Clinical Instructor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Dr. Christopher Kuo is a physician-scientist focused on the tumor microenvironment of Ewing sarcoma utilizing a novel genetic zebrafish model, along with spatial proteogenomic technologies. He is currently a clinical instructor of pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine and is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at the Cancer and Blood Disease Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. He earned his Medical Degree from Rush University and completed both his pediatric residency and pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Kuo is currently doing his post-doctoral research at Dr. James F. Amatruda’s lab. He is supported by the George Donnell Society, St. Baldrick’s Foundation, A.P. Giannini Foundation, and the Coco Johnson Pediatric Sarcoma Fund. Having lost his brother Stanley to metastatic osteosarcoma, Dr. Kuo has developed an unwavering passion for cancer biology and has contributed to the scientific field since his undergraduate training at University of California San Diego, investigating in the role of nitric oxide signaling and matrix metalloproteinase-2 and -9 in breast cancer stem cells. In honor of his brother, he has published several manuscripts related to sarcomas, including reporting a novel chemotherapy regimen for relapsed or metastatic high-grade sarcomas, and most recently, a retrospective review on surgical approach to pulmonary metastasectomy in patients with osteosarcoma.
