Scott R. VandenBerg, MD, PhD
Research and Clinical Interests
My research is aimed at the invasive motility of reactive and neoplastic astrocytes. A focus is the coordinate interactions of chemokines and growth factors in regulating the “invasive and motile” tumor cell phenotypes, using monolayer and three-dimensional matrix culture systems.
My clinical interests focus on the diagnostic classification of CNS tumors using histopathologic, immunohistochemical and molecular morphologic techniques.
Selected Publications
- Kanamori M., VandenBerg S.R., Bergers G., Berger MS, Pieper R.O. (2004) Integrin ß3 overexpression suppresses tumor growth in a human model of gliomagenesis: implications for the role of beta3 overexpression in glioblastoma multiforme. Cancer Res. 64:2751-2758.
- Swerdlow R.H., Redpath G.T., Binder D.R., Davis J.N., VandenBerg S.R. (2006) Mitochondrial DNA depletion analysis by pseudogene ratioing. J Neurosci Methods 150:265-71.
- Baia G.S., Slocum A.L., Hyer J.D., Misra A., VandenBerg S.R., Feuerstein B.G., Deen D.F., McDermott, M.W., Lal, A. (2006) A Genetic Strategy to Overcome the Senescence of Primary Meningioma Cell Cultures. J. Neuro-Oncol. 78:113-121.
- Cadieux B., Ching T-T., VandenBerg S.R., Costello J.F. (2006) Genome-wide hypomethylation in human glioblastomas associated with specific copy number alteration, MTHFR allele status and increased proliferation. Cancer Res. 66:8469-8476.
- Jackson E.L., Garcia-Verdugo J.M., Gil-Perotin S., Roy M., Quinones-Hinojosa A., VandenBerg S., Alvarez-Buylla A. (2006) PDGFR alpha-positive B cells are neural stem cells in the adult SVZ that form glioma-like growths in response to increased PDGF signaling. Neuron 51:187-199.
- Professor of Pathology and Neurological Surgery
- Pathology
- Neuropathology
Specialty Area
CNS Tumors
Contact Information
- Scott.VandenBerg@
ucsf.edu - Phone: (415)502-7796
- Fax: (415) 476-7963
- 505 Parnassus Avenue, Room M-551
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0511
Other UCSF Organizational Association(s)
Tissue Core Director
- Brain Tumor Research Center
Hospital Affiliation(s)
- Moffitt-Long