Tadashi Manabe, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Medicine
School of Medicine

tadashi.manabe@ucsf.edu

After receiving my medical degree in 2012, I specialized in pulmonary medicine and practiced as a respiratory physician. Over nine years of practice, I was the attending physician for patients with acute and chronic respiratory diseases ranging from COVID-19 to lung cancer.

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I garnered a keen interest in the management of lung cancer because of the poor outcomes of my patients with current therapies; the summation of my clinical experiences inspired me to pursue basic research to develop new cancer treatments for my future patients.

In 2017, I entered the Keio University Graduate school of Medicine. During my graduate training, I elucidated a novel resistance mechanism of a third-generation EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitor osimertinib, the first-line treatment for EGFR mutation-positive non-small-cell lung cancer (Mol Cancer Res, 2020). Upon completing my Ph.D., I aspired to study in the U.S., believing it would provide me with in-depth knowledge of cancer biology, broad perspectives, various experiences, and many personal connections. Having considered the above, I was fortunate to begin my postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF in April 2021.

Awards

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  • Damon Runyon Fellowship Award, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, 2022
  • Education Award, Best Fellows Oral Abstract Session, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), 2022

Education & Training

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  • Ph.D. Keio University Graduate School of Medicine 09/2020
  • Clinical Fellow Pulmonary Medicine Keio University School of Medicine 03/2020
  • Residency Internal Medicine Keio University School of Medicine 03/2016
  • M.D. Keio University School of Medicine 03/2012

Interests

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  • Establishment of patient-derived cancer models
  • Developing new targeted therapies
  • MAPK signaling in lung cancer
  • Drug resistance mechanisms in lung cancer

Websites

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Grants and Projects

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  • , Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, Fellowship Award, 2022
  • , Uehara Memorial Foundation, Overseas Research Fellowships, 2021-2022
  • , Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (DC2), 2019-2021
  • , Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 2017-2019

Publications (16)

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