Gregory Allen, MD, PhD

Education
Fellowship, 06/2018 - Oncology, UCSF
Residency, 06/2015 - Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital
MD/PHD, 06/2013 - Biochemistry, Medicine, Stanford Medical School
BS, 06/2004 - Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Honors and Awards
  • K08 Scholar, NIH - NCI, 2021
  • Fellow, Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund, 2017-2020
  • Geoffrey D. Parfitt Award for Excellence in Research, Carnegie Mellon, 2004
  • Alumni Award, Carnegie Mellon, 2001
Websites
Publications

  1. Zeng Q, Flemming L, Chen Y, Mazumder T, Hammerlindl H, Allen GM, Almeida R, Williams JZ, Hernández-López RA, Eyquem J, Ye CJ, Lim WA, Tang Q, Desai TA, Huang X. Programmable microparticles rewire CAR signaling to enable super-physiological expansion of human T cells in vitro. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025. PMID: 40777491


  2. Reddy NR, Maachi H, Xiao Y, Simic MS, Yu W, Tonai Y, Cabanillas DA, Serrano-Wu E, Pauerstein PT, Tamaki W, Allen GM, Parent AV, Hebrok M, Lim WA. Engineering synthetic suppressor T cells that execute locally targeted immunoprotective programs. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2024. PMID: 39636990


  3. Blakely CM, Urisman A, Gubens MA, Mulvey CK, Allen GM, Shiboski SC, Rotow JK, Chakrabarti T, Kerr DL, Aredo JV, Bacaltos B, Gee M, Tan L, Jones KD, Devine WP, Doebele RC, Aisner DL, Patil T, Schenk EL, Bivona TG, Riess JW, Coleman M, Kratz JR, Jablons DM. Neoadjuvant Osimertinib for the Treatment of Stage I-IIIA Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-Mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Phase II Multicenter Study. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2024. PMID: 39028931


  4. Zhang J, Tsukui T, Wu X, Brito A, Trumble JM, Caraballo JC, Allen GM, Zavala-Solorio J, Zhang C, Paw J, Lim WA, Geng J, Kutskova Y, Freund A, Kolumam G, Sheppard D, Cohen RL. An immune-based tool platform for in vivo cell clearance. Life science alliance 2023. PMID: 37311583


  5. Allen GM, Frankel NW, Reddy NR, Bhargava HK, Yoshida MA, Stark SR, Purl M, Lee J, Yee JL, Yu W, Li AW, Garcia KC, El-Samad H, Roybal KT, Spitzer MH, Lim WA. Synthetic cytokine circuits that drive T cells into immune-excluded tumors. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2022. PMID: 36520915


  6. Allen GM, Lim WA. Rethinking cancer targeting strategies in the era of smart cell therapeutics. Nature reviews. Cancer 2022. PMID: 36175644


  7. Wong ML, Shi Y, Smith AK, Miaskowski C, Boscardin WJ, Cohen HJ, Lam V, Mazor M, Metzger L, Presley CJ, Williams GR, Loh KP, Ursem CJ, Friedlander TW, Blakely CM, Gubens MA, Allen G, Shumay D, Walter LC. Changes in older adults' life space during lung cancer treatment: A mixed methods cohort study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021. PMID: 34611887


  8. Williams JZ, Allen GM, Shah D, Sterin IS, Kim KH, Garcia VP, Shavey GE, Yu W, Puig-Saus C, Tsoi J, Ribas A, Roybal KT, Lim WA. Precise T cell recognition programs designed by transcriptionally linking multiple receptors. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2020. PMID: 33243890


  9. Allen GM, Lee KC, Barnhart EL, Tsuchida MA, Wilson CA, Gutierrez E, Groisman A, Theriot JA, Mogilner A. Cell Mechanics at the Rear Act to Steer the Direction of Cell Migration. Cell systems 2020. PMID: 32916096


  10. Dannenfelser R, Allen GM, VanderSluis B, Koegel AK, Levinson S, Stark SR, Yao V, Tadych A, Troyanskaya OG, Lim WA. Discriminatory Power of Combinatorial Antigen Recognition in Cancer T Cell Therapies. Cell systems 2020. PMID: 32916097


  11. Barnhart E, Lee KC, Allen GM, Theriot JA, Mogilner A. Balance between cell-substrate adhesion and myosin contraction determines the frequency of motility initiation in fish keratocytes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2015. PMID: 25848042


  12. Allen GM, Mogilner A, Theriot JA. Electrophoresis of cellular membrane components creates the directional cue guiding keratocyte galvanotaxis. Current biology : CB 2013. PMID: 23541731


  13. Wilson CA, Tsuchida MA, Allen GM, Barnhart EL, Applegate KT, Yam PT, Ji L, Keren K, Danuser G, Theriot JA. Myosin II contributes to cell-scale actin network treadmilling through network disassembly. Nature 2010. PMID: 20485438


  14. Barnhart EL, Allen GM, Jülicher F, Theriot JA. Bipedal locomotion in crawling cells. Biophysical journal 2010. PMID: 20303850


  15. Keren K, Pincus Z, Allen GM, Barnhart EL, Marriott G, Mogilner A, Theriot JA. Mechanism of shape determination in motile cells. Nature 2008. PMID: 18497816


  16. Allen GM, Shortall BP, Gemci T, Corcoran TE, Chigier NA. Computational simulations of airflow in an in vitro model of the pediatric upper airways. Journal of biomechanical engineering 2004. PMID: 15648813