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Riccardo Dalla-Favera

Riccardo Dalla-Favera

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Molecular Biology
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Molecular Biology

D-Index
142
Citations
71338
World Ranking
112
National Ranking
74

Medicine

D-Index
143
Citations
73493
World Ranking
1516
National Ranking
880

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Riccardo Dalla-Favera is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has published extensively in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology, oncology, pathology and forensic medicine, immunology, and cancer research.

The main topics of Dalla-Favera's work include:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Cancer-related gene regulation
  • Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology

Dalla-Favera has contributed to publications frequently appearing in venues such as:

  • Hematological Oncology
  • Blood Cancer Discovery
  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Blood

Recent papers include:

  • Single-cell analysis of germinal-center B cells informs on lymphoma cell of origin and outcome, 2020, The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Super-enhancer hypermutation alters oncogene expression in B cell lymphoma, 2022, Nature
  • Genetic mechanisms of HLA-I loss and immune escape in diffuse large B cell lymphoma, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Tracking Immunoglobulin Repertoire and Transcriptomic Changes in Germinal Center B Cells by Single-Cell Analysis, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology
  • KMT2D acetylation by CREBBP reveals a cooperative functional interaction at enhancers in normal and malignant germinal center B cells, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Dalla-Favera frequently collaborates with co-authors including Laura Pasqualucci, Katia Basso, Antony B. Holmes, Élodie Bal, and Kenneth C. Anderson.

Over the course of their career, Dalla-Favera has been recognized as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2016 and was inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Human c-myc onc gene is located on the region of chromosome 8 that is translocated in Burkitt lymphoma cells

    Riccardo dalla-Favera;Marco Bregni;Jan Erikson;David Patterson

  • Reverse engineering of regulatory networks in human B cells.

    Katia Basso;Adam A Margolin;Gustavo Stolovitzky;Ulf Klein

  • c-Myc transactivation of LDH-A: Implications for tumor metabolism and growth

    Hyunsuk Shim;Christine Dolde;Brian C. Lewis;Chyi Sun Wu

  • Hypermutation of multiple proto-oncogenes in B-cell diffuse large-cell lymphomas

    Laura Pasqualucci;Peter Neumeister;Tina Goossens;Gouri Nanjangud

  • Mutations of multiple genes cause deregulation of NF-κB in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

    Mara Compagno;Wei Keat Lim;Adina Grunn;Subhadra V. Nandula

  • Gene Expression Profiling of B Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Reveals a Homogeneous Phenotype Related to Memory B Cells

    Ulf Klein;Yuhai Tu;Gustavo A. Stolovitzky;Michela Mattioli

  • Direct activation of TERT transcription by c-MYC.

    Kou-Juey Wu;Carla Grandori;Mario Amacker;Nathalie Simon-Vermot

  • Germinal centres: role in B-cell physiology and malignancy

    Ulf Klein;Riccardo Dalla-Favera

  • Analysis of the coding genome of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

    Laura Pasqualucci;Vladimir Trifonov;Giulia Fabbri;Jing Ma

  • p53 mutations in human lymphoid malignancies: association with Burkitt lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

    Gianluca Gaidano;Paola Ballerini;Jerry Z. Gong;Giorgio Inghirami

  • Tolerization of dendritic cells by T(S) cells: the crucial role of inhibitory receptors ILT3 and ILT4.

    C. C. Chang;R Ciubotariu;J. S. Manavalan;J. Yuan

  • Inactivating mutations of acetyltransferase genes in B-cell lymphoma

    Laura Pasqualucci;David Dominguez-Sola;Annalisa Chiarenza;Giulia Fabbri

  • The DLEU2/miR-15a/16-1 cluster controls B cell proliferation and its deletion leads to chronic lymphocytic leukemia

    Ulf Klein;Marie Lia;Marta Crespo;Rachael Siegel

  • The molecular signature of mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma differs from that of other diffuse large B-cell lymphomas and shares features with classical Hodgkin lymphoma

    Kerry J. Savage;Stefano Monti;Jeffery L. Kutok;Giorgio Cattoretti

  • The BCL-6 proto-oncogene controls germinal-centre formation and Th2-type inflammation

    Bihui H. Ye;Giorgio Cattoretti;Qiong Shen;Jiandong Zhang

  • Molecular profiling of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma identifies robust subtypes including one characterized by host inflammatory response

    Stefano Monti;Kerry J. Savage;Jeffery L. Kutok;Friedrich Feuerhake

  • Transcription factor IRF4 controls plasma cell differentiation and class-switch recombination.

    Ulf Klein;Stefano Casola;Giorgio Cattoretti;Qiong Shen

  • The BCL6 proto-oncogene suppresses p53 expression in germinal-centre B cells

    Ryan T. Phan;Riccardo Dalla-Favera

  • Mechanisms of chromosomal translocations in B cell lymphomas.

    Ralf Küppers;Ralf Küppers;Riccardo Dalla-Favera

  • Alterations of a Zinc Finger-Encoding Gene, BCL-6, in Diffuse Large-Cell Lymphoma

    B. H. Ye;F. Lista;F. Lo Coco;D. M. Knowles

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura Pasqualucci
Laura Pasqualucci Columbia University
Gianluca Gaidano
Gianluca Gaidano University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro
R. S. K. Chaganti
R. S. K. Chaganti Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ulf Klein
Ulf Klein University of Leeds
Andrea Califano
Andrea Califano Columbia University
Govind Bhagat
Govind Bhagat Columbia University
Daniel M. Knowles
Daniel M. Knowles Cornell University
Annunziata Gloghini
Annunziata Gloghini University of Milan
Antonino Carbone
Antonino Carbone Centro di Riferimento Oncologico
Davide Rossi
Davide Rossi European Society for Medical Oncology

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