Dingcheng Gao

6.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
36 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Dingcheng Gao is a scholar working on Oncology, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Dingcheng Gao has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Oncology, 19 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Dingcheng Gao's work include Cancer Cells and Metastasis (16 papers), Immune cells in cancer (7 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (5 papers). Dingcheng Gao is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Cells and Metastasis (16 papers), Immune cells in cancer (7 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (5 papers). Dingcheng Gao collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Dingcheng Gao's co-authors include Vivek Mittal, Nasser K. Altorki, Linda T. Vahdat, Stephen T.C. Wong, Hyejin Choi, Seongho Ryu, Kevin McDonnell, Tina El Rayes, Brendon M. Stiles and Jeffrey L. Port and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Dingcheng Gao

36 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition is not required for lung metastasis but contributes to chemoresistance

2015 1.4k citations Kari Fischer, Anna Durrans et al. Nature profile →
The lung microenvironment: an important regulator of tumour growth and metastasis

2018 795 citations Nasser K. Altorki, Geoffrey J. Markowitz et al. Nature reviews. Cancer profile →
Endothelial Progenitor Cells Control the Angiogenic Switch in Mouse Lung Metastasis

2008 502 citations Dingcheng Gao, Daniel J. Nolan et al. profile →
Copper depletion modulates mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation to impair triple negative breast cancer metastasis

2021 204 citations Divya Ramchandani, Sharrell B. Lee et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dingcheng Gao United States	26	2.8k	2.5k	1.8k	936	853	36	5.1k
Alana L. Welm United States	41	4.0k 1.4×	2.4k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	799 0.9×	745 0.9×	97	6.5k
Sandra S. McAllister United States	24	2.3k 0.8×	2.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	46	5.1k
Roger R. Gomis Spain	30	3.4k 1.2×	2.5k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	544 0.6×	889 1.0×	67	6.0k
Wei‐Zhong Wu China	41	3.5k 1.2×	2.1k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	470 0.6×	107	5.7k
Oriol Casanovas Spain	32	3.8k 1.3×	2.3k 0.9×	2.1k 1.2×	591 0.6×	896 1.1×	70	6.2k
Moorthy P. Ponnusamy United States	43	3.4k 1.2×	2.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	998 1.1×	632 0.7×	113	5.4k
Pnina Brodt Canada	46	3.2k 1.1×	2.5k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	689 0.8×	115	6.8k
Hilary A. Kenny United States	27	2.6k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	393 0.5×	41	5.4k
Oddbjørn Straume Norway	31	2.8k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	495 0.5×	694 0.8×	69	4.6k
Florence Monville France	13	2.9k 1.0×	4.0k 1.6×	2.0k 1.1×	486 0.5×	514 0.6×	17	5.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dingcheng Gao

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Ban, Yi, et al.. (2024). Targeting ribosome biogenesis as a novel therapeutic approach to overcome EMT-related chemoresistance in breast cancer. eLife. 12. 5 indexed citations

Markowitz, Geoffrey J., Yi Ban, Enrique Podaza, et al.. (2024). Deficiency of metabolic regulator PKM2 activates the pentose phosphate pathway and generates TCF1+ progenitor CD8+ T cells to improve immunotherapy. Nature Immunology. 25(10). 1884–1899. 18 indexed citations

Crowley, Michael J., Bhavneet Bhinder, Geoffrey J. Markowitz, et al.. (2023). Tumor-intrinsic IRE1α signaling controls protective immunity in lung cancer. Nature Communications. 14(1). 120–120. 26 indexed citations

Ban, Yi, Geoffrey J. Markowitz, Yue Zou, et al.. (2021). Radiation-activated secretory proteins of Scgb1a1+ club cells increase the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade in lung cancer. Nature Cancer. 2(9). 919–931. 32 indexed citations

Williams, Elizabeth D., Dingcheng Gao, Andrew Redfern, & Erik W. Thompson. (2019). Controversies around epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity in cancer metastasis. Nature reviews. Cancer. 19(12). 716–732. 304 indexed citations

Markowitz, Geoffrey J., Lauren S. Havel, Michael J. Crowley, et al.. (2018). Immune reprogramming via PD-1 inhibition enhances early-stage lung cancer survival. JCI Insight. 3(13). 48 indexed citations

Fischer, Kari, Nasser K. Altorki, Vivek Mittal, & Dingcheng Gao. (2017). Fischer et al. reply. Nature. 547(7661). E5–E6. 18 indexed citations

Zhao, Zhen, Xiaoping Zhu, Kemi Cui, et al.. (2016). In Vivo Visualization and Characterization of Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition in Breast Tumors. Cancer Research. 76(8). 2094–2104. 65 indexed citations

Stawowczyk, Marcin, Max D. Wellenstein, Sharrell B. Lee, et al.. (2016). Matrix Metalloproteinase 14 promotes lung cancer by cleavage of Heparin-Binding EGF-like Growth Factor. Neoplasia. 19(2). 55–64. 48 indexed citations

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Rayes, Tina El, Raúl Catena, Sharrell Lee, et al.. (2015). Lung inflammation promotes metastasis through neutrophil protease-mediated degradation of Tsp-1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(52). 16000–16005. 168 indexed citations

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Fischer, Kari, Anna Durrans, Sharrell Lee, et al.. (2015). Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition is not required for lung metastasis but contributes to chemoresistance. Nature. 527(7579). 472–476. 1395 indexed citations breakdown →

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Durrans, Anna, Dingcheng Gao, Ravi Gupta, et al.. (2015). Identification of Reprogrammed Myeloid Cell Transcriptomes in NSCLC. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0129123–e0129123. 15 indexed citations

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Catena, Raúl, Nandita Bhattacharya, Tina El Rayes, et al.. (2013). Bone Marrow–Derived Gr1+ Cells Can Generate a Metastasis-Resistant Microenvironment Via Induced Secretion of Thrombospondin-1. Cancer Discovery. 3(5). 578–589. 102 indexed citations

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Ryu, Seongho, Kevin McDonnell, Hyejin Choi, et al.. (2013). Suppression of miRNA-708 by Polycomb Group Promotes Metastases by Calcium-Induced Cell Migration. Cancer Cell. 23(1). 63–76. 126 indexed citations

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Gao, Dingcheng, Natasha Joshi, Hyejin Choi, et al.. (2012). Myeloid Progenitor Cells in the Premetastatic Lung Promote Metastases by Inducing Mesenchymal to Epithelial Transition. Cancer Research. 72(6). 1384–1394. 234 indexed citations

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Freeman, Ruth, Ryan J. Taft, Jelena Vider, et al.. (2012). MicroRNAs Regulate Tumor Angiogenesis Modulated by Endothelial Progenitor Cells. Cancer Research. 73(1). 341–352. 104 indexed citations

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Ryu, Seongho, Natasha Joshi, Jongchan Woo, et al.. (2011). Discovery of Novel Human Breast Cancer MicroRNAs from Deep Sequencing Data by Analysis of Pri-MicroRNA Secondary Structures. PLoS ONE. 6(2). e16403–e16403. 26 indexed citations

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Mellick, Albert S., Daniel J. Nolan, Dingcheng Gao, et al.. (2010). Using the Transcription Factor Inhibitor of DNA Binding 1 to Selectively Target Endothelial Progenitor Cells Offers Novel Strategies to Inhibit Tumor Angiogenesis and Growth. Cancer Research. 70(18). 7273–7282. 41 indexed citations

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Gao, Dingcheng, Daniel J. Nolan, Kevin McDonnell, et al.. (2009). Bone marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells contribute to the angiogenic switch in tumor growth and metastatic progression. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer. 1796(1). 33–40. 142 indexed citations

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Gao, Dingcheng & Vivek Mittal. (2009). The role of bone-marrow-derived cells in tumor growth, metastasis initiation and progression. Trends in Molecular Medicine. 15(8). 333–343. 77 indexed citations

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