Alain Pacis

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Alain Pacis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Pacis has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Oncology and 9 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Alain Pacis's work include RNA modifications and cancer (6 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (4 papers). Alain Pacis is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (6 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (4 papers). Alain Pacis collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Alain Pacis's co-authors include Luis B. Barreiro, Jean‐Christophe Grenier, Anne Dumaine, Joaquín Sanz, Maziar Divangahi, Erwan Pernet, Anastasia Nijnik, Eva Kaufmann, Eisha Ahmed and Nargis Khan and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Alain Pacis

34 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

BCG Educates Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Generate Protective Innate Immunity against Tuberculosis

2018 804 citations Joaquín Sanz, Alain Pacis et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alain Pacis Canada	16	1.1k	641	361	329	158	36	1.9k
Anne Dumaine France	18	1.0k 0.9×	621 1.0×	311 0.9×	425 1.3×	117 0.7×	25	2.0k
M. Martinetti Italy	29	1.1k 1.0×	277 0.4×	308 0.9×	468 1.4×	244 1.5×	100	2.8k
Zev Williams United States	25	450 0.4×	1.6k 2.5×	98 0.3×	653 2.0×	140 0.9×	64	3.6k
Karen Racicot United States	19	823 0.8×	336 0.5×	216 0.6×	302 0.9×	71 0.4×	29	2.1k
David J. Sharkey Australia	23	1.4k 1.3×	629 1.0×	137 0.4×	183 0.6×	62 0.4×	59	2.7k
Catherine Donner Belgium	23	1.0k 1.0×	305 0.5×	414 1.1×	164 0.5×	201 1.3×	80	2.7k
Emily Barr United States	26	164 0.2×	722 1.1×	515 1.4×	441 1.3×	114 0.7×	81	2.5k
Sara Selig Israel	31	900 0.8×	2.5k 3.9×	418 1.2×	802 2.4×	110 0.7×	58	4.5k
Marlo Möller South Africa	25	610 0.6×	497 0.8×	976 2.7×	592 1.8×	52 0.3×	93	2.3k
John D. Campbell United States	22	917 0.9×	412 0.6×	225 0.6×	113 0.3×	118 0.7×	42	2.0k

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Elkholi, Islam E., Amélie Robert, Jia Wu, et al.. (2025). Targeting the Dependence on PIK3C3-mTORC1 Signaling in Dormancy-Prone Breast Cancer Cells Blunts Metastasis Initiation. Cancer Research. 85(12). 2179–2198. 1 indexed citations

Pérez‐Quintero, Luis‐Alberto, Alexandre Poirier, Isabelle Aubry, et al.. (2025). Uncovering the individual immunotherapeutic roles of PTPN1 and PTPN2 in T cells during dual inhibition. iScience. 28(10). 113610–113610.

Fortier, Anne-Marie, Alain Pacis, Yu-Chang Wang, et al.. (2025). Invasive phenotypes of triple-negative breast cancer-associated fibroblasts are mechanosensitive, AhR-dependent and correlate with disease state. Acta Biomaterialia. 199. 202–216. 1 indexed citations

Hachem, Laureen D., Homeira Moradi Chameh, Gustavo Balbinot, et al.. (2025). Augmenting AMPA receptor signaling after spinal cord injury increases ependymal-derived neural stem/progenitor cell migration and promotes functional recovery. Nature Neuroscience. 28(10). 2054–2066. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Yumin, Calwing Liao, Daniel Rochefort, et al.. (2025). Lithium partially rescues gene expression and enhancer activity from heterozygous knockout of AKAP11 while inducing novel differential changes. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 37844–37844.

Minarrieta, Lucía, Matthew G. Annis, Yannick Audet-Delage, et al.. (2024). Mitochondrial elongation impairs breast cancer metastasis. Science Advances. 10(45). eadm8212–eadm8212. 15 indexed citations

Taifour, Tarek, Tung Bui, Dongmei Zuo, et al.. (2024). Osteopontin is a therapeutic target that drives breast cancer recurrence. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9174–9174. 17 indexed citations

Romero, Joan Miguel, Emma Titmuss, Yifan Wang, et al.. (2023). Chemokine expression predicts T cell-inflammation and improved survival with checkpoint inhibition across solid cancers. npj Precision Oncology. 7(1). 73–73. 8 indexed citations

Smith, Harvey W., Virginie Sanguin‐Gendreau, Alain Pacis, et al.. (2023). Coordinated activation of c-Src and FOXM1 drives tumor cell proliferation and breast cancer progression. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 133(7). 19 indexed citations

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Chen, Xun, Alain Pacis, Katherine A Aracena, et al.. (2023). Transposable elements are associated with the variable response to influenza infection. Cell Genomics. 3(5). 100292–100292. 12 indexed citations

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Pacis, Alain, et al.. (2022). Direct AKT activation in tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes markedly increases interferon-γ (IFN-γ) for the regression of tumors resistant to PD-1 checkpoint blockade. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 18509–18509. 12 indexed citations

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Teng, Katie, Matthew J. Ford, Yuqi Li, et al.. (2021). Modeling High-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma Using a Combination of In Vivo Fallopian Tube Electroporation and CRISPR-Cas9–Mediated Genome Editing. Cancer Research. 81(20). 5147–5160. 13 indexed citations

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Lutz, Pierre-Éric, Marc-Aurèle Chay, Alain Pacis, et al.. (2021). Non-CG methylation and multiple histone profiles associate child abuse with immune and small GTPase dysregulation. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1132–1132. 28 indexed citations

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Sanchez-Ferras, Oraly, Alain Pacis, Maria Sotiropoulou, et al.. (2021). A coordinated progression of progenitor cell states initiates urinary tract development. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2627–2627. 27 indexed citations

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Ford, Matthew J., Alain Pacis, Yu Chang Wang, et al.. (2021). Oviduct epithelial cells constitute two developmentally distinct lineages that are spatially separated along the distal-proximal axis. Cell Reports. 36(10). 109677–109677. 35 indexed citations

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Khakoo, Shelize, Sing Yu Moorcraft, Alain Pacis, et al.. (2020). P-138 A comparison of the transcriptomic profiles of matched tissue from primary colorectal cancer and corresponding secondary lung metastases. Annals of Oncology. 31. S134–S135. 1 indexed citations

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Pacis, Alain, Ludovic Tailleux, Haley E. Randolph, et al.. (2019). Gene activation precedes DNA demethylation in response to infection in human dendritic cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(14). 6938–6943. 98 indexed citations

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Pacis, Alain, Maxime Caron, Philippe Chétaille, et al.. (2018). Molecular Signature of CAID Syndrome: Noncanonical Roles of SGO1 in Regulation of TGF-β Signaling and Epigenomics. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 7(2). 411–431. 9 indexed citations

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Nédélec, Yohann, Joaquín Sanz, Golshid Baharian, et al.. (2016). Genetic Ancestry and Natural Selection Drive Population Differences in Immune Responses to Pathogens. Cell. 167(3). 657–669.e21. 304 indexed citations

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Gross, Jeffrey, Alain Pacis, Gary G. Chen, et al.. (2015). Characterizing 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in human prefrontal cortex at single base resolution. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 672–672. 34 indexed citations

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