Greg.Allen 
ucsf.edu
Clinical Fellow in Medical Oncology
Education
University of California, San Francisco
Osler Medical Housestaff Training Program
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Stanford University
Stanford University
Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests
Development of synthetic biology tools for adoptive cell therapy in solid malignancies.
Awards
2004 Geoffrey D. Parfitt Award for Excellence in Research
Publications
Barnhart, E.L., Lee, K.C., Allen, G.M., Theriot, J.A., Mogilner, A. "Balance between cell-substrate adhesion and myosin contraction determines the frequency of motility initiation in fish keratocytes." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2015) 112(16):5045-50.
Allen, G.M., Mogilner, A, Theriot, J.A. "Electrophoresis of cellular membrane components creates the directional cue guiding galvanotaxis." Current Biology (2013) 23(7):560-8.
Wilson, C.A., Tsuchida, M.A., Allen, G.M., Barnhart, E.L., Applegate, P.T., Yam, P.T., Ji, L., Keren, K., Danuser, G., Theriot, J.A. "Myosin II contributes to cell-scale actin network treadmilling through network disassembly." Nature (2010) 465(7296):373-7.
Barnhart, E.L., Allen, G.M., Julicher, F., Theriot, J.A. "Bipedal locomotion in crawling cells." Biophys. J. (2010) 98(6):933-42.
Keren, K., Pincus, Z., Allen, G.M., Barnhart, E.L., Marriott, G., Mogilner, A., Theriot, J.A. "Mechanisms of shape determination in motile cells." Nature (2008) 453(7194):475-80.
Allen, G.M., Shortall, B.P., Gemci, T., Corcoran, T.E., Chigier, N.A. "Computational simulations of airflow in an in vitro model of the pediatric upper airways." J. Biomech. Eng. (2004) 126(5):604-13.
Gemci, T., Shortall, B., Allen, G.M., Corcoran, T.E., Chigier, N.A. "A CFD study of the throat during aerosol drug delivery using heliox and air." J. Aerosol Science (2003) 34(9):1175-1192.