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Biology and Biochemistry

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108
Citations
105197
World Ranking
1026
National Ranking
619

Medicine

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108
Citations
105183
World Ranking
5850
National Ranking
3141

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - Hellman Fellow
  • 2001 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Lisa M. Coussens is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Oncology, Molecular Biology, and Immunology as subfields of study.

The main topics their work covers include Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, Cancer Cells and Metastasis, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Immune Cells in Cancer, and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses.

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include Cancer Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Cancer Immunology Research, and Clinical Cancer Research.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Early detection of cancer (2022, Science)
  • The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution (2020, Cell)
  • Tumour-associated macrophages drive stromal cell-dependent collagen crosslinking and stiffening to promote breast cancer aggression (2020, Nature Materials)
  • MCMICRO: a scalable, modular image-processing pipeline for multiplexed tissue imaging (2021, Nature Methods)
  • Neoadjuvant Selicrelumab, an Agonist CD40 Antibody, Induces Changes in the Tumor Microenvironment in Patients with Resectable Pancreatic Cancer (2021, Clinical Cancer Research)

Collaborators frequently working with Lisa M. Coussens include Courtney B. Betts, Shamilene Sivagnanam, Jeremy Goecks, Gordon B. Mills, and Young Hwan Chang.

Throughout their career, Lisa M. Coussens has received several awards such as the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018 and the Hellman Fellow honors in 2001 and 2002.

Best Publications

  • Inflammation and cancer

    Lisa M. Coussens;Zena Werb

  • Understanding the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) for effective therapy.

    Mikhail Binnewies;Edward W. Roberts;Kelly Kersten;Vincent Chan

  • Accessories to the Crime: Functions of Cells Recruited to the Tumor Microenvironment

    Douglas Hanahan;Lisa M. Coussens

  • Gut microbiome modulates response to anti–PD-1 immunotherapy in melanoma patients

    V. Gopalakrishnan;V. Gopalakrishnan;C. N. Spencer;C. N. Spencer;L. Nezi;A. Reuben

  • Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors and Cancer—Trials and Tribulations

    Lisa M. Coussens;Barbara Fingleton;Lynn M. Matrisian

  • Human epidermal growth factor receptor cDNA sequence and aberrant expression of the amplified gene in A431 epidermoid carcinoma cells

    A Ullrich;L Coussens;J S Hayflick;T J Dull

  • Paradoxical roles of the immune system during cancer development

    Karin E. de Visser;Alexandra Eichten;Lisa M. Coussens

  • Human insulin receptor and its relationship to the tyrosine kinase family of oncogenes

    Axel Ullrich;J. R. Bell;Ellson Y. Chen;R. Herrera

  • Tyrosine kinase receptor with extensive homology to EGF receptor shares chromosomal location with neu oncogene.

    Lisa Coussens;Teresa L. Yang-Feng;Yu Cheng Liao;Ellson Chen

  • Human proto-oncogene c-kit: a new cell surface receptor tyrosine kinase for an unidentified ligand.

    Y. Yarden;W. J. Kuang;T. Yang-Feng;L. Coussens

  • Leukocyte Complexity Predicts Breast Cancer Survival and Functionally Regulates Response to Chemotherapy

    David G. DeNardo;David G. DeNardo;Donal J. Brennan;Elton Rexhepaj;Brian Ruffell

  • CD4+ T Cells Regulate Pulmonary Metastasis of Mammary Carcinomas by Enhancing Protumor Properties of Macrophages

    David G. DeNardo;Jairo B. Barreto;Pauline Andreu;Lesley Vasquez;Lesley Vasquez

  • MMP-9 supplied by bone marrow-derived cells contributes to skin carcinogenesis

    Lisa M Coussens;Christopher L Tinkle;Douglas Hanahan;Zena Werb

  • Iron oxide nanoparticles inhibit tumour growth by inducing pro-inflammatory macrophage polarization in tumour tissues

    Saeid Zanganeh;Gregor Hutter;Ryan Spitler;Olga Lenkov

  • Multiple, distinct forms of bovine and human protein kinase C suggest diversity in cellular signaling pathways.

    Lisa Coussens;Peter J. Parker;Lucy Rhee;Teresa L. Yang-Feng

  • Macrophages and Therapeutic Resistance in Cancer

    Brian Ruffell;Lisa M. Coussens

  • Neutralizing Tumor-Promoting Chronic Inflammation: A Magic Bullet?

    Lisa M. Coussens;Laurence Zitvogel;A. Karolina Palucka

  • Macrophages and Metabolism in the Tumor Microenvironment

    Ilio Vitale;Gwenola Manic;Lisa M. Coussens;Guido Kroemer

  • Tumor stroma and regulation of cancer development.

    Thea D. Tlsty;Lisa M. Coussens

  • Inflammatory mast cells up-regulate angiogenesis during squamous epithelial carcinogenesis

    Lisa M. Coussens;Wilfred W. Raymond;Gabriele Bergers;Marion Laig-Webster

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. DeNardo
David G. DeNardo Washington University in St. Louis
Axel Ullrich
Axel Ullrich Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Zena Werb
Zena Werb University of California, San Francisco
David M. Jablons
David M. Jablons University of California, San Francisco
Hope S. Rugo
Hope S. Rugo University of California, San Francisco
Joe W. Gray
Joe W. Gray Oregon Health & Science University
Elizabeth M. Jaffee
Elizabeth M. Jaffee Johns Hopkins University
Raphael Bueno
Raphael Bueno Brigham and Women's Hospital
Brian L. West
Brian L. West Daiichi Sankyo (United States)
Ellson Y. Chen
Ellson Y. Chen Applied Biosystems

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