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Joel K. Greenson is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a strong emphasis on oncology, immunology, pathology and forensic medicine, cancer research, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Colorectal cancer screening and detection
  • Colorectal cancer treatments and studies
  • Cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers
  • Cancer genomics and diagnostics
  • Radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging
  • Immune cell function and interaction

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "A Cell-free DNA Blood-Based Test for Colorectal Cancer Screening", 2024, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Transformer-based biomarker prediction from colorectal cancer histology: A large-scale multicentric study", 2023, Cancer Cell
  • "Artificial intelligence for detection of microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer-a multicentric analysis of a pre-screening tool for clinical application", 2022, ESMO Open
  • "MiR130b from Schlafen4 + MDSCs stimulates epithelial proliferation and correlates with preneoplastic changes prior to gastric cancer", 2020, Gut
  • "Colorectal cancer cells utilize autophagy to maintain mitochondrial metabolism for cell proliferation under nutrient stress", 2021, JCI Insight

Joel K. Greenson frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Gad Rennert
  • Stephen B. Gruber
  • Joseph D. Bonner
  • Stephanie L. Schmit
  • Gregory Idos

The scientist has published extensively in several notable venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • immuneACCESS
  • New England Journal of Medicine

Best Publications

  • A simple noninvasive index can predict both significant fibrosis and cirrhosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C

    Chun-Tao Wai;Joel K. Greenson;Robert J. Fontana;John D. Kalbfleisch

  • Statins and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer

    Jenny N. Poynter;Stephen B. Gruber;Peter D.R. Higgins;Ronit Almog

  • Reproducibility of the diagnosis of dysplasia in Barrett esophagus: A reaffirmation

    Elizabeth Montgomery;Mary P. Bronner;John R. Goldblum;Joel K. Greenson

  • Molecular Profiling of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma and Chronic Pancreatitis Identifies Multiple Genes Differentially Regulated in Pancreatic Cancer

    Craig D. Logsdon;Diane M. Simeone;Charles Binkley;Thiruvengadam Arumugam

  • The Histone Deacetylase SIRT6 Is a Tumor Suppressor that Controls Cancer Metabolism

    Carlos Sebastián;Bernardette M. M. Zwaans;Dafne Magali Silberman;Dafne Magali Silberman;Melissa Gymrek

  • One-year intense nutritional counseling results in histological improvement in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: a pilot study.

    Mary Ann Huang;Joel K Greenson;Cewin Chao;Lilian Anderson

  • Histopathologic diagnosis of chronic graft-versus-host disease: National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: II. Pathology Working Group Report.

    Howard M. Shulman;David Kleiner;Stephanie J. Lee;Thomas Morton

  • Rearrangements of the RAF Kinase Pathway in Prostate Cancer, Gastric Cancer and Melanoma

    Nallasivam Palanisamy;Bushra Ateeq;Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram;Dorothee Pflueger;Dorothee Pflueger

  • Expression of NOD2 in Paneth cells: a possible link to Crohn's ileitis.

    Y Ogura;S Lala;W Xin;E Smith

  • Regenerating islet-derived 3-alpha is a biomarker of gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease

    James L.M. Ferrara;Andrew C. Harris;Joel K. Greenson;Thomas M. Braun

  • Dysplasia as a predictive marker for invasive carcinoma in Barrett esophagus: a follow-up study based on 138 cases from a diagnostic variability study.

    Elizabeth Montgomery;John R. Goldblum;Joel K. Greenson;Marian M. Haber

  • Hepatic fat fraction: MR imaging for quantitative measurement and display--early experience.

    Hero K. Hussain;Thomas L. Chenevert;Frank J. Londy;Vikas Gulani

  • Mouse Model of Colonic Adenoma-Carcinoma Progression Based on Somatic Apc Inactivation

    Takao Hinoi;Aytekin Akyol;Brian K. Theisen;David O. Ferguson

  • IL-17+ Regulatory T Cells in the Microenvironments of Chronic Inflammation and Cancer

    Ilona Kryczek;Ke Wu;Ende Zhao;Shuang Wei

  • Phenotype of microsatellite unstable colorectal carcinomas: Well-differentiated and focally mucinous tumors and the absence of dirty necrosis correlate with microsatellite instability.

    Joel K Greenson;Joseph D Bonner;Ofer Ben-Yzhak;Hector I Cohen

  • Pathologic Predictors of Microsatellite Instability in Colorectal Cancer

    Joel K. Greenson;Shu-Chen Huang;Casey Herron;Victor Moreno

  • Pilot Clinical Trial of Hedgehog Pathway Inhibitor GDC-0449 (Vismodegib) in Combination with Gemcitabine in Patients with Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

    Edward J. Kim;Vaibhav Sahai;Ethan V. Abel;Kent A. Griffith

  • NIH Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: II. The 2014 Pathology Working Group Report

    Howard M. Shulman;Diana M. Cardona;Joel K. Greenson;Sangeeta Hingorani;Sangeeta Hingorani;Sangeeta Hingorani

  • Prognostic value of Ishak fibrosis stage: findings from the hepatitis C antiviral long-term treatment against cirrhosis trial.

    James E. Everhart;Elizabeth C. Wright;Zachary D. Goodman;Jules L. Dienstag

  • Molecular profiling of pancreatic adenocarcinoma and chronic pancreatitis identifies multiple genes differentially regulated in pancreatic cancer (Cancer Research (2003) (2649-2657))

    Craig D. Logsdon;Diane M. Simeone;Charles Binkley;Thiruvengadam Arumugam

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen B. Gruber
Stephen B. Gruber City Of Hope National Medical Center
Gad Rennert
Gad Rennert Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Thomas J. Giordano
Thomas J. Giordano University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Diane M. Simeone
Diane M. Simeone New York University Langone Medical Center
John R. Goldblum
John R. Goldblum Cleveland Clinic
Theodore S. Lawrence
Theodore S. Lawrence University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Victor Moreno
Victor Moreno University of Barcelona
Eric R. Fearon
Eric R. Fearon University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Henry D. Appelman
Henry D. Appelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Samir M. Hanash
Samir M. Hanash The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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