Hematology & Oncology

Division of Hematology and Oncology

Frederic Kaye, MD Frederic Kaye, MD
Professor
Division of Hematology / Oncology

University of Florida
1600 SW Archer Road/Box 100277
Gainesville, FL  32610-0277
E-mail: fkaye@ufl.edu
(352) 273-7832/FAX (352) 273-5006

Dr. Kaye is a clinical and basic science investigator with a focus on thoracic malignancies.  He is Board certified in Medical Oncology, Hematology,and Internal Medicine.  He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society, and serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Training:

Degree
Program
Institution Field/Specialty
BA with Honors Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Sciences
MD with Honors University of Maryland, Baltimore Medicine
Residency Mount Sinai Medical School, NYC Internal Medicine
Fellowship Mount Sinai Medical School, NYC Hematology
Fellowship National Cancer Institute, Bethesda Oncology

Academic Interests:

Molecular basis for human cancer and the clinical management of patients with thoracic malignancies.

Clinical Interests:

Lung Cancer, mesothelioma, salivary gland tumors

Representative Publications:

  • Kaye FJ.  RB and cyclin dependent kinase pathways: defining a distinction between RB and p16 loss in lung cancer.  Oncogene 21, 6908 – 6914, 2002.
  • Tonon G, Modi S, Wu L, Kubo A, Coxon A, Komiya, T, O’Neil K, Stover K, El-Naggar A, Griffin J, Kirsch I, Kaye FJ. t(11;19)(q21;p13) translocation in mucoepidermoid carcinoma creates a novel fusion product that disrupts a Notch signaling pathway.  Nature Genetics 33:208-213, 2003.
  • Paez JG, Janne PA, Lee JC, Tracy S, Greulich H, Gabrieb S, Herman P, Kaye FJ, Lindeman N, Boggon TJ, Naok K, Sasaki H, Fuji Y, Eck MJ, Sellers WR, Johnson BE, Meyerson M.  EGFR mutations in lung cancer: correlation with clinical response to gefitinib therapy. Science 304:1497-1500, 2004.
  • Coxon A, Rozenblum E, Park Y, Joshi N, Tsurutani J, Dennis P, Kirsch I,  Kaye FJ.   Mect1-Maml2 fusion oncogene linked to the aberrant activation of cAMP/CREB regulated genes.  Cancer Res  65:7137-7144, 2005.
  • Thomas R et al.  High-throughput oncogene mutation profiling in human cancer specimens by mass-spectrometric genotyping.  Nature Genetics, 39:347-51  2007.
  • Kaye FJ.   Mutation associated fusion cancer genes in solid tumors.  Mol Cancer Therap 8:1399-1408 2009.

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