Michael Frederick Press, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology

Harold E. Lee Chair in Breast Cancer Research

Director of Breast Cancer Analysis Lab

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Overview

Michael F. Press, M.D., Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Pathology and co-leader of the Women’s Cancers Program. He received his M.D., Ph.D. and residency training at the University of Chicago. He was a member of the University of Chicago faculty for seven years before joining the faculty of the University of Southern California in 1988. Dr. Press is currently the director for the Breast Cancer International Research Group Central Laboratory, the coordinator of the Breast Cancer Program at USC Norris Cancer Center and holds the Harold E. Lee Chair in Cancer Research in the USC Norris Cancer Center. His research interests are molecular genetic alterations in breast and gynecologic cancers.

Research Funding

  • HER-2 NEU PROTO-ONCOGENE IN OVARIAN &ENDOMETRIAL CANCER
    NIH · R01CA050589 · Feb 1, 1991 – Jan 31, 1995 · Role: Principal Investigator
  • PATHOBIOLOGY OF BREAST CANCER AND HORMONE RECEPTORS
    NIH · R01CA048780 · Apr 1, 1988 – Jan 31, 2006 · Role: Principal Investigator

Publications

  • Impaired peptide amidation and risk of incident dementia in the Malmoe preventive project cohort. Alzheimers Res Ther. 2026 Sep 28; 18(1).. View in PubMed
  • Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association studies uncover insights into breast cancer genetics and biology. Nat Commun. 2026 May 30; 17(1).. View in PubMed
  • A Novel Patient-Derived Xenograft Model of Inflammatory Breast Cancer. Res Sq. 2026 May 18.. View in PubMed
  • African ancestry and risk variants associated with triple-negative breast cancer susceptibility in African American women. Genome Med. 2026 05 07; 18(1).. View in PubMed
  • Expression of HER2 in the eye and the potential for on-target side effects with antibody-drug conjugates. Sci Rep. 2026 May 07; 16(1).. View in PubMed
  • Improved polygenic risk prediction models for breast cancer subtypes in women of African ancestry. Nat Genet. 2026 Mar; 58(3):560-569.. View in PubMed
  • Correction: Kinetics of adrenomedullin pathway activation in a porcine sepsis model and a human cohort of sepsis and septic shock. Sci Rep. 2025 Nov 04; 15(1):38510.. View in PubMed
  • Genomic Landscapes of Endometrioid and Mucinous Ovarian Cancers and Morphologically Similar Tumor Types. Cancer Res Commun. 2025 11 01; 5(11):1952-1966.. View in PubMed
  • Kinetics of adrenomedullin pathway activation in a porcine sepsis model and a human cohort of sepsis and septic shock. Sci Rep. 2025 Sep 24; 15(1):32693.. View in PubMed
  • Multi-Ancestry Transcriptome-wide Association Studies Uncover New Insights into Breast Cancer Genetics and Biology. medRxiv. 2025 Aug 13.. View in PubMed