2026 Cynthia Hawkins: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	102	7484	7032	287	273	550	68193

Overview

Cynthia Hawkins is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields including genetics, molecular biology, neurology, cancer research, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's work focuses primarily on topics such as glioma diagnosis and treatment, neuroblastoma research and treatments, cancer genomics and diagnostics, cancer related to hypoxia and metabolism, epigenetics and DNA methylation, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, and cases involving neurofibromatosis and schwannoma.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Cynthia Hawkins include:

The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary (2021, Neuro-Oncology)
cIMPACT-NOW update 6: new entity and diagnostic principle recommendations of the cIMPACT-Utrecht meeting on future CNS tumor classification and grading (2020, Brain Pathology)
Integrated Molecular and Clinical Analysis of 1,000 Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas (2020, Cancer Cell)
Pediatric low-grade glioma in the era of molecular diagnostics (2020, Acta Neuropathologica Communications)
cIMPACT-NOW update 7: advancing the molecular classification of ependymal tumors (2020, Brain Pathology)

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Uri Tabori
Éric Bouffet
Liana Nobre
Robert Siddaway
Vijay Ramaswamy

Cynthia Hawkins has published in several well-known venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in Neuro-Oncology, followed by Neuro-Oncology Advances, Cancer Research, Pediatric Blood & Cancer, and Acta Neuropathologica.

Neuro-Oncology
Neuro-Oncology Advances
Cancer Research
Pediatric Blood & Cancer
Acta Neuropathologica

In addition to journal publications, Hawkins has contributed to book publications, including a forthcoming title titled Tumors of the Central Nervous System, scheduled for release in 2025 by the American Registry of PathologyArlington, Virginia eBooks.

Best Publications

Identification of human brain tumour initiating cells

Sheila K. Singh;Cynthia Hawkins;Ian D. Clarke;Jeremy A. Squire

9176
Citations
The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary.

David N Louis;Arie Perry;Pieter Wesseling;Daniel J Brat

6973
Citations
Identification of a Cancer Stem Cell in Human Brain Tumors

Sheila K. Singh;Ian D. Clarke;Mizuhiko Terasaki;Victoria E. Bonn

6687
Citations
Medulloblastoma Comprises Four Distinct Molecular Variants

Paul A. Northcott;Andrey Korshunov;Hendrik Witt;Thomas Hielscher

1550
Citations
Intertumoral Heterogeneity within Medulloblastoma Subgroups

Florence M.G. Cavalli;Marc Remke;Marc Remke;Marc Remke;Ladislav Rampasek;John Peacock

1235
Citations
Subgroup-specific structural variation across 1,000 medulloblastoma genomes

Paul A. Northcott;Paul A. Northcott;David J.H. Shih;John Peacock;Livia Garzia

1004
Citations
K27M mutation in histone H3.3 defines clinically and biologically distinct subgroups of pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas.

Dong Anh Khuong-Quang;Pawel Buczkowicz;Patricia Rakopoulos;Xiao Yang Liu

986
Citations
Integrated Molecular Meta-Analysis of 1,000 Pediatric High-Grade and Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma

Alan Mackay;Anna Burford;Diana Carvalho;Elisa Izquierdo

916
Citations
Genome Sequencing of Pediatric Medulloblastoma Links Catastrophic DNA Rearrangements with TP53 Mutations

Tobias Rausch;David T.W. Jones;Marc Zapatka;Adrian M. Stütz

911
Citations
Immune Checkpoint Inhibition for Hypermutant Glioblastoma Multiforme Resulting From Germline Biallelic Mismatch Repair Deficiency

Eric Bouffet;Valérie Larouche;Brittany B. Campbell;Daniele Merico

813
Citations
Hexokinase 2 is a key mediator of aerobic glycolysis and promotes tumor growth in human glioblastoma multiforme

Amparo Wolf;Sameer Agnihotri;Johann Micallef;Joydeep Mukherjee

779
Citations
International Society of Neuropathology-Haarlem Consensus Guidelines for Nervous System Tumor Classification and Grading

David N. Louis;Arie Perry;Peter Burger;David W. Ellison

712
Citations
Comprehensive Analysis of Hypermutation in Human Cancer

Brittany B. Campbell;Nicholas Light;David Fabrizio;Matthew Zatzman

702
Citations
Genomic analysis of diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas identifies three molecular subgroups and recurrent activating ACVR1 mutations

Pawel Buczkowicz;Christine Hoeman;Patricia Rakopoulos;Sanja Pajovic

678
Citations
Epigenomic alterations define lethal CIMP-positive ependymomas of infancy

S. C. Mack;H. Witt;R. M. Piro;L. Gu

662
Citations
Functionally defined therapeutic targets in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

Catherine S. Grasso;Yujie Tang;Yujie Tang;Nathalene Truffaux;Noah E. Berlow

622
Citations
Paediatric and adult glioblastoma: multiform (epi)genomic culprits emerge

Dominik Sturm;Sebastian Bender;David T. W. Jones;Peter Lichter

589
Citations
Delineation of Two Clinically and Molecularly Distinct Subgroups of Posterior Fossa Ependymoma

Hendrik Witt;Stephen C. Mack;Marina Ryzhova;Sebastian Bender;Sebastian Bender

574
Citations
Subgroup-Specific Prognostic Implications of TP53 Mutation in Medulloblastoma

Nataliya Zhukova;Vijay Ramaswamy;Marc Remke;Elke Pfaff

526
Citations
cIMPACT-NOW update 6: new entity and diagnostic principle recommendations of the cIMPACT-Utrecht meeting on future CNS tumor classification and grading.

David N. Louis;Pieter Wesseling;Kenneth Aldape;Daniel J. Brat

441
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Bouffet University of Toronto

Uri Tabori University of Toronto

Michael D. Taylor University of Toronto

Vijay Ramaswamy University of Toronto

James T. Rutka University of Toronto

Peter B. Dirks University of Toronto

Stefan M. Pfister German Cancer Research Center

Nada Jabado McGill University

Marc Remke German Cancer Research Center

Andrey Korshunov German Cancer Research Center

External Links

Personal website of Cynthia Hawkins

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