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Theodore P. Nicolaides, M.D.

Pediatric neurologic cancer specialist

Dr. Theodore Nicolaides is a pediatric neuro-oncologist who treats children with brain tumors, such as malignant gliomas, in the Cancer and Blood Disease Program at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. In addition to treating patients, he conducts research on new therapies and participates in clinical trials conducted by the Children's Oncology Group and Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. He speaks fluent Greek.

Nicolaides earned a medical degree at the New York University School of Medicine in New York City and completed a residency in pediatrics at New York University Medical Center and a fellowship in pediatric hematology-oncology at UCSF. He is a member of the Society of Neuro-Oncology and American Association of Cancer Research, which awarded him its Pediatric Cancer Career Development Award. Nicolaides is an adjunct assistant instructor in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at the UCSF School of Medicine.

Clinics

Child Neuro-Oncology
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-2966

Oncology Clinic
400 Parnassus Ave., Suite 101
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 476-3831

More about Theodore P. Nicolaides

Additional Languages

Greek

Education

New York University School of Medicine 2001

Residencies

New York University Medical Center, Pediatrics 2004

Fellowships

UCSF Medical Center, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology 2007

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Hashizume R, Smirnov I, Liu S, Phillips JJ, Hyer J, McKnight TR, Wendland M, Prados M, Banerjee A, Nicolaides T, Mueller S, James CD, Gupta N. Characterization of a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma cell line: implications for future investigations and treatment. J Neurooncol. 2012 Dec; 110(3):305-13.
  2. Huillard E, Hashizume R, Phillips JJ, Griveau A, Ihrie RA, Aoki Y, Nicolaides T, Perry A, Waldman T, McMahon M, Weiss WA, Petritsch C, James CD, Rowitch DH. Cooperative interactions of BRAFV600E kinase and CDKN2A locus deficiency in pediatric malignant astrocytoma as a basis for rational therapy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 May 29; 109(22):8710-5.
  3. See WL, Tan IL, Mukherjee J, Nicolaides T, Pieper RO. Sensitivity of glioblastomas to clinically available MEK inhibitors is defined by neurofibromin 1 deficiency. Cancer Res. 2012 Jul 1; 72(13):3350-9.
  4. Barkovich KJ, Hariono S, Garske AL, Zhang J, Blair JA, Fan QW, Shokat KM, Nicolaides T, Weiss WA. Kinetics of inhibitor cycling underlie therapeutic disparities between EGFR-driven lung and brain cancers. Cancer Discov. 2012 May; 2(5):450-7.
  5. Nicolaides TP, Li H, Solomon DA, Hariono S, Hashizume R, Barkovich K, Baker SJ, Paugh BS, Jones C, Forshew T, Hindley GF, Hodgson JG, Kim JS, Rowitch DH, Weiss WA, Waldman TA, James CD. Targeted therapy for BRAFV600E malignant astrocytoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2011 Dec 15; 17(24):7595-604.
  6. Fan QW, Cheng C, Hackett C, Feldman M, Houseman BT, Nicolaides T, Haas-Kogan D, James CD, Oakes SA, Debnath J, Shokat KM, Weiss WA. Akt and autophagy cooperate to promote survival of drug-resistant glioma. Sci Signal. 2010; 3(147):ra81.
  7. Yoon DJ, Kwan BH, Chao FC, Nicolaides TP, Phillips JJ, Lam GY, Mason AB, Weiss WA, Kamei DT. Intratumoral therapy of glioblastoma multiforme using genetically engineered transferrin for drug delivery. Cancer Res. 2010 Jun 1; 70(11):4520-7.
  8. Nicolaides T, Tihan T, Horn B, Biegel J, Prados M, Banerjee A. High-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell rescue for atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor of the central nervous system. J Neurooncol. 2010 May; 98(1):117-23.
  9. Fan QW, Cheng CK, Nicolaides TP, Hackett CS, Knight ZA, Shokat KM, Weiss WA. A dual phosphoinositide-3-kinase alpha/mTOR inhibitor cooperates with blockade of epidermal growth factor receptor in PTEN-mutant glioma. Cancer Res. 2007 Sep 1; 67(17):7960-5.
  10. Kountouras J, Deretzi G, Zavos C, Karatzoglou P, Touloumis L, Nicolaides T, Chatzopoulos D, Venizelos I. Association between Helicobacter pylori infection and acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy. Eur J Neurol. 2005 Feb; 12(2):139-43.
  11. Broniscer A, Nicolaides TP, Dunkel IJ, Gardner SL, Johnson J, Allen JC, Sposto R, Finlay JL. High-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem-cell rescue in the treatment of patients with recurrent non-cerebellar primitive neuroectodermal tumors. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2004 Mar; 42(3):261-7.
  12. NICOLAIDES T. [Not Available]. Rev Tuberc. 1947; 11(11-12):870-6.

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