Beatrice Knudsen, MD PhD

Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Advanced Biobank
Director, Translational Pathology

Specialties:
Biobanking
Translational Pathology

Email: Beatrice.Knudsen@cshs.org
Phone: 310-248-8687

Education and Training

  • Cornell University Medical College, Ithaca, NY; MD and PhD
  • Internship in Medicine, The New York Hospital-Cornell, New York, NY
  • Residency in Anatomic Pathology, The New York Hospital-Cornell, New York, NY
  • Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Oncology, Rockafeller University, New York, NY

Medical Board Certification

  • Board Certified, Anatomic Pathology

Clinical and Research Interests

  • Gene expression and mechanisms in prostate and ovarian cancer
  • Tissue biobanking and microarray
  • Molecular diagnostics

Awards and Activities

  • Co-Principle Investigator, Specimen Core, PNW Ovarian SPORE project
  • Principle Investigator, PNW Spore Site Prostate Inter-SPORE Biomarker Project
  • Member, Advisory Board, Cell Communication and Signaling Journal
  • Chair, Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics Study Section,   DOD Cancer Research Program

Selected Publications

  • Yan D, Wang P, Knudsen BS, Linden M, Randolph TW. Statistical Methods for Tissue Array Images - Algorithmic Scoring and Co-training..Ann Appl Stat. 2012 Sep;6(3):1280-1305
  • Fitzgerald LM, Zhang X, Kolb S, Kwon EM, Liew YC, Hurtado-Coll A, Knudsen BS, Ostrander EA, Stanford JL. Investigation of the Relationship Between Prostate Cancer and MSMB and NCOA4 Genetic Variants and Protein Expression. Hum Mutat. 2012 Aug 7. doi: 10.1002/humu.22176.
  • Putzke AP, Ventura AP, Bailey AM, Akture C, Opoku-Ansah J, Celiktaş M, Hwang MS, Darling DS, Coleman IM, Nelson PS, Nguyen HM, Corey E, Tewari M, Morrissey C, Vessella RL, Knudsen BS. Metastatic progression of prostate cancer and e-cadherin regulation by zeb1 and SRC family kinases. Am J Pathol. 2011 Jul;179(1):400-10.
  • Risk MC, , Knudsen BS, Coleman I, Dumpit RF, Kristal AR, Lemeur N, Gentleman RC, True LD, Nelson PS, Lin DW. Differential Gene Expression in Benign Prostate Epithelium of Men with and without Prostate Cancer: Evidence for a Prostate Cancer Field Effect. Clin Cancer Res. 2010; 16(22):5414-23.

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