Alexander  Vortmeyer, M.D., Ph.D.



Associate Professor of Pathology and
Director, Neuropathology.

Department of Pathology
Yale University School of Medicine
P.O. Box 208023
310 Cedar Street, LH416A
New Haven, CT 06520-8023

Office: 203-785 6843
Lab:
Fax: 203-785 6899

email: Alexander.Vortmeyer@yale.edu


Training:
8/1988 -12/1991 Departments of Pathology and Neuropathology, University of Hamburg, Germany
1/1992 - 6/1994 Division of Neuropathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
8/1994 - 8/1999 Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland


Expertise:


Research Interests:
Neuropathology
Hereditary Tumorigenesis
Applied Proteomics



Professional Service:
Neuropathology

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Selected Publications:

Vortmeyer AO, Huang SC, Pack SD, Koch CA, Lubensky IA, Oldfield EH, Zhuang Z. Somatic point mutation of the wild-type VHL gene detected in tumors of patients with VHL germline deletion. Oncogene 21:1167-1170, 2002

Chan CC, Koch CA, Kaiser-Kupfer M, Parry DM, Gutmann DH, Zhuang Z, Vortmeyer AO. Loss of Heterozygosity for the NF2 Gene in Retinal, but not Iris Lesions of Patients with Neurofibromatosis 2. Journal of Pathology 198:14-20, 2002

Koch CA, Chandra R, Chrousos GP, Zhuang Z, Vortmeyer AO. Two hit model for tumorigenesis of NBCCS-associated hepatic mesenchymal tumor. American Journal of Medical Genetics 109:74-76, 2002

Vortmeyer AO, Frank S, Jeong SY, Yuan K, Ikejiri B, Lee YS, Bhowmick D, Lonser RR, Smith R, Rodgers G, Oldfield EH, Zhuang Z. Developmental Arrest of Angioblastic Lineage Initiates Tumorigenesis in von Hippel-Lindau Disease. Cancer Research 63:7051-7055, 2003.

Vortmeyer AO, Weil RJ, Zhuang Z. Proteomic applications for differential diagnosis of histologically identical tumors. Neurology 61: 1626-1627, 2003

Vortmeyer AO, Huang S, Lubensky I, Zhuang Z. Non-Islet origin of pancreatic islet cell tumors. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 89: 1934-1938, 2004

Gläsker S, Lonser RR, Tran MG, Ikejiri B, Butman JA, Zeng W, Maxwell PH, Zhuang Z, Oldfield EH, Vortmeyer AO. Effects of VHL deficiency on endolymphatic duct and sac. Cancer Research 65:10847-10853, 2005.

Gläsker S, Li J, Xia JB, Okamoto H, Zeng W, Lonser RR, Zhuang Z, Oldfield EH, Vortmeyer AO. Hemangioblastomas Share Protein Expression with Embryonal Hemangioblast Progenitor Cell. Cancer Research 66:4167-4172, 2006.

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