Pushan Dasgupta, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Email

pushan.dasgupta@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor: Neurology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston

Addresses

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center (Clinic): 1919 Old Spanish Trl
Houston, TX, 77054
United States

Education

AB from Harvard University: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Mind,Brain,Behavior

MD-PhD from MSTP-UTHealth Houston/MD Anderson Cancer Center: Houston, Texas, United States

Graduate Certificate at Cornell University: Ithaca, New York, United States; Executive Healthcare Leadership

Graduate Certificate at Cornell University: Ithaca, United States; Healthcare Change Leadership

Residency at UT Austin Dell Medical School: Austin, Texas, United States; Adult Neurology

Clinical Fellowship at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center: Houston, Texas, United States; Neuro-Oncology

Professional Interests

Primary Brain Tumors
Functional Genomics
Translational Neuro-Oncology
Leptomeningeal disease
Neuro-Oncology
Brain metastasis
Cancer Neurology

Websites

ORCID

VIICTR

Pubmed Bibliography

SCOPUS

CommonSpirit

Selected Publications

Dasgupta P, Lin H, Kumar G, Soomro Z, Ayala MM, Parra ER, Weathers SP, Lang FF, Bhat KP, de Groot J, Majd NK. " Molecular and clinical determinants of response to checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy in glioblastoma " J Neurooncol. 2025 Jun 25;
Pubmed PMID: 40560330.
Dasgupta P, Puduvalli VK. " Diversity of metabolic features and relevance to clinical subtypes of gliomas. Semin Cancer Biol " Semin Cancer Biol. 2025 Jul ; 1 (12) : 126-134.
Pubmed PMID: 40194749.
Dasgupta P, McCutcheon IE, Slopis JM. " A Massive Thoracic Meningocele in a Patient with NF1 " Can J Neurol Sci. 2024 Oct ; 3 (1)
Pubmed PMID: 39358987.
Dasgupta P, Rousseau JF. " Clinical and molecular determinants of bleeding-related adverse outcomes in high-grade glioma " J Neurooncol. 2024 Feb ; 166 (3) : 569-574.
Pubmed PMID: 38286976.
Dasgupta P, Ou A, Lin H, Gregory T, Alfaro-Munoz KD, Yuan Y, Afshar-Khargan V, Kamiya-Matsuoka C, Rousseau JF, Majd NK. " The risk and burden of thromboembolic and hemorrhagic events in patients with malignant gliomas receiving bevacizumab " J Neurooncol. 2024 Feb 19; 167 (1) : 181-188.
Pubmed PMID: 38372903.
Gubbiotti MA, Weinberg JS, Weathers SP, Dasgupta P, Tom MC, Aldape K, Quezado M, Abdullaev Z, Huse JT, Ballester LY.. " An incidental finding of a high-grade glioma with pleomorphic and pseudopapillary features (HPAP) with PBRM1 mutation. " J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2024 Jan 19; 83 (2) : 139-141.
Pubmed PMID: 38164987.
Dasgupta P, Taegtmeyer H. " A Complement to the H-Index: A Metric Based on Primary Authorship " Am J Med.. 2023 Dec ; 136 (12) : 1139-1140.
Pubmed PMID: 37748744.
Dasgupta P, Balasubramanyian V, de Groot JF, Majd NK. " Preclinical Models of Low-Grade Gliomas. Cancers " Cancers (Basel). 2023 Jan 18; 15 (3)
Pubmed PMID: 36765553.
Puca F, Yu F, Bartolacci C, Pettazzoni P, Carugo A, Huang-Hobbs E, Liu J, Zanca C, Carbone F, Del Poggetto E, Gumin J, Dasgupta P, ......., Draetta GF. " Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Protects Mitochondria from Lipid Peroxidation in Glioblastoma " Cancer Discov. 2021 Nov ; 11 (11) : 2904-2923.
Pubmed PMID: 34039636.
Majd NK, Dasgupta PR, de Groot JF. " Immunotherapy for Neuro-oncology " Adv Exp Med Biol. 2021 ; 1342 : 233-258.
Pubmed PMID: 34972967.
Majd N, Dasgupta P, de Groot J. " Immunotherapy for Neuro-Oncology " Adv Exp Med Biol. 2020 ; 1244 : 183-203.
Pubmed PMID: 32301015.
Taegtmeyer H, Dasgupta P. " Chronos and Kairos in Lockstep: Thoughts on the Enduring Productivity of Cardiovascular Investigators " Circulation. 2019 Nov 19; 140 (21) : 1687-1689.
Pubmed PMID: 31738595.
Eric A Goethe, Rasha Alfattal, Subhiksha Srinivasan, Pushan Dasgupta, Vinay Puduvalli, Shiao-Pei Weathers, Leomar Y Ballester , Jeffrey S Weinberg , Sujit Prabhu, Sherise D Ferguson , Maria A Gubbiotti. " High-grade glioma with pleomorphic and pseudopapillary features: a single-institution series of three cases " Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2025 Aug 18; 13 (1) : 176.
Pubmed PMID: 40826136.
Pushan Dasgupta, Samir A. Dagher, Xiaohan Chi, Zaid Soomro, Surya Bhat, Erick Campbell, Max Wintermark, Vinay K. Puduvalli, Ruitao Lin, Melissa M. Chen, Nazanin K. Majd. " Genomic determinants of the diffusely infiltrative gliomatosis cerebri phenotype " J Neurooncol. 2025 Oct 16; 176 (19)
Pubmed PMID: 41099968.