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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
118
Citations
125416
World Ranking
599
National Ranking
362

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
118
Citations
133242
World Ranking
685
National Ranking
433

Medicine

D-Index
118
Citations
133267
World Ranking
3949
National Ranking
2162

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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Yiling Lu is affiliated with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in the United States. Their research contributions are primarily situated within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. They have a substantial publication record that spans molecular biology, oncology, cancer research, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and immunology.

The scientist's major research topics encompass cancer genomics and diagnostics, melanoma and MAPK pathways, advanced proteomics techniques and applications, protein degradation and inhibitors, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, scheduling and optimization algorithms, and advanced manufacturing and logistics optimization.

Yiling Lu has published in various research venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators in their work include Gordon B. Mills, Zhenlin Ju, Han Liang, Rehan Akbani, and Meenhard Herlyn.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Verteporfin Inhibits PD-L1 through Autophagy and the STAT1-IRF1-TRIM28 Signaling Axis, Exerting Antitumor Efficacy" (2020), published in Cancer Immunology Research
  • "WEE1 inhibition induces anti-tumor immunity by activating ERV and the dsRNA pathway" (2021), published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • "Large-Scale Characterization of Drug Responses of Clinically Relevant Proteins in Cancer Cell Lines" (2020), published in Cancer Cell
  • "Targeting mTOR signaling overcomes acquired resistance to combined BRAF and MEK inhibition in BRAF-mutant melanoma" (2021), published in Oncogene
  • "Peritoneal Spread of Ovarian Cancer Harbors Therapeutic Vulnerabilities Regulated by FOXM1 and EGFR/ERBB2 Signaling" (2020), published in Cancer Research

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumours

    Daniel C. Koboldt;Robert S. Fulton;Michael D. McLellan;Heather Schmidt

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of gastric adenocarcinoma

    Adam J. Bass;Vesteinn Thorsson;Ilya Shmulevich;Sheila M. Reynolds

  • Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma

    Gad Getz;Stacey B. Gabriel;Kristian Cibulskis;Eric Lander

  • Comprehensive molecular profiling of lung adenocarcinoma: The cancer genome atlas research network

    Eric A. Collisson;Joshua D. Campbell;Angela N. Brooks;Angela N. Brooks;Alice H. Berger

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

    Michael S. Lawrence;Carrie Sougnez;Lee Lichtenstein;Kristian Cibulskis

  • The Immune Landscape of Cancer

    Vésteinn Thorsson;David L Gibbs;Scott D Brown;Denise Wolf

  • Comprehensivemolecular characterization of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

    Chad J. Creighton;Margaret Morgan;Preethi H. Gunaratne;Preethi H. Gunaratne;David A. Wheeler

  • Comprehensive, Integrative Genomic Analysis of Diffuse Lower-Grade Gliomas.

    Daniel J. Brat;Roel G.W. Verhaak;Kenneth D. Aldape;W. K.Alfred Yung

  • Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas

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

  • Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma

    Rehan Akbani;Kadir C. Akdemir;B. Arman Aksoy;Monique Albert

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

  • Integrated Genomic Characterization of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

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

  • Exosomal PD-L1 Contributes to Immunosuppression and is Associated with anti-PD-1 Response

    Gang Chen;Alexander C. Huang;Wei Zhang;Wei Zhang;Gao Zhang

  • Next-generation characterization of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia

    Mahmoud Ghandi;Franklin W. Huang;Franklin W. Huang;Franklin W. Huang;Judit Jané-Valbuena;Judit Jané-Valbuena;Gregory V. Kryukov

  • 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

  • Exploiting the PI3K/AKT Pathway for Cancer Drug Discovery

    Bryan T. Hennessy;Debra L. Smith;Prahlad T. Ram;Yiling Lu

  • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations.

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

  • Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer

    A. Gordon Robertson;Jaegil Kim;Hikmat Al-Ahmadie;Joaquim Bellmunt

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

    Kyle Chang;Chad J Creighton;Caleb Davis;Lawrence Donehower

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon B. Mills
Gordon B. Mills Oregon Health & Science University
John N. Weinstein
John N. Weinstein The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Han Liang
Han Liang The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Gad Getz
Gad Getz Broad Institute
Andrew D. Cherniack
Andrew D. Cherniack Broad Institute
Matthew Meyerson
Matthew Meyerson Harvard University
Rameen Beroukhim
Rameen Beroukhim Harvard University
Andrew J. Mungall
Andrew J. Mungall BC Cancer Agency
Marco A. Marra
Marco A. Marra University of British Columbia
Steven J.M. Jones
Steven J.M. Jones University of British Columbia

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