Biography
Robert S. Warren, M.D. is a Professor of Surgery and a specialist in gastrointestinal and liver cancer. He earned a medical degree at the University of Minnesota, where he completed a general surgery residency. After completing an oncology research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, he was an associate physician at Rockefeller University in New York. A board-certified surgeon, Dr. Warren joined UCSF Medical Center in 1988. Highly respected by his peers, Dr. Warren was named to the list of U.S. News "America's Top Doctors," a distinction reserved for the top 1% of physicians in the nation for a given specialty. His research focuses on the biology of colorectal cancer and how it spreads.
Dr. Warren is involved in clinical and laboratory research, which has centered on the biology of colorectal cancer metastasis that includes Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF), Insulin-Like Growth Factors and Their Binding Proteins AS Modulators of Growth of Colorectal Cancer Metastases and Cytogenetics of Colorectal Cancer Metastasis. The laboratory work focuses on two areas: 1) autocrine growth factors and angiogenesis in colorectal cancer 2) molecular features which predict clinical outcome in primary and metastatic colorectal cancer.
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of Minnesota | M.D. | School of Medicine | 1980 |
Board Certifications
- American Board of Surgery, 1989
Program Affiliations
- Surgical Oncology Program
- Surgical Oncology Laboratory
- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- UCSF Department of Surgery
In the News
Grants and Funding
- General Clinical Research Center | NIH | 1974-12-01 - 2009-03-31 | Role: Co-Investigator
- MOLECULAR MARKERS OF PROGNOSIS IN COLON CANCER | NIH | 2000-03-03 - 2006-02-28 | Role: Principal Investigator
- ROLE OF CYTOKINES IN CANCER PATIENTS UNDERGOING SURGERY | NIH | 1993-07-01 - 1999-06-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
Research Narrative
- Biology of colorectal cancer metastasis
- Molecular features which predict clinical outcome in primary and metastatic colorectal cancer
- Autocrine growth factors and angiogenesis in colorectal cancer
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Hypoxia and Colon Cancer
- Insulin-Like Growth Factors and Their Binding Proteins As Modulators of Growth of Colorectal Cancer Metastases
- Cytogenetics of Colorectal Cancer Metastasis
Publications
- Prognostic impact of deficient DNA mismatch repair in patients with stage III colon cancer from a randomized trial of FOLFOX-based adjuvant chemotherapy.| | PubMed
- Wild type p53 transcriptionally represses the SALL2 transcription factor under genotoxic stress.| | PubMed
- Association of TP53 mutational status and gender with survival after adjuvant treatment for stage III colon cancer: results of CALGB 89803.| | PubMed
- PTEN expression is consistent in colorectal cancer primaries and metastases and associates with patient survival.| | PubMed
- Incomplete inhibition of phosphorylation of 4E-BP1 as a mechanism of primary resistance to ATP-competitive mTOR inhibitors.| | PubMed
- Biologic determinants of tumor recurrence in stage II colon cancer: validation study of the 12-gene recurrence score in cancer and leukemia group B (CALGB) 9581.| | PubMed
- Imaging a functional tumorigenic biomarker in the transformed epithelium.| | PubMed
- Lymph node sampling rates and predictors of nodal metastasis in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor resections: the UCSF experience with 149 patients.| | PubMed
- Combination of ATP-competitive mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors with standard chemotherapy for colorectal cancer.| | PubMed
- Is there currently an established role for the use of predictive or prognostic molecular markers in the management of colorectal cancer? A point/counterpoint.| | PubMed