Jonathan Bush

MD, FRCPC

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Pediatric and Perinatal Pathologist, BC Children's Hospital and BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre

My research interests are diverse but focused. I have a firm interest in bone tumors and a soft spot for soft tissue sarcomas, including understanding the underlying pathophysiology and translational work in the clinical pathology lab setting. I joined the 2019-2021 cohort within the Children’s Oncology Group Young Investigator Program with a focus in the bone tumor group. I also am interested in exploring cell signaling and cell-to-cell communication through conventional molecular and proteomic analysis with fellow investigators. My second area of research interest is in gastrointestinal pathology, particularly eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). Through these EoE projects, I enjoyed expanding my experience in immunology which builds on an interest during my fellowship at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, which explored transplant immunology and the effect on the gastrointestinal tract. I also enjoy expanding my experience in the area of transplant immunology. My last primary area of interest is in developmental pathology, which often stems from identifying common pathologic findings in the interesting cases I encounter at BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital. I have an interest in leadership and administration, which blossomed during my time as Cohort 2 in the BC Patient Safety and Quality Council’s Clinician Quality Academy.

Academic Affiliations

  • Clinical Associate Professor, , Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Research Theme: Childhood Diseases
  • Research Group(s): Childhood Cancer and Blood Research; Immunity in Health and Disease; Origins of Child Health and Disease; Pathways to Healthy Birth; Rare Diseases

Contact Information

Location

4500 Oak St, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6H 3N1

Pathology reporting of hepatoblastoma resections: recommendations from the international collaboration on cancer reporting

Histopathology

Dolores H Lpez-Terrada and Fleur Webster and Rita Alaggio and Jonathan W Bush and Soo-Jin Cho and Ronald R de Krijger and Takeshi Inoue and Allison F O'Neill and Antonio R Perez-Atayde and Sarangarajan Ranganathan and Jens Stahlschmidt and Yukichi Tanaka and Marta Cohen and Miguel Reyes-Mgica

DOI: 10.1111/his.15536

12 / 2025

Recommendations for the diagnosis and management of eosinophilic esophagitis in adults and children in Canada: a Delphi consensus project

Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology

Vishal Avinashi and Milli Gupta and Beth A Payne and Haneen Amhaz and Alisha T Temirova and Waqqas Afif and Dhandapani Ashok and Janice Barkey and David Burnett and Jonathan W Bush and Scott Cameron and Stuart Carr and Dina El Demellawy and Stephanie Erdle and Hien Q Huynh and Jennifer Griffin and Samir C Grover and Kelly Grzywacz and Samira Jeimy and Hin Hin Ko and Gina Lacuesta and Margaret Marcon and Serge Mayrand and Harrison Petropolis and David Rodrigues and Mary Sherlock and Christine Song and Natacha Tardio and Timothy K Vander Leek and Meagan Vurzinger and Brock Williams and Ted Xenodemetroupolous and Christopher Ma and Edmond S Chan

DOI: 10.1093/jcag/gwaf022

12 / 2025

Spatial and multi-omic profiling reveals genes and pathways associated with cytotoxic lymphocyte infiltration in malignant rhabdoid tumor

Marco Marra and Dan Jin and Joshua Dubland and Elizabeth Mullen and James Geller and Jonathan Bush

DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7303174/v1

08 / 2025

Immunohistochemical study of histone protein 3 modification in pediatric osteosarcoma identifies reduced H3K27me3 as a marker of poor treatment response

PLOS ONE

Sebastian Kondratowski and Danielle Cohen and Rebecca J. Deyell and Ash Sandhu and Jonathan W. Bush

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309471

11 / 2024

Characterization of Switch/Sucrose Nonfermenting Complex Proteins and Nestin Expression in a Cohort of Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors.

Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology : AIMM

Wang XQ and Tessier-Cloutier B and Saunders J and Harvey M and Armstrong L and Ng T and Dunham C and Bush JW

DOI: 10.1097/pai.0000000000001122 PubMed: 37036408

04 / 2023

ASAP-Automated Sonication-Free Acid-Assisted Proteomes-from Cells and FFPE Tissues.

Analytical chemistry

Barnabas GD and Verena Goebeler and Tsui J and Bush JW and Philipp F. Lange

DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c04264 PubMed: 36724070

02 / 2023

Multi-omic profiling of the leukemic microenvironment shows bone marrow interstitial fluid is distinct from peripheral blood plasma.

Experimental hematology & oncology

Nierves L and Guo J and Chen S and Tsui J and Uzozie AC and Bush JW and Huan T and Lange PF

DOI: 10.1186/s40164-022-00310-0 PubMed: 36109804

09 / 2022

Application of the Eosinophilic Esophagitis Histology Scoring System Grade Scores in Patients at British Columbia Children's Hospital.

Fetal and pediatric pathology

Cruz J and Michael Irvine and Vishal Avinashi and Edmond Chan and Vallance BA and Lianne Soller and Bruce Vallance

DOI: 10.1080/15513815.2022.2028950 PubMed: 35094661

01 / 2022

Quantifying Proximal Collecting Tubule Deficiency in Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor and Angiotensin II Receptor Blocker Fetopathy

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Jessica Saunders and Allison Marie Callejas Salgado and Joseph Y Ting and Cherry Mammen and Jefferson Terry and Jonathan W Bush

DOI: 10.1177/10935266211018922

09 / 2021

SMARCA4 -deficient rhabdoid tumours show intermediate molecular features between SMARCB1 -deficient rhabdoid tumours and small cell carcinomas of the ovary, hypercalcaemic type

The Journal of Pathology

Mamy Andrianteranagna and Joanna Cyrta and Julien Masliah-Planchon and Karolina Nemes and Alice Corsia and Amaury Leruste and Drthe Holdhof and Uwe Kordes and Daniel Orbach and Nadge Corradini and Natacha Entz-Werle and Galle Pierron and Marie-Pierre Castex and Anne Brouchet and Nolle Weingertner and Dominique Ranchre and Paul Frneaux and Olivier Delattre and Jonathan Bush and Alexandra Leary and Michael C. Frhwald and Ulrich Schller and Nicolas Servant and Franck Bourdeaut

DOI: 10.1002/path.5705

05 / 2021

Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors (ATRTs) with SMARCA4 mutation are molecularly distinct from SMARCB1-deficient cases

Acta Neuropathologica

Drthe Holdhof and Pascal D. Johann and Michael Spohn and Michael Bockmayr and Sepehr Safaei and Piyush Joshi and Julien Masliah-Planchon and Ben Ho and Mamy Andrianteranagna and Franck Bourdeaut and Annie Huang and Marcel Kool and Santhosh A. Upadhyaya and Anne E. Bendel and Daniela Indenbirken and William D. Foulkes and Jonathan W. Bush and David Creytens and Uwe Kordes and Michael C. Frhwald and Martin Hasselblatt and Ulrich Schller

DOI: 10.1007/s00401-020-02250-7

Poor Correlation of Oral Swabs with Esophageal Eosinophil Counts.

Dysphagia

Avinashi V and Chan JM and Bush JW and Vallance BA and Yang H and Portales-Casamar E and Soller L and Mill C and Chan ES

DOI: 10.1007/s00455-019-10082-1 PubMed: 31773332

11 / 2019

Spindle Epithelial Tumor with Thymus-Like Differentiation (SETTLE): A Case Report

Fetal and Pediatric Pathology

Cyrus L Matheson and Geoffrey K Blair and Jonathan Bush

DOI: 10.1080/15513815.2019.1600625

09 / 2019

Novel Exonic Deletions in TTC7A in a Newborn with Multiple Intestinal Atresia and Combined Immunodeficiency

Journal of Clinical Immunology

Jessica R. Saunders and Anna Lehman and Stuart E. Turvey and Jie Pan and Evica Rajcan-Separovic and Aleixo M. Muise and Jonathan W. Bush

DOI: 10.1007/s10875-019-00669-6

08 / 2019

Systematic testing and specificity mapping of alloantigen-specific chimeric antigen receptors in regulatory T cells.

JCI insight

Nicholas Dawson and Caroline Lamarche and Hoeppli RE and Bergqvist P and Fung VC and McIver E and Huang Q and Gillies J and Speck M and Orban PC and Jonathan Bush and Mojibian M and Megan K. Levings

DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.123672 PubMed: 30753169

03 / 2019

Pediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis Is Associated With Increased Lamina Propria Immunoglobulin G4-Positive Plasma Cells.

Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition

Mohammad N and Vishal Avinashi and Chan E and Bruce Vallance and Elodie Portales-Casamar and Jonathan Bush

DOI: 10.1097/mpg.0000000000001949 PubMed: 29509633

08 / 2018

Pediatric Pathology Fellowship Recruitment"Report of a Survey Conducted by the Fellowship Committee of the Society for Pediatric Pathology

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Singh, V. and Eldin, K. and Timmons, C. and Bush, J. and Rabah, R.

DOI: 10.1177/1093526617722905

Eosinophilic density in graft biopsies positive for rejection and blood eosinophil count can predict development of post-transplant digestive tract eosinophilia

Pediatric Transplantation

Bush, J.W. and Mohammad, S. and Melin-Aldana, H. and Kagalwalla, A.F. and Arva, N.C.

DOI: 10.1111/petr.12693

Treatment of neuroblastoma in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome with a PHOX2B polyalanine repeat expansion mutation: New twist on a neurocristopathy syndrome

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Armstrong, A.E. and Weese-Mayer, D.E. and Mian, A. and Maris, J.M. and Batra, V. and Gosiengfiao, Y. and Reichek, J. and Madonna, M.B. and Bush, J.W. and Shore, R.M. and Walterhouse, D.O.

DOI: 10.1002/pbc.25572

Combined robotic and open approach to excision of accessory bladder and urethral triplication

Journal of Pediatric Urology

Bowen, D.K. and Glaser, A.P. and Bush, J.W. and Cheng, E.Y. and Gong, E.M.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpurol.2014.11.009

Deconstructing the diagnosis of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis using illustrative cases

Journal of Hematopathology

Weinstein, J.L. and Badawy, S.M. and Bush, J.W. and Schafernak, K.T.

DOI: 10.1007/s12308-015-0254-3

Intracranial atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor presenting as an axillary mass: A case report and review of literature

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Bush, J.W. and Hancock, B.J. and Israels, S.J. and Ellison, D.W. and Stefanovici, C. and Krawitz, S.

DOI: 10.2350/14-01-1427-CR.1

Outcomes of persons with blastomycosis involving the central nervous system

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Bush, J.W. and Wuerz, T. and Embil, J.M. and Del Bigio, M.R. and McDonald, P.J. and Krawitz, S.

DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.03.002

Sarcoma including the role of SWI/SNF proteins

Rhabdoid tumors are a group of primitive cancers that are often highly aggressive and are generally defined by a mutation in the SWI/SNF pathway, including the genes SMARCB1 (INI1) and SMARCA4 (BRG1). The Bush lab was one of the first groups to explore the use of BRG1 IHC to identify a subset of RTs that were INI1-retained. Further work is ongoing looking at the immune microenvironment of RTs as these are generally considered to have low tumor mutational burden and thus are immune-cold tumors, yet there appears to be heterogenous areas of tumor cell infiltration. Utilizing spatial genomics and proteomics, we hope to better understand RT inter and intra-tumoral heterogeneity.

Pediatric Bone Tumors

The Bush lab uses fresh and fixed tumor tissue from the two most common malignant bone tumors, Osteosarcoma (OS) and Ewing Sarcoma (ES), to explore novel antibodies using immunohistochemistry (IHC) for diagnosis and prognosis. This includes developing tissue microarrays (TMAs) to test a number of antibodies across a wide variety of samples. Some work has shown that a particular methylation pattern in the diagnostic biopsies of OS may predict good or bad disease behaviour.

Novel Diagnostic and Precision Methods in Pediatric Tumors

Working with collaborators, the Bush lab is helping to establish a proteomics pipeline that will demonstrate the utility of proteomics in clinical applications. This includes providing diagnostic, prognostic, and in some cases predictive markers that will allow for personalized therapies based on relative over or under-abundance of particular proteins. Promising results have been seen in OS and neuroblastoma to date. In collaboration with researchers at UBC and the NIH, the Bush lab is exploring the use of machine learning (ML) in osteosarcoma. This work will develop a pipeline for assessing tissue quality for the purpose of molecular studies, facilitate histologic classification of OS for clinical trials, and to explore potential prognostic markers as identified by supervised and unsupervised ML. The Bush lab has worked with collaborators in establishing a novel method of developing patient-derived xenografts using a less expensive model than the typical mouse system. Through this chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) modelling system, we have been able to facilitate tumor expansion in both highly aggressive and indolent tumors, and have worked to demonstrate the utility of the CAM system for drug testing.

Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE)

Our group was the first to show that pediatric EoE was associated with increased lamina propria IgG4-positive plasma cells, which is being explored as to whether food-specific IgG4 can be used to evaluate for EoE disease activity. Ongoing work by the Bush lab has included utilizing novel techniques to evaluate EoE slides as well as potential spatial differences between the immune and squamous cell compartments.

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