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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2008 - Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research, National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR)
  • 1996 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1994 - Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award
  • 1993 - Charles S. Mott Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Carlo M. Croce is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans broadly within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a total of 179 publications in these fields. Medicine constitutes another significant domain, with 52 publications.

The scientist's work focuses on multiple subfields, particularly molecular biology with 106 works, cancer research with 68 publications, oncology contributing 21 papers, immunology with 14 studies, and genetics with 8 contributions.

Research topics covered extensively by Carlo M. Croce include:

  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Circular RNAs in diseases
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • RNA research and splicing
  • RNA regulation and disease

Frequent publication venues for Carlo M. Croce's research are as follows:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cancer Research
  • Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancers

Among recent papers are:

  • "MicroRNA: trends in clinical trials of cancer diagnosis and therapy strategies," 2023, Experimental & Molecular Medicine
  • "Tumour predisposition and cancer syndromes as models to study gene-environment interactions," 2020, Nature reviews. Cancer
  • "miR-196b-5p-mediated downregulation of TSPAN12 and GATA6 promotes tumor progression in non-small cell lung cancer," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Therapeutic advances of targeting receptor tyrosine kinases in cancer," 2024, Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
  • "The MicroRNA Family Gets Wider: The IsomiRs Classification and Role," 2021, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Carlo M. Croce collaborates frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Giovanni Nigita
  • Rosario Distefano
  • Luisa Tomasello
  • Pierluigi Gasparini
  • Mario Acunzo

The scientist's recognitions include:

  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2013)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2011)
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (2011)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)
  • Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research, National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) (2008)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1996)
  • Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award (1994)
  • Charles S. Mott Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation (1993)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Best Publications

  • MicroRNA signatures in human cancers

    George A. Calin;Carlo M. Croce

  • A microRNA expression signature of human solid tumors defines cancer gene targets

    Stefano Volinia;George A. Calin;Chang Gong Liu;Stefan Ambs

  • Frequent deletions and down-regulation of micro- RNA genes miR15 and miR16 at 13q14 in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

    George Adrian Calin;Calin Dan Dumitru;Masayoshi Shimizu;Roberta Bichi

  • Human microRNA genes are frequently located at fragile sites and genomic regions involved in cancers

    George Adrian Calin;Cinzia Sevignani;Calin Dan Dumitru;Terry Hyslop

  • MicroRNA gene expression deregulation in human breast cancer.

    Marilena V. Iorio;Manuela Ferracin;Chang Gong Liu;Angelo Veronese

  • miR-15 and miR-16 induce apoptosis by targeting BCL2.

    Amelia Cimmino;George Adrian Calin;Muller Fabbri;Marilena V. Iorio

  • Unique microRNA molecular profiles in lung cancer diagnosis and prognosis

    Nozomu Yanaihara;Natasha Caplen;Elise Bowman;Masahiro Seike

  • Causes and consequences of microRNA dysregulation in cancer

    Carlo M. Croce

  • A MicroRNA Signature Associated with Prognosis and Progression in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

    George Adrian Calin;Manuela Ferracin;Manuela Ferracin;Amelia Cimmino;Gianpiero Di Leva

  • Involvement of the bcl-2 gene in human follicular lymphoma

    Yoshihide Tsujimoto;Jeffrey Cossman;Elaine Jaffe;Carlo M. Croce;Carlo M. Croce

  • Cloning of the chromosome breakpoint of neoplastic B cells with the t(14;18) chromosome translocation

    Yoshihide Tsujimoto;Lawrence R. Finger;Jorge Yunis;Peter C. Nowell

  • Human c-myc onc gene is located on the region of chromosome 8 that is translocated in Burkitt lymphoma cells

    Riccardo dalla-Favera;Marco Bregni;Jan Erikson;David Patterson

  • MicroRNA Signatures in Human Ovarian Cancer

    Carlo M. Croce

  • MicroRNA dysregulation in cancer: diagnostics, monitoring and therapeutics. A comprehensive review

    Marilena V Iorio;Carlo M Croce

  • MicroRNAs in Cancer.

    Ramiro Garzon;George A. Calin;Carlo M. Croce

  • The role of MicroRNAs in human cancer

    Yong Peng;Carlo M Croce

  • MicroRNA-133 controls cardiac hypertrophy

    Alessandra Carè;Daniele Catalucci;Federica Felicetti;Désirée Bonci

  • MicroRNA expression profiles associated with prognosis and therapeutic outcome in colon adenocarcinoma

    Aaron J. Schetter;Suet Yi Leung;Jane J. Sohn;Krista A. Zanetti

  • MicroRNA-29 family reverts aberrant methylation in lung cancer by targeting DNA methyltransferases 3A and 3B.

    Muller Fabbri;Ramiro Garzon;Amelia Cimmino;Amelia Cimmino;Zhongfa Liu

  • Oncogenes and cancer.

    Carlo M. Croce

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano Volinia
Stefano Volinia University of Ferrara
George A. Calin
George A. Calin The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Kay Huebner
Kay Huebner The Ohio State University
Hansjuerg Alder
Hansjuerg Alder The Ohio State University
Massimo Negrini
Massimo Negrini University of Ferrara
Rami I. Aqeilan
Rami I. Aqeilan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thomas J. Kipps
Thomas J. Kipps University of California, San Diego
Matteo Fassan
Matteo Fassan University of Padua
Gerard J. Nuovo
Gerard J. Nuovo The Ohio State University
Alfredo Fusco
Alfredo Fusco University of Naples Federico II

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