Prostate Cancer Program News

Program Events

Upcoming Events

2025 Annual Scientific Retreat
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2025

A scientific meeting for the UCSF prostate cancer research community. Event program will include the 2025 Feng Lecture given by Dr. Arul Chinnaiayn. Register to attend.
 
Research Workshop
Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025
8:30am - 12:00pm

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Clinical Informatics in Prostate Cancer | A scientific workshop open to the UCSF cancer research community.


Past Events

5th Annual UCSF/ California Prostate Cancer Coalition (CPCC) Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer
May 2, 2025

Prostate Cancer Program 2024 Annual Scientific Retreat
Nov 14, 2024 | A scientific meeting for the UCSF prostate cancer community

Joint Prostate - Cancer Control Workshop
Apr 17, 2024 | 9am - 12pm

2024 Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer
Mar 9, 2024

Prostate Cancer Program 2023 Annual Scientific Retreat
Nov 3, 2023 | A scientific meeting for the UCSF prostate cancer community

Prostate Cancer Program Research Seminar
Apr 5, 2023 | Speaker: Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF

Prostate Cancer Program Research Workshop
Feb 1, 2023 | Topic: Bench to Bedside Therapeutics in Prostate Cancer

2022 Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer
Oct 15, 2022 | For patients, families, caregivers, health care providers, and all those interested in information and tools to make informed decisions in prostate cancer.

Prostate Cancer Program Annual Scientific Retreat
Sept 23, 2022 | A hybrid (in person and virtual) retreat.

Felix Y. Feng Endowed Annual Lectureship

2025

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Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD

Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD
S.P. Hicks Endowed Professor of Pathology and Urology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
American Cancer Society Research Professor
Director, Michigan Center for Translational Pathology
University of Michigan

2024

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Scarlett Lin Gomez

Scarlett Lin Gomez, MPH, PhD
Professor & Vice Chair for Faculty Development, 
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Co-Leader, Cancer Control Program, HDFCCC
Director, Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry
UCSF
 

Prostate Cancer Program Funded Research

Prostate Cancer Program Pilot Awards 


 

2025 Funded Research
  • Megha Basak, PhD
    Targeted Imaging-Guided Therapy of Prostate Cancer Using YS5-antibody Conjugated Base-Cleavable Linkers
  • Henry Delavan
    Mechanisms and Strategies for Improving the Efficacy of PSMA-Targeting Immune Therapies
  • Mikhail Dias, PhD
    Validating a Single-cell Immune Biomarker for Prostate Cancer Using Spatial Tumor Profiling
  • Allegra Freelander, PhD
    Cell-surface Interrogation of Bone Metastases Using Seeding-on-a-Chip and CRISPR Approaches
  • Josephine Ataa Hinneh, BPharm, PhD
    Defining TM4SF1 a Potential Immunotherapeutic Target in Advanced Prostate Cancer
  • Sarah Hsu, MD, PhD
    Dissecting Transcription Factor Dependencies in Advanced Prostate Cancer
  • Changhua Mu, PhD
    Dual-Modality Strategy Combining PSMA-Targeted Radioligand Therapy and Radiation-Mediated Tumor-Localized Chemotherapy for mCRPC
  • Kevin Shee, MD, PhD
    Determining the Role of the Tumor Microenvironment Secretome on Response to Anti-androgen Therapy in Prostate Cancer
  • Yunbing Shen, PhD
    Development of Next-generation CAR T Cell Therapies for Prostate Cancer
  • Leah Ung, MS
    Evaluating Exercise Benefits via Multivariate Longitudinal Trajectories of Biomarkers and Quality of Life and Their Clinical Impact
2024 Funded Research
  • Gabriel Eades, PhD 
    Mapping genetic interactions that contribute to lineage switching in t-NEPC
  • Lore Hoes, PhD
    Interrogating in vivo hormone therapy sensitivity beyond mediators of resistance
  • Steven Seyedin, MD and Jean-Philippe Coppé, PhD
    Elucidating the Kinome of Locally Recurrent Prostate Cancer after Definitive Radiotherapy
  • Sha Zhu, MD, PhD
    Decoding STEAP1 Regulation and Therapeutic Targeting in Advanced Prostate Cancer
2023 Funded Research

Research Pilot Award Recipients (Round 1)

  • Jonathan Chou, MD, PhD
    Inhibition as a Therapeutic Strategy for CDK12-Mutated Prostate Cancer
  • Erin Van Blarigan, ScD
    Eating Better Together: Developing a Dyadic Dietary Intervention for Prostate Cancer Patients and their Partners
  • Meng Zhang, MSc, PhD
    Investigation of Microproteins as Novel Druggable Targets in Prostate Cancer

Research Pilot Award Recipients (Round 2)

  • Anil Bidkar, PhD and Scott Bidlingmaier, PhD
    Actinium-225/MMAE Dual-Loaded Antibody Drug Conjugate for Prostate Cancer Targeted Therapy
  • Peter Bruno, PhD
    Towards Identifying the Immunopeptidome of Prostate Cancer and its Role in Disease Progression
  • Lisa Chesner, PhD
    Investigation of Wee1 inhibition for ATM-deficient prostate cancer
  • Cornelia Ding, MD, PhD  and David Quigley, PhD
    The Molecular Pathologic Characterization of Double-Negative Metastatic Prostate Cancer
  • Aidan Pace
    Effects of an Exercise Program on Markers of Inflammation and Insulinemia in Men on Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer
  • Kimberly Rickman, MD, PhD
    Defining prostate cancer tumor-immune system interactions in BRCA2 deficiency to identify therapeutic vulnerabilities
  • Jiuling Yang, MD, PhD
    Unraveling the role of PVRL2 in tumor development and determining its therapeutic potential 
  • Xiaolin Zhu, MD, PhD
    Investigating SSTR1 in Resistance to Androgen Receptor Signaling Inhibitors in Prostate Cancer
2022 Funded Research

Research Pilot Award Recipients (Round 1)

  • Ivan de Kouchkovsky, MD
    HP 13C MRI as an Early Response Biomarker to Androgen Deprivation Therapy Plus Abiraterone And Ipatasertib in Pelvic Node Positive Prostate Cancer
  • Arian Lundberg, MSc, PhD
    Investigating the Association Between Microbiota Dysbiosis and Patient’s Survival in Advanced Prostate Cancer
  • Woogwang Sim, PhD
    PTEN/TP53 Altered Prostate Cancer Has Unique Role for Tumor Associated Macrophages Upon Apalutamide Resistance

Research Pilot Award Recipients (Round 2)

  • Arpita Desai, MD
    PSMA PET as a Longitudinal Biomarker in Patients Undergoing Intensified Intermittent ADT
  • Nynikka Palmer, DrPH, MPH
    PACE Yourself: Optimizing Patient-Centered Communication for Prostate Cancer Care in the Safety-Net
  • Samuel Washington III, MD, MAS
    Understanding Association Between Social Risk and Guideline Concordant Treatment for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer
  • Noah Younger, MD, PhD
    Characterizing cPRC1 as a Mediator of Enzalutamide Resistance in Advanced Prostate Cancer
2021 Funded Research
  • Rebecca Graff, ScD
    Metabolomic Disparities Between Black and White Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer
  • Haolong Li, PhD
    Investigating PTGES3 as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Advanced Prostate Cancer
  • Osama Mohamad, MD, PhD
    Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools to Improve Decision Making for Patients with Prostate Cancer on Active Surveillance
  • Duygu Kuzuoglu Oztur, PhD
    Elucidating the Roles of Different 5'UTRs of AR mRNA in Prostate Cancer
  • Jingjing Li, PhD
    Single-Cell Analysis of Germline Mutations Conferring Population Disparities in Prostate Cancer
  • Li Zhang, PhD
    Quantification of Adaptive Immune Response to Pembrolizumab for mCRPC Patients
2019 Funded Research
  • Nam Woo Cho, MD, PhD
    Systematic Dissection of Anti-Tumor Immunity Against Mismatch Repair-Deficient Prostate Cancer
  • Crystal Langlais, MPH
    Development and Examination of Post-Diagnostic Lifestyle Scores for the Prevention of Prostate Cancer Progression
  • Jingjing Li, PhD
    Deep Learning to Identify the Altered Chromatin Architecture from Large-Scale Prostate Cancer Genomes
  • Ruhollah Moussavi-Baygi, PhD
    An in-silico Functional Genomics Approach for Determining Drivers of mCRPC in Individual Patients
  • David Quigley, PhD
    Etiology and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities of Hypermethylated Metastatic Prostate Tumors
2018 Funded Research
  • Rohit Bose, MD, PhD
    Key Tumor Suppressors in Prostate Cancer Lacking ETS Fusions
  • MinKyu Kim, PhD and Jonathan Chou, MD, PhD
    Mapping the Therapeutic Vulnerabilities of CDK12-Mutated Prostate Cancer
  • Renuka Sriram, PhD
    Metabolic Characterization of Prostate Cancer Bone Metastatic Phenotypes Using Hyperpolarized 13C MRI -  Improved Assessment of Therapeutic Response
2017 Funded Research
  • Mekhail Anwar, MD, PhD
    A Microfabricated Imaging Platform for Intraoperative Detection of Microscopic Nodal and Margin Involvement in Prostate Cancer
  • Robert Flavell, MD, PhD
    Boronated PSMA Neutron Capture Therapy for Treatment of Advanced Prostate Cancer
  • Luke Gilbert, PhD
    Engineering an Expanded Therapeutic Window for Imaging and Treating Metastatic Prostate Cancer
  • Hani Goodarzi, PhD
    Systematic Identification of Post-Transcriptional Regulatory Pathways that Drive Prostate Cancer
  • Jim Wells, PhD
    Characterizing and Targeting the MYC Surface-ome in Advanced Prostate Cancer

 

Benioff Initiative for Prostate Cancer Research

The mission of the UCSF Benioff Initiative for Prostate Cancer Research is to understand the fundamental biology underlying aggressive prostate cancer and develop strategies that will lead to a cure for metastatic disease.