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Medicine
Switzerland
2023

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Medicine

D-Index
114
Citations
47428
World Ranking
4740
National Ranking
59

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Luigi Terracciano is affiliated with the University Hospital of Basel in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to scientific research, primarily within the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans 332 publications in medicine and 146 publications in biochemistry and molecular biology, highlighting a broad expertise in these disciplines.

The scientist's research focuses on topics including liver disease diagnosis and treatment, RNA modifications and cancer, radiopharmaceutical chemistry and applications, ATP synthase and ATPases research, cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism, radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging, and cancer genomics and diagnostics.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Hepatic stellate cells suppress NK cell-sustained breast cancer dormancy, 2021, published in Nature
  • Arginine reprograms metabolism in liver cancer via RBM39, 2023, published in Cell
  • Integrative proteogenomic characterization of hepatocellular carcinoma across etiologies and stages, 2022, published in Nature Communications
  • Ubiquitous expression of HBsAg from integrated HBV DNA in patients with low viral load, 2021, published in Journal of Hepatology
  • Consensus recommendations for histological criteria of autoimmune hepatitis from the International AIH Pathology Group, 2022, published in Liver International

Terracciano frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include Salvatore Piscuoglio, Caner Ercan, John Gallon, Alex Odermatt, and Luca Di Tommaso, with collaboration counts ranging from 33 to 72 publications each.

The scientist regularly publishes in several venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 47 publications
  • Journal of Hepatology, 13 publications
  • Cancers, 8 publications
  • World Allergy Organization Journal, 6 publications
  • Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin, 6 publications

Their research spans several subfields with an emphasis on molecular biology, oncology, hepatology, cancer research, and epidemiology. The distribution of publications in these subfields is 87 in molecular biology, 49 in oncology, 46 in hepatology, 44 in cancer research, and 44 in epidemiology.

Best Publications

  • World Allergy Organization (WAO) Diagnosis and Rationale for Action against Cow's Milk Allergy (DRACMA) Guidelines

    Alessandro Fiocchi;Jan L Brozek;Holger Schünemann;Sami L Bahna

  • Interferon signaling and treatment outcome in chronic hepatitis C

    Magdalena Sarasin-Filipowicz;Edward J. Oakeley;Francois H. T. Duong;Verena Christen

  • Increased MET Gene Copy Number Negatively Affects Survival of Surgically Resected Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients

    Federico Cappuzzo;Antonio Marchetti;Margaret Skokan;Elisa Rossi

  • PD-1 and PD-L1 expression in molecularly selected non-small-cell lung cancer patients.

    A D'Incecco;M. Andreozzi;V. Ludovini;E. Rossi

  • Hepatic mTORC2 activates glycolysis and lipogenesis through Akt, glucokinase, and SREBP1c.

    Asami Hagiwara;Marion Cornu;Nadine Cybulski;Pazit Polak

  • Prevalence of the alternative lengthening of telomeres telomere maintenance mechanism in human cancer subtypes.

    Christopher M. Heaphy;Andrea P. Subhawong;Seung Mo Hong;Michael G. Goggins

  • Identifying and Targeting ROS1 Gene Fusions in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

    Kurtis D. Davies;Anh T. Le;Mariana F. Theodoro;Margaret C. Skokan

  • World Allergy Organization-McMaster University Guidelines for Allergic Disease Prevention (GLAD-P): Probiotics

    Alessandro Fiocchi;Ruby Pawankar;Carlos Cuello-Garcia;Carlos Cuello-Garcia;Kangmo Ahn

  • Clinical impact of programmed cell death ligand 1 expression in colorectal cancer.

    Raoul A. Droeser;Raoul A. Droeser;Christian Hirt;Christian Hirt;Carsten T. Viehl;Daniel M. Frey

  • World Allergy Organization (WAO) Diagnosis and Rationale for Action against Cow's Milk Allergy (DRACMA) Guidelines.

    Fiocchi A;Brozek J;Schünemann H;Bahna Sl

  • Diagnostic value of HSP70, glypican 3, and glutamine synthetase in hepatocellular nodules in cirrhosis.

    Luca Di Tommaso;Giada Franchi;Young Nyun Park;Barbara Fiamengo

  • Frequent high-level expression of the immunotherapeutic target Ep-CAM in colon, stomach, prostate and lung cancers.

    P Went;M Vasei;L Bubendorf;L Terracciano

  • Estrogen receptor alpha (ESR1) gene amplification is frequent in breast cancer.

    Frederik Holst;Phillip R Stahl;Christian Ruiz;Olaf Hellwinkel

  • Long noncoding RNA HOTTIP/HOXA13 expression is associated with disease progression and predicts outcome in hepatocellular carcinoma patients

    Luca Quagliata;Matthias S. Matter;Salvatore Piscuoglio;Salvatore Piscuoglio;Leila Arabi

  • Proliferation, but not growth, blocked by conditional deletion of 40S ribosomal protein S6.

    Siniša Volarević;Mary J. Stewart;Birgit Ledermann;Frederic Zilberman

  • Probiotics for the prevention of allergy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

    Carlos A. Cuello-Garcia;Carlos A. Cuello-Garcia;Jan L. Brożek;Alessandro Fiocchi;Ruby Pawankar

  • High frequency of tumor‐infiltrating FOXP3+ regulatory T cells predicts improved survival in mismatch repair‐proficient colorectal cancer patients

    Daniel M. Frey;Raoul A. Droeser;Carsten T. Viehl;Inti Zlobec

  • Diagnosis and Rationale for Action against Cow's Milk Allergy (DRACMA): A summary report

    Alessandro Fiocchi;Holger J. Schünemann;Jan Brozek;Patrizia Restani

  • Prognostic impact of the expression of putative cancer stem cell markers CD133, CD166, CD44s, EpCAM, and ALDH1 in colorectal cancer

    A Lugli;G Iezzi;I Hostettler;M G Muraro

  • Organoid Models of Human Liver Cancers Derived from Tumor Needle Biopsies

    Sandro Nuciforo;Isabel Fofana;Matthias S. Matter;Tanja Blumer

Frequent Co-Authors

Inti Zlobec
Inti Zlobec University of Bern
Alessandro Lugli
Alessandro Lugli University of Bern
Markus H. Heim
Markus H. Heim University Hospital of Basel
Salvatore Piscuoglio
Salvatore Piscuoglio Humanitas University
Giulio C. Spagnoli
Giulio C. Spagnoli University Hospital of Basel
Alessandro Fiocchi
Alessandro Fiocchi Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital
Ronald Simon
Ronald Simon Universität Hamburg
Charlotte K.Y. Ng
Charlotte K.Y. Ng Humanitas University
Guido Sauter
Guido Sauter Universität Hamburg
Holger Moch
Holger Moch University of Zurich

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