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  • 2018 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science

Overview

Sean M. Grimmond is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has a significant research footprint in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work predominantly addresses Oncology, Cancer Research, and Molecular Biology, with additional contributions to Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

Their research encompasses a range of specialized topics including Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment, and Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment.

Grimmond has contributed to multiple recent scientific papers, including:

  • A deep learning system accurately classifies primary and metastatic cancers using passenger mutation patterns (2020, Nature Communications)
  • HNF4A and GATA6 Loss Reveals Therapeutically Actionable Subtypes in Pancreatic Cancer (2020, Cell Reports)
  • Sex differences in oncogenic mutational processes (2020, Nature Communications)
  • A first-in-class pan-lysyl oxidase inhibitor impairs stromal remodeling and enhances gemcitabine response and survival in pancreatic cancer (2023, Nature Cancer)
  • CAR+ T-Cell Lymphoma Post Ciltacabtagene Autoleucel Therapy for Relapsed Refractory Multiple Myeloma (2023, Blood)

They frequently collaborate with several co-authors, including:

  • Joseph H.A. Vissers (21 joint publications)
  • Oliver Hofmann (17 joint publications)
  • Richard W. Tothill (12 joint publications)
  • Andrew V. Biankin (11 joint publications)
  • Anthony J. Gill (11 joint publications)

Grimmond's work is published across various respected venues, most notably:

  • Nature Communications (8 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (6 publications)
  • Blood (4 publications)
  • Clinical Cancer Research (4 publications)
  • Seminars in Cancer Biology (3 publications)

In 2018, Sean M. Grimmond was recognized as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science.

Best Publications

  • Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer

    Ludmil B. Alexandrov;Serena Nik-Zainal;Serena Nik-Zainal;David C. Wedge;Samuel A. J. R. Aparicio

  • The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome

    P. Carninci;T. Kasukawa;S. Katayama;J. Gough

  • Genomic analyses identify molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer

    Bailey P;Chang Dk;Nones K;Nones K;Johns Al

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • Whole genomes redefine the mutational landscape of pancreatic cancer.

    Nicola Waddell;Marina Pajic;Ann Marie Patch;David K. Chang

  • Pancreatic cancer genomes reveal aberrations in axon guidance pathway genes

    Andrew V. Biankin;Andrew V. Biankin;Andrew V. Biankin;Nicola Waddell;Karin S. Kassahn;Marie Claude Gingras

  • International network of cancer genome projects

    Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

  • Analysis of the mouse transcriptome based on functional annotation of 60,770 full-length cDNAs

    Y. Okazaki;M. Furuno;T. Kasukawa;J. Adachi

  • Integrated Genomic Characterization of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

    Benjamin J. Raphael;Ralph H. Hruban;Andrew J. Aguirre;Richard A. Moffitt

  • Genome-wide analysis of mammalian promoter architecture and evolution

    Piero Carninci;Albin Sandelin;Boris Lenhard;Boris Lenhard;Shintaro Katayama

  • Whole-genome characterization of chemoresistant ovarian cancer

    Ann-Marie Patch;Ann-Marie Patch;Elizabeth Christie;Dariush Etemadmoghadam;Dariush Etemadmoghadam;Dale W. Garsed

  • Whole-genome landscapes of major melanoma subtypes

    Nicholas K. Hayward;Nicholas K. Hayward;James S. Wilmott;Nicola Waddell;Nicola Waddell;Peter A. Johansson

  • Stem cell transcriptome profiling via massive-scale mRNA sequencing.

    Nicole Cloonan;Alistair R R Forrest;Alistair R R Forrest;Gabriel Kolle;Brooke B A Gardiner

  • Identification of unique neoantigen qualities in long-term survivors of pancreatic cancer.

    Vinod P. Balachandran;Marta Łuksza;Julia N. Zhao;Vladimir Makarov

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

    Yilong Li;Nicola D Roberts;Jeremiah A Wala;Jeremiah A Wala;Ofer Shapira;Ofer Shapira

  • Long noncoding RNAs in mouse embryonic stem cell pluripotency and differentiation

    Marcel E. Dinger;Paulo P. Amaral;Tim R. Mercer;Ken C. Pang;Ken C. Pang

  • The regulated retrotransposon transcriptome of mammalian cells.

    Geoffrey J Faulkner;Yasumasa Kimura;Carsten O Daub;Shivangi Wani

  • Whole-genome landscape of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours

    Aldo Scarpa;David K. Chang;Katia Nones;Katia Nones;Vincenzo Corbo

  • An Atlas of Combinatorial Transcriptional Regulation in Mouse and Man

    Timothy Ravasi;Harukazu Suzuki;Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci;Shintaro Katayama

  • Experimental validation of the regulated expression of large numbers of non-coding RNAs from the mouse genome

    Timothy Ravasi;Harukazu Suzuki;Ken C. Pang;Shintaro Katayama

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew V. Biankin
Andrew V. Biankin University of Glasgow
Nicola Waddell
Nicola Waddell QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Anthony J. Gill
Anthony J. Gill University of Sydney
Nicole Cloonan
Nicole Cloonan QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
John V. Pearson
John V. Pearson QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Marina Pajic
Marina Pajic Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Alistair R. R. Forrest
Alistair R. R. Forrest Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Melissa H. Little
Melissa H. Little Murdoch Children's Research Institute
David A. Hume
David A. Hume University of Queensland
Nicholas K. Hayward
Nicholas K. Hayward QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

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