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Julieann C. Lee, MD, MS
Julieann C. Lee, MD, MS

Julieann C. Lee, MD, MS

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Departments

Education

Fellowship (Neuropathology) - University of California, San Francisco
Residency (Anatomic Pathology) - University of California, San Francisco
MD - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
MS (Biological Sciences) - University of Houston Clear Lake, Houston, TX
BS (Marine Biology, Chemistry Minor) - Texas A&M University at Galveston

Research Interests

  • Mutational and methylation profiling of pediatric brain tumors 
  • DICER1 mutant CNS tumors and DICER1 syndrome 
  • Molecular alterations of pineal parenchymal tumors and pineoblastomas  
  • Clinicopathological and molecular features of rare and emerging brain tumor entities

Selected Publications

Lee JC, Koo SC, Furtado LV, Breuer A, Eldomery MK, Bag AK, Stow P, Rose G, Larkin T, Sances R, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Bodmer JL, Willard N, Gokden M, Dahiya S, Roberts K, Bertrand KC, Moreira DC, Robinson GW, Mo JQ, Ellison DW, Orr BA. Concurrent ependymal and ganglionic differentiation in a subset of supratentorial neuroepithelial tumors with EWSR1-PLAGL1 rearrangement. Acta Neuropathol Commun 2024 Sep 3;12(1):143. PMID: 39228008.

Lee JC, Tran QT, McGee RB, Perrino MR, Upadhyaya SA, Hanzlik EM, Pytel N, Carroll AJ, Orisme W, Eldomery M, Wang L, Blackburn PR, Furtado LV, Viaene AN, Luo M, Kalish JM, Pinto SN, Bag AK, Orr BA. Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumour-TYR subtype arising in the setting of germline ring chromosome 22: An uncommon form of tumour predisposition. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. Apr;50(2):e12971, 2024. PMID: 38488196

Wu J, Gupta R, Barreto J, Doo P, Joseph NM, Lee JC, Perry A, Chang SM, Berger MS, Solomon DA. Tumor DNA requirements for accurate epigenetic-based classification of CNS neoplasia. Neuro Oncol Aug 5, 2021. PMID: 34351421

Gourish M, Lee JC, Ravindranathan A, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Tran QT, Allen SJ, Barreto J, Gupta R, Doo P, Van Ziffle J, Onodera C, Devine P, Grenert JP, Samuel D, Li R, Metrock LK, Jin LW, Antony R, Alashari M, Cheshier S, Whipple NS, Bruggers C, Raffel C, Gupta N, Kline CN, Reddy A, Banerjee A, Hall MD, Mehta MP, Khatib Z, Maher OM, Brathwaite C, Pekmezci M, Phillips JJ, Bollen AW, Tihan R, Lucas JT, Broniscer A, Berger MS, Perry A, Orr BA, Solomon DA. Pediatric bithalamic gliomas have a distinct epigenetic signature and frequent EGFR exon 20 insertions resulting in potential sensitivity to targeted kinase inhibition. Acta Neuropathol 139(6):1071-1088, 2020. PMID: 32303840

Lee JC, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Ferris SP, Cham EM, Zucker J, Cooney T, Gilani A, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Trembath D, Mafra M, Chiang J, Ellison DW, Cho SJ, Horvai AE, Van Ziffle J, Onodera C, Devine P, Grenert JP, de Voijs CMA, van Blokland WTM, de Leng WWJ, Ploegmakers MJ, Flucke U, Pekmezci M, Bollen AW, Tihan T, Koelsche C, von Deimling A, Wesseling P, Solomon DA, Perry A. Clinicopathologic and molecular features of intracranial desmoplastic small round cell tumors. Brain Pathol Mar;30(2):213-225, 2020. PMID: 31837177

Lucas CG, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Whipple N, Oberheim Bush NA, Cooney T, Chang S, McDermott M, Berger M, Cham E, Sun PP, Putnam A, Zhou H, Bollo R, Cheshier S, Poppe MM, Fung KM, Sung S, Glenn C, Fan X, Bannykh S, Hu J, Danielpour M, Li R, Alva E, Johnston J, Van Ziffle J, Onodera C, Devine P, Grenert JP, Lee JC, Pekmezci M, Tihan T, Bollen AW, Perry A, Solomon DA. Myxoid glioneuronal tumor, PDGFRA p.K385-mutant: clinical, radiologic, and histopathologic features. Brain Pathol Oct 14, 2019. PMID: 31609499

Ferris SP, Velazquez Vega J, Aboian M, Lee JC, Van Ziffle J, Onodera C, Grenert JP, Saunders T, Chen YY, Banerjee A, Kline CN, Gupta N, Raffel C, Samuel D, Ruiz-Diaz I, Magaki S, Wilson D, Neltner J, Al-Hajri Z, Phillips JJ, Pekmezci M, Bollen AW, Tihan T, Schniederjan M, Cha S, Perry A, Solomon DA. High-grade neuroepithelial tumor with BCOR exon 15 internal tandem duplication-a comprehensive clinical, radiographic, pathologic, and genomic analysis. Brain Pathol 30(1):46-62, 2020. PMID: 31104347

Lee JC, Mazor T, Lao R, Wan E, Diallo AB, Hill NS, Thangaraj N, Wendelsdorf K, Samuel D, Kline CN, Banerjee A, Auguste K, Raffel C, Gupta N, Berter M, Raleigh DR, Shai A, Phillips JJ, Bollen AW, Tihan T, Perry A, Costello J, Solomon DA. Recurrent KBTBD4 small in-frame insertions and absence of DROSHA deletion or DICER1 mutation differentiate pineal parenchymal tumor of intermediate differentiation (PPTID) from pineoblastoma. Acta Neuropathol 137(5):851-854, 2019. PMID: 30877433

Lee JC, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Ferris SP, Sloan EA, Hofmann JW, Hattab EM, Williams BJ, Guo H, Torkildson J, Florez A, Van Ziffle J, OnoderaC, GrenertJP, Cho SJ, Horvai AE, Jones DTW, Pfister SM, Koelsche C, von Deimling A, Korshunov A, Perry A, Solomon DA. Primary intracranial sarcomas with DICER1 mutation often contain prominent eosinophilic cytoplasmic globules and can occur in the setting of neurofibromatosis type 1. Acta Neuropathol 137(3):521-525, 2019. PMID: 30649606

Lee JC, Sharifai N, Dahiya S, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Rosenblum MK, Reis GF, Samuel D, Siongco AM, Santi-Vicini M, Storm PB, Pekmezci M, David A Solomon DA, Tihan T, Perry A. Clinicopathologic features of Anaplastic Myxopapillary Ependymomas. Brain Pathol 29(1):75-84, 2019. PMID: 30417460

Lee JC, Putnam AR, Chesier SH, Banerjee A, Raffel C, Van Ziffle J, Onodera C, Grenert JP, Bastian BC, Perry A, Solomon DA. Oligodendrogliomas, IDH-mutant and 1p/19q-codeleted, arising during teenage years often lack TERT promoter mutation that is typical of their adult counterparts. Acta Neuropathol Commun 6(1):95, 2018. PMID: 30231927

Lee JC, Pekmezci M, Lavezo JL, Vogel H, Katznelson L, Fraenkel M, Harsh G, Dulai M, Perry A, Tihan T. Utility of Pit-1 Immunostaining in Distinguishing Pituitary Adenomas of Primitive Differentiation from Null Cell Adenomas. Endocr Pathol 28(4):287-292, 2017. PMID 28994039

Lee JC, Solomon DA, Tihan T. The role of histone modifications and telomere alterations in the pathogenesis of diffuse gliomas in adults and children. J Neurooncol 132(1):1-11, 2017. PMID 28064387

Last update: September 2024

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