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Silvana Pilotti

Silvana Pilotti

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2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
108
Citations
41988
World Ranking
980
National Ranking
25

Medicine

D-Index
109
Citations
42813
World Ranking
5794
National Ranking
182

Silvana Pilotti publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Silvana Pilotti sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 566 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Silvana Pilotti D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Silvana Pilotti sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 109 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Silvana Pilotti is affiliated with the University of Milan in Italy and focuses on research primarily within the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, alongside medicine. Their scientific contributions span molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and cancer research.

Their research addresses specific topics including thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment, glutathione transferases and polymorphisms, ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, protein degradation and inhibitors, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, RNA modifications and cancer, and sarcoma diagnosis and treatment.

Notable recent papers by Silvana Pilotti include:

  • "Cancer Associated Fibroblasts and Senescent Thyroid Cells in the Invasive Front of Thyroid Carcinoma" (2020, Cancers)
  • "Correction: Combination of PPARγ Agonist Pioglitazone and Trabectedin Induce Adipocyte Differentiation to Overcome Trabectedin Resistance in Myxoid Liposarcomas" (2020, Clinical Cancer Research)
  • "Correction: Establishment and characterisation of a new patient-derived model of myxoid liposarcoma with acquired resistance to trabectedin" (2020, British Journal of Cancer)
  • "Correction: Oncogenic RAS-induced senescence in human primary thyrocytes: molecular effectors and inflammatory secretome involved" (2022, Oncotarget)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Silvana Pilotti include:

  • Silvia Brich
  • Angela Greco
  • Roberta Frapolli
  • Ezia Bello
  • Ilaria Craparotta

Their work has been published in various scientific journals, predominantly in the following venues:

  • Cancers
  • Clinical Cancer Research
  • British Journal of Cancer
  • Oncotarget

Best Publications

  • Isolation and in vitro propagation of tumorigenic breast cancer cells with stem/progenitor cell properties.

    Dario Ponti;Aurora Costa;Nadia Zaffaroni;Graziella Pratesi

  • Role of Macrophage Targeting in the Antitumor Activity of Trabectedin

    Giovanni Germano;Roberta Frapolli;Cristina Belgiovine;Achille Anselmo

  • Prediction of BRCA1 Status in Patients with Breast Cancer Using Estrogen Receptor and Basal Phenotype

    Sunil R. Lakhani;Jorge S. Reis-Filho;Laura Fulford;Frederique Penault-Llorca

  • High-Risk Human Papillomavirus Affects Prognosis in Patients With Surgically Treated Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

    Lisa Licitra;Federica Perrone;Paolo Bossi;Simona Suardi

  • The FHIT Gene at 3p14.2 Is Abnormal in Lung Cancer

    Gabriella Sozzi;Maria Luisa Veronese;Massimo Negrini;Raffaele Baffa

  • Expression of angiogenesis stimulators and inhibitors in human thyroid tumors and correlation with clinical pathological features

    Giuseppe Bunone;Paolo Vigneri;Luigi Mariani;Simona Butó

  • Randomized Trial of Fenretinide to Prevent Second Breast Malignancy in Women With Early Breast Cancer

    Sylvie Ménard;Tiziana Camerini;Luigi Mariani;Gorana Tomasic

  • Efficacy of trabectedin (ecteinascidin-743) in advanced pretreated myxoid liposarcomas: a retrospective study

    Federica Grosso;Robin L. Jones;George D. Demetri;Ian R. Judson

  • A new oncogene in human thyroid papillary carcinomas and their lymph-nodal metastases

    A. Fusco;M. Grieco;M. Santoro;M. T. Berlingieri

  • PI3KCA/PTEN deregulation contributes to impaired responses to cetuximab in metastatic colorectal cancer patients

    F. Perrone;A. Lampis;M. Orsenigo;M. Di Bartolomeo

  • Gene p53 mutations are restricted to poorly differentiated and undifferentiated carcinomas of the thyroid gland.

    R Donghi;A Longoni;S Pilotti;P Michieli

  • Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors: Prognostic factors and survival in a series of patients treated at a single institution

    Matteo Anghileri;Rosalba Miceli;Marco Fiore;Luigi Mariani

  • Non-small-cell lung carcinoma tumor growth without morphological evidence of neo-angiogenesis

    Francesco Pezzella;Ugo Pastorino;Elda Tagliabue;Salvatore Andreola

  • Loss of FHIT Function in Lung Cancer and Preinvasive Bronchial Lesions

    Gabriella Sozzi;Ugo Pastorino;Luisa Moiraghi;Elda Tagliabue

  • A new mutation in the KIT ATP pocket causes acquired resistance to imatinib in a gastrointestinal stromal tumor patient.

    Elena Tamborini;Lorena Bonadiman;Angela Greco;Veronica Albertini

  • Induction of a proinflammatory program in normal human thyrocytes by the RET/PTC1 oncogene

    Maria Grazia Borrello;Luisella Alberti;Andrew Fischer;Debora Degl'Innocenti

  • Overexpression of the c-MET/HGF receptor gene in human thyroid carcinomas.

    Di Renzo Mf;Olivero M;Ferro S;Prat M

  • Expression of the anti-apoptotic gene survivin correlates with taxol resistance in human ovarian cancer.

    N. Zaffaroni;M. Pennati;G. Colella;P. Perego

  • Adjuvant chemotherapy with vincristine, cyclophosphamide, and doxorubicin after radiotherapy in local-regional nasopharyngeal cancer: results of a 4-year multicenter randomized study.

    A Rossi;R Molinari;P Boracchi;M Del Vecchio

  • 30 years' follow up of randomised studies of adjuvant CMF in operable breast cancer: cohort study

    Gianni Bonadonna;Angela Moliterni;Milvia Zambetti;Maria Grazia Daidone

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco A. Pierotti
Marco A. Pierotti University of Bari Aldo Moro
Alessandro Gronchi
Alessandro Gronchi University of Milan
Paolo G. Casali
Paolo G. Casali University of Milan
Silvia Stacchiotti
Silvia Stacchiotti University of Milan
Gabriella Sozzi
Gabriella Sozzi University of Milan
Lisa Licitra
Lisa Licitra University of Milan
Sabrina Pricl
Sabrina Pricl University of Trieste
Ugo Pastorino
Ugo Pastorino University of Milan
Paolo Radice
Paolo Radice Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
Silvana Canevari
Silvana Canevari University of Milan

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