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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

  • Protein aggregates and proteostasis in aging: Amylin and β-cell function. Mech Ageing Dev. 2019 01; 177:46-54.. View in PubMed
  • Body mass index at age 18 years and recent body mass index in relation to risk of breast cancer overall and ER/PR/HER2-defined subtypes in white women and African-American women: a pooled analysis. Breast Cancer Res. 2018 01 22; 20(1):5.. View in PubMed
  • Phase III, Randomized Study of Dual Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2) Blockade With Lapatinib Plus Trastuzumab in Combination With an Aromatase Inhibitor in Postmenopausal Women With HER2-Positive, Hormone Receptor-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer: ALTERNATIVE. J Clin Oncol. 2018 03 10; 36(8):741-748.. View in PubMed
  • Discovery and fine-mapping of adiposity loci using high density imputation of genome-wide association studies in individuals of African ancestry: African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium. PLoS Genet. 2017 Apr; 13(4):e1006719.. View in PubMed
  • Characterizing Genetic Susceptibility to Breast Cancer in Women of African Ancestry. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2017 07; 26(7):1016-1026.. View in PubMed
  • A functionally significant SNP in TP53 and breast cancer risk in African-American women. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2017; 3:5.. View in PubMed
  • Reproductive factors and the risk of triple-negative breast cancer in white women and African-American women: a pooled analysis. Breast Cancer Res. 2017 01 13; 19(1):6.. View in PubMed
  • Human-derived normal mesenchymal stem/stromal cells in anticancer therapies. J Cancer. 2017; 8(1):85-96.. View in PubMed
  • HER2 Status in Advanced or Metastatic Gastric, Esophageal, or Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma for Entry to the TRIO-013/LOGiC Trial of Lapatinib. Mol Cancer Ther. 2017 01; 16(1):228-238.. View in PubMed
  • Genome-wide association studies in women of African ancestry identified 3q26.21 as a novel susceptibility locus for oestrogen receptor negative breast cancer. Hum Mol Genet. 2016 11 01; 25(21):4835-4846.. View in PubMed

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