Zev Wainberg, MD, MSc

Dr. Zev Wainberg's clinical interests include designing GI (gastroenterology) cancer clinical trials. He is particularly interested in the development and testing of new targeted therapies for the treatment of colon cancer, gastric cancer and esophagus cancer.

Wainberg's laboratory and translational research involves gene expression patterns in a variety of GI cancers and the molecular profiling of these cancers for novel therapies. His research also involves the targeting of GI and prostate cancers with new antibody technologies.

Wainberg ZA, Lin LS, DiCarlo B, Dao KM, Patel R, Park DJ, Wang HJ, Elashoff R, Ryba N, Hecht JR. Phase II trial of modified FOLFOX6 and erlotinib in patients with metastatic or advanced adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus and gastro-oesophageal junction. Br J Cancer. 2011 Sep 6;105(6):760-5. Epub 2011 Aug 2

Tanaka H, Kono E, Tran CP, Miyazaki H, Yamashiro J, Shimomura T, Fazli L, Wada R, Huang J, Vessella RL, An J, Horvath S, Gleave M, Rettig MB, Wainberg ZA, Reiter RE. Monoclonal antibody targeting of N-cadherin inhibits prostate cancer growth, metastasis and castration resistance. Nat Med. 2010 Dec;16(12):1414-20. Epub 2010 Nov 7

Wainberg ZA, Anghel A, Desai AJ, Ayala R, Luo T, Safran B, Fejzo MS, Hecht JR, Slamon DJ, Finn RS. Lapatinib, a dual EGFR and HER2 kinase inhibitor, selectively inhibits HER2-amplified human gastric cancer cells and is synergistic with trastuzumab in vitro and in vivo. Clin Cancer Res. 2010 Mar 1;16(5):1509-19. Epub 2010 Feb 23

Bilchik A, Nissan A, Wainberg Z, Shen P, McCarter M, Protic M, Howard R, Elashoff D, Tyler J, Peoples GE, Stojadinovic A. Surgical quality and nodal ultrastaging is associated with long-term disease-free survival in early colorectal cancer: an analysis of 2 international multicenter prospective trials. Ann Surg. 2010 Sep;252(3):467-74; discussion 474-6.