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Douglas E. Laux, MD, MS

Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Hematology, Oncology, and Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Current Positions

  • Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Hematology, Oncology, and Blood & Marrow Transplantation

Education

  • BS in Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
  • MS in Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
  • MD, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri
  • Resident, Internal Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Fellow, Hematology and Medical Oncology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa

Licenses & Certifications

  • Medical License, State of Iowa, Iowa Board of Medicine
  • American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine.
  • American Board of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology.
  • American Board of Internal Medicine, Hematology.

Selected Publications

  • Xia, C., Leon-Ferre, R., Laux, D., Deutsch, J., Smith, B. J., Frees, M. & Milhem, M. (2014). Treatment of resistant metastatic melanoma using sequential epigenetic therapy (decitabine and panobinostat) combined with chemotherapy (temozolomide). Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology 74 (4) 691–697. DOI: 10.1007/s00280-014-2501-1. PMID: 25062770.
  • Yan, P. S., Perry, M. R., Laux, D. E., Asare, A. L., Caldwell, C. W. & Huang, T. H. (2000). CpG island arrays: an application toward deciphering epigenetic signatures of breast cancer. Clinical Cancer Research: An Official Journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 6 (4) 1432–1438. PMID: 10778974.
  • Yan, P. S., Rodriguez, F. J., Laux, D. E., Perry, M. R., Standiford, S. B. & Huang, T. H. (2000). Hypermethylation of ribosomal DNA in human breast carcinoma. British Journal of Cancer 82 (3) 514–517. DOI: 10.1054/bjoc.1999.0955. PMID: 10682657.
  • Laux, D. E., Curran, E. M., Welshons, W. V., Lubahn, D. B. & Huang, T. H. (1999). Hypermethylation of the Wilms’ tumor suppressor gene CpG island in human breast carcinomas. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 56 (1) 35–43. PMID: 10517341.
  • Huang, T. H., Perry, M. R. & Laux, D. E. (1999). Methylation profiling of CpG islands in human breast cancer cells. Human Molecular Genetics 8 (3) 459–470. PMID: 9949205.
  • Huang, T. H., Laux, D. E., Hamlin, B. C., Tran, P., Tran, H. & Lubahn, D. B. (1997). Identification of DNA methylation markers for human breast carcinomas using the methylation-sensitive restriction fingerprinting technique. Cancer Research 57 (6) 1030–1034. PMID: 9067264.