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  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1999 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Anton Berns is affiliated with the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans medicine as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions across related subfields such as pulmonary and respiratory medicine, molecular biology, oncology, radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics including advances in oncology and radiotherapy, lung cancer research studies, economic and financial impacts of cancer, cancer genomics and diagnostics, lung cancer treatments and mutations, neuroendocrine tumor research advances, and occupational and environmental lung diseases.

Anton Berns has published extensively in several prominent scientific journals. Frequent venues for publication include Molecular Oncology, Genes & Development, Nature Cancer, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, and Frontiers in Oncology.

Notable recent papers by Anton Berns include:

  • Cells of origin of lung cancers: lessons from mouse studies, 2020, Genes & Development
  • New Approaches to SCLC Therapy: From the Laboratory to the Clinic, 2020, Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • FGFR1 Oncogenic Activation Reveals an Alternative Cell of Origin of SCLC in Rb1/p53 Mice, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Combined deletion of Bap1, Nf2, and Cdkn2ab causes rapid onset of malignant mesothelioma in mice, 2020, The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Preclinical Models of Malignant Mesothelioma, 2020, Frontiers in Oncology

The scientist collaborates frequently with a group of researchers including Michaël Baumann, Ulrik Ringborg, Julio E. Celis, M. V. Heitor, and Bengt Jönsson.

Awards received by Anton Berns include membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2016 and membership of Academia Europaea in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Simplified mammalian DNA isolation procedure.

    Peter W. Laird;Alice Zijderveld;Koert Linders;Michael A. Rudnicki

  • Requirement for a functional Rb-1 gene in murine development

    A. R. Clarke;E. R. Maandag;M. Van Roon;N. M. T. Van Der Lugt

  • Synergistic tumor suppressor activity of BRCA2 and p53 in a conditional mouse model for breast cancer.

    Jonkers J;Meuwissen R;van der Gulden H;Peterse H

  • Identification of cooperating oncogenes in Eμ-myc transgenic mice by provirus tagging

    Maarten van Lohuizen;Sjef Verbeek;Blanca Scheljen;Ellen Wientjens

  • Induction of medulloblastomas in p53-null mutant mice by somatic inactivation of Rb in the external granular layer cells of the cerebellum

    Silvia Marino;Marc Vooijs;Hanneke van der Gulden;Jos Jonkers

  • E2A proteins are required for proper B cell development and initiation of immunoglobulin gene rearrangements

    Gretchen Bain;Els C.Robanus Maandag;David J. Izon;Derk Amsen

  • Inactivation of the mouse Msh2 gene results in mismatch repair deficiency, methylation tolerance, hyperrecombination, and predisposition to cancer

    Niels de Wind;Marleen Dekker;Anton Berns;Miroslav Radman

  • Vaccination with irradiated autologous melanoma cells engineered to secrete human granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating factor generates potent antitumor immunity in patients with metastatic melanoma

    R Soiffer;T Lynch;M Mihm;K Jung

  • High efficiency gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem cells

    Anton Berns;Els Robanus Maandag;Hein te Riele

  • Loss of p16Ink4a confers susceptibility to metastatic melanoma in mice.

    Paul Krimpenfort;Kim C. Quon;Wolter J. Mooi;Ate Loonstra

  • Identification of an invasion-inducing gene, Tiam-1, that encodes a protein with homology to GDP-GTP exchangers for Rho-like proteins

    Gaston G.M. Habets;Ellen H.M. Scholtes;David Zuydgeest;Rob A. van der Kammen

  • Predisposition to lymphomagenesis in pim-1 transgenic mice: Cooperation with c-myc and N-myc in murine leukemia virus-induced tumors

    Maarten van Lohuizen;Sjef Verbeek;Paul Krimpenfort;Jos Domen

  • Growth inhibition and DNA damage induced by Cre recombinase in mammalian cells

    Ate Loonstra;Marc Vooijs;H. Berna Beverloo;Bushra Al Allak

  • Somatic inactivation of E-cadherin and p53 in mice leads to metastatic lobular mammary carcinoma through induction of anoikis resistance and angiogenesis

    Patrick W.B. Derksen;Xiaoling Liu;Francis Saridin;Hanneke van der Gulden

  • Homologous recombinatin in mammalian cells

    Robert M. Kay;Anton Berns;Paul J.A. Krimpenfort;Frank Pieper

  • Highly efficient gene targeting in embryonic stem cells through homologous recombination with isogenic DNA constructs

    H te Riele;E R Maandag;A Berns

  • Induction of small cell lung cancer by somatic inactivation of both Trp53 and Rb1 in a conditional mouse model

    Ralph Meuwissen;Sabine C Linn;R.Ilona Linnoila;John Zevenhoven

  • Cell of Origin of Small Cell Lung Cancer: Inactivation of Trp53 and Rb1 in Distinct Cell Types of Adult Mouse Lung

    Kate D. Sutherland;Natalie Proost;Inge Brouns;Dirk Adriaensen

  • For better or for worse: the role of Pim oncogenes in tumorigenesis.

    Martijn C. Nawijn;Andrej Alendar;Anton Berns

  • Induction of small cell lung cancer by somatic inactivation of both Trp53 and Rb1 in a conditional mouse model

    Ralph Meuwissen;Sabine C. Linn;R. Ilona Linnoila;John Zevenhoven

Frequent Co-Authors

Jos Jonkers
Jos Jonkers Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
Maarten van Lohuizen
Maarten van Lohuizen Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
Lodewyk F. A. Wessels
Lodewyk F. A. Wessels Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
Marc Vooijs
Marc Vooijs Maastricht University
John Allen
John Allen Coventry University
Peter W. Laird
Peter W. Laird Van Andel Institute
David J. Adams
David J. Adams Wellcome Sanger Institute
Hans Bloemendal
Hans Bloemendal Radboud University
Alexander M.M. Eggermont
Alexander M.M. Eggermont Institut Gustave Roussy
Silvia Marino
Silvia Marino Queen Mary University of London

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