Marcus W. Bosenberg MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Dermatology and of Pathology
Research Interests
Melanocytic neoplasms; soft tissue tumors; cutaneous lymphoma; genodermatoses
Research Summary
Directs a National Cancer Institute funded melanoma research laboratory with interests in several aspects of melanoma biology including the cell biology and genetics of metastasis, prognostic and diagnostic markers and development of new therapeutic agents.
Extensive Research Description
Directs a National Cancer Institute funded melanoma research laboratory with interests in several aspects of melanoma biology including the cell biology and genetics of metastasis, prognostic and diagnostic markers and development of new therapeutic agents.
Selected Publications
- Wu M, Jung L, Cooper AB, Fleet C, Chen L, Breault L, Clark, K, Cai Z, Vincent S, Bottega S, Shen Q, Richardson A, Bosenberg M, Naber SP, DePinho RA, Kuperwasser C, Robinson MO. Tissue transgenic model of human breast cancer in mice (submitted to Cancer Cell).
- Smalley KS, Contractor R, Nguyen TK, Xiao M, Medina CA, Edwards R, Muthusamy V, King AJ, Flaherty KT, Bosenberg M, Herlyn M, Nathanson KL. Identification of a novel sub-group of melanomas with C-kit/CDK4 co-amplification and sensitivity to imatinib mesylate (Gleevec ®) (submitted to Cancer Research).
- Tonks I, Nurcombe V, Cool SM, Mould A, Walker GJ, Keith P, Hacker E, Schroder W, Bosenberg M, Cotterill A, Hayward NK, Kay GF. Melanocyte-specific ablation of Rb1 and Trp53 results in aneuploidy in vitro but not neoplastic transformation in vivo (submitted to Development).
