Beth A. Helmink

11.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
42 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Beth A. Helmink is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Beth A. Helmink has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Oncology and 12 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Beth A. Helmink's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (11 papers), Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies (11 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (9 papers). Beth A. Helmink is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (11 papers), Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies (11 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (9 papers). Beth A. Helmink collaborates with scholars based in United States, Slovakia and Russia. Beth A. Helmink's co-authors include Jennifer A. Wargo, Vancheswaran Gopalakrishnan, Padmanee Sharma, Golnaz Morad, Christine N. Spencer, Alexandre Reuben, Md Abdul Wadud Khan, Amanda Hermann, Barry P. Sleckman and Craig H. Bassing and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Beth A. Helmink

38 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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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.

Hallmarks of response, resistance, and toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade

2021 1.1k citations Golnaz Morad, Beth A. Helmink et al. Cell profile →
The Influence of the Gut Microbiome on Cancer, Immunity, and Cancer Immunotherapy

2018 950 citations Vancheswaran Gopalakrishnan, Beth A. Helmink et al. Cancer Cell profile →
The microbiome, cancer, and cancer therapy

2019 827 citations Beth A. Helmink, Md Abdul Wadud Khan et al. Nature Medicine profile →
Modulating the microbiome to improve therapeutic response in cancer

2019 276 citations Beth A. Helmink, Jennifer A. Wargo et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Beth A. Helmink United States	19	2.8k	2.0k	1.1k	534	493	42	4.5k
Nisha Nagarsheth United States	12	2.3k 0.8×	2.4k 1.2×	1.8k 1.6×	644 1.2×	594 1.2×	16	4.8k
Ravid Straussman Israel	20	3.7k 1.3×	1.8k 0.9×	588 0.5×	726 1.4×	511 1.0×	28	5.3k
Jie Wang China	30	2.1k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	939 1.8×	457 0.9×	136	4.7k
Takuya Osada United States	42	2.7k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	2.1k 1.9×	1.1k 2.0×	417 0.8×	117	5.5k
Leticia Corrales United States	9	1.9k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	935 0.8×	177 0.3×	387 0.8×	12	3.4k
Ayelet Sivan Israel	8	1.9k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	825 0.7×	193 0.4×	402 0.8×	17	3.4k
Felipe de Sousa e Melo Netherlands	24	3.1k 1.1×	3.3k 1.7×	472 0.4×	1.4k 2.6×	533 1.1×	34	5.7k
Masoud H. Manjili United States	35	1.7k 0.6×	2.2k 1.1×	2.6k 2.3×	561 1.1×	295 0.6×	124	4.7k
Sophie Viaud France	21	2.0k 0.7×	992 0.5×	1.6k 1.5×	721 1.4×	217 0.4×	29	3.6k
Florencia McAllister United States	26	2.5k 0.9×	3.3k 1.7×	2.3k 2.0×	1.2k 2.2×	653 1.3×	89	6.7k

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White, Michael G., Paula Marincola Smith, Beth A. Helmink, et al.. (2025). Long-Term Cytoreduction Outcomes With or Without Heated Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy For Colorectal Peritoneal Metastases. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 241(1). 28–37. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Paula Marincola, J T Lie, Norman Galbraith, et al.. (2025). Repeat Cytoreductive Surgery for Colorectal Cancer Metastatic to the Peritoneal Cavity. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 33(3). 1952–1964.

Luccia, Blanda Di, Martina Molgora, Natália Jaeger, et al.. (2024). TREM2 deficiency reprograms intestinal macrophages and microbiota to enhance anti–PD-1 tumor immunotherapy. Science Immunology. 9(95). eadi5374–eadi5374. 23 indexed citations

Wallace, Miranda J., Jie Ning, Sunaina Rengarajan, et al.. (2024). A yeast-based oral therapeutic delivers immune checkpoint inhibitors to reduce intestinal tumor burden. Cell chemical biology. 32(1). 98–110.e7. 18 indexed citations

Fallon, Eleanor A., Muhammad O. Awiwi, Beth A. Helmink, et al.. (2024). Peritoneal Cancer Index Correlates with Radiographic Assessment of Colorectal Carcinomatosis. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 32(4). 2923–2931.

White, Michael G., Beth A. Helmink, Samuel Rivero-Hinojosa, et al.. (2023). 649P The genomic landscape of appendiceal adenocarcinoma (AA) revealed by 855 whole exome sequences (WES). Annals of Oncology. 34. S455–S456. 1 indexed citations

White, Michael G., Neal Bhutiani, Beth A. Helmink, et al.. (2023). Treatment Variation and Long-Term Outcomes of Low-Grade Appendiceal Neoplasms. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 30(13). 8138–8143. 3 indexed citations

Bhutiani, Neal, Travis E. Grotz, Seth J. Concors, et al.. (2023). Repeat Cytoreduction and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Recurrent Mucinous Appendiceal Adenocarcinoma: A Viable Treatment Strategy with Demonstrable Benefit. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 31(1). 614–621. 3 indexed citations

Helmink, Beth A., et al.. (2023). TIME for Bugs: The Immune Microenvironment and Microbes in Precancer. Cancer Prevention Research. 16(9). 497–505. 2 indexed citations

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Uppal, Abhineet, Beth A. Helmink, Travis E. Grotz, et al.. (2022). What is the Risk for Peritoneal Metastases and Survival Afterwards in T4 Colon Cancers?. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 29(7). 4224–4233. 4 indexed citations

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Morad, Golnaz, Beth A. Helmink, Padmanee Sharma, & Jennifer A. Wargo. (2021). Hallmarks of response, resistance, and toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade. Cell. 184(21). 5309–5337. 1062 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lü, Yue, Alphonsus H. C. Ng, Frances Chow, et al.. (2021). Resolution of tissue signatures of therapy response in patients with recurrent GBM treated with neoadjuvant anti-PD1. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4031–4031. 19 indexed citations

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McAllister, Florencia, M.A. Wadud Khan, Beth A. Helmink, & Jennifer A. Wargo. (2019). The Tumor Microbiome in Pancreatic Cancer: Bacteria and Beyond. Cancer Cell. 36(6). 577–579. 81 indexed citations

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Helmink, Beth A., Md Abdul Wadud Khan, Amanda Hermann, Vancheswaran Gopalakrishnan, & Jennifer A. Wargo. (2019). The microbiome, cancer, and cancer therapy. Nature Medicine. 25(3). 377–388. 827 indexed citations breakdown →

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Innes, Cynthia L., et al.. (2013). DNA damage activates a complex transcriptional response in murine lymphocytes that includes both physiological and cancer-predisposition programs. BMC Genomics. 14(1). 163–163. 12 indexed citations

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Helmink, Beth A., Anthony Tubbs, Yair Dorsett, et al.. (2010). H2AX prevents CtIP-mediated DNA end resection and aberrant repair in G1-phase lymphocytes. Nature. 469(7329). 245–249. 118 indexed citations

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Reavie, Linsey B., Giusy Della Gatta, Beatriz Aranda-Orgillés, et al.. (2010). Regulation of hematopoietic stem cell differentiation by a single ubiquitin ligase–substrate complex. Nature Immunology. 11(3). 207–215. 97 indexed citations

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Helmink, Beth A., Andrea Bredemeyer, Baeck-Seung Lee, et al.. (2009). MRN complex function in the repair of chromosomal Rag-mediated DNA double-strand breaks. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 206(3). 669–679. 79 indexed citations

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Savic, Velibor, Bu Yin, Nancy L. Maas, et al.. (2009). Formation of Dynamic γ-H2AX Domains along Broken DNA Strands Is Distinctly Regulated by ATM and MDC1 and Dependent upon H2AX Densities in Chromatin. Molecular Cell. 34(3). 298–310. 161 indexed citations

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Bredemeyer, Andrea, Beth A. Helmink, Cynthia L. Innes, et al.. (2008). DNA double-strand breaks activate a multi-functional genetic program in developing lymphocytes. Nature. 456(7223). 819–823. 115 indexed citations

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