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Giuseppe Masucci

Giuseppe Masucci

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
50
Citations
13796
World Ranking
17453
National Ranking
279

Overview

Giuseppe Masucci is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has a primary research focus in the field of Medicine, with 40 publications overall. Their work concentrates on oncology, with 30 publications in this subfield, followed by molecular biology, immunology, surgery, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist's research topics include cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, colorectal cancer treatments and studies, melanoma and MAPK pathways, cutaneous melanoma detection and management, CAR-T cell therapy research, immunotherapy and immune responses, and cancer genomics and diagnostics.

Among the recent papers are:

  • Multicenter International Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Study of the Consensus Immunoscore for the Prediction of Survival and Response to Chemotherapy in Stage III Colon Cancer, 2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Complete and long-lasting clinical responses in immune checkpoint inhibitor-resistant, metastasized melanoma treated with adoptive T cell transfer combined with DC vaccination, 2020, OncoImmunology
  • PD-1 checkpoint blockade in advanced melanoma patients: NK cells, monocytic subsets and host PD-L1 expression as predictive biomarker candidates, 2020, OncoImmunology
  • Multicenter International Study of the Consensus Immunoscore for the Prediction of Relapse and Survival in Early-Stage Colon Cancer, 2023, Cancers
  • Prognostic Interactions between FAP+ Fibroblasts and CD8a+ T Cells in Colon Cancer, 2020, Cancers

The prominent venues in which Giuseppe Masucci publishes include:

  • Cancers
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • OncoImmunology
  • Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
  • Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with the scientist are:

  • Paolo A. Ascierto
  • Rolf Lewensohn
  • Hanna Eriksson
  • Gerardo Botti
  • Lisa Villabona

Best Publications

  • International validation of the consensus Immunoscore for the classification of colon cancer: a prognostic and accuracy study

    Franck Pagès;Bernhard Mlecnik;Florence Marliot;Gabriela Bindea;Gabriela Bindea;Gabriela Bindea

  • Towards the introduction of the 'Immunoscore' in the classification of malignant tumours.

    Jérôme Galon;Jérôme Galon;Jérôme Galon;Bernhard Mlecnik;Bernhard Mlecnik;Bernhard Mlecnik;Gabriela Bindea;Gabriela Bindea;Gabriela Bindea;Helen K. Angell;Helen K. Angell;Helen K. Angell

  • Tumor regressions observed in patients with metastatic melanoma treated with an antigenic peptide encoded by gene MAGE-3 and presented by HLA-A1

    M Marchand;N van Baren;N van Baren;P Weynants;P Weynants;V Brichard;V Brichard;V Brichard

  • Cancer classification using the Immunoscore: a worldwide task force

    Jérôme Galon;Franck Pagès;Francesco M Marincola;Francesco M Marincola;Helen K Angell;Helen K Angell

  • Hydrogen peroxide secreted by tumor-derived macrophages down-modulates signal-transducing zeta molecules and inhibits tumor-specific T cell-and natural killer cell-mediated cytotoxicity.

    Koji Kono;Flavio Salazar-Onfray;Max Petersson;Johan Hansson

  • Immature Immunosuppressive CD14+HLA-DR−/low Cells in Melanoma Patients Are Stat3hi and Overexpress CD80, CD83, and DC-Sign

    Isabel Poschke;Dimitrios Mougiakakos;Johan Hansson;Giuseppe V. Masucci

  • Interleukin 10 pretreatment protects target cells from tumor- and allo-specific cytotoxic T cells and downregulates HLA class I expression.

    M Matsuda;F Salazar;M Petersson;G Masucci

  • Future perspectives in melanoma research

    Paolo A. Ascierto;Sanjiv Agarwala;Gerardo Botti;Alessandra Cesano

  • A phase I trial of DNA vaccination with a plasmid expressing prostate-specific antigen in patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer

    M. Pavlenko;A.-K. Roos;A. Lundqvist;A. Palmborg

  • Multicenter International Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Study of the Consensus Immunoscore for the Prediction of Survival and Response to Chemotherapy in Stage III Colon Cancer.

    Bernhard Mlecnik;Carlo Bifulco;Gabriela Bindea;Gabriela Bindea;Florence Marliot

  • Validation of biomarkers to predict response to immunotherapy in cancer: Volume I — pre-analytical and analytical validation

    Giuseppe V. Masucci;Alessandra Cesano;Rachael Hawtin;Sylvia Janetzki

  • Melanoma-Educated CD14+ Cells Acquire a Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Phenotype through COX-2–Dependent Mechanisms

    Yumeng Mao;Isabel Poschke;Erik Wennerberg;Yago Pico de Coaña

  • Defining the critical hurdles in cancer immunotherapy

    Bernard A. Fox;Bernard A. Fox;Dolores J. Schendel;Lisa H. Butterfield;Steinar Aamdal

  • Cancer Treatment with Anti-PD-1/PD-L1 Agents: Is PD-L1 Expression a Biomarker for Patient Selection?

    Lucia Festino;Gerardo Botti;Paul Lorigan;Giuseppe V. Masucci

  • Immunoscore and Immunoprofiling in cancer: an update from the melanoma and immunotherapy bridge 2015.

    J Galon;J Galon;B A Fox;B A Fox;C B Bifulco;G Masucci

  • Studies on Cytotoxicity Generated in Human Mixed Lymphocyte Cultures II. Anti-K562 Effectors Are Distinct from Allospecific CTL and Can Be Generated from NK-Depleted T Cells

    Janet K. Seeley;Giuseppe Masucci;Anna Poros;Eva Klein

  • Effect of monoclonal antibody 17‐1A and gm‐CSF in patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma—long‐lasting, complete remissions can be induced

    Peter Ragnhammar;Jan Fagerberg;Jan-Erik Frödin;Anna-Lena Hjelm

  • Inhibition of activated/memory (CD45RO(+)) T cells by oxidative stress associated with block of NF-kappaB activation.

    Karl-Johan Malmberg;Velmurugesan Arulampalam;Fumiko Ichihara;Max Petersson

  • Myeloid-derived suppressor cells impair the quality of dendritic cell vaccines.

    I. Poschke;Y. Mao;L. Adamson;F. Salazar-Onfray

  • Ipilimumab Treatment Results in an Early Decrease in the Frequency of Circulating Granulocytic Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells as well as Their Arginase1 Production

    Yago Pico de Coaña;Isabel Poschke;Giusy Gentilcore;Yumeng Mao

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Kiessling
Rolf Kiessling Karolinska Institute
Johan Hansson
Johan Hansson Karolinska Institute
Paolo A. Ascierto
Paolo A. Ascierto National Institutes of Health
Maria G. Masucci
Maria G. Masucci Karolinska Institute
Andreas Lundqvist
Andreas Lundqvist Karolinska Institute
Håkan Mellstedt
Håkan Mellstedt Karolinska Institute
Eva Klein
Eva Klein Karolinska Institute
Bernard A. FoxEarle
Bernard A. FoxEarle Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
George Klein
George Klein Karolinska Institute

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