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Christopher S. Foster

Christopher S. Foster

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Medicine

D-Index
79
Citations
26736
World Ranking
17439
National Ranking
1579

Overview

Christopher S. Foster is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their primary research focus lies within the field of Health Professions, with particular attention to General Health Professions and subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Genetics is also represented within their scope of study.

The scientist's key topics of work encompass diverse aspects of health and medicine. These include Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging, Ethics in Clinical Research, BRCA Gene Mutations in Cancer, Public Health Policies and Education, as well as Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Sensing.

Recent publication venues that feature their work are varied and include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientific Reports
  • Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IX
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their published papers vary in scope, with notable recent works as follows:

  • "Diversity and inclusion for the All of Us research program: A scoping review," 2020, published in PLoS ONE
  • "Measuring social determinants of health in the All of Us Research Program," 2024, published in Scientific Reports
  • "The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope: status update and first results," 2022, published in Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IX
  • "Measuring Social Determinants of Health in theAll of UsResearch Program: Technical Document," 2023, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators in Foster's research include Maria Lopez-Class, Robert M. Cronin, Samantha Tesfaye, Qingxia Chen, and Callie A. Gu. These co-authors have contributed to several projects, indicative of ongoing collaboration in related subject areas.

Best Publications

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

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

  • The evolutionary history of lethal metastatic prostate cancer.

    Gunes Gundem;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo;Barbara Kremeyer;Ludmil B. Alexandrov

  • The World Health Organization/International Society of Urological Pathology consensus classification of urothelial (transitional cell) neoplasms of the urinary bladder

    Jonathan I. Epstein;Mahul B. Amin;Victor R. Reuter;Fathollah K. Mostofi

  • Prognostic value of an RNA expression signature derived from cell cycle proliferation genes in patients with prostate cancer: a retrospective study.

    Jack Cuzick;Gregory P Swanson;Gabrielle Fisher;Arthur R Brothman

  • Duplication of the fusion of TMPRSS2 to ERG sequences identifies fatal human prostate cancer

    G Attard;J Clark;L Ambroisine;G Fisher

  • Heat shock protein expression independently predicts clinical outcome in prostate cancer.

    Philip A. Cornford;Andrew R. Dodson;Keith F. Parsons;Anthony D. Desmond

  • Analysis of the genetic phylogeny of multifocal prostate cancer identifies multiple independent clonal expansions in neoplastic and morphologically normal prostate tissue

    Colin S Cooper;Colin S Cooper;Rosalind Eeles;Rosalind Eeles;David C Wedge;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo

  • Prognostic value of a cell cycle progression signature for prostate cancer death in a conservatively managed needle biopsy cohort

    J. Cuzick;D. M. Berney;G. Fisher;D. Mesher

  • Extensive transduction of nonrepetitive DNA mediated by L1 retrotransposition in cancer genomes

    Jose M. C. Tubio;Yilong Li;Young Seok Ju;Inigo Martincorena

  • Origins and functional consequences of somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations in human cancer

    Y S Ju;L B Alexandrov;M Gerstung;I Martincorena

  • Fibronectin in healing rabbit corneal wounds.

    Fujikawa Ls;Foster Cs;Harrist Tj;Lanigan Jm

  • bcl-2 : role in epithelial differentiation and oncogenesis

    Qi-Long Lu;Paul Abel;Paul Abel;Christopher S Foster;Christopher S Foster;El-Nasir Lalani;El-Nasir Lalani

  • Diversity of TMPRSS2-ERG fusion transcripts in the human prostate.

    J. Clark;S. Merson;S. Jhavar;P. Flohr

  • Molecular characterisation of ERG, ETV1 and PTEN gene loci identifies patients at low and high risk of death from prostate cancer.

    A. H. M. Reid;A. H. M. Reid;G. Attard;G. Attard;L. Ambroisine;G. Fisher

  • Targeted Prostate Cancer Screening in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: Results from the Initial Screening Round of the IMPACT Study

    Elizabeth K. Bancroft;Elizabeth C. Page;Elena Castro;Hans Lilja

  • Differential expression of voltage-activated Na+ currents in two prostatic tumour cell lines: contribution to invasiveness in vitro

    J.A. Grimes;S.P. Fraser;G.J. Stephens;J.E.G. Downing

  • Mutational signatures of ionizing radiation in second malignancies.

    Sam Behjati;Gunes Gundem;David C. Wedge;David C. Wedge;Nicola D. Roberts

  • Basement membrane components in healing rabbit corneal epithelial wounds: immunofluorescence and ultrastructural studies.

    L S Fujikawa;C S Foster;I K Gipson;R B Colvin

  • Declining estrogen receptor-beta expression defines malignant progression of human breast neoplasia.

    Abeer M Shaaban;Penny A O'Neill;Michael P A Davies;Ross Sibson

  • Methotrexate for Ocular Inflammatory Diseases

    G. A. Levy-Clarke;S. Gangaputra;C. W. Newcomb;D. A. Jabs

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin Cooper
Colin Cooper University of East Anglia
Daniel M. Berney
Daniel M. Berney Barts Health NHS Trust
Jack Cuzick
Jack Cuzick Queen Mary University of London
Henrik Møller
Henrik Møller King's College London
Rosalind A. Eeles
Rosalind A. Eeles Institute of Cancer Research
Peter T. Scardino
Peter T. Scardino Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Victor E. Reuter
Victor E. Reuter Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
David E. Neal
David E. Neal University of Cambridge
Peter J. Campbell
Peter J. Campbell Wellcome Sanger Institute
Peter Van Loo
Peter Van Loo The Francis Crick Institute

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