Felicia Reinitz, MD, PhD

Child Neurology

EDUCATION

  • Internship, Pediatrics: Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital
  • Medical School: Stanford University
  • Graduate School: Stem Cell biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University
  • Undergraduate: University of California, Los Angeles                                                                         

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Neural stem cell biology
  • Pediatric neuro-oncology
  • Traumatic brain injury

PUBLICATIONS

Reinitz, F., Clarke, MF, Heller, HC, Monje, M, & Stanford University. Investigating Neural Stem Cell Function in an Alzheimer's Disease Model. 2019. PhD Thesis. http://purl.stanford.edu.laneproxy.stanford.edu/dk765zv9855

Zarnegar, MA, Reinitz F, Newman AM, Clarke MF. 2017. Targeted chromatin ligation, a robust epigenetic profiling technique for small cell numbers. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(17):e153.

Guo D, Reinitz F, Youssef M, Hong C, Nathanson D, Akhavan D, Kuga D, Amzajerdi AN, Soto H, Zhu S, Babic I, Tanaka K, Dang J, Iwanami A, Gini B, Dejesus J, Lisiero DD, Huang TT, Prins RM, Wen PY, Robins HI, Prados MD, Deangelis LM, Mellinghoff IK, Mehta MP, James CD, Chakravarti A, Cloughesy TF, Tontonoz P, Mischel PS. 2011. An LXR agonist promotes GBM cell death through inhibition of an EGFR/AKT/SREBP-1/LDLR-dependent pathway. Cancer Discovery. 1(5):442-456.

Tarcic, G., Boguslavsky, S.K., Wakim, J., Kiuchi, T., Liu, A., Reinitz, F., Nathanson, D., Takahashi, T., Mischel, P., Ng, T., and Yarden, Y. 2009. An Unbiased Screen Identifies DEP 1 Tumor Suppressor as a Phosphatase controlling EGFR Endocytosis. Current Biology. 19(21):1788-98.

HOBBIES

  • Traveling
  • Exercise and outdoor sports