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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
125
Citations
73502
World Ranking
431
National Ranking
257

Medicine

D-Index
130
Citations
81562
World Ranking
2447
National Ranking
1385

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Internal medicine
  • Cancer
  • Gene

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Internal medicine, Endocrinology, Pathology, Thyroid and Thyroid carcinoma. Her study looks at the relationship between Endocrinology and fields such as Gene expression, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems. The various areas that Sylvia L. Asa examines in her Pathology study include Gene rearrangement and Pituitary tumorigenesis.

Her Thyroid research is mostly focused on the topic Thyroid cancer. Her Thyroid carcinoma research incorporates elements of MEDLINE, Lymph node, Thyroidectomy, Carcinoma and Metastasis. Her Adenoma research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Somatotropic cell, Estrogen receptor, Anterior pituitary, Acromegaly and Pituitary neoplasm.

Her most cited work include:

  • Integrated Genomic Characterization of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (1325 citations)
  • Revised American thyroid association guidelines for the management of medullary thyroid carcinoma (850 citations)
  • The prevalence of pituitary adenomas: a systematic review. (815 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Sylvia L. Asa mainly investigates Pathology, Internal medicine, Endocrinology, Thyroid and Immunohistochemistry. She usually deals with Pathology and limits it to topics linked to Thyroid carcinoma and Metastasis. Her Internal medicine study typically links adjacent topics like Oncology.

Her research on Endocrinology frequently links to adjacent areas such as Gene expression. Her Thyroid research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Differential diagnosis, Cancer and Malignancy. Her work in Pituitary tumors tackles topics such as Cancer research which are related to areas like Fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 and Carcinogenesis.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Pathology (62.45%)
  • Internal medicine (41.18%)
  • Endocrinology (36.61%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Pathology (62.45%)
  • Thyroid (29.21%)
  • Neuroendocrine tumors (8.21%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Pathology, Thyroid, Neuroendocrine tumors, Immunohistochemistry and Internal medicine are her primary areas of study. She interconnects Somatotropic cell and Endocrine pathology in the investigation of issues within Pathology. Her study in Thyroid carcinoma and Thyroid cancer is done as part of Thyroid.

Her Neuroendocrine tumors research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Pituitary carcinoma, Pituitary adenoma, Hormone, Corticotropic cell and Cushing Disease. Her Immunohistochemistry study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Cell type and Pathogenesis. Her research in Internal medicine intersects with topics in Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Oncology and SDHB.

Between 2017 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes (538 citations)
  • Genomic and Functional Approaches to Understanding Cancer Aneuploidy (296 citations)
  • A common classification framework for neuroendocrine neoplasms: an International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and World Health Organization (WHO) expert consensus proposal. (264 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Cancer
  • Gene
  • Internal medicine

Her primary scientific interests are in Pathology, Thyroid, Neuroendocrine tumors, Immunohistochemistry and Cancer research. She combines subjects such as Human physiology, Thyroid carcinoma, MEDLINE and Endocrine pathology with her study of Pathology. Sylvia L. Asa has included themes like Cyst, Pheochromocytoma and Malignancy in her Thyroid study.

Her Neuroendocrine tumors study is concerned with the larger field of Internal medicine. Her Internal medicine research integrates issues from BRAF V600E and Histopathology. Her Immunohistochemistry research focuses on Somatotropic cell and how it relates to GATA3.

Best Publications

  • Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas

    Francisco Sanchez-Vega;Marco Mina;Joshua Armenia;Walid K. Chatila

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

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

  • Integrated Genomic Characterization of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

    Nishant Agrawal;Rehan Akbani;B. Arman Aksoy;Adrian Ally

  • Cell-of-Origin Patterns Dominate the Molecular Classification of 10,000 Tumors from 33 Types of Cancer.

    Katherine A. Hoadley;Christina Yau;Christina Yau;Toshinori Hinoue;Denise M. Wolf

  • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations.

    Matthew H Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • Revised American thyroid association guidelines for the management of medullary thyroid carcinoma

    Samuel A Wells;Sylvia L Asa;Henning Dralle;Rossella Elisei

  • The prevalence of pituitary adenomas: a systematic review.

    Shereen Ezzat;Sylvia L. Asa M.D.;William T. Couldwell;M.P.H. Charles E. Barr M.D.

  • Nomenclature Revision for Encapsulated Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Paradigm Shift to Reduce Overtreatment of Indolent Tumors

    Yuri E. Nikiforov;Raja R. Seethala;Giovanni Tallini;Zubair W. Baloch

  • Diagnostic terminology and morphologic criteria for cytologic diagnosis of thyroid lesions: a synopsis of the National Cancer Institute Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration State of the Science Conference.

    Zubair W. Baloch M.D.;Virginia A. LiVolsi;Syl L. Asa M.D.;Juan Rosai

  • Pathogenetic mechanisms in thyroid follicular-cell neoplasia

    Tetsuo Kondo;Shereen Ezzat;Shereen Ezzat;Sylvia L. Asa;Sylvia L. Asa

  • Genomic and Functional Approaches to Understanding Cancer Aneuploidy

    Alison M. Taylor;Alison M. Taylor;Juliann Shih;Gavin Ha;Gavin Ha;Galen F. Gao

  • The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Guidelines for Definitive Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism.

    Scott M. Wilhelm;Tracy S. Wang;Daniel T. Ruan;James A. Lee

  • Induction of intestinal epithelial proliferation by glucagon-like peptide 2

    D J Drucker;P Erlich;S L Asa;P L Brubaker

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

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

  • A common classification framework for neuroendocrine neoplasms: an International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and World Health Organization (WHO) expert consensus proposal.

    Guido Rindi;David S. Klimstra;Behnoush Abedi-Ardekani;Sylvia L. Asa

  • Organization of the human myostatin gene and expression in healthy men and HIV-infected men with muscle wasting

    Nestor F. Gonzalez-Cadavid;Wayne E. Taylor;Kevin Yarasheski;Indrani Sinha-Hikim

  • American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Management of Patients with Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer

    Robert C. Smallridge;Kenneth B. Ain;Kenneth B. Ain;Sylvia L. Asa;Sylvia L. Asa;Keith C. Bible

  • Pathogenic Germline Variants in 10,389 Adult Cancers

    Kuan-Lin Huang;R Jay Mashl;Yige Wu;Deborah I Ritter

  • Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma

    Lauren Fishbein;Lauren Fishbein;Ignaty Leshchiner;Ignaty Leshchiner;Vonn Walter;Vonn Walter;Ludmila Danilova;Ludmila Danilova

  • Comprehensive Pan-Genomic Characterization of Adrenocortical Carcinoma

    Zheng S;Cherniack Ad;Cherniack Ad;Dewal N;Moffitt Ra

Frequent Co-Authors

Shereen Ezzat
Shereen Ezzat Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Kalman Kovacs
Kalman Kovacs St. Michael's Hospital
Eva Horvath
Eva Horvath University of Toronto
Virginia A. LiVolsi
Virginia A. LiVolsi University of Pennsylvania
Daniel J. Drucker
Daniel J. Drucker Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Matthew Meyerson
Matthew Meyerson Harvard University
Thomas J. Giordano
Thomas J. Giordano University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Andrew D. Cherniack
Andrew D. Cherniack Broad Institute
Electron Kebebew
Electron Kebebew Stanford University
Ludmila Danilova
Ludmila Danilova Johns Hopkins University

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