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Richard J. Gilbertson

Richard J. Gilbertson

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Medicine

D-Index
96
Citations
42492
World Ranking
9535
National Ranking
931

Overview

Richard J. Gilbertson is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with notable contributions to oncology and cancer research.

The primary fields of study in Gilbertson's work include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, their subfields of study focus on:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Cancer Research
  • Oncology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

The main topics covered in Gilbertson's research encompass:

  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments

Gilbertson has published multiple papers in prestigious venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Neuro-Oncology (13 publications)
  • Cancer Discovery (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • Cancer Cell (3 publications)
  • Genes & Development (2 publications)

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard J. Gilbertson are:

  • "cIMPACT-NOW update 7: advancing the molecular classification of ependymal tumors," 2020, Brain Pathology
  • "Outcomes by Clinical and Molecular Features in Children With Medulloblastoma Treated With Risk-Adapted Therapy: Results of an International Phase III Trial (SJMB03)," 2021, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • "Cancers make their own luck: theories of cancer origins," 2023, Nature Reviews. Cancer
  • "Serial assessment of measurable residual disease in medulloblastoma liquid biopsies," 2021, Cancer Cell
  • "Cross-Species Genomics Reveals Oncogenic Dependencies in ZFTA/C11orf95 Fusion-Positive Supratentorial Ependymomas," 2021, Cancer Discovery

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Amir Jassim
  • Kristian W. Pajtler
  • Stefan M. Pfister
  • Paul A. Northcott
  • Katherine E. Masih

Best Publications

  • A Perivascular Niche for Brain Tumor Stem Cells

    Christopher Calabrese;Helen Poppleton;Mehmet Kocak;Twala L. Hogg

  • Molecular Subgroups of Medulloblastoma: The Current Consensus

    Michael D. Taylor;Paul A. Northcott;Andrey Korshunov;Marc Remke;Marc Remke

  • Somatic histone H3 alterations in pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas and non-brainstem glioblastomas

    Gang Wu;Alberto Broniscer;Troy A McEachron;Charles Lu

  • Risk-adapted craniospinal radiotherapy followed by high-dose chemotherapy and stem-cell rescue in children with newly diagnosed medulloblastoma (St Jude Medulloblastoma-96): long-term results from a prospective, multicentre trial

    Amar Gajjar;Murali Chintagumpala;David Ashley;Stewart Kellie

  • Molecular subgroups of medulloblastoma: an international meta-analysis of transcriptome, genetic aberrations, and clinical data of WNT, SHH, Group 3, and Group 4 medulloblastomas

    Marcel Kool;Andrey Korshunov;Marc Remke;Marc Remke;David T.W. Jones

  • Molecular Classification of Ependymal Tumors across All CNS Compartments, Histopathological Grades, and Age Groups

    Kristian W. Pajtler;Kristian W. Pajtler;Hendrik Witt;Martin Sill;David T.W. Jones

  • Radial glia cells are candidate stem cells of ependymoma

    Michael D. Taylor;Helen Poppleton;Christine Fuller;Xiaoping Su

  • Subtypes of medulloblastoma have distinct developmental origins

    Paul Gibson;Yiai Tong;Giles Robinson;Margaret C. Thompson

  • Novel mutations target distinct subgroups of medulloblastoma

    Giles Robinson;Matthew Parker;Tanya A. Kranenburg;Charles Lu;Charles Lu

  • Making a tumour's bed: glioblastoma stem cells and the vascular niche

    Richard J. Gilbertson;Jeremy N. Rich

  • Genomics Identifies Medulloblastoma Subgroups That Are Enriched for Specific Genetic Alterations

    Margaret C. Thompson;Christine Fuller;Twala L. Hogg;James Dalton

  • Integrative genomic analysis of medulloblastoma identifies a molecular subgroup that drives poor clinical outcome.

    Yoon Jae Cho;Aviad Tsherniak;Pablo Tamayo;Sandro Santagata

  • Whole-genome sequencing identifies genetic alterations in pediatric low-grade gliomas

    Jinghui Zhang;Gang Wu;Claudia P. Miller;Ruth G. Tatevossian

  • The brain tumor microenvironment.

    Nikki A. Charles;Eric C. Holland;Richard Gilbertson;Rainer Glass

  • Prominin 1 marks intestinal stem cells that are susceptible to neoplastic transformation

    Liqin Zhu;Paul Gibson;D. Spencer Currle;Yiai Tong

  • Challenges to curing primary brain tumours

    Kenneth Aldape;Kevin M Brindle;Louis Chesler;Rajesh Chopra

  • Medulloblastomics: the end of the beginning

    Paul A. Northcott;David T.W. Jones;Marcel Kool;Giles W. Robinson

  • Enhancer hijacking activates GFI1 family oncogenes in medulloblastoma

    Paul A. Northcott;Catherine Lee;Catherine Lee;Thomas Zichner;Adrian M. Stütz

  • C11orf95 – RELA fusions drive oncogenic NF-κB signalling in ependymoma

    Matthew Parker;Kumarasamypet M. Mohankumar;Chandanamali Punchihewa;Ricardo Weinlich

  • Medulloblastoma: clinicopathological correlates of SHH, WNT, and non-SHH/WNT molecular subgroups

    David W. Ellison;James Dalton;Mehmet Kocak;Sarah Leigh Nicholson

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Ellison
David W. Ellison St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Amar Gajjar
Amar Gajjar St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Clinton F. Stewart
Clinton F. Stewart St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Stefan M. Pfister
Stefan M. Pfister German Cancer Research Center
Michael D. Taylor
Michael D. Taylor University of Toronto
Steven C. Clifford
Steven C. Clifford Newcastle University
Martine F. Roussel
Martine F. Roussel St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Thomas E. Merchant
Thomas E. Merchant St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Andrey Korshunov
Andrey Korshunov German Cancer Research Center
David Finkelstein
David Finkelstein St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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