Leaderboards/cancer genomics and diagnostics

cancer genomics and diagnostics

Last updated June 11, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Sohaib Asif
Central South University
99
2
Muhammad Awais
Central South University
90
3
Alwin Krämer
German Cancer Research Center
80
4
Linda Mileshkin
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
70
5
Ti‐Cheng Chang
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
60
6
Sam Behjati
University of Cambridge
30
7
Gabriele Campanella
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
20
8
Chad Vanderbilt
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
10

Rising Stars Papers

1
Cancer-independent somatic mutation of the wild-type NF1 allele in normal tissues in neurofibromatosis type 1
Nature Genetics|2025
8 cit.
2
High resolution clonal architecture of hypomutated Wilms tumours
Nature Communications|2025
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Jia‐Ren Lin
Harvard University
99
2
Ting Fu
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
90
3
Michaela Unger
University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus
80
4
Sangeetha S.K.B
SRM Institute of Science and Technology
70
5
Roman E. Reggiardo
University of California, Santa Cruz
60
6
Angus Hodder
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
40
7
Madison Darmofal
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
40
8
Faiz Ali Khan
Henan University
30
9
Shuling Chen
Sun Yat-sen University
20
10
Jinxin Chen
Science for Life Laboratory
10

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Multiplexed 3D atlas of state transitions and immune interaction in colorectal cancer
Cell|2023
280 cit.
2
Paired microbiome and metabolome analyses associate bile acid changes with colorectal cancer progression
Cell Reports|2023
77 cit.

All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Olli-P. Kallionimeni
National Institutes of Health
99
2
Houtan Noushmehr
Universidade de São Paulo
90
3
Sooryanarayana Varambally
University of Alabama at Birmingham
80
4
Peter J. Campbell
Bioinformatics Institute
70
5
Solange Peters
University Hospital of Lausanne
60
6
Mignon L. Loh
Seattle Children's Hospital
50
7
Takuji Yamada
Japan Science and Technology Agency
50
8
Wade T. Iams
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
50
9
Anjana Rao
Harvard University
40
10
William R. Sellers
Broad Institute
30

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
TCGAbiolinks: an R/Bioconductor package for integrative analysis of TCGA data
Nucleic Acids Research|2015
4.5k cit.
2
Development of tumor mutation burden as an immunotherapy biomarker: utility for the oncology clinic
Annals of Oncology|2018
2.9k cit.
3
The polycomb group protein EZH2 is involved in progression of prostate cancer
Nature|2002
2.7k cit.
4
Transcriptional regulation by calcium, calcineurin, and NFAT
Genes & Development|2003
2k cit.
5
Cancer-associated ASXL1 mutations may act as gain-of-function mutations of the ASXL1–BAP1 complex
Nature Communications|2015
193 cit.
6
Loss of TET2 and TET3 in regulatory T cells unleashes effector function
Nature Communications|2019
155 cit.
7
Roles of TET and TDG in DNA demethylation in proliferating and non-proliferating immune cells
Genome biology|2021
72 cit.
8
OGT controls mammalian cell viability by regulating the proteasome/mTOR/mitochondrial axis
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2021
1 cit.

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