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Medicine

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121
Citations
49432
World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Elizabeth A. Platz is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in the subfields of Oncology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers a variety of topics including genetic factors in colorectal cancer, genetic associations and epidemiology, cancer, lipids, and metabolism, cancer risks and factors, prostate cancer treatment and research, cancer genomics and diagnostics, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Elizabeth A. Platz has authored numerous papers, with notable recent publications including:

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Cancer Survivors, 2022, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • An umbrella review of the evidence associating diet and cancer risk at 11 anatomical sites, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Genome-wide Modeling of Polygenic Risk Score in Colorectal Cancer Risk, 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Deciphering colorectal cancer genetics through multi-omic analysis of 100,204 cases and 154,587 controls of European and east Asian ancestries, 2022, Nature Genetics

Their co-authorship network includes frequent collaborations with:

  • Corinne E. Joshu
  • Marc J. Gunter
  • Hermann Brenner
  • Anna E. Prizment
  • Loïc Le Marchand

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Circulation
  • International Journal of Cancer

Elizabeth A. Platz was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Inflammation in prostate carcinogenesis

    Angelo M. De Marzo;Angelo M. De Marzo;Elizabeth A. Platz;Siobhan Sutcliffe;Jianfeng Xu

  • Lowering homocysteine in patients with ischemic stroke to prevent recurrent stroke, myocardial infarction, and death: the Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention (VISP) randomized controlled trial.

    James F. Toole;M. René Malinow;Lloyd E. Chambless;J. David Spence

  • Prevalence of Hearing Loss and Differences by Demographic Characteristics Among US Adults: Data From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2004

    Yuri Agrawal;Elizabeth A. Platz;John K. Niparko

  • Prevalence and risk factors for erectile dysfunction in the US.

    Elizabeth Selvin;Arthur L. Burnett;Elizabeth A. Platz

  • α-methylacyl-CoA racemase: A new molecular marker for prostate cancer

    Jun Luo;Shan Zha;Wesley R. Gage;Thomas A. Dunn

  • C-reactive protein and the risk of incident colorectal cancer.

    Thomas P. Erlinger;Elizabeth A. Platz;Nader Rifai;Kathy J. Helzlsouer

  • Risk factors for prostate cancer incidence and progression in the health professionals follow-up study

    Edward Giovannucci;Yan Liu;Elizabeth A. Platz;Meir Stampfer;Meir Stampfer

  • The Bacteroides fragilis Toxin Gene Is Prevalent in the Colon Mucosa of Colorectal Cancer Patients

    Annemarie Boleij;Elizabeth M. Hechenbleikner;Andrew C. Goodwin;Ruchi Badani

  • Prostate carcinogenesis and inflammation: Emerging insights

    Ganesh S. Palapattu;Siobhan Sutcliffe;Patrick J. Bastian;Elizabeth A. Platz

  • A Prospective Study of Plasma Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 and Binding Protein-3 and Risk of Colorectal Neoplasia in Women

    Edward Giovannucci;Michael N. Pollak;Elizabeth A. Platz;Walter C. Willett

  • Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

    Jeroen R. Huyghe;Stephanie A. Bien;Tabitha A. Harrison;Hyun Min Kang

  • Statin Drugs and Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer

    Elizabeth A. Platz;Michael F. Leitzmann;Kala Visvanathan;Eric B. Rimm

  • Fruit, Vegetable, and Antioxidant Intake and All-Cause, Cancer, and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in a Community-dwelling Population in Washington County, Maryland

    Jeanine M. Genkinger;Elizabeth A. Platz;Sandra C. Hoffman;George W. Comstock

  • Metabolic Factors Associated with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

    J. Kellogg Parsons;H. Ballentine Carter;Alan W. Partin;B. Gwen Windham

  • Obesity, Diabetes, and Risk of Prostate Cancer: Results from the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial

    Zhihong Gong;Marian L. Neuhouser;Phyllis J. Goodman;Demetrius Albanes

  • Insulin-like growth factors, their binding proteins, and prostate cancer risk: analysis of individual patient data from 12 prospective studies.

    Andrew W. Roddam;Naomi E. Allen;Paul Appleby;Timothy J. Key

  • Hypermethylation of the Human Glutathione S-Transferase-π Gene (GSTP1) CpG Island Is Present in a Subset of Proliferative Inflammatory Atrophy Lesions but Not in Normal or Hyperplastic Epithelium of the Prostate : A Detailed Study Using Laser-Capture Microdissection

    Masashi Nakayama;Christina J. Bennett;Jessica L. Hicks;Jonathan I. Epstein

  • Androgens and diabetes in men: results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III).

    Elizabeth Selvin;Manning Feinleib;Lei Zhang;Lei Zhang;Sabine Rohrmann

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer : a Mendelian randomisation analysis

    Nikos Papadimitriou;Niki Dimou;Konstantinos K. Tsilidis;Konstantinos K. Tsilidis;Barbara Banbury

  • Prevalence of Hearing Loss and Differences by Demographic Characteristics Among US Adults

    Yuri Agrawal;Elizabeth A. Platz;John K. Niparko

Frequent Co-Authors

Angelo M. De Marzo
Angelo M. De Marzo Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Sabine Rohrmann
Sabine Rohrmann University of Zurich
William G. Nelson
William G. Nelson Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
William B. Isaacs
William B. Isaacs Johns Hopkins University
Kathy J. Helzlsouer
Kathy J. Helzlsouer National Institutes of Health
Meir J. Stampfer
Meir J. Stampfer Harvard University
Nader Rifai
Nader Rifai Boston Children's Hospital
Ian M. Thompson
Ian M. Thompson The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Walter C. Willett
Walter C. Willett Harvard University

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