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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2001 - Curt Stern Award, American Society of Human Genetics
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Joe W. Gray is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research spans numerous aspects of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a strong focus on molecular biology and oncology as principal subfields.

Their work involves several specialized areas including:

  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Cell image analysis techniques
  • Cancer genomics and diagnostics
  • AI in cancer detection
  • Cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers
  • Radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging
  • Advanced breast cancer therapies

Gray has contributed extensively to academic journals across diverse venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • UNC Libraries
  • Scientific Reports
  • Microscopy and Microanalysis

Among their recent scientific papers are:

  • "The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution," 2020, Cell
  • "How Machine Learning Will Transform Biomedicine," 2020, Cell
  • "Development of a nanoparticle-based immunotherapy targeting PD-L1 and PLK1 for lung cancer treatment," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "In Situ Tumor Vaccination with Nanoparticle Co-Delivering CpG and STAT3 siRNA to Effectively Induce Whole-Body Antitumor Immune Response," 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "Relevance of circulating hybrid cells as a non-invasive biomarker for myriad solid tumors," 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Gordon B. Mills
  • Young Hwan Chang
  • Koei Chin
  • Guillaume Thibault
  • Laura M. Heiser

Joe W. Gray has been recognized with several awards, among them:

  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2011
  • Curt Stern Award, American Society of Human Genetics, 2001
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1996

Best Publications

  • Integrated Genomic Analysis Identifies Clinically Relevant Subtypes of Glioblastoma Characterized by Abnormalities in PDGFRA, IDH1, EGFR, and NF1

    Roel G. W. Verhaak;Katherine A. Hoadley;Elizabeth Purdom;Victoria Wang

  • Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma

    D. Bell;A. Berchuck;M. Birrer;J. Chien

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization defines human glioblastoma genes and core pathways

    Roger McLendon;Allan Friedman;Darrell Bigner;Erwin G. Van Meir

  • The consensus molecular subtypes of colorectal cancer

    Justin Guinney;Rodrigo Dienstmann;Rodrigo Dienstmann;Xingwu Wang;Xingwu Wang;Aurélien De Reyniès

  • Comparative Genomic Hybridization for Molecular Cytogenetic Analysis of Solid Tumors

    Anne Kallioniemi;Olli P. Kallioniemi;Damir Sudar;Denis Rutovitz

  • Cytogenetic analysis using quantitative, high-sensitivity, fluorescence hybridization.

    D Pinkel;T Straume;J W Gray

  • A collection of breast cancer cell lines for the study of functionally distinct cancer subtypes

    Richard M. Neve;Richard M. Neve;Koei Chin;Jane Fridlyand;Jennifer Yeh

  • High resolution analysis of DNA copy number variation using comparative genomic hybridization to microarrays

    Daniel Pinkel;Daniel Pinkel;Richard Segraves;Damir Sudar;Steven Clark

  • Induction of tumors in mice by genomic hypomethylation.

    François Gaudet;J. Graeme Hodgson;Amir Eden;Laurie Jackson-Grusby

  • Subtypes of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and their differing responses to therapy.

    Eric A Collisson;Anguraj Sadanandam;Anguraj Sadanandam;Peter Olson;Peter Olson;William J Gibb;William J Gibb

  • Fluorescence in situ hybridization with human chromosome-specific libraries: detection of trisomy 21 and translocations of chromosome 4.

    D Pinkel;J Landegent;C Collins;J Fuscoe

  • Tumour amplified kinase STK15 / BTAK induces centrosome amplification, aneuploidy and transformation

    Hongyi Zhou;Jian Kuang;Ling Zhong;Wen Lin Kuo

  • Genomic and transcriptional aberrations linked to breast cancer pathophysiologies.

    Koei Chin;Sandy DeVries;Jane Fridlyand;Paul T. Spellman

  • PIK3CA is implicated as an oncogene in ovarian cancer

    Laleh Shayesteh;Yiling Lu;Wen Lin Kuo;Russell Baldocchi

  • Flow cytometric measurement of total DNA content and incorporated bromodeoxyuridine.

    F Dolbeare;H Gratzner;M G Pallavicini;J W Gray

  • Assembly of microarrays for genome-wide measurement of DNA copy number.

    Antoine M. Snijders;Norma Nowak;Richard Segraves;Stephanie Blackwood

  • Optimizing comparative genomic hybridization for analysis of DNA sequence copy number changes in solid tumors.

    Olli‐P ‐P Kallioniemi;Anne Kallioniemi;Jim Piper;Jorma Isola

  • An integrative genomic and proteomic analysis of PIK3CA, PTEN, and AKT mutations in breast cancer.

    Katherine Stemke-Hale;Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo;Ana Lluch;Richard M. Neve

  • The morphologies of breast cancer cell lines in three-dimensional assays correlate with their profiles of gene expression

    Paraic A. Kenny;Genee Y. Lee;Connie A. Myers;Richard M. Neve

  • Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma

    D. Bell;A. Berchuck;M. Birrer;J. Chien

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Pinkel
Daniel Pinkel University of California, San Francisco
Paul T. Spellman
Paul T. Spellman Oregon Health & Science University
Gordon B. Mills
Gordon B. Mills Oregon Health & Science University
Colin Collins
Colin Collins University of British Columbia
Anne Kallioniemi
Anne Kallioniemi Tampere University
Donna G. Albertson
Donna G. Albertson New York University
Obi L. Griffith
Obi L. Griffith Washington University in St. Louis
Eric A. Collisson
Eric A. Collisson University of California, San Francisco
Dan H. Moore
Dan H. Moore University of California, San Francisco
Yiling Lu
Yiling Lu The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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