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Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD
Biographical Sketch
| BS, 1989, Duke University, Durham, NC,
Zoology |
| MAT, 1990, Duke University, Durham, NC,
Biology |
PhD, 1999, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
WI, Cell & Molecular Biology |
| MD, 2001, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
WI, Medicine |
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| 2001-2004 |
Resident, Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
| 2002-2005 |
Visiting Scientist, Whitehead Institute of Biomedical
Research, Cambridge, MA |
| 2003-2003 |
Chief Resident, Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
| 2004-2005 |
Fellow, Harvard Medical School Joint Program of Tranfusion
Medcine, Boston, MA
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2005-Present |
Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, University
of California, San Francisco, CA |
| 2006-Present |
Peter R. Carroll, MD Endowed Chair, University
of California, San Francisco, CA |
Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD, joined UCSF from a post-doctoral fellow
position at the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research. Blelloch
completed his undergraduate education, and earned a master’s
in teaching at Duke University; he worked for several years as
a high school science teacher before entering the University
of Wisconsin, Madison, Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). At
Wisconsin Blelloch earned his PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology
in 1999 and his MD in 2001. He continued his medical education
with a residency in pathology at the Harvard Medical School-affiliated
Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His residency was followed
by a fellowship in Harvard’s joint program of transfusion
medicine, which allowed him to hone clinical and basic
science skills concurrently at the Brigham and Women’s
Hospital and the Whitehead Institute.
Blelloch is an outstanding researcher who received two NIH
grants and private foundation monies providing full tuition and
stipend while at Madison. Blelloch published several papers as
a MSTP student, including a cover story in Nature. As a senior
medical student, Blelloch was inducted into the medical honorary
society, Alpha Omega Alpha, and was selected as the commencement
speaker for the University of Wisconsin combined graduate/professional
students’ graduation ceremonies. As a post-doctoral fellow, he
showed how somatic cell nuclear transfer could be used to study
the genetics and biology of cancer. Blelloch’s current research
focuses on the factors that determine and limit the developmental
potential of stem cells, and the role of these factors in cancer.
The NIH and Lance Armstrong Foundation, in part, fund this work.
His work is expanding our understanding of the genetic and biological
basis of cancer, and may lead to new cancer treatments.
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