Gissou Azabdaftari, MD

Gissou Azabdaftari, MD

Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Chief of Genitourinary Pathology
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Board Certification: 
Board Certified in Anatomic Pathology
American Board of Cytopathology
Fellowship: 
2005-2006 - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Cytopathology)
2004-2005 - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Genitourinary Pathology/Soft Tissue Pathology)
Residency: 
2000-2004 - Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA
Education and Training: 
1987-1994 - University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Professional Memberships: 
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
American Society for Clinical Pathology
College of American Pathologists
Publications
  • Foster BA, Gangavarapu KJ, Mathew G, Azabdaftari G, Morrison CD, Miller A, Huss WJ (2013) “Human Prostate Side Population Cells Demonstrate Stem Cell Properties in Recombination with Urogenital Sinus Mesenchyme”, PLoS ONE 8(1): e55062. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055062.
  • Koochekpour S, Majumdar S, Azabdaftari G, Attwood K, Scioneaux R, Subramani D, Manhardt C, Lorusso GD, Willard SS, Thompson H, Shourideh M, Rezaei K, Sartor O, Mohler JL, Vessella RL, “Serum Glutamate Levels Correlate with Gleason’s Score and Glutamate Blockade Decreases, Proliferation, Migration, and Invasion and Induces Apoptosis in Prostate Cancer Cells”, Clin. Cancer Res., 2012; In Press.
  • Karacosta LG, Foster BA, Azabdaftari G, Feliciano DM, Edelman AM. A regulatory feedback loop between Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase 2 (CaMKK2) and the androgen receptor in prostate cancer progression. Journal of biological chemistry 2012; 28729:24832-24843
  • Jiang H, Ren Y, Yuen EY, Zhong P, Ghaedi M, Hu Z, Azabdaftari G, Nakaso K, Yan Z, Feng J. Parkin controls dopamine utilization in human midbrain dopaminergic neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature communications 2012; 3:668
  • Koochekpour S, Hu S, Vellasco-Gonzalez C, Bernardo R, Azabdaftari G, Zhu G, Zhau HE, Chung LWK, Vessella RL. Serum prosaposin levels are increased in patients with advanced prostate cancer.Prostate 2012; 723:253-269
  • Ellis L, Shah P, Hammers H, Lehet K, Sotomayor P, Azabdaftari G, Seshadri M, Pili R. Vascular disruption in combination with mTOR inhibition in renal cell carcinoma. Molecular cancer therapeutics 2012;112:383-392
  • Azabdaftari G, Goldberg SN, Wang HH. Efficacy of on-site specimen adequacy evaluation of image-guided fine and core needle biopsies. Acta cytologica 2010; 542:132-137