Specialty / Expertise

Genitourinary cancers

Research Interests

Current Research Projects

Research Staff

Training

Dr. Dean received his MD from and PhD from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Oncology at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.

Selected Publications:

Dean JP, Nelson PS. Profiling influences of senescent and aged fibroblasts on prostate carcinogenesis. Br J Cancer 2008 98(2):245-249.

Bavik C, Coleman I, Dean JP, Knudsen B, Plymate S, Nelson PS. The gene expression program of prostate fibroblast senescence modulates neoplastic epithelial cell proliferation through paracrine mechanisms. Cancer Res 2006 66(2):794-802.

Quinby GQ, Dean JP, Deschenes RJ. Expression of MFa1 and STE6 is sufficient for mating type-independent secretion of yeast a-factor, but not mating competence. Curr Genet 1999 35(1):1-7.

Dean JP. 2000, Ste6, a Yeast ABC Transporter: Intracellular trafficking and interaction with a-Factor, PhD Thesis.