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Pieter Wesseling is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of medicine, with significant contributions in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work has addressed various subfields including genetics, molecular biology, neurology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The research topics that they have focused on include glioma diagnosis and treatment, radiomics and machine learning applications in medical imaging, neuroblastoma research and treatments, management of meningioma and schwannoma, cancer genomics and diagnostics, brain metastases and treatment, and chromatin remodeling in cancer.

Pieter Wesseling has been a frequent contributor to several publication venues with notable numbers of publications in the following:

  • Neuro-Oncology
  • Acta Neuropathologica
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuro-Oncology Advances
  • Cancer Research

They have collaborated extensively with various coauthors throughout their career. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Pim J. French
  • Martin J. van den Bent
  • Mariëtte E.G. Kranendonk
  • Stefan M. Pfister
  • Andreas von Deimling

Some of Pieter Wesseling's recent papers are:

  • "The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary," 2021, Neuro-Oncology
  • "EANO-ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients with brain metastasis from solid tumours," 2021, Annals of Oncology
  • "cIMPACT-NOW update 6: new entity and diagnostic principle recommendations of the cIMPACT-Utrecht meeting on future CNS tumor classification and grading," 2020, Brain Pathology
  • "Sarcoma classification by DNA methylation profiling," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Glioma progression is shaped by genetic evolution and microenvironment interactions," 2022, Cell

Best Publications

  • Effects of radiotherapy with concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide versus radiotherapy alone on survival in glioblastoma in a randomised phase III study: 5-year analysis of the EORTC-NCIC trial

    Roger Stupp;Monika E. Hegi;Warren P. Mason;Martin J. van den Bent

  • The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary.

    David N Louis;Arie Perry;Pieter Wesseling;Daniel J Brat

  • DNA methylation-based classification of central nervous system tumours

    David Capper;David Capper;David Capper;David T. W. Jones;Martin Sill;Volker Hovestadt

  • Analysis of BRAF V600E mutation in 1,320 nervous system tumors reveals high mutation frequencies in pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma, ganglioglioma and extra-cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma

    Genevieve Schindler;David Capper;David Capper;Jochen Meyer;Wibke Janzarik

  • Type and frequency of IDH1 and IDH2 mutations are related to astrocytic and oligodendroglial differentiation and age: a study of 1,010 diffuse gliomas.

    Christian Hartmann;Christian Hartmann;Jochen Meyer;Jörg Balss;David Capper

  • The immunosuppressive tumour network: myeloid-derived suppressor cells, regulatory T cells and natural killer T cells

    Dennis S. U. Lindau;Paul R. Gielen;Michiel Kroesen;Pieter Wesseling;Pieter Wesseling

  • New Brain Tumor Entities Emerge from Molecular Classification of CNS-PNETs

    Dominik Sturm;Dominik Sturm;Brent A. Orr;Umut H. Toprak;Volker Hovestadt

  • Overcoming the blood-brain tumor barrier for effective glioblastoma treatment

    O. van Tellingen;B. Yetkin-Arik;M.C. de Gooijer;P. Wesseling;P. Wesseling

  • RNA-Seq of Tumor-Educated Platelets Enables Blood-Based Pan-Cancer, Multiclass, and Molecular Pathway Cancer Diagnostics

    Myron G. Best;Nik Sol;Irsan Kooi;Jihane Tannous

  • Diffuse glioma growth: a guerilla war

    An Claes;Albert J. Idema;Pieter Wesseling

  • WHO 2016 Classification of gliomas

    Pieter Wesseling;Pieter Wesseling;David Capper;David Capper;David Capper

  • International Society of Neuropathology-Haarlem Consensus Guidelines for Nervous System Tumor Classification and Grading

    David N. Louis;Arie Perry;Peter Burger;David W. Ellison

  • EANO-ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients with leptomeningeal metastasis from solid tumours.

    E. Le Rhun;M. Weller;D. Brandsma;M. Van den Bent

  • Germline mutation of INI1/SMARCB1 in familial schwannomatosis.

    Theo J.M. Hulsebos;Astrid S. Plomp;Ruud A. Wolterman;Els C. Robanus-Maandag

  • DNA copy number analysis of fresh and formalin-fixed specimens by shallow whole-genome sequencing with identification and exclusion of problematic regions in the genome assembly

    Ilari Scheinin;Daoud Sie;Henrik Bengtsson;Mark A. van de Wiel

  • cIMPACT-NOW update 6: new entity and diagnostic principle recommendations of the cIMPACT-Utrecht meeting on future CNS tumor classification and grading.

    David N. Louis;Pieter Wesseling;Kenneth Aldape;Daniel J. Brat

  • Longitudinal molecular trajectories of diffuse glioma in adults

    Floris P. Barthel;Kevin C. Johnson;Frederick S. Varn;Anzhela D. Moskalik

  • Interim results from the CATNON trial (EORTC study 26053-22054) of treatment with concurrent and adjuvant temozolomide for 1p/19q non-co-deleted anaplastic glioma: a phase 3, randomised, open-label intergroup study

    Martin J van den Bent;Brigitta Baumert;Sara C Erridge;Michael A Vogelbaum;Michael A Vogelbaum

  • cIMPACT-NOW update 2: diagnostic clarifications for diffuse midline glioma, H3 K27M-mutant and diffuse astrocytoma/anaplastic astrocytoma, IDH-mutant

    David N. Louis;Caterina Giannini;David Capper;Werner Paulus

  • IDH1 and IDH2 Mutations Are Prognostic but not Predictive for Outcome in Anaplastic Oligodendroglial Tumors: A Report of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Brain Tumor Group

    Martin J. van den Bent;Hendrikus J. Dubbink;Yannick Marie;Alba A. Brandes

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas von Deimling
Andreas von Deimling Heidelberg University
Wolfgang Wick
Wolfgang Wick German Cancer Research Center
Stefan M. Pfister
Stefan M. Pfister German Cancer Research Center
Andrey Korshunov
Andrey Korshunov German Cancer Research Center
Martin J. van den Bent
Martin J. van den Bent Erasmus University Rotterdam
Felix Sahm
Felix Sahm University Hospital Heidelberg
Johan M. Kros
Johan M. Kros Erasmus University Rotterdam
Michael Weller
Michael Weller University of Zurich
David Capper
David Capper Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Arend Heerschap
Arend Heerschap Radboud University

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