Faculty Profile

Robert H Weiss
Professor
Internal Medicine: Division of Nephrology (School of Medicine)
Chief of Nephrology, Sacramento VA Medical Center
GBSF rm 6312
Office (530) 752-4010
Lab 530-752-8868
rhweiss@ucdavis.edu
 
cyclins and cyclin inhibitors, cancer growth control, metabolomics and proteomics, polycystic kidney disease

Degrees:
1991 - - University of California, San Francisco - Fellowship, Nephrology
1984 - MD - University of California, Irvine - Medicine
1980 - MS - University of California, Los Angeles - Medical Physics
1978 - MS - University of California, Los Angeles - Physical Chemistry
1976 - BA - University of California, Santa Cruz - Chemistry

Department and Center Affiliations:
UC Davis Cancer Center

Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties:
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Cell and Developmental Biology
Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology
Non-DBS Grad Group(s) - Immunology Comparative Pathology

Publications:
Weiss RH, Joo A and CJ Randour. 2000. p21Waf1/Cip1 is an assembly factor required for PDGF-induced vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275:10285-10290

Davis BB, Thompson DA, Howard LL, Morisseau C, Hammock BD and RH Weiss. 2002. Inhibitors of soluble epoxide hydrolase attenuate vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA). 99(4):2222-2227

Lin, P.Y., Fosmire, S.P., Baksh, S., Modiano, J.F., Weiss, R.H. Attenuation of PTEN increases p21 stability and cytosolic localization in kidney cancer cells: a potential mechanism of apoptosis resistance, Molecular Cancer, 6:16, 2007

Park, S.H., Park, J.Y., Weiss, R.H. Antisense attenuation of p21 sensitizes kidney cancer to apoptosis in response to conventional DNA-damaging chemotherapy associated with enhancement of phospho-p53, Journal of Urology 180(1):352-60, 2008

Park, S.H., Wang, X., Liu, R., Lam, K.S., Weiss, R.H. High throughput screening of a small molecule one-bead-one-compound combinatorial library to identify attenuators of p21 as chemotherapy sensitizers, Cancer Biology & Therapy, in press

Kim, K.M., Aronov, P.A., Zakharkin, S.O., Anderson, D., Perroud, B., Weiss, R.H., Urine metabolomic analysis for kidney cancer detection and biomarker discovery, Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, in press

Research Interests:
Cell signaling, with an emphasis on vascular smooth muscle cell mitogenesis. Metabolomics, Cyclins, cyclin kinases, tumor suppressor homologues, and epoxyeicosanoids in vascular and cancer cell growth.