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70
Citations
22990
World Ranking
6893
National Ranking
219

Overview

Jiri Zavadil is affiliated with the International Agency For Research On Cancer in France. Their research spans the disciplines of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on cancer research and related subfields.

The main subfields of study in their work include cancer research, molecular biology, plant science, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, as well as health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Zavadil's publications cover a range of topics, particularly in cancer genomics and diagnostics, carcinogens and genotoxicity assessment, mycotoxins in agriculture and food, nephrotoxicity and medicinal plants, wheat and barley genetics and pathology, plant pathogens and resistance, and molecular biology techniques and applications.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Michael Korenjak
  • François Virard
  • Vincent Cahais
  • Béatrice Fervers
  • Zdenko Herceg

Common publication venues where their work appears include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety
  • Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Nature Reviews. Cancer

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Jiri Zavadil are:

  • Mycotoxin exposure and human cancer risk: A systematic review of epidemiological studies, 2020, Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety
  • The TP53 Database: transition from the International Agency for Research on Cancer to the US National Cancer Institute, 2022, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Aristolochic acid-associated cancers: a public health risk in need of global action, 2022, Nature Reviews. Cancer
  • The International Collaboration for Cancer Classification and Research, 2020, International Journal of Cancer
  • Advisory Group recommendations on priorities for the IARC Monographs, 2024, The Lancet Oncology

Best Publications

  • TGF-beta and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transitions.

    Jiri Zavadil;Erwin P Böttinger

  • Antibiotics in early life alter the murine colonic microbiome and adiposity

    Ilseung Cho;Shingo Yamanishi;Laura Cox;Barbara A. Methé

  • Tet2 loss leads to increased hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and myeloid transformation.

    Kelly Moran-Crusio;Linsey Reavie;Alan Shih;Omar Abdel-Wahab

  • A comprehensive assessment of RNA-seq accuracy, reproducibility and information content by the Sequencing Quality Control Consortium

    Zhenqiang Su;Paweł P. Łabaj;Sheng Li;Jean Thierry-Mieg

  • Integration of TGF-β/Smad and Jagged1/Notch signalling in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

    Jiri Zavadil;Lukas Cermak;Lukas Cermak;Noemi Soto-Nieves;Erwin P Böttinger

  • Ezh1 and Ezh2 maintain repressive chromatin through different mechanisms.

    Raphael Margueron;Guohong Li;Kavitha Sarma;Alexandre Blais

  • TP53 Variations in Human Cancers: New Lessons from the IARC TP53 Database and Genomics Data.

    Liacine Bouaoun;Dmitriy Sonkin;Maude Ardin;Monica Hollstein;Monica Hollstein

  • Genetic programs of epithelial cell plasticity directed by transforming growth factor-β

    Jiri Zavadil;Markus Bitzer;Dan Liang;Yaw Ching Yang

  • Single cell behavior in metastatic primary mammary tumors correlated with gene expression patterns revealed by molecular profiling.

    Weigang Wang;Jeffrey B. Wyckoff;Victoria Centonze Frohlich;Yuri Oleynikov

  • TGFβ Is a Master Regulator of Radiation Therapy-Induced Antitumor Immunity

    Claire Vanpouille-Box;Julie M. Diamond;Karsten A. Pilones;Jiri Zavadil

  • Immune profile and mitotic index of metastatic melanoma lesions enhance clinical staging in predicting patient survival

    Dusan Bogunovic;David W. O'Neill;Ilana Belitskaya-Levy;Vladimir Vacic

  • A novel tumour-suppressor function for the Notch pathway in myeloid leukaemia

    Apostolos Klinakis;Camille Lobry;Omar Abdel-Wahab;Philmo Oh

  • Aristolochic acid-associated urothelial cancer in Taiwan

    Chung Hsin Chen;Kathleen G. Dickman;Masaaki Moriya;Jiri Zavadil

  • miR-30b/30d Regulation of GalNAc Transferases Enhances Invasion and Immunosuppression during Metastasis

    Avital Gaziel-Sovran;Miguel F. Segura;Raffaella Di Micco;Mary K. Collins

  • Relapse-specific mutations in NT5C2 in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

    Julia A Meyer;Jinhua Wang;Laura E. Hogan;Laura E. Hogan;Jun J Yang

  • CCR7 signalling as an essential regulator of CNS infiltration in T-cell leukaemia

    Silvia Buonamici;Thomas Trimarchi;Maria Grazia Ruocco;Linsey Reavie

  • Hierarchical model of gene regulation by transforming growth factor β

    Yaw-Ching Yang;Ester Piek;Jiri Zavadil;Dan Liang

  • Control of Cholesterol Metabolism and Plasma High-Density Lipoprotein Levels by microRNA-144

    Cristina M. Ramírez;Noemi Rotllan;Alexander V. Vlassov;Alexander V. Vlassov;Alberto Dávalos

  • eIF4GI links nutrient sensing by mTOR to cell proliferation and inhibition of autophagy

    Francisco Ramírez-Valle;Steve Braunstein;Jiri Zavadil;Silvia C. Formenti

  • Knock down of HIF-1α in glioma cells reduces migration in vitro and invasion in vivo and impairs their ability to form tumor spheres

    Olga Méndez;Jiri Zavadil;Mine Esencay;Yevgeniy Lukyanov

Frequent Co-Authors

Monica Hollstein
Monica Hollstein University of Leeds
Erwin P. Bottinger
Erwin P. Bottinger Hasso Plattner Institute
Ales Cvekl
Ales Cvekl Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Adriana Heguy
Adriana Heguy New York University
James McKay
James McKay International Agency For Research On Cancer
Arthur I. Skoultchi
Arthur I. Skoultchi Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Eva Hernando
Eva Hernando New York University
Arthur P. Grollman
Arthur P. Grollman Stony Brook University
Graham Byrnes
Graham Byrnes International Agency For Research On Cancer
Iannis Aifantis
Iannis Aifantis New York University

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