Jonathan Chou, MD, PhD

Genitourinary Oncologist, Cancer Researcher
+1 415 476-1314

I am a physician-scientist in the Division of Hematology/Oncology and an attending physician in the Genitourinary Medical Oncology Clinic at UCSF. Our lab is interested in multiple areas of cancer biology and translational oncology. Our current research projects include developing novel CAR T and radioimmunotherapies for prostate and bladder cancers (including identifying new therapeutic targets using transcriptomic and proteomic approaches), and understanding resistance mechanisms to antibody-drug conjugates and other surface-protein targeting modalities. In addition, we are interested in the role of CDK12 in regulating transcription and replication, and identifying new therapeutic approaches to treat this aggressive subtype of disease. I completed my postdoctoral research fellowship with Drs. Felix Feng and Alan Ashworth and my clinical training with Drs. Eric Small, Terence Friedlander and Chuck Ryan. I completed my PhD dissertation in the Biomedical Sciences program at UCSF with the late Dr. Zena Werb, and studied transcriptional regulation of metastasis and the tumor microenvironment.

Honors and Awards
Young Investigator Award, Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN), 2023
UCSF Prostate Pilot Award, UCSF Prostate Cancer Program, 2023
Young Investigator Award, Prostate Cancer Foundation, 2020
Physician Research Award, Department of Defense, Prostate Cancer Research Program, 2019
A.P. Giannini Postdoctoral Fellow, A.P. Giannini Foundation, 2018
Rosenberg Fellowship in Genitourinary Oncology, UCSF, Division of Hematology/Oncology, 2018
Clinical Fellow Award, UCSF, Division of Hematology/Oncology, 2017
Quinlan Fellowship in Genitourinary Oncology, UCSF, Division of Hematology/Oncology, 2017
T32 Fellow in Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Cancer, UCSF, Helen Diller Cancer Center, 2017
Invited Mini-Symposium Speaker - Cancer Cell Biology, American Society of Cell Biology Annual Meeting - SF, 2013
Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Department of Defense, Breast Cancer Research Program, 2010
Pre-doctoral Fellowship, California Breast Cancer Research Program, 2009
Dean's Award for Academic Accomplishment, Stanford University, 2006
Firestone Medal for Undergraduate Thesis, Stanford University, 2006
Goldwater Scholar, Goldwater Foundation, 2003

Publications

Genome-wide CRISPR screens identify PTGES3 as a novel AR modulator.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Li H, Melnyk JE, Fu BXH, Shrestha R, Zhang M, Sjöström M, Feng S, Anderson JA, Han W, Chesner LN, Shin HJ, Farsh T, Suarez HJ, Nath S, Chou J, Das R, Egusa EA, Zhu J, Winters A, Maheshwari A, Hua JT, Alshalalfa M, Chen WS, Calvert M, Davicioni E, Kishishita A, Barpanda A, Liu T, Wiita AP, Stohr BA, Siddiqui J, Huang B, Small EJ, Shokat KM, Nelson P, Quigley DA, Wasmuth EV, Gilbert LA, Feng FY

Effective Treatment of Disseminated Prostate Cancer Using CD46-Targeted 225Ac Therapy.

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research

Bidkar AP, Peter R, Wadhwa A, Bobba KN, Bidlingmaier S, Meher N, Chou J, Greenland N, Dasari C, Naik S, Raveendran A, Basak M, Camara Serrano JA, Steri V, Kogan S, Oskowitz A, He J, Wilson DM, Aggarwal R, Sriram R, VanBrocklin HF, Seo Y, Liu B, Flavell RR

Synthetic Lethal Targeting of CDK12-Deficient Prostate Cancer with PARP Inhibitors.

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research

Chou J, Robinson TM, Egusa EA, Lodha R, Zhang M, Badura M, Mikayelyan M, Delavan HM, Swinderman J, Wilson C, Zhu J, Das R, Nguyen M, Loehr A, Golsorkhi T, Simmons A, Abida W, Chinnaiyan AM, Arkin MR, Small EJ, Quigley DA, Yang L, Kim M, Ashworth A, Feng FY

Evaluating Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancers with Deleterious CDK12 Alterations in the Phase 2 IMPACT Trial.

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research

Nguyen CB, Reimers MA, Perera C, Abida W, Chou J, Feng FY, Antonarakis ES, McKay RR, Pachynski RK, Zhang J, Reichert ZR, Palmbos PL, Caram MEV, Vaishampayan UN, Heath EI, Hopkins AC, Cieslik MP, Wu YM, Robinson DR, Baladandayuthapani V, Chinnaiyan AM, Alva AS

The 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Landscape of Prostate Cancer.

Cancer research

Sjöström M, Zhao SG, Levy S, Zhang M, Ning Y, Shrestha R, Lundberg A, Herberts C, Foye A, Aggarwal R, Hua JT, Li H, Bergamaschi A, Maurice-Dror C, Maheshwari A, Chen S, Ng SWS, Ye W, Petricca J, Fraser M, Chesner L, Perry MD, Moreno-Rodriguez T, Chen WS, Alumkal JJ, Chou J, Morgans AK, Beer TM, Thomas GV, Gleave M, Lloyd P, Phillips T, McCarthy E, Haffner MC, Zoubeidi A, Annala M, Reiter RE, Rettig MB, Witte ON, Fong L, Bose R, Huang FW, Luo J, Bjartell A, Lang JM, Mahajan NP, Lara PN, Evans CP, Tran PT, Posadas EM, He C, Cui XL, Huang J, Zwart W, Gilbert LA, Maher CA, Boutros PC, Chi KN, Ashworth A, Small EJ, He HH, Wyatt AW, Quigley DA, Feng FY

Efficacy of enfortumab vedotin in advanced urothelial cancer: Analysis from the Urothelial Cancer Network to Investigate Therapeutic Experiences (UNITE) study.

Cancer

Koshkin VS, Henderson N, James M, Natesan D, Freeman D, Nizam A, Su CT, Khaki AR, Osterman CK, Glover MJ, Chiang R, Makrakis D, Talukder R, Lemke E, Olsen TA, Jain J, Jang A, Ali A, Jindal T, Chou J, Friedlander TW, Hoimes C, Basu A, Zakharia Y, Barata PC, Bilen MA, Emamekhoo H, Davis NB, Shah SA, Milowsky MI, Gupta S, Campbell MT, Grivas P, Sonpavde GP, Kilari D, Alva AS

Molecular Imaging of Prostate Cancer Targeting CD46 Using ImmunoPET.

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research

Wang S, Li J, Hua J, Su Y, Beckford-Vera DR, Zhao W, Jayaraman M, Huynh TL, Zhao N, Wang YH, Huang Y, Qin F, Shen S, Gioeli D, Dreicer R, Sriram R, Egusa EA, Chou J, Feng FY, Aggarwal R, Evans MJ, Seo Y, Liu B, Flavell RR, He J

Autoantibody Landscape in Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer.

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research

Chen WS, Haynes WA, Waitz R, Kamath K, Vega-Crespo A, Shrestha R, Zhang M, Foye A, Baselga Carretero I, Perez Garcilazo I, Zhang M, Zhao SG, Sjöström M, Quigley DA, Chou J, Beer TM, Rettig M, Gleave M, Evans CP, Lara P, Chi KN, Reiter RE, Alumkal JJ, Ashworth A, Aggarwal R, Small EJ, Daugherty PS, Ribas A, Oh DY, Shon JC, Feng FY

The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer.

Nature genetics

Zhao SG, Chen WS, Li H, Foye A, Zhang M, Sjöström M, Aggarwal R, Playdle D, Liao A, Alumkal JJ, Das R, Chou J, Hua JT, Barnard TJ, Bailey AM, Chow ED, Perry MD, Dang HX, Yang R, Moussavi-Baygi R, Zhang L, Alshalalfa M, Laura Chang S, Houlahan KE, Shiah YJ, Beer TM, Thomas G, Chi KN, Gleave M, Zoubeidi A, Reiter RE, Rettig MB, Witte O, Yvonne Kim M, Fong L, Spratt DE, Morgan TM, Bose R, Huang FW, Li H, Chesner L, Shenoy T, Goodarzi H, Asangani IA, Sandhu S, Lang JM, Mahajan NP, Lara PN, Evans CP, Febbo P, Batzoglou S, Knudsen KE, He HH, Huang J, Zwart W, Costello JF, Luo J, Tomlins SA, Wyatt AW, Dehm SM, Ashworth A, Gilbert LA, Boutros PC, Farh K, Chinnaiyan AM, Maher CA, Small EJ, Quigley DA, Feng FY

DNA-Dependent Protein Kinase Drives Prostate Cancer Progression through Transcriptional Regulation of the Wnt Signaling Pathway.

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research

Kothari V, Goodwin JF, Zhao SG, Drake JM, Yin Y, Chang SL, Evans JR, Wilder-Romans K, Gabbara K, Dylgjeri E, Chou J, Sun G, Tomlins SA, Mehra R, Hege K, Filvaroff EH, Schaeffer EM, Karnes RJ, Quigley DA, Rathkopf DE, He HH, Speers C, Spratt DE, Gilbert LA, Ashworth A, Chinnaiyan AM, Raj GV, Knudsen KE, Feng FY

Genomic Hallmarks and Structural Variation in Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

Cell

Quigley DA, Dang HX, Zhao SG, Lloyd P, Aggarwal R, Alumkal JJ, Foye A, Kothari V, Perry MD, Bailey AM, Playdle D, Barnard TJ, Zhang L, Zhang J, Youngren JF, Cieslik MP, Parolia A, Beer TM, Thomas G, Chi KN, Gleave M, Lack NA, Zoubeidi A, Reiter RE, Rettig MB, Witte O, Ryan CJ, Fong L, Kim W, Friedlander T, Chou J, Li H, Das R, Li H, Moussavi-Baygi R, Goodarzi H, Gilbert LA, Lara PN, Evans CP, Goldstein TC, Stuart JM, Tomlins SA, Spratt DE, Cheetham RK, Cheng DT, Farh K, Gehring JS, Hakenberg J, Liao A, Febbo PG, Shon J, Sickler B, Batzoglou S, Knudsen KE, He HH, Huang J, Wyatt AW, Dehm SM, Ashworth A, Chinnaiyan AM, Maher CA, Small EJ, Feng FY

Genomic Hallmarks and Structural Variation in Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

Cell

Quigley DA, Dang HX, Zhao SG, Lloyd P, Aggarwal R, Alumkal JJ, Foye A, Kothari V, Perry MD, Bailey AM, Playdle D, Barnard TJ, Zhang L, Zhang J, Youngren JF, Cieslik MP, Parolia A, Beer TM, Thomas G, Chi KN, Gleave M, Lack NA, Zoubeidi A, Reiter RE, Rettig MB, Witte O, Ryan CJ, Fong L, Kim W, Friedlander T, Chou J, Li H, Das R, Li H, Moussavi-Baygi R, Goodarzi H, Gilbert LA, Lara PN, Evans CP, Goldstein TC, Stuart JM, Tomlins SA, Spratt DE, Cheetham RK, Cheng DT, Farh K, Gehring JS, Hakenberg J, Liao A, Febbo PG, Shon J, Sickler B, Batzoglou S, Knudsen KE, He HH, Huang J, Wyatt AW, Dehm SM, Ashworth A, Chinnaiyan AM, Maher CA, Small EJ, Feng FY