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Pathology

Houston, Texas

Department of Pathology
Pathology
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Faculty

Rile Li, M.D. Assistant Professor

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Education

  • M.D.

Area of Interest

  • Prostate cancer research

Current Position

  • Assistant Professor

Membership on professional organizations

  • USCAP

Representative Publications

  1. Dai H, Li R, Wheeler T, Ozen M, Ittmann M, Anderson M, Wang Y, Rowley D, Younes M, Ayala GE. Enhanced survival in perineural invasion of pancreatic cancer: an in vitro approach. Hum Pathol. 2006 Nov 9
  2. Khor LY, Desilvio M, Li R, McDonnell TJ, Hammond ME, Sause WT, Pilepich MV, Okunieff P, Sandler HM, Pollack A. Bcl-2 and bax expression and prostate cancer outcome in men treated with radiotherapy in radiation therapy oncology group protocol86-10. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2006 Sep 1;66(1):25-30
  3. Ayala GE, Dai H, Tahir SA, Li R, Timme T, Ittmann M, Frolov A, Wheeler TM, Rowley D, Thompson TC. Stromal antiapoptotic paracrine loop in perineural invasion of prostatic carcinoma. Cancer Res. 2006 May 15;66(10):5159-64
  4. Lee EC, Frolov A, Li R, Ayala G, Greenberg NM. Targeting Aurora kinases for the treatment of prostate cancer. Cancer Res. 2006 May 15;66(10):4996-5002
  5. Rile Li, Thomas Wheeler, Hong Dai, Anna Frolov, Mohammad Sayeeduddin, Gustavo Ayala: Biological correlates of p27 compartmental expression in prostate cancer. Journal of Urology, 2006 Feb;175(2):528-32
  6. Ayala G, Satoh T, Li R, Shalev M, Gdor Y, Aguilar-Cordova E, Frolov A, Wheeler TM, Miles BJ, Rauen K, Teh BS, Butler EB, Thompson TC, Kadmon D. Biological Response Determinants in HSV-tk + Ganciclovir Gene Therapy for Prostate Cancer. Mol Ther. 2006 Apr;13(4):716-28
  7. Ayala GE, Dai H, Li R, Ittmann M, Thompson TC, Rowley D, Wheeler TM. Bystin in perineural invasion of prostate cancer. Prostate. 2006 Feb 15;66(3):266-72
  8. Hong Dai, Thomas Wheeler, Rile Li, Andrea Diaz de Vivar, Anna Frolov, Gustavo Ayala. Pim-2 Upregulation: Biological Implications Associated with Perineural Invasion and Disease Progression in Prostate Cancer. The Prostate,2005, 65(3):276-86
  9. Haqq C, Li R, Khodabakhsh D, Frolov A, Ginzinger D, Thompson T, Wheeler T, Carroll P, Ayala G. Ethnic and racial differences in prostate stromal estrogen receptor alpha. The prostate, 2005 Oct 1;65(2):101-9
  10. Michael Powell, Rile Li, Hong Dai, Mohammad Sayeeduddin, Thomas Wheeler, Gustova Ayala: Neuroanatomy of the normal prostate. Prostate. 2005 Sep 15;65(1):52-7
  11. Rile Li, Thomas Wheeler, Hong Dai, Anna Frolov, Timothy Thompson, and Gustavo Ayala. Androgen receptor status is associated with disease progression and predicts disease-free survival in prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy. American Journal of Surgical Pathology 2004, 28(7):928-934
  12. Rile Li, Kateri Heydon, M. Elizabeth H. Hammond, David Grignon, Mack Roach III, Christopher U. Jones, Howard M. Sandler, William U. Shipley, and Alan Pollack. Ki-67 Labeling Index Predicts Distant Metastasis and Survival in Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer Treated With Radiotherapy: An Analysis Of Patients In RTOG Protocol 8610. Clinical Cancer Research, 2004, 10:4118-4124
  13. Rile Li, Mamoun Younes, Thomas Wheeler, Peter Scardino, Makato Ohori, Anna Frolov, and Gustavo Ayala. Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3 (VEGFR-3) in human prostate. The Prostate 2004, 58(2):193-199
  14. Gustavo Ayala, Timothy Thompson, Guang Yang, Thomas Wheeler, Anna Frolov, Rile Li, Peter Scardino, Mokato Ohori, Thomas Wheeler,Wade Harper. High Levels of Phosphorylated Form Of AKT-1 In Prostate Cancer And Non-Neoplastic Prostate Tissues Are Strong Predictors Of Biochemical Recurrrence. Clinical Cancer Research, 2004, 10(19):6572-8
  15. A Pollack, M DeSilvio, L-Y Khor, Rile Li, TI Al-Saleem, ME Hammond, V. Venketesan, R. Byhardt, M. Roach III, WU Shipley and HM Sandler. Ki-67 Staining Is A Strong Predictor of Patient Outcome For Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Androgen Deprivation Plus Radiotherapy: An Analysis Of RTOG 92-02. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2004; 22(11):2133-2140