Lab Phone 646-888-2163 Lab Fax 646-888-2595 Email [email protected] Dissertation Mutation Based Resistance to Antiandrogens in Prostate Cancer (2013) Mentor Charles L. Sawyers, MD Start Year 2009 End Year 2013 Education University of California, Los Angeles Publications Balbas MD, Burgess MR, Murali R, Wongvipat J, Skaggs BJ, Mundel P, Weins A, Sawyers CL. (2014) MAGI-2 scaffold protein is critical for kidney barrier function. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 111, 14876-81. PMCID: PMC4205655. Arora V, Schenkein E, Murali R, Subudhi S, Wongvipat J, Balbas M, Shah N, Cai L, Efstathiou E, Logothetis C, Cheng D, Sawyers C. (2013) Glucocorticoid receptor confers resistance to antiandrogens by bypassing androgen receptor blockade. Cell, 155, 1309-1322. Balbas M, Evans M, Hosfield D, Wongvipat J, Arora V, Watson P, Chen Y, Greene G, Shen Y, Sawyers C. (2013) Overcoming mutation-based resistance to antiandrogens with rational drug design. Elife, 2, 1-21. Watson P, Chen Y, Balbas M, Wongvipat J, Socci N, Viale A, Kim K, Sawyers C. (2010) Constitutively active androgen receptor splice variants expressed in castration-resistant prostate cancer require full-length androgen receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 107, 16759-16765. Shah NP, Kasap C, Weier C, Balbas M, Nicoll JM, Bleickardt E, Nicaise C, Sawyers CL. (2008) Transient potent BCR-ABL inhibition is sufficient to commit chronic myeloid leukemia cells irreversibly to apoptosis. Cancer Cell 14, 485-93. View a full listing of Minna Balbas’ journal articles.