Tom Westbrook
Education
Residency, Washington University in St. Louis
MD, University of Cincinnati
BS, Chemistry, Michigan State University
Research Interests
Clinical genomics of advanced prostate cancer
Funding
UM Oncology Research Training Program Fellowship (NCI T32)
Contact
Email: westbrot@umich.edu
Mentor who have altered my life: I have had the good fortune to benefit from numerous mentors at various stages of my education/training, but I will always be grateful to Daniel Jones, my undergraduate research mentor. He showed me rigorous scientific investigation and human kindness.
In my time off, I enjoy: Hiking, biking, tennis, wine, and indie rock
What profession, other than your own, would you enjoy? I think I would like teaching undergraduate chemistry.
Recent Publications
Westbrook TC, Guan X, Rodansky E, Flores D, Liu CJ, Udager AM, Patel RA, Haffner MC, Hu YM, Sun D, Beer TM, Foye A, Aggarwal R, Quigley DA, Youngren JF, Ryan CJ, Gleave M, Wang Y, Huang J, Coleman I, Morrissey C, Nelson PS, Evans CP, Lara P, Reiter RE, Witte O, Rettig M, Wong CK, Weinstein AS, Uzunangelov V, Stuart JM, Thomas GV, Feng FY, Small EJ, Yates JA, Xia Z, & Alumkal JJ. Transcriptional profiling of matched patient biopsies clarifies molecular determinants of enzalutamide-induced lineage plasticity. Nature Communications (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32701-6
Storck WK, May AM, Westbrook TC, Duan Z, Morrissey C, Yates JA, & Alumkal JJ. The Role of Epigenetic Change in Therapy-Induced Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer Lineage Plasticity. Frontiers in Endocrinology (2022). DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2022.926585
Kumaraswamy A, Welker Leng KR, Westbrook TC, Yates JA, Zhao SG, Evans CP, Feng FY, Morgan TM, & Alumkal JJ. Recent Advances in Epigenetic Biomarkers and Epigenetic Targeting in Prostate Cancer. European Urology (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2021.03.005
Westbrook TC, Morales DLS, Khan MS, Bryant R, Castleberry C, Chin C, & Zafar F. Interaction of older donor age and survival after weight-matched pediatric heart transplantation. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2016.11.009
Ghosh B, Westbrook TC, & Jones DA. Comparative structural profiling of trichome specialized metabolites in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and S. habrochaites: acylsugar profiles revealed by UHPLC/MS and NMR. Metabolomics (2014). DOI: 10.1007/s11306-013-0585-y