Studies of human chordoma samples have suggested activation of the EGFR-PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway (Han et al., 2009; Presneau et al., 2009; Schwab et al., 2009), and treatment of the chordoma cell line U-CH1 with the mTORC1 and PI3K inhibitor induces apoptosis (Schwab et al., 2009). Here, MTOR is linked to chordoma.