Jeffrey Yap
Professor
Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
Huntsman Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Jeffrey Yap, PhD, is a research associate professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Utah. He is also the Associate Director of the Center for Quantitative Cancer Imaging, the Co-Leader of the Sarcoma Disease Oriented Research Team, and a member of the Experimental Therapeutics Program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.Dr. Yap's research interest is in the use of quantitative multimodality imaging to develop and evaluate novel cancer therapy in murine tumor models and cancer clinical trials.Dr. Yap received a Bachelor's of Science in Physics at the University of Dallas and a PhD in Medical Physics at the Unverisity of Chicago.
Research Interest
Clinical Radiology Imaging Sciences
Publications
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Ben Ami E, Barysauskas CM, von Mehren M, Heinrich MC, Corless CL, Butrynski JE, Morgan JA, Wagner AJ, Choy E, Yap JT, Van den Abbeele AD, Solomon SM, Fletcher JA, Demetri GD, George S (2016). A Multicenter Phase II Trial of Regorafenib among Patients with Metastatic and/or Unresectable GI Stromal Tumor after Failure of Imatinib and Sunitinib: A Long-term Follow-Up. Ann Oncol.
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ONeill AF, Qin L, Wen PY, de Groot JF, Van den Abbeele AD, Yap JT (2016). Demonstration of DCE-MRI as an early pharmacodynamic biomarker of response to VEGF Trap in Glioblastoma. J Neuroimaging, 130(3), 495-503.
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Qin L, Schwartzman A, McCall K, Kachouie NN, Yap JT (2017). A Method for Detecting Voxelwise Changes in FDG-PET Brain Images via Background Adjustment in Cancer Clinical Trials. J Med Imaging (Bellingham), 4(2), 024006.
