Trever Bivona, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Member, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Member, QB3
Departments of Medicine
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
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Research Overview: 

The Bivona lab conducts genetic and cell biological studies to uncover the fundamental principles that underlie the aberrant cell signaling events driving tumor initiation, progression, and drug resistance. The overall goal of this integrative research program is to understand the regulatory events underlying cancer cell growth through hypothesis-driven, laboratory-based investigations in order to improve cancer therapy and cancer patient survival.

Primary Thematic Area: 
Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Human Genetics
Research Summary: 
Molecular characterization and precision treatment of solid cancers.

Websites

Publications: 

GATOR2-dependent mTORC1 activity is a therapeutic vulnerability in FOXO1 fusion-positive rhabdomyosarcoma.

JCI insight

Morales J, Allegakoen DV, Garcia JA, Kwong K, Sahu PK, Fajardo DA, Pan Y, Horlbeck MA, Weissman JS, Gustafson WC, Bivona TG, Sabnis AJ

Phase 1 Study of Ceritinib Combined With Trametinib in Patients With Advanced ALK- or ROS1-Positive NSCLC.

JTO clinical and research reports

Lara MS, Gubens MA, Bacaltos B, Daran L, Lim SL, Li T, Gandara DR, Bivona TG, Riess JW, Blakely CM

AXL and error-prone DNA replication confer drug resistance and offer strategies to treat EGFR-mutant lung cancer.

Cancer discovery

Noronha A, Belugali Nataraj N, Sang Lee J, Zhitomirsky B, Oren Y, Oster S, Lindzen M, Mukherjee S, Will R, Ghosh S, Simoni-Nieves A, Verma A, Chatterjee R, Borgoni S, Robinson W, Sinha S, Brandis A, Kerr DL, Wu W, Sekar A, Giri S, Chung Y, Drago-Garcia D, Danysh BP, Lauriola M, Fiorentino M, Ardizzoni A, Oren M, Blakely CM, Ezike J, Wiemann S, Parida L, Bivona TG, Aqeilan RI, Brugge JS, Regev A, Getz G, Ruppin E, Yarden Y

Primary and metastatic tumors exhibit systems-level differences in dependence on mitochondrial respiratory function.

PLoS biology

Bennett NK, Nakaoka HJ, Laurent D, Okimoto RA, Sei Y, Horvai AE, Bivona TG, Ten Hoeve J, Graeber TG, Nakamura K, Nakamura JL