Dr. Joe W. Gray, a physicist and an engineer by training, is a Professor Emeritus in the Biomedical Engineering Department at OHSU. While at OHSU, he held positions as Professor and Gordon Moore Endowed Chair, Biomedical Engineering Department; Director, OHSU Center for Spatial Systems Biomedicine (OCSSB); and Associate Director for Biophysical Oncology, Knight Cancer Institute at the Oregon Health & Science University. He is also Emeritus Professor, University of California, San Francisco; and Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

He was a Staff Scientist in the Biomedical Sciences Division of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1972-1991), Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (1991-2011), and Associate Laboratory Director for Biosciences and Life Sciences Division Director at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2003-2011).

He is PI of the NCI/Research Center for Cancer Systems Biology Consortium (CSBC), "Measuring, Modeling and Controlling Heterogeneity" (M2CH) that is aimed at developing a systems level understanding of how intrinsic and extrinsic factors work together to enable triple-negative breast cancer to escape therapeutic control in order to devise robust control strategies; PI of an NIH program to contribute to further development of the NIH Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures program (LINCS) and to develop a dataset and computational strategy to elucidate how microenvironmental signals affect cell intrinsic intracellular transcriptional- and protein-defined molecular networks to generate experimentally durable therapies for patients; PI of an NCI Human Tumor Atlas Network Research center that performs comparative omic and multiscale image analyses of responsive and resistant metastatic breast lesions within individual patients to discover mechanisms of resistance so they can be attacked therapeutically; co-director of the "Serial Measurement of Molecular and Architectural Responses to Therapy" (SMMART) clinical trials program that aims to provide a transformative approach to cancer treatment that focuses on each person who faces cancer to create more effective, durable therapies for treatment of prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer and leukemia; PI of a Brenden-Colson Center for Pancreatic Care project that provides support for a broad-based, team approach to finding causes, early detection and improvement of clinical care for pancreatic diseases including pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer; and PI of a Susan G. Komen project to identify the mechanisms by which ERBB2+ breast cancer cells escape inhibition by ERRB2-targeted therapies.

Dr. Gray's work is described in over 500 publications and 80 US patents. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering; an elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; a member of the National Institutes of Health; a Fellow of the American Association of Cancer Research Academy; and Executive Councilor of the Board of Councilors for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF), Hiroshima, Japan.

Recent publications

The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution.
Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Regev A, Oberdoerffer P, Nawy T, Hupalowska A, Rood JE, Ashenberg O, Cerami E, Coffey RJ, Demir E, Ding L, Esplin ED, Ford JM, Goecks J, Ghosh S, Gray JW, Guinney J, Hanlon SE, Hughes SK, Hwang ES, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Jané-Valbuena J, Johnson BE, Lau KS, Lively T, Mazzilli SA, Pe'er D, Santagata S, Shalek AK, Schapiro D, Snyder MP, Sorger PK, Spira AE, Srivastava S, Tan K, West RB, Williams EH; Human Tumor Atlas Network.
Cell. 2020 Apr 16;181(2):236-249. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.053. Review.
PMID: 32302568

A Multi-center Study on the Reproducibility of Drug-Response Assays in Mammalian Cell Lines.
Niepel M, Hafner M, Mills CE, Subramanian K, Williams EH, Chung M, Gaudio B, Barrette AM, Stern AD, Hu B, Korkola JE; LINCS Consortium, Gray JW, Birtwistle MR, Heiser LM, Sorger PK.
Cell Syst. 2019 Jul 24;9(1):35-48.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cels.2019.06.005. Epub 2019 Jul 10.
PMID:  31302153

The Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures NIH Program: System-Level Cataloging of Human Cells Response to Perturbations.
Keenan AB, Jenkins SL, Jagodnik KM, Koplev S, He E, Torre D, Wang Z, Dohlman AB, Silverstein MC, Lachmann A, Kuleshov MV, Ma'ayan A, Stathias V, Terryn R, Cooper D, Forlin M, Koleti A, Vidovic D, Chung C, Schürer SC, Vasiliauskas J, Pilarczyk M, Shamsaei B, Fazel M, Ren Y, Niu W, Clark NA, White S, Mahi N, Zhang L, Kouril M, Reichard JF, Sivaganesan S, Medvedovic M, Meller J, Koch RJ, Birtwistle MR, Iyengar R, Sobie EA, Azeloglu EU, Kaye J, Osterloh J, Haston K, Kalra J, Finkbiener S, Li J, Milani P, Adam M, Escalante-Chong R, Sachs K, Lenail A, Ramamoorthy D, Fraenkel E, Daigle G, Hussain U, Coye A, Rothstein J, Sareen D, Ornelas L, Banuelos M, Mandefro B, Ho R, Svendsen CN, Lim RG, Stocksdale J, Casale MS, Thompson TG, Wu J, Thompson LM, Dardov V, Venkatraman V, Matlock A, Van Eyk JE, Jaffe JD, Papanastasiou M, Subramanian A, Golub TR, Erickson SD, Fallahi-Sichani M, Hafner M, Gray NS, Lin JR, Mills CE, Muhlich JL, Niepel M, Shamu CE, Williams EH, Wrobel D, Sorger PK, Heiser LM, Gray JW, Korkola JE, Mills GB, LaBarge M, Feiler HS, Dane MA, Bucher E, Nederlof M, Sudar D, Gross S, Kilburn DF, Smith R, Devlin K, Margolis R, Derr L, Lee A, Pillai A.
Cell Syst. 2018 Jan 24;6(1):13-24. doi: 10.1016/j.cels.2017.11.001. Epub 2017 Nov 29. Review.
PMID:  29199020