Gohbooncher

Dr. GOH Boon Cher

Professor

Courtesy Appointment - Department of Pharmacology and Medicine

Qualifications

MBBS (S’pore), MRCP (UK), MMed (Int Med), FAMS, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edin)

Designation

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Medicine, NUS
Senior Consultant, Department of Haematology-Oncology, National University Cancer Institute, Singapore
Deputy Director (Research), National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS)
Deputy Director, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, NUS

Research Interest

Lung Cancer
Head & Neck Cancer
Phase I Clinical Trials

Professional Memberships

Member, American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Member, European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Member, Royal College of Pathologists UK
Member, Royal College of Physicians UK
Member, Singapore Society of Haematology

Selected Journal Publications

  • ​Goh BC, Ratain MJ, Smith R, Bertucci D, Mani S, Vogelzang NJ, Schilsky RL, Hutchison M, Smith M, Averbuch S, Douglass E. Phase I study of ZD9331 using a 5-day short infusion schedule. J Clin Oncol 2001;19:1476-1484
  • Boon-Cher Goh, Soo-Chin Lee, Ling-Zhi Wang, Lu Fan, Jia-Yi Guo, Jatinder Lamba, Erin Schuetz, Robert Lim, Hong-Liang Lim, Ai-Bee Ong, How-Sung Lee.Explaining inter-individual variability of docetaxel pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in Asians through phenotyping and genotyping strategies. J Clin Oncol 2002;20:3683-3690.
  • Wen-Son Hsieh, Ross Soo, Bee-Keow Peh,Thomas Loh, Difeng Dong, Donny Soh, Lim-Soon Wong, Simon Green, Judy Chiao, Chun-Ying Cui, Yoke-Fong Lai, Soo-Chin Lee, Benjamin Mow, Richie Soong, Manuel Salto-Tellez, Boon-Cher Goh. Pharmacodynamic effects of seliciclib, an orally administered cell cycle modulator, in undifferentiated nasopharyngeal cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2009;15(4):1435-42.
  • Chiung-Ing Wong, Tong-San Koh, Ross Soo, Septian Hartono, Choon-Hua Thng, Evelyn McKeegan, Wei-Peng Yong, Chien-Shing Chen, Soo-Chin Lee, John Wong, Robert Lim, Norita Sukri, Siew-Eng Lim, Ai-Bee Ong, Joyce Steinberg, Neeraj Gupta, Rajendra Pradhan, Rod Humerickhouse, Boon-Cher Goh. Phase I and biomarker study of ABT-869, a multiple receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor, in patients with refractory solid malignancies. J Clin Oncol 2009;27(28):4718-4726.
  • YP Yong, BC Goh, RA Soo, HC Toh, K Ethirajulu, J Wood, V Novotny-Diermayr, SC Lee, WL Yeo, D Chan, D Lim, E Seah, R Lim, J Zhu. Phase I and pharmacodynamic study of an orally administered novel inhibitor of histone deacetylases, SB939, in patients with refractory solid malignancies. Ann Oncol 2011;22(11):2516-22.
  • W Yeo, Chung HC, Chan SL, Wang LZ, Lim R, Picus J, Boyer M, Mo FKF, Koh J, Rha SY, Hui EP, Jeung HC, Roh JK, Yu SC, To KF, Tao Q, Ma BB, Chan AW, Tong JH, Erlichman C, Chan AT, Goh BC. Epigenetic therapy using belinostat for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: A multicenter phase I/II study with biomarker and pharmacokinetic analysis of the Mayo Phase 2 Consortium (P2C) and the Cancer Therapeutics Research Group (CTRG). J Clin Oncol 2012 Sep 20;30(27):3361-7
  • Lin DC, Meng X, Hazawa M, Nagata Y, Varela AM, Xu L, Sato Y, Liu LZ, Ding LW, Sharma A, Goh BC, Lee SC, Petersson BF, Yu FG, Macary P, Oo MZ, Ha CS, Yang H, Ogawa S, Loh KS, Koeffler HP. The genomic landscape of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Nat Genet 2014;46(8):866-71.
  • Wong AL, Soo RA, Tan DS, Lee SC, Lim JS, Marban PC, Kong LR, Lee YJ, Wang LZ, Thuya WL, Soong R,Yee MQ, Chin TM, Cordero MT, Asuncion BR, Pang B, Pervaiz S, Hirpara JL, Sinha A, Xu WW, Yuasa M, Tsunoda T, Motoyama M, Yamauchi T, Goh BC. Phase I and biomarker study of a novel inhibitor of STAT3 phophorylation, OPB-51602 in patients with refractory solid cancers. Ann Oncol 2015;26(5):998-1005.
  • Syn N, Wang L, Sethi G, Thiery JP, Goh BC. Exosome-Mediated Metastasis: From Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition to Escape from Immunosurveillance. Trends in Pharmacol Sci. 2016 Jul;37(7):606-17
  • Bible KC, Suman VJ, Molina JR, Smallridge RC, Maples WJ, Menefee ME, Rubin J, Sideras K, Morris JC 3rd, McIver B, Burton JK, Webster KP, Bieber C, Traynor AM, Flynn PJ, Goh BC, Tang H, Ivy SP, Erlichman C; for the Endocrine Malignancies Disease Oriented Group; Mayo Clinic Cancer Center; the Mayo Phase 2 Consortium. Efficacy of pazopanib in progressive, radioiodine-refractory, metastatic differentiated thyroid cancers: results of a phase 2 consortium study. Lancet Oncol. 2010;11(10):962-72.