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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1993 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to space research and engineering and for helping to define the nation's space program.
  • 1985 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Peter M. Banks is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research contributions span several interconnected areas within medicine, particularly focusing on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, oncology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and molecular biology.

The work of this scientist frequently addresses topics related to HER2/EGFR in cancer research, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, advanced biosensing techniques and applications, lung cancer treatments and mutations, as well as lung cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Key recent publications include:

  • "Predictive significance of HER2 intratumoral heterogeneity, determined by simultaneous gene and protein analysis, for resistance to trastuzumab-based treatments for HER2-positive breast cancer," published in 2021 in Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin
  • "My Life as Scientist and Professor," published in 2020 in Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
  • "Validation of Interobserver Agreement in Lung Cancer Assessment: Hematoxylin-Eosin Diagnostic Reproducibility for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: The 2004 World Health Organization Classification and Therapeutically Relevant Subsets," published in 2020 in UNC Libraries
  • "Interpathologist Diagnostic Agreement for Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinomas Using Current and Recent Classifications," published in 2025 in UNC Libraries

Peter M. Banks has collaborated frequently with other researchers including Juneko E. Grilley-Olson, Timothy Craig Allen, Philip T. Cagle, Göran Elmberger, and Paolo Graziano. These collaborations have contributed to topics primarily focused on lung cancer and diagnostic methodologies.

The scientist's research has appeared in several venues, with multiple publications in UNC Libraries, Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin, and Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics.

Peter M. Banks has received recognition including being named a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for contributions to space research and engineering and for helping to define the nation's space program. Additionally, they were honored as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Collision frequencies and energy transfer electrons

    Peter M. Banks;Peter M. Banks

  • A far ultraviolet imager for the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Mission

    M. R. Torr;D. G. Torr;M. Zukic;R. B. Johnson

  • The polar wind

    Peter M. Banks;Thomas E. Holzer

  • Photoelectron fluxes in the ionosphere

    A. F. Nagy;P. M. Banks

  • A new model for the interaction of auroral electrons with the atmosphere: Spectral degradation, backscatter, optical emission, and ionization

    P. M. Banks;C. R. Chappell;A. F. Nagy

  • Collision frequencies and energy transfer ions

    Peter M. Banks;Peter M. Banks

  • Effect of electric fields on the daytime high-latitude E and F regions

    R. W. Schunk;W. J. Raitt;P. M. Banks

  • High-latitude plasma transport: The polar wind

    Peter M. Banks;Thomas E. Holzer

  • Effects of electric fields and other processes upon the nighttime high-latitude F layer

    R. W. Schunk;P. M. Banks;W. J. Raitt

  • ION TEMPERATURE IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE.

    Peter M. Banks

  • Incoherent scatter measurements of E region conductivities and currents in the auroral zone

    A. Brekke;J. R. Doupnik;P. M. Banks

  • Concerning the influence of elastic scattering upon photoelectron transport and escape

    P. M. Banks;A. F. Nagy

  • Dynamical behavior of thermal protons in the mid-latitude ionosphere and magnetosphere

    P.M. Banks;A.F. Nagy;W.I. Axford

  • Observations of joule and particle heating in the auroral zone

    P.M. Banks

  • Convection electric fields and polar thermospheric winds

    Joel A. Fedder;Peter M. Banks

  • A review of auroral zone electrodynamics deduced from incoherent scatter radar observations

    P. M. Banks;J. R. Doupnik

  • Anomalous heating of the polar E region by unstable plasma waves - 2. Theory

    J. P. St.-Maurice;Kristian Schlegel;P. M. Banks

  • A comparison of kinetic and hydrodynamic models of an expanding ion-exosphere

    Thomas E. Holzer;Joel A. Fedder;Peter M. Banks

  • A comparison of the temperature and density structure in high and low speed thermal proton flows

    W.J. Raitt;R.W. Schunk;P.M. Banks

  • A preliminary study of the neutral wind in the auroral E region

    A. Brekke;J. R. Doupnik;P. M. Banks

  • FEATURES OF PLASMA TRANSPORT IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE.

    Peter M. Banks;Thomas E. Holzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Schunk
Robert W. Schunk Utah State University
Andrew F. Nagy
Andrew F. Nagy University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James L. Burch
James L. Burch Southwest Research Institute
D. A. Gurnett
D. A. Gurnett University of Iowa
Geoffrey D. Reeves
Geoffrey D. Reeves Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sho Sasaki
Sho Sasaki Osaka University
C. R. Clauer
C. R. Clauer Virginia Tech
Brian J. Anderson
Brian J. Anderson Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Umran S. Inan
Umran S. Inan Stanford University
William S. Kurth
William S. Kurth University of Iowa

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