Pediatric Research

Joshua B. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D. rubin_j@kids.wustl.edu

Professor of Pediatrics, Hematology and Oncology

Professor, Neurology

Professor, Neuroscience

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Hematology and Oncology

phone: (314) 454-6018

Education

MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1994
PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1994
BS, Yale University, 1982
MSc, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1992

Training

Internship in Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, 1994 - 1995
Residency in Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, 1995 - 1997
Fellowship in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, 1997 - 2000
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 1998 - 2003

Licensure and Board Certification

MA, MA , 1994
MO , 2003
American Board of Pediatrics, sub-board in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology , 2004

Honors

Alpha Omega Alpha, 1993
NICHD Scholar of the Child Health Research Center for Excellence in developmental biology at Washington University School of Medicine, 2003
Andrew Hennessey Memorial Award for Scientific Research, 2005
Elected Member, Society for Pediatric Research, 2008 - Pres
Hyundai Scholar, 2008
Top 10 Percent Washington University School of Medicine Faculty on patient satisfaction surveys, 2008
Hyundai Scholar, 2013 - 2015
Pioneer Award in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology from the Children's Brain Tumor Foundation, 2018 - Pres

Selected Publications view all (91)

Publication Co-Authors

Todd Druley, M.D., Ph.D.

Karen Gauvain, M.D.

Allison King, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.

Todd N. Wylie

Abby Hollander, M.D.

1.	Lu F, Chen Y, Zhao C, Wang H, He D, Xu L, Wang J, He X, Deng Y, Lu EE, Liu X, Verma R, Bu H, Drissi R, Fouladi M, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Burns D, Xin M, Rubin JB, Bahassi el M, Canoll P, Holland EC, Lu QR. Olig2-Dependent Reciprocal Shift in PDGF and EGF Receptor Signaling Regulates Tumor Phenotype and Mitotic Growth in Malignant Glioma. Cancer Cell. 2016;29(5):669-83. PMID:27165742
2.	Rubin JB. Intersections at the crossroads: Neurofibromatosis type 1, cAMP, sex, and glioma risk. Mol Cell Oncol. 2016;3(3):e1069917. PMCID:PMC4909402 PMID:27314079
3.	Thompson EM, Hielscher T, Bouffet E, Remke M, Luu B, Gururangan S, McLendon RE, Bigner DD, Lipp ES, Perreault S, Cho YJ, Grant G, Kim SK, Lee JY, Rao AA, Giannini C, Li KK, Ng HK, Yao Y, Kumabe T, Tominaga T, Grajkowska WA, Perek-Polnik M, Low DC, Seow WT, Chang KT, Mora J, Pollack IF, Hamilton RL, Leary S, Moore AS, Ingram WJ, Hallahan AR, Jouvet A, Fèvre-Montange M, Vasiljevic A, Faure-Conter C, Shofuda T, Kagawa N, Hashimoto N, Jabado N, Weil AG, Gayden T, Wataya T, Shalaby T, Grotzer M, Zitterbart K, Sterba J, Kren L, Hortobágyi T, Klekner A, László B, Pócza T, Hauser P, Schüller U, Jung S, Jang WY, French PJ, Kros JM, van Veelen ML, Massimi L, Leonard JR, Rubin JB, Vibhakar R, Chambless LB, Cooper MK, Thompson RC, Faria CC, Carvalho A, Nunes S, Pimentel J, Fan X, Muraszko KM, López-Aguilar E, Lyden D, Garzia L, Shih DJ, Kijima N, Schneider C, Adamski J, Northcott PA, Kool M, Jones DT, Chan JA, Nikolic A, Garre ML, Van Meir EG, Osuka S, Olson JJ, Jahangiri A, Castro BA, Gupta N, Weiss WA, Moxon-Emre I, Mabbott DJ, Lassaletta A, Hawkins CE, Tabori U, Drake J, Kulkarni A, Dirks P, Rutka JT, Korshunov A, Pfister SM, Packer RJ, Ramaswamy V, Taylor MD. Prognostic value of medulloblastoma extent of resection after accounting for molecular subgroup: a retrospective integrated clinical and molecular analysis. Lancet Oncol. 2016;17(4):484-95. PMCID:PMC4907853 PMID:26976201
4.	Lessov-Schlaggar CN, Rubin JB, Schlaggar BL. The Fallacy of Univariate Solutions to Complex Systems Problems. Front Neurosci. 2016;10:267. PMID:27375425
5.	Sengupta R, Barone A, Marasa J, Taylor S, Jackson E, Warrington NM, Rao S, Kim AH, Leonard JR, Piwnica-Worms D, Rubin JB. Novel chemical library screen identifies naturally occurring plant products that specifically disrupt glioblastoma-endothelial cell interactions. Oncotarget. 2015;6(21):18282-92. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.4957 PMID:26286961
6.	Rubin JB. Sexual selection and cancer biology. Oncotarget. 2015;6(18):15714-5. PMCID:PMC4599216 PMID:26158217
7.	Warrington NM, Sun T, Luo J, McKinstry RC, Parkin PC, Ganzhorn S, Spoljaric D, Albers AC, Merkelson A, Stewart DR, Stevenson DA, Viskochil D, Druley TE, Forys JT, Reilly KM, Fisher MJ, Tabori U, Allen JC, Schiffman JD, Gutmann DH, Rubin JB. The cyclic AMP pathway is a sex-specific modifier of glioma risk in type I neurofibromatosis patients. Cancer Res. 2015;75(1):16-21. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-14-1891 PMCID:PMC4286430 PMID:25381154

1.	Ye D, Sultan D, Zhang X, Yue Y, Heo GS, Kothapalli SVVN, Luehmann H, Tai YC, Rubin JB, Liu Y, Chen H. Focused ultrasound-enabled delivery of radiolabeled nanoclusters to the pons. J Control Release. 2018;283:143-150. PMCID:PMC6035767 PMID:29864474
2.	Ye D, Zhuang X, Yue Y, Raliya R, Biswas P, Taylor S, Tai YC, Rubin JB, Liu Y, Chen H. Focused ultrasound combined with microbubble-mediated intranasal delivery of gold nanoclusters to the brain. J Control Release. 2018. PMID:30009893
3.	Sultan D, Ye D, Heo GS, Zhang X, Luehmann H, Yue Y, Detering L, Komarov S, Taylor S, Tai YC, Rubin JB, Chen H, Liu Y. Focused Ultrasound Enabled Trans-Blood Brain Barrier Delivery of Gold Nanoclusters: Effect of Surface Charges and Quantification Using Positron Emission Tomography. Small. 2018;e1703115. PMID:29966035
4.	Ostrom QT, Kinnersley B, Wrensch MR, Eckel-Passow JE, Armstrong G, Rice T, Chen Y, Wiencke JK, McCoy LS, Hansen HM, Amos CI, Bernstein JL, Claus EB, Il'yasova D, Johansen C, Lachance DH, Lai RK, Merrell RT, Olson SH, Sadetzki S, Schildkraut JM, Shete S, Rubin JB, Lathia JD, Berens ME, Andersson U, Rajaraman P, Chanock SJ, Linet MS, Wang Z, Yeager M, GliomaScan consortium., Houlston RS, Jenkins RB, Melin B, Bondy ML, Barnholtz-Sloan JS. Sex-specific glioma genome-wide association study identifies new risk locus at 3p21.31 in females, and finds sex-differences in risk at 8q24.21. Sci Rep. 2018;8(1):7352. PMCID:PMC5943590 PMID:29743610
5.	Gupta N, Goumnerova LC, Manley P, Chi SN, Neuberg D, Puligandla M, Fangusaro J, Goldman S, Tomita T, Alden T, DiPatri A, Rubin JB, Gauvain K, Limbrick D, Leonard J, Geyer JR, Leary S, Browd S, Wang Z, Sood S, Bendel A, Nagib M, Gardner S, Karajannis MA, Harter D, Ayyanar K, Gump W, Bowers DC, Weprin B, MacDonald TJ, Aguilera D, Brahma B, Robison NJ, Kiehna E, Krieger M, Sandler E, Aldana P, Khatib Z, Ragheb J, Bhatia S, Mueller S, Banerjee A, Bredlau AL, Gururangan S, Fuchs H, Cohen KJ, Jallo G, Dorris K, Handler M, Comito M, Dias M, Nazemi K, Baird L, Murray J, Lindeman N, Hornick JL, Malkin H, Sinai C, Greenspan L, Wright KD, Prados M, Bandopadhayay P, Ligon KL, Kieran MW. Prospective Feasibility and Safety Assessment of Surgical Biopsy for Patients with Newly Diagnosed Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. Neuro Oncol. 2018. PMID:29741745
6.	Miller CA, Dahiya S, Li T, Fulton RS, Smyth MD, Dunn GP, Rubin JB, Mardis ER. Resistance-promoting effects of ependymoma treatment revealed through genomic analysis of multiple recurrences in a single patient. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2018;4(2). PMCID:PMC5880262 PMID:29440180
7.	Ostrom QT, Rubin JB, Lathia JD, Berens ME, Barnholtz-Sloan JS. Females have the survival advantage in glioblastoma. Neuro Oncol. 2018;20(4):576-577. PMCID:PMC5909625 PMID:29474647
8.	He X, Zhang L, Queme LF, Liu X, Lu A, Waclaw RR, Dong X, Zhou W, Kidd G, Yoon SO, Buonanno A, Rubin JB, Xin M, Nave KA, Trapp BD, Jankowski MP, Lu QR. A histone deacetylase 3-dependent pathway delimits peripheral myelin growth and functional regeneration. Nat Med. 2018;24(3):338-351. PMCID:PMC5908710 PMID:29431744
9.	Kfoury N, Sun T, Yu K, Rockwell N, Tinkum KL, Qi Z, Warrington NM, McDonald P, Roy A, Weir SJ, Mohila CA, Deneen B, Rubin JB. Cooperative p16 and p21 action protects female astrocytes from transformation. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2018;6(1):12. PMCID:PMC5819173 PMID:29458417
10.	Wu LMN, Deng Y, Wang J, Zhao C, Wang J, Rao R, Xu L, Zhou W, Choi K, Rizvi TA, Remke M, Rubin JB, Johnson RL, Carroll TJ, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Wu J, Zheng Y, Xin M, Ratner N, Lu QR. Programming of Schwann Cells by Lats1/2-TAZ/YAP Signaling Drives Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumorigenesis. Cancer Cell. 2018;33(2):292-308.e7. PMCID:PMC5813693 PMID:29438698
11.	Rubin JB, Finlay JL. Pediatric low-grade gliomas: a brave new world. Neuro Oncol. 2018;20(2):149-150. PMCID:PMC5777489 PMID:29365202
12.	Broestl L, Rubin JB, Dahiya S.. Fetal microchimerism in human brain tumors. 2017. PMID:28921714
13.	Sankar S, Patterson E, Lewis EM, Waller LE, Tong C, Dearborn J, Wozniak D, Rubin JB, Kroll KL. Geminin deficiency enhances survival in a murine medulloblastoma model by inducing apoptosis of preneoplastic granule neuron precursors. Genes Cancer. 2017;8(9-10):725-744. PMCID:PMC5724806 PMID:29234490
14.	Ippolito JE, Yim AK, Luo J, Chinnaiyan P, Rubin JB. Sexual dimorphism in glioma glycolysis underlies sex differences in survival. JCI Insight. 2017;2(15). PMID:28768910
15.	Cavalli FMG, Remke M, Rampasek L, Peacock J, Shih DJH, Luu B, Garzia L, Torchia J, Nor C, Morrissy AS, Agnihotri S, Thompson YY, Kuzan-Fischer CM, Farooq H, Isaev K, Daniels C, Cho BK, Kim SK, Wang KC, Lee JY, Grajkowska WA, Perek-Polnik M, Vasiljevic A, Faure-Conter C, Jouvet A, Giannini C, Nageswara Rao AA, Li KKW, Ng HK, Eberhart CG, Pollack IF, Hamilton RL, Gillespie GY, Olson JM, Leary S, Weiss WA, Lach B, Chambless LB, Thompson RC, Cooper MK, Vibhakar R, Hauser P, van Veelen MC, Kros JM, French PJ, Ra YS, Kumabe T, López-Aguilar E, Zitterbart K, Sterba J, Finocchiaro G, Massimino M, Van Meir EG, Osuka S, Shofuda T, Klekner A, Zollo M, Leonard JR, Rubin JB, Jabado N, Albrecht S, Mora J, Van Meter TE, Jung S, Moore AS, Hallahan AR, Chan JA, Tirapelli DPC, Carlotti CG, Fouladi M, Pimentel J, Faria CC, Saad AG, Massimi L, Liau LM, Wheeler H, Nakamura H, Elbabaa SK, Perezpeña-Diazconti M, Chico Ponce de León F, Robinson S, Zapotocky M, Lassaletta A, Huang A, Hawkins CE, Tabori U, Bouffet E, Bartels U, Dirks PB, Rutka JT, Bader GD, Reimand J, Goldenberg A, Ramaswamy V, Taylor MD. Intertumoral Heterogeneity within Medulloblastoma Subgroups. Cancer Cell. 2017;31(6):737-754.e6. PMID:28609654
16.	Slat EA, Sponagel J, Marpegan L, Simon T, Kfoury N, Kim A, Binz A, Herzog ED, Rubin JB. Cell-intrinsic, Bmal1-dependent Circadian Regulation of Temozolomide Sensitivity in Glioblastoma. J Biol Rhythms. 2017;32(2):121-129. PMID:28470120
17.	Ward SA, Warrington NM, Taylor S, Kfoury N, Luo J, Rubin JB. Reprogramming Medulloblastoma-Propagating Cells by a Combined Antagonism of Sonic Hedgehog and CXCR4. Cancer Res. 2017;77(6):1416-1426. PMCID:PMC5505622 PMID:28031228
18.	Ryall S, Krishnatry R, Arnoldo A, Buczkowicz P, Mistry M, Siddaway R, Ling C, Pajovic S, Yu M, Rubin JB, Hukin J, Steinbok P, Bartels U, Bouffet E, Tabori U, Hawkins C. Targeted detection of genetic alterations reveal the prognostic impact of H3K27M and MAPK pathway aberrations in paediatric thalamic glioma. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2016;4(1):93. PMCID:PMC5006436 PMID:27577993
19.	Lu F, Chen Y, Zhao C, Wang H, He D, Xu L, Wang J, He X, Deng Y, Lu EE, Liu X, Verma R, Bu H, Drissi R, Fouladi M, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Burns D, Xin M, Rubin JB, Bahassi el M, Canoll P, Holland EC, Lu QR. Olig2-Dependent Reciprocal Shift in PDGF and EGF Receptor Signaling Regulates Tumor Phenotype and Mitotic Growth in Malignant Glioma. Cancer Cell. 2016;29(5):669-83. PMID:27165742
20.	Rubin JB. Intersections at the crossroads: Neurofibromatosis type 1, cAMP, sex, and glioma risk. Mol Cell Oncol. 2016;3(3):e1069917. PMCID:PMC4909402 PMID:27314079
21.	Thompson EM, Hielscher T, Bouffet E, Remke M, Luu B, Gururangan S, McLendon RE, Bigner DD, Lipp ES, Perreault S, Cho YJ, Grant G, Kim SK, Lee JY, Rao AA, Giannini C, Li KK, Ng HK, Yao Y, Kumabe T, Tominaga T, Grajkowska WA, Perek-Polnik M, Low DC, Seow WT, Chang KT, Mora J, Pollack IF, Hamilton RL, Leary S, Moore AS, Ingram WJ, Hallahan AR, Jouvet A, Fèvre-Montange M, Vasiljevic A, Faure-Conter C, Shofuda T, Kagawa N, Hashimoto N, Jabado N, Weil AG, Gayden T, Wataya T, Shalaby T, Grotzer M, Zitterbart K, Sterba J, Kren L, Hortobágyi T, Klekner A, László B, Pócza T, Hauser P, Schüller U, Jung S, Jang WY, French PJ, Kros JM, van Veelen ML, Massimi L, Leonard JR, Rubin JB, Vibhakar R, Chambless LB, Cooper MK, Thompson RC, Faria CC, Carvalho A, Nunes S, Pimentel J, Fan X, Muraszko KM, López-Aguilar E, Lyden D, Garzia L, Shih DJ, Kijima N, Schneider C, Adamski J, Northcott PA, Kool M, Jones DT, Chan JA, Nikolic A, Garre ML, Van Meir EG, Osuka S, Olson JJ, Jahangiri A, Castro BA, Gupta N, Weiss WA, Moxon-Emre I, Mabbott DJ, Lassaletta A, Hawkins CE, Tabori U, Drake J, Kulkarni A, Dirks P, Rutka JT, Korshunov A, Pfister SM, Packer RJ, Ramaswamy V, Taylor MD. Prognostic value of medulloblastoma extent of resection after accounting for molecular subgroup: a retrospective integrated clinical and molecular analysis. Lancet Oncol. 2016;17(4):484-95. PMCID:PMC4907853 PMID:26976201
22.	Lessov-Schlaggar CN, Rubin JB, Schlaggar BL. The Fallacy of Univariate Solutions to Complex Systems Problems. Front Neurosci. 2016;10:267. PMID:27375425
23.	Sengupta R, Barone A, Marasa J, Taylor S, Jackson E, Warrington NM, Rao S, Kim AH, Leonard JR, Piwnica-Worms D, Rubin JB. Novel chemical library screen identifies naturally occurring plant products that specifically disrupt glioblastoma-endothelial cell interactions. Oncotarget. 2015;6(21):18282-92. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.4957 PMID:26286961
24.	Rubin JB. Sexual selection and cancer biology. Oncotarget. 2015;6(18):15714-5. PMCID:PMC4599216 PMID:26158217
25.	Warrington NM, Sun T, Luo J, McKinstry RC, Parkin PC, Ganzhorn S, Spoljaric D, Albers AC, Merkelson A, Stewart DR, Stevenson DA, Viskochil D, Druley TE, Forys JT, Reilly KM, Fisher MJ, Tabori U, Allen JC, Schiffman JD, Gutmann DH, Rubin JB. The cyclic AMP pathway is a sex-specific modifier of glioma risk in type I neurofibromatosis patients. Cancer Res. 2015;75(1):16-21. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-14-1891 PMCID:PMC4286430 PMID:25381154
26.	Zhukova N, Ramaswamy V, Remke M, Martin DC, Castelo-Branco P, Zhang CH, Fraser M, Tse K, Poon R, Shih DJ, Baskin B, Ray PN, Bouffet E, Dirks P, von Bueren AO, Pfaff E, Korshunov A, Jones DT, Northcott PA, Kool M, Pugh TJ, Pomeroy SL, Cho YJ, Pietsch T, Gessi M, Rutkowski S, Bognár L, Cho BK, Eberhart CG, Conter CF, Fouladi M, French PJ, Grajkowska WA, Gupta N, Hauser P, Jabado N, Vasiljevic A, Jung S, Kim SK, Klekner A, Kumabe T, Lach B, Leonard JR, Liau LM, Massimi L, Pollack IF, Ra YS, Rubin JB, Van Meir EG, Wang KC, Weiss WA, Zitterbart K, Bristow RG, Alman B, Hawkins CE, Malkin D, Clifford SC, Pfister SM, Taylor MD, Tabori U. WNT activation by lithium abrogates TP53 mutation associated radiation resistance in medulloblastoma. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2014;2:174. doi:10.1186/s40478-014-0174-y PMCID:PMC4297452 PMID:25539912
27.	Barone A, Sengupta R, Warrington NM, Smith E, Wen PY, Brekken RA, Romagnoli B, Douglas G, Chevalier E, Bauer MP, Dembowsky K, Piwnica-Worms D, Rubin JB. Combined VEGF and CXCR4 antagonism targets the GBM stem cell population and synergistically improves survival in an intracranial mouse model of glioblastoma. Oncotarget. 2014;5(20):9811-22. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.2443 PMCID:PMC4259439 PMID:25238146
28.	Sun T, Warrington NM, Luo J, Brooks MD, Dahiya S, Snyder SC, Sengupta R, Rubin JB. Sexually dimorphic RB inactivation underlies mesenchymal glioblastoma prevalence in males. J Clin Invest. 2014;124(9):4123-33. doi:10.1172/JCI71048 PMCID:PMC4151215 PMID:25083989
29.	He X, Zhang L, Chen Y, Remke M, Shih D, Lu F, Wang H, Deng Y, Yu Y, Xia Y, Wu X, Ramaswamy V, Hu T, Wang F, Zhou W, Burns DK, Kim SH, Kool M, Pfister SM, Weinstein LS, Pomeroy SL, Gilbertson RJ, Rubin JB, Hou Y, Wechsler-Reya R, Taylor MD, Lu QR. The G protein α subunit Gαs is a tumor suppressor in Sonic hedgehog-driven medulloblastoma. Nat Med. 2014;20(9):1035-42. doi:10.1038/nm.3666 PMID:25150496
30.	Fontebasso AM, Papillon-Cavanagh S, Schwartzentruber J, Nikbakht H, Gerges N, Fiset PO, Bechet D, Faury D, De Jay N, Ramkissoon LA, Corcoran A, Jones DT, Sturm D, Johann P, Tomita T, Goldman S, Nagib M, Bendel A, Goumnerova L, Bowers DC, Leonard JR, Rubin JB, Alden T, Browd S, Geyer JR, Leary S, Jallo G, Cohen K, Gupta N, Prados MD, Carret AS, Ellezam B, Crevier L, Klekner A, Bognar L, Hauser P, Garami M, Myseros J, Dong Z, Siegel PM, Malkin H, Ligon AH, Albrecht S, Pfister SM, Ligon KL, Majewski J, Jabado N, Kieran MW. Recurrent somatic mutations in ACVR1 in pediatric midline high-grade astrocytoma. Nat Genet. 2014;46(5):462-6. doi:10.1038/ng.2950 PMID:24705250
31.	Diggs-Andrews KA, Brown JA, Gianino SM, D'Agostino McGowan L, Rubin JB, Wozniak DF, Gutmann DH. Reply: To PMID 24375753. Ann Neurol. 2014;75(5):800-1. PMID:24752946
32.	Robison NJ, Campigotto F, Chi SN, Manley PE, Turner CD, Zimmerman MA, Chordas CA, Werger AM, Allen JC, Goldman S, Rubin JB, Isakoff MS, Pan WJ, Khatib ZA, Comito MA, Bendel AE, Pietrantonio JB, Kondrat L, Hubbs SM, Neuberg DS, Kieran MW. A phase II trial of a multi-agent oral antiangiogenic (metronomic) regimen in children with recurrent or progressive cancer. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2014;61(4):636-42. doi:10.1002/pbc.24794 PMID:24123865
33.	Shih DJ, Northcott PA, Remke M, Korshunov A, Ramaswamy V, Kool M, Luu B, Yao Y, Wang X, Dubuc AM, Garzia L, Peacock J, Mack SC, Wu X, Rolider A, Morrissy AS, Cavalli FM, Jones DT, Zitterbart K, Faria CC, Schüller U, Kren L, Kumabe T, Tominaga T, Shin Ra Y, Garami M, Hauser P, Chan JA, Robinson S, Bognár L, Klekner A, Saad AG, Liau LM, Albrecht S, Fontebasso A, Cinalli G, De Antonellis P, Zollo M, Cooper MK, Thompson RC, Bailey S, Lindsey JC, Di Rocco C, Massimi L, Michiels EM, Scherer SW, Phillips JJ, Gupta N, Fan X, Muraszko KM, Vibhakar R, Eberhart CG, Fouladi M, Lach B, Jung S, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Fèvre-Montange M, Jouvet A, Jabado N, Pollack IF, Weiss WA, Lee JY, Cho BK, Kim SK, Wang KC, Leonard JR, Rubin JB, de Torres C, Lavarino C, Mora J, Cho YJ, Tabori U, Olson JM, Gajjar A, Packer RJ, Rutkowski S, Pomeroy SL, French PJ, Kloosterhof NK, Kros JM, Van Meir EG, Clifford SC, Bourdeaut F, Delattre O, Doz FF, Hawkins CE, Malkin D, Grajkowska WA, Perek-Polnik M, Bouffet E, Rutka JT, Pfister SM, Taylor MD. Cytogenetic prognostication within medulloblastoma subgroups. J Clin Oncol. 2014;32(9):886-96. doi:10.1200/JCO.2013.50.9539 PMCID:PMC3948094 PMID:24493713
34.	Diggs-Andrews KA, Brown JA, Gianino SM, Rubin JB, Wozniak DF, Gutmann DH. Sex Is a major determinant of neuronal dysfunction in neurofibromatosis type 1. Ann Neurol. 2014;75(2):309-16. PMCID:PMC4172335 PMID:24375753
35.	Brooks MD, Jackson E, Warrington NM, Luo J, Forys JT, Taylor S, Mao DD, Leonard JR, Kim AH, Piwnica-Worms D, Mitra RD, Rubin JB. PDE7B is a novel, prognostically significant mediator of glioblastoma growth whose expression is regulated by endothelial cells. PLoS One. 2014;9(9):e107397. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107397 PMCID:PMC4159344 PMID:25203500
36.	Remke M, Ramaswamy V, Peacock J, Shih DJ, Koelsche C, Northcott PA, Hill N, Cavalli FM, Kool M, Wang X, Mack SC, Barszczyk M, Morrissy AS, Wu X, Agnihotri S, Luu B, Jones DT, Garzia L, Dubuc AM, Zhukova N, Vanner R, Kros JM, French PJ, Van Meir EG, Vibhakar R, Zitterbart K, Chan JA, Bognár L, Klekner A, Lach B, Jung S, Saad AG, Liau LM, Albrecht S, Zollo M, Cooper MK, Thompson RC, Delattre OO, Bourdeaut F, Doz FF, Garami M, Hauser P, Carlotti CG, Van Meter TE, Massimi L, Fults D, Pomeroy SL, Kumabe T, Ra YS, Leonard JR, Elbabaa SK, Mora J, Rubin JB, Cho YJ, McLendon RE, Bigner DD, Eberhart CG, Fouladi M, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Faria CC, Croul SE, Huang A, Bouffet E, Hawkins CE, Dirks PB, Weiss WA, Schüller U, Pollack IF, Rutkowski S, Meyronet D, Jouvet A, Fèvre-Montange M, Jabado N, Perek-Polnik M, Grajkowska WA, Kim SK, Rutka JT, Malkin D, Tabori U, Pfister SM, Korshunov A, von Deimling A, Taylor MD. TERT promoter mutations are highly recurrent in SHH subgroup medulloblastoma. Acta Neuropathol. 2013;126(6):917-29. doi:10.1007/s00401-013-1198-2 PMCID:PMC3830749 PMID:24174164
37.	Zhukova N, Ramaswamy V, Remke M, Pfaff E, Shih DJ, Martin DC, Castelo-Branco P, Baskin B, Ray PN, Bouffet E, von Bueren AO, Jones DT, Northcott PA, Kool M, Sturm D, Pugh TJ, Pomeroy SL, Cho YJ, Pietsch T, Gessi M, Rutkowski S, Bognar L, Klekner A, Cho BK, Kim SK, Wang KC, Eberhart CG, Fevre-Montange M, Fouladi M, French PJ, Kros M, Grajkowska WA, Gupta N, Weiss WA, Hauser P, Jabado N, Jouvet A, Jung S, Kumabe T, Lach B, Leonard JR, Rubin JB, Liau LM, Massimi L, Pollack IF, Shin Ra Y, Van Meir EG, Zitterbart K, Schüller U, Hill RM, Lindsey JC, Schwalbe EC, Bailey S, Ellison DW, Hawkins C, Malkin D, Clifford SC, Korshunov A, Pfister S, Taylor MD, Tabori U. Subgroup-specific prognostic implications of TP53 mutation in medulloblastoma. J Clin Oncol. 2013. doi:10.1200/JCO.2012.48.5052 PMID:23835706
38.	Hawasli AH, Rubin JB, Tran DD, Adkins DR, Waheed S, Hullar TE, Gutmann DH, Evans J, Leonard JR, Zipfel GJ, Chicoine MR. Antiangiogenic agents for nonmalignant brain tumors. J Neurol Surg B Skull Base. 2013;74(3):136-41. doi:10.1055/s-0033-1338262 PMCID:PMC3709924 PMID:24436903
39.	Yuan L, Zhang H, Liu J, Rubin JB, Cho YJ, Shu HK, Schniederjan M, MacDonald TJ. Growth factor receptor-Src-mediated suppression of GRK6 dysregulates CXCR4 signaling and promotes medulloblastoma migration. Mol Cancer. 2013;12:18. doi:10.1186/1476-4598-12-18 PMCID:PMC3599655 PMID:23497290
40.	Pong WW, Walker J, Wylie T, Magrini V, Luo J, Emnett RJ, Choi J, Cooper ML, Griffith M, Griffith OL, Rubin JB, Fuller GN, Piwnica-Worms D, Feng X, Hambardzumyan D, DiPersio JF, Mardis ER, Gutmann DH. F11R is a novel monocyte prognostic biomarker for malignant glioma. PLoS One. 2013;8(10):e77571. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077571 PMCID:PMC3795683 PMID:24147027
41.	Patel JR, Williams JL, Muccigrosso MM, Liu L, Sun T, Rubin JB, Klein RS. Astrocyte TNFR2 is required for CXCL12-mediated regulation of oligodendrocyte progenitor proliferation and differentiation within the adult CNS. Acta Neuropathol. 2012;124(6):847-60. doi:10.1007/s00401-012-1034-0 PMCID:PMC3508279 PMID:22933014
42.	Johnson KJ, Fisher MJ, Listernick RL, North KN, Schorry EK, Viskochil D, Weinstein M, Rubin JB, Gutmann DH. Parent-of-origin in individuals with familial neurofibromatosis type 1 and optic pathway gliomas. Fam Cancer. 2012;11(4):653-6. doi:10.1007/s10689-012-9549-z PMID:22829012
43.	Northcott PA, Shih DJ, Peacock J, Garzia L, Morrissy AS, Zichner T, Stütz AM, Korshunov A, Reimand J, Schumacher SE, Beroukhim R, Ellison DW, Marshall CR, Lionel AC, Mack S, Dubuc A, Yao Y, Ramaswamy V, Luu B, Rolider A, Cavalli FM, Wang X, Remke M, Wu X, Chiu RY, Chu A, Chuah E, Corbett RD, Hoad GR, Jackman SD, Li Y, Lo A, Mungall KL, Nip KM, Qian JQ, Raymond AG, Thiessen NT, Varhol RJ, Birol I, Moore RA, Mungall AJ, Holt R, Kawauchi D, Roussel MF, Kool M, Jones DT, Witt H, Fernandez-L A, Kenney AM, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Dirks P, Aviv T, Grajkowska WA, Perek-Polnik M, Haberler CC, Delattre O, Reynaud SS, Doz FF, Pernet-Fattet SS, Cho BK, Kim SK, Wang KC, Scheurlen W, Eberhart CG, Fèvre-Montange M, Jouvet A, Pollack IF, Fan X, Muraszko KM, Gillespie GY, Di Rocco C, Massimi L, Michiels EM, Kloosterhof NK, French PJ, Kros JM, Olson JM, Ellenbogen RG, Zitterbart K, Kren L, Thompson RC, Cooper MK, Lach B, McLendon RE, Bigner DD, Fontebasso A, Albrecht S, Jabado N, Lindsey JC, Bailey S, Gupta N, Weiss WA, Bognár L, Klekner A, Van Meter TE, Kumabe T, Tominaga T, Elbabaa SK, Leonard JR, Rubin JB, Liau LM, Van Meir EG, Fouladi M, Nakamura H, Cinalli G, Garami M, Hauser P, Saad AG, Iolascon A, Jung S, Carlotti CG, Vibhakar R, Ra YS, Robinson S, Zollo M, Faria CC, Chan JA, Levy ML, Sorensen PH, Meyerson M, Pomeroy SL, Cho YJ, Bader GD, Tabori U, Hawkins CE, Bouffet E, Scherer SW, Rutka JT, Malkin D, Clifford SC, Jones SJ, Korbel JO, Pfister SM, Marra MA, Taylor MD. Subgroup-specific structural variation across 1,000 medulloblastoma genomes. Nature. 2012;488(7409):49-56. doi:10.1038/nature11327 PMID:22832581
44.	Rao S, Sengupta R, Choe EJ, Woerner BM, Jackson E, Sun T, Leonard J, Piwnica-Worms D, Rubin JB. CXCL12 mediates trophic interactions between endothelial and tumor cells in glioblastoma. PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e33005. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033005 PMCID:PMC3299723 PMID:22427929
45.	Sengupta R, Dubuc A, Ward S, Yang L, Northcott P, Woerner BM, Kroll K, Luo J, Taylor MD, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Rubin JB. CXCR4 activation defines a new subgroup of Sonic hedgehog-driven medulloblastoma. Cancer Res. 2012;72(1):122-32. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-11-1701 PMCID:PMC3520097 PMID:22052462
46.	Creach KM, Rubin JB, Leonard JR, Limbrick DD, Smyth MD, Dacey R, Rich KM, Dowling JL, Grubb RL Jr, Linette GP, King AA, Michalski JM, Park TS, Perry A, Simpson JR, Mansur DB. Oligodendrogliomas in children. J Neurooncol. 2012;106(2):377-82. doi:10.1007/s11060-011-0674-6 PMID:21842314
47.	Woerner BM, Luo J, Brown KR, Jackson E, Dahiya SM, Mischel P, Benovic JL, Piwnica-Worms D, Rubin JB. Suppression of G-protein-coupled receptor kinase 3 expression is a feature of classical GBM that is required for maximal growth. Mol Cancer Res. 2012;10(1):156-66. doi:10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-11-0411 PMCID:PMC3262072 PMID:22086906
48.	Perkins SM, Rubin JB, Leonard JR, Smyth MD, El Naqa I, Michalski JM, Simpson JR, Limbrick DL, Park TS, Mansur DB. Glioblastoma in children: a single-institution experience. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2011;80(4):1117-21. doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.03.013 PMID:21220190
49.	Mansur DB, Rubin JB, Kidd EA, King AA, Hollander AS, Smyth MD, Limbrick DD, Park TS, Leonard JR. Radiation therapy for pilocytic astrocytomas of childhood. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2011;79(3):829-34. doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.11.015 PMID:20421157
50.	Dorward IG, Luo J, Perry A, Gutmann DH, Mansur DB, Rubin JB, Leonard JR. Postoperative imaging surveillance in pediatric pilocytic astrocytomas. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2010;6(4):346-52. doi:10.3171/2010.7.PEDS10129 PMID:20887107
51.	Sun T, Gianino SM, Jackson E, Piwnica-Worms D, Gutmann DH, Rubin JB. CXCL12 alone is insufficient for gliomagenesis in Nf1 mutant mice. J Neuroimmunol. 2010;224(1-2):108-13. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2010.05.002 PMCID:PMC2910179 PMID:20554030
52.	Warrington NM, Gianino SM, Jackson E, Goldhoff P, Garbow JR, Piwnica-Worms D, Gutmann DH, Rubin JB. Cyclic AMP suppression is sufficient to induce gliomagenesis in a mouse model of neurofibromatosis-1. Cancer Res. 2010;70(14):5717-27. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-3769 PMCID:PMC2905483 PMID:20551058
53.	Darken RS, Bogitch R, Leonard J, Perry A, McKinstry RC, Gutmann DH, Rubin JB. Brainstem glioma presenting as pruritus in children with neurofibromatosis-1. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2009;31(12):972-6. doi:10.1097/MPH.0b013e3181b8701f PMID:19935099
54.	Zeng Z, Shi YX, Samudio IJ, Wang RY, Ling X, Frolova O, Levis M, Rubin JB, Negrin RR, Estey EH, Konoplev S, Andreeff M, Konopleva M. Targeting the leukemia microenvironment by CXCR4 inhibition overcomes resistance to kinase inhibitors and chemotherapy in AML. Blood. 2009;113(24):6215-24. doi:10.1182/blood-2008-05-158311 PMCID:PMC2699240 PMID:18955566
55.	Sengupta R, Burbassi S, Shimizu S, Cappello S, Vallee RB, Rubin JB, Meucci O. Morphine increases brain levels of ferritin heavy chain leading to inhibition of CXCR4-mediated survival signaling in neurons. J Neurosci. 2009;29(8):2534-44. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5865-08.2009 PMCID:PMC2664553 PMID:19244528
56.	Chi SN, Zimmerman MA, Yao X, Cohen KJ, Burger P, Biegel JA, Rorke-Adams LB, Fisher MJ, Janss A, Mazewski C, Goldman S, Manley PE, Bowers DC, Bendel A, Rubin J, Turner CD, Marcus KJ, Goumnerova L, Ullrich NJ, Kieran MW. Intensive multimodality treatment for children with newly diagnosed CNS atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor. J Clin Oncol. 2009;27(3):385-9. doi:10.1200/JCO.2008.18.7724 PMCID:PMC2645855 PMID:19064966
57.	Goldhoff P, Warrington NM, Limbrick DD Jr, Hope A, Woerner BM, Jackson E, Perry A, Piwnica-Worms D, Rubin JB. Targeted inhibition of cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase-4 promotes brain tumor regression. Clin Cancer Res. 2008;14(23):7717-25. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-0827 PMCID:PMC2615415 PMID:19047098
58.	Kiehl EL, Stojadinovic S, Malinowski KT, Limbrick D, Jost SC, Garbow JR, Rubin JB, Deasy JO, Khullar D, Izaguirre EW, Parikh PJ, Low DA, Hope AJ. Feasibility of small animal cranial irradiation with the microRT system. Med Phys. 2008;35(10):4735-43. doi:10.1118/1.2977762 PMCID:PMC2736759 PMID:18975718
59.	Frei-Jones M, McKinstry RC, Perry A, Leonard JR, Park TS, Rubin JB. Use of thalidomide to diminish growth velocity in a life-threatening congenital intracranial hemangioma. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2008;2(2):125-9. doi:10.3171/PED/2008/2/8/125 PMCID:PMC2737696 PMID:18671617
60.	Reilly KM, Rubin JB, Gilbertson RJ, Garbow JR, Roussel MF, Gutmann DH. Rethinking brain tumors: the fourth Mouse Models of Human Cancers Consortium nervous system tumors workshop. Cancer Res. 2008;68(14):5508-11. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-0703 PMCID:PMC2678167 PMID:18632599
61.	McCandless EE, Piccio L, Woerner BM, Schmidt RE, Rubin JB, Cross AH, Klein RS. Pathological expression of CXCL12 at the blood-brain barrier correlates with severity of multiple sclerosis. Am J Pathol. 2008;172(3):799-808. doi:10.2353/ajpath.2008.070918 PMCID:PMC2258272 PMID:18276777
62.	Hegedus B, Banerjee D, Yeh TH, Rothermich S, Perry A, Rubin JB, Garbow JR, Gutmann DH. Preclinical cancer therapy in a mouse model of neurofibromatosis-1 optic glioma. Cancer Res. 2008;68(5):1520-8. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-5916 PMID:18316617
63.	Warrington NM, Woerner BM, Daginakatte GC, Dasgupta B, Perry A, Gutmann DH, Rubin JB. Spatiotemporal differences in CXCL12 expression and cyclic AMP underlie the unique pattern of optic glioma growth in neurofibromatosis type 1. Cancer Res. 2007;67(18):8588-95. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-2220 PMID:17875698
64.	Yang L, Jackson E, Woerner BM, Perry A, Piwnica-Worms D, Rubin JB. Blocking CXCR4-mediated cyclic AMP suppression inhibits brain tumor growth in vivo. Cancer Res. 2007;67(2):651-8. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-2762 PMID:17234775
65.	Leonard JR, Perry A, Rubin JB, King AA, Chicoine MR, Gutmann DH. The role of surgical biopsy in the diagnosis of glioma in individuals with neurofibromatosis-1. Neurology. 2006;67(8):1509-12. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000240076.31298.47 PMID:17060590
66.	Woerner BM, Warrington NM, Kung AL, Perry A, Rubin JB. Widespread CXCR4 activation in astrocytomas revealed by phospho-CXCR4-specific antibodies. Cancer Res. 2005;65(24):11392-9. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-0847 PMID:16357147
67.	Kieran MW, Turner CD, Rubin JB, Chi SN, Zimmerman MA, Chordas C, Klement G, Laforme A, Gordon A, Thomas A, Neuberg D, Browder T, Folkman J. A feasibility trial of antiangiogenic (metronomic) chemotherapy in pediatric patients with recurrent or progressive cancer. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2005;27(11):573-81. PMID:16282886
68.	Sun Y, Schmidt NO, Schmidt K, Doshi S, Rubin JB, Mulkern RV, Carroll R, Ziu M, Erkmen K, Poussaint TY, Black P, Albert M, Burstein D, Kieran MW. Perfusion MRI of U87 brain tumors in a mouse model. Magn Reson Med. 2004;51(5):893-9. doi:10.1002/mrm.20029 PMID:15122670
69.	Rubin JB, Kung AL, Klein RS, Chan JA, Sun Y, Schmidt K, Kieran MW, Luster AD, Segal RA. A small-molecule antagonist of CXCR4 inhibits intracranial growth of primary brain tumors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003;100(23):13513-8. doi:10.1073/pnas.2235846100 PMCID:PMC263845 PMID:14595012
70.	Rubin JB, Choi Y, Segal RA. Cerebellar proteoglycans regulate sonic hedgehog responses during development. Development. 2002;129(9):2223-32. PMID:11959830
71.	Borghesani PR, Peyrin JM, Klein R, Rubin J, Carter AR, Schwartz PM, Luster A, Corfas G, Segal RA. BDNF stimulates migration of cerebellar granule cells. Development. 2002;129(6):1435-42. PMID:11880352
72.	Marler JJ, Rubin JB, Trede NS, Connors S, Grier H, Upton J, Mulliken JB, Folkman J. Successful antiangiogenic therapy of giant cell angioblastoma with interferon alfa 2b: report of 2 cases. Pediatrics. 2002;109(2):E37. PMID:11826247
73.	Klein RS, Rubin JB, Gibson HD, DeHaan EN, Alvarez-Hernandez X, Segal RA, Luster AD. SDF-1 alpha induces chemotaxis and enhances Sonic hedgehog-induced proliferation of cerebellar granule cells. Development. 2001;128(11):1971-81. PMID:11493520
74.	Oh S, Rubin JB, Bennett MV, Verselis VK, Bargiello TA. Molecular determinants of electrical rectification of single channel conductance in gap junctions formed by connexins 26 and 32. J Gen Physiol. 1999;114(3):339-64. PMCID:PMC2229461 PMID:10469726
75.	Bennett MV, Rubin JB, Bargiello TA, Verselis VK. Structure-function studies of voltage sensitivity of connexins, the family of gap junction forming proteins. Jpn J Physiol. 1993;43 Suppl 1:S301-10. PMID:8271512
76.	Rubin JB, Verselis VK, Bennett MV, Bargiello TA. A domain substitution procedure and its use to analyze voltage dependence of homotypic gap junctions formed by connexins 26 and 32. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1992;89(9):3820-4. PMCID:PMC525582 PMID:1315041
77.	Rubin JB, Verselis VK, Bennett MV, Bargiello TA. Molecular analysis of voltage dependence of heterotypic gap junctions formed by connexins 26 and 32. Biophys J. 1992;62(1):183-93; discussion 193-5. doi:10.1016/S0006-3495(92)81804-0 PMCID:PMC1260515 PMID:1376166
78.	Fishman JB, Rubin JB, Handrahan JV, Connor JR, Fine RE. Receptor-mediated transcytosis of transferrin across the blood-brain barrier. J Neurosci Res. 1987;18(2):299-304. doi:10.1002/jnr.490180206 PMID:3694713
79.	Böni-Schnetzler M, Rubin JB, Pilch PF. Structural requirements for the transmembrane activation of the insulin receptor kinase. J Biol Chem. 1986;261(32):15281-7. PMID:3021769
80.	Shia MA, Rubin JB, Pilch PF. The insulin receptor protein kinase. Physicochemical requirements for activity. J Biol Chem. 1983;258(23):14450-5. PMID:6557114
81.	Rubin JB, Shia MA, Pilch PF. Stimulation of tyrosine-specific phosphorylation in vitro by insulin-like growth factor I. Nature. 1983;305(5933):438-40. PMID:6312321
82.	Gauvain, K, Ponisio, MR, Barone, A, Grimaldi, M, Parent, E, Leeds, H, Goyal, M, Rubin J, McConathy, J. 18F-FDOPA PET/MRI for monitoring early response to bevacizumab in children with recurrent brain tumors. Neuro-Oncology Practice.
83.	He, X, Zhang, L, Queme, LF, Liu, X, Lu, A, Waclaw, RR, Zhou,W, Kidd,G, Yoon,SO, Buonanno,A, Rubin, JB, Xin, M, Nave, K-A, Trapp, BD, Jankowski, MP, and Lu, QR. A Histone Deacetylase 3-Dependent Pathway Delimits Peripheral Myelin Growth and 2 Functional Regeneration 3 Nature Medicine.
84.	Wei Yang, Nicole M Warrington, Sara J Taylor, Eduardo Carrasco, Kyle W Singleton, Ningying Wu, Justin D Lathia, Michael E Berens, Albert H Kim, Jill S Barnholtz-Sloan, Kristin R. Swanson, Jingqin Luo, Joshua B Rubin. Clinically important sex differences in GBM biology revealed by analysis of male and female imaging, transcriptome and survival data Science Translational Medicine.
85.	Najla Kfoury, Tao Sun, Kwanha You, Nathan Rockwell, Kelsey Tinkum, Peter MacDonald, Anuradha Roy, Scott J Werir Carie A Mohila, Benjamin Deneen, Joshua B Rubin. Cooperative p16 and p21 action protects female astrocytes from transformation. Cancer Research.
86.	Najla Kfoury, Z Qi, S. Sankararaman, M. Wilkerson, L Broestl, K. beret, J Gertz, R. Mitra, Joshua B Rubin. Differential Brd4 bound stretch/super enhancers drive critical sex differences in glioblastoma Science.
87.	Ostrom, QT, Rubin, JB, Barnholtz-Sloan-Sloan, JS.. Females have the survival advantage in glioblastoma. Neuro-Oncology.
88.	Rubin JB & Finally, JL. Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas: A Brave New World. Neuro-Oncology.
89.	Miller, CA, Dahiya, S, Li, T, Fulton, RS, Smyth, MD, Dunn, GP, Rubin, JB, Mardis, ER. Resistance promoting effects of ependymoma treatment revealed through genomic analyses of multiple recurrences in a single patient. Molecular Case Studies.
90.	Stacey Ward, Nicole M Warrington, Lihua Yang, Rajarshi Sengupta, Silvio Barbassi, Shirley Markant, Zeng-jie Yang, Olimpia Meucci, Robert Wechsler-Reya, Joshuia B Rubin.. Sonic hedgehog and GRK3 regulate CXCR4 sub cellular localization and Galphai signaling during early cerebellar development. Developmental Biology.
91.	Christopher a Miller, Sonika Dahiya, Tiandao Li, Robert S Fulton, Matthew D Smyth, Gavin P Dunn, Joshua B Rubin, Elaine R Mardis. Temporal and clinical Progression in a pediatric ependymoma through multiple treatments. Acta Neuropathologica.