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Biology and Biochemistry
USA
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
146
Citations
165921
World Ranking
205
National Ranking
141

Medicine

D-Index
147
Citations
166075
World Ranking
1244
National Ranking
722

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2013 - Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Levi A. Garraway is affiliated with Roche in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields with a focus on cancer biology and its molecular and genetic underpinnings.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, Garraway's research extends into the following subfields:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Research
  • Oncology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Immunology

Their work encompasses key topics such as:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Garraway has authored several recent papers, notable for research advancing understanding of cancer biology and treatment resistance. These include:

  • Quantitative Proteomics of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia, 2020, Cell
  • A single-cell landscape of high-grade serous ovarian cancer, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • The Genomic Landscape of Intrinsic and Acquired Resistance to Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4/6 Inhibitors in Patients with Hormone Receptor-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer, 2020, Cancer Discovery
  • A deep learning system accurately classifies primary and metastatic cancers using passenger mutation patterns, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Sex differences in oncogenic mutational processes, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent coauthors in Garraway's research include:

  • Aviv Regev
  • Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen
  • Nikhil Wagle
  • Eliezer M. Van Allen
  • Gurnit Atwal

Their publications often appear in the following venues:

  • Nature Communications
  • UNC Libraries
  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Medicine

Notable recognitions include Garraway's membership in the National Academy of Medicine awarded in 2020, the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2013, and affiliation as a Member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia enables predictive modelling of anticancer drug sensitivity

    Jordi Barretina;Giordano Caponigro;Nicolas Stransky;Kavitha Venkatesan

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization defines human glioblastoma genes and core pathways

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

  • Mutational heterogeneity in cancer and the search for new cancer-associated genes

    Michael S. Lawrence;Petar Stojanov;Petar Stojanov;Paz Polak;Paz Polak;Paz Polak;Gregory V. Kryukov;Gregory V. Kryukov;Gregory V. Kryukov

  • Comprehensive molecular profiling of lung adenocarcinoma: The cancer genome atlas research network

    Eric A. Collisson;Joshua D. Campbell;Angela N. Brooks;Angela N. Brooks;Alice H. Berger

  • Dissecting the multicellular ecosystem of metastatic melanoma by single-cell RNA-seq

    Itay Tirosh;Benjamin Izar;Benjamin Izar;Sanjay M. Prakadan;Marc H. Wadsworth

  • The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers

    Rameen Beroukhim;Craig H. Mermel;Craig H. Mermel;Dale Porter;Guo Wei

  • Integrative clinical genomics of advanced prostate cancer

    Dan Robinson;Eliezer M. Van Allen;Eliezer M. Van Allen;Yi Mi Wu;Nikolaus Schultz

  • Discovery and saturation analysis of cancer genes across 21 tumour types

    Michael S. Lawrence;Petar Stojanov;Craig H. Mermel;James T. Robinson

  • Clonal neoantigens elicit T cell immunoreactivity and sensitivity to immune checkpoint blockade

    Nicholas McGranahan;Nicholas McGranahan;Andrew J. S. Furness;Rachel Rosenthal;Sofie Ramskov

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • Genomic correlates of response to CTLA-4 blockade in metastatic melanoma

    Eliezer M. Van Allen;Eliezer M. Van Allen;Diana Miao;Diana Miao;Bastian Schilling;Sachet A. Shukla;Sachet A. Shukla

  • Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma

    Rehan Akbani;Kadir C. Akdemir;B. Arman Aksoy;Monique Albert

  • A landscape of driver mutations in melanoma

    Eran Hodis;Ian R. Watson;Ian R. Watson;Gregory V. Kryukov;Gregory V. Kryukov;Gregory V. Kryukov;Stefan T. Arold

  • Analysis of 100,000 human cancer genomes reveals the landscape of tumor mutational burden

    Zachary R. Chalmers;Caitlin F. Connelly;David Fabrizio

  • Integrated Genomic Characterization of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

    Nishant Agrawal;Rehan Akbani;B. Arman Aksoy;Adrian Ally

  • The Mutational Landscape of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

    N. Stransky;A. M. Egloff;A. D. Tward;A. D. Kostic

  • Next-generation characterization of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia

    Mahmoud Ghandi;Franklin W. Huang;Franklin W. Huang;Franklin W. Huang;Judit Jané-Valbuena;Judit Jané-Valbuena;Gregory V. Kryukov

  • Defining a Cancer Dependency Map

    Aviad Tsherniak;Francisca Vazquez;Francisca Vazquez;Phil G. Montgomery;Barbara A. Weir;Barbara A. Weir

  • Targeted next-generation sequencing of a cancer transcriptome enhances detection of sequence variants and novel fusion transcripts

    Joshua Z Levin;Michael F Berger;Xian Adiconis;Peter Rogov

  • Dissecting the multicellular ecosystem of metastatic melanoma by single-cell RNA-seq

    I. Tirosh;B. Izar;D. Treacy;J. J. Trombetta

Frequent Co-Authors

Eliezer M. Van Allen
Eliezer M. Van Allen Harvard University
Matthew Meyerson
Matthew Meyerson Harvard University
Gad Getz
Gad Getz Broad Institute
Eric S. Lander
Eric S. Lander Broad Institute
William C. Hahn
William C. Hahn Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Todd R. Golub
Todd R. Golub Harvard University
William R. Sellers
William R. Sellers Harvard University
Stacey Gabriel
Stacey Gabriel Broad Institute
Mark A. Rubin
Mark A. Rubin University of Bern
Gregory V. Kryukov
Gregory V. Kryukov Broad Institute

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