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Best Female Scientists

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130
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World Ranking
350
National Ranking
212

Medicine

D-Index
131
Citations
76548
World Ranking
2366
National Ranking
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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Maria J. Merino is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medical fields, with a significant emphasis on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, molecular biology, cancer research, and surgery.

Their main topics of work cover a range of medical and oncological areas, including:

  • Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Renal cell carcinoma treatment
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Renal and related cancers
  • Urologic and reproductive health conditions
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis

Maria J. Merino has contributed to numerous publications in various highly regarded journals. Among the frequent publication venues are:

  • The Journal of Urology (38 publications)
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology (15 publications)
  • Cancer Research (12 publications)
  • Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas (10 publications)
  • Abdominal Radiology (9 publications)

Their research collaborations involve frequent co-authorship with multiple scientists, including:

  • Barış Türkbey (100 joint publications)
  • Peter A. Pinto (99 joint publications)
  • Peter L. Choyke (87 joint publications)
  • Bradford J. Wood (86 joint publications)
  • Sandeep Gurram (68 joint publications)

Among the recent papers featuring Maria J. Merino as an author or co-author are:

  • MRI-Targeted, Systematic, and Combined Biopsy for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Phase I Study of Cabozantinib and Nivolumab Alone or With Ipilimumab for Advanced or Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma and Other Genitourinary Tumors, 2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Results from a phase II study of bevacizumab and erlotinib in subjects with advanced hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer (HLRCC) or sporadic papillary renal cell cancer., 2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Prospective Evaluation of PI-RADS Version 2.1 for Prostate Cancer Detection, 2020, American Journal of Roentgenology
  • Cabozantinib in patients with platinum-refractory metastatic urothelial carcinoma: an open-label, single-centre, phase 2 trial, 2020, The Lancet Oncology

Best Publications

  • Comprehensivemolecular characterization of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

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

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

  • Effects of Estrogen or Estrogen/ Progestin Regimens on Heart Disease Risk Factors in Postmenopausal Women: The Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Interventions (PEPI) Trial

    Valery T. Miller;John LaRosa;Vanessa Barnabei;Craig Kessler

  • Activating mutations of the stimulatory G protein in the McCune-Albright syndrome.

    Lee S. Weinstein;Andrew Shenker;Pablo V. Gejman;Maria J. Merino

  • Randomized prospective study of the benefit of adjuvant radiation therapy in the treatment of soft tissue sarcomas of the extremity.

    James C. Yang;Alfred E. Chang;Alan R. Baker;William F. Sindelar

  • Gene Transfer into Humans — Immunotherapy of Patients with Advanced Melanoma, Using Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes Modified by Retroviral Gene Transduction

    Steven A. Rosenberg;Paul Aebersold;Kenneth Cornetta;Attan Kasid

  • Comparison of MR/Ultrasound Fusion–Guided Biopsy With Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer

    M. Minhaj Siddiqui;M. Minhaj Siddiqui;Soroush Rais-Bahrami;Soroush Rais-Bahrami;Baris Turkbey;Arvin K. George

  • Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of Papillary Renal-Cell Carcinoma.

    W. Marston Linehan;Paul T. Spellman;Christopher J. Ricketts;Chad J. Creighton

  • HIF overexpression correlates with biallelic loss of fumarate hydratase in renal cancer: Novel role of fumarate in regulation of HIF stability

    Jennifer S. Isaacs;Yun Jin Jung;David R. Mole;Sunmin Lee

  • T Cells Targeting Carcinoembryonic Antigen Can Mediate Regression of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer but Induce Severe Transient Colitis

    Maria R. Parkhurst;James C. Yang;Russell C. Langan;Mark E. Dudley

  • Diagnostic terminology and morphologic criteria for cytologic diagnosis of thyroid lesions: a synopsis of the National Cancer Institute Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration State of the Science Conference.

    Zubair W. Baloch M.D.;Virginia A. LiVolsi;Syl L. Asa M.D.;Juan Rosai

  • gp100 peptide vaccine and interleukin-2 in patients with advanced melanoma.

    Douglas J. Schwartzentruber;David H. Lawson;Jon M. Richards;Robert M. Conry

  • Mutations in a novel gene lead to kidney tumors, lung wall defects, and benign tumors of the hair follicle in patients with the Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome.

    Michael L. Nickerson;Michelle B. Warren;Jorge R. Toro;Vera Matrosova

  • Randomized Study of High-Dose and Low-Dose Interleukin-2 in Patients With Metastatic Renal Cancer

    James C. Yang;Richard M. Sherry;Seth M. Steinberg;Suzanne L. Topalian

  • The Somatic Genomic Landscape of Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma

    Caleb F. Davis;Christopher J. Ricketts;Min Wang;Lixing Yang

  • Effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Endometrial Histology in Postmenopausal Women: The Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Interventions (PEPI) Trial

    Howard L. Judd;Irma Mebane-Sims;Claudine Legault;Carol Wasilauskas

  • Mutations in the fumarate hydratase gene cause hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer in families in North America.

    Jorge R. Toro;Michael L. Nickerson;Ming Hui Wei;Michelle B. Warren

  • Renal Tumors in the Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome

    Christian P. Pavlovich;McClellan M. Walther;Robin A. Eyler;Stephen M. Hewitt

  • MRI-Targeted, Systematic, and Combined Biopsy for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

    Michael Ahdoot;Andrew R Wilbur;Sarah E Reese;Amir H Lebastchi

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter L. Choyke
Peter L. Choyke National Institutes of Health
Baris Turkbey
Baris Turkbey National Institutes of Health
Bradford J. Wood
Bradford J. Wood National Institutes of Health
Peter A. Pinto
Peter A. Pinto National Institutes of Health
W. Marston Linehan
W. Marston Linehan National Institutes of Health
Laura S. Schmidt
Laura S. Schmidt National Institutes of Health
Seth M. Steinberg
Seth M. Steinberg National Institutes of Health
Christopher J. Ricketts
Christopher J. Ricketts National Institutes of Health
Berton Zbar
Berton Zbar National Institutes of Health
Zhengping Zhuang
Zhengping Zhuang National Institutes of Health

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