Christina Curtis

Assistant Professor
Medicine
Canary Center at Stanford
United States of America

Academician Medicine
Biography

Dr. Curtis and her team have developed an integrated experimental and computational framework to measure clinically relevant patient-specific parameters and to measure clonal dynamics. Her research also aims to develop a systematic interpretation of genotype/phenotype associations in cancer by leveraging state-of-the-art technologies and robust data integration techniques

Research Intrest

Tumor evolutionary dynamics, novel therapeutic targets, and the genotype to phenotype map in cancer.

List of Publications
Bass AJ, Thorsson V, Shmulevich I, Reynolds SM, Miller M, Bernard B, Hinoue T, Laird PW, Curtis C, Shen H, Weisenberger DJ. Comprehensive molecular characterization of gastric adenocarcinoma. Nature. 2014 Sep 11;513(7517):202.
Piccirillo SG, Spiteri I, Sottoriva A, Touloumis A, Ber S, Price SJ, Heywood R, Francis NJ, Howarth KD, Collins VP, Venkitaraman AR. Contributions to drug resistance in glioblastoma derived from malignant cells in the sub-ependymal zone. Cancer research. 2015 Jan 1;75(1):194-202.
Sottoriva A, Kang H, Ma Z, Graham TA, Salomon MP, Zhao J, Marjoram P, Siegmund K, Press MF, Shibata D, Curtis C. A Big Bang model of human colorectal tumor growth. Nature genetics. 2015 Mar 1;47(3):209-16.