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
- [Liver metastases from colorectal cancer. Is the practice of surgery based on the best clinical evidence possible?].| | PubMed
- Hypoxia-induced radioresistance is independent of hypoxia-inducible factor-1A in vitro.| | PubMed
- Fractional genomic alteration detected by array-based comparative genomic hybridization independently predicts survival after hepatic resection for metastatic colorectal cancer.| | PubMed
- Liver-directed therapies in colorectal cancer.| | PubMed
- Palliative techniques for hepatic cancer.| | PubMed
- Characterization of triacsin C inhibition of short-, medium-, and long-chain fatty acid: CoA ligases of human liver.| | PubMed
- Aggressive surgery for metastatic liver neuroendocrine tumors.| | PubMed
- beta-Catenin regulates vascular endothelial growth factor expression in colon cancer.| | PubMed
- Distinguishing features of self-limiting adult small-bowel intussusception identified at CT.| | PubMed
- Isolation, sequencing, and expression of a cDNA for the HXM-A form of xenobiotic/medium-chain fatty acid:CoA ligase from human liver mitochondria.| | PubMed