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Laura D. Wood is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on oncology and cancer research. The scientist has contributed significantly to fields such as molecular biology, surgery, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Their work often centers on pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, cancer genomics and diagnostics, and pancreatitis pathology and treatment. Additional topics of study include cancer cells and metastasis, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, and cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer studies.

Laura D. Wood has co-authored numerous papers with frequent collaborators including Ralph H. Hruban, Ashley Kiemen, Denis Wirtz, Pei-Hsun Wu, and Elizabeth D. Thompson. Their publications are commonly found in prominent scientific venues, such as Cancer Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Journal of Pathology, Modern Pathology, and Pancreatology.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Pancreatic Cancer: Pathogenesis, Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment, 2022, Gastroenterology
  • International evidence-based Kyoto guidelines for the management of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas, 2023, Pancreatology
  • Comprehensive characterisation of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma with microsatellite instability: histology, molecular pathology and clinical implications, 2020, Gut
  • A unifying paradigm for transcriptional heterogeneity and squamous features in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, 2020, Nature Cancer
  • CODA: quantitative 3D reconstruction of large tissues at cellular resolution, 2022, Nature Methods

Best Publications

  • PD-1 Blockade in Tumors with Mismatch-Repair Deficiency

    Dung T. Le;Jennifer N. Uram;Hao Wang;Bjarne R. Bartlett

  • Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA in Early- and Late-Stage Human Malignancies

    Chetan Bettegowda;Chetan Bettegowda;Mark Sausen;Rebecca J. Leary;Isaac Kinde

  • Consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers

    Tobias Sjoblom;Sian Jones;D. Williams Parsons;Laura D. Wood

  • Genomic landscapes of human breast and colorectal cancers

    Laura D. Wood;Williams D. Parsons;Sian Jones;Jimmy Lin

  • Exome sequencing of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma reveals inactivating mutations in NOTCH1

    Nishant Agrawal;Mitchell J. Frederick;Curtis R. Pickering;Chetan Bettegowda

  • Tumor Microbiome Diversity and Composition Influence Pancreatic Cancer Outcomes

    Erick Riquelme;Erick Riquelme;Yu Zhang;Liangliang Zhang;Maria Montiel

  • TERT promoter mutations occur frequently in gliomas and a subset of tumors derived from cells with low rates of self-renewal

    Patrick J. Killela;Zachary J. Reitman;Yuchen Jiao;Chetan Bettegowda

  • Recurrent GNAS Mutations Define an Unexpected Pathway for Pancreatic Cyst Development

    Jian Wu;Hanno Matthaei;Anirban Maitra;Marco Dal Molin

  • Organoid profiling identifies common responders to chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer

    Hervé Tiriac;Pascal Belleau;Dannielle D Engle;Dennis Plenker

  • A Revised Classification System and Recommendations From the Baltimore Consensus Meeting for Neoplastic Precursor Lesions in the Pancreas.

    Olca Basturk;Seung Mo Hong;Laura D. Wood;N. Volkan Adsay

  • Exome sequencing identifies frequent inactivating mutations in BAP1, ARID1A and PBRM1 in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas

    Yuchen Jiao;Timothy M Pawlik;Robert A Anders;Florin M Selaru

  • Whole-exome sequencing of neoplastic cysts of the pancreas reveals recurrent mutations in components of ubiquitin-dependent pathways

    Jian Wu;Yuchen Jiao;Marco Dal Molin;Anirban Maitra

  • High grade serous ovarian carcinomas originate in the fallopian tube

    S. Intidhar Labidi-Galy;S. Intidhar Labidi-Galy;Eniko Papp;Dorothy Hallberg;Noushin Niknafs;Noushin Niknafs

  • Mutations in CIC and FUBP1 Contribute to Human Oligodendroglioma

    Chetan Bettegowda;Nishant Agrawal;Yuchen Jiao;Mark Sausen

  • Cancer-Associated Mutations in Endometriosis without Cancer

    Michael S. Anglesio;Nickolas Papadopoulos;Ayse Ayhan;Tayyebeh M. Nazeran

  • Genotype tunes pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma tissue tension to induce matricellular fibrosis and tumor progression.

    Hanane Laklai;Yekaterina A Miroshnikova;Michael W Pickup;Eric A Collisson

  • Inactivating mutations of the chromatin remodeling gene ARID2 in hepatocellular carcinoma

    Meng Li;Hong Zhao;Xiaosong Zhang;Laura D Wood

  • TERT PROMOTER MUTATIONS OCCUR FREQUENTLY IN GLIOMAS AND A SUBSET OF TUMORS DERIVED FROM CELLS WITH LOW RATES OF SELF-RENEWAL

    Hai Yan;P.J. Killela;Z.J. Reitman;Y. Jiao

  • Phase II study of axitinib in sorafenib-refractory metastatic renal cell carcinoma

    Brian I. Rini;George Wilding;Gary Hudes;Walter M. Stadler

  • Integrated analysis of homozygous deletions, focal amplifications, and sequence alterations in breast and colorectal cancers

    Rebecca J. Leary;Jimmy C. Lin;Jordan Cummins;Simina Boca

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph H. Hruban
Ralph H. Hruban Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Christopher L. Wolfgang
Christopher L. Wolfgang New York University
Kenneth W. Kinzler
Kenneth W. Kinzler Johns Hopkins University
Bert Vogelstein
Bert Vogelstein Johns Hopkins University
Michael Goggins
Michael Goggins Johns Hopkins University
Aldo Scarpa
Aldo Scarpa University of Verona
Nickolas Papadopoulos
Nickolas Papadopoulos Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Matthew J. Weiss
Matthew J. Weiss Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Rachel Karchin
Rachel Karchin Johns Hopkins University
Seung-Mo Hong
Seung-Mo Hong University of Ulsan

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