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2026

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34592
World Ranking
1288
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Poland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Poland Leader Award

Overview

Jacek Gronwald is affiliated with Pomeranian Medical University in Poland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Genetics and Medicine.

The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields such as Genetics, Reproductive Medicine, Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment
  • Trace Elements in Health
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease

Jacek Gronwald has been published in multiple scientific venues, notably including:

  • Cancers
  • Nutrients
  • British Journal of Cancer
  • Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice
  • Biomedicines

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Gronwald include:

  • "CA125 and Ovarian Cancer: A Comprehensive Review," 2020, Cancers
  • "Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses," 2020, Nature Genetics
  • "Ovarian and Breast Cancer Risks Associated With Pathogenic Variants in RAD51C and RAD51D," 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • "Clinical and pathological associations of PTEN expression in ovarian cancer: a multicentre study from the Ovarian Tumour Tissue Analysis Consortium," 2020, British Journal of Cancer
  • "Polygenic risk modeling for prediction of epithelial ovarian cancer risk," 2022, European Journal of Human Genetics

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jan Lubiński, Cezary Cybulski, Tomasz Huzarski, Anna Jakubowska, and Steven A. Narod, reflecting a network of co-authors with longstanding partnerships and numerous joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Average risks of breast and ovarian cancer associated with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations detected in case series unselected for family history: a combined analysis of 22 studies

    A. Antoniou;P.D.P. Pharoah;S. Narod;H.A. Risch

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Associations of Breast Cancer Risk Factors With Tumor Subtypes: A Pooled Analysis From the Breast Cancer Association Consortium Studies

    Xiaohong R. Yang;Jenny Chang-Claude;Ellen L. Goode;Fergus J. Couch

  • Common Genetic Variation In Cellular Transport Genes and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk

    Ganna Chornokur;Hui-Yi Lin;Jonathan P. Tyrer;Kate Lawrenson

  • Pathologic Complete Response Rates in Young Women With BRCA1-Positive Breast Cancers After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

    Tomasz Byrski;Jacek Gronwald;Tomasz Huzarski;Ewa Grzybowska

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • CHEK2 is a multiorgan cancer susceptibility gene

    C. Cybulski;B. Górski;T. Huzarski;B. Masojć

  • The BOADICEA model of genetic susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancers: updates and extensions.

    A C Antoniou;A P Cunningham;J Peto;D G Evans

  • Association of type and location of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations with risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

    Timothy R. Rebbeck;Nandita Mitra;Fei Wan;Olga M. Sinilnikova

  • Identification of 12 new susceptibility loci for different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer

    Catherine M Phelan;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Jonathan P Tyrer;Siddhartha P Kar

  • Response to neoadjuvant therapy with cisplatin in BRCA1-positive breast cancer patients.

    T. Byrski;T. Huzarski;R. Dent;J. Gronwald

  • GWAS meta-analysis and replication identifies three new susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer

    Paul D.P. Pharoah;Ya Yu Tsai;Susan J. Ramus;Catherine M. Phelan

  • International variation in rates of uptake of preventive options in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.

    Kelly A. Metcalfe;Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli;Jan Lubinski;Jacek Gronwald

  • A locus on 19p13 modifies risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers and is associated with hormone receptor-negative breast cancer in the general population

    Antonis C. Antoniou;Xianshu Wang;Zachary S. Fredericksen;Lesley McGuffog

  • A genome-wide association study identifies susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer at 2q31 and 8q24

    Ellen L Goode;Georgia Chenevix-Trench;Honglin Song;Susan J Ramus

  • Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer.

    Roger L Milne;Roger L Milne;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

    Haoyu Zhang;Haoyu Zhang;Thomas U. Ahearn;Julie Lecarpentier;Daniel Barnes

  • Genome-wide association study in BRCA1 mutation carriers identifies novel loci associated with breast and ovarian cancer risk

    Fergus J. Couch;Xianshu Wang;Lesley McGuffog;Andrew Lee

  • Contribution of Germline Mutations in the RAD51B, RAD51C, and RAD51D Genes to Ovarian Cancer in the Population

    Honglin Song;Ed Dicks;Susan J. Ramus;Jonathan P. Tyrer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Lubinski
Jan Lubinski Pomeranian Medical University
Anna Jakubowska
Anna Jakubowska Pomeranian Medical University
Steven A. Narod
Steven A. Narod University of Toronto
Peter A. Fasching
Peter A. Fasching University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Beth Y. Karlan
Beth Y. Karlan University of California, Los Angeles
Susan J. Ramus
Susan J. Ramus University of New South Wales
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Georgia Chenevix-Trench QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Ian G. Campbell
Ian G. Campbell Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

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