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  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Ming-Sound Tsao is affiliated with the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Canada and focuses on research primarily within the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work extensively covers pulmonary and respiratory medicine, oncology, molecular biology, cancer research, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The researcher's scholarly output includes numerous publications centered on lung cancer treatments and mutations, cancer genomics and diagnostics, lung cancer diagnosis and treatment, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, lung cancer research studies, radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging, and RNA modifications in cancer.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "PD-L1 as a biomarker of response to immune-checkpoint inhibitors" (2021) published in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
  • "The 2021 WHO Classification of Lung Tumors: Impact of Advances Since 2015" (2021) published in Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • "A Grading System for Invasive Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma: A Proposal From the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Pathology Committee" (2020) published in Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • "IASLC Multidisciplinary Recommendations for Pathologic Assessment of Lung Cancer Resection Specimens After Neoadjuvant Therapy" (2020) published in Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • "The Promises and Challenges of Tumor Mutation Burden as an Immunotherapy Biomarker: A Perspective from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Pathology Committee" (2020) published in Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ming-Sound Tsao include Geoffrey Liu, Natasha B. Leighl, Frances A. Shepherd, Adrian G. Sacher, and Penelope A. Bradbury.

The primary venues for publishing their research are:

  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Cancer Research
  • Lung Cancer
  • UNC Libraries

Their research topics also explore the application of machine learning and radiomics techniques within medical imaging as well as detailed studies of RNA modifications with respect to cancer biology.

Ming-Sound Tsao has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020 by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer/American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society International Multidisciplinary Classification of Lung Adenocarcinoma

    William D Travis;Elisabeth Brambilla;Masayuki Noguchi;Andrew G Nicholson

  • 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 2015 World Health Organization Classification of Lung Tumors: Impact of Genetic, Clinical and Radiologic Advances Since the 2004 Classification

    William D. Travis;Elisabeth Brambilla;Andrew G. Nicholson;Yasushi Yatabe

  • The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers

    Rameen Beroukhim;Craig H. Mermel;Craig H. Mermel;Dale Porter;Guo Wei

  • The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for Revision of the TNM Stage Groupings in the Forthcoming (Eighth) Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer.

    Peter Goldstraw;Kari Chansky;John Crowley;Ramon Rami-Porta

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of squamous cell lung cancers

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

  • Pancreatic cancer genomes reveal aberrations in axon guidance pathway genes

    Andrew V. Biankin;Andrew V. Biankin;Andrew V. Biankin;Nicola Waddell;Karin S. Kassahn;Marie Claude Gingras

  • Erlotinib in lung cancer - molecular and clinical predictors of outcome.

    Ming Sound Tsao;Akira Sakurada;Jean Claude Cutz;Jean Claude Cutz;Chang Qi Zhu;Chang Qi Zhu

  • Vinorelbine plus Cisplatin vs. Observation in Resected Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

    Timothy Winton;Robert Livingston;David H Johnson;James Rigas

  • International network of cancer genome projects

    Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

  • Requirement for glycogen synthase kinase-3β in cell survival and NF-κB activation

    Klaus P. Hoeflich;Juan Luo;Elizabeth A. Rubie;Ming-Sound Tsao

  • Updated Molecular Testing Guideline for the Selection of Lung Cancer Patients for Treatment With Targeted Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: Guideline From the College of American Pathologists, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, and the Association for Molecular Pathology

    Neal I. Lindeman;Philip T. Cagle;Dara L. Aisner;Maria E. Arcila

  • PD-L1 as a biomarker of response to immune-checkpoint inhibitors

    Deborah Blythe Doroshow;Sheena Bhalla;Mary Beth Beasley;Lynette M. Sholl

  • Probability of Cancer in Pulmonary Nodules Detected on First Screening CT

    Annette McWilliams;Martin C. Tammemagi;John R. Mayo;Heidi Roberts

  • Characterizing the cancer genome in lung adenocarcinoma

    Barbara A. Weir;Barbara A. Weir;Michele S. Woo;Gad Getz;Sven Perner;Sven Perner

  • PD-L1 Immunohistochemistry Assays for Lung Cancer: Results from Phase 1 of the Blueprint PD-L1 IHC Assay Comparison Project

    Fred R. Hirsch;Abigail McElhinny;Dave Stanforth;James Ranger-Moore

  • Distinct patterns of somatic genome alterations in lung adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas

    Joshua D Campbell;Anton Alexandrov;Jaegil Kim;Jeremiah Wala

  • Gene expression-based survival prediction in lung adenocarcinoma: a multi-site, blinded validation study.

    Kerby Shedden;Jeremy M.G. Taylor;Steven A. Enkemann;Ming Sound Tsao

  • SOX2 is an amplified lineage-survival oncogene in lung and esophageal squamous cell carcinomas

    Adam J. Bass;Adam J. Bass;Hideo Watanabe;Hideo Watanabe;Craig H. Mermel;Craig H. Mermel;Soyoung Yu

  • An overview of the c-MET signaling pathway.

    Shawna Leslie Organ;Ming-Sound Tsao

Frequent Co-Authors

Frances A. Shepherd
Frances A. Shepherd Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Geoffrey Liu
Geoffrey Liu Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Natasha B. Leighl
Natasha B. Leighl Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Melania Pintilie
Melania Pintilie Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Suzanne Kamel-Reid
Suzanne Kamel-Reid University Health Network
Igor Jurisica
Igor Jurisica University Health Network
Lesley Seymour
Lesley Seymour Queen's University
Stephen Lam
Stephen Lam University of British Columbia
David W. Hedley
David W. Hedley Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Yasushi Yatabe
Yasushi Yatabe Nagoya University

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