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2023

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Medicine

D-Index
137
Citations
87056
World Ranking
1880
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2007 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Pathology and Forensic Medicine

Overview

Holger Moch is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has an extensive publication record in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, Oncology, and Surgery.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics such as Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Renal cell carcinoma treatment, Renal and related cancers, Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, and Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Histopathology
  • Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Some representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Holger Moch are listed below:

  • "The 2022 World Health Organization Classification of Tumours of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs-Part A: Renal, Penile, and Testicular Tumours" (2022), published in European Urology
  • "Endothelial cell infection and endotheliitis in COVID-19" (2020), published in The Lancet
  • "The single-cell pathology landscape of breast cancer" (2020), published in Nature
  • "The landscape of viral associations in human cancers" (2020), published in Nature Genetics
  • "Epidemiology of Bladder Cancer in 2023: A Systematic Review of Risk Factors" (2023), published in European Urology

Holger Moch frequently collaborates with several researchers, most notably with:

  • Bernd Bodenmiller
  • Peter Schraml
  • Abdullah Kahraman
  • Martin Zoche
  • Zsuzsanna Varga

Their academic contributions were recognized in 2007 with an award from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, citing work in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Endothelial cell infection and endotheliitis in COVID-19.

    Zsuzsanna Varga;Andreas J Flammer;Peter Steiger;Martina Haberecker

  • The 2016 WHO Classification of Tumours of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs-Part A: Renal, Penile, and Testicular Tumours.

    Holger Moch;Antonio L. Cubilla;Peter A. Humphrey;Victor E. Reuter

  • Metastatic patterns of prostate cancer: an autopsy study of 1,589 patients.

    Lukas Bubendorf;Alain Schöpfer;Urs Wagner;Guido Sauter

  • Germline and Somatic Mutations in the Tyrosine Kinase Domain of the MET Proto-Oncogene in Papillary Renal Carcinomas

    L. Schmidt;F.-M. Duh;F. Chen;T. Kishida

  • 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

  • The Heidelberg classification of renal cell tumours

    Gyula Kovacs;Mohammed Akhtar;Bruce J. Beckwith;Peter Bugert

  • The 2016 WHO Classification of Tumours of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs-Part B: Prostate and Bladder Tumours.

    Peter A. Humphrey;Holger Moch;Antonio L. Cubilla;Thomas M. Ulbright

  • Integrative genome analyses identify key somatic driver mutations of small-cell lung cancer

    Martin Peifer;Lynnette Fernández-Cuesta;Martin L. Sos;Julie George

  • The International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) Vancouver classification of renal neoplasia

    John R. Srigley;Brett Delahunt;John N. Eble;Lars Egevad

  • High-throughput oncogene mutation profiling in human cancer

    Roman K. Thomas;Alissa C. Baker;Ralph M. DeBiasi;Ralph M. DeBiasi;Wendy Winckler;Wendy Winckler

  • Chemokine receptor CXCR4 downregulated by von Hippel–Lindau tumour suppressor pVHL

    Peter Staller;Jitka Sulitkova;Joanna Lisztwan;Holger Moch

  • WHO Classification of Tumours of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs

    Holger Moch;Peter A. Humphrey;Thomas M. Ulbright;Victor E. Reuter

  • Frequent and Focal FGFR1 Amplification Associates with Therapeutically Tractable FGFR1 Dependency in Squamous Cell Lung Cancer

    Jonathan Weiss;Martin L. Sos;Danila Seidel;Martin Peifer

  • A common classification framework for neuroendocrine neoplasms: an International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and World Health Organization (WHO) expert consensus proposal.

    Guido Rindi;David S. Klimstra;Behnoush Abedi-Ardekani;Sylvia L. Asa

  • An Immune Atlas of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

    Stéphane Chevrier;Jacob Harrison Levine;Vito Riccardo Tomaso Zanotelli;Karina Silina

  • Survey of Gene Amplifications during Prostate Cancer Progression by High-Throughput Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization on Tissue Microarrays

    Lukas Bubendorf;Juha Kononen;Pasi Koivisto;Peter Schraml

  • The International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) Grading System for Renal Cell Carcinoma and Other Prognostic Parameters

    Brett Delahunt;John C. Cheville;Guido Martignoni;Peter A. Humphrey

  • Tissue microarrays for rapid linking of molecular changes to clinical endpoints.

    Joachim Torhorst;Christoph Bucher;Juha Kononen;Philippe Haas

  • The single-cell pathology landscape of breast cancer

    Hartland W. Jackson;Jana R. Fischer;Vito R. T. Zanotelli;H. Raza Ali;H. Raza Ali

  • Tissue Microarrays for Gene Amplification Surveys in Many Different Tumor Types

    Peter Schraml;Juha Kononen;Lukas Bubendorf;Holger Moch

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Mihatsch
Michael J. Mihatsch University Hospital of Basel
Peter J. Wild
Peter J. Wild Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Guido Sauter
Guido Sauter Universität Hamburg
Alexander Knuth
Alexander Knuth University of Zurich
Mark A. Rubin
Mark A. Rubin University of Bern
Glen Kristiansen
Glen Kristiansen University Hospital Bonn
Liang Cheng
Liang Cheng Brown University
Lukas Bubendorf
Lukas Bubendorf University Hospital of Basel
Reinhard Dummer
Reinhard Dummer University of Zurich
Wilhelm Krek
Wilhelm Krek ETH Zurich

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