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Michael Torbenson

Michael Torbenson

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Medicine

D-Index
99
Citations
64147
World Ranking
8401
National Ranking
4344

Overview

Michael Torbenson is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medical research, primarily focusing on hepatology and related disciplines. Their academic output spans multiple areas in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their research covers several interconnected domains, including liver disease diagnosis and treatment, hepatocellular carcinoma treatment and prognosis, cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer studies, pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, cancer genomics and diagnostics, hepatitis B virus studies, and endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Hepatocellular carcinoma: making sense of morphological heterogeneity, growth patterns, and subtypes (2020) in Human Pathology
  • Identification of Novel Therapeutic Targets for Fibrolamellar Carcinoma Using Patient-Derived Xenografts and Direct-from-Patient Screening (2021) in Cancer Discovery
  • The Liver and Glycogen: In Sickness and in Health (2023) in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • PSMA as a Theranostic Target in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Immunohistochemistry and 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET Using Cyclotron-Produced 68Ga (2021) in Hepatology Communications
  • Liver fibrosis quantification (2022) in Abdominal Radiology

Torbenson's frequent collaborators include Sudhakar K. Venkatesh, Sanjay Kakar, Saba Yasir, Sanford M. Simon, and Lewis R. Roberts. These partnerships have contributed to a breadth of research outputs and advances in their shared fields of study.

The scientist has published numerous papers in several recurring venues such as Human Pathology, The American Journal of Surgical Pathology, Radiographics, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, and Laboratory Investigation. Human Pathology stands out as the most frequent, with sixteen publications.

In addition to articles, Michael Torbenson has contributed to book literature, including the publication "Non-Neoplastic Diseases of the Liver" (2022) with the American Registry of PathologyArlington, Virginia eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Design and validation of a histological scoring system for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

    David E. Kleiner;Elizabeth M. Brunt;Mark Van Natta;Cynthia Behling

  • The Immune Landscape of Cancer

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

  • Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas

    Francisco Sanchez-Vega;Marco Mina;Joshua Armenia;Walid K. Chatila

  • Cell-of-Origin Patterns Dominate the Molecular Classification of 10,000 Tumors from 33 Types of Cancer.

    Katherine A. Hoadley;Christina Yau;Christina Yau;Toshinori Hinoue;Denise M. Wolf

  • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations.

    Matthew H Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • Comprehensive and Integrative Genomic Characterization of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    Adrian Ally;Miruna Balasundaram;Rebecca Carlsen;Eric Chuah

  • Therapeutic microRNA Delivery Suppresses Tumorigenesis in a Murine Liver Cancer Model

    Janaiah Kota;Raghu R. Chivukula;Kathryn A. O'Donnell;Erik A. Wentzel

  • TERT promoter mutations occur frequently in gliomas and a subset of tumors derived from cells with low rates of self-renewal

    Patrick J. Killela;Zachary J. Reitman;Yuchen Jiao;Chetan Bettegowda

  • Genomic and Functional Approaches to Understanding Cancer Aneuploidy

    Alison M. Taylor;Alison M. Taylor;Juliann Shih;Gavin Ha;Gavin Ha;Galen F. Gao

  • Pathogenic Germline Variants in 10,389 Adult Cancers

    Kuan-Lin Huang;R Jay Mashl;Yige Wu;Deborah I Ritter

  • Occult hepatitis B

    Michael Torbenson;David L Thomas

  • 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

  • Erratum: Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations (ARTICLE (2018) 173(2) (371–385), (S009286741830237X), (10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.060))

    Matthew H. Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • mTOR and P70 S6 Kinase Expression in Primary Liver Neoplasms

    Fikret Sahin;Rajesh Kannangai;Onikepe Adegbola;Jianzhou Wang

  • Portal chronic inflammation in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD): a histologic marker of advanced NAFLD-Clinicopathologic correlations from the nonalcoholic steatohepatitis clinical research network

    Elizabeth M. Brunt;David E. Kleiner;Laura A. Wilson;Aynur Unalp

  • Inactivating mutations of the chromatin remodeling gene ARID2 in hepatocellular carcinoma

    Meng Li;Hong Zhao;Xiaosong Zhang;Laura D Wood

  • TERT PROMOTER MUTATIONS OCCUR FREQUENTLY IN GLIOMAS AND A SUBSET OF TUMORS DERIVED FROM CELLS WITH LOW RATES OF SELF-RENEWAL

    Hai Yan;P.J. Killela;Z.J. Reitman;Y. Jiao

  • Advanced cancers: eradication in all cases using 3-bromopyruvate therapy to deplete ATP.

    Young H. Ko;Barbara L. Smith;Yuchuan Wang;Martin G. Pomper

  • Pan-cancer Alterations of the MYC Oncogene and Its Proximal Network across the Cancer Genome Atlas

    Franz X. Schaub;Varsha Dhankani;Ashton C. Berger;Mihir Trivedi

  • New intra-arterial drug delivery system for the treatment of liver cancer: preclinical assessment in a rabbit model of liver cancer.

    Kelvin Hong;Afsheen Khwaja;Eleni Liapi;Michael S. Torbenson

Frequent Co-Authors

David L. Thomas
David L. Thomas Johns Hopkins University
Michael A. Choti
Michael A. Choti The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Tsung Teh Wu
Tsung Teh Wu Mayo Clinic
Lewis R. Roberts
Lewis R. Roberts Mayo Clinic
Anna Mae Diehl
Anna Mae Diehl Duke University
Mark S. Sulkowski
Mark S. Sulkowski Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Shruti H. Mehta
Shruti H. Mehta Johns Hopkins University
Richard D. Moore
Richard D. Moore Johns Hopkins University
Linda D. Ferrell
Linda D. Ferrell University of California, San Francisco
Anirban Maitra
Anirban Maitra The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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