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Journal (1)Trends in Cancer (1)Trends in Cell Biology (1)Tumori Journal (1)Wellcome Open Research (1) Facet Journal Publications Displaying 1 - 20 of 351Last updated : 22 March 2023 02:31 Clonal evolution in healthy and premalignant tissues: implications for early cancer interception strategies Authors (4)Jayant RaneAlexander FrankellClare WeedenCharles Swanton Cancer Prevention Research Published 17 March 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details Spatial positioning of immune hotspots reflects the interplay between B and T cells in lung squamous cell carcinoma Authors (14) Hanyun Zhang Khalid AbdulJabbar David A Moore Ayse AkarcaKatey Enfield Mariam Jamal-Hanjani[...] Nicholas McGranahan John Le QuesneCharles Swanton Teresa Marafioti Yinyin Yuan Cancer Research Published 28 February 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details Intratumoral CD8+ T cells with a tissue-resident memory phenotype mediate local immunity and immune checkpoint responses in breast cancer Authors (26) Balaji Virassamy Franco Caramia Peter Savas Sneha Sant Jianan Wang Susan N Christo[...] Terence P Speed Phillip K Darcy Paul J Neeson Laura K Mackay Sherene Loi Cancer Cell Published 13 March 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details Distinct mutagenic activity of APOBEC3G cytidine deaminase identified in bladder cancer Authors (2)Deborah CaswellCharles Swanton Cancer Research Published 15 February 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details An HLA-G/SPAG9/STAT3 axis promotes brain metastases Authors (20) Blessing Iquo Bassey-Archibong Chirayu Rajendra Chokshi Nikoo Aghaei Agata Monika Kieliszek Nazanin Tatari Dillon McKenna[...] Shawn Christopher ChafeCharles SwantonRob Hynds Chitra Venugopal Sheila Kumari Singh Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA Published 21 February 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details Strong peak immunogenicity but rapid antibody waning following third vaccine dose in older residents of care homes Authors (68) G Tut T Lancaster M Krutikov P Sylla D Bone E Spalkova[...] A Irwin-Singer A Hayward A Copas L Shallcross P Moss Nature Aging Published 1 January 2023 Crick labs/ facilitiesCharles SwantonSonia GandhiSteve GamblinRupert BealeWorldwide Influenza CentreStructural BiologyPeptide ChemistryHigh Throughput ScreeningFlow CytometryBiological Research FacilityScientific computingFull details USP7 inactivation suppresses APC-mutant intestinal hyperproliferation and tumor development Authors (11)Laura NovellasdemuntAnia KucharskaAnna Baulies DomenechColin Hutton Georgios VlachogiannisDimitra RepanaAndrew Rowan A Suárez-BonnetFrancesca Ciccarelli Nicola ValeriVivian Li Stem Cell Reports Published 14 February 2023 Crick labs/ facilitiesCharles SwantonVivian LiFrancesca CiccarelliExperimental HistopathologyBiological Research FacilityFull details Open questions in human lung organoid research Authors (4) Tessa HughesKrijn Dijkstra Emma L RawlinsRob Hynds Frontiers in Pharmacology Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details The Cancer Research UK Stratified Medicine Programme as a model for delivering personalised cancer care Authors (21) Maria Antonietta Cerone Tara C Mills Rowena Sharpe David McBride Moira MacDonald Suzanne MacMahon[...] Sanjay Popat Gary Middleton Peter JohnsonCharles Swanton SMP2 consortium British Journal of Cancer Published 19 January 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details Performance of a targeted methylation-based multi-cancer early detection test by race and ethnicity Authors (11) WH Wilson Tang Habte Yimer Mohan Tummala Spencer Shao Gina Chung Jessica Clement Bong Chul Chu Earl Hubbell Kathryn N KurtzmanCharles Swanton Lewis R Roberts Preventive Medicine Published 1 February 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details Evaluation of cell-free DNA approaches for multi-cancer early detection Authors (49) Arash Jamshidi Minetta C Liu Eric A Klein Oliver Venn Earl Hubbell John F Beausang[...] Mikkael A Sekeres Alan Bryce Alexander M Aravanis Michael V SeidenCharles Swanton Cancer Cell Published 12 December 2022 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details MEDICC2: whole-genome doubling aware copy-number phylogenies for cancer evolution Authors (13) Tom L Kaufmann Marina PetkovicTom Watkins Emma C Colliver Sofya Laskina Nisha Thapa[...]Charles SwantonPeter Van Loo Kerstin HaaseMaxime Tarabichi Roland F Schwarz Genome Biology Published 14 November 2022 Crick labsPeter Van LooCharles SwantonFull details Multi-cancer early detection test sensitivity for cancers with and without current population-level screening options Authors (11) Spencer H Shao Brian Allen Jessica Clement Gina Chung Jingjing Gao Earl Hubbell Minetta C LiuCharles Swanton WH Wilson Tang Habte Yimer Mohan Tummala Tumori Journal Published 31 October 2022 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details Clonal somatic copy number altered driver events inform drug sensitivity in high-grade serous ovarian cancer Authors (33) Filipe Correia Martins Dominique-Laurent Couturier Ines de Santiago Carolin Margarethe Sauer Maria ViasMihaela Angelova[...] Iain McNeish Carlos CaldasGerard EvanCharles Swanton James D Brenton Nature Communications Published 26 October 2022 Crick labsCharles SwantonGerard EvanFull details Targeted profiling of human extrachromosomal DNA by CRISPR-CATCH Authors (26) King L Hung Jens Luebeck Siavash R Dehkordi Caterina I Colón Rui Li Ivy Tsz-Lo Wong[...] William J Greenleaf Roger S Lo Paul S Mischel Vineet Bafna Howard Y Chang Nature Genetics Published 1 November 2022 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details WHO's therapeutics and COVID-19 living guideline on mAbs needs to be reassessed Authors (19)Mary Wu Edward J Carr Ruth HarveyHarriet MearsSvend Kjaer Hermaleigh Townsley[...] Bryan WilliamsSonia GandhiCharles Swanton Emma C WallDavid LV Bauer The Lancet Published 17 December 2022 Crick labs/ facilitiesCharles SwantonJohn McCauleySonia GandhiSteve GamblinRupert BealeDavid LV BauerWorldwide Influenza CentreStructural BiologyHigh Throughput ScreeningFull details Cell-free DNA-based multi-cancer early detection test in an asymptomatic screening population (NHS-Galleri): Design of a pragmatic, prospective randomised controlled trial Authors (8) Richard D Neal Peter Johnson Christina A Clarke Stephanie A Hamilton Nan Zhang Harpal KumarCharles Swanton Peter Sasieni Cancers (Basel) Published 1 October 2022 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details Functional immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern after fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose or infection in patients with blood cancer Authors (64)Annika FendlerScott ShepherdLewis AuMary Wu Ruth HarveyKatalin Wilkinson[...] Emma Nicholson Susanna WalkerRobert Wilkinson James LarkinSamra Turajlic Cell Reports Medicine Published 18 October 2022 Crick labs/ facilitiesRobert J WilkinsonSamra TurajlicCharles SwantonGeorge KassiotisSonia GandhiSteve GamblinRupert BealeDavid LV BauerWorldwide Influenza CentreStructural BiologyMetabolomicsHigh Throughput ScreeningScientific computingFull details RAS oncogenic activity predicts response to chemotherapy and outcome in lung adenocarcinoma Authors (11)Phil EastGavin KellyDhruva Biswas Michela MaraniDavid Hancock Todd Creasy Kris SachsenmeierCharles Swanton TRACERx consortiumJulian DownwardSophie de Carne Nature Communications Published 26 September 2022 Crick labs/ facilitiesCharles SwantonJulian DownwardBioinformatics and BiostatisticsFull details Leveraging extrachromosomal DNA to fine-tune trials of targeted therapy for glioblastoma: opportunities and challenges Authors (3)Imran Noorani Paul S MischelCharles Swanton Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology Published 1 November 2022 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next Last page Last Share the page Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Email
Clonal evolution in healthy and premalignant tissues: implications for early cancer interception strategies Authors (4)Jayant RaneAlexander FrankellClare WeedenCharles Swanton Cancer Prevention Research Published 17 March 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details
Spatial positioning of immune hotspots reflects the interplay between B and T cells in lung squamous cell carcinoma Authors (14) Hanyun Zhang Khalid AbdulJabbar David A Moore Ayse AkarcaKatey Enfield Mariam Jamal-Hanjani[...] Nicholas McGranahan John Le QuesneCharles Swanton Teresa Marafioti Yinyin Yuan Cancer Research Published 28 February 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details
Intratumoral CD8+ T cells with a tissue-resident memory phenotype mediate local immunity and immune checkpoint responses in breast cancer Authors (26) Balaji Virassamy Franco Caramia Peter Savas Sneha Sant Jianan Wang Susan N Christo[...] Terence P Speed Phillip K Darcy Paul J Neeson Laura K Mackay Sherene Loi Cancer Cell Published 13 March 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details
Distinct mutagenic activity of APOBEC3G cytidine deaminase identified in bladder cancer Authors (2)Deborah CaswellCharles Swanton Cancer Research Published 15 February 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details
An HLA-G/SPAG9/STAT3 axis promotes brain metastases Authors (20) Blessing Iquo Bassey-Archibong Chirayu Rajendra Chokshi Nikoo Aghaei Agata Monika Kieliszek Nazanin Tatari Dillon McKenna[...] Shawn Christopher ChafeCharles SwantonRob Hynds Chitra Venugopal Sheila Kumari Singh Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA Published 21 February 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details
Strong peak immunogenicity but rapid antibody waning following third vaccine dose in older residents of care homes Authors (68) G Tut T Lancaster M Krutikov P Sylla D Bone E Spalkova[...] A Irwin-Singer A Hayward A Copas L Shallcross P Moss Nature Aging Published 1 January 2023 Crick labs/ facilitiesCharles SwantonSonia GandhiSteve GamblinRupert BealeWorldwide Influenza CentreStructural BiologyPeptide ChemistryHigh Throughput ScreeningFlow CytometryBiological Research FacilityScientific computingFull details
USP7 inactivation suppresses APC-mutant intestinal hyperproliferation and tumor development Authors (11)Laura NovellasdemuntAnia KucharskaAnna Baulies DomenechColin Hutton Georgios VlachogiannisDimitra RepanaAndrew Rowan A Suárez-BonnetFrancesca Ciccarelli Nicola ValeriVivian Li Stem Cell Reports Published 14 February 2023 Crick labs/ facilitiesCharles SwantonVivian LiFrancesca CiccarelliExperimental HistopathologyBiological Research FacilityFull details
Open questions in human lung organoid research Authors (4) Tessa HughesKrijn Dijkstra Emma L RawlinsRob Hynds Frontiers in Pharmacology Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details
The Cancer Research UK Stratified Medicine Programme as a model for delivering personalised cancer care Authors (21) Maria Antonietta Cerone Tara C Mills Rowena Sharpe David McBride Moira MacDonald Suzanne MacMahon[...] Sanjay Popat Gary Middleton Peter JohnsonCharles Swanton SMP2 consortium British Journal of Cancer Published 19 January 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details
Performance of a targeted methylation-based multi-cancer early detection test by race and ethnicity Authors (11) WH Wilson Tang Habte Yimer Mohan Tummala Spencer Shao Gina Chung Jessica Clement Bong Chul Chu Earl Hubbell Kathryn N KurtzmanCharles Swanton Lewis R Roberts Preventive Medicine Published 1 February 2023 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details
Evaluation of cell-free DNA approaches for multi-cancer early detection Authors (49) Arash Jamshidi Minetta C Liu Eric A Klein Oliver Venn Earl Hubbell John F Beausang[...] Mikkael A Sekeres Alan Bryce Alexander M Aravanis Michael V SeidenCharles Swanton Cancer Cell Published 12 December 2022 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details
MEDICC2: whole-genome doubling aware copy-number phylogenies for cancer evolution Authors (13) Tom L Kaufmann Marina PetkovicTom Watkins Emma C Colliver Sofya Laskina Nisha Thapa[...]Charles SwantonPeter Van Loo Kerstin HaaseMaxime Tarabichi Roland F Schwarz Genome Biology Published 14 November 2022 Crick labsPeter Van LooCharles SwantonFull details
Multi-cancer early detection test sensitivity for cancers with and without current population-level screening options Authors (11) Spencer H Shao Brian Allen Jessica Clement Gina Chung Jingjing Gao Earl Hubbell Minetta C LiuCharles Swanton WH Wilson Tang Habte Yimer Mohan Tummala Tumori Journal Published 31 October 2022 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details
Clonal somatic copy number altered driver events inform drug sensitivity in high-grade serous ovarian cancer Authors (33) Filipe Correia Martins Dominique-Laurent Couturier Ines de Santiago Carolin Margarethe Sauer Maria ViasMihaela Angelova[...] Iain McNeish Carlos CaldasGerard EvanCharles Swanton James D Brenton Nature Communications Published 26 October 2022 Crick labsCharles SwantonGerard EvanFull details
Targeted profiling of human extrachromosomal DNA by CRISPR-CATCH Authors (26) King L Hung Jens Luebeck Siavash R Dehkordi Caterina I Colón Rui Li Ivy Tsz-Lo Wong[...] William J Greenleaf Roger S Lo Paul S Mischel Vineet Bafna Howard Y Chang Nature Genetics Published 1 November 2022 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details
WHO's therapeutics and COVID-19 living guideline on mAbs needs to be reassessed Authors (19)Mary Wu Edward J Carr Ruth HarveyHarriet MearsSvend Kjaer Hermaleigh Townsley[...] Bryan WilliamsSonia GandhiCharles Swanton Emma C WallDavid LV Bauer The Lancet Published 17 December 2022 Crick labs/ facilitiesCharles SwantonJohn McCauleySonia GandhiSteve GamblinRupert BealeDavid LV BauerWorldwide Influenza CentreStructural BiologyHigh Throughput ScreeningFull details
Cell-free DNA-based multi-cancer early detection test in an asymptomatic screening population (NHS-Galleri): Design of a pragmatic, prospective randomised controlled trial Authors (8) Richard D Neal Peter Johnson Christina A Clarke Stephanie A Hamilton Nan Zhang Harpal KumarCharles Swanton Peter Sasieni Cancers (Basel) Published 1 October 2022 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details
Functional immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern after fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose or infection in patients with blood cancer Authors (64)Annika FendlerScott ShepherdLewis AuMary Wu Ruth HarveyKatalin Wilkinson[...] Emma Nicholson Susanna WalkerRobert Wilkinson James LarkinSamra Turajlic Cell Reports Medicine Published 18 October 2022 Crick labs/ facilitiesRobert J WilkinsonSamra TurajlicCharles SwantonGeorge KassiotisSonia GandhiSteve GamblinRupert BealeDavid LV BauerWorldwide Influenza CentreStructural BiologyMetabolomicsHigh Throughput ScreeningScientific computingFull details
RAS oncogenic activity predicts response to chemotherapy and outcome in lung adenocarcinoma Authors (11)Phil EastGavin KellyDhruva Biswas Michela MaraniDavid Hancock Todd Creasy Kris SachsenmeierCharles Swanton TRACERx consortiumJulian DownwardSophie de Carne Nature Communications Published 26 September 2022 Crick labs/ facilitiesCharles SwantonJulian DownwardBioinformatics and BiostatisticsFull details
Leveraging extrachromosomal DNA to fine-tune trials of targeted therapy for glioblastoma: opportunities and challenges Authors (3)Imran Noorani Paul S MischelCharles Swanton Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology Published 1 November 2022 Crick labsCharles SwantonFull details