William A. Weiss, MD, PhD

We develop and use in-vivo models for neural cancers to: 1) Identify genetic events that promote tumorigenesis. 2) Study cancer stem and progenitor cells. 3) Evaluate new targets, chemical genetic approaches, and mechanistic rationales for combining targeted agents.

Stem cell biology, genetics, and developmental therapeutics in glioma. Aberrant EGFR signaling features prominently in glioma, the most common primary adult brain tumor. We generated a mouse model for glioma by over-expressing EGFR under the S100 beta promoter (Weiss, 2003). Expression of oncogenes in rare cancer-stem-like cells in the subventricular zone led to differentiation block and aberrant glial differentiation, resulting in astrocytoma (Persson, In revision). In contrast, murine oligodendrogliomas arose from abundant oligodendroglial progenitors in white matter. We described a progenitor origin for this more favorable form of glioma, demonstrating that a progenitor rather than a stem-cell origin underlies the improved outcome in patients (Persson, 2010). We were among the first to describe oncogene addiction driven by activated EGFR (Fan, 2002). We described and characterized dual inhibitors of PI3K and mTOR, demonstrating that these drugs blocked mTOR inhibitor-driven activation of Akt, that EGFR signaling to Akt was dispensable for arrest, that EGFR signaling to Protein Kinase C alpha was central to the ability of PI3K to signal to mTOR, and that blockade of PI3K, mTOR and autophagy converted cytostatic PI3K/mTOR inhibitors into cytotoxic agents (Fan, 2006-2010). Activated alleles of EGFR occur in brain and lung-cancers, yet EGFR inhibitors benefit only lung cancer. We traced this differential response to lower occupancy rates of EGFR inhibitors in brain as compared to lung cancer mutants (Barkovich 2012). EGFR is frequently co-amplified with EGFRvIII. We showed co-expression of EGFR and vIII in individual cells in human tumors, that vIII is a substrate for EGFR, and that co-expression drives STAT signaling (Fan et al, 2013).

Targeted expression of MYCN generate models of neuroblastoma and medulloblastoma in transgenic mice. Neuroblastoma is the third most common tumor of childhood. The proto-oncogene MYCN is amplified in 25% of neuroblastomas, marking incurable disease. We generated transgenic mice that mis-expressed MYCN in neural crest, that developed neuroblastoma, and that remain the standard GEM model used by the community (Weiss et al, 1997). Genome-wide screens revealed genetic alignment with human tumors (Weiss et al, 2002, Hackett et al, 2003). Through systems biology approaches, we identified altered neurotransmitter signaling through GABA as contributing to human and murine neuroblastoma, and described the alternative splicing landscape (Hackett et al, 2014; Chen et al, 2015). Murine neuroblastoma tumors mutant at p53 were therapy resistant, modeling relapsed, drug-resistant neuroblastoma (Chesler, 2006-8). MYCN blockade reduced VEGF signaling, promoting vascular collapse (Chanthery, 2012). We synthesized and solved the co-crystal structure of a new class of MYC/MYCN-degrading drugs that block a kinase-independent MYC/MYCN stabilizing function of Aurora Kinase, potently degrading MYCN in-vivo (Gustafson, Meyerowitz, Cancer Cell, 2014).

MYCN is mis-expresssed in the majority of medulloblastoma tumors. We used the Tet system to regulate MYCN expression and to image tumor-associated firefly luciferase expression in-vivo. Targeted expression of MYCN to the brains of transgenic mice led to luciferase and MYCN-positive medulloblastoma, (Swartling, 2010). We also transduced MYCN into murine neural stem cells, separately cultured from prenatal or postnatal mice, with cells from hindbrain generating medulloblastoma, and from forebrain generating glioma. Orthotopic transduction of prenatal cerebellar stem cells drove SHH-dependent, while both prenatal brainstem and postnatal cerebellar stem cells drove SHH-independent disease (Swartling 2012). Thus, distinct neural stem cell populations generated disparate brain tumors in response to MYCN.

Genome-wide sequencing efforts have generally failed to identify new driver mutations for the majority of high-risk neuroblastoma and medulloblastoma. In contrast, copy number analyses have identified recurrent regions of variation. Regions of gain or loss on any human chromosome correspond to multiple different chromosomes in the mouse, which is challenging to model. Thus, we are incorporating known driver mutations into engineered human induced pluripotent stem cells, and have generated humanized mouse models for neuroblastoma and medulloblastoma. These human based xenograft models represent a genetic platform to test copy number variation as cancer drivers, and to develop therapies.


LEADERSHIP. I am Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Neurosurgery at UCSF, Director of Clinical Child Neurology at San Francisco General Hospital, Co-Leader of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Pediatrics Malignancies Program and Chair of the weekly seminar series in UCSF’s Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Project PI in UCSF’s Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Program. I edit Breaking Advances for Cancer Research, am associate editor of the NeuroOncology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Scientific Reports, serve on the Neuroblastoma Biology Committee for the Children’s Oncology Group, and am advise Research Programs at Stanford and at Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital. I have organized two international meetings on mouse models for neural cancers for the NCI, was co-organizer of the Cold Spring Harbor Models and Mechanisms of Cancer meeting (2009-2014), and was founding organizer of the now annual Medulloblastoma in the Mountains, and Pediatric Infiltrating Glioma Meeings (which bring together international basic and clinical thought leaders to translate scientific findings into patient care). I was co-chair of the program meeting for the 2007 centennial AACR meeting, and have organized basic science sessions at annual AACR meetings for many years. I was an external advisor for programs at CHLA, Mayo Clinic and University of Calgary; and have been external reviewer of NCI’s Mouse Cancer Genetics Program (2003 and 2008) and of the Departments of Genetics and of Tumor Cell Biology at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital (2009). I have been a good citizen of the NIH for many years, and was a permanent member of both the NINDS NSDA study section. I was also a permanent member of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (under Chuck Sherr).

MENTORING RECORD. I formally mentor neurologists Li Gan (Associate Prof of Neurology at UCSF) Hannah Green, MD (Associate Prof of Neurology at UCSF), and Audrey Foster-Barber (Associate Prof of Pediatric Neurology at UCSF), David Young (fellow in Child Neurology), Christopher McGraw (resident in Neurology), and Abrar Choudhury (first year MSTP). Other mentees include Clay Gustafson, MD-PhD (K08 recipient and Alex Lemonade Stand Career Awardee, Asst Prof of Pediatrics at UCSF), Anders Persson, PhD (independent investigator and Assistant Professor of Neurology at UCSF), Theo Nicolaides, MD, (K08 recipient, independent investigator and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF), Qi-Wen Fan, MD-PhD, (up for promotion to Associate Professor of Neurology at UCSF), and Lou Chesler (former K08 recipient and Professor at ICR in London). I was formally a mentor to Jonathan Hecht, MD-PhD (Assistant Prof of Pediatric Neurology, Stanford), Manu Hegde MD-PhD (Assistant Prof of Neurology, UCSF), Sabine Mueller, MD-PhD (Assistant Professor of Pediatric Neurology at UCSF), Kendall Nash, MD (Assistant Professor of Pediatric Neurology at UCSF), Kyle Steinman, MD (Assistant Prof of Pediatric Neurology, Univ of Washington) and Raquel Gardner (Assistant Professor at UCSF). In addition to Drs. Fan, Gustafson, Nicolaides, and Persson, above, my former postdoctoral fellow mentees also include Yvan Chanthery, PhD (now Asst Professor at Santa Clara University), Lou Chesler, MD-PhD (former K08 recipient and now full Professor and independent investigator at the Royal Marsden Hospital, ICR, UK), and Fredrik J. Swartling, PhD, (Assistant Professor and independent investigator at Uppsalla University, Sweden). I mentor on average 4-5 postdocs in my lab. Miller Huang, a postdoc in my lab, was awarded a K99 in 2016. I have mentored 4 PhD students (all have graduated) and three MD-PhD student (one graduated) in my own lab, as well as a large number of medical students and undergraduates. In addition, I mentor a large number of graduate students as a non-thesis advisor, and through sitting on qualifying exam and thesis committees.
Education
Residency, 1994 - Neurology/Child Neurology, UCSF
Residency, 1991 - Pediatrics, Children's Hospital
MD-PhD, 1989 - Medicine/Cancer Biology, Stanford University
Postdoc, 1988 - Cancer Biology (under J. Michael Bishop), UCSF
BS, 1982 - Biology, Tufts University
Websites
  1. Lee JJY, Johnston MJ, Farooq H, Chen HM, Younes ST, Suarez R, Zwaig M, Juretic N, Weiss WA, Ragoussis J, Jabado N, Taylor MD, Gallo M. 3D genome topology distinguishes molecular subgroups of medulloblastoma. American journal of human genetics 2024. PMID: 39481374


  2. Liu SJ, Zou C, Pak J, Morse A, Pang D, Casey-Clyde T, Borah AA, Wu D, Seo K, O'Loughlin T, Lim DA, Ozawa T, Berger MS, Kamber RA, Weiss WA, Raleigh DR, Gilbert LA. In vivo perturb-seq of cancer and microenvironment cells dissects oncologic drivers and radiotherapy responses in glioblastoma. Genome biology 2024. PMID: 39375777


  3. Chesler L, Schlieve C, Goldenberg DD, Kenney A, Kim G, McMillan A, Matthay KK, Rowitch D, Weiss WA. Editor's Note: Inhibition of Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Destabilizes Mycn Protein and Blocks Malignant Progression in Neuroblastoma. Cancer research 2024. PMID: 39350668


  4. An Z, Fan QW, Wang L, Yoda H, Barata MJ, Jimenez-Morales D, Phillips JJ, Swaney DL, Stevenson E, Lee E, Krogan N, Weiss WA. EGFR and EGFRvIII coopt host defense pathways, promoting progression in glioblastoma. Neuro-oncology 2024. PMID: 39248287


  5. Schmidt C, Cohen S, Gudenas BL, Husain S, Carlson A, Westelman S, Wang L, Phillips JJ, Northcott PA, Weiss WA, Schwer B. PRDM6 promotes medulloblastoma by repressing chromatin accessibility and altering gene expression. Scientific Reports 2024. PMID: 38992221


  6. Visvanathan A, Saulnier O, Chen C, Haldipur P, Orisme W, Delaidelli A, Shin S, Millman J, Bryant A, Abeysundara N, Wu X, Hendrikse LD, Patil V, Bashardanesh Z, Golser J, Livingston BG, Nakashima T, Funakoshi Y, Ong W, Rasnitsyn A, Aldinger KA, Richman CM, Van Ommeren R, Lee JJY, Ly M, Vladoiu MC, Kharas K, Balin P, Erickson AW, Fong V, Zhang J, Suárez RA, Wang H, Huang N, Pallota JG, Douglas T, Haapasalo J, Razavi F, Silvestri E, Sirbu O, Worme S, Kameda-Smith MM, Wu X, Daniels C, MichaelRaj AK, Bhaduri A, Schramek D, Suzuki H, Garzia L, Ahmed N, Kleinman CL, Stein LD, Dirks P, Dunham C, Jabado N, Rich JN, Li W, Sorensen PH, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Weiss WA, Millen KJ, Ellison DW, Dimitrov DS, Taylor MD. Early rhombic lip Protogenin+ve stem cells in a human-specific neurovascular niche initiate and maintain group 3 medulloblastoma. Cell 2024. PMID: 38971152


  7. Kumar P, Koach J, Nekritz E, Mukherjee S, Braun BS, DuBois SG, Nasholm N, Haas-Kogan D, Matthay KK, Weiss WA, Gustafson C, Seo Y. Aurora Kinase A inhibition enhances DNA damage and tumor cell death with 131I-MIBG therapy in high-risk neuroblastoma. EJNMMI research 2024. PMID: 38869684


  8. Yang J, Chung CI, Koach J, Liu H, Navalkar A, He H, Ma Z, Zhao Q, Yang X, He L, Mittag T, Shen Y, Weiss WA, Shu X. Author Correction: MYC phase separation selectively modulates the transcriptome. Nature structural & molecular biology 2024. PMID: 38867115


  9. Yang J, Chung CI, Koach J, Liu H, Navalkar A, He H, Ma Z, Zhao Q, Yang X, He L, Mittag T, Shen Y, Weiss WA, Shu X. MYC phase separation selectively modulates the transcriptome. Nature structural & molecular biology 2024. PMID: 38811792


  10. Huang M, Fang W, Farrel A, Li L, Chronopoulos A, Nasholm N, Cheng B, Zheng T, Yoda H, Barata MJ, Porras T, Miller ML, Zhen Q, Ghiglieri L, McHenry L, Wang L, Asgharzadeh S, Park J, Gustafson WC, Matthay KK, Maris JM, Weiss WA. ALK upregulates POSTN and WNT signaling to drive neuroblastoma. Cell reports 2024. PMID: 38451815


  11. Kumar P, Koach J, Nekritz E, Mukherjee S, Braun BS, DuBois SG, Nasholm N, Haas-Kogan D, Matthay KK, Weiss WA, Gustafson C, Seo Y. Aurora Kinase A inhibition enhances DNA damage and tumor cell death with 131I-MIBG therapy in high-risk neuroblastoma. Research square 2024. PMID: 38313265


  12. Slavotinek A, Rego S, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Kvale M, Lianoglou B, Yip T, Hoban H, Outram S, Anguiano B, Chen F, Michelson J, Cilio RM, Curry C, Gallagher RC, Gardner M, Kuperman R, Mendelsohn B, Sherr E, Shieh J, Strober J, Tam A, Tenney J, Weiss W, Whittle A, Chin G, Faubel A, Prasad H, Mavura Y, Van Ziffle J, Devine WP, Hodoglugil U, Martin PM, Sparks TN, Koenig B, Ackerman S, Risch N, Kwok PY, Norton ME. Author Correction: Diagnostic yield of pediatric and prenatal exome sequencing in a diverse population. NPJ genomic medicine 2023. PMID: 37872195


  13. Ng VH, Spencer Z, Neitzel LR, Nayak A, Loberg MA, Shen C, Kassel SN, Kroh HK, An Z, Anthony CC, Bryant JM, Lawson A, Goldsmith L, Benchabane H, Hansen AG, Li J, D'Souza S, Lebensohn AM, Rohatgi R, Weiss WA, Weiss VL, Williams C, Hong CC, Robbins DJ, Ahmed Y, Lee E. The USP46 complex deubiquitylates LRP6 to promote Wnt/β-catenin signaling. Nature communications 2023. PMID: 37798301


  14. Schmidt C, Cohen S, Gudenas BL, Husain S, Carlson A, Westelman S, Wang L, Phillips JJ, Northcott PA, Weiss WA, Schwer B. PRDM6 promotes medulloblastoma by repressing chromatin accessibility and altering gene expression. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023. PMID: 37693484


  15. Daggubati V, Vykunta A, Choudhury A, Qadeer Z, Mirchia K, Saulnier O, Zakimi N, Hines K, Paul M, Wang L, Jura N, Xu L, Reiter J, Taylor M, Weiss W, Raleigh D. Hedgehog target genes regulate lipid metabolism to drive basal cell carcinoma and medulloblastoma. Research square 2023. PMID: 37577529


  16. Slavotinek A, Rego S, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Kvale M, Lianoglou B, Yip T, Hoban H, Outram S, Anguiano B, Chen F, Michelson J, Cilio RM, Curry C, Gallagher RC, Gardner M, Kuperman R, Mendelsohn B, Sherr E, Shieh J, Strober J, Tam A, Tenney J, Weiss W, Whittle A, Chin G, Faubel A, Prasad H, Mavura Y, Van Ziffle J, Devine WP, Hodoglugil U, Martin PM, Sparks TN, Koenig B, Ackerman S, Risch N, Kwok PY, Norton ME. Diagnostic yield of pediatric and prenatal exome sequencing in a diverse population. NPJ genomic medicine 2023. PMID: 37236975


  17. Luo Z, Xin D, Liao Y, Berry K, Ogurek S, Zhang F, Zhang L, Zhao C, Rao R, Dong X, Li H, Yu J, Lin Y, Huang G, Xu L, Xin M, Nishinakamura R, Yu J, Kool M, Pfister SM, Roussel MF, Zhou W, Weiss WA, Andreassen P, Lu QR. Loss of phosphatase CTDNEP1 potentiates aggressive medulloblastoma by triggering MYC amplification and genomic instability. Nature communications 2023. PMID: 36765089


  18. Liu XP, Jin X, Ahmadian SS, Yang X, Tian SF, Cai YX, Chawla K, Snijders AM, Xia Y, van Diest PJ, Weiss WA, Mao JH, Li ZQ, Vogel H, Chang H. Clinical Significance and Molecular Annotation of Cellular Morphometric Subtypes in Lower Grade Gliomas discovered by Machine Learning. Neuro-oncology 2022. PMID: 35716369


  19. Kuzuoglu-Ozturk D, Aksoy O, Schmidt C, Lea R, Larson JD, Phelps RRL, Nasholm N, Holt M, Contreras A, Huang M, Wong-Michalak S, Shao H, Wechsler-Reya R, Phillips JJ, Gestwicki JE, Ruggero D, Weiss WA. N-myc-Mediated Translation Control Is a Therapeutic Vulnerability in Medulloblastoma. Cancer research 2023. PMID: 36264168


  20. Tigue ML, Loberg MA, Goettel JA, Weiss WA, Lee E, Weiss VL. Wnt Signaling in the Phenotype and Function of Tumor-Associated Macrophages. Cancer research 2023. PMID: 36214645



  21. Hendrikse LD, Haldipur P, Saulnier O, Millman J, Sjoboen AH, Erickson AW, Ong W, Gordon V, Coudi?re-Morrison L, Mercier AL, Shokouhian M, Su?rez RA, Ly M, Borlase S, Scott DS, Vladoiu MC, Farooq H, Sirbu O, Nakashima T, Nambu S, Funakoshi Y, Bahcheli A, Diaz-Mejia JJ, Golser J, Bach K, Phuong-Bao T, Skowron P, Wang EY, Kumar SA, Balin P, Visvanathan A, Lee JJY, Ayoub R, Chen X, Chen X, Mungall KL, Luu B, B?rub? P, Wang YC, Pfister SM, Kim SK, Delattre O, Bourdeaut F, Doz F, Masliah-Planchon J, Grajkowska WA, Loukides J, Dirks P, F?vre-Montange M, Jouvet A, French PJ, Kros JM, Zitterbart K, Bailey SD, Eberhart CG, Rao AAN, Giannini C, Olson JM, Garami M, Hauser P, Phillips JJ, Ra YS, de Torres C, Mora J, Li KKW, Ng HK, Poon WS, Pollack IF, L?pez-Aguilar E, Gillespie GY, Van Meter TE, Shofuda T, Vibhakar R, Thompson RC, Cooper MK, Rubin JB, Kumabe T, Jung S, Lach B, Iolascon A, Ferrucci V, de Antonellis P, Zollo M, Cinalli G, Robinson S, Stearns DS, Van Meir EG, Porrati P, Finocchiaro G, Massimino M, Carlotti CG, Faria CC, Roussel MF, Boop F, Chan JA, Aldinger KA, Razavi F, Silvestri E, McLendon RE, Thompson EM, Ansari M, Garre ML, Chico F, Egu?a P, P?rezpe?a M, Morrissy AS, Cavalli FMG, Wu X, Daniels C, Rich JN, Jones SJM, Moore RA, Marra MA, Huang X, Reimand J, Sorensen PH, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Weiss WA, Pugh TJ, Garzia L, Kleinman CL, Stein LD, Jabado N, Malkin D, Ayrault O, Golden JA, Ellison DW, Doble B, Ramaswamy V, Werbowetski-Ogilvie TE, Suzuki H, Millen KJ, Taylor MD. Author Correction: Failure of human rhombic lip differentiation underlies medulloblastoma formation. Nature 2022. PMID: 36446943


  22. Vaishnavi A, Juan J, Jacob M, Stehn C, Gardner EE, Scherzer MT, Schuman S, Van Veen JE, Murphy B, Hackett CS, Dupuy AJ, Chmura SA, van der Weyden L, Newberg JY, Liu A, Mann K, Rust AG, Weiss WA, Kinsey CG, Adams DJ, Grossmann A, Mann MB, McMahon M. Transposon Mutagenesis Reveals RBMS3 Silencing as a Promoter of Malignant Progression of BRAFV600E-Driven Lung Tumorigenesis. Cancer research 2022. PMID: 36112789


  23. Hendrikse LD, Haldipur P, Saulnier O, Millman J, Sjoboen AH, Erickson AW, Ong W, Gordon V, Coudi?re-Morrison L, Mercier AL, Shokouhian M, Su?rez RA, Ly M, Borlase S, Scott DS, Vladoiu MC, Farooq H, Sirbu O, Nakashima T, Nambu S, Funakoshi Y, Bahcheli A, Diaz-Mejia JJ, Golser J, Bach K, Phuong-Bao T, Skowron P, Wang EY, Kumar SA, Balin P, Visvanathan A, Lee JJY, Ayoub R, Chen X, Chen X, Mungall KL, Luu B, B?rub? P, Wang YC, Pfister SM, Kim SK, Delattre O, Bourdeaut F, Doz F, Masliah-Planchon J, Grajkowska WA, Loukides J, Dirks P, F?vre-Montange M, Jouvet A, French PJ, Kros JM, Zitterbart K, Bailey SD, Eberhart CG, Rao AAN, Giannini C, Olson JM, Garami M, Hauser P, Phillips JJ, Ra YS, de Torres C, Mora J, Li KKW, Ng HK, Poon WS, Pollack IF, L?pez-Aguilar E, Gillespie GY, Van Meter TE, Shofuda T, Vibhakar R, Thompson RC, Cooper MK, Rubin JB, Kumabe T, Jung S, Lach B, Iolascon A, Ferrucci V, de Antonellis P, Zollo M, Cinalli G, Robinson S, Stearns DS, Van Meir EG, Porrati P, Finocchiaro G, Massimino M, Carlotti CG, Faria CC, Roussel MF, Boop F, Chan JA, Aldinger KA, Razavi F, Silvestri E, McLendon RE, Thompson EM, Ansari M, Garre ML, Chico F, Egu?a P, P?rezpe?a M, Morrissy AS, Cavalli FMG, Wu X, Daniels C, Rich JN, Jones SJM, Moore RA, Marra MA, Huang X, Reimand J, Sorensen PH, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Weiss WA, Pugh TJ, Garzia L, Kleinman CL, Stein LD, Jabado N, Malkin D, Ayrault O, Golden JA, Ellison DW, Doble B, Ramaswamy V, Werbowetski-Ogilvie TE, Suzuki H, Millen KJ, Taylor MD. Failure of human rhombic lip differentiation underlies medulloblastoma formation. Nature 2022. PMID: 36131014


  24. Zhang Z, Fan Q, Luo X, Lou K, Weiss WA, Shokat KM. Brain-restricted mTOR inhibition with binary pharmacology. Nature 2022. PMID: 36104566


  25. Becklin KL, Draper GM, Madden RA, Kluesner MG, Koga T, Huang M, Weiss WA, Spector LG, Largaespada DA, Moriarity BS, Webber BR. Developing Bottom-Up Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Solid Tumor Models Using Precision Genome Editing Technologies. The CRISPR journal 2022. PMID: 35972367


  26. Beytagh MC, Weiss WA. EGFR ligands dictate tumour suppression. Nature cell biology 2022. PMID: 35915160



  27. Sandoval K, Weiss WA. Nuclear tetraspanin 8 promotes breast cancer progression. 2022. PMID: 35418219


  28. du Chatinier A, Meel MH, Das AI, Metselaar DS, Waranecki P, Bugiani M, Breur M, Simonds EF, Lu ED, Weiss WA, Garcia Vallejo JJ, Hoving EW, Phoenix TN, Hulleman E. Generation of immunocompetent syngeneic allograft mouse models for pediatric diffuse midline glioma. Neuro-oncology advances 2022. PMID: 35733514


  29. Theruvath J, Menard M, Smith BAH, Linde MH, Coles GL, Dalton GN, Wu W, Kiru L, Delaidelli A, Sotillo E, Silberstein JL, Geraghty AC, Banuelos A, Radosevich MT, Dhingra S, Heitzeneder S, Tousley A, Lattin J, Xu P, Huang J, Nasholm N, He A, Kuo TC, Sangalang ERB, Pons J, Barkal A, Brewer RE, Marjon KD, Vilches-Moure JG, Marshall PL, Fernandes R, Monje M, Cochran JR, Sorensen PH, Daldrup-Link HE, Weissman IL, Sage J, Majeti R, Bertozzi CR, Weiss WA, Mackall CL, Majzner RG. Anti-GD2 synergizes with CD47 blockade to mediate tumor eradication. 2022. PMID: 35027753



  30. Coltin H, Sundaresan L, Smith KS, Skowron P, Massimi L, Eberhart CG, Schreck KC, Gupta N, Weiss WA, Tirapelli D, Carlotti C, Li KKW, Ryzhova M, Golanov A, Zheludkova O, Absalyamova O, Okonechnikov K, Stichel D, von Deimling A, Giannini C, Raskin S, Van Meir EG, Chan JA, Fults D, Chambless LB, Kim SK, Vasiljevic A, Faure-Conter C, Vibhakar R, Jung S, Leary S, Mora J, McLendon RE, Pollack IF, Hauser P, Grajkowska WA, Rubin JB, van Veelen MC, French PJ, Kros JM, Liau LM, Pfister SM, Kool M, Kijima N, Taylor MD, Packer RJ, Northcott PA, Korshunov A, Ramaswamy V. Subgroup and subtype-specific outcomes in adult medulloblastoma. Acta neuropathologica 2021. PMID: 34409497



  31. Yi JS, Sias-Garcia O, Nasholm N, Hu X, Iniguez AB, Hall MD, Davis M, Guha R, Moreno-Smith M, Barbieri E, Duong K, Koach J, Qi J, Bradner JE, Stegmaier K, Weiss WA, Gustafson WC. The synergy of BET inhibitors with aurora A kinase inhibitors in MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma is heightened with functional TP53. Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) 2021. PMID: 34107377


  32. Simonds EF, Lu ED, Badillo O, Karimi S, Liu EV, Tamaki W, Rancan C, Downey KM, Stultz J, Sinha M, McHenry LK, Nasholm NM, Chuntova P, Sundström A, Genoud V, Shahani SA, Wang LD, Brown CE, Walker PR, Swartling FJ, Fong L, Okada H, Weiss WA, Hellström M. Deep immune profiling reveals targetable mechanisms of immune evasion in immune checkpoint inhibitor-refractory glioblastoma. Journal for immunotherapy of cancer 2021. PMID: 34083417


  33. Chopra M, McEntagart M, Clayton-Smith J, Platzer K, Shukla A, Girisha KM, Kaur A, Kaur P, Pfundt R, Veenstra-Knol H, Mancini GMS, Cappuccio G, Brunetti-Pierri N, Kortüm F, Hempel M, Denecke J, Lehman A, CAUSES Study , Kleefstra T, Stuurman KE, Wilke M, Thompson ML, Bebin EM, Bijlsma EK, Hoffer MJV, Peeters-Scholte C, Slavotinek A, Weiss WA, Yip T, Hodoglugil U, Whittle A, diMonda J, Neira J, Yang S, Kirby A, Pinz H, Lechner R, Sleutels F, Helbig I, McKeown S, Helbig K, Willaert R, Juusola J, Semotok J, Hadonou M, Short J, Genomics England Research Consortium , Yachelevich N, Lala S, Fernández-Jaen A, Pelayo JP, Klöckner C, Kamphausen SB, Abou Jamra R, Arelin M, Innes AM, Niskakoski A, Amin S, Williams M, Evans J, Smithson S, Smedley D, de Burca A, Kini U, Delatycki MB, Gallacher L, Yeung A, Pais L, Field M, Martin E, Charles P, Courtin T, Keren B, Iascone M, Cereda A, Poke G, Abadie V, Chalouhi C, Parthasarathy P, Halliday BJ, Robertson SP, Lyonnet S, Amiel J, Gordon CT. Heterozygous ANKRD17 loss-of-function variants cause a syndrome with intellectual disability, speech delay, and dysmorphism. American journal of human genetics 2021. PMID: 33909992


  34. Skowron P, Farooq H, Cavalli FMG, Morrissy AS, Ly M, Hendrikse LD, Wang EY, Djambazian H, Zhu H, Mungall KL, Trinh QM, Zheng T, Dai S, Stucklin ASG, Vladoiu MC, Fong V, Holgado BL, Nor C, Wu X, Abd-Rabbo D, Bérubé P, Wang YC, Luu B, Suarez RA, Rastan A, Gillmor AH, Lee JJY, Zhang XY, Daniels C, Dirks P, Malkin D, Bouffet E, Tabori U, Loukides J, Doz FP, Bourdeaut F, Delattre OO, Masliah-Planchon J, Ayrault O, Kim SK, Meyronet D, Grajkowska WA, Carlotti CG, de Torres C, Mora J, Eberhart CG, Van Meir EG, Kumabe T, French PJ, Kros JM, Jabado N, Lach B, Pollack IF, Hamilton RL, Rao AAN, Giannini C, Olson JM, Bognár L, Klekner A, Zitterbart K, Phillips JJ, Thompson RC, Cooper MK, Rubin JB, Liau LM, Garami M, Hauser P, Li KKW, Ng HK, Poon WS, Yancey Gillespie G, Chan JA, Jung S, McLendon RE, Thompson EM, Zagzag D, Vibhakar R, Ra YS, Garre ML, Schüller U, Shofuda T, Faria CC, López-Aguilar E, Zadeh G, Hui CC, Ramaswamy V, Bailey SD, Jones SJ, Mungall AJ, Moore RA, Calarco JA, Stein LD, Bader GD, Reimand J, Ragoussis J, Weiss WA, Marra MA, Suzuki H, Taylor MD. The transcriptional landscape of Shh medulloblastoma. Nature communications 2021. PMID: 33741928


  35. Hahn WC, Bader JS, Braun TP, Califano A, Clemons PA, Druker BJ, Ewald AJ, Fu H, Jagu S, Kemp CJ, Kim W, Kuo CJ, McManus M, B Mills G, Mo X, Sahni N, Schreiber SL, Talamas JA, Tamayo P, Tyner JW, Wagner BK, Weiss WA, Gerhard DS, Cancer Target Discovery and Development Network. An expanded universe of cancer targets. Cell 2021. PMID: 33667368


  36. Fisher MJ, Jones DTW, Li Y, Guo X, Sonawane PS, Waanders AJ, Phillips JJ, Weiss WA, Resnick AC, Gosline S, Banerjee J, Guinney J, Gnekow A, Kandels D, Foreman NK, Korshunov A, Ryzhova M, Massimi L, Gururangan S, Kieran MW, Wang Z, Fouladi M, Sato M, Øra I, Holm S, Markham SJ, Beck P, Jäger N, Wittmann A, Sommerkamp AC, Sahm F, Pfister SM, Gutmann DH. Integrated molecular and clinical analysis of low-grade gliomas in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Acta neuropathologica 2021. PMID: 33585982


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  38. Nobre L, Zapotocky M, Khan S, Fukuoka K, Fonseca A, McKeown T, Sumerauer D, Vicha A, Grajkowska WA, Trubicka J, Li KKW, Ng HK, Massimi L, Lee JY, Kim SK, Zelcer S, Vasiljevic A, Faure-Conter C, Hauser P, Lach B, van Veelen-Vincent ML, French PJ, Van Meir EG, Weiss WA, Gupta N, Pollack IF, Hamilton RL, Nageswara Rao AA, Giannini C, Rubin JB, Moore AS, Chambless LB, Vibhakar R, Ra YS, Massimino M, McLendon RE, Wheeler H, Zollo M, Ferruci V, Kumabe T, Faria CC, Sterba J, Jung S, López-Aguilar E, Mora J, Carlotti CG, Olson JM, Leary S, Cain J, Krskova L, Zamecnik J, Hawkins CE, Tabori U, Huang A, Bartels U, Northcott PA, Taylor MD, Yip S, Hansford JR, Bouffet E, Ramaswamy V. Pattern of Relapse and Treatment Response in WNT-Activated Medulloblastoma. Cell reports. Medicine 2020. PMID: 32743560



  39. Fan Q, An Z, Wong RA, Luo X, Lu ED, Baldwin A, Mayekar MK, Haderk F, Shokat KM, Bivona TG, Weiss WA. Betacellulin drives therapy resistance in glioblastoma. Neuro-oncology 2020. PMID: 31678994




  40. Wong RA, Luo X, Lu M, An Z, Haas-Kogan DA, Phillips JJ, Shokat KM, Weiss WA, Fan QW. Cooperative Blockade of PKCa and JAK2 Drives Apoptosis in Glioblastoma. Cancer research 2019. PMID: 31806641


  41. An Z, Knobbe-Thomsen CB, Wan X, Fan QW, Reifenberger G, Weiss WA. Correction: EGFR Cooperates with EGFRvIII to Recruit Macrophages in Glioblastoma. Cancer research 2019. PMID: 31676678


  42. Qadeer ZA, Valle-Garcia D, Hasson D, Sun Z, Cook A, Nguyen C, Soriano A, Ma A, Griffiths LM, Zeineldin M, Filipescu D, Jubierre L, Chowdhury A, Deevy O, Chen X, Finkelstein DB, Bahrami A, Stewart E, Federico S, Gallego S, Dekio F, Fowkes M, Meni D, Maris JM, Weiss WA, Roberts SS, Cheung NV, Jin J, Segura MF, Dyer MA, Bernstein E. ATRX In-Frame Fusion Neuroblastoma Is Sensitive to EZH2 Inhibition via Modulation of Neuronal Gene Signatures. Cancer cell 2019. PMID: 31631027


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  44. Zhang L, He X, Liu X, Zhang F, Huang LF, Potter AS, Xu L, Zhou W, Zheng T, Luo Z, Berry KP, Pribnow A, Smith SM, Fuller C, Jones BV, Fouladi M, Drissi R, Yang ZJ, Gustafson WC, Remke M, Pomeroy SL, Girard EJ, Olson JM, Morrissy AS, Vladoiu MC, Zhang J, Tian W, Xin M, Taylor MD, Potter SS, Roussel MF, Weiss WA, Lu QR. Single-Cell Transcriptomics in Medulloblastoma Reveals Tumor-Initiating Progenitors and Oncogenic Cascades during Tumorigenesis and Relapse. Cancer cell 2019. PMID: 31474569


  45. Chatterjee N, Pazarentzos E, Mayekar MK, Gui P, Allegakoen DV, Hrustanovic G, Olivas V, Lin L, Verschueren E, Johnson JR, Hofree M, Yan JJ, Newton BW, Dollen JV, Earnshaw CH, Flanagan J, Chan E, Asthana S, Ideker T, Wu W, Suzuki J, Barad BA, Kirichok Y, Fraser JS, Weiss WA, Krogan NJ, Tulpule A, Sabnis AJ, Bivona TG. Synthetic Essentiality of Metabolic Regulator PDHK1 in PTEN-Deficient Cells and Cancers. Cell reports 2019. PMID: 31461649


  46. Sabelström H, Petri R, Shchors K, Jandial R, Schmidt C, Sacheva R, Masic S, Yuan E, Fenster T, Martinez M, Saxena S, Nicolaides TP, Ilkhanizadeh S, Berger MS, Snyder EY, Weiss WA, Jakobsson J, Persson AI. Driving Neuronal Differentiation through Reversal of an ERK1/2-miR-124-SOX9 Axis Abrogates Glioblastoma Aggressiveness. Cell reports 2019. PMID: 31433983



  47. McKinney A, Lindberg OR, Engler JR, Chen KY, Kumar A, Gong H, Lu KV, Simonds EF, Cloughesy TF, Liau LM, Prados M, Bollen AW, Berger MS, Shieh JTC, James CD, Nicolaides TP, Yong WH, Lai A, Hegi ME, Weiss WA, Phillips JJ. Mechanisms of Resistance to EGFR Inhibition Reveal Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Human GBM. Molecular cancer therapeutics 2019. PMID: 31270152


  48. Huang M, Tailor J, Zhen Q, Gillmor AH, Miller ML, Weishaupt H, Chen J, Zheng T, Nash EK, McHenry LK, An Z, Ye F, Takashima Y, Clarke J, Ayetey H, Cavalli FMG, Luu B, Moriarity BS, Ilkhanizadeh S, Chavez L, Yu C, Kurian KM, Magnaldo T, Sevenet N, Koch P, Pollard SM, Dirks P, Snyder MP, Largaespada DA, Cho YJ, Phillips JJ, Swartling FJ, Morrissy AS, Kool M, Pfister SM, Taylor MD, Smith A, Weiss WA. Engineering Genetic Predisposition in Human Neuroepithelial Stem Cells Recapitulates Medulloblastoma Tumorigenesis. Cell stem cell 2019. PMID: 31204176


  49. Lee C, Rudneva VA, Erkek S, Zapatka M, Chau LQ, Tacheva-Grigorova SK, Garancher A, Rusert JM, Aksoy O, Lea R, Mohammad HP, Wang J, Weiss WA, Grimes HL, Pfister SM, Northcott PA, Wechsler-Reya RJ. Lsd1 as a therapeutic target in Gfi1-activated medulloblastoma. Nature communications 2019. PMID: 30659187


  50. Andor N, Simonds EF, Czerwinski DK, Chen J, Grimes SM, Wood-Bouwens C, Zheng GXY, Kubit MA, Greer S, Weiss WA, Levy R, Ji HP. Single-cell RNA-Seq of follicular lymphoma reveals malignant B-cell types and coexpression of T-cell immune checkpoints. Blood 2018. PMID: 30591526


  51. Iniguez AB, Alexe G, Wang EJ, Roti G, Patel S, Chen L, Kitara S, Conway A, Robichaud AL, Stolte B, Bandopadhayay P, Goodale A, Pantel S, Lee Y, Cheff DM, Hall MD, Guha R, Davis MI, Menard M, Nasholm N, Weiss WA, Qi J, Beroukhim R, Piccioni F, Johannessen C, Stegmaier K. Resistance to Epigenetic-Targeted Therapy Engenders Tumor Cell Vulnerabilities Associated with Enhancer Remodeling. Cancer cell 2018. PMID: 30537514


  52. Aghaeepour N, Simonds EF, Knapp DJHF, Bruggner RV, Sachs K, Culos A, Gherardini PF, Samusik N, Fragiadakis GK, Bendall SC, Gaudilliere B, Angst MS, Eaves CJ, Weiss WA, Fantl WJ, Nolan GP. GateFinder: projection-based gating strategy optimization for flow and mass cytometry. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2018. PMID: 29850785


  53. Rodriguez-Blanco J, Li B, Long J, Shen C, Yang F, Orton D, Collins S, Kasahara N, Ayad NG, McCrea HJ, Roussel MF, Weiss WA, Capobianco AJ, Robbins DJ. A CK1a Activator Penetrates the Brain and Shows Efficacy Against Drug-resistant Metastatic Medulloblastoma. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2018. PMID: 30487124


  54. Lal S, Carrera D, Phillips JJ, Weiss WA, Raffel C. An oncolytic measles virus-sensitive Group 3 medulloblastoma model in immune-competent mice. Neuro-oncology 2018. PMID: 29912438


  55. An Z, Knobbe-Thomsen CB, Wan X, Fan QW, Reifenberger G, Weiss WA. EGFR Cooperates with EGFRvIII to Recruit Macrophages in Glioblastoma. Cancer research 2018. PMID: 30401716


  56. Garzia L, Kijima N, Morrissy AS, De Antonellis P, Guerreiro-Stucklin A, Holgado BL, Wu X, Wang X, Parsons M, Zayne K, Manno A, Kuzan-Fischer C, Nor C, Donovan LK, Liu J, Qin L, Garancher A, Liu KW, Mansouri S, Luu B, Thompson YY, Ramaswamy V, Peacock J, Farooq H, Skowron P, Shih DJH, Li A, Ensan S, Robbins CS, Cybulsky M, Mitra S, Ma Y, Moore R, Mungall A, Cho YJ, Weiss WA, Chan JA, Hawkins CE, Massimino M, Jabado N, Zapotocky M, Sumerauer D, Bouffet E, Dirks P, Tabori U, Sorensen PHB, Brastianos PK, Aldape K, Jones SJM, Marra MA, Woodgett JR, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Fults DW, Taylor MD. A Hematogenous Route for Medulloblastoma Leptomeningeal Metastases. Cell 2018. PMID: 29856958


  57. Pal S, Kozono D, Yang X, Fendler W, Fitts W, Ni J, Alberta JA, Zhao J, Liu KX, Bian J, Truffaux N, Weiss WA, Resnick AC, Bandopadhayay P, Ligon KL, DuBois SG, Mueller S, Chowdhury D, Haas-Kogan DA. Dual HDAC and PI3K Inhibition Abrogates NF?B- and FOXM1-Mediated DNA Damage Response to Radiosensitize Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas. Cancer research 2018. PMID: 29760046


  58. Ferrucci V, de Antonellis P, Pennino FP, Asadzadeh F, Virgilio A, Montanaro D, Galeone A, Boffa I, Pisano I, Scognamiglio I, Navas L, Diana D, Pedone E, Gargiulo S, Gramanzini M, Brunetti A, Danielson L, Carotenuto M, Liguori L, Verrico A, Quaglietta L, Errico ME, Del Monaco V, D'Argenio V, Tirone F, Mastronuzzi A, Donofrio V, Giangaspero F, Picard D, Remke M, Garzia L, Daniels C, Delattre O, Swartling FJ, Weiss WA, Salvatore F, Fattorusso R, Chesler L, Taylor MD, Cinalli G, Zollo M. Metastatic group 3 medulloblastoma is driven by PRUNE1 targeting NME1-TGF-ß-OTX2-SNAIL via PTEN inhibition. Brain : a journal of neurology 2018. PMID: 29490009


  59. Griveau A, Seano G, Shelton SJ, Kupp R, Jahangiri A, Obernier K, Krishnan S, Lindberg OR, Yuen TJ, Tien AC, Sabo JK, Wang N, Chen I, Kloepper J, Larrouquere L, Ghosh M, Tirosh I, Huillard E, Alvarez-Buylla A, Oldham MC, Persson AI, Weiss WA, Batchelor TT, Stemmer-Rachamimov A, Suvà ML, Phillips JJ, Aghi MK, Mehta S, Jain RK, Rowitch DH. A Glial Signature and Wnt7 Signaling Regulate Glioma-Vascular Interactions and Tumor Microenvironment. Cancer cell 2018. PMID: 29681511


  60. Bolin S, Borgenvik A, Persson CU, Sundström A, Qi J, Bradner JE, Weiss WA, Cho YJ, Weishaupt H, Swartling FJ. Combined BET bromodomain and CDK2 inhibition in MYC-driven medulloblastoma. Oncogene 2018. PMID: 29511348


  61. Garzia L, Kijima N, Morrissy AS, De Antonellis P, Guerreiro-Stucklin A, Holgado BL, Wu X, Wang X, Parsons M, Zayne K, Manno A, Kuzan-Fischer C, Nor C, Donovan LK, Liu J, Qin L, Garancher A, Liu KW, Mansouri S, Luu B, Thompson YY, Ramaswamy V, Peacock J, Farooq H, Skowron P, Shih DJH, Li A, Ensan S, Robbins CS, Cybulsky M, Mitra S, Ma Y, Moore R, Mungall A, Cho YJ, Weiss WA, Chan JA, Hawkins CE, Massimino M, Jabado N, Zapotocky M, Sumerauer D, Bouffet E, Dirks P, Tabori U, Sorensen PHB, Brastianos PK, Aldape K, Jones SJM, Marra MA, Woodgett JR, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Fults DW, Taylor MD. A Hematogenous Route for Medulloblastoma Leptomeningeal Metastases. Cell 2018. PMID: 29474906


  62. Ilkhanizadeh S, Sabelström H, Miroshnikova YA, Frantz A, Zhu W, Idilli A, Lakins JN, Schmidt C, Quigley DA, Fenster T, Yuan E, Trzeciak JR, Saxena S, Lindberg OR, Mouw JK, Burdick JA, Magnitsky S, Berger MS, Phillips JJ, Arosio D, Sun D, Weaver VM, Weiss WA, Persson AI. Antisecretory Factor-Mediated Inhibition of Cell Volume Dynamics Produces Antitumor Activity in Glioblastoma. Molecular cancer research : MCR 2018. PMID: 29431617



  63. Chen L, Alexe G, Dharia NV, Ross L, Iniguez AB, Conway AS, Wang EJ, Veschi V, Lam N, Qi J, Gustafson WC, Nasholm N, Vazquez F, Weir BA, Cowley GS, Ali LD, Pantel S, Jiang G, Harrington WF, Lee Y, Goodale A, Lubonja R, Krill-Burger JM, Meyers RM, Tsherniak A, Root DE, Bradner JE, Golub TR, Roberts CW, Hahn WC, Weiss WA, Thiele CJ, Stegmaier K. CRISPR-Cas9 screen reveals a MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma dependency on EZH2. The Journal of clinical investigation 2017. PMID: 29202477


  64. Zheng T, Ménard M, Weiss WA. Neuroblastoma Metastases: Leveraging the Avian Neural Crest. Cancer cell 2017. PMID: 29017050


  65. Jahangiri A, Nguyen A, Chandra A, Sidorov MK, Yagnik G, Rick J, Han SW, Chen W, Flanigan PM, Schneidman-Duhovny D, Mascharak S, De Lay M, Imber B, Park CC, Matsumoto K, Lu K, Bergers G, Sali A, Weiss WA, Aghi MK. Cross-activating c-Met/ß1 integrin complex drives metastasis and invasive resistance in cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2017. PMID: 28973887


  66. Levin VA, Abrey LE, Heffron TP, Tonge PJ, Dar AC, Weiss WA, Gallo JM. CNS Anticancer Drug Discovery and Development: 2016 conference insights. CNS oncology 2017. PMID: 28718326


  67. Rodriguez-Blanco J, Pednekar L, Penas C, Li B, Martin V, Long J, Lee E, Weiss WA, Rodriguez C, Mehrdad N, Nguyen DM, Ayad NG, Rai P, Capobianco AJ, Robbins DJ. Inhibition of WNT signaling attenuates self-renewal of SHH-subgroup medulloblastoma. Oncogene 2017. PMID: 28714964



  68. Zanca C, Villa GR, Benitez JA, Thorne AH, Koga T, D'Antonio M, Ikegami S, Ma J, Boyer AD, Banisadr A, Jameson NM, Parisian AD, Eliseeva OV, Barnabe GF, Liu F, Wu S, Yang H, Wykosky J, Frazer KA, Verkhusha VV, Isaguliants MG, Weiss WA, Gahman TC, Shiau AK, Chen CC, Mischel PS, Cavenee WK, Furnari FB. Glioblastoma cellular cross-talk converges on NF-?B to attenuate EGFR inhibitor sensitivity. Genes & development 2017. PMID: 28724615


  69. Cavalli FMG, Remke M, Rampasek L, Peacock J, Shih DJH, Luu B, Garzia L, Torchia J, Nor C, Morrissy AS, Agnihotri S, Thompson YY, Kuzan-Fischer CM, Farooq H, Isaev K, Daniels C, Cho BK, Kim SK, Wang KC, Lee JY, Grajkowska WA, Perek-Polnik M, Vasiljevic A, Faure-Conter C, Jouvet A, Giannini C, Nageswara Rao AA, Li KKW, Ng HK, Eberhart CG, Pollack IF, Hamilton RL, Gillespie GY, Olson JM, Leary S, Weiss WA, Lach B, Chambless LB, Thompson RC, Cooper MK, Vibhakar R, Hauser P, van Veelen MC, Kros JM, French PJ, Ra YS, Kumabe T, López-Aguilar E, Zitterbart K, Sterba J, Finocchiaro G, Massimino M, Van Meir EG, Osuka S, Shofuda T, Klekner A, Zollo M, Leonard JR, Rubin JB, Jabado N, Albrecht S, Mora J, Van Meter TE, Jung S, Moore AS, Hallahan AR, Chan JA, Tirapelli DPC, Carlotti CG, Fouladi M, Pimentel J, Faria CC, Saad AG, Massimi L, Liau LM, Wheeler H, Nakamura H, Elbabaa SK, Perezpeña-Diazconti M, Chico Ponce de León F, Robinson S, Zapotocky M, Lassaletta A, Huang A, Hawkins CE, Tabori U, Bouffet E, Bartels U, Dirks PB, Rutka JT, Bader GD, Reimand J, Goldenberg A, Ramaswamy V, Taylor MD. Intertumoral Heterogeneity within Medulloblastoma Subgroups. Cancer cell 2017. PMID: 28609654


  70. Diep BA, Hilliard JJ, Le VT, Tkaczyk C, Le HN, Tran VG, Rao RL, Dip EC, Pereira-Franchi EP, Cha P, Jacobson S, Broome R, Cheng LI, Weiss W, Prokai L, Nguyen V, Stover CK, Sellman BR. Targeting Alpha Toxin To Mitigate Its Lethal Toxicity in Ferret and Rabbit Models of Staphylococcus aureus Necrotizing Pneumonia. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2017. PMID: 28115346


  71. Fan Q, Aksoy O, Wong RA, Ilkhanizadeh S, Novotny CJ, Gustafson WC, Truong AY, Cayanan G, Simonds EF, Haas-Kogan D, Phillips JJ, Nicolaides T, Okaniwa M, Shokat KM, Weiss WA. A Kinase Inhibitor Targeted to mTORC1 Drives Regression in Glioblastoma. Cancer cell 2017. PMID: 28292440


  72. Jones C, Karajannis MA, Jones DTW, Kieran MW, Monje M, Baker SJ, Becher OJ, Cho YJ, Gupta N, Hawkins C, Hargrave D, Haas-Kogan DA, Jabado N, Li XN, Mueller S, Nicolaides T, Packer RJ, Persson AI, Phillips JJ, Simonds EF, Stafford JM, Tang Y, Pfister SM, Weiss WA. Pediatric high-grade glioma: biologically and clinically in need of new thinking. Neuro-oncology 2017. PMID: 27282398


  73. Yao TW, Zhang J, Prados M, Weiss WA, James CD, Nicolaides T. Acquired resistance to BRAF inhibition in BRAFV600E mutant gliomas. Oncotarget 2017. PMID: 27611946


  74. Li H, Weiss WA, Medved M, Abe H, Newstead GM, Karczmar GS, Giger ML. Breast density estimation from high spectral and spatial resolution MRI. Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) 2016. PMID: 28042590


  75. Zhang J, Yao TW, Hashizume R, Hariono S, Barkovich KJ, Fan QW, Prados M, James CD, Weiss WA, Nicolaides T. Combined BRAFV600E and MEK blockade for BRAFV600E-mutant gliomas. Journal of neuro-oncology 2016. PMID: 27848137


  76. An Z, Weiss WA. Cholesterol: An Achilles' Heel for Glioblastoma? Cancer cell 2016. PMID: 27846382


  77. Matthay KK, Maris JM, Schleiermacher G, Nakagawara A, Mackall CL, Diller L, Weiss WA. Neuroblastoma. Nature reviews. Disease primers 2016. PMID: 27830764


  78. Rinkenbaugh AL, Cogswell PC, Calamini B, Dunn DE, Persson AI, Weiss WA, Lo DC, Baldwin AS. IKK/NF-?B signaling contributes to glioblastoma stem cell maintenance. Oncotarget 2016. PMID: 27732951


  79. Le VT, Tkaczyk C, Chau S, Rao RL, Dip EC, Pereira-Franchi EP, Cheng L, Lee S, Koelkebeck H, Hilliard JJ, Yu XQ, Datta V, Nguyen V, Weiss W, Prokai L, O'Day T, Stover CK, Sellman BR, Diep BA. Critical Role of Alpha-Toxin and Protective Effects of Its Neutralization by a Human Antibody in Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2016. PMID: 27401576


  80. Vaughan L, Clarke PA, Barker K, Chanthery Y, Gustafson CW, Tucker E, Renshaw J, Raynaud F, Li X, Burke R, Jamin Y, Robinson SP, Pearson A, Maira M, Weiss WA, Workman P, Chesler L. Inhibition of mTOR-kinase destabilizes MYCN and is a potential therapy for MYCN-dependent tumors. Oncotarget 2016. PMID: 27438153


  81. Olow A, Mueller S, Yang X, Hashizume R, Meyerowitz J, Weiss W, Resnick AC, Waanders AJ, Stalpers LJ, Berger MS, Gupta N, James CD, Petritsch CK, Haas-Kogan DA. BRAF Status in Personalizing Treatment Approaches for Pediatric Gliomas. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2016. PMID: 27217440


  82. Thompson EM, Hielscher T, Bouffet E, Remke M, Luu B, Gururangan S, McLendon RE, Bigner DD, Lipp ES, Perreault S, Cho YJ, Grant G, Kim SK, Lee JY, Rao AAN, Giannini C, Li KKW, Ng HK, Yao Y, Kumabe T, Tominaga T, Grajkowska WA, Perek-Polnik M, Low DCY, Seow WT, Chang KTE, Mora J, Pollack IF, Hamilton RL, Leary S, Moore AS, Ingram WJ, Hallahan AR, Jouvet A, Fèvre-Montange M, Vasiljevic A, Faure-Conter C, Shofuda T, Kagawa N, Hashimoto N, Jabado N, Weil AG, Gayden T, Wataya T, Shalaby T, Grotzer M, Zitterbart K, Sterba J, Kren L, Hortobágyi T, Klekner A, László B, Pócza T, Hauser P, Schüller U, Jung S, Jang WY, French PJ, Kros JM, van Veelen MC, Massimi L, Leonard JR, Rubin JB, Vibhakar R, Chambless LB, Cooper MK, Thompson RC, Faria CC, Carvalho A, Nunes S, Pimentel J, Fan X, Muraszko KM, López-Aguilar E, Lyden D, Garzia L, Shih DJH, Kijima N, Schneider C, Adamski J, Northcott PA, Kool M, Jones DTW, Chan JA, Nikolic A, Garre ML, Van Meir EG, Osuka S, Olson JJ, Jahangiri A, Castro BA, Gupta N, Weiss WA, Moxon-Emre I, Mabbott DJ, Lassaletta A, Hawkins CE, Tabori U, Drake J, Kulkarni A, Dirks P, Rutka JT, Korshunov A, Pfister SM, Packer RJ, Ramaswamy V, Taylor MD. Prognostic value of medulloblastoma extent of resection after accounting for molecular subgroup: a retrospective integrated clinical and molecular analysis. The Lancet. Oncology 2016. PMID: 26976201


  83. Dasgupta T, Olow AK, Yang X, Hashizume R, Nicolaides TP, Tom M, Aoki Y, Berger MS, Weiss WA, Stalpers LJ, Prados M, James CD, Mueller S, Haas-Kogan DA. Erratum to: Survival advantage combining a BRAF inhibitor and radiation in BRAF V600E-mutant glioma. Journal of neuro-oncology 2016. PMID: 26782702


  84. Huang M, Miller ML, McHenry LK, Zheng T, Zhen Q, Ilkhanizadeh S, Conklin BR, Bronner ME, Weiss WA. Generating trunk neural crest from human pluripotent stem cells. Scientific Reports 2016. PMID: 26812940


  85. Morrissy AS, Garzia L, Shih DJ, Zuyderduyn S, Huang X, Skowron P, Remke M, Cavalli FM, Ramaswamy V, Lindsay PE, Jelveh S, Donovan LK, Wang X, Luu B, Zayne K, Li Y, Mayoh C, Thiessen N, Mercier E, Mungall KL, Ma Y, Tse K, Zeng T, Shumansky K, Roth AJ, Shah S, Farooq H, Kijima N, Holgado BL, Lee JJ, Matan-Lithwick S, Liu J, Mack SC, Manno A, Michealraj KA, Nor C, Peacock J, Qin L, Reimand J, Rolider A, Thompson YY, Wu X, Pugh T, Ally A, Bilenky M, Butterfield YS, Carlsen R, Cheng Y, Chuah E, Corbett RD, Dhalla N, He A, Lee D, Li HI, Long W, Mayo M, Plettner P, Qian JQ, Schein JE, Tam A, Wong T, Birol I, Zhao Y, Faria CC, Pimentel J, Nunes S, Shalaby T, Grotzer M, Pollack IF, Hamilton RL, Li XN, Bendel AE, Fults DW, Walter AW, Kumabe T, Tominaga T, Collins VP, Cho YJ, Hoffman C, Lyden D, Wisoff JH, Garvin JH, Stearns DS, Massimi L, Schüller U, Sterba J, Zitterbart K, Puget S, Ayrault O, Dunn SE, Tirapelli DP, Carlotti CG, Wheeler H, Hallahan AR, Ingram W, MacDonald TJ, Olson JJ, Van Meir EG, Lee JY, Wang KC, Kim SK, Cho BK, Pietsch T, Fleischhack G, Tippelt S, Ra YS, Bailey S, Lindsey JC, Clifford SC, Eberhart CG, Cooper MK, Packer RJ, Massimino M, Garre ML, Bartels U, Tabori U, Hawkins CE, Dirks P, Bouffet E, Rutka JT, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Weiss WA, Collier LS, Dupuy AJ, Korshunov A, Jones DT, Kool M, Northcott PA, Pfister SM, Largaespada DA, Mungall AJ, Moore RA, Jabado N, Bader GD, Jones SJ, Malkin D, Marra MA, Taylor MD. Divergent clonal selection dominates medulloblastoma at recurrence. Nature 2016. PMID: 26760213


  86. Yu D, Dong Z, Gustafson WC, Ruiz-González R, Signor L, Marzocca F, Borel F, Klassen MP, Makhijani K, Royant A, Jan YN, Weiss WA, Guo S, Shu X. Rational design of a monomeric and photostable far-red fluorescent protein for fluorescence imaging in vivo. Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 2015. PMID: 26549191


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  132. Wu X, Northcott PA, Dubuc A, Dupuy AJ, Shih DJ, Witt H, Croul S, Bouffet E, Fults DW, Eberhart CG, Garzia L, Van Meter T, Zagzag D, Jabado N, Schwartzentruber J, Majewski J, Scheetz TE, Pfister SM, Korshunov A, Li XN, Scherer SW, Cho YJ, Akagi K, MacDonald TJ, Koster J, McCabe MG, Sarver AL, Collins VP, Weiss WA, Largaespada DA, Collier LS, Taylor MD. Clonal selection drives genetic divergence of metastatic medulloblastoma. Nature 2012. PMID: 22343890


  133. Chanthery YH, Gustafson WC, Itsara M, Persson A, Hackett CS, Grimmer M, Charron E, Yakovenko S, Kim G, Matthay KK, Weiss WA. Paracrine signaling through MYCN enhances tumor-vascular interactions in neuroblastoma. Science translational medicine 2012. PMID: 22218692



  134. Korshunov A, Remke M, Kool M, Hielscher T, Northcott PA, Williamson D, Pfaff E, Witt H, Jones DT, Ryzhova M, Cho YJ, Wittmann A, Benner A, Weiss WA, von Deimling A, Scheurlen W, Kulozik AE, Clifford SC, Peter Collins V, Westermann F, Taylor MD, Lichter P, Pfister SM. Biological and clinical heterogeneity of MYCN-amplified medulloblastoma. Acta neuropathologica 2011. PMID: 22160402


  135. Nicolaides TP, Li H, Solomon DA, Hariono S, Hashizume R, Barkovich K, Baker SJ, Paugh BS, Jones C, Forshew T, Hindley GF, Hodgson JG, Kim JS, Rowitch DH, Weiss WA, Waldman TA, James CD. Targeted therapy for BRAFV600E malignant astrocytoma. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2011. PMID: 22038996



  136. Sugiarto S, Persson AI, Munoz EG, Waldhuber M, Lamagna C, Andor N, Hanecker P, Ayers-Ringler J, Phillips J, Siu J, Lim DA, Vandenberg S, Stallcup W, Berger MS, Bergers G, Weiss WA, Petritsch C. Asymmetry-defective oligodendrocyte progenitors are glioma precursors. Cancer cell 2011. PMID: 21907924


  137. Witt H, Mack SC, Ryzhova M, Bender S, Sill M, Isserlin R, Benner A, Hielscher T, Milde T, Remke M, Jones DT, Northcott PA, Garzia L, Bertrand KC, Wittmann A, Yao Y, Roberts SS, Massimi L, Van Meter T, Weiss WA, Gupta N, Grajkowska W, Lach B, Cho YJ, von Deimling A, Kulozik AE, Witt O, Bader GD, Hawkins CE, Tabori U, Guha A, Rutka JT, Lichter P, Korshunov A, Taylor MD, Pfister SM. Delineation of two clinically and molecularly distinct subgroups of posterior fossa ependymoma. Cancer cell 2011. PMID: 21840481


  138. Northcott PA, Hielscher T, Dubuc A, Mack S, Shih D, Remke M, Al-Halabi H, Albrecht S, Jabado N, Eberhart CG, Grajkowska W, Weiss WA, Clifford SC, Bouffet E, Rutka JT, Korshunov A, Pfister S, Taylor MD. Pediatric and adult sonic hedgehog medulloblastomas are clinically and molecularly distinct. Acta neuropathologica 2011. PMID: 21681522


  139. Bertrand KC, Mack SC, Northcott PA, Garzia L, Dubuc A, Pfister SM, Rutka JT, Weiss WA, Taylor MD. PCDH10 is a candidate tumour suppressor gene in medulloblastoma. Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery 2011. PMID: 21597995


  140. Fan QW, Weiss WA. Autophagy and Akt promote survival in glioma. Autophagy 2011. PMID: 21266843


  141. Mueller S, Yang X, Sottero TL, Gragg A, Prasad G, Polley MY, Weiss WA, Matthay KK, Davidoff AM, DuBois SG, Haas-Kogan DA. Cooperation of the HDAC inhibitor vorinostat and radiation in metastatic neuroblastoma: efficacy and underlying mechanisms. Cancer letters 2011. PMID: 21497989


  142. More SS, Itsara M, Yang X, Geier EG, Tadano MK, Seo Y, Vanbrocklin HF, Weiss WA, Mueller S, Haas-Kogan DA, Dubois SG, Matthay KK, Giacomini KM. Vorinostat increases expression of functional norepinephrine transporter in neuroblastoma in vitro and in vivo model systems. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2011. PMID: 21421857


  143. Amaravadi RK, Lippincott-Schwartz J, Yin XM, Weiss WA, Takebe N, Timmer W, DiPaola RS, Lotze MT, White E. Principles and current strategies for targeting autophagy for cancer treatment. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2011. PMID: 21325294


  144. Prasad G, Sottero T, Yang X, Mueller S, James CD, Weiss WA, Polley MY, Ozawa T, Berger MS, Aftab DT, Prados MD, Haas-Kogan DA. Inhibition of PI3K/mTOR pathways in glioblastoma and implications for combination therapy with temozolomide. Neuro-oncology 2011. PMID: 21317208


  145. Persson AI, Petritsch C, Swartling FJ, Itsara M, Sim FJ, Auvergne R, Goldenberg DD, Vandenberg SR, Nguyen KN, Yakovenko S, Ayers-Ringler J, Nishiyama A, Stallcup WB, Berger MS, Bergers G, McKnight TR, Goldman SA, Weiss WA. Non-stem cell origin for oligodendroglioma. Cancer cell 2010. PMID: 21156288


  146. Fan QW, Cheng C, Hackett C, Feldman M, Houseman BT, Nicolaides T, Haas-Kogan D, James CD, Oakes SA, Debnath J, Shokat KM, Weiss WA. Akt and autophagy cooperate to promote survival of drug-resistant glioma. Science signaling 2010. PMID: 21062993


  147. Lee CL, Wahnishe H, Sayre GA, Cho HM, Kim HJ, Hernandez-Pampaloni M, Hawkins RA, Dannoon SF, VanBrocklin HF, Itsara M, Weiss WA, Yang X, Haas-Kogan DA, Matthay KK, Seo Y. Radiation dose estimation using preclinical imaging with 124I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) PET. Medical physics 2010. PMID: 20964203


  148. Gustafson WC, Weiss WA. Addiction to B-MYB. Oncotarget 2010. PMID: 21304174


  149. Swartling FJ, Grimmer MR, Hackett CS, Northcott PA, Fan QW, Goldenberg DD, Lau J, Masic S, Nguyen K, Yakovenko S, Zhe XN, Gilmer HC, Collins R, Nagaoka M, Phillips JJ, Jenkins RB, Tihan T, Vandenberg SR, James CD, Tanaka K, Taylor MD, Weiss WA, Chesler L. Pleiotropic role for MYCN in medulloblastoma. Genes & development 2010. PMID: 20478998


  150. Yoon DJ, Kwan BH, Chao FC, Nicolaides TP, Phillips JJ, Lam GY, Mason AB, Weiss WA, Kamei DT. Intratumoral therapy of glioblastoma multiforme using genetically engineered transferrin for drug delivery. Cancer research 2010. PMID: 20460527


  151. Gustafson WC, Weiss WA. Myc proteins as therapeutic targets. Oncogene 2010. PMID: 20101214




  152. Collier LS, Adams DJ, Hackett CS, Bendzick LE, Akagi K, Davies MN, Diers MD, Rodriguez FJ, Bender AM, Tieu C, Matise I, Dupuy AJ, Copeland NG, Jenkins NA, Hodgson JG, Weiss WA, Jenkins RB, Largaespada DA. Whole-body sleeping beauty mutagenesis can cause penetrant leukemia/lymphoma and rare high-grade glioma without associated embryonic lethality. Cancer research 2009. PMID: 19843846



  153. Van Maerken T, Sarkar D, Speleman F, Dent P, Weiss WA, Fisher PB. Adenovirus-mediated hPNPase(old-35) gene transfer as a therapeutic strategy for neuroblastoma. Journal of cellular physiology 2009. PMID: 19202553


  154. Persson AI, Weiss WA. The side story of stem-like glioma cells. Cell stem cell 2009. PMID: 19265652


  155. Fan QW, Cheng C, Knight ZA, Haas-Kogan D, Stokoe D, James CD, McCormick F, Shokat KM, Weiss WA. EGFR signals to mTOR through PKC and independently of Akt in glioma. Science signaling 2009. PMID: 19176518



  156. Chesler L, Goldenberg DD, Collins R, Grimmer M, Kim GE, Tihan T, Nguyen K, Yakovenko S, Matthay KK, Weiss WA. Chemotherapy-induced apoptosis in a transgenic model of neuroblastoma proceeds through p53 induction. Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) 2008. PMID: 18953436



  157. Yu W, Shewan AM, Brakeman P, Eastburn DJ, Datta A, Bryant DM, Fan QW, Weiss WA, Zegers MM, Mostov KE. Involvement of RhoA, ROCK I and myosin II in inverted orientation of epithelial polarity. EMBO reports 2008. PMID: 18660750


  158. Silber J, Lim DA, Petritsch C, Persson AI, Maunakea AK, Yu M, Vandenberg SR, Ginzinger DG, James CD, Costello JF, Bergers G, Weiss WA, Alvarez-Buylla A, Hodgson JG. miR-124 and miR-137 inhibit proliferation of glioblastoma multiforme cells and induce differentiation of brain tumor stem cells. BMC medicine 2008. PMID: 18577219


  159. Chen JS, Zhou LJ, Entin-Meer M, Yang X, Donker M, Knight ZA, Weiss W, Shokat KM, Haas-Kogan D, Stokoe D. Characterization of structurally distinct, isoform-selective phosphoinositide 3'-kinase inhibitors in combination with radiation in the treatment of glioblastoma. Molecular cancer therapeutics 2008. PMID: 18413797



  160. Meyer GE, Chesler L, Liu D, Gable K, Maddux BA, Goldenberg DD, Youngren JF, Goldfine ID, Weiss WA, Matthay KK, Rosenthal SM. Nordihydroguaiaretic acid inhibits insulin-like growth factor signaling, growth, and survival in human neuroblastoma cells. Journal of cellular biochemistry 2007. PMID: 17486636



  161. Chesler L, Goldenberg DD, Seales IT, Satchi-Fainaro R, Grimmer M, Collins R, Struett C, Nguyen KN, Kim G, Tihan T, Bao Y, Brekken RA, Bergers G, Folkman J, Weiss WA. Malignant progression and blockade of angiogenesis in a murine transgenic model of neuroblastoma. Cancer research 2007. PMID: 17909053



  162. Cheng AJ, Cheng NC, Ford J, Smith J, Murray JE, Flemming C, Lastowska M, Jackson MS, Hackett CS, Weiss WA, Marshall GM, Kees UR, Norris MD, Haber M. Cell lines from MYCN transgenic murine tumours reflect the molecular and biological characteristics of human neuroblastoma. European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) 2007. PMID: 17449239


  163. Blair JA, Rauh D, Kung C, Yun CH, Fan QW, Rode H, Zhang C, Eck MJ, Weiss WA, Shokat KM. Structure-guided development of affinity probes for tyrosine kinases using chemical genetics. Nature chemical biology 2007. PMID: 17334377


  164. Ohgaki H, Kita D, Favereaux A, Huang H, Homma T, Dessen P, Weiss WA, Kleihues P, Heppner FL. Brain tumors in S100beta-v-erbB transgenic rats. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2006. PMID: 17146284





  165. Chesler L, Schlieve C, Goldenberg DD, Kenney A, Kim G, McMillan A, Matthay KK, Rowitch D, Weiss WA. Inhibition of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase destabilizes Mycn protein and blocks malignant progression in neuroblastoma. Cancer research 2006. PMID: 16912192


  166. Fan QW, Knight ZA, Goldenberg DD, Yu W, Mostov KE, Stokoe D, Shokat KM, Weiss WA. A dual PI3 kinase/mTOR inhibitor reveals emergent efficacy in glioma. Cancer cell 2006. PMID: 16697955


  167. Knight ZA, Gonzalez B, Feldman ME, Zunder ER, Goldenberg DD, Williams O, Loewith R, Stokoe D, Balla A, Toth B, Balla T, Weiss WA, Williams RL, Shokat KM. A pharmacological map of the PI3-K family defines a role for p110alpha in insulin signaling. Cell 2006. PMID: 16647110



  168. Ching TT, Maunakea AK, Jun P, Hong C, Zardo G, Pinkel D, Albertson DG, Fridlyand J, Mao JH, Shchors K, Weiss WA, Costello JF. Epigenome analyses using BAC microarrays identify evolutionary conservation of tissue-specific methylation of SHANK3. Nature genetics 2005. PMID: 15895082


  169. Hong C, Maunakea A, Jun P, Bollen AW, Hodgson JG, Goldenberg DD, Weiss WA, Costello JF. Shared epigenetic mechanisms in human and mouse gliomas inactivate expression of the growth suppressor SLC5A8. Cancer research 2005. PMID: 15867356



  170. Hansford LM, Thomas WD, Keating JM, Burkhart CA, Peaston AE, Norris MD, Haber M, Armati PJ, Weiss WA, Marshall GM. Mechanisms of embryonal tumor initiation: distinct roles for MycN expression and MYCN amplification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2004. PMID: 15314226



  171. Fan QW, Specht KM, Zhang C, Goldenberg DD, Shokat KM, Weiss WA. Combinatorial efficacy achieved through two-point blockade within a signaling pathway-a chemical genetic approach. Cancer research 2003. PMID: 14695210


  172. Burkhart CA, Cheng AJ, Madafiglio J, Kavallaris M, Mili M, Marshall GM, Weiss WA, Khachigian LM, Norris MD, Haber M. Effects of MYCN antisense oligonucleotide administration on tumorigenesis in a murine model of neuroblastoma. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2003. PMID: 13130115


  173. Hackett CS, Hodgson JG, Law ME, Fridlyand J, Osoegawa K, de Jong PJ, Nowak NJ, Pinkel D, Albertson DG, Jain A, Jenkins R, Gray JW, Weiss WA. Genome-wide array CGH analysis of murine neuroblastoma reveals distinct genomic aberrations which parallel those in human tumors. Cancer research 2003. PMID: 14500357


  174. Weiss WA, Burns MJ, Hackett C, Aldape K, Hill JR, Kuriyama H, Kuriyama N, Milshteyn N, Roberts T, Wendland MF, DePinho R, Israel MA. Genetic determinants of malignancy in a mouse model for oligodendroglioma. Cancer research 2003. PMID: 12670909



  175. Weiss WA, Israel M, Cobbs C, Holland E, James CD, Louis DN, Marks C, McClatchey AI, Roberts T, Van Dyke T, Wetmore C, Chiu IM, Giovannini M, Guha A, Higgins RJ, Marino S, Radovanovic I, Reilly K, Aldape K. Neuropathology of genetically engineered mice: consensus report and recommendations from an international forum. Oncogene 2002. PMID: 12386807



  176. Tada T, Wendland M, Watson N, Kuriyama N, Kuriyama H, Roberts T, Burns M, Weiss W, Israel MA. A head holder for magnetic resonance imaging that allows the stereotaxic alignment of spontaneously occurring intracranial mouse tumors. Journal of neuroscience methods 2002. PMID: 12007978



  177. Weiss WA, Godfrey T, Francisco C, Bishop JM. Genome-wide screen for allelic imbalance in a mouse model for neuroblastoma. Cancer research 2000. PMID: 10811128


  178. Weiss WA, Aldape K, Mohapatra G, Feuerstein BG, Bishop JM. Targeted expression of MYCN causes neuroblastoma in transgenic mice. The EMBO journal 1997. PMID: 9214616