Elizabeth Crouch, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics

Elizabeth "Betsy" Crouch, MD, PhD is a neonatologist, neuroscientist, and vascular biologist who studies neurovascular development. The lab employs single cell omics, flow cytometry, and organoid models to study human brain blood vessel cells during development.

Publications: 

Perivascular NOTCH3+ stem cells drive meningioma tumorigenesis and resistance to radiotherapy.

Cancer discovery

Choudhury A, Cady MA, Lucas CG, Najem H, Phillips JJ, Palikuqi B, Zakimi N, Joseph T, Birrueta JO, Chen WC, Oberheim Bush NA, Hervey-Jumper SL, Klein OD, Toedebusch CM, Horbinski CM, Magill ST, Bhaduri A, Perry A, Dickinson PJ, Heimberger AB, Ashworth A, Crouch EE, Raleigh DR

Proinflammatory immune cells disrupt angiogenesis and promote germinal matrix hemorrhage in prenatal human brain.

Nature neuroscience

Chen J, Crouch EE, Zawadzki ME, Jacobs KA, Mayo LN, Choi JJ, Lin PY, Shaikh S, Tsui J, Gonzalez-Granero S, Waller S, Kelekar A, Kang G, Valenzuela EJ, Birrueta JO, Diafos LN, Wedderburn-Pugh K, Di Marco B, Xia W, Han CZ, Coufal NG, Glass CK, Fancy SPJ, Alfonso J, Kriegstein AR, Oldham MC, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Kutys ML, Lehtinen MK, Combes AJ, Huang EJ

Meningeal solitary fibrous tumor cell states phenocopy cerebral vascular development and homeostasis.

Neuro-oncology

Mirchia K, Choudhury A, Joseph T, Birrueta JO, Phillips JJ, Bhaduri A, Crouch EE, Perry A, Raleigh DR

Glioblastoma Neurovascular Progenitor Orchestrates Tumor Cell Type Diversity.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Fazzari E, Azizad DJ, Yu K, Ge W, Li MX, Nano PR, Kan RL, Tum HA, Tse C, Bayley NA, Haka V, Cadet D, Perryman T, Soto JA, Wick B, Raleigh DR, Crouch EE, Patel KS, Liau LM, Deneen B, Nathanson DA, Bhaduri A

Should neonatal-perinatal medicine move to two-year fellowships?

Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association

Shah S, Myers P, Enciso JM, Davis AS, Crouch EE, Scheurer AM, Song C, Lakshminrusimha S

A Vascular-Centric Approach to Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Neuroscience insights

Ouellette J, Crouch EE, Morel JL, Coelho-Santos V, Lacoste B

Profiling human brain vascular cells using single-cell transcriptomics and organoids.

Nature protocols

Crouch EE, Diafos LN, Valenzuela EJ, Wedderburn-Pugh K, Birrueta JO, Caston J, Joseph T, Andrews MG, Bhaduri A, Huang EJ

Parents' Views on Autopsy, Organ Donation, and Research Donation After Neonatal Death.

JAMA network open

Crouch EE, Damas C, Bartrug WC, Shamiyeh A, Scelfo M, Dreyfus M, Gano D, Segal S, Franck LS

LIF signaling regulates outer radial glial to interneuron fate during human cortical development.

Cell stem cell

Andrews MG, Siebert C, Wang L, White ML, Ross J, Morales R, Donnay M, Bamfonga G, Mukhtar T, McKinney AA, Gemenes K, Wang S, Bi Q, Crouch EE, Parikshak N, Panagiotakos G, Huang E, Bhaduri A, Kriegstein AR

Meningeal solitary fibrous tumor cell states phenocopy cerebral vascular development and homeostasis.

Research square

Raleigh D, Mirchia K, Choudhury A, Joseph T, Birrueta J, Phillips J, Bhaduri A, Crouch E, Perry A

NOTCH3 drives meningioma tumorigenesis and resistance to radiotherapy.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Choudhury A, Cady MA, Lucas CG, Najem H, Phillips JJ, Palikuqi B, Zakimi N, Joseph T, Birrueta JO, Chen WC, Bush NAO, Hervey-Jumper SL, Klein OD, Toedebusch CM, Horbinski CM, Magill ST, Bhaduri A, Perry A, Dickinson PJ, Heimberger AB, Ashworth A, Crouch EE, Raleigh DR

Ensembles of endothelial and mural cells promote angiogenesis in prenatal human brain.

Cell

Crouch EE, Bhaduri A, Andrews MG, Cebrian-Silla A, Diafos LN, Birrueta JO, Wedderburn-Pugh K, Valenzuela EJ, Bennett NK, Eze UC, Sandoval-Espinosa C, Chen J, Mora C, Ross JM, Howard CE, Gonzalez-Granero S, Lozano JF, Vento M, Haeussler M, Paredes MF, Nakamura K, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Alvarez-Buylla A, Kriegstein AR, Huang EJ

Developmental dynamics of RNA translation in the human brain.

Nature neuroscience

Duffy EE, Finander B, Choi G, Carter AC, Pritisanac I, Alam A, Luria V, Karger A, Phu W, Sherman MA, Assad EG, Pajarillo N, Khitun A, Crouch EE, Ganesh S, Chen J, Berger B, Sestan N, O'Donnell-Luria A, Huang EJ, Griffith EC, Forman-Kay JD, Moses AM, Kalish BT, Greenberg ME

Tropism of SARS-CoV-2 for human cortical astrocytes.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Andrews MG, Mukhtar T, Eze UC, Simoneau CR, Ross J, Parikshak N, Wang S, Zhou L, Koontz M, Velmeshev D, Siebert CV, Gemenes KM, Tabata T, Perez Y, Wang L, Mostajo-Radji MA, de Majo M, Donohue KC, Shin D, Salma J, Pollen AA, Nowakowski TJ, Ullian E, Kumar GR, Winkler EA, Crouch EE, Ott M, Kriegstein AR

Individual human cortical progenitors can produce excitatory and inhibitory neurons.

Nature

Delgado RN, Allen DE, Keefe MG, Mancia Leon WR, Ziffra RS, Crouch EE, Alvarez-Buylla A, Nowakowski TJ

The Expanding Cell Diversity of the Brain Vasculature.

Frontiers in physiology

Ross JM, Kim C, Allen D, Crouch EE, Narsinh K, Cooke DL, Abla AA, Nowakowski TJ, Winkler EA

Reciprocal Interaction between Vascular Filopodia and Neural Stem Cells Shapes Neurogenesis in the Ventral Telencephalon.

Cell reports

Di Marco B, Crouch EE, Shah B, Duman C, Paredes MF, Ruiz de Almodovar C, Huang EJ, Alfonso J

Outer Radial Glia-like Cancer Stem Cells Contribute to Heterogeneity of Glioblastoma.

Cell stem cell

Bhaduri A, Di Lullo E, Jung D, M?ller S, Crouch EE, Espinosa CS, Ozawa T, Alvarado B, Spatazza J, Cadwell CR, Wilkins G, Velmeshev D, Liu SJ, Malatesta M, Andrews MG, Mostajo-Radji MA, Huang EJ, Nowakowski TJ, Lim DA, Diaz A, Raleigh DR, Kriegstein AR

Prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among US children.

Child abuse & neglect

Crouch E, Probst JC, Radcliff E, Bennett KJ, McKinney SH

Regional and stage-specific effects of prospectively purified vascular cells on the adult V-SVZ neural stem cell lineage.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Crouch EE, Liu C, Silva-Vargas V, Doetsch F

Novel association of early onset hepatocellular carcinoma with transaldolase deficiency.

JIMD reports

Leduc CA, Crouch EE, Wilson A, Lefkowitch J, Wamelink MM, Jakobs C, Salomons GS, Sun X, Shen Y, Chung WK

Adult neural stem cells and their niche: a dynamic duo during homeostasis, regeneration, and aging.

Current opinion in neurobiology

Silva-Vargas V, Crouch EE, Doetsch F

The ATM repair pathway inhibits RNA polymerase I transcription in response to chromosome breaks.

Nature

Kruhlak M, Crouch EE, Orlov M, Montaño C, Gorski SA, Nussenzweig A, Misteli T, Phair RD, Casellas R

Regulation of AID expression in the immune response.

The Journal of experimental medicine

Crouch EE, Li Z, Takizawa M, Fichtner-Feigl S, Gourzi P, Montaño C, Feigenbaum L, Wilson P, Janz S, Papavasiliou FN, Casellas R

Interactions of recombinant human pulmonary surfactant protein D and SP-D multimers with influenza A.

The American journal of physiology

Hartshorn K, Chang D, Rust K, White M, Heuser J, Crouch E