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Robert Martuza M.D.

Higgins Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Chief, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital

Contact Info

Robert Martuza
Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA, 02114
Mailstop:
Phone: 6177268581
Fax: 6177264814
rmartuza@partners.org

Assistant

Sharon Marzano
Phone: 6177268583
Fax: 6177264814
smarzano@partners.org

DF/HCC Program Affiliation

Co-Leader, Neuro-Oncology Program

DF/HCC Associations

Member, Center Scientific Council

Publications

  • Aghi M, Rabkin S, Martuza RL. Oncolytic herpes simplex virus mutants exhibit enhanced replication in glioma cells evading temozolomide chemotherapy through deoxyribonucleic acid repair. Clin Neurosurg 2006; 53:65-76
    PMID: 17380741
  • Prabhakar S, Messerli SM, Stemmer-Rachamimov AO, Liu TC, Rabkin S, Martuza R, Breakefield XO. Treatment of Implantable NF2 Schwannoma Tumor Models with Oncolytic Herpes Simplex Virus G47Delta. Cancer Gene Ther 2007 May; 14(5):460-7
    PMID: 17304235
  • Aghi M, Rabkin SD, Martuza RL. Angiogenic response caused by oncolytic herpes simplex virus-induced reduced thrombospondin expression can be prevented by specific viral mutations or by administering a thrombospondin-derived peptide. Cancer Res 2007 Jan 15; 67(2):440-4
    PMID: 17234749
  • Liu TC, Zhang T, Fukuhara H, Kuroda T, Todo T, Canron X, Bikfalvi A, Martuza RL, Kurtz A, Rabkin SD. Dominant-negative fibroblast growth factor receptor expression enhances antitumoral potency of oncolytic herpes simplex virus in neural tumors. Clin Cancer Res 2006 Nov 15; 12(22):6791-9
    PMID: 17121900
  • Kuroda T, Rabkin SD, Martuza RL. Effective treatment of tumors with strong beta-catenin/T-cell factor activity by transcriptionally targeted oncolytic herpes simplex virus vector. Cancer Res 2006 Oct 15; 66(20):10127-35
    PMID: 17047077
  • Liu TC, Zhang T, Fukuhara H, Kuroda T, Todo T, Martuza RL, Rabkin SD, Kurtz A. Oncolytic HSV armed with platelet factor 4, an antiangiogenic agent, shows enhanced efficacy. Mol Ther 2006 Dec; 14(6):789-97
    PMID: 17045531
  • Martuza RL. Vestibular schwannoma. J Neurosurg 2006 Oct; 105(4):526; discussion 526
    PMID: 17044552
  • Kuroda T, Martuza RL, Todo T, Rabkin SD. Flip-Flop HSV-BAC: bacterial artificial chromosome based system for rapid generation of recombinant herpes simplex virus vectors using two independent site-specific recombinases. BMC Biotechnol 2006; 6:40
    PMID: 16995942
  • Varghese S, Rabkin SD, Liu R, Nielsen PG, Ipe T, Martuza RL. Enhanced therapeutic efficacy of IL-12, but not GM-CSF, expressing oncolytic herpes simplex virus for transgenic mouse derived prostate cancers. Cancer Gene Ther 2006 Mar; 13(3):253-65
    PMID: 16179929