Research & Clinical Summary

Dr. Cheung is a physician scientist and medical oncologist dedicated to making discoveries in the laboratory to better detect, prevent and treat metastatic breast cancer. Raised in New York, Dr. Cheung graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College (thesis advisor: George Church) and received his M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College, during which he completed a Howard-Hughes Medical Institute training fellowship (advisor: Jeff Friedman). Dr. Cheung completed an internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, followed by medical oncology fellowship training at Johns Hopkins and a postdoctoral research fellowship in cell biology at the Center for Cell Dynamics (postdoc advisor: Andy Ewald). In July 2015, he joined the faculty of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Dr. Cheung is an Assistant Member in the Translational Research Program, Public Health Sciences and Human Biology Divisions. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine at the University of Washington and cares for breast cancer patients at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Publications

The following publications were retrieved from PubMed:

Karir A, Huynh MNQ, Carsen S, Smit K, Cheung K,
“Management and Outcomes of Clinical Scaphoid Fractures in Children.”
Hand (New York, N.Y.) . (2020 Jul 1): 1558944720930293.

Cheung KKW, Ozturk U,
“Synchronization of extreme rainfall during the Australian summer monsoon: Complex network perspectives.”
Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.) 30.6 (2020 Jun): 063117.

Padmanaban V, Grasset EM, Neumann NM, Fraser AK, Henriet E, Matsui W, Tran PT, Cheung KJ, Georgess D, Ewald AJ,
“Organotypic culture assays for murine and human primary and metastatic-site tumors.”
Nature protocols 15.8 (2020 Aug): 2413-2442.

Cheung KM, Abendroth JM, Nakatsuka N, Zhu B, Yang Y, Andrews AM, Weiss PS,
“Detecting DNA and RNA and Differentiating Single-Nucleotide Variations via Field-Effect Transistors.”
Nano letters 20.8 (2020 Aug 12): 5982-5990.

Ghazawi FM, Cheung K, Gavigan G,
“Rapidly enlarging scalp nodules in a 20-month-old child.”
CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l’Association medicale canadienne 192.37 (2020 Sep 14): E1066.

Wrenn ED, Yamamoto A, Moore BM, Huang Y, McBirney M, Thomas AJ, Greenwood E, Rabena YF, Rahbar H, Partridge SC, Cheung KJ,
“Regulation of Collective Metastasis by Nanolumenal Signaling.”
Cell 183.2 (2020 Oct 15): 395-410.e19.

Cheung K, Fox NS,
“The Association between Glucose Levels and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Nondiabetic Twin Pregnancies.”
AJP reports 10.3 (2020 Jul): e217-e223.

Wrenn ED, Moore BM, Greenwood E, McBirney M, Cheung KJ,
“Optimal, Large-Scale Propagation of Mouse Mammary Tumor Organoids.”
Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia 25.4 (2020 Dec): 337-350.

Zhao C, Liu Q, Cheung KM, Liu W, Yang Q, Xu X, Man T, Weiss PS, Zhou C, Andrews AM,
“Narrower Nanoribbon Biosensors Fabricated by Chemical Lift-off Lithography Show Higher Sensitivity.”
ACS nano 15.1 (2021 Jan 26): 904-915.

Yaworski A, Koujok K, Cheung K, Ying Y, McMillan HJ,
“Intrinsic peripheral nerve and root tumor and pseudotumoral lesions at a tertiary care pediatric hospital.”
Child’s nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery 37.4 (2021 Apr): 1229-1236.

Cheung K, Rathbone A, Melanson M, Trier J, Ritsma BR, Allen MD,
“Pathophysiology and management of critical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy.”
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 130.5 (2021 May 1): 1479-1489.

Xiao J, Rahbar H, Hippe DS, Rendi MH, Parker EU, Shekar N, Hirano M, Cheung KJ, Partridge SC,
“Dynamic contrast-enhanced breast MRI features correlate with invasive breast cancer angiogenesis.”
NPJ breast cancer 7.1 (2021 Apr 16): 42.

Nathanson SD, Detmar M, Padera TP, Yates LR, Welch DR, Beadnell TC, Scheid AD, Wrenn ED, Cheung K,
“Mechanisms of breast cancer metastasis.”
Clinical & experimental metastasis . (2021 May 5): .

Market M, Zhu-Pawlowsky J, Bhatt M, Cheung K,
“Hands-On Workshops Improve Emergency Department Physicians’ Self-Reported Understanding of Pediatric Hand Injuries.”
Pediatric emergency care . (2021 May 18): .

Wrenn E, Huang Y, Cheung K,
“Collective metastasis: coordinating the multicellular voyage.”
Clinical & experimental metastasis 38.4 (2021 Aug): 373-399.