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Andrew Gao

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Laboratory Medicine & PathobiologyUniversity of Toronto

Andrew Gao

Assistant Professor

Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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11 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.

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Neuropathology Residency Training Program Director

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Latest papers

Treatment of Human Glioblastoma Multiforme in NRG Mice by Convection-Enhanced Delivery of EGFR-Targeted or Nontargeted Auger Electron-Emitting 197gHg-Labeled Gold Nanoparticles.
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine · 2026
Deep learning for H&E-based meningioma molecular classification and outcome prediction: a retrospective cohort study.
The Lancet. Digital health · 2026
Neurodevelopmental hijacking of oligodendrocyte lineage programs drives glioblastoma infiltration.
Developmental cell · 2025

All 14 publications

Latest funding

Dissecting the determinants and dynamics of cellular states promoting glioma evolution
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$1,040,400
Detection and prevention of pypermutant glioma in children and young adults
BRAIN · 2021 · Co-investigator
$149,878

All 2 grants and awards

14 publications.

Treatment of Human Glioblastoma Multiforme in NRG Mice by Convection-Enhanced Delivery of EGFR-Targeted or Nontargeted Auger Electron-Emitting 197gHg-Labeled Gold Nanoparticles.

Brown MK, Cai Z, Ganga-Sah Y, Alshafai L, Borlase S, Radchenko V, Gao A, Rutka JT, Reilly RM

Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine20261 citations

DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.125.271785 PMID: 42276782

Deep learning for H&E-based meningioma molecular classification and outcome prediction: a retrospective cohort study.

Landry AP, Nassiri F, Yefet LS, Lalchungnunga H, Shulman ED, Wang JZ, Ellenbogen Y, Gui C, Ajisebutu A, Patil V, Liu J, Wei Q, Singh O, Sosa J, Mansouri S, Ma S, Wang B, Vaubel R, Giannini C, Raghunathan A, Gao A, Ruppin E, Aldape K, Zadeh G

The Lancet. Digital health2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.landig.2026.100986 PMID: 42248714

Neurodevelopmental hijacking of oligodendrocyte lineage programs drives glioblastoma infiltration.

Wu Y, Wu BZ, Ellenbogen Y, Kant JBY, Yu P, Li X, Caloren L, Sotov V, Tran C, Restrepo M, Kushida M, Ayyadhury S, Kossinna P, Lau R, Habibi P, Mansouri S, Regala J, Durbic T, Aboualizadeh F, Tsao J, Ketela T, Pugh T, Butler MO, Wang BX, Dirks PB, Gao A, Zadeh G, Gaiti F

Developmental cell202528 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2025.04.022 PMID: 40381621

A population-based analysis of the molecular landscape of glioma in adolescents and young adults reveals insights into gliomagenesis.

Bennett J, Levine AB, Nobre L, Negm L, Chung J, Fang K, Johnson M, Komosa M, Krumholtz S, Nunes NM, Rana M, Ryall S, Sheth J, Siddaway R, Bale TA, Bouffet E, Cusimano MD, Das S, Detsky J, Dirks P, Karajannis MA, Kongkham P, Giantini-Larsen A, Li BK, Lim-Fat MJ, Lin AL, Mason WP, Miller A, Perry JR, Sahgal A, Sait SF, Tsang DS, Zadeh G, Laperriere N, Nguyen L, Gao A, Keith J, Munoz DG, Tabori U, Hawkins C

Nature cancer202518 citations

DOI: 10.1038/s43018-025-00962-x PMID: 40335748

Analysis of TERT association with clinical outcome in meningiomas: a multi-institutional cohort study.

Gui C, Wang JZ, Patil V, Landry AP, Singh O, Castelo-Branco P, Tabori U, Aldape K, Behling F, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Horbinski C, Tabatabai G, Ajisebutu A, Liu J, Patel Z, Yakubov R, Kaloti R, Ellenbogen Y, Wilson C, Cohen-Gadol A, Tatagiba M, Holland EC, Sloan AE, Chotai S, Chambless LB, Gao A, Makarenko S, Yip S, Nassiri F, Zadeh G, International Consortium on Meningiomas (ICOM)

The Lancet. Oncology20259 citations

DOI: 10.1016/s1470-2045(25)00267-0 PMID: 40907516

Molecular classification to refine surgical and radiotherapeutic decision-making in meningioma.

Wang JZ, Patil V, Landry AP, Gui C, Ajisebutu A, Liu J, Saarela O, Pugh SL, Won M, Patel Z, Yakubov R, Kaloti R, Wilson C, Cohen-Gadol A, Zaazoue MA, Tabatabai G, Tatagiba M, Behling F, Almiron Bonnin DA, Holland EC, Kruser TJ, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Sloan AE, Horbinski C, Chotai S, Chambless LB, Gao A, Rebchuk AD, Makarenko S, Yip S, Sahm F, Maas SLN, Tsang DS, International Consortium on Meningiomas (ICOM), Rogers CL, Aldape K, Nassiri F, Zadeh G

Nature medicine202479 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03167-4 PMID: 39169220

Convection-enhanced delivery of [177Lu]Lu-labeled gold nanoparticles combined with anti-PD1 checkpoint immunotherapy improves the survival of immunocompetent C57BL/6J mice with orthotopic GL261 murine glioma tumors

Constantine J. Georgiou, Madeline K. Brown, Zhongli Cai, Laila Alshafai, Andrew F. Gao, James T. Rutka, Mitchell A. Winnik, Raymond M. Reilly

Nuclear Medicine and Biology202410 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2024.108970 PMID: 39571483

HAVOC: Small-scale histomic mapping of cancer biodiversity across large tissue distances using deep neural networks.

Dent A, Faust K, Lam KHB, Alhangari N, Leon AJ, Tsang Q, Kamil ZS, Gao A, Pal P, Lheureux S, Oza A, Diamandis P

Science advances202312 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg1894 PMID: 37774029

Alpha-synuclein seeding shows a wide heterogeneity in multiple system atrophy

Iván Martínez-Valbuena, Naomi P. Visanji, Ain Kim, Heather H. C. Lau, Raphaella W. L. So, Sohaila A. Alshimemeri, Andrew F. Gao, Michael A. Seidman, M. R. Luquín, Joel C. Watts, Anthony E. Lang, Gábor Géza Kovács

Translational Neurodegeneration2022112 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s40035-022-00283-4 PMID: 35125105

Integrating morphologic and molecular histopathological features through whole slide image registration and deep learning.

Faust K, Lee MK, Dent A, Fiala C, Portante A, Rabindranath M, Alsafwani N, Gao A, Djuric U, Diamandis P

Neuro-oncology advances202217 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/noajnl/vdac001 PMID: 35156037

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Andrew Gao

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Treatment of Human Glioblastoma Multiforme in NRG Mice by Convection-Enhanced Delivery of EGFR-Targeted or Nontargeted Auger Electron-Emitting 197gHg-Labeled Gold Nanoparticles.

Deep learning for H&E-based meningioma molecular classification and outcome prediction: a retrospective cohort study.

Neurodevelopmental hijacking of oligodendrocyte lineage programs drives glioblastoma infiltration.

A population-based analysis of the molecular landscape of glioma in adolescents and young adults reveals insights into gliomagenesis.

Analysis of TERT association with clinical outcome in meningiomas: a multi-institutional cohort study.

Molecular classification to refine surgical and radiotherapeutic decision-making in meningioma.

Convection-enhanced delivery of [177Lu]Lu-labeled gold nanoparticles combined with anti-PD1 checkpoint immunotherapy improves the survival of immunocompetent C57BL/6J mice with orthotopic GL261 murine glioma tumors

HAVOC: Small-scale histomic mapping of cancer biodiversity across large tissue distances using deep neural networks.

Alpha-synuclein seeding shows a wide heterogeneity in multiple system atrophy

Integrating morphologic and molecular histopathological features through whole slide image registration and deep learning.

Dissecting the determinants and dynamics of cellular states promoting glioma evolution

Detection and prevention of pypermutant glioma in children and young adults

Frequent collaborators

Gelareh Zadeh

Farshad Nassiri

Phedias Diamandis

Uri Tabori

Derek Tsang

Julia Keith

Laila Alshafai

Kenneth Aldape

Peter Dirks

Cynthia Hawkins

James Rutka

Mary Lim-Fat

Lananh Nguyen

Emily Swinkin

Jay Detsky

Lorne Zinman

Prodipto Pal

Sebastien Perreault

Eric Bouffet

Valery Radchenko

Bo Wang

Arjun Sahgal

Amit Oza

Federico Gaiti

Stephanie Lheureux

Gabor Kovacs

Naomi Visanji