An Wouters

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

An Wouters is a scholar working on Oncology, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, An Wouters has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Oncology, 38 papers in Molecular Biology and 21 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in An Wouters's work include Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (17 papers), Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (17 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (12 papers). An Wouters is often cited by papers focused on Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (17 papers), Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (17 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (12 papers). An Wouters collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and United Kingdom. An Wouters's co-authors include Filip Lardon, Marc Peeters, Patrick Pauwels, Jan B. Vermorken, Bea Pauwels, Christophe Deben, Evelien Smits, Jorrit De Waele, Vanessa Deschoolmeester and Julie Jacobs and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Cancer Research and Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

An Wouters

70 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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The potential and controversy of targeting STAT family members in cancer

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
An Wouters Belgium	27	1.1k	965	497	388	355	73	2.2k
Woonyoung Choi United States	18	1.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	668 1.3×	441 1.1×	285 0.8×	65	3.0k
Elisabeth Letellier Luxembourg	26	1.3k 1.2×	895 0.9×	726 1.5×	253 0.7×	444 1.3×	42	2.4k
Yunus A. Luqmani Kuwait	25	1.2k 1.1×	941 1.0×	606 1.2×	265 0.7×	184 0.5×	66	2.5k
Guocan Wang United States	20	1.6k 1.5×	862 0.9×	641 1.3×	542 1.4×	466 1.3×	33	2.6k
Vijay Pandey China	30	1.4k 1.3×	658 0.7×	706 1.4×	226 0.6×	281 0.8×	105	2.5k
Chao Chen China	29	1.4k 1.2×	817 0.8×	996 2.0×	320 0.8×	427 1.2×	130	2.7k
Germana Castelli Italy	29	1.6k 1.5×	798 0.8×	950 1.9×	478 1.2×	400 1.1×	97	3.1k
José M.A. Moreira Denmark	31	1.8k 1.7×	656 0.7×	670 1.3×	210 0.5×	239 0.7×	79	2.8k

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Wouters, An, et al.. (2025). Powering immunity: mitochondrial dynamics in natural killer cells. Trends in Molecular Medicine. 32(1). 49–64. 2 indexed citations

Audenaerde, Jonas R.M. Van, Jorrit De Waele, Christophe Hermans, et al.. (2025). Co-targeting of VEGFR2 and PD-L1 promotes survival and vasculature normalization in pleural mesothelioma. OncoImmunology. 14(1). 2512104–2512104.

Siozopoulou, Vasiliki, Christophe Hermans, Hilde Lambrechts, et al.. (2022). The prognostic impact of the immune signature in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 1001161–1001161. 13 indexed citations

Domen, Andreas, Delphine Quatannens, Sara Zanivan, et al.. (2021). Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts as a Common Orchestrator of Therapy Resistance in Lung and Pancreatic Cancer. Cancers. 13(5). 987–987. 42 indexed citations

Deben, Christophe, Laurie Freire Boullosa, Andreas Domen, et al.. (2021). Characterization of acquired nutlin-3 resistant non-small cell lung cancer cells. Cancer Drug Resistance. 4(1). 233–243. 10 indexed citations

Sorber, Laure, Peter A. van Dam, Geert Roeyen, et al.. (2020). The art of obtaining a high yield of cell-free DNA from urine. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0231058–e0231058. 43 indexed citations

Pauw, Ines De, Filip Lardon, Jolien Van den Bossche, et al.. (2019). Overcoming Intrinsic and Acquired Cetuximab Resistance in RAS Wild-Type Colorectal Cancer: An In Vitro Study on the Expression of HER Receptors and the Potential of Afatinib. Cancers. 11(1). 98–98. 14 indexed citations

Bossche, Jolien Van den, Andreas Domen, Marc Peeters, et al.. (2019). Radiosensitization of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells by the Plk1 Inhibitor Volasertib Is Dependent on the p53 Status. Cancers. 11(12). 1893–1893. 9 indexed citations

Krayem, Mohammad, Ahmad Najem, An Wouters, et al.. (2019). The Benefit of Reactivating p53 under MAPK Inhibition on the Efficacy of Radiotherapy in Melanoma. Cancers. 11(8). 1093–1093. 20 indexed citations

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Deben, Christophe, Vanessa Deschoolmeester, Jorrit De Waele, et al.. (2018). Hypoxia-Induced Cisplatin Resistance in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells Is Mediated by HIF-1α and Mutant p53 and Can Be Overcome by Induction of Oxidative Stress. Cancers. 10(4). 126–126. 46 indexed citations

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Bossche, Jolien Van den, Christophe Deben, Ken Op de Beeck, et al.. (2017). Towards Prognostic Profiling of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: New Perspectives on the Relevance of Polo-Like Kinase 1 Expression, the TP53 Mutation Status and Hypoxia. Journal of Cancer. 8(8). 1441–1452. 12 indexed citations

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Deben, Christophe, Ken Op de Beeck, Jolien Van den Bossche, et al.. (2017). MDM2 SNP309 and SNP285 Act as Negative Prognostic Markers for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Adenocarcinoma Patients. Journal of Cancer. 8(12). 2154–2162. 4 indexed citations

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Vangestel, Christel, An Wouters, Patrick Pauwels, et al.. (2016). Efficacy Screening of Gloriosa Superba Extracts in a Murine Pancreatic Cancer Model Using ¹⁸ F-FDG PET/CT for Monitoring Treatment Response. Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals. 31(3). 99–109. 13 indexed citations

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Steen, Nele Van Der, Christophe Deben, Vanessa Deschoolmeester, et al.. (2016). Better to be alone than in bad company: The antagonistic effect of cisplatin and crizotinib combination therapy in non-small cell lung cancer. World Journal of Clinical Oncology. 7(6). 425–425. 9 indexed citations

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Boeckx, Carolien, Ken Op de Beeck, Ridha Limame, et al.. (2015). Establishment and characterization of cetuximab resistant head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cell lines: focus on the contribution of the AP-1 transcription factor.. PubMed Central. 5(6). 1921–38. 24 indexed citations

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Wouters, An, et al.. (2015). In vitro and in vivo investigations on the antitumour activity of Chelidonium majus. Phytomedicine. 22(14). 1279–1287. 40 indexed citations

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Wouters, An, Bea Pauwels, Natalie Burrows, et al.. (2014). The radiosensitising effect of gemcitabine and its main metabolite dFdU under low oxygen conditions is in vitro not dependent on functional HIF-1 protein. BMC Cancer. 14(1). 594–594. 7 indexed citations

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Boeckx, Carolien, Christine Weyn, Isabelle Vanden Bempt, et al.. (2014). Mutation analysis of genes in the EGFR pathway in Head and Neck cancer patients: implications for anti-EGFR treatment response. BMC Research Notes. 7(1). 337–337. 27 indexed citations

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Szic, Katarzyna Szarc vel, Ken Op de Beeck, Dariusz Ratman, et al.. (2014). Pharmacological Levels of Withaferin A (Withania somnifera) Trigger Clinically Relevant Anticancer Effects Specific to Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells. PLoS ONE. 9(2). e87850–e87850. 74 indexed citations

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Wouters, An, Bea Pauwels, Hilde Lambrechts, et al.. (2010). Counting clonogenic assays from normoxic and anoxic irradiation experiments manually or by using densitometric software. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 55(7). N167–N178. 16 indexed citations

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