Rodney Stewart
Professor
Department of Oncological Sciences
Huntsman Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Rodney Stewart, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Oncological Sciences at the University of Utah and a Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) investigator. He is a member of the Cell Response and Regulation Program.Stewart's research focuses on cell migration and cancer metastasis mechanisms using the zebrafish model. He is also interested in the discovery of new therapeutic targets in melanoma and neuroblastoma, cancers of the neural crest.Before joining HCI, Stewart was a research fellow in the Department of Pediatric Oncology at Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he also served as an instructor in pediatric oncology. He earned a PhD from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Research Interest
Childhood Cancer Embryology Brain Tumors Neuroblastoma Neural Crest Development Zebrafish Cell Migration Cell Survival Melanoma
Publications
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Morrison MA, Zimmerman MW, Look AT, Stewart RA (2016). Studying the peripheral sympathetic nervous system and neuroblastoma in zebrafish. Methods Cell Biol, 134, 97-138.
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Jimenez L, Wang J, Morrison MA, Whatcott C, Soh KK, Warner S, Bearss D, Jette CA, Stewart RA (2016). Phenotypic chemical screening using a zebrafish neural crest EMT reporter identifies retinoic acid as an inhibitor of epithelial morphogenesis. Dis Model Mech, 9(4), 389-400.
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Casey MJ, Modzelewska K, Anderson D, Goodman J, Boer EF, Jimenez L, Grossman D, Stewart RA (2017). Transplantation of Zebrafish Pediatric Brain Tumors into Immune-competent Hosts for Long-term Study of Tumor Cell Behavior and Drug Response.LID - 10.3791/55712 [doi]. J Vis Exp, (123).
