Clay Gustafson, MD, PhD

Attending Physician
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Publications: 

The synergy of BET inhibitors with aurora A kinase inhibitors in MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma is heightened with functional TP53.

Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.)

Yi JS, Sias-Garcia O, Nasholm N, Hu X, Iniguez AB, Hall MD, Davis M, Guha R, Moreno-Smith M, Barbieri E, Duong K, Koach J, Qi J, Bradner JE, Stegmaier K, Weiss WA, Gustafson WC

Drugging the "Undruggable" MYCN Oncogenic Transcription Factor: Overcoming Previous Obstacles to Impact Childhood Cancers.

Cancer research

Wolpaw AJ, Bayliss R, B?chel G, Dang CV, Eilers M, Gustafson WC, Hansen GH, Jura N, Knapp S, Lemmon MA, Levens D, Maris JM, Marmorstein R, Metallo SJ, Park JR, Penn LZ, Rape M, Roussel MF, Shokat KM, Tansey WP, Verba KA, Vos SM, Weiss WA, Wolf E, Moss? YP

124I-MIBG PET-CT to monitor metastatic disease in children with relapsed neuroblastoma.

Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine

Aboian M, Huang SY, Pampaloni MH, Hawkins RA, Huh Y, Vo K, Gustafson C, Matthay K, Seo Y

Drugging MYCN oncogenic signalling through the MYCN-PA2G4 binding interface.

Cancer research

Koach J, Holien JK, Massudi H, Carter DR, Ciampa OC, Herath M, Lim T, Seneviratne JA, Milazzo G, Murray JE, McCarroll JA, Liu B, Mayoh C, Keenan B, Stevenson BW, Gorman MA, Bell JL, Doughty L, Hüttelmaier S, Oberthuer A, Fischer M, Gifford AJ, Liu T, Zhang X, Zhu S, Gustafson WC, Haber M, Norris MD, Fletcher JI, Perini G, Parker MW, Cheung BB, Marshall GM

Single-Cell Transcriptomics in Medulloblastoma Reveals Tumor-Initiating Progenitors and Oncogenic Cascades during Tumorigenesis and Relapse.

Cancer cell

Zhang L, He X, Liu X, Zhang F, Huang LF, Potter AS, Xu L, Zhou W, Zheng T, Luo Z, Berry KP, Pribnow A, Smith SM, Fuller C, Jones BV, Fouladi M, Drissi R, Yang ZJ, Gustafson WC, Remke M, Pomeroy SL, Girard EJ, Olson JM, Morrissy AS, Vladoiu MC, Zhang J, Tian W, Xin M, Taylor MD, Potter SS, Roussel MF, Weiss WA, Lu QR

Technical Note: Simplified and practical pretherapy tumor dosimetry - A feasibility study for 131 I-MIBG therapy of neuroblastoma using 124 I-MIBG PET/CT.

Medical physics

Seo Y, Huh Y, Huang SY, Hernandez-Pampaloni JM, Hawkins RA, Gustafson WC, Vo KT, Matthay KK

CRISPR-Cas9 screen reveals a MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma dependency on EZH2.

The Journal of clinical investigation

Chen L, Alexe G, Dharia NV, Ross L, Iniguez AB, Conway AS, Wang EJ, Veschi V, Lam N, Qi J, Gustafson WC, Nasholm N, Vazquez F, Weir BA, Cowley GS, Ali LD, Pantel S, Jiang G, Harrington WF, Lee Y, Goodale A, Lubonja R, Krill-Burger JM, Meyers RM, Tsherniak A, Root DE, Bradner JE, Golub TR, Roberts CW, Hahn WC, Weiss WA, Thiele CJ, Stegmaier K

Phase 1 study of sirolimus in combination with oral cyclophosphamide and topotecan in children and young adults with relapsed and refractory solid tumors.

Oncotarget

Vo KT, Karski EE, Nasholm NM, Allen S, Hollinger F, Gustafson WC, Long-Boyle JR, Shiboski S, Matthay KK, DuBois SG

A Kinase Inhibitor Targeted to mTORC1 Drives Regression in Glioblastoma.

Cancer cell

Fan Q, Aksoy O, Wong RA, Ilkhanizadeh S, Novotny CJ, Gustafson WC, Truong AY, Cayanan G, Simonds EF, Haas-Kogan D, Phillips JJ, Nicolaides T, Okaniwa M, Shokat KM, Weiss WA

Erratum to: Vesicular monoamine transporter protein expression correlates with clinical features, tumor biology, and MIBG avidity in neuroblastoma: a report from the Children's Oncology Group.

European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging

Temple W, Mendelsohn L, Kim GE, Nekritz E, Gustafson WC, Lin L, Giacomini K, Naranjo A, Van Ryn C, Parisi MT, Shulkin BL, Yanik GA, Kreissman SG, Hogarty M, Matthay KK, DuBois SG

N-Myc Drives Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer Initiated from Human Prostate Epithelial Cells.

Cancer cell

Lee JK, Phillips JW, Smith BA, Park JW, Stoyanova T, McCaffrey EF, Baertsch R, Sokolov A, Meyerowitz JG, Mathis C, Cheng D, Stuart JM, Shokat KM, Gustafson WC, Huang J, Witte ON

Rational design of a monomeric and photostable far-red fluorescent protein for fluorescence imaging in vivo.

Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society

Yu D, Dong Z, Gustafson WC, Ruiz-González R, Signor L, Marzocca F, Borel F, Klassen MP, Makhijani K, Royant A, Jan YN, Weiss WA, Guo S, Shu X

Vesicular monoamine transporter protein expression correlates with clinical features, tumor biology, and MIBG avidity in neuroblastoma: a report from the Children's Oncology Group.

European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging

Temple W, Mendelsohn L, Kim GE, Nekritz E, Gustafson WC, Lin L, Giacomini K, Naranjo A, Van Ryn C, Yanik GA, Kreissman SG, Hogarty M, Matthay KK, DuBois SG

Downregulation of MYCN through PI3K Inhibition in Mouse Models of Pediatric Neural Cancer.

Frontiers in oncology

Cage TA, Chanthery Y, Chesler L, Grimmer M, Knight Z, Shokat K, Weiss WA, Gustafson WC

A new "angle" on kinase inhibitor design: Prioritizing amphosteric activity above kinase inhibition.

Molecular & cellular oncology

Meyerowitz JG, Weiss WA, Gustafson WC

The genetics of splicing in neuroblastoma.

Cancer discovery

Chen J, Hackett CS, Zhang S, Song YK, Bell RJ, Molinaro AM, Quigley DA, Balmain A, Song JS, Costello JF, Gustafson WC, Van Dyke T, Kwok PY, Khan J, Weiss WA

Expression quantitative trait loci and receptor pharmacology implicate Arg1 and the GABA-A receptor as therapeutic targets in neuroblastoma.

Cell reports

Hackett CS, Quigley DA, Wong RA, Chen J, Cheng C, Song YK, Wei JS, Pawlikowska L, Bao Y, Goldenberg DD, Nguyen K, Gustafson WC, Rallapalli SK, Cho YJ, Cook JM, Kozlov S, Mao JH, Van Dyke T, Kwok PY, Khan J, Balmain A, Fan Q, Weiss WA

Drugging MYCN through an allosteric transition in Aurora kinase A.

Cancer cell

Gustafson WC, Meyerowitz JG, Nekritz EA, Chen J, Benes C, Charron E, Simonds EF, Seeger R, Matthay KK, Hertz NT, Eilers M, Shokat KM, Weiss WA

An improved monomeric infrared fluorescent protein for neuronal and tumour brain imaging.

Nature communications

Yu D, Gustafson WC, Han C, Lafaye C, Noirclerc-Savoye M, Ge WP, Thayer DA, Huang H, Kornberg TB, Royant A, Jan LY, Jan YN, Weiss WA, Shu X

Mutational analysis reveals the origin and therapy-driven evolution of recurrent glioma.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Johnson BE, Mazor T, Hong C, Barnes M, Aihara K, McLean CY, Fouse SD, Yamamoto S, Ueda H, Tatsuno K, Asthana S, Jalbert LE, Nelson SJ, Bollen AW, Gustafson WC, Charron E, Weiss WA, Smirnov IV, Song JS, Olshen AB, Cha S, Zhao Y, Moore RA, Mungall AJ, Jones SJM, Hirst M, Marra MA, Saito N, Aburatani H, Mukasa A, Berger MS, Chang SM, Taylor BS, Costello JF

EGFR phosphorylates tumor-derived EGFRvIII driving STAT3/5 and progression in glioblastoma.

Cancer cell

Fan QW, Cheng CK, Gustafson WC, Charron E, Zipper P, Wong RA, Chen J, Lau J, Knobbe-Thomsen C, Weller M, Jura N, Reifenberger G, Shokat KM, Weiss WA

Targeting MYCN in neuroblastoma by BET bromodomain inhibition.

Cancer discovery

Puissant A, Frumm SM, Alexe G, Bassil CF, Qi J, Chanthery YH, Nekritz EA, Zeid R, Gustafson WC, Greninger P, Garnett MJ, McDermott U, Benes CH, Kung AL, Weiss WA, Bradner JE, Stegmaier K

Tumor dosimetry using [124I]m-iodobenzylguanidine microPET/CT for [131I]m-iodobenzylguanidine treatment of neuroblastoma in a murine xenograft model.

Molecular imaging and biology : MIB : the official publication of the Academy of Molecular Imaging

Seo Y, Gustafson WC, Dannoon SF, Nekritz EA, Lee CL, Murphy ST, VanBrocklin HF, Hernandez-Pampaloni M, Haas-Kogan DA, Weiss WA, Matthay KK

Dual blockade of lipid and cyclin-dependent kinases induces synthetic lethality in malignant glioma.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Cheng CK, Gustafson WC, Charron E, Houseman BT, Zunder E, Goga A, Gray NS, Pollok B, Oakes SA, James CD, Shokat KM, Weiss WA, Fan QW

Paracrine signaling through MYCN enhances tumor-vascular interactions in neuroblastoma.

Science translational medicine

Chanthery YH, Gustafson WC, Itsara M, Persson A, Hackett CS, Grimmer M, Charron E, Yakovenko S, Kim G, Matthay KK, Weiss WA

Addiction to B-MYB.

Oncotarget

Gustafson WC, Weiss WA

Myc proteins as therapeutic targets.

Oncogene

Gustafson WC, Weiss WA

Role of gastrointestinal hormones in neuroblastoma.

World journal of surgery

Gustafson WC, De Berry BB, Evers BM, Chung DH

Genomic mechanisms of p210BCR-ABL signaling: induction of heat shock protein 70 through the GATA response element confers resistance to paclitaxel-induced apoptosis.

The Journal of biological chemistry

Ray S, Lu Y, Kaufmann SH, Gustafson WC, Karp JE, Boldogh I, Fields AP, Brasier AR

Bcr-Abl regulates protein kinase Ciota (PKCiota) transcription via an Elk1 site in the PKCiota promoter.

The Journal of biological chemistry

Gustafson WC, Ray S, Jamieson L, Thompson EA, Brasier AR, Fields AP

Characterization of the role of protein kinase C isozymes in colon carcinogenesis using transgenic mouse models.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

Fields AP, Murray NR, Gustafson WC

Genomic analysis of glucocorticoid-regulated promoters in murine T-lymphoma cells.

Recent progress in hormone research

Chen L, Finnerty C, Gustafson WC, Bush CR, Chi P, Guo H, Luxon B, Fields AP, Thompson EA

Protein kinase C in disease: cancer.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

Fields AP, Gustafson WC

Comparison of GLUT1, GLUT3, and GLUT4 mRNA and the subcellular distribution of their proteins in normal human muscle.

Metabolism: clinical and experimental

Stuart CA, Wen G, Gustafson WC, Thompson EA

Nucleolar protein p120 contains an arginine-rich domain that binds to ribosomal RNA.

The Biochemical journal

Gustafson WC, Taylor CW, Valdez BC, Henning D, Phippard A, Ren Y, Busch H, Durban E

Overexpression of human nucleolar proteins in insect cells: characterization of nucleolar protein p120.

Protein expression and purification

Ren Y, Busch R, Durban E, Taylor C, Gustafson WC, Valdez B, Li YP, Smetana K, Busch H

Functional domains of nucleolar phosphoprotein p120.

Physiological chemistry and physics and medical NMR

Durban E, Valdez BC, Gustafson WC, Taylor CW, Cardellini E, Busch H