan-Swain A, Reddy AT, Baños J, Kana RK. Cardiorespiratory fitness in survivors of pediatric posterior fossa tumor. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2012 Aug; 34(6):e222-7.  View on PubMed
  18. Wolfe KR, Walsh KS, Reynolds NC, Mitchell F, Reddy AT, Paltin I, Madan-Swain A. Executive functions and social skills in survivors of pediatric brain tumor. Child Neuropsychol. 2013; 19(4):370-84.  View on PubMed
  19. Walsh AM, Fiveash JB, Reddy AT, Friedman GK. Response to radiation in renal medullary carcinoma. Rare Tumors. 2011 Jul 11; 3(3):e32.  View on PubMed
  20. Shah AC, Kelly DR, Nabors LB, Oakes WJ, Hilliard LM, Reddy AT. Treatment of primary CNS lymphoma with high-dose methotrexate in immunocompetent pediatric patients. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2010 Dec 01; 55(6):1227-30.  View on PubMed

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