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Iwona Wlodarska

Iwona Wlodarska

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Molecular Biology
Belgium
2023

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Genetics

D-Index
78
Citations
22960
World Ranking
1699
National Ranking
24

Molecular Biology

D-Index
78
Citations
22960
World Ranking
1075
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Iwona Wlodarska is a researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, whose work primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research integrates multiple subfields including Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Immunology, Cancer Research, Molecular Biology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientific contributions of Wlodarska focus notably on lymphoma and cancer diagnostics, with specific attention to lymphoma diagnosis and treatment. Other main topics include cancer genomics and diagnostics, T-cell and retrovirus studies, cardiac tumors and thrombi, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, and sarcoma diagnosis and treatment.

Frequent collaborators in their work comprise Thomas Tousseyn, Daan Dierickx, Lukas Marcelis, Lucienne Michaux, and Koen Debackere, indicating active research partnerships that have produced multiple joint publications.

Key publication venues where Wlodarska's research appears include Blood Advances, Nature Communications, Genes Chromosomes and Cancer, British Journal of Haematology, and Research Square (Research Square).

Their notable recent papers are:

  • The landscape of copy number variations in classical Hodgkin lymphoma: a joint KU Leuven and LYSA study on cell-free DNA, 2021, Blood Advances
  • Fusion transcripts FYN-TRAF3IP2 and KHDRBS1-LCK hijack T cell receptor signaling in peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma is characterized by large-scale copy-neutral loss of heterozygosity, 2022, Genes Chromosomes and Cancer
  • The chromosomal translocation t (1;6)(p35.3;p25.2), recurrent in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, leads to RCC1::IRF4 fusion, 2024, British Journal of Haematology
  • FYN-TRAF3IP2 and KHDRBS1-LCK hijack T cell receptor signaling in peripheral T cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified, 2021, Research Square (Research Square)

Best Publications

  • Activating mutation in the tyrosine kinase JAK2 in polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, and myeloid metaplasia with myelofibrosis.

    Ross L. Levine;Ross L. Levine;Martha Wadleigh;Jan Cools;Benjamin L. Ebert;Benjamin L. Ebert

  • A Tyrosine Kinase Created by Fusion of the PDGFRA and FIP1L1 Genes as a Therapeutic Target of Imatinib in Idiopathic Hypereosinophilic Syndrome

    Jan Cools;Jan Cools;Daniel J. DeAngelo;Jason Gotlib;Elizabeth H. Stover

  • The Apoptosis Inhibitor Gene API2 and a Novel 18q Gene,MLT, Are Recurrently Rearranged in the t(11;18)(q21;q21) Associated With Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue Lymphomas

    Judith Dierlamm;Mathijs Baens;Iwona Wlodarska;Margarita Stefanova-Ouzounova

  • Bcl10 Is Involved in t(1;14)(p22;q32) of MALT B Cell Lymphoma and Mutated in Multiple Tumor Types

    Tony G. Willis;Dalal M. Jadayel;Ming-Qing Du;Huaizheng Peng

  • Fusion of TEL, the ETS-Variant Gene 6 (ETV6), to the Receptor-Associated Kinase JAK2 as a Result of t(9; 12) in a Lymphoid and t(9; 15; 12) in a Myeloid Leukemia

    Pieter Peeters;Sophie D. Raynaud;Jan Cools;Iwona Wlodarska

  • Fusion of NUP214 to ABL1 on amplified episomes in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    C Graux;Jan Cools;C Melotte;H Quentmeier

  • Exome sequencing identifies mutation in CNOT3 and ribosomal genes RPL5 and RPL10 in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Kim De Keersmaecker;Zeynep Kalender Atak;Ning Li;Carmen Vicente

  • Marginal zone B-cell lymphomas of different sites share similar cytogenetic and morphologic features

    J. Dierlamm;Lucienne Michaux;S. Pittaluga;Iwona Wlodarska

  • Age-related EBV-associated lymphoproliferative disorders in the Western population: a spectrum of reactive lymphoid hyperplasia and lymphoma

    Stefan D. Dojcinov;Girish Venkataraman;Stefania Pittaluga;Iwona Wlodarska

  • Identification of novel fusion partners of ALK, the anaplastic lymphoma kinase, in anaplastic large-cell lymphoma and inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor.

    Jan Cools;Iwona Wlodarska;Riet Somers;Nicole Mentens

  • Duplication of the MYB oncogene in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Idoya Lahortiga;Kim De Keersmaecker;Kim De Keersmaecker;Pieter Van Vlierberghe;Carlos Graux;Carlos Graux;Carlos Graux

  • Clinicopathologic comparison of plasmablastic lymphoma in HIV-positive, immunocompetent, and posttransplant patients: single-center series of 25 cases and meta-analysis of 277 reported cases

    Julie Morscio;Daan Dierickx;Jan Nijs;Gregor Verhoef

  • ALK activation by the CLTC-ALK fusion is a recurrent event in large B-cell lymphoma.

    Pascale De Paepe;Mathijs Baens;Mathijs Baens;Han van Krieken;Han van Krieken;Bruno Verhasselt;Bruno Verhasselt

  • BCL10 Expression in Normal and Neoplastic Lymphoid Tissue : Nuclear Localization in MALT Lymphoma

    Hongtao Ye;Ahmet Dogan;Loraine Karran;Tony G. Willis

  • Clinical and molecular features of FIP1L1-PDFGRA (+) chronic eosinophilic leukemias

    P Vandenberghe;I Wlodarska;L Michaux;P Zachée

  • Deletion of the protein tyrosine phosphatase gene PTPN2 in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Maria Kleppe;Idoya Lahortiga;Tiama El Chaar;Kim De Keersmaecker;Kim De Keersmaecker

  • Molecular Cloning of Translocation t(1;14)(q21;q32) Defines a Novel Gene (BCL9) at Chromosome 1q21

    T G Willis;I R Zalcberg;L J Coignet;Iwona Wlodarska

  • Presymptomatic Identification of Cancers in Pregnant Women During Noninvasive Prenatal Testing

    Frédéric Amant;Magali Verheecke;Iwona Wlodarska;Luc Dehaspe

  • CCND2 rearrangements are the most frequent genetic events in cyclin D1 mantle cell lymphoma

    Itziar Salaverria;Itziar Salaverria;Cristina Royo;Alejandra Carvajal-Cuenca;Guillem Clot

  • Duplication of the MYB oncogene in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Idoya Lahortiga;Kim De Keersmaecker;Pieter Van Vlierberghe;C. Graux

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Cools
Jan Cools KU Leuven
Peter Marynen
Peter Marynen KU Leuven
Stefania Pittaluga
Stefania Pittaluga National Institutes of Health
Reiner Siebert
Reiner Siebert University of Ulm

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