Henning Willers

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
142 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Henning Willers is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Henning Willers has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 57 papers in Oncology and 49 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Henning Willers's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (37 papers), Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (37 papers) and Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (35 papers). Henning Willers is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (37 papers), Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (37 papers) and Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (35 papers). Henning Willers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Henning Willers's co-authors include Simon N. Powell, Fen Xia, Jochen Dahm‐Daphi, Lecia V. Sequist, Harald Paganetti, Kathryn D. Held, Andrzej Niemierko, Junran Zhang, Wil L. Santivasi and Christopher G. Azzoli and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Henning Willers

138 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Report of the AAPM TG‐256 on the relative biological effectiveness of proton beams in radiation therapy

2019 212 citations Harald Paganetti, Eleanor A. Blakely et al. Medical Physics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Henning Willers United States	43	2.2k	2.1k	2.0k	870	732	142	4.8k
Phuoc T. Tran United States	47	2.2k 1.0×	2.5k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	460 0.5×	1.2k 1.6×	254	6.4k
Hirotoshi Dosaka‐Akita Japan	50	3.0k 1.4×	2.6k 1.2×	3.5k 1.7×	1.3k 1.5×	856 1.2×	164	8.4k
Pierre Verrelle France	30	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	946 0.5×	571 0.7×	542 0.7×	137	3.3k
Thomas Brunner Germany	43	1.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	2.9k 1.4×	737 0.8×	908 1.2×	170	5.9k
Harvey J. Mamon United States	35	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	342 0.4×	748 1.0×	154	4.5k
Jan Alsner Denmark	45	1.5k 0.7×	2.8k 1.3×	2.0k 1.0×	471 0.5×	2.6k 3.5×	176	6.6k
Ekkehard Dikomey Germany	36	959 0.4×	2.4k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	144 0.2×	1.0k 1.4×	115	3.9k
E.P. Malaise France	35	1.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	629 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	117	4.5k
Kazuhiko Ogawa Japan	39	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	784 1.1×	320	5.7k
Satoshi Oizumi Japan	36	2.9k 1.3×	1.2k 0.6×	2.3k 1.2×	258 0.3×	523 0.7×	147	4.7k

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Egan, Regina K., Jianli Ma, Jong Kung, et al.. (2025). Targeting Monounsaturated Fatty Acid Metabolism for Radiosensitization of KRAS Mutant 3D Lung Cancer Models. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 24(6). 920–930. 1 indexed citations

Mak, Raymond H., Michael Lanuti, Alona Muzikansky, et al.. (2024). The ASCENT Trial: a phase 2 study of induction and consolidation afatinib and chemoradiation with or without surgery in stage III EGFR-mutant NSCLC. The Oncologist. 29(7). 609–618. 8 indexed citations

Seifert, Michael, et al.. (2024). β1 integrin mediates unresponsiveness to PI3Kα inhibition for radiochemosensitization of 3D HNSCC models. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 171. 116217–116217. 3 indexed citations

Tzeng, Alice, Kelly Fitzgerald, Jaclyn LoPiccolo, et al.. (2023). Pneumonitis in Patients Receiving Thoracic Radiotherapy and Osimertinib: A Multi-Institutional Study. JTO Clinical and Research Reports. 4(10). 100559–100559. 6 indexed citations

Zhu, Lingling, et al.. (2023). Effect of Contralateral Esophagus Sparing in Hypofractionated Radiotherapy for Ultra-Central NSCLC. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 117(2). e82–e82. 1 indexed citations

Fell, Gillian L., Lajos V. Kemény, Claire Y. Fung, et al.. (2022). β-Endorphin mediates radiation therapy fatigue. Science Advances. 8(50). eabn6025–eabn6025. 7 indexed citations

Davoudi, Farideh, Satoshi Yoda, Ellen Murchie, et al.. (2021). Alginate-based 3D cancer cell culture for therapeutic response modeling. STAR Protocols. 2(2). 100391–100391. 4 indexed citations

McClatchy, David M., Henning Willers, Aaron N. Hata, et al.. (2020). Modeling Resistance and Recurrence Patterns of Combined Targeted–Chemoradiotherapy Predicts Benefit of Shorter Induction Period. Cancer Research. 80(22). 5121–5133. 8 indexed citations

Kamran, Sophia C., Christine E. Eyler, Jochen K. Lennerz, et al.. (2020). Evolutionary Analysis of Pre- and Post-treatment Molecular Diversity in Rectal Cancer Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation (CRT) and a KRAS Mutation-targeted Radiosensitizer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 108(3). S57–S57.

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Grassberger, Clemens, David M. McClatchy, Changran Geng, et al.. (2019). Patient-Specific Tumor Growth Trajectories Determine Persistent and Resistant Cancer Cell Populations during Treatment with Targeted Therapies. Cancer Research. 79(14). 3776–3788. 24 indexed citations

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Kamran, Sophia C., Jochen K. Lennerz, Claire A. Margolis, et al.. (2019). Integrative Molecular Characterization of Resistance to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation in Rectal Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 25(18). 5561–5571. 62 indexed citations

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Paganetti, Harald, Eleanor A. Blakely, Alejandro Cárabe, et al.. (2019). Report of the AAPM TG‐256 on the relative biological effectiveness of proton beams in radiation therapy. Medical Physics. 46(3). e53–e78. 212 indexed citations breakdown →

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Khandekar, Melin J., Zofia Piotrowska, Henning Willers, & Lecia V. Sequist. (2018). Role of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Inhibitors and Radiation in the Management of Brain Metastases from EGFR Mutant Lung Cancers. The Oncologist. 23(9). 1054–1062. 8 indexed citations

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Han, Jing, Lynnette Marcar, Joshua C. Black, et al.. (2017). Radiation Resistance in KRAS-Mutated Lung Cancer Is Enabled by Stem-like Properties Mediated by an Osteopontin–EGFR Pathway. Cancer Research. 77(8). 2018–2028. 77 indexed citations

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Geng, H., Haoyu Zhong, T Giaddui, et al.. (2017). Knowledge Engineering–Based Quality Evaluation of RTOG 1308 Proton Treatment plans. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 99(2). E661–E662. 1 indexed citations

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Coleman, C. Norman, Geoff S. Higgins, J. Martin Brown, et al.. (2016). Improving the Predictive Value of Preclinical Studies in Support of Radiotherapy Clinical Trials. Clinical Cancer Research. 22(13). 3138–3147. 59 indexed citations

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Liu, Qi, Meng Wang, Jing Han, et al.. (2015). Adapting a Drug Screening Platform to Discover Associations of Molecular Targeted Radiosensitizers with Genomic Biomarkers. Molecular Cancer Research. 13(4). 713–720. 29 indexed citations

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Wang, Meng, Patricia Greninger, Anurag Singh, et al.. (2014). EGFR-Mediated Chromatin Condensation Protects KRAS-Mutant Cancer Cells against Ionizing Radiation. Cancer Research. 74(10). 2825–2834. 55 indexed citations

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Wang, Meng, Liliana Gheorghiu, Patricia Greninger, et al.. (2013). EGFR-Activating Mutations Correlate with a Fanconi Anemia–like Cellular Phenotype That Includes PARP Inhibitor Sensitivity. Cancer Research. 73(20). 6254–6263. 35 indexed citations

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Wang, Meng, David M. Sander, Liliana Gheorghiu, et al.. (2011). EGF Receptor Inhibition Radiosensitizes NSCLC Cells by Inducing Senescence in Cells Sustaining DNA Double-Strand Breaks. Cancer Research. 71(19). 6261–6269. 96 indexed citations

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