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Overview

Amar Gajjar is affiliated with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of medicine, with a particular emphasis on genetics, neurology, molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and oncology.

The scientist's work extensively covers several main topics within medical research, including:

  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments
  • Brain Metastases and Treatment
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations

Amar Gajjar has contributed to numerous publications appearing regularly in key scientific venues. Their most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Neuro-Oncology
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Pediatric Blood & Cancer
  • Neuro-Oncology Advances
  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics

They have collaborated with several co-authors on various research projects, including:

  • Giles Robinson
  • Paul A. Northcott
  • Arzu Onar-Thomas
  • Brent A. Orr
  • Thomas E. Merchant

Some recent papers authored by Amar Gajjar include:

  • Outcomes by Clinical and Molecular Features in Children With Medulloblastoma Treated With Risk-Adapted Therapy: Results of an International Phase III Trial (SJMB03), 2021, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Efficacy of High-Dose Chemotherapy and Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiation for Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group Trial ACNS0333, 2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Children's Oncology Group Phase III Trial of Reduced-Dose and Reduced-Volume Radiotherapy With Chemotherapy for Newly Diagnosed Average-Risk Medulloblastoma, 2021, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Germline Elongator mutations in Sonic Hedgehog medulloblastoma, 2020, Nature
  • Serial assessment of measurable residual disease in medulloblastoma liquid biopsies, 2021, Cancer Cell

Best Publications

  • DNA methylation-based classification of central nervous system tumours

    David Capper;David Capper;David Capper;David T. W. Jones;Martin Sill;Volker Hovestadt

  • A Perivascular Niche for Brain Tumor Stem Cells

    Christopher Calabrese;Helen Poppleton;Mehmet Kocak;Twala L. Hogg

  • Molecular Subgroups of Medulloblastoma: The Current Consensus

    Michael D. Taylor;Paul A. Northcott;Andrey Korshunov;Marc Remke;Marc Remke

  • Somatic histone H3 alterations in pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas and non-brainstem glioblastomas

    Gang Wu;Alberto Broniscer;Troy A McEachron;Charles Lu

  • Germline Mutations in Predisposition Genes in Pediatric Cancer

    Jinghui Zhang;Michael F. Walsh;Gang Wu;Michael N. Edmonson

  • Risk-adapted craniospinal radiotherapy followed by high-dose chemotherapy and stem-cell rescue in children with newly diagnosed medulloblastoma (St Jude Medulloblastoma-96): long-term results from a prospective, multicentre trial

    Amar Gajjar;Murali Chintagumpala;David Ashley;Stewart Kellie

  • The genomic landscape of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma and pediatric non-brainstem high-grade glioma

    Gang Wu;Alexander K Diaz;Alexander K Diaz;Barbara S Paugh;Sherri L Rankin

  • Phase III study of craniospinal radiation therapy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy for newly diagnosed average-risk medulloblastoma.

    Roger J. Packer;Amar Gajjar;Gilbert Vezina;Lucy Rorke-Adams

  • Late neurocognitive sequelae in survivors of brain tumours in childhood.

    Raymond K Mulhern;Thomas E Merchant;Amar Gajjar;Wilburn E Reddick

  • The whole-genome landscape of medulloblastoma subtypes

    Paul A. Northcott;Paul A. Northcott;Ivo Buchhalter;Ivo Buchhalter;A. Sorana Morrissy;Volker Hovestadt

  • New Brain Tumor Entities Emerge from Molecular Classification of CNS-PNETs

    Dominik Sturm;Dominik Sturm;Brent A. Orr;Umut H. Toprak;Volker Hovestadt

  • Radial glia cells are candidate stem cells of ependymoma

    Michael D. Taylor;Helen Poppleton;Christine Fuller;Xiaoping Su

  • Subtypes of medulloblastoma have distinct developmental origins

    Paul Gibson;Yiai Tong;Giles Robinson;Margaret C. Thompson

  • Novel mutations target distinct subgroups of medulloblastoma

    Giles Robinson;Matthew Parker;Tanya A. Kranenburg;Charles Lu;Charles Lu

  • Genomics Identifies Medulloblastoma Subgroups That Are Enriched for Specific Genetic Alterations

    Margaret C. Thompson;Christine Fuller;Twala L. Hogg;James Dalton

  • Integrative genomic analysis of medulloblastoma identifies a molecular subgroup that drives poor clinical outcome.

    Yoon Jae Cho;Aviad Tsherniak;Pablo Tamayo;Sandro Santagata

  • Whole-genome sequencing identifies genetic alterations in pediatric low-grade gliomas

    Jinghui Zhang;Gang Wu;Claudia P. Miller;Ruth G. Tatevossian

  • Challenges to curing primary brain tumours

    Kenneth Aldape;Kevin M Brindle;Louis Chesler;Rajesh Chopra

  • Integrated Molecular Genetic Profiling of Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas Reveals Key Differences With the Adult Disease

    Barbara S. Paugh;Chunxu Qu;Chris Jones;Zhaoli Liu

  • Enhancer hijacking activates GFI1 family oncogenes in medulloblastoma

    Paul A. Northcott;Catherine Lee;Catherine Lee;Thomas Zichner;Adrian M. Stütz

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas E. Merchant
Thomas E. Merchant St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Clinton F. Stewart
Clinton F. Stewart St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Stefan M. Pfister
Stefan M. Pfister German Cancer Research Center
Larry E. Kun
Larry E. Kun St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
David W. Ellison
David W. Ellison St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Richard J. Gilbertson
Richard J. Gilbertson University of Cambridge
Paul A. Northcott
Paul A. Northcott St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Roger J. Packer
Roger J. Packer Children’s National Health System
Eric Bouffet
Eric Bouffet University of Toronto
Marcel Kool
Marcel Kool German Cancer Research Center

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