Calixto-Hope Lucas Jr, MD
Research Associate WOS
Pathology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California, San Francisco 2022
• Fellowship Neuropathology University of California, San Francisco 2022
• Residency Anatomic Pathology Univerisity of California, San Francisco 2020
• MD Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2018
• BS History of Science and Technology Johns Hopkins University 2014

Publications (45)

Top publication keywords:
Neoplasms, NeuroepithelialReceptor, trkBOncogene Proteins, FusionSpinal Cord NeoplasmsAstrocytomaReceptor, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Type 1Cell DedifferentiationHistiocytosisBrain NeoplasmsMeningiomaCentral Nervous System NeoplasmsRNA-Binding Protein EWSGangliogliomaMeningeal NeoplasmsGlioma

• Alpha-B-crystallin immunohistochemistry: A sensitive but non-specific marker for epileptogenic lesions.
  Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2026 Güney E, Caliskan I, Saunders T, Paredes M, Lucas CH, Mirchia K, Lu R, Terry M, Cagampan E, Pekmezci M, Bollen A, Perry A, Cadwell CR, Tihan T
• Classification accuracy of a hierarchical molecular inference-based deep-learning system for CNS tumour diagnosis: a multi-institutional, retrospective study.
  The Lancet. Oncology 2026 Lalchungnunga H, Dampier CH, Singh O, Hoang DT, Shulman ED, Abdullaev Z, Li B, Luo Z, Wu Z, Pearce TM, Marker DF, McCortney K, Horbinski C, Lucas CG, Cimino PJ, Nasrallah MP, Quezado M, Chung HJ, …
• Radiologic characterization and clinical management of multinodular and vacuolating neuronal tumor (MVNT): a retrospective institutional cohort study.
  Journal of neuro-oncology 2025 Carmichael A, Arshad U, Heinemann DM, Reddy SC, Kalluri A, Serrano-Farias A, Madhu P, Lakhani DA, Sair H, Schreck KC, Lucas CH, Gonzalez-Gomez I, Jallo GI, Bettegowda C, Rincon-Torroella J
• Serial multiomics uncovers anti-glioblastoma responses not evident by routine clinical analyses.
  Science translational medicine 2025 Ling AL, Gantchev J, Prabhu MC, Basu S, Ahn R, D'Souza A, Masud N, Ball A, Nikas O, Villa GR, Regan MS, Baquer G, Ayoub G, Whittaker CA, Abou-Mrad Z, Santos A, Couturier CP, Elharouni D, Vogelzang J, …
• Increased SOX10, p16, and Cyclin D1 Immunoreactivity Differentiates MAP Kinase-activated Low-grade Gliomas From Piloid Gliosis: Erratum.
  The American journal of surgical pathology 2025 Tang V, Zhang KY, Mirchia K, Lu R, Guney E, Terry M, Ligon AH, Ligon KL, Eberhart CG, Perry A, Lucas CG

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• Impact of peri-tumoral resection on survival in primary glioblastoma.
  Cancer 2025 Tang LY, Botros D, Kim AA, Khalafallah AM, Dux H, Fox K, Hussain N, Mao Y, Pellegrino R, Sharma P, Lucas CG, Ahmed AK, Jackson CM, Gallia G, Bettegowda C, Weingart J, Brem H, Mukherjee D
• The role of extent of resection, chemoradiation, and MGMT promoter methylation in overall survival in a large cohort of IDH-wildtype glioblastoma.
  Neurosurgical focus 2025 Parker M, Carmichael A, Serrano-Farias A, Alfonzo Horowitz M, Redmond KJ, Lucas CG, Mukherjee D, Comair Y, Bettegowda C, Rincon-Torroella J
• Rare Occurrence of Distant Metastases in Prolactinoma: Insights From 2 Cases and Review of the Literature.
  AACE endocrinology and diabetes 2025 Master V, Hann CL, Gallia GL, Lucas CG, Purohit D, Ishii M, Salvatori R
• Metastatic medulloblastoma remodels the local leptomeningeal microenvironment to promote further metastatic colonization and growth.
  Nature cell biology 2025 Abeysundara N, Rasnitsyn A, Fong V, Bahcheli A, Van Ommeren R, Juraschka K, Vladoiu M, Ong W, Livingston B, de Antonellis P, Ly M, Holgado BL, Sirbu O, Bahrampour S, Min HK, Fan J, Nor C, Visvanathan …
• PSMA PET/CT scan reveals incidental meningioma in a prostate cancer patient.
  Urology case reports 2025 Florou VA, Halthore A, Lucas CG, Rivera Lopez CA, Pienta KJ
• Prospective genomically guided identification of "early/evolving" and "undersampled" IDH-wildtype glioblastoma leads to improved clinical outcomes.
  Neuro-oncology 2022 Zhang Y, Lucas CG, Young JS, Morshed RA, McCoy L, Oberheim Bush NA, Taylor JW, Daras M, Butowski NA, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Cha S, Wrensch M, Wiencke JK, Lee JC, Pekmezci M, Phillips JJ, Perry A, Bollen…
• Multiplatform molecular analyses refine classification of gliomas arising in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1.
  Acta neuropathologica 2022 Lucas CG, Sloan EA, Gupta R, Wu J, Pratt D, Vasudevan HN, Ravindranathan A, Barreto J, Williams EA, Shai A, Whipple NS, Bruggers CS, Maher O, Nabors B, Rodriguez M, Samuel D, Brown M, Carmichael J, Lu…
• Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Reveals Divergent Clonal Evolution in Components of Composite Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma-Ganglioglioma.
  Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2022 Lucas CG, Davidson CJ, Alashari M, Putnam AR, Whipple NS, Bruggers CS, Mendez JS, Cheshier SH, Walker JB, Ramani B, Cadwell CR, Sullivan DV, Lu R, Mirchia K, Van Ziffle J, Devine P, Goldschmidt E, …
• Intratumor and informatic heterogeneity influence meningioma molecular classification.
  Acta neuropathologica 2022 Vasudevan HN, Choudhury A, Hilz S, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Chen WC, Lucas CG, Braunstein SE, Oberheim Bush NA, Butowski N, Pekmezci M, McDermott MW, Perry A, Solomon DA, Magill ST, Raleigh DR
• Giant cell myositis associated with metastatic thymoma and granulomatous hypercalcaemia.
  BMJ case reports 2022 Jimenez JC, Lucas CG, LaHue SC, Sharpe BA
• A genetically distinct pediatric subtype of primary CNS large B-cell lymphoma is associated with favorable clinical outcome.
  Blood advances 2022 Güney E, Lucas CG, Qi Z, Yu J, Zhang R, Ohgami RS, Rubenstein JL, Boué DR, Schafernak K, Wertheim GB, Dahiya S, Giulino-Roth L, Attarbaschi A, Barth MJ, Kothari S, Abla O, Cohen AL, Mendez JS, Bollen …
• Recurrent ACVR1 mutations in posterior fossa ependymoma.
  Acta neuropathologica 2022 Pratt D, Lucas CG, Selvam PP, Abdullaev Z, Ketchum C, Quezado M, Armstrong TS, Gilbert MR, Papanicolau-Sengos A, Raffeld M, Choo-Wosoba H, Chan P, Whipple N, Nasrallah M, Santi M, Ramaswamy V, …
• Meningioma DNA methylation groups identify biological drivers and therapeutic vulnerabilities.
  Nature genetics 2022 Choudhury A, Magill ST, Eaton CD, Prager BC, Chen WC, Cady MA, Seo K, Lucas CG, Casey-Clyde TJ, Vasudevan HN, Liu SJ, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Lam TC, Pu JK, Li LF, Leung GK, Swaney DL, Zhang MY, Chan JW,…
• Resection with intraoperative cesium-131 brachytherapy as salvage therapy for recurrent brain tumors.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2022 Chen WC, Lafreniere M, Phuong C, Liu SJ, Baal JD, Lometti M, Morin O, Ziemer B, Vasudevan HN, Lucas CG, Hervey-Jumper SL, Theodosopoulos PV, Magill ST, Fogh S, Nakamura JL, Boreta L, Sneed PK, …
• Activating NTRK2 and ALK receptor tyrosine kinase fusions extend the molecular spectrum of pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomas of early childhood: a diagnostic overlap with infant-type hemispheric glioma.
  Acta neuropathologica 2021 Lucas CG, Abdullaev Z, Bruggers CS, Mirchia K, Whipple NS, Alashari MM, Lowichik A, Cheshier S, Phillips JJ, Devine P, Solomon DA, Quezado M, Aldape KD, Perry A
• EWSR1-BEND2 fusion defines an epigenetically distinct subtype of astroblastoma.
  Acta neuropathologica 2021 Lucas CG, Gupta R, Wu J, Shah K, Ravindranathan A, Barreto J, Gener M, Ginn KF, Prall OWJ, Xu H, Kee D, Ko HS, Yaqoob N, Zia N, Florez A, Cha S, Perry A, Clarke JL, Chang SM, Berger MS, Solomon DA
• Diffuse hemispheric glioma, H3 G34-mutant: Genomic landscape of a new tumor entity and prospects for targeted therapy.
  Neuro-oncology 2021 Lucas CG, Mueller S, Reddy A, Taylor JW, Oberheim Bush NA, Clarke JL, Chang SM, Gupta N, Berger MS, Perry A, Phillips JJ, Solomon DA
• Sarcomatous Meningioma: Diagnostic Pitfalls and the Utility of Molecular Testing.
  Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2021 Lucas CG, Devine P, Solomon DA, Giannini C, Reifenberger G, Dahiya S, Caccamo D, Perry A
• Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Identifies Molecular and Genetic Events in Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma.
  Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 2021 Lucas CG, Grenert JP, Horvai A
• Low-grade glioneuronal tumors with FGFR2 fusion resolve into a single epigenetic group corresponding to 'Polymorphous low-grade neuroepithelial tumor of the young'.
  Acta neuropathologica 2021 Gupta R, Lucas CG, Wu J, Barreto J, Shah K, Simon IB, Casavilca-Zambrano S, Brathwaite C, Zhou H, Caccamo D, Gilani A, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Lee JC, Perry A, Clarke JL, Chang SM, Berger MS, …
• A retrospective observational study of benign anthracotic lymphadenitis and its association with PET avid lymph nodes in patients undergoing cancer evaluation.
  Journal of thoracic disease 2021 Ivanick NM, Shrestha P, Podolsky MJ, Walavalkar V, Lucas CH, Gesthalter YB, Seeley EJ
• Letter: Patterns of Intermediate- and High-Risk Meningioma Recurrence After Treatment With Postoperative External Beam Radiotherapy.
  Neurosurgery 2021 Susko MS, Chen WC, Vasudevan HN, Magill ST, Lucas CG, Oberheim Bush NA, Solomon DA, Theodosopoulos PV, McDermott MW, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Boreta L, Nakamura JL, Sneed PK, Braunstein SE, Raleigh DR
• Genetic Events and Signaling Mechanisms Underlying Schwann Cell Fate in Development and Cancer.
  Neurosurgery 2021 Vasudevan HN, Lucas CG, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Theodosopoulos PV, Raleigh DR
• A Prognostic Gene-Expression Signature and Risk Score for Meningioma Recurrence After Resection.
  Neurosurgery 2020 Chen WC, Vasudevan HN, Choudhury A, Pekmezci M, Lucas CG, Phillips J, Magill ST, Susko MS, Braunstein SE, Oberheim Bush NA, Boreta L, Nakamura JL, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Sneed PK, Perry A, McDermott MW,…
• Primary Central Nervous System Lymphomas: A Diagnostic Overview of Key Histomorphologic, Immunophenotypic, and Genetic Features.
  Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 2020 Lauw MIS, Lucas CG, Ohgami RS, Wen KW
• Histopathologic findings in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor predict response to radiotherapy and overall survival.
  Neuro-oncology advances 2020 Lucas CG, Vasudevan HN, Chen WC, Magill ST, Braunstein SE, Jacques L, Dahiya S, Rodriguez FJ, Horvai AE, Perry A, Pekmezci M, Raleigh DR
• Comprehensive analysis of diverse low-grade neuroepithelial tumors with FGFR1 alterations reveals a distinct molecular signature of rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor.
  Acta neuropathologica communications 2020 Lucas CG, Gupta R, Doo P, Lee JC, Cadwell CR, Ramani B, Hofmann JW, Sloan EA, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Lee HS, Wood MD, Grafe M, Born D, Vogel H, Salamat S, Puccetti D, Scharnhorst D, Samuel D, …
• Clinicopathological features and outcomes of parenchymal rejection in liver transplant biopsies.
  Histopathology 2020 Fels Elliott DR, Tavakol M, Lucas CH, Sheahon K, Kakar S, Hameed B, Ferrell LD, Gill RM
• Coccidioidomycosis Presenting with Fever and Back Pain.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Pillsbury MM, Rubio LA, Lucas CG, Babik JM
• Educational Case: Mitochondrial Myopathy.
  Academic pathology 2019 Lucas CG, Margeta M
• Myxoid glioneuronal tumor, PDGFRA p.K385-mutant: clinical, radiologic, and histopathologic features.
  Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2019 Lucas CG, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Whipple N, Oberheim Bush NA, Cooney T, Chang S, McDermott M, Berger M, Cham E, Sun PP, Putnam A, Zhou H, Bollo R, Cheshier S, Poppe MM, Fung KM, Sung S, Glenn C, Fan X, …
• A review of recently described genetic alterations in central nervous system tumors.
  Human pathology 2019 Lucas CG, Solomon DA, Perry A
• ALK-positive histiocytosis with KIF5B-ALK fusion in the central nervous system.
  Acta neuropathologica 2019 Lucas CG, Gilani A, Solomon DA, Liang X, Maher OM, Chamyan G, Kleinschmidt-Demasters BK, Perry A
• Meningioma metastases: incidence and proposed screening paradigm.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2019 Dalle Ore CL, Magill ST, Yen AJ, Shahin MN, Lee DS, Lucas CG, Chen WC, Viner JA, Aghi MK, Theodosopoulos PV, Raleigh DR, Villanueva-Meyer JE, McDermott MW
• Preoperative MR Imaging to Differentiate Chordoid Meningiomas from Other Meningioma Histologic Subtypes.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2019 Baal JD, Chen WC, Solomon DA, Pai JS, Lucas CH, Hara JH, Oberheim Bush NA, McDermott MW, Raleigh DR, Villanueva-Meyer JE
• Surgical Outcomes, Complications, and Management Strategies for Foramen Magnum Meningiomas.
  Journal of neurological surgery. Part B, Skull base 2018 Magill ST, Shahin MN, Lucas CG, Yen AJ, Lee DS, Raleigh DR, Aghi MK, Theodosopoulos PV, McDermott MW
• Surgical outcomes after reoperation for recurrent skull base meningiomas.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2018 Magill ST, Lee DS, Yen AJ, Lucas CG, Raleigh DR, Aghi MK, Theodosopoulos PV, McDermott MW
• Tuberculum sellae meningiomas: grading scale to assess surgical outcomes using the transcranial versus transsphenoidal approach.
  Neurosurgical focus 2018 Magill ST, Morshed RA, Lucas CG, Aghi MK, Theodosopoulos PV, Berger MS, de Divitiis O, Solari D, Cappabianca P, Cavallo LM, McDermott MW
• Cortical neurons are a prominent source of the proinflammatory cytokine osteopontin in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders.
  Journal of neurovirology 2015 Silva K, Hope-Lucas C, White T, Hairston TK, Rameau T, Brown A
• Altered subcellular localization of the NeuN/Rbfox3 RNA splicing factor in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND).
  Neuroscience letters 2013 Lucas CH, Calvez M, Babu R, Brown A