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Francesca Demichelis

Francesca Demichelis

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Medicine

D-Index
83
Citations
48444
World Ranking
15344
National Ranking
595

Overview

Francesca Demichelis is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a concentration on cancer-related studies.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

The key subfields covered in their research are:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Research
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Oncology
  • Surgery

The principal research topics addressed by Demichelis encompass:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research

Their recent papers include:

  • Comprehensive Analysis of Genetic Ancestry and Its Molecular Correlates in Cancer, 2020, Cancer Cell
  • Two distinct immunopathological profiles in autopsy lungs of COVID-19, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Circulating tumor DNA profile recognizes transformation to castration-resistant neuroendocrine prostate cancer, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Role of specialized composition of SWI/SNF complexes in prostate cancer lineage plasticity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Genome-wide plasma DNA methylation features of metastatic prostate cancer, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Demichelis include:

  • Yari Ciani
  • Alessandro Romanel
  • Matteo Benelli
  • Gerhardt Attard
  • Francesco Orlando

Frequent publication venues where Demichelis's work appears are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annals of Oncology
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation

Best Publications

  • The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers

    Rameen Beroukhim;Craig H. Mermel;Craig H. Mermel;Dale Porter;Guo Wei

  • Integrative clinical genomics of advanced prostate cancer

    Dan Robinson;Eliezer M. Van Allen;Eliezer M. Van Allen;Yi Mi Wu;Nikolaus Schultz

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

  • Exome sequencing identifies recurrent SPOP, FOXA1 and MED12 mutations in prostate cancer

    Christopher E. Barbieri;Sylvan C. Baca;Sylvan C. Baca;Michael S. Lawrence;Francesca Demichelis;Francesca Demichelis

  • Divergent clonal evolution of castration-resistant neuroendocrine prostate cancer

    Himisha Beltran;Himisha Beltran;Davide Prandi;Juan Miguel Mosquera;Juan Miguel Mosquera;Matteo Benelli

  • The genomic complexity of primary human prostate cancer

    Michael F. Berger;Michael F. Berger;Michael S. Lawrence;Francesca Demichelis;Yotam Drier

  • Punctuated Evolution of Prostate Cancer Genomes

    Sylvan C Baca;Davide Prandi;Michael S Lawrence;Juan Miguel Mosquera

  • Assessing the significance of chromosomal aberrations in cancer: Methodology and application to glioma

    Rameen Beroukhim;Gad Getz;Leia Nghiemphu;Jordi Barretina

  • The Microarray Quality Control (MAQC)-II study of common practices for the development and validation of microarray-based predictive models

    Leming Shi;Gregory Campbell;Wendell D. Jones;Fabien Campagne

  • Genomic correlates of clinical outcome in advanced prostate cancer.

    Wassim Abida;Joanna Cyrta;Joanna Cyrta;Glenn Heller;Davide Prandi

  • Molecular Characterization of Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer and Identification of New Drug Targets

    Himisha Beltran;David S. Rickman;Kyung Park;Sung Suk Chae

  • SOX2 promotes lineage plasticity and antiandrogen resistance in TP53-and RB1-deficient prostate cancer

    Ping Mu;Zeda Zhang;Matteo Benelli;Wouter R Karthaus

  • Recurrent gene fusions in prostate cancer

    Scott Tomlins;Daniel Rhodes;Arul Chinnaiyan;Rohit Mehra

  • Personalized In Vitro and In Vivo Cancer Models to Guide Precision Medicine

    Chantal Pauli;Chantal Pauli;Chantal Pauli;Benjamin D Hopkins;Davide Prandi;Reid Shaw

  • TMPRSS2:ERG gene fusion associated with lethal prostate cancer in a watchful waiting cohort.

    F. Demichelis;K. Fall;S. Perner;S. Perner;O. Andrén

  • The long tail of oncogenic drivers in prostate cancer

    Joshua Armenia;Stephanie A. M. Wankowicz;Stephanie A. M. Wankowicz;David Liu;David Liu;Jianjiong Gao

  • TMPRSS2:ERG fusion-associated deletions provide insight into the heterogeneity of prostate cancer

    Sven Perner;Sven Perner;Francesca Demichelis;Rameen Beroukhim;Rameen Beroukhim;Folke H. Schmidt

  • Clinical and Genomic Characterization of Treatment-Emergent Small-Cell Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer: A Multi-institutional Prospective Study

    Rahul Aggarwal;Jiaoti Huang;Joshi J. Alumkal;Li Zhang

  • TMPRSS2-ERG Fusion Prostate Cancer: An Early Molecular Event Associated With Invasion

    Sven Perner;Sven Perner;Juan Miguel Mosquera;Francesca Demichelis;Matthias D. Hofer

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Rubin
Mark A. Rubin University of Bern
Andrea Sboner
Andrea Sboner Cornell University
Himisha Beltran
Himisha Beltran Harvard University
Juan Miguel Mosquera
Juan Miguel Mosquera Cornell University
Olivier Elemento
Olivier Elemento Cornell University
Levi A. Garraway
Levi A. Garraway Roche (United States)
Sven Perner
Sven Perner University of Lübeck
Arul M. Chinnaiyan
Arul M. Chinnaiyan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David M. Nanus
David M. Nanus Cornell University
Eliezer M. Van Allen
Eliezer M. Van Allen Harvard University

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