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Overview

Moritz Gerstung is affiliated with the German Cancer Research Center in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a particular emphasis on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Genetics, Oncology, and Surgery.

Their scientific work covers several main topics, including Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Genetic Factors in Colorectal Cancer, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, DNA Repair Mechanisms, and the application of AI in Cancer Detection.

Moritz Gerstung has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuro-Oncology, Nature Communications, Nature, and Nature Genetics.

Among their notable recent papers are:

  • The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers (2020, Nature)
  • Cell2location maps fine-grained cell types in spatial transcriptomics (2022, Nature Biotechnology)
  • Pan-cancer computational histopathology reveals mutations, tumor composition and prognosis (2020, Nature Cancer)
  • Somatic mutation landscapes at single-molecule resolution (2021, Nature)
  • Characterizing genetic intra-tumor heterogeneity across 2,658 human cancer genomes (2021, Cell)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gerstung include:

  • Stefan C. Dentro
  • Iñigo Martincorena
  • Felix Sahm
  • Peter J. Campbell
  • Artem Shmatko

Best Publications

  • Genomic Classification and Prognosis in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Elli Papaemmanuil;Moritz Gerstung;Lars Bullinger;Verena I Gaidzik

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • Landscape of somatic mutations in 560 breast cancer whole-genome sequences

    Serena Nik-Zainal;Serena Nik-Zainal;Helen Davies;Johan Staaf;Manasa Ramakrishna

  • Clinical and biological implications of driver mutations in myelodysplastic syndromes.

    Elli Papaemmanuil;Moritz Gerstung;Luca Malcovati;Sudhir Tauro

  • High burden and pervasive positive selection of somatic mutations in normal human skin

    Iñigo Martincorena;Amit Roshan;Moritz Gerstung;Peter Ellis

  • Universal Patterns of Selection in Cancer and Somatic Tissues

    Iñigo Martincorena;Keiran M. Raine;Moritz Gerstung;Kevin J. Dawson

  • The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers

    Moritz Gerstung;Moritz Gerstung;Clemency Jolly;Ignaty Leshchiner;Stefan C Dentro;Stefan C Dentro;Stefan C Dentro

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

    Yilong Li;Nicola D Roberts;Jeremiah A Wala;Jeremiah A Wala;Ofer Shapira;Ofer Shapira

  • Subclonal diversification of primary breast cancer revealed by multiregion sequencing

    Lucy R. Yates;Moritz Gerstung;Stian Knappskog;Christine Desmedt

  • Prediction of acute myeloid leukaemia risk in healthy individuals

    Sagi Abelson;Grace Collord;Grace Collord;Stanley W.K. Ng;Omer Weissbrod

  • Genomic Evolution of Breast Cancer Metastasis and Relapse

    Lucy R. Yates;Stian Knappskog;Stian Knappskog;David Wedge;David Wedge;James H.R. Farmery

  • Classification and Personalized Prognosis in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms.

    Jacob Grinfeld;Jyoti Nangalia;E Joanna Baxter;David C Wedge

  • Characterizing genetic intra-tumor heterogeneity across 2,658 human cancer genomes

    Stefan C. Dentro;Stefan C. Dentro;Stefan C. Dentro;Ignaty Leshchiner;Kerstin Haase;Maxime Tarabichi;Maxime Tarabichi

  • Pan-cancer computational histopathology reveals mutations, tumor composition and prognosis

    Yu Fu;Alexander W. Jung;Ramon Viñas Torne;Ramon Viñas Torne;Santiago Gonzalez

  • Extensive transduction of nonrepetitive DNA mediated by L1 retrotransposition in cancer genomes

    Jose M. C. Tubio;Yilong Li;Young Seok Ju;Inigo Martincorena

  • Control of Plant Organ Size by KLUH/CYP78A5-Dependent Intercellular Signaling

    Elena Anastasiou;Sabine Kenz;Moritz Gerstung;Daniel MacLean

  • Origins and functional consequences of somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations in human cancer

    Y S Ju;L B Alexandrov;M Gerstung;I Martincorena

  • Cancer Evolution: Mathematical Models and Computational Inference

    Niko Beerenwinkel;Niko Beerenwinkel;Roland F. Schwarz;Moritz Gerstung;Florian Markowetz

  • Combined hereditary and somatic mutations of replication error repair genes result in rapid onset of ultra-hypermutated cancers.

    Adam Shlien;Brittany B Campbell;Richard de Borja;Ludmil B Alexandrov

  • Critical evaluation of KCNJ3 gene product detection in human breast cancer: mRNA in situ hybridisation is superior to immunohistochemistry.

    Sarah Kammerer;Stephan Wenzel Jahn;Elke Winter;Sylvia Eidenhammer

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Campbell
Peter J. Campbell Wellcome Sanger Institute
Inigo Martincorena
Inigo Martincorena Wellcome Sanger Institute
David C. Wedge
David C. Wedge University of Manchester
Peter Van Loo
Peter Van Loo The Francis Crick Institute
Elli Papaemmanuil
Elli Papaemmanuil Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Michael R. Stratton
Michael R. Stratton Wellcome Sanger Institute
Ultan McDermott
Ultan McDermott AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
Young Seok Ju
Young Seok Ju Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Serena Nik-Zainal
Serena Nik-Zainal University of Cambridge

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