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Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Sanford D. Markowitz is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Surgery, Oncology, and Molecular Biology as key subfields.

Their recent scholarly work includes publications in multiple high-impact journals. Notable papers include:

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Epigenetic Alterations in the Gastrointestinal Tract: Current and Emerging Use for Biomarkers of Cancer, 2020, Gastroenterology
  • 5-Fluorouracil Enhances the Antitumor Activity of the Glutaminase Inhibitor CB-839 against PIK3CA-Mutant Colorectal Cancers, 2020, Cancer Research
  • Genetic architectures of proximal and distal colorectal cancer are partly distinct, 2021, Gut
  • Biomarkers for Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer: The Early Detection Research Network, a Framework for Clinical Translation, 2020, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

Frequent publication venues for Sanford D. Markowitz include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Gastroenterology
  • UNC Libraries
  • The American Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Nature Communications

Their research topics largely concentrate on aspects of cancer and gastrointestinal diseases. Main areas of work incorporate:

  • Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Esophageal and GI Pathology
  • Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Eosinophilic Esophagitis
  • Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism

Collaborative work has been carried out with frequently co-authoring researchers such as Amitabh Chak, Joseph Willis, Helen Moinova, Nicholas J. Shaheen, and John A. Dumot, indicating a networked approach to research in related medical and molecular biology fields.

Among honors received, Sanford D. Markowitz is listed as a Member of the Association of American Physicians, a designation reflecting professional recognition.

Best Publications

  • Consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers

    Tobias Sjoblom;Sian Jones;D. Williams Parsons;Laura D. Wood

  • High frequency of mutations of the PIK3CA gene in human cancers

    Yardena Samuels;Zhenghe Wang;Alberto Bardelli;Natalie Silliman

  • Genomic landscapes of human breast and colorectal cancers

    Laura D. Wood;Williams D. Parsons;Sian Jones;Jimmy Lin

  • Inactivation of the Type II TGF-β Receptor in Colon Cancer Cells with Microsatellite Instability

    Sanford D Markowitz;Jing Wang;Lois Myeroff;Ramon Parsons

  • Molecular Basis of Colorectal Cancer

    Sanford D. Markowitz;Monica M. Bertagnolli

  • Suppression of human colorectal carcinoma cell growth by wild-type p53.

    Suzanne J. Baker;Sanford D Markowitz;Eric R. Fearon;James K V Willson

  • Incidence and functional consequences of hMLH1 promoter hypermethylation in colorectal carcinoma

    James G. Herman;Asad Umar;Kornelia Polyak;Jeremy R. Graff

  • Mutations of mitotic checkpoint genes in human cancers

    Daniel P. Cahill;Christoph Lengauer;Jian Yu;Gregory J. Riggins

  • p53 gene mutations occur in combination with 17p allelic deletions as late events in colorectal tumorigenesis.

    Suzanne J. Baker;Antonette C. Preisinger;J. M. Jessup;Christos Paraskeva

  • KILLER/DR5 is a DNA damage–inducible p53–regulated death receptor gene

    G. S. Wu;T. F. Burns;E. R. McDonald;W. Jiang

  • Epigenetic inactivation of SFRP genes allows constitutive WNT signaling in colorectal cancer

    Hiromu Suzuki;Hiromu Suzuki;D. Neil Watkins;Kam Wing Jair;Kornel E. Schuebel

  • Somatic mutations of the mitochondrial genome in human colorectal tumours

    Kornelia Polyak;Kornelia Polyak;Yunbo Li;Hong Zhu;Christoph Lengauer

  • Microsatellite instability and mutations of the transforming growth factor β type II receptor gene in colorectal cancer

    Ramon Parsons;Lois L. Myeroff;Bo Liu;James K. V. Willson

  • Comparative lesion sequencing provides insights into tumor evolution

    Siân Jones;Wei Dong Chen;Wei Dong Chen;Giovanni Parmigiani;Frank Diehl

  • Mismatch repair gene defects in sporadic colorectal cancers with microsatellite instability

    Bo Liu;Nicholas C. Nicolaides;Sanford Markowitz;James K.V. Willson

  • Biallelic inactivation of hMLH1 by epigenetic gene silencing, a novel mechanism causing human MSI cancers

    Martina L. Veigl;Lakshmi Kasturi;Joseph Olechnowicz;Aihong Ma

  • Evaluation of candidate tumour suppressor genes on chromosome 18 in colorectal cancers.

    Sam Thiagalingam;Christoph Lengauer;Frederick S. Leach;Mieke Schutte

  • Mutational analysis of the tyrosine phosphatome in colorectal cancers.

    Zhenghe Wang;Dong Shen;D. Williams Parsons;Alberto Bardelli

  • Mutational analysis of the tyrosine kinome in colorectal cancers

    Alberto Bardelli;D. Williams Parsons;Natalie Silliman;Janine Ptak

  • Mutations of GTBP in genetically unstable cells.

    Nickolas Papadopoulos;Nicholas C. Nicolaides;Bo Liu;Ramon Parsons

Frequent Co-Authors

James K V Willson
James K V Willson The University of Texas at Dallas
Bert Vogelstein
Bert Vogelstein Johns Hopkins University
William M. Grady
William M. Grady Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Amitabh Chak
Amitabh Chak Case Western Reserve University
Kenneth W. Kinzler
Kenneth W. Kinzler Johns Hopkins University
Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan
Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan Case Western Reserve University
Nicholas J. Shaheen
Nicholas J. Shaheen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Marcia I. Canto
Marcia I. Canto Johns Hopkins University
Robert C. Elston
Robert C. Elston Case Western Reserve University
Daniel D. Buchanan
Daniel D. Buchanan University of Melbourne

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