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Overview

Robert B. West is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a significant focus on cancer-related studies.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these broad fields, Robert B. West has contributed to several subfields, particularly:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Research
  • Oncology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Their research covers a variety of specialized topics, among them:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • AI in cancer detection

Robert B. West has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Clinical Cancer Research
  • Breast Cancer Research

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Robert B. West include:

  • Integrating genomic features for non-invasive early lung cancer detection, 2020, Nature
  • The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution, 2020, Cell
  • Transition to invasive breast cancer is associated with progressive changes in the structure and composition of tumor stroma, 2022, Cell
  • Immune cell topography predicts response to PD-1 blockade in cutaneous T cell lymphoma, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Origins and clonal convergence of gastrointestinal IgE + B cells in human peanut allergy, 2020, Science Immunology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert B. West include:

  • Sushama Varma
  • Jeffrey R. Marks
  • Graham A. Colditz
  • Siri H. Strand
  • Michael Angelo

Best Publications

  • Long non-coding RNA HOTAIR reprograms chromatin state to promote cancer metastasis

    Rajnish A. Gupta;Nilay R. Shah;Kevin C. Wang;Jeewon Kim

  • The prognostic landscape of genes and infiltrating immune cells across human cancers

    Andrew J Gentles;Aaron M Newman;Chih Long Liu;Scott V Bratman;Scott V Bratman

  • Gene Expression Signature of Fibroblast Serum Response Predicts Human Cancer Progression: Similarities between Tumors and Wounds

    Howard Y. Chang;Julie B Sneddon;Ash A. Alizadeh;Ruchira Sood

  • Integrated digital error suppression for improved detection of circulating tumor DNA

    Aaron M Newman;Alexander F Lovejoy;Daniel M Klass;David M Kurtz

  • The Novel Marker, DOG1, Is Expressed Ubiquitously in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Irrespective of KIT or PDGFRA Mutation Status

    Robert B. West;Christopher L Corless;Xin Chen;Brian P. Rubin

  • A Structured Tumor-Immune Microenvironment in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Revealed by Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging

    Leeat Keren;Marc Bosse;Diana Marquez;Roshan Angoshtari

  • Early Detection of Molecular Residual Disease in Localized Lung Cancer by Circulating Tumor DNA Profiling

    Aadel A. Chaudhuri;Jacob J. Chabon;Alexander F. Lovejoy;Aaron M. Newman

  • Systematic analysis of breast cancer morphology uncovers stromal features associated with survival.

    Andrew H. Beck;Ankur R. Sangoi;Ankur R. Sangoi;Samuel Leung;Robert J. Marinelli

  • KIT Gene Mutations and Copy Number in Melanoma Subtypes

    Carol Beadling;Erick Jacobson-Dunlop;F. Stephen Hodi;Claudia Le

  • Molecular characterisation of soft tissue tumours: a gene expression study

    Torsten O Nielsen;Rob B West;Sabine C Linn;Orly Alter

  • A landscape effect in tenosynovial giant-cell tumor from activation of CSF1 expression by a translocation in a minority of tumor cells.

    Robert B. West;Brian P. Rubin;Melinda A. Miller;Subbaya Subramanian

  • A novel monoclonal antibody against DOG1 is a sensitive and specific marker for gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

    Inigo Espinosa;Cheng Han Lee;Mi Kyung Kim;Bich Tien Rouse

  • The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions Across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution

    Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Philipp Oberdoerffer;Tal Nawy

  • Integrating genomic features for non-invasive early lung cancer detection

    Jacob J. Chabon;Emily G. Hamilton;David M. Kurtz;Mohammad S. Esfahani

  • Ano1 is a selective marker of interstitial cells of Cajal in the human and mouse gastrointestinal tract

    Pedro J. Gomez-Pinilla;Simon J. Gibbons;Michael R. Bardsley;Andrea Lorincz

  • Identification of a Disease-Defining Gene Fusion in Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma

    Munir R. Tanas;Andrea Sboner;Andre M. Oliveira;Michele R. Erickson-Johnson

  • Identification of recurrent SMO and BRAF mutations in ameloblastomas

    Robert T Sweeney;Andrew C McClary;Benjamin R Myers;Jewison Biscocho

  • Bone morphogenetic protein antagonist gremlin 1 is widely expressed by cancer-associated stromal cells and can promote tumor cell proliferation.

    Julie B. Sneddon;Hanson H. Zhen;Kelli Montgomery;Matt van de Rijn

  • MYB expression and translocation in adenoid cystic carcinomas and other salivary gland tumors with clinicopathologic correlation.

    Robert B. West;Christina Kong;Nicole Clarke;Thea Gilks

  • Abstract PR09: The prognostic landscape of genes and infiltrating immune cells across human cancers

    Andrew J. Gentles;Aaron M. Newman;Chih Long Liu;Scott V. Bratman

Frequent Co-Authors

Matt van de Rijn
Matt van de Rijn Stanford University
Torsten O. Nielsen
Torsten O. Nielsen University of British Columbia
Jonathan R. Pollack
Jonathan R. Pollack Stanford University
Maximilian Diehn
Maximilian Diehn Stanford University
Brian P. Rubin
Brian P. Rubin Cleveland Clinic
Robert Tibshirani
Robert Tibshirani Stanford University
Patrick O. Brown
Patrick O. Brown Stanford University
Heather A. Wakelee
Heather A. Wakelee Stanford University
Christina Curtis
Christina Curtis Stanford University
Ash A. Alizadeh
Ash A. Alizadeh Stanford University

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