Councilor Joe W. Gray
Present position
Professor and Gordon Moore Endowed Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
Education
- 1968-1972
- Ph.D., Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
- 1964-1968
- Professional Engineer, Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
Professional appointments
- 2003-2010
- Associate Laboratory Director; Biosciences, Division Director, Life Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- 2003-2010
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco
- 1993-2003
- Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco
- 1991-1992
- Professor in Residence, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco
- 1982-1991
- Section Leader, Biomedical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore
- 1972-1991
- Biomedical Scientist, Biomedical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore
Honors, awards and scholarly activities
- 2016
- Fellow, American Association of Cancer Research Academy Class of 2016
- 2014
- 18th Annual Alfred G. Knudson Award Lecture for contributions that have revolutionized the field of cancer genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
- 2013
- Nieuwland Lecture Series, College of Science, University of Notre Dame
- 2012
- Honorary Doctorate of Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
- 2012
- The Simon M. Shubitz Cancer Prize and Lectureship Award for work in genome science, University of Chicago
- 2012
- Induction into the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Entrepreneur’s Hall of Fame (Development of genome analysis technologies)
- 2011
- Elected Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
- 2009
- Elected Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
- 2007
- Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction, Susan G. Komen Foundation
- 2005
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
- 2005
- Distinguished Achievement Award, Colorado School of Mines
- 2001
- Curt Stern Award for outstanding achievement in human cancer genetics research, American Society for Human Genetics
- 1996
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1986
- E.O. Lawrence Award for contributions to flow cytometry, cell genetics and cell kinetics, U.S. Department of Energy
- 1985
- Research Award, Radiation Research Society
Selected publications
- 1.
- Gray, J.W., Carrano, A.V., Steinmetz, L.L., Van Dilla, M.A., Moore, D.H. II, Mayall, B.H. and Mendelsohn, M.L. (1975) Chromosome measurement and sorting by flow systems. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 72(4):231-1234.
- 2.
- Gray, J.W., Dean, P.N., Fuscoe, J.C., Peters, D.C., Trask, B., van den Engh, G., and Van Dilla, M.A. (1987) High speed chromosome sorting. Science, 238(4825):323-9.
- 3.
- Dolbeare, F., Gratzner, H., Pallavicini, M.G., Gray, J.W. (1983) Flow cytometric measurement of total DNA content and incorporated bromodeoxyuridine. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 80(18):5573-7; US Patent #4,780,406
- 4.
- Pinkel, D., Landegent, J., Collins, C., Fuscoe, J., Seagraves, R., Lucas, J., and Gray, J.W. (1988) Fluorescence in situ hybridization with human chromosome specific libraries: Detection of trisomy 21 and translocations of chromosome 4. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 85(23):9138-42; US patent # 5,447,841, #6,500,612
- 5.
- Kallioniemi, O.-P., Kallioniemi, A., Kurisu, W., Thor, A., Chen, L.-C., Smith, H. S., Waldman, F., Pinkel, D., Gray, J. W. (1992). ERBB2 amplification in breast cancer analyzed by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 89(12):5321-25. US Patent #5,856,097
- 6.
- Tkachuk, D.C., Westbrook, C.A., Andreeff, M., Donlon, T.A., Cleary, M.L., Suryanarayan, K., Homge, M., Redner, A., Gray, J.W., Pinkel, D. (1990) Detection of bcr-abl fusion in chronic myleogeneous leukemia by in situ hybridization. Science, 250(4980):559-62. US Patent #6,280,929
- 7.
- Kallioniemi, A., Kallioniemi, O.-P., Waldman, F.M., Chen, L.-C., Yu, L.-C., Fung, Y.K., Smith, H.S., Pinkel, D., Gray, J.W. (1992) Detection of retinoblastoma gene copy number in metaphase chromosomes and interphase nuclei by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Cytogenet. Cell Genet., 60(3-4):190-3.
- 8.
- Kallioniemi, A., Kallioniemi, O.-P., Sudar, D., Rutovitz, D., Gray, J., Waldman, F., Pinkel, D. (1992). Comparative genomic hybridization for molecular cytogenetic analysis of solid tumors. Science, 258(5083):818-21; US Patent #5,665,549
- 9.
- Pinkel, D., Segraves, R., Sudar, D., Clark, S., Poole, I., Kowbel, D., Collins, C., Kuo, W.-L., Chen, C., Zhai, Y., Dairkee, S., Lejung, B., Gray, J., and Albertson, D. (1998) High resolution analysis of DNA copy number variation using comparative genomic hybridization to microarrays. Nat. Genet., 20(2):207-11; US Patent #6,210,878
- 10.
- Hodgson, G., Hager, J.H., Volik, S., Hariono, S., Wernick, M., Moore, D., Nowak, N., Albertson, D.G., Pinkel, D., Collins, C., Hanahan, D., Gray, J.W. (2001) Genome scanning with array CGH delineates regional alterations in murine islet carcinomas. Nat. Genet., 29(4):459-64.
- 11.
- Volik, S., Zhao, S., Chin, K., Brebner, J.H., Herndon, D.R., Tao, Q., Kowbel, D., Huang, G., Lapuk, A., Kuo, W.-L., Magrane, G., de Jong, P., Gray, J.W. and Collins. C. (2003) End-sequence profiling: sequence-based analysis of aberrant genomes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100(13):7696-701; US Patent #6,785,614
- 12.
- Chin, K., de Solorzano, C.O., Knowles, D., Jones, A., Chou, W., Rodriguez, E.G., Kuo, W.L., Ljung, B.M., Chew, K., Myambo, K., Miranda, M., Krig, S., Garbe, J., Stampfer, M., Yaswen, P., Gray, J.W., Lockett, S.J. (2004) In situ analyses of genome instability in breast cancer. Nat. Genet., 36(9):984-8.
- 13.
- Collisson, E.A., Sadanandam, A., Olson, P., Gibb, W.J., Truitt, M., Gu, S., Cooc, J., Weinkle, J., Kim, G.E., Jakkula, L., Feiler, H.S., Ko, A.H., Olshen, A.B., Danenberg, K.L., Tempero, M.A., Spellman, P.T., Hanahan, D., Gray, J.W. (2011) Subtypes of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and their differing responses to therapy. Nature Med., 17:500-503. PMC3755490
- 14.
- Chin, K., DeVries, S., Fridlyand, J., Spellman, P.T., Roydasgupta, R., Kuo, W.-L., Lapuk, A., Neve, R.M., Qian, Z., Ryder, T., Chen, F., Feiler, H., Tokuyasu, T., Kingsley, C., Dairkee, S., Meng, Z., Chew, K., Pinkel, D., Jain, A., Ljung, B.M., Esserman, L., Albertson, D.G., Waldman, F.M., Gray, J.W. (2006) Genomic and transcriptional aberrations linked to breast cancer pathophysiologies. Cancer Cell, 10(6):529-41.
- 15.
- Daemen, A., Griffith, O.L., Heiser, L.M., Wang, N.J., Enache, O.M., Sanborn, Z., Pepin, F., Durinck, S., Korkola, J.E., Griffith, M., Hur, J.S., Huh, N., Chung, J., Cope, L., Fackler, M.J., Umbricht, C., Sukumar, S., Seth, P. Sukhatme, V.P., Jakkula, L.R., Lu, Y., Mills, G.B., Cho, R.J., Collisson, E.A., van ’t Veer, L.J., Spellman, P.T., Gray, J.W. (2013) Modeling precision treatment of breast cancer. Genome Biol., 14(10):R110. PMC3937590
- 16.
- Heiser, L.M., Sadanandam, A., Kuo, W.L., Benz, S.C., Goldstein, T.C., Ng, S., Gibb, W.J., Wang, N.J., Ziyad, S., Tong, F., Bayani, N., Hu, Z., Billig, J.I., Dueregger, A., Lewis, S., Jakkula, L., Korkola, J.E., Durinck, S., Pepin, F., Guan, Y., Purdom, E., Neuvial, P., Bengtsson, H., Wood, K.W., Smith, P.G., Vassilev, L.T., Hennessy, B.T., Greshock, J., Bachman, K.E., Hardwicke, M.A., Park, J.W., Marton, L.J., Wolf, D.M., Collisson, E.A., Neve, R.M., Mills, G.B., Speed, T.P., Feiler, H.S., Wooster, R.F., Haussler, D., Stuart, J.M., Gray, J.W., Spellman, P.T. (2012) Subtype and pathway specific responses to anticancer compounds in breast cancer. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 109(8):2724-9. PMC3286973
- 17.
- Nan X., Collisson, E.A., Lewis, S., Huang, J., Tamguney, T.M., Liphardt, J.T., McCormick, F., Gray, J.W., Chu S. (2013) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 110:18519-24. Single-molecule superresolution imaging allows quantitative analysis of RAF multimer formation and signaling. PMC3831949
- 18.
- Nan, X., Tamguney, T.M., Collisson, E.A., Lin, L.J., Pitt, C., Galeas, J., Lewis, S., Gray, J.W., McCormick, F., Chu, S. (2015) Ras-GTP dimers activate the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase (MAPK) pathway. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 112(26):7996-8001. PMC4491781