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National Ranking
9

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Citations
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29
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  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Canada Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Canada Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Marco A. Marra is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has an extensive publication record in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily spans subfields of Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Genetics, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. The main topics of work focus on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment, Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research, Genetic Factors in Colorectal Cancer, and RNA Modifications and Cancer.

Recent papers include:

  • Transcription phenotypes of pancreatic cancer are driven by genomic events during tumor evolution, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Gradient of Developmental and Injury Response transcriptional states defines functional vulnerabilities underpinning glioblastoma heterogeneity, 2021, Nature Cancer
  • Glioma-derived IL-33 orchestrates an inflammatory brain tumor microenvironment that accelerates glioma progression, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Pan-cancer analysis of advanced patient tumors reveals interactions between therapy and genomic landscapes, 2020, Nature Cancer
  • Clonal fitness inferred from time-series modelling of single-cell cancer genomes, 2021, Nature

Frequent co-authors in their research include Steven J.M. Jones, Janessa Laskin, Andrew J. Mungall, Daniel J. Renouf, and Richard A. Moore.

Key publication venues where this scientist publishes frequently include Blood, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Cancer Research, and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Marco A. Marra was awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada by the Academy of Science in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumours

    Daniel C. Koboldt;Robert S. Fulton;Michael D. McLellan;Heather Schmidt

  • Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics

    Martin I Krzywinski;Jacqueline E Schein;Inanc Birol;Joseph Connors

  • The cancer genome atlas pan-cancer analysis project

    John N Weinstein;John N Weinstein;Eric A. Collisson;Gordon B Mills;Kenna R Mills Shaw;Kenna R Mills Shaw

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of human colon and rectal cancer

    Donna M. Muzny;Matthew N. Bainbridge;Kyle Chang;Huyen H. Dinh

  • Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes

    Anshul Kundaje;Wouter Meuleman;Wouter Meuleman;Jason Ernst

  • Genomic and epigenomic landscapes of adult de novo acute myeloid leukemia

    Timothy J. Ley;Christopher Miller;Li Ding;Benjamin J. Raphael

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of gastric adenocarcinoma

    Adam J. Bass;Vesteinn Thorsson;Ilya Shmulevich;Sheila M. Reynolds

  • The Somatic Genomic Landscape of Glioblastoma

    Cameron W. Brennan;Roel G W Verhaak;Aaron McKenna;Benito Campos

  • Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma

    Gad Getz;Stacey B. Gabriel;Kristian Cibulskis;Eric Lander

  • 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

  • The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray)

    G. A. Tuskan;G. A. Tuskan;S. DiFazio;S. DiFazio;S. Jansson;J. Bohlmann

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

    Michael S. Lawrence;Carrie Sougnez;Lee Lichtenstein;Kristian Cibulskis

  • The Immune Landscape of Cancer

    Vésteinn Thorsson;David L Gibbs;Scott D Brown;Denise Wolf

  • Comprehensivemolecular characterization of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

    Chad J. Creighton;Margaret Morgan;Preethi H. Gunaratne;Preethi H. Gunaratne;David A. Wheeler

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of squamous cell lung cancers

    Peter S. Hammerman;Doug Voet;Michael S. Lawrence;Douglas Voet

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of urothelial bladder carcinoma

    John N Weinstein;Rehan Akbani;Bradley McIntosh Broom;Wenyi Wang

  • Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.

    Robert L Strausberg;Elise A Feingold;Lynette H Grouse;Jeffery G Derge

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

    Kyle Chang;Chad J Creighton;Caleb Davis;Lawrence Donehower

  • The somatic genomic landscape of glioblastoma

    Cameron W. Brennan;Roel G. W. Verhaak;Aaron Mckenna;Benito Campos

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven J.M. Jones
Steven J.M. Jones University of British Columbia
Andrew J. Mungall
Andrew J. Mungall BC Cancer Agency
Richard A. Moore
Richard A. Moore BC Cancer Agency
Martin Hirst
Martin Hirst University of British Columbia
Robert A. Holt
Robert A. Holt BC Cancer Research Institute
Ryan D. Morin
Ryan D. Morin Simon Fraser University
Jacqueline E. Schein
Jacqueline E. Schein BC Cancer Agency
Randy D. Gascoyne
Randy D. Gascoyne BC Cancer Agency
Sohrab P. Shah
Sohrab P. Shah Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Joseph M. Connors
Joseph M. Connors University of British Columbia

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