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Overview

Christopher C. Benz is affiliated with the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in the United States. Their research spans a range of topics primarily focused on cancer biology, molecular genetics, and aging-related processes.

The scientist has contributed extensively to fields related to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with 72 publications in these areas. Medicine is another major domain of their work, represented by 61 publications. Within these broader fields, Benz has concentrated on several subfields, including cancer research, molecular biology, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and genetics.

Key topics addressed in their research include breast cancer treatment studies, cancer genomics and diagnostics, effects of estrogen and related hormones, HER2/EGFR in cancer research, advanced breast cancer therapies, cancer under hypoxic conditions and metabolism, as well as telomeres, telomerase, and cellular senescence.

Christopher C. Benz has a record of frequent collaboration with several co-authors, notably Christina Yau, Rameen Beroukhim, Andrew D. Cherniack, Joshua M. Stuart, and Katherine A. Hoadley. The scientist has published in a variety of venues, with multiple works appearing in UNC Libraries and Cancer Research, as well as STAR Protocols, Nature Genetics, and Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.

Their recent papers include:

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes, 2020, Nature
  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of mitochondrial genomes in human cancers, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Comprehensive Analysis of Genetic Ancestry and Its Molecular Correlates in Cancer, 2020, Cancer Cell
  • Divergent mutational processes distinguish hypoxic and normoxic tumours, 2020, Nature Communications
  • NIH SenNet Consortium to map senescent cells throughout the human lifespan to understand physiological health, 2022, Nature Aging

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumours

    Daniel C. Koboldt;Robert S. Fulton;Michael D. McLellan;Heather Schmidt

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of human colon and rectal cancer

    Donna M. Muzny;Matthew N. Bainbridge;Kyle Chang;Huyen H. Dinh

  • Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma

    D. Bell;A. Berchuck;M. Birrer;J. Chien

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of gastric adenocarcinoma

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

  • Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma

    Gad Getz;Stacey B. Gabriel;Kristian Cibulskis;Eric Lander

  • Comprehensive molecular profiling of lung adenocarcinoma: The cancer genome atlas research network

    Eric A. Collisson;Joshua D. Campbell;Angela N. Brooks;Angela N. Brooks;Alice H. Berger

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

    Michael S. Lawrence;Carrie Sougnez;Lee Lichtenstein;Kristian Cibulskis

  • The Immune Landscape of Cancer

    Vésteinn Thorsson;David L Gibbs;Scott D Brown;Denise Wolf

  • Comprehensivemolecular characterization of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

    Chad J. Creighton;Margaret Morgan;Preethi H. Gunaratne;Preethi H. Gunaratne;David A. Wheeler

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of squamous cell lung cancers

    Peter S. Hammerman;Doug Voet;Michael S. Lawrence;Douglas Voet

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of urothelial bladder carcinoma

    John N Weinstein;Rehan Akbani;Bradley McIntosh Broom;Wenyi Wang

  • Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas

    Francisco Sanchez-Vega;Marco Mina;Joshua Armenia;Walid K. Chatila

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

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

  • Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma

    Rehan Akbani;Kadir C. Akdemir;B. Arman Aksoy;Monique Albert

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

  • An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics.

    Jianfang Liu;Tara Lichtenberg;Katherine A Hoadley;Laila M Poisson

  • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations.

    Matthew H Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

    Kyle Chang;Chad J Creighton;Caleb Davis;Lawrence Donehower

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

  • Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma

    D. Bell;A. Berchuck;M. Birrer;J. Chien

Frequent Co-Authors

Christina Yau
Christina Yau University of California, San Francisco
Andrew D. Cherniack
Andrew D. Cherniack Broad Institute
Rameen Beroukhim
Rameen Beroukhim Harvard University
Gad Getz
Gad Getz Broad Institute
Matthew Meyerson
Matthew Meyerson Harvard University
John W. Park
John W. Park University of California, San Francisco
Peter W. Laird
Peter W. Laird Van Andel Institute
Katherine A. Hoadley
Katherine A. Hoadley University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gordon B. Mills
Gordon B. Mills Oregon Health & Science University
Michael S. Lawrence
Michael S. Lawrence Harvard University

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