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Olufunmilayo I. Olopade

Olufunmilayo I. Olopade

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2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
126
Citations
72914
World Ranking
414
National Ranking
249

Medicine

D-Index
128
Citations
77998
World Ranking
2663
National Ranking
1487

Olufunmilayo I. Olopade publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Olufunmilayo I. Olopade sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 891 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Olufunmilayo I. Olopade D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Olufunmilayo I. Olopade sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 128 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Olufunmilayo I. Olopade is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and has made extensive contributions to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research primarily focuses on genetics, oncology, cancer research, molecular biology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies

Olopade's frequent collaborators include Dezheng Huo, Rita Nanda, Fangyuan Zhao, Yonglan Zheng, and Esther M. John.

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as Cancer Research, UNC Libraries, Journal of Clinical Oncology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Research Square (Research Square).

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Olopade include:

  • Epidemiology of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, 2021, The Cancer Journal
  • The impact of site-specific digital histology signatures on deep learning model accuracy and bias, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Association of Event-Free and Distant Recurrence-Free Survival With Individual-Level Pathologic Complete Response in Neoadjuvant Treatment of Stages 2 and 3 Breast Cancer, 2020, JAMA Oncology
  • The molecular portraits of breast tumors are conserved across microarray platforms, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Clinicopathologic Characteristics and Prognosis of ERBB2-Low Breast Cancer Among Patients in the National Cancer Database, 2023, JAMA Oncology

Across their career, Olopade's work emphasizes understanding the genetic basis of breast cancer and improving diagnostics and treatment approaches, especially relating to BRCA mutations and breast cancer subtypes.

The scientist has received recognition through several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010
  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 2005
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumours

    Daniel C. Koboldt;Robert S. Fulton;Michael D. McLellan;Heather Schmidt

  • The molecular portraits of breast tumors are conserved across microarray platforms

    Zhiyuan Hu;Cheng Fan;Daniel S Oh;JS Marron

  • Prophylactic Oophorectomy in Carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutations

    Timothy R. Rebbeck;Henry T. Lynch;Susan L. Neuhausen;Steven A. Narod

  • Comprehensive Molecular Portraits of Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer.

    Giovanni Ciriello;Giovanni Ciriello;Michael L. Gatza;Michael L. Gatza;Andrew H. Beck;Matthew D. Wilkerson

  • Association of Risk-Reducing Surgery in BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutation Carriers With Cancer Risk and Mortality

    Susan M. Domchek;Tara M. Friebel;Christian F. Singer;D. Gareth Evans

  • Identification of conserved gene expression features between murine mammary carcinoma models and human breast tumors

    Jason I Herschkowitz;Karl Simin;Victor J Weigman;Igor Mikaelian

  • Phenotypic evaluation of the basal-like subtype of invasive breast carcinoma.

    Chad A Livasy;Gamze Karaca;Rita Nanda;Maria S Tretiakova

  • Bilateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Reduces Breast Cancer Risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: The PROSE Study Group

    Timothy R. Rebbeck;Tara Friebel;Henry T. Lynch;Susan L. Neuhausen

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Breast Cancer Risk After Bilateral Prophylactic Oophorectomy in BRCA1 Mutation Carriers

    Timothy R. Rebbeck;Albert M. Levin;Andrea Eisen;Carrie Snyder

  • Mutation Spectrum and Genotype-Phenotype Analyses in Cowden Disease and Bannayan-Zonana Syndrome, Two Hamartoma Syndromes With Germline PTEN Mutation

    Debbie J. Marsh;Valérie Coulon;Kathryn L. Lunetta;Philippe Rocca-Serra

  • Salpingo-oophorectomy and the Risk of Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, and Peritoneal Cancers in Women With a BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutation

    Amy Finch;Mario Beiner;Jan Lubinski;Henry T. Lynch

  • Contralateral Breast Cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers

    Kelly Metcalfe;Henry T. Lynch;Parviz Ghadirian;Nadine Tung

  • Assignment of a locus for familial melanoma, MLM, to chromosome 9p13-p22.

    Lisa A. Cannon-Albright;David E. Goldgar;Laurence J. Meyer;Cathryn M. Lewis

  • Breast cancer risk associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 in diverse populations.

    James D. Fackenthal;Olufunmilayo I. Olopade

  • Sequence analysis of BRCA1 and BRCA2: correlation of mutations with family history and ovarian cancer risk.

    T S Frank;S A Manley;O I Olopade;S Cummings

  • Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway Activation Is Enriched in Basal-Like Breast Cancers and Predicts Poor Outcome

    Andrey I. Khramtsov;Galina F. Khramtsova;Maria Tretiakova;Dezheng Huo

  • Adaptive Randomization of Veliparib–Carboplatin Treatment in Breast Cancer

    Hope S. Rugo;Olufunmilayo I. Olopade;Angela DeMichele;Christina Yau

  • Common variants on chromosome 5p12 confer susceptibility to estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.

    Simon N Stacey;Andrei Manolescu;Patrick Sulem;Steinunn Thorlacius

  • Effect of Short-Term Hormone Replacement Therapy on Breast Cancer Risk Reduction After Bilateral Prophylactic Oophorectomy in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: The PROSE Study Group

    Timothy R. Rebbeck;Tara Friebel;Theresa Wagner;Henry T. Lynch

Frequent Co-Authors

Dezheng Huo
Dezheng Huo University of Chicago
Mary B. Daly
Mary B. Daly Fox Chase Cancer Center
Susan M. Domchek
Susan M. Domchek University of Pennsylvania
Esther M. John
Esther M. John Stanford University
Susan L. Neuhausen
Susan L. Neuhausen City Of Hope National Medical Center
Katherine L. Nathanson
Katherine L. Nathanson University of Pennsylvania
Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto
Judy Garber
Judy Garber Harvard University
Fergus J. Couch
Fergus J. Couch Mayo Clinic
Jeffrey N. Weitzel
Jeffrey N. Weitzel Natera (United States)

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