John W. Glod, M.D., Ph.D.

John W. Glod, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Research Physician
Pediatric Oncology Branch
Branch Clinical Director

Dr. Glod's research interests include pediatric tumors of the central nervous system, multiple endocrine neoplasia-related medullary thyroid cancer, and neurofibromatosis-related tumors.

Areas of Expertise

1) tumors of the central nervous system, 2) medullary thyroid cancer, 3) neurofibromatosis-related tumors

Contact Info

John W. Glod, M.D., Ph.D.
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
Building 10-CRC, Room 1-5750
Bethesda, MD 20892-1100
Ph: 240-760-6194
john.glod@nih.gov

Selected Recent Publications

  1. Natural history, treatment, and long-term follow up of patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B: an international, multicenter, retrospective study.
    Castinetti F, Waguespack SG, Machens A, Uchino S, Hasse-Lazar K, Sanso G, Else T, Dvorakova S, Qi X, Elisei R, Maia AL, Glod J, Lourenço DM Jr, Valdes N, Mathiesen J, Wohllk N, Bandgar TR, Drui D, Korbonits M, Druce MR, Brain C, Kurzawinski T, Patocs A, Bugalho MJ, Lacroix A, Caron P, Fainstein-Day P, Borson Chazot F, Klein M, Links TP, Letizia C, Fugazzola L, Chabre O, Canu L, Cohen R, Tabarin A, Spehar Uroic A, Maiter D, Laboureau S, Mian C, Peczkowska M, Sebag F, Brue T, Mirebeau-Prunier D, Leclerc L, Bausch B
    Lancet Diabetes Endocrinology. 7: 213-220, 2019. [ Journal Article ]
  2. Antitumor Activity Associated with Prolonged Persistence of Adoptively Transferred NT-ESO-1c259T Cells in Synovial Sarcoma.
    4. D’Angelo S, Melchiori L, Merchant MS, Bernstein D, Glod J, Kaplan R, Grupp S, Tap WD, Chagin K, Binder GK, Basu S, Lowther DE, Wang R, Bath N, Tiping A, Betts G, Ramachandran I, Navenot JM, Zhang H, Wells DK, Van Winkle E, Kari G, Trivedi T, Holdich T, Pandite L, Amado R, and Mackall CL
    Cancer Discovery. 8(8): 944-957, 2018. [ Journal Article ]
  3. Outcomes of Children and Adolescents with Advanced Hereditary Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma treated with Vandetanib.
    Kraft IL, Akshintala S, Zhu Y, Lei H, Derse-Anthony C, Dombi E, Steinberg SM, Lodish M, Waguespack SG, Kapustina O, Fox E, Balis FM, Merino MJ, Meltzer PS, Glod JW, Shern JF, Widemann BC
    Clinical Cancer Research. 24(4): 753-765., 2018. [ Journal Article ]
  4. A Phase I/II trial and pharmacokinetic study of mithramycin in children and adults with refractory Ewing sarcoma with EWS-FLI1 fusion transcript.
    Grohar PJ, Glod J, Peer CJ, Sissung TM, Arnaldez FI, Long L, Figg WD, Whitcomb P, Helman LJ, Widemann BC
    Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology. 80(3): 645-652, 2017. [ Journal Article ]
  5. Activity of Selumetinib in Neurofibromatosis Type 1-Related Plexiform Neurofibromas.
    Dombi E, Baldwin A, Marcus LJ, Fisher MJ, Weiss B, Kim A, Whitcomb P, Martin S, Aschbacher-Smith LE, Rizvi TA, Wu J, Ershler R, Wolters P, Therrien J, Glod J, Belasco JB, Schorry E, Brofferio A, Starosta AJ, Gillespie A, Doyle AL, Ratner N, Widemann BC
    New England Journal of Medicine. 375(26): 2550-2560, 2016. [ Journal Article ]

Dr. Glod obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in Denver and trained in pediatrics and pediatric oncology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Pediatric Oncology Branch of the NCI.  Following an fellowship in neuro-oncology at the NCI, Dr. Glod served as faculty in the departments of pediatrics and pharmacology at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Dr. Glod joined the Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Section in 2013.  His research interests include pediatric tumors of the central nervous system, multiple endocrine neoplasia-related medullary thyroid cancer, and neurofibromatosis-related tumors.

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