KENS5 & Great Day SA, Hyundai Hope on Wheels Handprint Ceremony (Tomlinson)

August 11, 2025

Gail Tomlinson, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics and division chief of pediatric hematology-oncology in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Health San Antonio, was interviewed by KENS-TV and appeared on the station’s morning show, “Great Day SA.” Dr. Tomlinson spoke about Hyundai Hope on Wheels® and the organization’s support for pediatric cancer research. Together with Dr. [...]


Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers Prevention: Multiancestry Transcriptome-Wide Association Study Identifies Candidate Genes Associated with Hepatoblastoma (Tomlinson)

August 1, 2025

Tiankai Xie Josey C. Sorenson Logan G. Spector Nathan Pankratz R. Stephanie Huang Eiso Hiyama Jenny N. Poynter Gail E. Tomlinson Carolina Armengol Roland Kappler Michael E. Scheurer Eve Roman Aurora Castellano Michael A. Grotzer David S. Ziegler Saonli Basu Erin L. Marcotte Tianzhong Yang Abstract Background: Hepatoblastoma (HB) is a rare embryonal liver tumor, [...]

Clinical Cancer Research: Update on Surveillance for Wilms Tumor and Hepatoblastoma in Beckwith–Wiedemann Syndrome and Other Predisposition Syndromes (Tomlinson)

December 2, 2024

Update on Surveillance for Wilms Tumor and Hepatoblastoma in Beckwith–Wiedemann Syndrome and Other Predisposition Syndromes Jennifer M. Kalish Kerri D. Becktell Gaëlle Bougeard Garrett M. Brodeur Lisa R. Diller Andrea S. Doria Jordan R. Hansford Steven D. Klein Wendy K. Kohlmann Christian P. Kratz Suzanne P. MacFarland Kristian W. Pajtler Surya P. Rednam Jaclyn Schienda [...]

JCO Precision Oncology: Disparate Rates of Germline Variants in Cancer Predisposition Genes in African American/Black Compared With Non-Hispanic White Individuals Between 2015 and 2022 (Tomlinson)

July 12, 2024

Rachel B. Wyatt Castillo, MS, CGC, Sarah M. Nielsen, MS, CGC, Elaine Chen, PhD, Brandie Heald, MS, CGC,, Rachel E. Ellsworth, PhD  Edward D. Esplin, MD, PhD, FACMG, and Gail E. Tomlinson, MD, PhD  Abstract Purpose African American/Black (AA/B) individuals are under-represented in genomic databases and thus less likely to receive definitive information from germline genetic testing (GGT) than non-Hispanic White (NHW) individuals. With nearly 500,000 AA/B and [...]

Genetic Counseling: Families’ experiences accessing care after genomic sequencing in the pediatric cancer context: “It’s just been a big juggle” (Tomlinson)

January 18, 2024

Blake Vuocolo, Amanda M. Gutierrez, Jill O. Robinson, Alva M. Recinos, Lauren R. Desrosiers, Mary A. Majumder, Juan Carlos Bernini, Jonathan Gill, Timothy Griffin, Gail E. Tomlinson, Kelly Vallance, Amy L. McGuire, D. Williams Parsons, Sharon E. Plon, Sarah Scollon Abstract Access to genomic sequencing (GS) and resulting recommendations have not been well described in pediatric oncology. GS results may provide a cancer predisposition syndrome (CPS) diagnosis that warrants [...]


Nature Communications: Genomic profiling of subcutaneous patient-derived xenografts reveals immune constraints on tumor evolution in childhood solid cancer (Zheng, Grimes, Lai, Chen, Wang, Tomlinson, Houghton, & Kurmasheva Labs)

November 27, 2023

Funan He, Abhik M. Bandyopadhyay, Laura J. Klesse, Anna Rogojina, Sang H. Chun, Erin Butler, Taylor Hartshorne, Trevor Holland, Dawn Garcia, Korri Weldon, Luz-Nereida Perez Prado, Anne-Marie Langevin, Allison C. Grimes, Aaron Sugalski, Shafqat Shah, Chatchawin Assanasen, Zhao Lai, Yi Zou, Dias Kurmashev, Lin Xu, Yang Xie, Yidong Chen, Xiaojing Wang, Gail E. Tomlinson, Stephen [...]


Pediatric Hematology & Oncology: Circulating tumor DNA sequencing of pediatric solid and brain tumor patients: An institutional feasibility study (Tomlinson)

June 27, 2023

Ross Mangum, Jacquelyn Reuther ,Koel Sen Baksi Ilavarasi Gandhi, Ryan C. Zabriskiec, Alva Recinos, , Robin Raesz-Martinez, Frank Y. Lin, Samara L. Potter, Andrew C. Sher, Stephen F. Kralik, Carrie A. Mohila, Murali M. Chintagumpala, Donna Muzny, Jianhong Hu, Richard A. Gibbs, Kevin E. Fisher Juan Carlos Bernini, Jonathan Gill, Timothy C. Griffin, Gail E. Tomlinson, [...]