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Overview

Robert A. Gatenby is affiliated with Moffitt Cancer Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within the biological and medical sciences, with a particular focus on cancer biology and treatment. The primary fields of study associated with their work are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these larger disciplines, their research covers subfields such as Cancer Research, Molecular Biology, Modeling and Simulation, Oncology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The research topics most frequently associated with Gatenby's publications include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Mathematical Biology Tumor Growth, Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Cancer Hypoxia and Metabolism, Cancer Cells and Metastasis, and Microtubule and Mitosis Dynamics.

Gatenby has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • iScience
  • Cancers

The scope of Gatenby's recent scholarly papers illustrates their focus and collaborative efforts. Some notable recent publications are:

  • "Updating the Definition of Cancer" (2023) in Molecular Cancer Research
  • "Towards Multidrug Adaptive Therapy" (2020) in Cancer Research
  • "Integrating evolutionary dynamics into cancer therapy" (2020) in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
  • "Characterizing the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of cancer" (2020) in Nature Genetics
  • "The harsh microenvironment in early breast cancer selects for a Warburg phenotype" (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaborations are prominent in Gatenby's career, with several frequent co-authors including:

  • Joel S. Brown
  • Alexander R.A. Anderson
  • Mark Robertson-Tessi
  • Jeffrey West
  • Robert J. Gillies

Best Publications

  • Why do cancers have high aerobic glycolysis

    Robert A. Gatenby;Robert J. Gillies

  • Acidity generated by the tumor microenvironment drives local invasion

    Veronica Estrella;Tingan Chen;Mark Lloyd;Jonathan Wojtkowiak

  • Oxygen distribution in squamous cell carcinoma metastases and its relationship to outcome of radiation therapy.

    Robert A. Gatenby;Howard B. Kessler;Jay S. Rosenblum;Lawrence R. Coia

  • Environment-mediated drug resistance: a major contributor to minimal residual disease

    Mark B. Meads;Robert A. Gatenby;William S. Dalton

  • Acid-Mediated Tumor Invasion: a Multidisciplinary Study

    Robert A. Gatenby;Edward T. Gawlinski;Arthur F. Gmitro;Brant Kaylor

  • A microenvironmental model of carcinogenesis

    Robert A. Gatenby;Robert J. Gillies

  • A Reaction-Diffusion Model of Cancer Invasion

    Robert A. Gatenby;Edward T. Gawlinski

  • Causes and Consequences of Increased Glucose Metabolism of Cancers

    Robert J. Gillies;Ian Robey;Robert A. Gatenby

  • Integrating evolutionary dynamics into treatment of metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer

    Jingsong Zhang;Jessica J. Cunningham;Joel S. Brown;Robert A. Gatenby

  • Bicarbonate increases tumor pH and inhibits spontaneous metastases

    Ian F. Robey;Brenda K. Baggett;Nathaniel D. Kirkpatrick;Denise J. Roe

  • Evolutionary dynamics of carcinogenesis and why targeted therapy does not work.

    Robert J. Gillies;Daniel Verduzco;Robert A. Gatenby

  • Quantitative Imaging in Cancer Evolution and Ecology

    Robert A. Gatenby;Olya Grove;Robert J. Gillies

  • A change of strategy in the war on cancer.

    Robert A. Gatenby

  • pH imaging. A review of pH measurement methods and applications in cancers.

    Robert J Gillies;Natarajan Raghunand;Maria L Garcia-Martin;Robert A Gatenby

  • Cellular adaptations to hypoxia and acidosis during somatic evolution of breast cancer

    R A Gatenby;K Smallbone;P K Maini;F Rose

  • An Evolutionary Model Of Carcinogenesis

    Robert A Gatenby;Thomas L Vincent

  • Glycolysis in cancer: A potential target for therapy

    Robert A. Gatenby;Robert J. Gillies

  • The glycolytic phenotype in carcinogenesis and tumor invasion: insights through mathematical models.

    Robert A Gatenby;Edward T Gawlinski

  • pH imaging

    R.J. Gillies;N. Raghunand;M.L. Garcia-Martin;R.A. Gatenby

  • A cellular automaton model of early tumor growth and invasion.

    Aalpen A. Patel;Edward T. Gawlinski;Susan K. Lemieux;Robert A. Gatenby

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Gillies
Robert J. Gillies Moffitt Cancer Center
Joel S. Brown
Joel S. Brown University of Illinois at Chicago
Lawrence O. Hall
Lawrence O. Hall University of South Florida
Dmitry B. Goldgof
Dmitry B. Goldgof University of South Florida
Alexander R. A. Anderson
Alexander R. A. Anderson Moffitt Cancer Center
Philip K. Maini
Philip K. Maini University of Oxford
Beata Ujvari
Beata Ujvari Deakin University
Frédéric Thomas
Frédéric Thomas University of Montpellier
François Renaud
François Renaud University of Montpellier
Helen M. Byrne
Helen M. Byrne University of Oxford

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