Joanna J. Phillips MD/PHD
Neuropathologist | Neuropathology
505 Parnassus Ave M551, Box #0102 San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Joanna Phillips is a neuropathologist at UCSF Medical Center who helps diagnose neurologic disease through the examination of central nervous system tissue. As an academic neuropathologist, her go ...
Education and Training
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania 1998
University Of Massachusetts Medical School 1998
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 2002
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Murine coronavirus spike glycoprotein mediates degree of viral spread, inflammation, and virus-induced immunopathology in the central nervous system.
- Amino acid substitutions within the heptad repeat domain 1 of murine coronavirus spike protein restrict viral antigen spread in the central nervous system.
- Contributions of the viral genetic background and a single amino acid substitution in an immunodominant CD8+ T-cell epitope to murine coronavirus neurovirulence.
- Neurolisteriosis presenting as cervical myelitis in an immunocompetent patient.
- Pituicytoma: characterization of a unique neoplasm by histology, immunohistochemistry, ultrastructure, and array-based comparative genomic hybridization.
- EMR-3: a potential mediator of invasive phenotypic variation in glioblastoma and novel therapeutic target.
- Detection of early response to temozolomide treatment in brain tumors using hyperpolarized 13C MR metabolic imaging.
- Clinical stratification of glioblastoma based on alterations in retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein (RB1) and association with the proneural subtype.
- Novel therapeutic targets in the brain tumor microenvironment.
- VEGF inhibits tumor cell invasion and mesenchymal transition through a MET/VEGFR2 complex.
- Evaluation of heterogeneous metabolic profile in an orthotopic human glioblastoma xenograft model using compressed sensing hyperpolarized 3D 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging.
- Increased microglia/macrophage gene expression in a subset of adult and pediatric
- Characterization of a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma cell line: implications for future investigations and treatment.
- Proteoglycans and their roles in brain cancer.
- Signals that regulate the oncogenic fate of neural stem cells and progenitors.
Treatments
- Brain Tumor
Fellowships
- UCSF Medical Center 2006
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