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Mark E. Samuels

Mark E. Samuels

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
44
Citations
8917
World Ranking
2914
National Ranking
88

Overview

Mark E. Samuels is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada and primarily conducts research at the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work focuses significantly on molecular biology, cancer research, oncology, biomedical engineering, and immunology.

The scientist has contributed to key topics including extracellular vesicles in disease, nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, microRNA in disease regulation, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, cancer, stress, anesthesia, and immune response, neuropeptides and animal physiology, and single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Mark E. Samuels has published research in several venues, with repeated contributions to the International Journal of Molecular Sciences and Neuro-Oncology. Other publication venues include Brain Behavior and Immunity, Biomedicines, and Oncogene.

  • Propranolol reduces IFN-γ driven PD-L1 immunosuppression and improves anti-tumour immunity in ovarian cancer (2023, Brain Behavior and Immunity)
  • Definition of an Inflammatory Biomarker Signature in Plasma-Derived Extracellular Vesicles of Glioblastoma Patients (2022, Biomedicines)
  • Reconstituting Immune Surveillance in Breast Cancer: Molecular Pathophysiology and Current Immunotherapy Strategies (2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • The role of non-coding RNAs in extracellular vesicles in breast cancer and their diagnostic implications (2023, Oncogene)
  • Extracellular Vesicles as Mediators of Therapy Resistance in the Breast Cancer Microenvironment (2022, Biomolecules)

Frequent co-authors of Mark E. Samuels include Georgios Giamas, Chiara Cilibrasi, William Jones, Giles Critchley, and Stephen Robinson.

Best Publications

  • Mutations in HFE2 cause iron overload in chromosome 1q-linked juvenile hemochromatosis.

    George Papanikolaou;Mark E Samuels;Erwin H Ludwig;Marcia L E MacDonald

  • Mutant frizzled-4 disrupts retinal angiogenesis in familial exudative vitreoretinopathy.

    Johane Robitaille;Marcia L E MacDonald;Ajamete Kaykas;Laird C Sheldahl

  • Loss‐of‐function mutations in the Nav1.7 gene underlie congenital indifference to pain in multiple human populations

    YP Goldberg;J MacFarlane;ML MacDonald;J Thompson

  • De novo mutations in the gene encoding the synaptic scaffolding protein SHANK3 in patients ascertained for schizophrenia

    Julie Gauthier;Nathalie Champagne;Ronald G. Lafrenière;Lan Xiong

  • An international effort towards developing standards for best practices in analysis, interpretation and reporting of clinical genome sequencing results in the CLARITY Challenge.

    Catherine A. Brownstein;Alan H. Beggs;Nils Homer;Barry Merriman

  • Utility of whole-exome sequencing for those near the end of the diagnostic odyssey: time to address gaps in care.

    S L Sawyer;T Hartley;D A Dyment;C L Beaulieu

  • A mutation in PCSK9 causing autosomal-dominant hypercholesterolemia in a Utah pedigree

    Kirsten M. Timms;Susanne Wagner;Mark E. Samuels;Kristian Forbey

  • FORGE Canada Consortium: Outcomes of a 2-Year National Rare-Disease Gene-Discovery Project

    Chandree L. Beaulieu;Jacek Majewski;Jeremy Schwartzentruber;Mark E. Samuels

  • Mutations in mitochondrial carrier family gene SLC25A38 cause nonsyndromic autosomal recessive congenital sideroblastic anemia.

    Duane L Guernsey;Haiyan Jiang;Dean R Campagna;Susan C Evans

  • Mutations in centrosomal protein CEP152 in primary microcephaly families linked to MCPH4.

    Duane L. Guernsey;Haiyan Jiang;Julie Hussin;Marc Arnold

  • Deficiency of Asparagine Synthetase Causes Congenital Microcephaly and a Progressive Form of Encephalopathy

    Elizabeth K. Ruzzo;José-Mario Capo-Chichi;Bruria Ben-Zeev;Bruria Ben-Zeev;David Chitayat

  • Mutations in origin recognition complex gene ORC4 cause Meier-Gorlin syndrome

    Duane L Guernsey;Makoto Matsuoka;Haiyan Jiang;Susan Evans

  • Recessive TTN truncating mutations define novel forms of core myopathy with heart disease

    C. Chauveau;C.G. Bonnemann;C. Julien;A.L. Kho

  • Identification of a novel gene (HSN2) causing hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type II through the Study of Canadian Genetic Isolates.

    Ronald G. Lafrenière;Marcia L.E. MacDonald;Marie-Pierre Dubé;Julie MacFarlane

  • Mutations in the UBIAD1 Gene, Encoding a Potential Prenyltransferase, Are Causal for Schnyder Crystalline Corneal Dystrophy

    Andrew Orr;Marie-Pierre Dubé;Julien Marcadier;Haiyan Jiang

  • Mutations in the nervous system–specific HSN2 exon of WNK1 cause hereditary sensory neuropathy type II

    Masoud Shekarabi;Nathalie Girard;Jean-Baptiste Rivière;Patrick Dion

  • Mutations in C5ORF42 Cause Joubert Syndrome in the French Canadian Population

    Myriam Srour;Jeremy Schwartzentruber;Fadi F. Hamdan;Luis H. Ospina

  • Genetic Localization to Chromosome 1p32 of the Third Locus for Familial Hypercholesterolemia in a Utah Kindred

    Steven C. Hunt;Paul N. Hopkins;Katrina Bulka;Michael T. McDermott

  • Exome sequencing identifies mutations in the gene TTC7A in French-Canadian cases with hereditary multiple intestinal atresia

    Mark E. Samuels;Jacek Majewski;Najmeh Alirezaie;Isabel Fernandez

  • Mutations in NOTCH2 in families with Hajdu‐Cheney syndrome

    Jacek Majewski;Jeremy A. Schwartzentruber;Aurore Caqueret;Lysanne Patry

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy A. Rouleau
Guy A. Rouleau Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Marie-Pierre Dubé
Marie-Pierre Dubé Montreal Heart Institute
Jacques L. Michaud
Jacques L. Michaud University of Montreal
Jacek Majewski
Jacek Majewski McGill University
Jeremy Schwartzentruber
Jeremy Schwartzentruber Wellcome Sanger Institute
Fadi F. Hamdan
Fadi F. Hamdan University of Montreal
Kym M. Boycott
Kym M. Boycott Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Bernard Brais
Bernard Brais Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Patrick A. Dion
Patrick A. Dion Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Michael R. Hayden
Michael R. Hayden University of British Columbia

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