2026 Åke Borg: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	131	2349	2186	42	39	516	88745

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Åke Borg is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and has a significant body of research in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research spans topics related to cancer genomics, diagnostics, and treatment, with a particular focus on breast cancer and genetic factors influencing cancer development and progression.

The main fields of study for Åke Borg include biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology with 101 publications, and medicine with 63 publications. Subfields of study prominently include cancer research, molecular biology, genetics, oncology, and pathology and forensic medicine. Their work centers on various topics such as cancer genomics and diagnostics, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, breast cancer treatment studies, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, HER2/EGFR in cancer research, advanced breast cancer therapies, and single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Johan Vallon-Christersson, Anna Ehinger, Lao H. Saal, Martin Malmberg, and Lisa Rydén. These coauthors have contributed to numerous studies alongside Åke Borg, indicating an active and collaborative research environment.

Åke Borg has published extensively in several scientific venues. These include Cancer Research with seven publications, Nature Communications with five, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with four, Journal of Clinical Oncology with four, and Redox Biology with three publications.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Åke Borg are:

Integrating spatial gene expression and breast tumour morphology via deep learning, 2020, Nature Biomedical Engineering
Spatial deconvolution of HER2-positive breast cancer delineates tumor-associated cell type interactions, 2021, Nature Communications
Ovarian and Breast Cancer Risks Associated With Pathogenic Variants in RAD51C and RAD51D, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Comprehensive molecular comparison of BRCA1 hypermethylated and BRCA1 mutated triple negative breast cancers, 2020, Nature Communications
RNA sequencing-based single sample predictors of molecular subtype and risk of recurrence for clinical assessment of early-stage breast cancer, 2022, npj Breast Cancer

Best Publications

Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer

Ludmil B. Alexandrov;Serena Nik-Zainal;Serena Nik-Zainal;David C. Wedge;Samuel A. J. R. Aparicio

10789
Citations
Average risks of breast and ovarian cancer associated with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations detected in case series unselected for family history: a combined analysis of 22 studies

A. Antoniou;P.D.P. Pharoah;S. Narod;H.A. Risch

4611
Citations
Genetic Heterogeneity and Penetrance Analysis of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes in Breast Cancer Families

D Ford;D F Easton;M Stratton;S Narod

3894
Citations
Visualization and analysis of gene expression in tissue sections by spatial transcriptomics

Patrik L. Ståhl;Patrik L. Ståhl;Fredrik Salmen;Sanja Vickovic;Anna Lundmark;Anna Lundmark

3570
Citations
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

3090
Citations
International network of cancer genome projects

Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

2242
Citations
Landscape of somatic mutations in 560 breast cancer whole-genome sequences

Serena Nik-Zainal;Serena Nik-Zainal;Helen Davies;Johan Staaf;Manasa Ramakrishna

2186
Citations
Gene-Expression Profiles in Hereditary Breast Cancer

I Hedenfalk;D Duggan;Y Chen;M Radmacher

2131
Citations
Mutational Processes Molding the Genomes of 21 Breast Cancers

Serena Nik-Zainal;Ludmil B. Alexandrov;David C. Wedge;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo

2052
Citations
The Life History of 21 Breast Cancers

Serena Nik-Zainal;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo;David C. Wedge;Ludmil B. Alexandrov

1572
Citations
PIK3CA Mutations Correlate with Hormone Receptors, Node Metastasis, and ERBB2, and Are Mutually Exclusive with PTEN Loss in Human Breast Carcinoma

Lao H. Saal;Karolina Holm;Matthew Maurer;Lorenzo Memeo

1080
Citations
HRDetect is a predictor of BRCA1 and BRCA2 deficiency based on mutational signatures

Helen Davies;Dominik D. Glodzik;Sandro S. Morganella;Lucy R. Yates

941
Citations
Estrogen Receptor Status in Breast Cancer Is Associated with Remarkably Distinct Gene Expression Patterns

Sofia Gruvberger;Markus Ringnér;Yidong Chen;Sujatha Panavally

918
Citations
High-definition spatial transcriptomics for in situ tissue profiling.

Sanja Vickovic;Sanja Vickovic;Gökcen Eraslan;Fredrik Salmén;Johanna Klughammer

887
Citations
Recruitment of HIF-1alpha and HIF-2alpha to common target genes is differentially regulated in neuroblastoma: HIF-2alpha promotes an aggressive phenotype.

Linda Holmquist-Mengelbier;Erik Fredlund;Tobias Löfstedt;Rosa Noguera

874
Citations
Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

783
Citations
Association Between BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations and Survival in Women with Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

Kelly L. Bolton;Kelly L. Bolton;Georgia Chenevix-Trench;Cindy Goh;Siegal Sadetzki

700
Citations
The CD44+/CD24- phenotype is enriched in basal-like breast tumors

Gabriella Honeth;Pär-Ola Bendahl;Markus Ringnér;Lao H Saal;Lao H Saal

693
Citations
HER-2/neu amplification predicts poor survival in node-positive breast cancer.

Åke Borg;Atul K. Tandon;Helgi Sigurdsson;Gary M. Clark

655
Citations
Poor prognosis in carcinoma is associated with a gene expression signature of aberrant PTEN tumor suppressor pathway activity

Lao H. Saal;Peter Johansson;Karolina Holm;Sofia K. Gruvberger-Saal

644
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Håkan Olsson Lund University

Johan Staaf Lund University

Göran Jönsson Lund University

Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet Institute Curie

Heli Nevanlinna University of Helsinki

Markus Ringnér Lund University

Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto

Melissa C. Southey Monash University

Paolo Radice Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori

Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge

External Links

Personal website of Åke Borg

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