Charles D. Lopez, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine
  • Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program, School of Medicine
  • Cancer Biology Graduate Program, School of Medicine
  • Program in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, School of Medicine

Biography

My major research interest is investigating the basic cellular and molecular mechanisms of how tumors form and respond to treatment. By studying how these things work, I hope to find specific molecules that are targets for new cancer treatments. I see patients with gastrointestinal (digestive system) cancers and participate in clinical trials for a variety of gastrointestinal cancers.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • Ph.D., 1990, University of California San Francisco
    • M.D., 1991, University of California San Francisco
  • Residency

    • University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, 1994
  • Fellowship

    • Medical oncology, Stanford University Medical Center, 1998
  • Certifications

    • American Board of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology

Memberships and associations:

  • American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Ongoing replication stress tolerance and clonal T cell responses distinguish liver and lung recurrence and outcomes in pancreatic cancer

    Nature Cancer
    1. Jason M. Link
    2. Jennifer R. Eng
    3. Carl Pelz
    4. Kevin MacPherson-Hawthorne
    5. Patrick J. Worth
    6. Shamaline Sivagnanam
    7. Dove J. Keith
    8. Sydney Owen
    9. Ellen M. Langer
    10. Alison Grossblatt-Wait
    11. Gustavo Salgado-Garza
    12. Allison L. Creason
    13. Sara Protzek
    14. Julian Egger
    15. Hannah Holly
    16. Michael B. Heskett
    17. Koei Chin
    18. Nell Kirchberger
    19. Konjit Betre
    20. Elmar Bucher
    21. David Kilburn
    22. Zhi Hu
    23. Michael W. Munks
    24. Isabel A. English
    25. Motoyuki Tsuda
    26. Jeremy Goecks
    27. Emek Demir
    28. Andrew C. Adey
    29. Adel Kardosh
    30. Charles D. Lopez
    31. Brett C. Sheppard
    32. Alex Guimaraes
    33. Brian Brinkerhoff
    34. Terry K. Morgan
    35. Gordon B. Mills
    36. Lisa M. Coussens
    37. Jonathan R. Brody
    38. Rosalie C. Sears
  • A Modified Floxuridine Reduced-Dose Protocol for Patients with Unresectable Colorectal Liver Metastases Treated with Hepatic Arterial Infusion

    Annals of surgical oncology
    1. Issac R. Schwantes
    2. Ranish K. Patel
    3. Adel Kardosh
    4. Jillian Paxton
    5. Robert Eil
    6. Emerson Y. Chen
    7. Flavio G. Rocha
    8. Emile Latour
    9. Guillaume Pegna
    10. Charles D. Lopez
    11. Skye C. Mayo
  • ASO Author Reflections

    Annals of surgical oncology
    1. Issac R. Schwantes
    2. Ranish K. Patel
    3. Adel Kardosh
    4. Charles D. Lopez
    5. Skye C. Mayo
  • CASPER

    Future Oncology
    1. Charles D. Lopez
    2. Adel Kardosh
    3. Emerson Y. Chen
    4. Guillaume Pegna
    5. Alexander Guimaraes
    6. Bryan Foster
    7. Brian Brinkerhoff
    8. Shaun M. Goodyear
    9. Jeong Youn Lim
    10. Erin Taber
    11. Brindha Rajagopalan
    12. Exodus Edmerson
    13. Johnson Vo
    14. Katherine Nelson
    15. Anna Jackson
    16. Tasha Gingerich
    17. Anne Fahlman
    18. Christopher Lessenich
    19. Francesca Fennell
    20. Diane Ventura
    21. Preeyam Roy
    22. Dove Keith
    23. Brett Sheppard
    24. Jonathan R. Brody
    25. Gordon B. Mills
    26. Ze'ev A. Ronai
    27. Rosalie C. Sears
  • Circulating Neoplastic-Immune Hybrid Cells Are Biomarkers of Occult Metastasis and Treatment Response in Pancreatic Cancer

    Cancers
    1. Ranish K. Patel
    2. Michael Parappilly
    3. Hannah C. Farley
    4. Emile J. Latour
    5. Lei G. Wang
    6. Ashvin M. Nair
    7. Ethan S. Lu
    8. Zachary Sims
    9. Byung Park
    10. Katherine Nelson
    11. Skye C. Mayo
    12. Gordon B. Mills
    13. Brett C. Sheppard
    14. Young Hwan Chang
    15. Summer L. Gibbs
    16. Adel Kardosh
    17. Charles D. Lopez
    18. Melissa H. Wong
  • Devimistat (CPI-613) With Modified Fluorouarcil, Oxaliplatin, Irinotecan, and Leucovorin (FFX) Versus FFX for Patients With Metastatic Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas

    Journal of Clinical Oncology
    1. Philip A. Philip
    2. Vaibhav Sahai
    3. Nathan Bahary
    4. Amit Mahipal
    5. Anup Kasi
    6. Caio Max S. Rocha Lima
    7. Angela T. Alistar
    8. Paul E. Oberstein
    9. Talia Golan
    10. Jean Philippe Metges
    11. Jill Lacy
    12. Christos Fountzilas
    13. Charles D. Lopez
    14. Michel Ducreux
    15. Pascal Hammel
    16. Mohamed Salem
    17. David Bajor
    18. Al B. Benson
    19. Sanjeev Luther
    20. Timothy Pardee
    21. Eric Van Cutsem
  • Exploratory Analyses of Circulating Neoplastic-Immune Hybrid Cells as Prognostic Biomarkers in Advanced Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

    International journal of molecular sciences
    1. Ranish K. Patel
    2. Michael S. Parappilly
    3. Brett S. Walker
    4. Robert T. Heussner
    5. Alice Fung
    6. Young Hwan Chang
    7. Adel Kardosh
    8. Charles D. Lopez
    9. Skye C. Mayo
    10. Melissa H. Wong
  • Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

    Current problems in cancer
    1. Hannah S. McMurry
    2. Jaydira Del Rivero
    3. Emerson Chen
    4. Adel Kardosh
    5. Charles Lopez
    6. Guillaume J. Pegna
  • Accessible high-throughput single-cell whole-genome sequencing with paired chromatin accessibility

    Cell Reports Methods
    1. Konstantin Queitsch
    2. Travis W. Moore
    3. Brendan L. O'Connell
    4. Ruth V. Nichols
    5. John L. Muschler
    6. Dove Keith
    7. Charles Lopez
    8. Rosalie C. Sears
    9. Gordon B. Mills
    10. Galip Gürkan Yardımcı
    11. Andrew C. Adey
  • Adjuvant nab-Paclitaxel + Gemcitabine in Resected Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

    Journal of Clinical Oncology
    1. Margaret A. Tempero
    2. Uwe Pelzer
    3. Eileen M. O'Reilly
    4. Jordan Winter
    5. Do Youn Oh
    6. Chung Pin Li
    7. Giampaolo Tortora
    8. Heung Moon Chang
    9. Charles D. Lopez
    10. Tanios Bekaii-Saab
    11. Andrew H. Ko
    12. Armando Santoro
    13. Joon Oh Park
    14. Marcus S. Noel
    15. Giovanni Luca Frassineti
    16. Yan Shen Shan
    17. Andrew Dean
    18. Hanno Riess
    19. Eric Van Cutsem
    20. Jordan Berlin
    21. Philip Philip
    22. Malcolm Moore
    23. David Goldstein
    24. Josep Tabernero
    25. Mingyu Li
    26. Stefano Ferrara
    27. Yvan Le Bruchec
    28. George Zhang
    29. Brian Lu
    30. Andrew V. Biankin
    31. Michele Reni
    32. Richard Epstein
    33. Paul Vasey
    34. Jeremy Shapiro
    35. Matthew Burge
    36. Yu Jo Chua
    37. Marion Harris
    38. Nick Pavlakis
    39. Niall Tebbutt
    40. Gerald Prager
    41. Christian Dittrich
    42. Friedrich Längle
    43. Kathrin Philipp-Abbrederis
    44. Richard Greil
    45. Herbert Stöger
    46. Michael Girschikofsky
    47. Thomas Kuehr
    48. Jean Luc Van Laethem
    49. Stéphanie Laurent
    50. Neesha Dhani
  • Atezolizumab Plus PEGPH20 Versus Chemotherapy in Advanced Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma and Gastric Cancer

    Oncologist
    1. Andrew H. Ko
    2. Kyu Pyo Kim
    3. Jens T. Siveke
    4. Charles D. Lopez
    5. Jill Lacy
    6. Eileen M. O'Reilly
    7. Teresa Macarulla
    8. Gulam A. Manji
    9. Jeeyun Lee
    10. Jaffer Ajani
    11. Maria Alsina Maqueda
    12. Sun Young Rha
    13. Janet Lau
    14. Nedal Al-Sakaff
    15. Simon Allen
    16. Danny Lu
    17. Colby S. Shemesh
    18. Xinxin Gan
    19. Edward Cha
    20. Do Youn Oh
  • Efficacy and safety of maintenance therapy with pamiparib versus placebo for advanced gastric cancer responding to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy

    Cancer medicine
    1. Fortunato Ciardiello
    2. Yung Jue Bang
    3. Andrés Cervantes
    4. Mikhail Dvorkin
    5. Charles D. Lopez
    6. Jean Philippe Metges
    7. Antonio Sánchez Ruiz
    8. Mariona Calvo
    9. Andrew H. Strickland
    10. George Kannourakis
    11. Kei Muro
    12. Hisato Kawakami
    13. Jia Wei
    14. Christophe Borg
    15. Zhaoyin Zhu
    16. Neal Gupta
    17. Robert J. Pelham
    18. Lin Shen
  • Hepatectomy is associated with improved oncologic outcomes in recurrent colorectal liver metastases

    Surgery (United States)
    1. Thomas L. Sutton
    2. Liam H. Wong
    3. Brett S. Walker
    4. Elizabeth N. Dewey
    5. Robert Eil
    6. Charles Lopez
    7. Adel Kardosh
    8. Emerson Chen
    9. Flavio Rocha
    10. Kevin Billingsley
    11. Skye C. Mayo
  • Modulation of myeloid and T cells in vivo by Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor ibrutinib in patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

    Journal for immunotherapy of cancer
    1. Meenal Sinha
    2. Courtney Betts
    3. Li Zhang
    4. Madeline J. Griffith
    5. Isabelle Solman
    6. Brandon Chen
    7. Eric Liu
    8. Whitney Tamaki
    9. Jacob Stultz
    10. Jaqueline Marquez
    11. Shamilene Sivagnanam
    12. Alexander Cheung
    13. Denise Pener
    14. Anne Fahlman
    15. Erin Taber
    16. Kimberly Lerner
    17. Matthew Crocker
    18. Kendra Todd
    19. Brindha Rajagopalan
    20. Clarisha Ware
    21. Mark Bridge
    22. Johnson Vo
    23. Hannah Dragomanovich
    24. Julie Sudduth-Klinger
    25. Gina Vaccaro
    26. Charles D. Lopez
    27. Margaret Tempero
    28. Lisa M. Coussens
    29. Lawrence Fong
  • Neoadjuvant therapy does not impact the biliary microbiome in patients with pancreatic cancer

    Journal of surgical oncology
    1. Shay Behrens
    2. Thomas L. Sutton
    3. Ranish Patel
    4. Issac R. Schwantes
    5. Jack O'Grady
    6. Alicia Johnson
    7. Aaron Grossberg
    8. Charles Lopez
    9. Erin Gilbert
    10. Skye Mayo
    11. Brett C. Sheppard
  • Pembrolizumab in combination with gemcitabine and cisplatin compared with gemcitabine and cisplatin alone for patients with advanced biliary tract cancer (KEYNOTE-966)

    The Lancet
    1. Robin Kate Kelley
    2. Makoto Ueno
    3. Changhoon Yoo
    4. Richard S. Finn
    5. Junji Furuse
    6. Zhenggang Ren
    7. Thomas Yau
    8. Heinz Josef Klümpen
    9. Stephen L. Chan
    10. Masato Ozaka
    11. Chris Verslype
    12. Mohamed Bouattour
    13. Joon Oh Park
    14. Olga Barajas
    15. Uwe Pelzer
    16. Juan W. Valle
    17. Li Yu
    18. Usha Malhotra
    19. Abby B. Siegel
    20. Julien Edeline
    21. Arndt Vogel
    22. Mehmet Akce
    23. Immaculada Ales Diaz
    24. Gustavo Alves
    25. Sumitra Anand
    26. Cagatay Arslan
    27. Jamil Asselah
    28. Eric Assenat
    29. Francine Aubin
    30. Li Yuan Bai
    31. Yuxian Bai
    32. Susan Bates
    33. Stephen Begbie
    34. Irit Ben-Aharon
    35. Nina Beri
    36. Marie Luise Berres
    37. Jean Frederic Blanc
    38. Ivan Borbath
    39. Robert Bordonaro
    40. Giovanni Brandi
    41. Adam Burgoyne
    42. Kritiya Butthongkomvong
    43. Ke Cao
    44. Marcela Carballido
    45. Marcos Camandaroba
    46. Stephan Lam Chang
    47. Jen Shi Chen
    48. Ming Huang Chen
    49. Xiaoming Chen
    50. Charles Lopez
  • Phase 2 study of preoperative chemotherapy with nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine followed by chemoradiation for borderline resectable or node-positive pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

    Cancer medicine
    1. Emerson Y. Chen
    2. Adel Kardosh
    3. Nima Nabavizadeh
    4. Bryan Foster
    5. Skye C. Mayo
    6. Kevin G. Billingsley
    7. Erin W. Gilbert
    8. Christian Lanciault
    9. Aaron Grossberg
    10. Kenneth G. Bensch
    11. Erin Maynard
    12. Eric C. Anderson
    13. Brett C. Sheppard
    14. Charles R. Thomas
    15. Charles D. Lopez
    16. Gina M. Vaccaro
  • Socioeconomic and Geographic Disparities in the Referral and Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer at High-Volume Centers

    JAMA Surgery
    1. Thomas L. Sutton
    2. Blake Beneville
    3. Alicia J. Johnson
    4. Skye Mayo
    5. Erin Gilbert
    6. Charles Lopez
    7. Aaron Grossberg
    8. Flavio Rocha
    9. Brett C. Sheppard
  • Alternative splicing of Apoptosis Stimulating Protein of TP53-2 (ASPP2) results in an oncogenic isoform promoting migration and therapy resistance in soft tissue sarcoma (STS)

    BMC cancer
    1. Vasileia Tsintari
    2. Bianca Walter
    3. Falko Fend
    4. Mathis Overkamp
    5. Christian Rothermundt
    6. Charles D. Lopez
    7. Marcus M. Schittenhelm
    8. Kerstin M. Kampa-Schittenhelm
  • Early Versus Late Recurrence in Rectal Cancer

    Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
    1. Marina Affi Koprowski
    2. Thomas L. Sutton
    3. Nima Nabavizadeh
    4. Charles Thomas
    5. Emerson Chen
    6. Adel Kardosh
    7. Charles Lopez
    8. Skye C. Mayo
    9. Kim Lu
    10. Daniel Herzig
    11. V. Liana Tsikitis
  • Hepatic arterial infusion pump chemotherapy combined with systemic therapy for patients with advanced colorectal liver metastases

    Journal of surgical oncology
    1. Brett S. Walker
    2. Kevin G. Billingsley
    3. Thomas L. Sutton
    4. Kenneth J. Kolbeck
    5. Elena K. Korngold
    6. Nima Nabavizadeh
    7. Elizabeth N. Dewey
    8. Daniel O. Herzig
    9. Charles D. Lopez
    10. Skye C. Mayo
  • Neoadjuvant Therapy Is Associated with Improved Chemotherapy Delivery and Overall Survival Compared to Upfront Resection in Pancreatic Cancer without Increasing Perioperative Complications

    Cancers
    1. Christopher Ryan Deig
    2. Thomas Lee Sutton
    3. Blake Beneville
    4. Kristin Trone
    5. Amanda Stratton
    6. Ali N. Gunesch
    7. Amy Ivy Liu
    8. Alaaeddin Alrohaibani
    9. Maedeh Mohebnasab
    10. Solange Bassale
    11. Alison Grossblatt-Wait
    12. Dove Keith
    13. Fouad Attia
    14. Erin W. Gilbert
    15. Charles D. Lopez
    16. Adel Kardosh
    17. Emerson Y. Chen
    18. Kenneth G. Bensch
    19. Nima Nabavizadeh
    20. Charles R. Thomas
    21. Skye C. Mayo
    22. Brett C. Sheppard
    23. Aaron Grossberg
  • Application of ASCO Value Framework to Treatment Advances in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    JCO Oncology Practice
    1. Emerson Y. Chen
    2. Madeline Cook
    3. Christopher Deig
    4. Asad Arastu
    5. Vinay Prasad
    6. Nima Nabavizadeh
    7. Charles D. Lopez
    8. Adel Kardosh
  • ASPP2κ Is Expressed In Human Colorectal Carcinoma And Promotes Chemotherapy Resistance And Tumorigenesis

    Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
    1. Ingmar Rieger
    2. Vasileia Tsintari
    3. Mathis Overkamp
    4. Falko Fend
    5. Charles D. Lopez
    6. Marcus M. Schittenhelm
    7. Kerstin M. Kampa-Schittenhelm
  • Circulating Hybrid Cells

    Annals of surgical oncology
    1. Brett S. Walker
    2. Thomas L. Sutton
    3. Luai Zarour
    4. John G. Hunter
    5. Stephanie G. Wood
    6. V. Liana Tsikitis
    7. Daniel O. Herzig
    8. Charles D. Lopez
    9. Emerson Y. Chen
    10. Skye C. Mayo
    11. Melissa H. Wong
  • Degree of biliary tract violation during treatment of gallbladder adenocarcinoma is independently associated with development of peritoneal carcinomatosis

    Journal of surgical oncology
    1. Thomas L. Sutton
    2. Brett S. Walker
    3. Stephanie Radu
    4. Elizabeth N. Dewey
    5. C. Kristian Enestvedt
    6. Erin Maynard
    7. Susan L. Orloff
    8. Nima Nabavizadeh
    9. Brett C. Sheppard
    10. Charles D. Lopez
    11. Kevin Billingsley
    12. Skye C. Mayo
  • Detection of Tumor Multifocality in Resectable Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

    Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
    1. Thomas L. Sutton
    2. Kevin Billingsley
    3. Brett S. Walker
    4. Alice W. Fung
    5. Erin Maynard
    6. C. Kristian Enestvedt
    7. Elizabeth N. Dewey
    8. Brian T. Brinkerhoff
    9. Charles D. Lopez
    10. Susan L. Orloff
    11. Skye C. Mayo
  • Effect of Time to Surgery of Colorectal Liver Metastases on Survival

    Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer
    1. Emerson Y. Chen
    2. Skye C. Mayo
    3. Thomas Sutton
    4. Matthew R. Kearney
    5. Adel Kardosh
    6. Gina M. Vaccaro
    7. Kevin G. Billingsley
    8. Charles D. Lopez
  • Geographic Disparities in Referral Rates and Oncologic Outcomes of Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

    Annals of surgical oncology
    1. Thomas L. Sutton
    2. Brett S. Walker
    3. Nima Nabavizadeh
    4. Aaron Grossberg
    5. Charles R. Thomas
    6. Charles D. Lopez
    7. Adel Kardosh
    8. Emerson Y. Chen
    9. Brett C. Sheppard
    10. Skye C. Mayo