Robert West

Clinical Focus

• Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Breast Cancer
• Sarcoma
• Anatomic/Clinical Pathology

Administrative Appointments

• Co-Director, Immunodiagnosis Laboratory, Stanford University Medical Center (2003 - present)

Professional Education

Research Interests

My laboratory’s research examines the molecular events that lead to and sustain tumorigenesis, with a focus on soft tissue tumors. Current research interests include:

1) Gene expression profiling of soft tissue tumors to examine stromal expression patterns in carcinomas.

2) Array based expression studies of potential therapeutic gene targets in soft tissue tumors.

3) Identification of novel markers in tumors for diagnosis, prognosis and prediction of therapeutic response.

Publications

• Coordinate expression of colony-stimulating factor-1 and colony-stimulating factor-1-related proteins is associated with poor prognosis in gynecological and nongynecological leiomyosarcoma. Espinosa I, Beck AH, Lee CH, Zhu S, Montgomery KD, Marinelli RJ, Ganjoo KN, Nielsen TO, Gilks CB, West RB, van de Rijn M. Am J Pathol. 2009; 174 (6): 2347-56
• Discovery of molecular subtypes in leiomyosarcoma through integrative molecular profiling. Beck AH, Lee CH, Witten DM, Gleason BC, Edris B, Espinosa I, Zhu S, Li R, Montgomery KD, Marinelli RJ, Tibshirani R, Hastie T, Jablons DM, Rubin BP, Fletcher CD, West RB, van de Rijn M. Oncogene. 2009
• MOC-31 exhibits superior reactivity compared with Ber-EP4 in invasive lobular and ductal carcinoma of the breast: a tissue microarray study. Pai RK, West RB. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol. 2009; 17 (3): 202-6
• Ano1 is a selective marker of interstitial cells of Cajal in the human and mouse gastrointestinal tract. Gomez-Pinilla PJ, Gibbons SJ, Bardsley MR, Lorincz A, Pozo MJ, Pasricha PJ, Van de Rijn M, West RB, Sarr MG, Kendrick ML, Cima RR, Dozois EJ, Larson DW, Ordog T, Farrugia G. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2009; 296 (6): G1370-81
• Gene expression profiling for the investigation of soft tissue sarcoma pathogenesis and the identification of diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive biomarkers. Beck AH, West RB, van de Rijn M. Virchows Arch. 2009