Jose Costa MD, FACP

Professor of Pathology and of Medicine (Medical Oncology); Director, Translational Diagnostics; Director, Musculoskeletal Tumor Program


Departments & Organizations

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology

Yale Medical Group

Cancer Center, Yale: Sarcoma Oncology Program

Skin Diseases Research Center, Yale

Pathology: Surgical Pathology: Bone and Soft-tissue Pathology; Genitourinary Pathology | Molecular Diagnostics | Pathology Research

Molecular Diagnostics

Gene Regulation and Functional Genomics

Research Interests

Oncology; Carcinogenesis; Tumor development and progression; Advanced diagnostics; Molecular diagnostics; Diagnosed genetic alterations in tumors; Cancer risk detection by mutational load distribution analysis


Clinical Interests

Molecular biology of tumors; oncologic pathology; molecular diagnostics; functional imaging; orthopaedic pathology; soft-tissue tumors; bone cancer; gastrointestinal cancer; sarcoma; head and neck tumors.


Education

  • M.D., University of Barcelona , 1967

Selected Publication

  • Costa, J., Gonzalez-Garcia, I., and Sole, R. (2006). Spatial Dynamics in Cancer, in Complex Systems Science in Biomedicine (Deisboeck, T.S., and Kresh, J.Y.), Chapter 6.2, pp. 557-572.