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136
Citations
162312
World Ranking
208
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Peter J. Park is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans key areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with 276 publications contributing to these fields. They have also published extensively in medicine, accounting for 119 of their works.

The scientist's main subfields of study include molecular biology, genetics, cancer research, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and oncology. Their publications cover a variety of topics, notably cancer genomics and diagnostics, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, genomics and chromatin dynamics, CRISPR and genetic engineering, genomics and phylogenetic studies, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and genomics related to rare diseases.

  • Cancer genomics and diagnostics
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Genomics and chromatin dynamics
  • CRISPR and genetic engineering
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Genomics and rare diseases

Peter J. Park's research has been published in various venues, with frequent appearances in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) totaling 40 publications. Other common publication venues include Nature Communications (16 publications), UNC Libraries (15 publications), Nature Genetics (12), and Nature (11).

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Genetics
  • Nature

Recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist include:

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes, 2020, Nature
  • Comprehensive analysis of chromothripsis in 2,658 human cancers using whole-genome sequencing, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Mechanisms and therapeutic implications of hypermutation in gliomas, 2020, Nature
  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes identifies driver rearrangements promoted by LINE-1 retrotransposition, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Genomic basis for RNA alterations in cancer, 2020, Nature

Frequent co-authors appearing alongside Peter J. Park include:

  • D. Gulhan (39 collaborations)
  • Isidro Cortés-Ciriano (36 collaborations)
  • Christopher A. Walsh (35 collaborations)
  • Eunjung Alice Lee (28 collaborations)
  • Yanmei Dou (25 collaborations)

In 2010, the scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumours

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

  • The cancer genome atlas pan-cancer analysis project

    John N Weinstein;John N Weinstein;Eric A. Collisson;Gordon B Mills;Kenna R Mills Shaw;Kenna R Mills Shaw

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of human colon and rectal cancer

    Donna M. Muzny;Matthew N. Bainbridge;Kyle Chang;Huyen H. Dinh

  • Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma

    D. Bell;A. Berchuck;M. Birrer;J. Chien

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization defines human glioblastoma genes and core pathways

    Roger McLendon;Allan Friedman;Darrell Bigner;Erwin G. Van Meir

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of gastric adenocarcinoma

    Adam J. Bass;Vesteinn Thorsson;Ilya Shmulevich;Sheila M. Reynolds

  • Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma

    Gad Getz;Stacey B. Gabriel;Kristian Cibulskis;Eric Lander

  • 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

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

    Michael S. Lawrence;Carrie Sougnez;Lee Lichtenstein;Kristian Cibulskis

  • Comprehensivemolecular characterization of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

    Chad J. Creighton;Margaret Morgan;Preethi H. Gunaratne;Preethi H. Gunaratne;David A. Wheeler

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of squamous cell lung cancers

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

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of urothelial bladder carcinoma

    John N Weinstein;Rehan Akbani;Bradley McIntosh Broom;Wenyi Wang

  • Comprehensive, Integrative Genomic Analysis of Diffuse Lower-Grade Gliomas.

    Daniel J. Brat;Roel G.W. Verhaak;Kenneth D. Aldape;W. K.Alfred Yung

  • Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma

    Rehan Akbani;Kadir C. Akdemir;B. Arman Aksoy;Monique Albert

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

  • Integrated Genomic Characterization of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

    Nishant Agrawal;Rehan Akbani;B. Arman Aksoy;Adrian Ally

  • An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

    Ian Dunham;Anshul Kundaje;Shelley F. Aldred;Patrick J. Collins

  • ChIP-Seq: advantages and challenges of a maturing technology

    Peter J. Park

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

    Kyle Chang;Chad J Creighton;Caleb Davis;Lawrence Donehower

  • Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma

    D. Bell;A. Berchuck;M. Birrer;J. Chien

Frequent Co-Authors

Mitzi I. Kuroda
Mitzi I. Kuroda Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peter V. Kharchenko
Peter V. Kharchenko Harvard University
Raju Kucherlapati
Raju Kucherlapati Harvard University
Christopher A. Walsh
Christopher A. Walsh Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Gad Getz
Gad Getz Broad Institute
Rameen Beroukhim
Rameen Beroukhim Harvard University
John N. Weinstein
John N. Weinstein The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Michael Y. Tolstorukov
Michael Y. Tolstorukov Harvard University
Gordon B. Mills
Gordon B. Mills Oregon Health & Science University
Michael S. Lawrence
Michael S. Lawrence Harvard University

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