Robert H Weiss
Professor
rhweiss@ucdavis.edu

Nephrology (Internal Med)
Chief of Nephrology, Sacramento VA Medical Center

Office
GBSF rm 6312
(530) 752-4010



 
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
Research Interests:

cyclins and cyclin inhibitors, cancer growth control, metabolomics and proteomics, polycystic kidney disease
Department and Center Affiliations:
UC Davis Cancer Center
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology  
Graduate Groups not Housed in CBS:
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