Harley Kornblum, MD, PhD

Dr. Harley Kornblum's lab works on brain development, brain repair and brain cancer. His lab was among the first to identify stem cell-like cells in brain tumors and aided in the development of the methods that are widely used to study brain tumors. The laboratory is investigating glioma heterogeneity and novel mechanisms by which glioma cells propagate themselves and resist therapy. Additionally, the Kornblum lab studies normal neural stem cells and mechanisms of plasticity and repair in stroke, brain and spinal cord injury.

Laks DR, Ta L, Crisman TJ, Gao F, Coppola G, Radu CG, Nathanson DA, Kornblum HI. Inhibition of Nucleotide Synthesis Targets Brain Tumor Stem Cells in a Subset of Glioblastoma. Mol Cancer Ther. 2016 Jun;15(6):1271-8. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-15-0982. Epub 2016 Mar 29.

Laks, DR, Crisman, TJ, Shih MYS, Mottahedeh J, Gao F, Sperry J, Garrett MC, Yong WH, Cloughesy TF, Liau LM, Lai A, Coppola G, Kornblum HI. Large-scale assessment of the gliomasphere model system. Neuro Oncol. 2016 Apr 25. pii: now045. [Epub ahead of print]

Nathanson DA, Gini B, Mottahedeh J, Visnyei K, Koga T, Gomez G, Eskin A, Hwang K, Wang J, Masui K, Paucar A, Yang H, Ohashi M, Zhu S, Wykosky J, Reed R, Nelson SF, Cloughesy TF, James CD, Rao PN, Kornblum HI, Heath JR, Cavenee WK, Furnari FB, Mischel PS. Targeted therapy resistance mediated by dynamic regulation of extrachromosomal mutant EGFR DNA. Science. 2014 Jan 3;343(6166):72-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1241328. Epub 2013 Dec 5.

Akhavan D, Pourzia AL, Nourian AA, Williams KJ, Nathanson D, Babic I, Villa GR, Tanaka K, Nael A, Yang H, Dang J, Vinters HV, Yong WH, Flagg M, Tamanoi F, Sasayama T, James CD, Kornblum HI, Cloughesy TF, Cavenee WK, Bensinger SJ, Mischel PS. De-repression of PDGFR-beta transcription promotes acquired resistance to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors in glioblastoma patients. Cancer Discov. 2013 May;3(5):534-47. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-12-0502. Epub 2013 Mar 26.

Le Belle JE, Orozco NM, Paucar AA, Saxe JP, Mottahedeh J, Pyle AD, Wu H, Kornblum HI. Proliferative neural stem cells have high endogenous ROS levels that regulate self-renewal and neurogenesis in a PI3K/Akt-dependant manner. Cell Stem Cell. 2011 Jan 7;8(1):59-71. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2010.11.028.