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Ossama Tawfik

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
9987
World Ranking
15677
National Ranking
6534

Ossama Tawfik publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 337 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Ossama Tawfik D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ossama Tawfik sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 54 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ossama Tawfik is affiliated with Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions particularly in Oncology, Cancer Research, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

Their work addresses various topics including Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Cancer Cells and Metastasis, Breast Cancer Treatment Studies, Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research, Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations, and Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment.

Ossama Tawfik has published extensively in several journals. The frequent publication venues include Cancers, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), ACG Case Reports Journal, Cancer Research, and The American Journal of Gastroenterology.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by them are:

  • 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
  • Mouse-INtraDuctal (MIND): an in vivo model for studying the underlying mechanisms of DCIS malignancy, 2021, The Journal of Pathology
  • Elevated NRAS expression during DCIS is a potential driver for progression to basal-like properties and local invasiveness, 2022, Breast Cancer Research
  • Association of Residual Ductal Carcinoma In Situ With Breast Cancer Recurrence in the Neoadjuvant I-SPY2 Trial, 2022, JAMA Surgery
  • BCL9/STAT3 regulation of transcriptional enhancer networks promote DCIS progression, 2020, npj Breast Cancer

Frequent co-authors working alongside Ossama Tawfik include Andrew K. Godwin, Fariba Behbod, Rashna Madan, David Standing, and Prasad Dandawate.

Best Publications

  • BMP signaling inhibits intestinal stem cell self-renewal through suppression of Wnt–β-catenin signaling

    Xi C. He;Jiwang Zhang;Wei Gang Tong;Ossama Tawfik

  • Development of a syngeneic mouse model for events related to ovarian cancer

    Katherine F. Roby;Christopher C. Taylor;Jeffrey P. Sweetwood;Ying Cheng

  • Farnesoid X receptor deficiency induces nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in low-density lipoprotein receptor-knockout mice fed a high-fat diet

    Bo Kong;James P. Luyendyk;Ossama Tawfik;Grace L. Guo

  • Evidence for coordinated interaction of cyclin D3 with p21 and cdk6 in directing the development of uterine stromal cell decidualization and polyploidy during implantation.

    Jian Tan;Shefali Raja;Marilyn K. Davis;Ossama Tawfik

  • Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor with rhabdomyosarcomatous differentiation (malignant triton tumor).

    Christopher J. Stasik;Ossama Tawfik

  • Secretory autophagy in cancer-associated fibroblasts promotes head and neck cancer progression and offers a novel therapeutic target

    Jacob New;Levi Arnold;Megha Ananth;Sameer Alvi

  • 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: Three-Year Follow-up Analysis for the I-SPY2 Adaptively Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Douglas Yee;Angela M. Demichele;Christina Yau;Claudine Isaacs

  • Breast Conservation Therapy with Tumor Bed Irradiation Alone in a Selected Group of Patients with Stage I Breast Cancer

    Leela Krishnan;William R. Jewell;Ossama W. Tawfik;Engikolai C. Krishnan

  • Aberrant expression of SWI/SNF catalytic subunits BRG1/BRM is associated with tumor development and increased invasiveness in prostate cancers.

    Aijing Sun;Ossama Tawfik;Bishoy Gayed;J. Brantley Thrasher

  • HB-EGF directs stromal cell polyploidy and decidualization via cyclin D3 during implantation.

    Yi Tan;Meiling Li;Sandra Cox;Marilyn K Davis

  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae pneumonia in a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

    O W Tawfik;C J Papasian;A Y Dixon;L M Potter

  • EGFR and HER-2/neu expression in invasive apocrine carcinoma of the breast

    Semir Vranic;Ossama Tawfik;Juan Palazzo;Nurija Bilalovic

  • Angiosarcoma of the breast: a clinicopathologic analysis of cases from the last 10 years.

    Xiao Yun Wang;Joseph Jakowski;Ossama W. Tawfik;Patricia A. Thomas

  • Perineural growth in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: A review

    Joseph Roh;Thomas Muelleman;Ossama Tawfik;Sufi M. Thomas

  • Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Drive Glycolysis in a Targetable Signaling Loop Implicated in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Progression.

    Dhruv Kumar;Jacob New;Vikalp Vishwakarma;Radhika Joshi

  • Phosphoinositide 3-OH kinase p85α and p110β are essential for androgen receptor transactivation and tumor progression in prostate cancers

    Q. Zhu;Hyewon Youn;J. Tang;O. Tawfik

  • WISP-2 Gene in Human Breast Cancer: Estrogen and Progesterone Inducible Expression and Regulation of Tumor Cell Proliferation

    Snigdha Banerjee;Neela Saxena;Krishanu Sengupta;Ossama Tawfik

  • Comparison of immunohistochemistry by automated cellular imaging system (ACIS) versus fluorescence in-situ hybridization in the evaluation of HER-2/neu expression in primary breast carcinoma.

    O W Tawfik;B F Kimler;M Davis;J K Donahue

  • Transcription factor Nfat1 deficiency causes osteoarthritis through dysfunction of adult articular chondrocytes

    Jinxi Wang;Brian M Gardner;Qinghua Lu;Marianna Rodova

  • Small cell undifferentiated (neuroendocrine) carcinoma of the uterine cervix

    John C Weed;Adam T Graff;Brenda Shoup;Ossama Tawfik

Frequent Co-Authors

Subhash Padhye
Subhash Padhye Savitribai Phule Pune University
Lane K. Christenson
Lane K. Christenson University of Kansas
Shilpa Buch
Shilpa Buch University of Nebraska Medical Center
Prateek Sharma
Prateek Sharma University of Kansas
Ivan Damjanov
Ivan Damjanov University of Kansas
Sudhansu K. Dey
Sudhansu K. Dey Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Joan S. Hunt
Joan S. Hunt University of Kansas
Kathy S. Albain
Kathy S. Albain Loyola University Chicago
Naohito Ohno
Naohito Ohno Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences
Susan G. Hilsenbeck
Susan G. Hilsenbeck Baylor College of Medicine

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