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Claudio J. Conti, DVM, Ph.D.

Present Title & Affiliation

Primary Appointment

Professor, Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Science Park Research Division, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX
Member of Faculty, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX

Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment

Adjunct Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, College of Pharmacy, Austin, TX

Education & Training

N/A

Experience/Service

Academic Appointments

Biologist and Professor, Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Science Park-Research Division, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX, 1993-present

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles
1. Rojas P, Benavides F, Blando J, Perez C, Cardenas K, Richie E, Knudsen ES, Johnson DG, Senderowicz AM, Rodriguez-Puebla ML, Conti CJ. Enhanced skin carcinogenesis and lack of thymus hyperplasia in transgenic mice expressing human cyclin D1b (CCND1b). Mol Carcinog 48(6):508-16, 6/2009. PMID: 18942117.
2. Blando J, Dave B, Portis M, Benavides F, Alexander A, Mills G, Dave B, Conti CJ, Kim J, Walker CL. PTEN deficiency is fully penetrant for prostate adenocarcinoma in C57BL/6 mice via mTOR-dependent growth. Am J Pathol 174(5):1869-79, 5/2009. PMCID: PMC2671275.
3. Shirley SH, Rundhaug JE, Tian J, Cullinan-Ammann N, Lambertz I, Conti CJ, Fuchs-Young R. Transcriptional regulation of estrogen receptor-alpha by p53 in human breast cancer cells. Cancer Res 697(8):3405-14, 4/2009. PMID: 19351845.
4. Mirones I, Conti CJ, Martinez J, Garcia M, Larcher F. Complexity of VEGF responses in skin carcinogenesis revealed through ex vivo assays based on a VEGF-A null mouse keratinocyte cell line. J Invest Dermatol 129(3):730-41, 3/2009. PMID: 18818673.

Last updated: 5/11/2011