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David W. Ellison, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, FRCPCH
David W. Ellison, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, FRCPCH

David W. Ellison, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, FRCPCH

Member, St. Jude Faculty

  • Chair, Pathology Department
  • Director, Neuropathology
  • Joan and Roy Gignac Endowed Chair in Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Departments

Education

MA / MBBChir / MD – Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
MSc / PhD – Universities of London and Southampton

Research Interests

  • The diagnosis and classification of childhood nervous system tumors
  • Molecular markers of biologic behavior in childhood nervous system tumors
  • The biology of ependymoma

Selected Publications

Chiang JC, Ellison DW. Molecular pathology of paediatric central nervous system tumours. J Pathol e-pub, 2016.

Jeyapalan JN, Doctor GT, Jones TA, Alberman SN, Tep A, Haria CM, Schwalbe EC, Morley IC, Hill AA, LeCain M, Ottaviani D, Clifford SC, Qaddoumi I, Tatevossian RG, Ellison DW*, Sheer D*. DNA methylation analysis of paediatric low-grade astrocytomas identifies a tumour-specific hypomethylation signature in pilocytic astrocytomas. Acta Neuropathol Commun e-pub, 2016. (*joint senior / corresponding authors)

Sturm D, Orr BA, Toprak UH, Hovestadt V, Jones DT, Capper D, Sill M, Buchhalter I, Northcott PA, Leis I, Ryzhova M, Koelsche C, Pfaff E, Allen SJ, Balasubramanian G, Worst BC, Pajtler KW, Brabetz S, Johann PD, Sahm F, Reimand J, Mackay A, Carvalho DM, Remke M, Phillips JJ, Perry A, Cowdrey C, Drissi R, Fouladi M, Giangaspero F, Łastowska M, Grajkowska W, Scheurlen W, Pietsch T, Hagel C, Gojo J, Lötsch D, Berger W, Slavc I, Haberler C, Jouvet A, Holm S, Hofer S, Prinz M, Keohane C, Fried I, Mawrin C, Scheie D, Mobley BC, Schniederjan MJ, Santi M, Buccoliero AM, Dahiya S, Kramm CM, von Bueren AO, von Hoff K, Rutkowski S, Herold-Mende C, Frühwald MC, Milde T, Hasselblatt M, Wesseling P, Rößler J, Schüller U, Ebinger M, Schittenhelm J, Frank S, Grobholz R, Vajtai I, Hans V, Schneppenheim R, Zitterbart K, Collins VP, Aronica E, Varlet P, Puget S, Dufour C, Grill J, Figarella-Branger D, Wolter M, Schuhmann MU, Shalaby T, Grotzer M, van Meter T, Monoranu CM, Felsberg J, Reifenberger G, Snuderl M, Forrester LA, Koster J, Versteeg R, Volckmann R, van Sluis P, Wolf S, Mikkelsen T, Gajjar A, Aldape K, Moore AS, Taylor MD, Jones C, Jabado N, Karajannis MA, Eils R, Schlesner M, Lichter P, von Deimling A, Pfister SM, Ellison DW*, Korshunov A*, Kool M*. New brain tumor entities emerge from molecular classificaton of CNS-PNETs. Cell 164:1060-1072. (*joint senior authors)

Qaddoumi I, Orisme W, Wen J, Santiago T, Gupta K, Dalton JD, Tang B, Haupfear K, Punchihewa C, Easton J, Mulder H, Boggs K, Shao Y, Rusch M, Becksfort J, Gupta P, Wang S, Lee RP, Brat D, Peter Collins V, Dahiya S, George D, Konomos W, Kurian KM, McFadden K, Serafini LN, Nickols H, Perry A, Shurtleff S, Gajjar A, Boop FA, Klimo PD Jr, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Baker SJ, Zhang J, Wu G, Downing JR, Tatevossian RG, Ellison DW. Genetic alterations in uncommon low-grade neuroepithelial tumors: BRAF, FGFR1, and MYB mutations occur at high frequency and align with morphology. Acta Neuropathol 131:833-845, 2016.

Baker SJ, Ellison DW, Gutmann DH. Pediatric gliomas as neurodevelopmental disorders. Glia e-pub, 2015.

Patay Z, DeSain LA, Hwang SN, Coan A, Li Y, Ellison DW. MR imaging characteristics of Wingless-type-subgroup pediatric medulloblastoma. Am J Neuroradiol 36:2386-2393, 2015.

Ellison DW. Multiple molecular data sets and the classification of adult diffuse gliomas. N Engl J Med 372:2555-2557, 2015.

Parker M, Mohankumar KM, Punchihewa C, Weinlich R, Dalton JD, Li Y, Lee R, Tatevossian RG, Phoenix TN, Thiruvenkatam R, White E, Tang B, Orisme W, Gupta K, Rusch M, Chen X, Li Y, Nagahawhatte P, Hedlund E, Finkelstein D, Wu G, Shurtleff S, Easton J, Boggs K, Yergeau D, Vadodaria B, Mulder HL, Becksford J, Gupta P, Huether R, Ma J, Song G, Gajjar A, Merchant T, Boop F, Smith AA, Ding L, Lu C, Ochoa K, Zhao D, Fulton RS, Fulton LL, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Downing JR, Green DR, Zhang J*, Ellison DW*, Gilbertson RJ*. C11orf95-RELA fusions drive oncogenic NF-kB signalling in ependymoma. Nature 506:451-455, 2014. (*joint senior / corresponding authors)

Gupta K, Orisme W, Harreld JH, Qaddoumi I, Dalton JD, Punchihewa C, Collins-Underwood R, Robertson T, Tatevossian RG, Ellison DW. Posterior fossa and spinal gangliogliomas form two distinct clinicopathologic and molecular subgroups. Acta Neuropathol Commun 2:18, 2014.

Broniscer A, Tatevossian RG, Sabin ND, Klimo P, Dalton J, Lee R, Gajjar A, Ellison DW. Clinical, radiological, histological, and molecular characteristics of paediatric epithelioid glioblastoma. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 40:327-336, 2014.

Zhang J, Wu G, Miller CP, Tatevossian RG, Dalton JD, Tang B, Orisme W, Punchihewa C, Parker M, Qaddoumi I, Boop FA, Lu C, Kandoth C, Ding L, Lee R, Huether R, Chen X, Hedlund E, Nagahawatte P, Rusch M, Boggs K, Cheng J, Becksfort J, Ma J, Song G, Li Y, Wei L, Wang J, Shurtleff S, Easton J, Zhao D, Fulton RS, Fulton LL, Dooling DJ, Vadodaria B, Mulder HL, Tang C, Ochoa K, Mullighan CG, Gajjar A, Kriwacki R, Sheer D, Gilbertson RJ, Mardis ER, Wilson RK, Downing JR, Baker SJ, Ellison DW. Whole-genome sequencing identifies genetic alterations in pediatric low-grade gliomas. Nat Genet 45:602-612, 2013.

Godfraind C, Kaczmarska JM, Kocak M, Dalton J, Wright KD, Sanford RA, Boop FA, Gajjar A, Merchant TE, Ellison DW. Distinct disease-risk groups in pediatric supratentorial and posterior fossa ependymomas. Acta Neuropathol 124:247-257, 2012.

Last update: March 2017

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