Jennifer Ann Cotter, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology

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Education and Training

  • Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA — M.D. — 05/2011
  • University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA — 06/2015 — Anatomic Pathology, Neuropathology

Research Keywords

  • Neuropathology
  • Anatomic pathology
  • Neurodevelopment
  • Pediatric brain tumors
  • Cancer predisposition

Publications

  • CNS methylation classifiers may misclassify normal developing cerebellar cortex as medulloblastoma. Acta Neuropathol. 2025 Jun 23; 149(1):66.. View in PubMed
  • Spatial Profiling Identifies Regionally Distinct Microenvironments and Targetable Immunosuppressive Mechanisms in Pediatric Osteosarcoma Pulmonary Metastases. Cancer Res. 2025 06 16; 85(12):2320-2337.. View in PubMed
  • Isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 primes group-3 medulloblastomas for cuproptosis. Cancer Cell. 2025 Jun 09; 43(6):1159-1174.e8.. View in PubMed
  • Spatial profiling identifies regionally distinct microenvironments and targetable immunosuppressive mechanisms in pediatric osteosarcoma pulmonary metastases. bioRxiv. 2025 Jan 24.. View in PubMed
  • A comparative analysis of IDH-mutant glioma in pediatric, young adult, and older adult patients. Neuro Oncol. 2024 Dec 05; 26(12):2364-2376.. View in PubMed
  • Utility of OLIG2 immunostaining in pediatric brain tumors with embryonal morphology. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2024 Dec 01; 83(12):1039-1046.. View in PubMed
  • Lack of classical astroblastoma features in pediatric MN1::BEND2-fused brain tumors. Brain Pathol. 2025 Mar; 35(2):e13297.. View in PubMed
  • Pediatric Chordoma: A Tale of Two Genomes. Mol Cancer Res. 2024 08 02; 22(8):721-729.. View in PubMed
  • A method for measuring mitochondrial DNA copy number in pediatric populations. Front Pediatr. 2024; 12:1401737.. View in PubMed
  • Effective re-induction regimen for children with recurrent medulloblastoma. Neurooncol Adv. 2024 Jan-Dec; 6(1):vdae070.. View in PubMed