2026 Christina Curtis: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	55	2236	2009	1105	979	149	32491

Overview

Christina Curtis is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within biochemistry, genetics, and medicine, with a primary focus on molecular biology, cancer research, oncology, genetics, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
RNA modifications and cancer
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
Cancer Cells and Metastasis

Christina Curtis has contributed extensively to the academic literature. Some of the recent papers include:

"Multi-cancer analysis of clonality and the timing of systemic spread in paired primary tumors and metastases" (2020, Nature Genetics)
"CRISPR screens in cancer spheroids identify 3D growth-specific vulnerabilities" (2020, Nature)
"Single-cell analyses define a continuum of cell state and composition changes in the malignant transformation of polyps to colorectal cancer" (2022, Nature Genetics)
"An expanded universe of cancer targets" (2021, Cell)
"Inter-cellular CRISPR screens reveal regulators of cancer cell phagocytosis" (2021, Nature)

The scientist frequently publishes in several high-profile venues and journals, including:

Cancer Research
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature
Nature Genetics
Nature Cancer

Collaborations feature prominently in Christina Curtis's work, with frequent co-authors including:

Kathleen E. Houlahan
Aziz Khan
Zhicheng Ma
José A. Seoane
William J. Greenleaf

Best Publications

The genomic and transcriptomic architecture of 2,000 breast tumours reveals novel subgroups

Christina Curtis;Christina Curtis;Sohrab P Shah;Suet-Feung Chin;Gulisa Turashvili

6086
Citations
Comprehensive molecular characterization of gastric adenocarcinoma

Adam J. Bass;Vesteinn Thorsson;Ilya Shmulevich;Sheila M. Reynolds

6006
Citations
The clonal and mutational evolution spectrum of primary triple-negative breast cancers

Sohrab P. Shah;Andrew Roth;Rodrigo Goya;Arusha Oloumi

2232
Citations
Intratumor heterogeneity in human glioblastoma reflects cancer evolutionary dynamics

Andrea Sottoriva;Andrea Sottoriva;Andrea Sottoriva;Inmaculada Spiteri;Sara G. M. Piccirillo;Anestis Touloumis

1841
Citations
Clonal replacement of tumor-specific T cells following PD-1 blockade.

Kathryn E Yost;Ansuman T Satpathy;Daniel K Wells;Yanyan Qi

1545
Citations
A Big Bang model of human colorectal tumor growth

Andrea Sottoriva;Haeyoun Kang;Zhicheng Ma;Trevor A Graham

1065
Citations
The chromatin accessibility landscape of primary human cancers

M. Ryan Corces;Jeffrey M. Granja;Shadi Shams;Bryan H. Louie

973
Citations
The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions Across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution

Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Philipp Oberdoerffer;Tal Nawy

558
Citations
The shaping and functional consequences of the microRNA landscape in breast cancer

Heidi Dvinge;Anna Git;Stefan Gräf;Stefan Gräf;Mali Salmon-Divon;Mali Salmon-Divon

481
Citations
Quantitative Image Analysis of Cellular Heterogeneity in Breast Tumors Complements Genomic Profiling

Yinyin Yuan;Henrik Failmezger;Henrik Failmezger;Oscar M. Rueda;H. Raza Ali

465
Citations
Promoter of lncRNA Gene PVT1 Is a Tumor-Suppressor DNA Boundary Element

Seung Woo Cho;Jin Xu;Ruping Sun;Maxwell R. Mumbach

408
Citations
Quantitative evidence for early metastatic seeding in colorectal cancer.

Zheng Hu;Jie Ding;Zhicheng Ma;Ruping Sun

386
Citations
Intestinal enteroendocrine lineage cells possess homeostatic and injury-inducible stem cell activity

Kelley S. Yan;Kelley S. Yan;Olivier Gevaert;Grace X.Y. Zheng;Benedict Anchang

332
Citations
Dynamics of breast-cancer relapse reveal late-recurring ER-positive genomic subgroups.

Oscar M. Rueda;Stephen John Sammut;José A. Seoane;Suet-Feung Chin

309
Citations
Multi-cancer analysis of clonality and the timing of systemic spread in paired primary tumors and metastases.

Zheng Hu;Zan Li;Zhicheng Ma;Christina Curtis

283
Citations
Quantification of subclonal selection in cancer from bulk sequencing data.

Marc J Williams;Marc J Williams;Benjamin Werner;Timon Heide;Christina Curtis

253
Citations
CRISPR screens in cancer spheroids identify 3D growth-specific vulnerabilities.

Kyuho Han;Sarah E. Pierce;Amy Li;Kaitlyn Spees

244
Citations
Genome-driven integrated classification of breast cancer validated in over 7,500 samples

H Raza Ali;Oscar M Rueda;Suet-Feung Chin;Christina Curtis

231
Citations
An expanded universe of cancer targets.

William C. Hahn;Joel S. Bader;Theodore P. Braun;Andrea Califano

211
Citations
Supplementary Materials for Quantitative Image Analysis of Cellular Heterogeneity in Breast Tumors Complements Genomic Profiling

Yinyin Yuan;Henrik Failmezger;Oscar M. Rueda;H. Raza Ali

50
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Caldas University of Cambridge

Simon Tavaré Columbia University

Samuel Aparicio University of British Columbia

Suet-Feung Chin University of Cambridge

Michael F. Press University of Southern California

Robert B. West Stanford University

John C. Marioni European Bioinformatics Institute

Calvin J. Kuo Stanford University

Colin Watts University of Birmingham

Laura D. Attardi Stanford University

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