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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Overview

Gad Getz is a researcher affiliated with the Broad Institute in the United States, with a significant body of work spanning medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their publications cover a variety of topics mainly related to cancer genomics, diagnostics, and molecular biology.

Getz's primary fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Their subfields of study further detail their expertise in:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Research
  • Oncology
  • Genetics
  • Hematology

Research topics prominently worked on by Getz include:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer

Getz has contributed extensively to the scientific literature with numerous recent papers, among which are:

  • The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans (2020), published in Nature
  • The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues (2020), published in Science
  • The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer (2020), published in Nature
  • The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers (2020), published in Nature
  • A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes (2023), published in Nature

Frequent co-authors in Getz's research collaborations include:

  • Irene M. Ghobrial
  • Ignaty Leshchiner
  • Romanos Sklavenitis-Pistofidis
  • Chip Stewart
  • François Aguet

Getz's work has been published in a range of venues, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their research. The most common publication venues are:

  • Cancer Research
  • Blood
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries

Gad Getz was awarded the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2017. This accolade recognizes contributions within the field of cancer research.

Best Publications

  • Integrative genomics viewer

    James T Robinson;Helga Thorvaldsdóttir;Wendy Winckler;Mitchell Guttman

  • MicroRNA expression profiles classify human cancers

    Jun Lu;Gad Getz;Eric A. Miska;Eric A. Miska;Ezequiel Alvarez-Saavedra

  • Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumours

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

  • Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

    Monkol Lek;Konrad J. Karczewski;Konrad J. Karczewski;Eric V. Minikel;Eric V. Minikel;Kaitlin E. Samocha

  • Integrated Genomic Analysis Identifies Clinically Relevant Subtypes of Glioblastoma Characterized by Abnormalities in PDGFRA, IDH1, EGFR, and NF1

    Roel G. W. Verhaak;Katherine A. Hoadley;Elizabeth Purdom;Victoria Wang

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

    John Lonsdale;Jeffrey Thomas;Mike Salvatore;Rebecca Phillips

  • The cancer genome atlas pan-cancer analysis project

    John N Weinstein;John N Weinstein;Eric A. Collisson;Gordon B Mills;Kenna R Mills Shaw;Kenna R Mills Shaw

  • The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia enables predictive modelling of anticancer drug sensitivity

    Jordi Barretina;Giordano Caponigro;Nicolas Stransky;Kavitha Venkatesan

  • 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 genomic characterization defines human glioblastoma genes and core pathways

    Roger McLendon;Allan Friedman;Darrell Bigner;Erwin G. Van Meir

  • Inferring tumour purity and stromal and immune cell admixture from expression data

    Kosuke Yoshihara;Maria Shahmoradgoli;Emmanuel Martínez;Rahulsimham Vegesna

  • Genomic and epigenomic landscapes of adult de novo acute myeloid leukemia

    Timothy J. Ley;Christopher Miller;Li Ding;Benjamin J. Raphael

  • Mutational heterogeneity in cancer and the search for new cancer-associated genes

    Michael S. Lawrence;Petar Stojanov;Petar Stojanov;Paz Polak;Paz Polak;Paz Polak;Gregory V. Kryukov;Gregory V. Kryukov;Gregory V. Kryukov

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of gastric adenocarcinoma

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

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans

    Kristin G. Ardlie;David S. Deluca;Ayellet V. Segrè

  • Sensitive detection of somatic point mutations in impure and heterogeneous cancer samples

    Kristian Cibulskis;Michael S Lawrence;Scott L Carter;Andrey Sivachenko

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

    John Lonsdale;Jeffrey Thomas;Mike Salvatore;Rebecca Phillips

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

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

  • Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Meyerson
Matthew Meyerson Harvard University
Michael S. Lawrence
Michael S. Lawrence Harvard University
Eric S. Lander
Eric S. Lander Broad Institute
Stacey Gabriel
Stacey Gabriel Broad Institute
Todd R. Golub
Todd R. Golub Harvard University
Levi A. Garraway
Levi A. Garraway Roche (United States)
Rameen Beroukhim
Rameen Beroukhim Harvard University
Scott L. Carter
Scott L. Carter Harvard University
Kristian Cibulskis
Kristian Cibulskis Broad Institute
Catherine J. Wu
Catherine J. Wu Harvard University

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