Dr. Lawrence Rubinstein

Office Address:
Room 8130
6130 Executive Plaza
Rockville, MD 20852

Contact Information:
Tel: (301) 402-0638
Fax: (301) 402-0560
Email:rubinsteinl@ctep.nci.nih.gov

Research Interests
Design, monitoring and analysis of clinical trials; pre-clinical drug screening and developmental clinical trials; discriminant and regression analysis; data visualization; lung, gynecologic, gastrointestinal, and central nervous system cancer.

Selected Recent Publications 

Rubinstein, L.V., Shoemaker, R.H., Paull, K.D., Simon, R.M., Tosini, S., Skehan, P., Scudiero, D.A., Monks, A., and Boyd, M.R.: Comparison of in vitro anticancer drug screening data generated with a tetrazolium assay versus a protein assay against a diverse panel of human tumor cell lines. J. Nat. Cancer Inst. 82:1113-1118, 1990.

Grem, J.L., Rubinstein, L., King, S.A., Cheson, B.D., Hawkins, M.J., and Shoemaker, D.D: Clinical toxicity associated with tiazofurin. Investig. New Drugs 8:227-238, 1990.

Hricak, J., Rubinstein, L.V., Gherman, G. and Karstaedt, N.: MR imaging evaluation of endometrial carcinoma: results of an NCI cooperative study, Radiology 179:829-832, 1991. 

Boyd, N.R., Paull, K.D., and Rubinstein, L.V.: "Data display and analysis strategies for the new NCI disease-oriented in-vitro anti-tumor drug screen." in Valeriote, F.A., Corbett, T.H., and Baker, L.H.(eds.), Cytotoxic Anticancer Drugs: Models and Concepts for Drug Discovery and Development, Kluwer Academic Publ., Norwell, Mass., 11-34, 1992. 

Walton, L.A., Yadusky, A., Rubinstein, L., Roth, L.M., and Young, R.C.: Stage II carcinoma of the ovary: an analysis of survival after comprehensive surgical staging and adjunctive therapy. Gynecol. Oncol. 44:55-60, 1992. 

Hodes, L., Paull, K., Koutsoukos, A., Rubinstein, L.: Measures of selectivity and similarity for drug responses in a panel of human tumor cell lines. J. Biopharm. Statist. 2:31-48, 1992. 

Weinstein, J.N., Kohn, K.W., Grever, M.R., Viswanadhan, V.N., Rubinstein, L.V., Monks, A., Scudiero, D.A., Welch L., Koutsoukos, A., Paull, K.D.: Neural computing in cancer drug development: Predicting mechanism of action, Science 258:447-451, 1992. 

The Lung Cancer Study Group, prepared by R. Feld, L. Rubinstein, P. Thomas: Adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery for T1N1 and T2N0 non-small cell lung cancer, J. Nat. Cancer Inst. 85:299-306, 1993. 

Weinstein, J.N., Rubinstein, L.V., Koutsoukos, A.D., Kohn, K.W., Grever, M.R., Monks, A., Scudiero, D.A., Welch, L., Chiausa, A.J., Fojo, A.T., Viswanadhan, V.N., Paull, K.D., Neural networks in the discovery of new treatments for cancer and AIDS, World Congress on Neural Networks 1:111-116, 1993. 

The Lung Cancer Study Group, prepared by Thomas, P.A. and Rubinstein, L.: Malignant disease appearing late after operation for T1N0 non-small cell lung cancer, J. Thorac. Surg. 106:1053-1058, 1993. 

Koutsoukos, A.D. Rubinstein, L.V., Faraggi, D., Simon, R.M., Kalyandrug, S., Weinstein, J.N., Paull, K.D., Kohn, K.W., Discrimination techniques applied to the NCI in vitro antitumor drug screen: predicting biochemical mechanism of action, Stat. in Med. 13:719-730, 1994. 

Korn, E.L., Midthune, D., Chen, T.T., Rubinstein, L.V., Simon, R.M.: A comparison of two phase I trial designs, Stat. in Med. 13:1799-1806, 1994. 

The Lung Cancer Study Group, prepared by R. Ginsberg and L. Rubinstein: Lobectomy versus limited resection in stage I NSCLC, Annals of Thoracic Surgery 60:615-623, 1995. 

Trimble, E.L., Rubinstein, L., Menck, H., Hankey, B., Kosary, C., Giusti, R., Vaginal clear cell adenocarcinoma in the United States, Gynecologic Oncology 61:113-115, 1996. 

Koo, H.-M., Monks, A., Mikheev, A., Rubinstein, L.V., Gray-Goodrich, M., McWilliams, M.J., Alvord, W.G., Oie, H.K., Gazdar, A.F., Paull, K.D., Zarbl, H., Vande Woude, G.F.: Enhanced sensitivity to cytosine arabinoside and topoisomerase II inhibitors in tumor cell lines harboring activated Ras oncogenes, Cancer Research 56:5211-5216, 1996.

Weinstein, J.N., Myers, T,, O’Connor, P.M., Friend, S.H., Fornace, A.J., Kohn, K.W., Fojo, A., Bates, S.E., Rubinstein, L.V., Anderson, N.L., Buolamwini, J.K., van Osdol, W.W., Monks, A.P., Scudiero, D.A., Sausville, E.A., Zaharevitz, D.G., Bunow, B., Viswanadhan, V.N., Johnson, G.S., Wittes, R.E., Paull, K.: An information-intensive approach to the molecular pharmacology of cancer. Science 275:343-349, 1997.

Smith, M.A., Ungerleider, R., Korn, E.L., Rubinstein, L.V., Simon, R.M.: The role of independent data monitoring committees in randomized clinical trials sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, J. of Clinical Oncology, 15:2736-2743, 1997.

Simon, R.M., Freidlin, B., Rubinstein, L.V., Arbuck, S., Collins, J., Christian, M.: Accelerated titration designs for phase I clinical trials in oncology, J. Nat. Cancer Inst., 89:1138-1147, 1997.

Rubinstein, L.V., Ungerleider, R., Cooperative cancer trials, in Armitage, P. and Colton, T. (eds.), Encylopedia of Biostatistics, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 933-941, 1998.

Rubinstein, L.V., Statistical review for medical journals, guidelines for authors, in Armitage, P. and Colton, T. (eds.), Encylopedia of Biostatistics, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 4275-4278, 1998.

Smith, M.A., Rubinstein, L., Anderson, J., Catalano, P.J., Freidlin, B., Heyn, R., Khayat, A., Krailo, M., Land, V., Miser, J., Shuster, J., Vena, D., Second report of the Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) monitoring plan for secondary leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome following treatment with epipodophyllotoxins, Journal of Clinical Oncology, 17(2): 569-77, 1999.

Therasse, P., Arbuck, S.G., Eisenhauer, E.A., Wanders, J., Kaplan, R.S., Rubinstein, L. Verweij, J., van Glabbeke, M., van Oosterom, A., Christian, M.C., Gwyther, S.G., New Guidelines to Evaluate the Response to Treatment in Solid Tumors, J. Nat. Cancer Inst., 92:205-16, 2000.

Rubinstein, L.V., Therapeutic studies, in Allegra, C.J. and Kramer, B.S. (eds.), Understanding Clinical Trials, Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America, W.B. Saunders Co., 14(4):849-876, 2000.

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last updated: May 15, 2003