Brian M. Shuch, MD

Brian Shuch, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Urology
Kidney Cancer Program Director, UCLA Institute of Urologic Oncology

Specialty

Urology

Institutional Affiliation

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica

Languages

English

Education

Fellowship

Urologic Oncology, National Cancer Institute, 2010 - 2013

Internship

Surgery, University of California Los Angeles, 2004 - 2005

Degree

MD, New York University School of Medicine, 2004

Residency

Urology, University of California Los Angeles, 2005 - 2010

Board Certification

Urology, American Board of Urology, 2015

Contact Information

Scientific Interests

Dr. Brian Shuch's research interests include the study of hereditary predisposition to kidney cancer, mechanisms of sarcomatoid transformation in kidney cancer, the role of genomic alterations in determining outcomes in kidney cancer and kidney cancer genomic heterogeneity.

Highlighted Publications

Ueno D, Xie Z, Boeke M, Syed J, Nguyen KA, McGillivray P, Adeniran A, Humphrey P, Dancik GM, Kluger Y, Liu Z, Kluger H, Shuch B. Genomic Heterogeneity and the Small Renal Mass. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Sep 1;24(17):4137-4144. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-0214. Epub 2018 May 14.

Sulkowski PL, Sundaram RK, Oeck S, Corso CD, Liu Y, Noorbakhsh S, Niger M, Boeke M, Ueno D, Kalathil AN, Bao X, Li J, Shuch B, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Krebs-cycle-deficient hereditary cancer syndromes are defined by defects in homologous-recombination DNA repair. Nat Genet. 2018 Aug;50(8):1086-1092. doi: 10.1038/s41588-018-0170-4. Epub 2018 Jul 16.

Li S, Shuch BM, Gerstein MB. Whole-genome analysis of papillary kidney cancer finds significant noncoding alterations. PLoS Genet. 2017 Mar 30;13(3):e1006685. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006685. eCollection 2017 Mar.

Bi M, Zhao S, Said JW, Merino MJ, Adeniran AJ, Xie Z, Nawaf CB, Choi J, Belldegrun AS, Pantuck AJ, Kluger HM, Bilguvar K, Lifton RP, Shuch B. Genomic characterization of sarcomatoid transformation in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Feb 23;113(8):2170-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1525735113. Epub 2016 Feb 10.

Xie Z, Lee YH, Boeke M, Jilaveanu LB, Liu Z, Bottaro DP, Kluger HM, Shuch B. MET Inhibition in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. J Cancer. 2016 Jun 18;7(10):1205-14. doi: 10.7150/jca.14604. eCollection 2016.