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 PhysiologyYale 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.
Articles

May/June 2006
City vote clears way for building of cancer treatment center
A unanimous vote by the City of New Haven’s Board of Aldermen making changes to the city’s zoning regulations and...


