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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Poland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Poland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in France Leader Award

Overview

Jolanta Lissowska is affiliated with the Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology in Poland. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Genetics, Oncology, Cancer Research, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Molecular Biology as core subfields of study.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics, including:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer

Recent notable publications by Jolanta Lissowska include:

  • "Prognostic gene expression signature for high-grade serous ovarian cancer," published in 2020 in the Annals of Oncology
  • "Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders," published in 2021 in Biological Psychiatry
  • "Respirable Crystalline Silica Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies," published in 2020 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "Diesel Engine Exhaust Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Exposure-Response Analysis of 14 Case-Control Studies," published in 2020 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "Combined Associations of a Polygenic Risk Score and Classical Risk Factors With Breast Cancer Risk," published in 2020 in the JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

The scientist frequently collaborates with the following coauthors:

  • Beata Świątkowska
  • Dana Mateș
  • Ivana Holcátová
  • Lorenzo Richiardi
  • Oxana Shangina

Publications by Jolanta Lissowska have appeared primarily in the following venues:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Best Publications

  • Interleukin-1 polymorphisms associated with increased risk of gastric cancer

    Emad M. El-Omar;Emad M. El-Omar;Mary Carrington;Wong Ho Chow;Kenneth E.L. McColl

  • Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Douglas F. Easton;Karen A. Pooley;Alison M. Dunning;Paul D. P. Pharoah

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Human papillomavirus and oral cancer: the International Agency for Research on Cancer multicenter study.

    Rolando Herrero;Xavier Castellsagué;Michael Pawlita;Jolanta Lissowska

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25

    Rayjean J. Hung;James D. Mckay;Valerie Gaborieau;Paolo Boffetta

  • Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

    Niamh Mullins;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Kevin S. O'Connell;Kevin S. O'Connell;Brandon Coombes

  • Subtyping of breast cancer by immunohistochemistry to investigate a relationship between subtype and short and long term survival: a collaborative analysis of data for 10,159 cases from 12 studies

    Fiona M. Blows;Kristy E. Driver;Marjanka K. Schmidt;Annegien Broeks

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

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

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Zeynep Yilmaz;Laura M. Thornton;Christopher Hübel;Christopher Hübel

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior

    Helena Furberg;Yunjung Kim;Jennifer Dackor;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: Individual participant meta-analysis, including 118 964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • 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

  • Type I and II Endometrial Cancers: Have They Different Risk Factors?

    Veronica Wendy Setiawan;Hannah P. Yang;Malcolm C. Pike;Malcolm C. Pike;Susan E. McCann;Susan E. McCann

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • A common coding variant in CASP8 is associated with breast cancer risk

    Angela Cox;Alison M. Dunning;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Sabapathy Balasubramanian

Frequent Co-Authors

Montserrat Garcia-Closas
Montserrat Garcia-Closas National Institutes of Health
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Louise A. Brinton
Louise A. Brinton National Institutes of Health
Paul D.P. Pharoah
Paul D.P. Pharoah University of Cambridge
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Eleonora Fabianova
Eleonora Fabianova Regional Authority of Public Health

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